I imagine the author goofed possibly while trying to reply to a
message you wrote (one went directly to you and another went to the
list) and accidently sent a blank message. wpmills.com is the
homepage/site of W. Paul Mills.
Elizabeth
Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I received the f
hi
my first custom kernel was yet another 2.2.20 and was perfect.
i have now made three 2.4.18 kernels and none of them will "work" meaning
that none of them gets gdm to start, or has any virtual terminals to log
into (ctrl/alt/f1), cannot connect via ssh and cannot return a ping.
almost none
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:05:31PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:02:02 +1000
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Massey) wrote:
>> ...
>> $ apt-cache show chkrootkit
>> ...
>
>That's a scary tool, if I ever saw one. I have it running once a day,
>and it almost always reports a possible LKM
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>> I'd like to run tcpdump on internal network traffice between our router
>> and general workstations.
>>
>> My laptop, on which I'm running tcpdump, is connected to the same switch
>> as the router. However I can only get traf
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:52:53 +0200
Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, I've tried to add the mpg file the wrong way (with --add-file).
> But I've managed to create one CD afterall.
>
> A relate question though:
> Is there a utility that I can use to check whether the mp
| Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
| debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
| the packages.
|
| Could someone please point me to this tool ?
I think everyone has missed debfoster. It will run through what packages
(and depe
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:44:09 -0600 (MDT)
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> something is preventing the kernel logger from starting at the end of
> the startup. btw, the screen looks normal during the startup process,
> but it goes so fast... obviously, the network isn't getting started.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:59:52PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On 19 Apr 2002, Peter Whysall wrote:
>
> > > find / -type f -atime +30 -perm +111 | xargs dpkg -S | sort | uniq >
> > > old.txt
> >
> > Well, old.txt now contains the following:
> >
> > peter:~ $ more old.txt
> > fdflush: /bin/fdflush
| hi
|
| my first custom kernel was yet another 2.2.20 and was perfect.
Congratulations!
| i have now made three 2.4.18 kernels and none of them will "work" meaning
| that none of them gets gdm to start, or has any virtual terminals to log
| into (ctrl/alt/f1), cannot connect via ssh and cannot r
> I think everyone has missed debfoster. It will run
> through what packages (and dependencies) you
> have asking if you still want them.
That appears similar to my method:
$ dpkg --get-selections > installed-debs
Print out that list (or view on screen) and then decide
which packages aren't
* Jeroen Valcke (jeroen@valcke.com) [020406 12:19]:
> Hello,
>
> Weird, Licq is available as a package in unstable and in stable, but not
> in testing. My question what's the best thing to do to install this on a
> Debian testing system? Is it possible to select some package from
> unstable and in
Hi,
I am kinda new to Debian. I have some experience with other distro's
like Gentoo and Red Hat. Debian seemed like the perfect distro for me :)
But unfortunatly i ran into a strange error which can't even be solved
by people in #debian at openprojects.net
A few days ago i wanted to update the n
Hi
Wich print system would you suggest me to print to a Windows machine from my
Debian system. Wich one is the simpliest or the one with the most features?
:-)
cheers,
Raffaele
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On 19-Apr-2002 Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
>
> Wich print system would you suggest me to print to a Windows machine from my
> Debian system. Wich one is the simpliest or the one with the most features?
>:-)
>
if I understand you right you have a printer connected to a Windows machine
physic
On Friday 19 April 12:18, craigw wrote:
> On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 10:41:34AM -0400, Robert_L wrote:
> >
> Yes, when you start X. You could also put it in /etc/X11/Xmodmap
> Keep in mind that I don't use it, and I've also seen it written slighly
> different. Perhaps that depends on which version o
I have a Linksys NP100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 pcmcia card,
and it is supposed to work with the axnet_cs driver. However I can't get
the card to work. The card does work with the psnet_cs driver, but the
connection speed is very slow. Have any one managed to get this card to
work?
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I'd like to run tcpdump on internal network traffice between our router
> and general workstations.
>
> My laptop, on which I'm running tcpdump, is connected to the same switch
> as the router. However I can only get traffic be
hi
so i downloaded and tried the kernel-image-2.4.18-4 686 version.
exactly the same mess: no ping, no ssh, no x, no vterms... nothing
except a progressively more trashed /var. have to fsck it manually after
each of these adventures and wonder how long it is gonna last.
any suggestions?
thank
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:42:47AM +0200, José wrote:
> recently i added this to my potato 2.2r3 logrotate.conf
>
> /var/log/syslog {
> monthly
> rotate 1
> }
>
> after this, i noticed that nothing have changed ! the rotation is still done
> weekly with rotation 5 !
check /etc/cron.week
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if there's another way to get a network card module to
install. I sent the following post Thursday, but got no response, and
I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to install Debian potato on an Compaq Prolinea 4/50 with an
SMC network card (ISA),
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 04:02:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I run Slackware's Net.i utility it reports:
> Eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300 00 00 c0 f1 00 8e
> WD 8013 IRQ 10 shared memory at 0xd - 0xd3fff
[...]
> I may have access to a number of these simi
I just did something stupid. I used partition magic to effectively move my
linux partition a few sectors down. LILO doesn't work anymore, so I'm stuck
on windlowsXP. Is there any way to boot into the linux partition?
Following is a dump of my disk's partition info.
TIA,
ilia.
==
At 19:11 19-4-02 +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
Note that changes the 'other' flags of every file, directory, fifo,
socket etc. under /home. What if a user wants to get a file and has
purposely set the other flag a certain way (maybe for collaberation)?
You will be unsetting it. Make sure peop
Hi
I have an old laptop (486DX4-75) happily running potato. I use it for
writing using emacs20 and LaTeX. I usually does that in X, to get
colour syntax highlighting. But emacs21 supports this also in the
console (freeing memory not running X). So I am interested in getting
emacs21 to work on pota
On 19-Apr-2002 Ilia Lobsanov wrote:
> I just did something stupid. I used partition magic to effectively move my
> linux partition a few sectors down. LILO doesn't work anymore, so I'm stuck
> on windlowsXP. Is there any way to boot into the linux partition?
>
find an install cd and boot with th
I also discard those fancy keyboards. I used an original IBM keyboard
until it finally quit working.
I've got a happy hacker keyboard you can have for $35.00. I'm also going
to tell you that I'll take that $35 and purchase a Mini-keyboard from
www.milestek.com. They aren't a smooth as I'd like,
add dependency on dpkg (>= 1.9.0) for new install-info.
>
> But trying to install I get dependency errors. Emacs21 depends on dpkg
>>=1.9.0 and potato comes with 1.6.15. I guess nothing in emacs21
> really depends on dpkg except for maybe the install/remove scripts?
> Then I thought, okay I'll po
I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am
on vacation for the next several weeks.
I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my
XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented monitor.
Is there any tool that will probe the monitor and de
Seems to have been me. Looks like something broke after an
"upgrade" -- hopefully fixed now.
Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Turner) writes:
> I received the following, plus a duplicate (except for message IDs) 6
> minutes later. Can anyone shed any light on where these come from, and
> why?
I have v4L with a Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP installed. At one time I had the TV
working but
alas, I installed a Delta66 soundcard and now everytime I try to start the
Xawtv I
get
This is xawtv-3.68, running on linux/i586 2.4.17
can't open /dev/v4l/video0 device or resource busy
I am not sure how
I am using a framebuffer device. Sometimes my mouse cursor disappears
and I have to reboot to get it to come back. Is there another option
I can try in order to get the cursor back in my console?
Lance
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[EMAIL P
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 05:14:24PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I am using a framebuffer device. Sometimes my mouse cursor disappears
> and I have to reboot to get it to come back. Is there another option
> I can try in order to get the cursor back in my console?
I use to restart gpm. reboot
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:35:41 -0400
Quenten Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all I just installed the 2.4-18 kernerl and when I try to mount
> my smb shares I get the following error
> mount: fs type smb not supported by kernel
^^^
Shouldn't that be "smbfs" instead of "s
I'm doing some guessing, but often that works.
How do you know that modprobe didn't find the card and install the correct
driver?
What does ifconfig tell you?
What is in /etc/modules?
What is in /etc/network/interfaces?
And what is in /etc/networks?
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gpm will do this if X is running. Is gpm running?
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http://www.amplepower.com.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I am using a framebuffer device. Sometimes my mouse cursor disappears
> and I have to reboot to get it to come back. Is there another option
>
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote:
> so it should have been replaced by it I suppose, because i do not find
> any 'timed' after installing the package 'ntp' and 'ntp-simple' ?
Basically, yeah.
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On 19 Apr 2002, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> But how can I prevent people doing this, as it's a very lax setup that
> could well lead to trouble?
File permissions. Make your home directory unreadable to other users.
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> That's a scary tool, if I ever saw one. I have it running once a day,
> and it almost always reports a possible LKM "infection". Sometimes it
> detects 1 process hidden from ps, sometimes 3 processes, sometimes none.
> I'm reasonably sure the machine is n
--- Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Carlos Sousa wrote:
>
> > That's a scary tool, if I ever saw one. I have it
> running once a day,
> > and it almost always reports a possible LKM
> "infection". Sometimes it
> > detects 1 process hidden from ps, sometimes
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:34:40 -0500
Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> Announcement.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
> ...
> Boy.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
> ...
> Content_Tyler.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
> ...
> Daddy_Tyler.j
Hi,
I'm an audio/video software luddite, but I finally want to replace my
200 CD Sony disc changer pile of junk with my fancy new Debian Woody
workstation's sound capabilities. However, I'm starting to learn that
MP3 encoding is patent encumbered, and the chances of finding a free,
legal in the g
Is anyone aware of a fax program that would do the following:
Receive faxes which are immediately printed but can also be sent to the
appropriate email address depending on the intended recipient. I
realize that some user would have to view the faxes in order to
determine whom to send them to
Configuration:
Woody, Macintosh 7500 w/G3 card, flwm window manager
Problem:
When I use XDM to log in, everything seems fine, although the Xmessage
window does show up. THe only error mentioned is
"modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-6"
Everything works fine in X, until I logou
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 06:33:25PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm an audio/video software luddite, but I finally want to replace my
> 200 CD Sony disc changer pile of junk with my fancy new Debian Woody
> workstation's sound capabilities. However, I'm starting to learn that
> MP3 enc
(cross-posting to debian-powerpc, since this *may* be Mac specific)
update below, to provide context.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> Configuration:
> Woody, Macintosh 7500 w/G3 card, flwm window manager
>
> Problem:
> When I use XDM to log in, everything seems fine, although the
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 07:02:39PM -0500, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> (cross-posting to debian-powerpc, since this *may* be Mac specific)
>
> update below, to provide context.
>
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
>
> > Configuration:
> > Woody, Macintosh 7500 w/G3 card, flwm window manag
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, craigw wrote:
> On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 07:02:39PM -0500, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> > (cross-posting to debian-powerpc, since this *may* be Mac specific)
> >
> > update below, to provide context.
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote:
> >
> > > Configuration:
> >
begin dman quotation:
>
> Noah (and I) didn't say a firewall was useless, just that discussing
> firewalls when the problem is a (potential) mail relay is wholly
> pointless.
Noah did say that. You, to the best of my knowledge, didn't.
The original poster was concerned of a number of things, i
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:42:13PM +0200, Tim van den Elsen wrote:
> A few days ago i wanted to update the newest packages. I always use
> 'dselect'. When dselect tried to update and install a certain package
> (it had something do to with perl, can't remember exact name) it gave an
> error. It was
On 19 Apr 2002 at 16:38, curtis wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a fax program that would do the following:
Well, the one and only fax program I played with was
hylafax. So I cannot compare it to others, but here's what
I can say about hylafax:
It's very powerful. A lot more so than most users will
Hello list,
I'd like to generate woody ISO images with debian-cd.
Am I supposed to mirror complete debian ftp archive?
What is the minimal necessary directories I should mirror?
Any good utility or idea?
Thanks.
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Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If this is the case, what is the "Debian recommended" or "Debian
> user consensus" (if any) on an audio encoder for my CDs? I don't
> care if it's actually not MP3 - but it must be free, it must be
> legal, and reasonable performance and player choices w
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:33:25 -0500
"Shyamal Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, I'm starting to learn that
> MP3 encoding is patent encumbered, and the chances of finding a free,
> legal in the good ol' USA MP3 encoder for Linux are pretty nearly
> nil. Am I right?
TMK, that is correct
begin James Hook quotation:
>
> If you do find a way of getting the output from a process without doing
> logging/screen please share, as every now and then theres a stray process
> that I want to know what its doing/outputting.
It won't do what you're asking, but it may do what you need:
Packa
Hi,
I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
the files installed by debian packages.
Thanks,
Andy
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I, like most of you, download deb packages from a mirror site. While
this mirror site is listed on debian's list of mirrors, is there anyway
to check the integrity of these deb packages automatically when I
download them?
A possible setup would be to fetch the md5 checksums from the official
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With both the kernel-image packages I get the error
>Kernel Panic : Couldn't mount root fs on device
More details please, start with the major:minor and the few lines before
this message.
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begin Andy Saxena quotation:
>
> I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
> the files installed by debian packages.
Depends; what do you mean by "verify"?
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> > I may have access to a number of these similarly configured
> Compaq
> > systems, and would like to try them on a Debian network of
> inexpensive
> > computers, so I am hoping to find a fix using the SMC card. Any
> help
> > would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Can't you just copy the kernel
On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 10:54:26PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> begin Andy Saxena quotation:
> >
> > I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on
> > the files installed by debian packages.
>
> Depends; what do you mean by "verify"?
>
This is an interesting question, an
do fix_perms
#!/bin/sh
# this command changes
# all files to be mode 774
# all dirs to be 2775
# and everything to be owned by nobody.www-data
find /path/2files/ -exec chown nobody.www-data "{}" ";"
find /path/2files/ -type d -exec chmod 2775 "{}" ";"
find /path/2files/ -type f -exec chmod 664
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:00:19 -0700 (PDT) David Smead
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm doing some guessing, but often that works.
>
> How do you know that modprobe didn't find the card and install the
> correct
> driver?
It first tells me that the "Installation failed. Then in the next step
of
Running Woody, w/2.4.17 kernel for several months.
This evening, I attempted apt-get update, upgrade, and an install
(icewm). (Screen output of a re-run is attd.) I then ran mandb which
made 0 changes! man icewm did not exist. `which icewm` returned
nothing. As usual, after an upgrade or insta
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