Re: probleme beim runterfahren

2002-06-08 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > On Thursday 06 June 2002 17:24, ben wrote: > > The official language of this mailing list is english. You should > either post in english What he is asking is: Trying to boot down fails with an error message: Cannot close/stop X display manager xdm.

Re: Newbie attempting to install Debian

2002-06-08 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002, Rick wrote: > The beginning of the installation went fine. I created my swap and boot > partitions, and selected a file image for the kernel (selecting everything > from the directory woody/main/disks-~1/current). Hi, the first directory for the kernel images is dists/potato/

apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I've been beating my head into a wall trying to figure out why my "hello world" cgi script won't run. It turns out that disabling suexec (which is enabled by default in the apache package) makes the problems vanish. Now I want to know what is causing the problem. I skimmed through the security

quick snortsnarf question

2002-06-08 Thread Tim locke
Anybody installed snortsnarf onto debian? pls. tell me how, also, do I need snort for snortsnarf to work? I have a couple of gunzipped alert files and I don't want to be overwhelmed when I analyze them so I want to use snortsnarf for this... Pls don't forget to CC me since I'm not in the list righ

Re: GNOME 2.x debs?

2002-06-08 Thread Mike Frisch
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:56:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | I have been running GNOME 2.x on RedHat for a few weeks now and it seems > | to work pretty well. > > Huh. Is that like gcc 2.96 -- grab a cvs snapshot and call it stable? > Or are they labeled as pre-release? It's pre-re

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread ben
On Friday 07 June 2002 09:13 pm, robert jorgenson wrote: > Ok i had this working fine under my 2.2 distrobution kernel(debian) with > modprobe ppa. i Decided to compile a 2.4 kernel and i an trying to get it > to work correctly. Right now i have scsi support enabled, scsi disk support > enabled, th

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread Sven Hoexter -
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:57:33PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 09:13 pm, robert jorgenson wrote: HI, > > enabled as a module(as per the zip drive mini-hwoto). When i try to mount > > /dev/sda4 it says that /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device. I have kernel > > compiled about 6 ti

mount of /boot partition not in /etc/fstab

2002-06-08 Thread Thomas Kral
hello there, i use potato as a production system on my box, and i have just installed woody 3.0p8 unofficial in a seperate partition for testing. i switch between these two using lilo, they both have boot images in the common /boot partition. thing is woody has mount /boot entry in fstab, but

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Re: apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 22:10]: > [2002-06-07 23:55:40]: emerg: cannot get docroot information > (/home/dman) > drwx--x--x 92 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:13 /home/dman These 2 lines seem to make me think the problem is somehow related to not having +r on /ho

Re: mount of /boot partition not in /etc/fstab

2002-06-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Thomas Kral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020608 00:53]: > hello there, > > i use potato as a production system on my box, and i have just > installed woody 3.0p8 unofficial in a seperate partition for testing. > > i switch between these two using lilo, they both have boot images in > the common /boot p

Alt-UpArrow not working and a framebuffer question

2002-06-08 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I'm using vesafb and have just noticed that pressing Alt-UpArrow doesn't echo the usual "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab ..." but instead behaves as if there were no Alt key pressed. Obviously there's a link between (vesa)fb and this problem. What do I do about it? I run a 2.4.16 kernel

Re: Mozilla crashes and doesn't show buttons in Amazon - SOLVED

2002-06-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jun 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using the latest mozilla from testing (0.9-9.6). This seemed to be > working well at first but now it has crashed several times (i.e. just > disappeared from the screen), and when I logged onto Amazon it didn't > show the buttons for purchasing things.

RE: Gnome/X setup problems

2002-06-08 Thread Andrew Fowler
and the light goes on !!! That was it. I Really feel stupid now ! Thanks, Andz -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Colin Watson Sent: 08 June 2002 02:07 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Gnome/X setup problems On Fri, Jun 07, 200

Re: X server problems in Woody

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank's for the advice. On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 04:30, bill traynor wrote: > > You can try the xf86cfg tool, but I've better luck editing the > XF86Config-4 file by hand. > I've edited the file by hand comparing it to the one in my SuSE 8.0 box so now I'm going to give it a try One thing that sur

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-08 Thread Erik Steffl
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: ... > Windows may be not behave decently at all, but it sells as it is, and > it's not only marketing. I can see some of the reasons: > > 1 - They do invest in their product, but thy'll target the users and do > whatever they want.The UI, for example, that most hacke

wireless lan

2002-06-08 Thread Baan Zoltan
Hi, i have an SMC 2602 Wireless pci card. I would like to use it, i have succes in compiling the linux-wlan driver, but i can't set up this interface. It's using prism2_plx modul. Please let me know if one has succes of using a card like this. BS Zoltan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread robert jorgenson
I am also switching from 2.2 to 2.4 kernel but i cant mount it at all, even with the fstype. I have read almost eveything i could find and i cant get it to work =/ On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 22:57:33 -0700 "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 09:13 pm, robert jorgenson wrote: > > O

Re: Beginning to try to secure my box. Thanks so far

2002-06-08 Thread marshal
> "arthur" == arthur dent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: arthur> I have also installed from cd the Hardening Docs and will arthur> begin reading those too. A couple of the replies arthur> mentioned that I could disable services in the inetd.conf arthur> file. Below is a copy of m

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 June 2002 02:14 am, robert jorgenson wrote: > I am also switching from 2.2 to 2.4 kernel but i cant mount it at all, even > with the fstype. I have read almost eveything i could find and i cant get > it to work =/ > [snip] try this to see if the ppa module is doing what it should:

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread robert jorgenson
i get ... ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) ppa: parport reports no devices. when i try and mobprobe ppa i get the following ... chimera:/usr/local# modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module par

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 June 2002 02:49 am, robert jorgenson wrote: > i get ... > > ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x) > ppa: parport reports no devices. > > when i try and mobprobe ppa i get the following ... > > chimera:/usr/local# modprobe ppa > /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/ppa.o: init_module

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread robert jorgenson
I have tried it compiled in but i got the same invalid block device error, And the same message in dmesg finding no scsi hosts. And also before anyone asks everything is plugeed in right and there is a disk in there :) I cant imagine what is wrong ... On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 03:07:45 -0700 "ben" <[E

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 June 2002 03:11 am, robert jorgenson wrote: > I have tried it compiled in but i got the same invalid block device error, > And the same message in dmesg finding no scsi hosts. And also before anyone > asks everything is plugeed in right and there is a disk in there :) I cant > imagin

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 07:41:17PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > The argument, or at least the one I made, was not about certain arches > having priority over others. My point was that since i386 is the most > common arch in use, the i386 packages are the most heavily tested and > are therefore rea

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Re: Force password change on first logon on Debian Box

2002-06-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 07/06/02 Vineet Kumar did speaketh: > Taken from passwd(1): > >If you wish to immediately expire an accounts password, >you can use the -e option. This in affect can force a user >to change their password at their next login. You can also Is there a PAM module t

I keep loosing my panels on my desktop

2002-06-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
I have a Woody installation and I am using the "Gnome chooser" when I log-on. When I create a "new session", I always get two panels (at the top and at the bottom of the desktop). This is the way I want my desktop to appear. Sometimes when I log back in to a named (already created) desktop, it ap

Re: I keep loosing my panels on my desktop

2002-06-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/06/02 Randolph S. Kahle did speaketh: > I have a Woody installation and I am using the "Gnome chooser" when I > log-on. > > When I create a "new session", I always get two panels (at the top and > at the bottom of the desktop). This is the way I want my desktop to > appear. > > Sometimes w

Re: I keep loosing my panels on my desktop

2002-06-08 Thread Randolph S. Kahle
> > Unfortunately this is more of a gnome question. I'm personally running > sawfish and gnome-panel, but not the gnome-session that chews up my RAM with > IPC that I don't need. > The top and bottom panel is gnome-panel. When you login and gnome-panel > isn't there, look for it in the pr

Re: Force password change on first logon on Debian Box

2002-06-08 Thread Dale Hair
> Is there a PAM module that enforces good passwords? ie. won't allow > passwords easily crackable by john the ripper? > > Mike Install cracklib2 and uncomment this line in /etc/pam.d/passwd password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

MC: doesn't remember last directory

2002-06-08 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! I would like that MC remember last directory it was in. So I have add: if [ -f /usr/lib/mc/bin/mc.sh ]; then . /usr/lib/mc/bin/mc.sh fi to my .bashrc where mc.sh is: mc () { mkdir -p $HOME/.mc/tmp 2> /dev/null chmod 700 $HOME/.mc/tmp MC=$HOME/.mc/tmp/mc-$$ /usr/bin/mc -P "$@" > "$MC" cd "`c

Re: X server problems in Woody

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank's for your reply. I fixet the whole thing by comparing with the file in my SuSE system and editing the XF86Config-4 file by hand. Cheers, Helgi Örn On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 13:17, Graham Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I've a similar but not identical Rage 128 video card. > > I simply used the deb

Re: GNOME 2.x debs?

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:30:19AM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: | On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:56:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | I have been running GNOME 2.x on RedHat for a few weeks now and it seems | > | to work pretty well. | > | > Huh. Is that like gcc 2.96 -- grab a cvs snapshot

Re: Any X10 users out there ?

2002-06-08 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
spamassasin is the bomb. I am a hero to my customers when I install it. -- Arthur H. Johnson II Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA Debian GNU/Linux Advocate, Window Maker Advocate President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#windowmaker IRC: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [mostly-OT] apt-get on RH, is it worth anything? (was Re: Debian: abandon ship?)

2002-06-08 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I use apt-get on my Red Hat servers that need auto updating. I dont trust RH Network. It has broken at least a dozen servers that I know of, none of them are mine of course. You can get a really great implimentation of apt-get for Red Hat at http://www.freshrpms.net. -- Arthur H. Johnson II C

Re: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?

2002-06-08 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sáb, 2002-06-08 às 01:26, Vineet Kumar escreveu: > * Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 14:52]: > > Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will only > > allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with Gecko (the > > browser just dies after a cert

Re: dselect first impressions

2002-06-08 Thread Aaron Isotton
[This should go to debian-user, not debian-devel] Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here I list my first impressions of woody's dselect. If you think > these are bugs, please file them in your name. I'm don't feel like > submitting bug reports at this time. I suppose I should try some

kbdconfig - UK keyboard

2002-06-08 Thread Lee
Hi,   I have just installed debian 2.2r6.  The problem I am having is that I cannot get it to accept a UK keyboard.   When I do the test at the end of kbdconfig it works fine, so I select the option to  save and activate immediately, but the keyboard is still setup wrong.  The most obvisou

Re: apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-08 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Last Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:03:19AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 22:10]: > > [2002-06-07 23:55:40]: emerg: cannot get docroot information > > (/home/dman) > > > drwx--x--x 92 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:13 /home/dman > > These 2 line

Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I think I may have made something of a mistake! I needed to upgrade from potato, having need of a more recent lib. So I replaced 'stable' with 'unstable' in sources.list and upgraded. I really don't need to be on the bleeding edge (although I've had no difficulty with anything so far)

Re: apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:03:19AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 22:10]: | > [2002-06-07 23:55:40]: emerg: cannot get docroot information | > (/home/dman) | | > drwx--x--x 92 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:13 /home/dman | | These 2 lines

Re: Any X10 users out there ?

2002-06-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:46:44AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I was wondering if there are any debian users on this list who control > > their X10 stuff with their debian machine? Is it possible ? > > Probably, but I recommend against it. Take a stand against spam. X10 > advertises primarily

PPP with leased line and ADSL with PPPOE (two PPPs)

2002-06-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all. I have a leased line between two debian servers using pppd each site (one with a gateway to another). 192.168.100.1 gateway is 192.168.200.1 and vice-versa. Now I want to install a dsl line at one (192.168.200.1) of these computers. But adsl uses pppoe (pppd).

emacs and libungif

2002-06-08 Thread Thomas R. Shannon
I noticed problems displaying some images with w3m-el in emacs and I noticed that gif-support is complied out. I remade the package locally from source and it seems to work fine, now. I was just wondering why it wasn't compiled in. Should I be worried about something? Thanks, Tom S. -- Quote o

Re: emacs and libungif

2002-06-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Thomas R. Shannon wrote: > I noticed problems displaying some images with w3m-el in emacs and I > noticed that gif-support is complied out. I remade the package > locally from source and it seems to work fine, now. I was just > wondering why it wasn't compiled in. Presumably

Re: Any X10 users out there ?

2002-06-08 Thread Brandon N
> Thanks for the link, didn't know about that one :) > > Do you also know if I can control it with a webinterface from outside > ? There are lots of them, go to freshmeat and do a search for bottle rocket, or X10 for that matter. Brandon > Regards > Dick > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: emacs and libungif

2002-06-08 Thread Henrik Enberg
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Thomas R. Shannon wrote: > >> I noticed problems displaying some images with w3m-el in emacs and I >> noticed that gif-support is complied out. I remade the package >> locally from source and it seems to work fine, now. I was just

Audigy Platinum eX

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! Now that I've made the GUI thing work properly in Woody I have to get the sound going. My card is the Creative Audigy Platinum eX, I know that the emu10k1 driver is as far as you can get it going with Alsa. I know that this works in SuSE 8.0 but I wonder if there is someone here who's g

where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-08 Thread Kunal Shah
Hi List, I recently downloaded Debian Potato Distribution in 3 cds. I dumped everything into three directories in dos partition C:\debian\disk1, c:\debian\disk2 and c:\debian\disk3 And then, I booted from dosutils and installed everything with apt-setup( I changed the source to file:/mnt/debian

shell script problem (was: Re: [OT] rearranging data files)

2002-06-08 Thread Jörg Johannes
> Hm. > > If > ./col2row.sh > gives "Keine Berechtigung", but this one works: > sh ./col2row.sh > > then you most likely put the script on a filesystem that has been > mounted with the "noexec" attribute. Sometimes people mount /tmp this > way. Another test of this would be to copy /bin/l

Re: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Kunal Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-06-08 19:10]: >And then, I booted from dosutils and installed >everything with apt-setup( I changed the source to >file:/mnt/debian/disk1 potato main/contrib etc. ) > >But now, it has not installed xwindows. > >Where is xwindows in debian potato rev6? I'm

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:13:53PM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote: > Ok i had this working fine under my 2.2 distrobution kernel(debian) > with modprobe ppa. i Decided to compile a 2.4 kernel and i an trying > to get it to work correctly. Right now i have scsi support enabled, > scsi disk support en

Re: SCSI will not compile into kernel

2002-06-08 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! This is quite strange, as the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/scs/aic7xxx/aicasm/aicasm_symbol.h does not even contain the string "aicdb.h" here at my machine (kernel-source-2.4.18). I've also compiled this driver several times w/o any problems. So I would suggest that you should look into the aic

OOo & java

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Hi! I was going to install OpenOffice on my Woody box but when it comes to the question about Java it claims that it doesn't find it. But there is plenty of Java installed, the packages jdk1.1, jdk1.1-dev, jdk1.1-native for example. I give it the path and it still doesn't get it. Why is this? Che

Re: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
I strongly recommend you to read http://www.debian.org http://www.debian.org/doc and links http://www.debian.org/distrib/ http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 06:10:06PM +0100, Kunal Shah wrote: > Hi List, > > I re

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-08 Thread David Turetsky
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 03:59:38AM +0200, Frank Brodbeck uttered: --> I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) --> Errrh, just how intimate is your relationship with your pc? Could that be the source of your problems? -- David - www.richsob.com

Re: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-08 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I strongly recommend you to read > http://www.debian.org > http://www.debian.org/doc and links > http://www.debian.org/distrib/ > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual > http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst > > On S

Re: emacs and libungif

2002-06-08 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Thomas" == Thomas R Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I noticed problems displaying some images with w3m-el in emacs Thomas> and I noticed that gif-support is complied out. I remade the Thomas> package locally from source and it seems to work fine, now. I Thomas> was just wonder

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 20:56, David Turetsky wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 03:59:38AM +0200, Frank Brodbeck uttered: > --> I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) > --> > > > Errrh, just how intimate is your relationship with your pc? Could that > be the source of y

Re: Non-Browser Compliance (RE: Why does Mozilla modify /etc/alternatives/netscape?)

2002-06-08 Thread Bruce
First of all, thanks for the various hints as to what was actually happening on my system; that makes more sense, so my assumptions about Mozilla stomping out Netscape 4.77 were wrong. My apologies to the maintainer at assuming you had done something wrong. And, a general thanks to all Debian ma

Re: Robocode Article in June LJ

2002-06-08 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, David Raeker-Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the June issue of Linux Journal, there is an article entitled > > "Programming Life" that discusses Robocode, "a programming environment where > > you can create Java robots that battle it out in an arena on your screen.

how do i get the printer icon and clock back on my task bar.

2002-06-08 Thread WHITLEAS
have re installed printer but still no clock or printer icon on task bar so cannot delete printing  nor any oter way except print set up.

Re: shell script problem (was: Re: [OT] rearranging data files)

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 07:14:03PM +0200, Jörg Johannes wrote: | > Hm. | > | > If | > ./col2row.sh | > gives "Keine Berechtigung", but this one works: | > sh ./col2row.sh | > | > then you most likely put the script on a filesystem that has been | > mounted with the "noexec" attribute. Som

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Thank's for your information. I find this very interesting because I've made it to a sort of a hobby to harass webmasters that ignore anything else than IE, and those are not few. More and more sites seem to become almost exclusively IE centered, even sites that are entirely financed with our own (

Fonts... (sic)

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello once again! Yet another problem I got in Gnome Woody is the default font size in the application windows and the menus, the size of the font is really too large and I can't find a way to change that. I've searced all over the place, f.ex. in the Gnome conf tool, without results. The help sys

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-08 Thread Walter Hombold
well this seems to be interesting let me know if you need more assistance :-) "laurent mpeti kabila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE > -- > Your contact was availed to me by the chamber of commerce. It was given > to me be

Re: Any X10 users out there ?

2002-06-08 Thread ben
On Saturday 08 June 2002 08:32 am, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:46:44AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I was wondering if there are any debian users on this list who control > > > their X10 stuff with their debian machine? Is it possible ? > > > > Probably, but I recommend a

filling my logs after upgrade to woody

2002-06-08 Thread Keith Robinson
Hi, Since upgrading my Potato box to woody, /etc/auth.log is full of the following: Jun 8 20:30:01 harvey PAM_unix[10313]: (cron) session opened for user root by (uid=0) Jun 8 20:30:01 harvey PAM_unix[10313]: (cron) session closed for user root Jun 8 20:38:01 harvey PAM_unix[10326]: (cron) se

Re: filling my logs after upgrade to woody

2002-06-08 Thread Bill Wohler
Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jun 8 21:00:01 harvey PAM_unix[10392]: (cron) session closed for user root > > This is really annoying when I'm checking the logs. I've had a look for the > problem, but came up emtpy. Not a problem, just PAM reporting setuid calls. -- Bill Wohle

X won't start after cp to new drive

2002-06-08 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I installed a new harddrive and copied all directories via cp -a home usr etc ... Now X won't start as a user. X WILL start as root. I checked the Xwrapper and it has the allowed-users=console line in it. I can rescue root=/dev/hdb1 to the old drive and start X fine as a user. The permissions

Re: filling my logs after upgrade to woody

2002-06-08 Thread Keith Robinson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:42:28PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jun 8 21:00:01 harvey PAM_unix[10392]: (cron) session closed for user root > > > > This is really annoying when I'm checking the logs. I've had a look for > > the problem, but came

Re: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:11:00PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 06:10:06PM +0100, Kunal Shah wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > > > I recently downloaded Debian Potato Distribution in 3 > > > cds. > > > > OOps,

Re: group equals username.. why?

2002-06-08 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:13:44 -0300, irado furioso com tudo wrote: > >I noted that when creating a user, it is assumed a group name with the >very same username (user irado, group irado). Is there a way to select >a generic (say: users) group when creating new users? > See man chgrp or man chown.

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:11:25AM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote: > I have tried it compiled in but i got the same invalid block device error, > And the same message in dmesg finding no scsi hosts. And also before anyone > asks everything is plugeed in right and there is a disk in there :) I cant

Re: PPP with leased line and ADSL with PPPOE (two PPPs)

2002-06-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/06/02 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira did speaketh: > > Hi all. I have a leased line between two debian servers using pppd each > site (one with a gateway to another). 192.168.100.1 gateway is > 192.168.200.1 and vice-versa. Now I want to install a dsl line at one >

Re: restart all services?

2002-06-08 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:47:38 -0700, justin cunningham wrote: >Is there a way to restart all services at once instead of individually? >Thanks, Justin Would "telinit -u" be the ticket? See man telinit. -- gt It is interesting to note that as one evil empire (generic) fell, another Evil Empire (t

Re: PPP with leased line and ADSL with PPPOE (two PPPs)

2002-06-08 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, how to route between then? I only get them to work when I delete default gw (coming from pppoe), start pppd at two sites and then add the pppoe route (not as default) again. If I not delete default gw, pppd gives me an error about not allowing connect with thi

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Re: disappearing hard disk [almost SOLVED]

2002-06-08 Thread csj
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:24:49 -0700 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:50 pm, csj wrote: [snip: Problem with one hard drive in a two-drive combo "disappearing" after a reboot] > > In the meantime I had disconnected the second (originally hdb) drive, > > and I managed severa

Re: restart all services?

2002-06-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jun 08, 2002, Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:47:38 -0700, justin cunningham wrote: > > >Is there a way to restart all services at once instead of individually? > >Thanks, Justin > > Would "telinit -u" be the ticket? See man telinit. Good question. I've

Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Neal Lippman
I have come across an interesting ( :confused: ) and difficult problem with an nfs mount; maybe someone has an idea. THe basic situation is that I have one linux box (running MDK 8.2, but that's probably not relevant) that I have just set up as a file server, and a second linux box (running Deb

Performance tuning?

2002-06-08 Thread Brian Dessent
I've recently installed woody on an older system: 6x86 P150, 112MB RAM, Matrox Millennium I 4MB PCI, Buslogic multimaster PCI scsi (all scsi, no ide). This system is far from modern but I really remember it feeling a lot faster when it was my primary workstation (running win95.) I've installed X

routing

2002-06-08 Thread James Ireson
Ok, I've got a little further on my own. router <---> [64.49.19.57] box 1 (with ipchains Masq) [192.168.128.91] <---> [192.168.128.92] box 2 (windows) <---> [192.168.128.93] box 3 (windows) <---> [192.168.128.94] box 4 (windows) <---> [192.168.128.95] box 5 (sparc debian woody) Although th

Re: restart all services?

2002-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Note that you can frequently issue a "restart" rather than a start and > stop, but not always. So I'm taking the conservative approach. Policy 10.3.2 says that 'restart' should be supported by all scripts in /etc/init.d, so please

Re: Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
> The reason is, obviously, that cdrecord is setuid root, and so the > attempt to open the iso file on the nfs share appeared to come from > root, and with root_squash on the nfs export, it couldn't get at the > file. [...] > Any thoughts or suggestions? How about this? Use standard input for cdr

Re: Fonts... (sic)

2002-06-08 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:30:40PM +0200, Helgi ?rn wrote: > Hello once again! > > Yet another problem I got in Gnome Woody is the default font size in the > application windows and the menus, the size of the font is really too > large and I can't find a way to change that. I've searced all over t

Re: Performance tuning?

2002-06-08 Thread Tom Allison
Brian Dessent wrote: I've recently installed woody on an older system: 6x86 P150, 112MB RAM, Matrox Millennium I 4MB PCI, Buslogic multimaster PCI scsi (all scsi, no ide). This system is far from modern but I really remember it feeling a lot faster when it was my primary workstation (running wi

Re: restart all services?

2002-06-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:07:10PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > If you can bounce the system, issue a shutdown to maintenance, and then > back up to full services. That's not a system restart, but rather stops > all user and daemon processes, then restarts them. Of course, this may not work pe

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-08 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.08 15:23 Helgi Örn wrote: Thank's for your information. I find this very interesting because I've made it to a sort of a hobby to harass webmasters that ignore anything else than IE, and those are not few. More and more sites seem to become almost exclusively IE centered, even sites th

Re: Performance tuning?

2002-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Is this an 6x86 P150 or an 800MHz Athlon? Or is the win2k box the 800MHz Athlon? Some musings: - how much RAM on the win2k box? - On my 1GHz Athlon, I see X spiking up to 60% CPU at times. (Yes, I run X4.1, Gnome 1.2 and mozilla 1.0rc3. - Do you run gnome 1.2 or 1.4? - mozilla is pretty

Re: ISA network card

2002-06-08 Thread Nick Traxler
Well, I fooled around with that for an hour or two, but it never worked. So, I got a Kingston ISA off the scrap heap at work, and it worked without a hitch. It even used the ne module and worked with no arguments passed in. So, problem solved. Thanks to everyone who responded. -- Nick On Wed, Ju

When to trust compound statements and when to test? was: restart all services?

2002-06-08 Thread Gary Turner
On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 15:07:10 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >If you can bounce the system, issue a shutdown to maintenance, and then >back up to full services. That's not a system restart, but rather stops >all user and daemon processes, then restarts them. > >If that's too drastic: > > $ for

Re: Performance tuning?

2002-06-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is this an 6x86 P150 or an 800MHz Athlon? Or is the win2k > box the 800MHz Athlon? > > Some musings: > - how much RAM on the win2k box? > - On my 1GHz Athlon, I see X spiking up to 60% CPU at times. > (Yes, I run X4.1, Gnome 1.2 and mozilla 1.0rc3. > - Do you run gnome 1

Re: iomega parallel port zip drive

2002-06-08 Thread robert jorgenson
I tried it with the imm module but it did the same thing as the ppa module ... chimera:/home/bob# modprobe imm /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/

Re: Debian GIS

2002-06-08 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.05 23:50 Eric G. Miller wrote: GRASS is best for folks doing raster analysis/modeling. The vector stuff isn't quite "there" yet. Are there others that do better at vector-based modeling, or would I be best served waiting on GRASS to 'get there' ? Thanx, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OOo & java

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 23:15, Michel Loos wrote: > Em Sáb, 2002-06-08 às 14:48, Helgi Örn escreveu: > > Hi! > > > > I was going to install OpenOffice on my Woody box but when it comes to > > the question about Java it claims that it doesn't find it. But there is > > plenty of Java installed, the pa

Lilo Q

2002-06-08 Thread Alice M. Pinard
As I'm continuing to try and troubleshoot a hd that doesn't seem to want to boot (promise ultra card, 60g hd) I just wanna doublecheck one thing If I don't even get a LI or L or _something_ from lilo it's definitely not a lilo problem and it's somewhere further up in the pipeline? Or could t

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-08 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 00:10, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Please use postfix quoting format: your reply goes below the material > cited. Trim your quotes appropriately and ensure your attributions are > accurate. > > Thank you. > Pardon??? HÖ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

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