Re: HD dead with /usr

2002-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 11, 2002, Ricardo Fitzgerald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Fix your system clock. > Hi, > > One of my Hds went dead, along with my /usr, I still have the apps in > /var/cache/apt/available, is there a way to recover that /usr or I > have to reinstall and configure wo

DHCP for PCMCIA interface: Being Canonical

2002-06-10 Thread Bruce
I have a wireless (SMC 2632W) PCMCIA network card on my laptop which runs Debian/Sid. Works great, once up. However, I do have to manually "pump -i wlan0" for it to get its address from the friendly neighbourhood DHCP server. I realize this is a function of the whole PCMCIA/Network issue covere

Re: OT network hardware related questions ?

2002-06-10 Thread Shaul Karl
> can you guys plz tell me any site where i can ask > network hardware related questions ? questions about > data transmission lenth, diff network devices ? > > thanks > > > = > *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ > You might want to try the old news system. If you can't te

Re: fast way to make bootable cd ?

2002-06-10 Thread Tobias Jahn
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:09:58AM -0700, nate wrote: > > One way is bblcd: http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/ > > cool! that worked! ... > > thanks!! that program will be very useful i plan to make a bunch > of bootable cds for servers now that i know how Great ;-) It seems that this mailing list is

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80GB drive, assuming same MTBF numbers on all driv

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: > I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been > thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. I've never used it, but according to the manpage, nameif can do this. see man 8 nameif. signature.asc

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony yes... good point on MTBF... - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die within the first 30 days ... ( some disks more likely to die than others irrespective of the MTBF and name-brands.. - i have a pile of "bad/flaky IBM disks" ... about 1-

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die > within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early (defective) and late (worn out). Not many die

Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:47:22AM +0100, Paladin wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:28:52 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First off, deb-make has been obsolete for years. If you want a modern > > set of package building helpers, use dh-make and debhelper instead. > > Modern!? We

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-10 Thread Helgi Örn
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:00, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Yep. I remember a while back, there was a big stink because the UK had > developed an e-gov gateway that only worked with MSIE running on > certain versions of Windows. I also remember that case from media and a lot of angry voices on the w

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:39:46AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 10:55, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >[...] > > I doubt whether the dust could have caused it though - it still has > > the problem after a bit of cleaning. > > Don't say such things. A friend of mine had a failing

Re: Gentoo ...

2002-06-10 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 10:11:55AM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote: > Was wondering if someone would be willing to burn me a gentoo cd and bring it > to the meeting on thursday, will reimburse for cd's :) Gentoo is something > i've been reading up on and been wanting to try out for a bit now > >

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Friday 07 June 2002 01:55 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 06:28:27PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote (slightly > > > > reformatted): > > > * Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Problem: I have a machine tha

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 10 June 2002 13:21, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I have to admit that I haven't measured the resistance (although I > have a multimeter lying around somewhere). What amount of resistance > should I expect on a good system? Don't know exactly, but if res is low between battery + contact an

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:35:56PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: | > next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the | > contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. | > those batteries should last

Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Paladin
Now the error is: "dh_installchangelogs: Cannot specify an upstream changelog for a native debian package." Before it was something complaining about the docs being included. I have a directory named faq in the home of source directory that was being included, so I changed from: faq: to only

Re: fsck bus error: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' during boot

2002-06-10 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 09 June 2002 22:36, Joost van Baal wrote: > Hi, > > [Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.] > > The short summary: When booting, my box gives up, stating: > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. > attempt to access beyond end of device > 03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393

Re: SMP working

2002-06-10 Thread Andreas Eichner
Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 16:50 schrieb Robert Webb: > check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu > but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ. > > Am I looking in the wrong place??? No, this is right. A cat /proc/cpuinfo should list "processor 0" and "processor 1" Seem

Re: Thanks and > questions Was: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > "dh_installchangelogs: Cannot specify an upstream changelog for a > native debian package." If you didn't intend the package to be native, ensure that you have the upstream source tarball as foo_1.0.orig.tar.gz in the parent directory, whe

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9 Jun 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 10:19, I wrote: > > > > 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 di

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 03:35 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80

Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather timid about it. Thanks for any pointers. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~

debian/freebsd

2002-06-10 Thread Henning, Brian
Hello- I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD and debian Linux exist on. I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux swap in the logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time I try to install debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that is corrupt

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 05:48 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die > within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early

Re: MP3 encoder

2002-06-10 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> > LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is the best encoder for all OSes. It's > packaged for sid, I think in the non-US section because of Fraunhofer > patent. Unoficcial packages are at http://marillat.free.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:24:47AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was > solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. Yeah, that'd be because a few files moved from groff to groff-base after the most recent version in woody.

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

2002-06-10 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.10 06:21 Helgi Örn wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:00, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Yep. I remember a while back, there was a big stink because the UK had > developed an e-gov gateway that only worked with MSIE running on > certain versions of Windows. I also remember that case from medi

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

2002-06-10 Thread Dale Hair
> Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was > solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. > > Can I now safely remove the preferences file and put 'stable' in my > sources.list in anticipation of woody's becoming stable? Yes and you can use 'woody' instead o

how to define my max_connections?

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I am running mysql-3.23.49 on Linux 2.4.18 for production purpose. Now I want to define a proper max_connections value in mysql. The document said, "The maximum number of connects MySQL is depending on how good the thread library is on a given platform. Linux or Solaris should be ab

Kernel panic... :-(

2002-06-10 Thread Helgi Örn
Hello all! I just installed the 2.4.18 kernel on my Woody, now it doesn't even boot. First I ran it using the floppy with the new image (or so I thought it was like this: --- Loading... Uncompress Linux ran out of input data -- System halted --- I am running SuSE 8.0 on this

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread marshal
> "Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading Andrew> the kernel under debian, but can't find it now. I'd like Andrew> to move to 2.4.18 but am rather timid about it. Andrew> Thanks for any pointers.

Re: debian/freebsd

2002-06-10 Thread marshal
> "Henning" == Henning, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henning> Hello- I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD Henning> and debian Linux exist on. I want freebsd in a primary Henning> partition and I want linux and linux swap in the logical Henning> partitions in

Re: fsck bus error: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' during boot

2002-06-10 Thread Joost van Baal
Hi, Nicos, Thanks a lot for your reply! On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:04:56PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 09 June 2002 22:36, Joost van Baal wrote: > > > > [Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.] > > > > The short summary: When booting, my box gives up, stating: > > > > NET4: Uni

Re: DHCP for PCMCIA interface: Being Canonical

2002-06-10 Thread David Z Maze
Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a wireless (SMC 2632W) PCMCIA network card on my laptop which runs > Debian/Sid. (This is important.) > Works great, once up. However, I do have to manually "pump -i wlan0" > for it to get its address from the friendly neighbourhood DHCP > server. ... >

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under > debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather > timid about it. Last subsection of section 8 of the Installation Manual at http://www.debian.org/rele

RE:Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Andrew Agno
Andrew Perrin writes: > I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under > debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather > timid about it. Here's how I do it: 1. edit /etc/kernel-img.conf: % echo "do_initrd = Yes" > blah 2. use dselect or apt-

ast-ksh debs anywhere?

2002-06-10 Thread Aidan OReilly
Hello! Anyone know if there are any .debs out there for this package? I may take the free download from AT&T, but would prefer a Debianized package if available. Thanks! Aidan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Helgi Örn
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 16:06, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under > debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather > timid about it. > > Thanks for any pointers. > I wish I had read a step-by-step guide _before_

mailto attachment name ?

2002-06-10 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I have recently started playing around with the program mailto. One problem I am having is that when I send an attachment with "~*" and a person receives the email they cannot see the original filename. What they see is "Application/x-zip" or something. They do not see "myfile.zip". What do I ne

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Bob Proulx
> | Cheers. Didn't know about the alcohol trick. It's probably a terrible > | waste of snaps though... > > Don't use liquor, use "rubbing" alcohol. (Sorry, I don't recal the > scientific name off the top of my head right now. I used to know it.) Isopropyl alcohol. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

2002-06-10 Thread Nick Traxler
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:41:29AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: > > > I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been > > thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. > > I've never used it, but

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:06:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under | debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather | timid about it. Pretty much point apt at woody and apt-get install kernel-ima

Fwd: Devfs & /dev permission persistence

2002-06-10 Thread Russell Coker
Here's a message from the devfs mailing list. Potential problems like this are part of the reason why I don't do such things by default in my devfsd package. I could make it an option to allow such use if there was a serious demand. So far only one person has requested it, this was a German g

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

2002-06-10 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 17:03, Helgi Örn wrote: [snip] At last I managed to get back into the system on the old kernel (2.2.20), so now I just have to study further the art of upgrading the kernel in Debian... :-) Cheers, Helgi Örn -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 08:46, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.06.10 03:35 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > > > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) > > > > No, it does matter. You

ntop does not preserve traffic stats

2002-06-10 Thread Philipp Lehman
I'm using ntop to monitor network traffic. ntop does not preserve the traffic stats over a reboot (which is crucial because the machine is not up all day). Whenever I look at the traffic stats page of web interface after a reboot, the figures are reset to 0. I understand that I need to start it

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I > can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it > in the error messages) keeps jumping ahead -- then back, semi-randomly. It > seems to do so by always the sam

URGENT: Kernel upgrade breaks openAFS

2002-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Upgrading to 2.4.18 today, I seem to have broken my openAFS client configuration. Using *either* version (the one from testing on debian.org or 1.2.4 from openafs.org) of openafs-modules-source, when I do make-kpkg modules_image the make fails thus: ../afs/../afs/../rx/../rx/rx_kmutex

NFS

2002-06-10 Thread O Senhor
Hello, I have one celerra server (NAS) that is serving filesystems to my lan. I have FreeBSD's boxes running diskless from that server... just fine. Solaris machines e etc... The problem is: My linux machines do not work. If i try boot diskless, the start up crash (mounting rootfs), if i tr

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread ben
On Monday 10 June 2002 04:35 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] > > > next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the > > contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. > > those batteries should last for at least half a year. > > Cheers. Didn't know about t

GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

2002-06-10 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, I'm currently tracking testing with the /etc/apt/preferences set to: testing - 800 unstable - 700 stable - 600 Recently after doing an update in dselect/apt-get it automatically selected GCC 3.1 and several related stuff. Unfortunatelly they seen to depend on some libs and the binutils in SID

gedit

2002-06-10 Thread ben
i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Walter Hombold
"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 As I found your first e-mail in my trash-box: So why then do you ask me again for Fax & T

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Walter Hombold wrote: > As I found your first e-mail in my trash-box: So why then do you ask me > again for Fax & Telephone Numbers since you _already_ must know them, > as you stated that _all_ necessary information were made available to > you from the above source. > > Look

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:46:45AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > So then, the primary advantages of RAID are access speed and data > redundancy The primary advantages of RAID are highly dependent on what flavor of RAID you're using. RAID0 and RAID1, e.g., are practically the opposite of each ot

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:17:57PM +0200, Walter Hombold wrote: > "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 > > As I found

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The problem with JBODs (just big ole disks, i.e. single disks) JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, i.e., several drives operating independently. A JBOD can be organized into a RAID, but doesn't have to be. > With RAID solutions, the read-w

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I > > can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it > > in the error messages) keeps jumping ah

Tool to manage messages sent to web site

2002-06-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am looking for a tool to manage messages sent to a web server, with thread capability, etc. Can someone advice of one? Thanks, AR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

2002-06-10 Thread Helgi Örn
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 18:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 17:03, Helgi Örn wrote: > [snip] > At last I managed to get back into the system on the old kernel > (2.2.20), so now I just have to study further the art of upgrading the > kernel in Debian... :-) > apt-get remove kerne

customizing aterm

2002-06-10 Thread Veit Waltemath
Hi ppl, I want to use aterm and X-terminal-emulator shows already to aterm. Now i want to us a tranparent background and maybe other things, so what can i do, that for example irssi or Mutt startet from the Wmaker menu gets the wanted behaviour. Typing from the shell the whole bunch of options is

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > So, the way I'm reading this, a RAID 5 stack w/ 5 20 GB hard drives > provides improved access speed and reliability at the cost of slightly > reduced storage. Yep. Different RAID levels are basically different tradeoffs between

Re: gedit

2002-06-10 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: > i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian > version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories > whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? > > ben I just type a dot in the dialog

Re: gedit

2002-06-10 Thread ben
On Monday 10 June 2002 11:52 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: > > i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian > > version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or > > directories whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how

Swapfile

2002-06-10 Thread Jens Karsten Müller
Hello, today i created a swapfile instead of a partition, because i think it's more dynamic. I only see advantages using a swapfile. So first of all, I'd like to know about disadvantages, because almost everybody uses a swap partition. And finally I need to know what to change on my potato. I just

Re: GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

2002-06-10 Thread Robin Putters
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 19:45, Balazs Javor wrote: > So my questions would be: > Is this true? > If yes, where could I learn about the reasons for this and similar issues? > Finally, in this particular case, would it be safe to upgrade binutils? > I'm having no problems running SID for over a year

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Robert Webb
Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] Any sort of true hardware RAID setup (beware the hybrids, since this doesn't apply to them) will interact with the rest of the system as a single device. The question of whether to put the individual drives on separate controllers or not doesn't apply, since the d

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:39, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The problem with JBODs (just big ole disks, i.e. single disks) > > JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, i.e., several drives operating > independently. A JBOD can be organized into a RAI

Re: debian/freebsd

2002-06-10 Thread Jeff Penn
> I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux > swap in the logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time > I try to install debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that > is corrupt I reinstall This is explained in a linux+freebsd howto (sorry don't have a

unsubscribe

2002-06-10 Thread zhakad
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Re: URGENT: Kernel upgrade breaks openAFS

2002-06-10 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I just grabbed openafs-modules-source 1.2.4-1 and kernel-source-2.4.18 2.4.18-5 and it worked fine for me. I'm using the gcc-2.95 in unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Time(zone) problems

2002-06-10 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! I have some strange time problems. When I run date as normal user I get time in UTC timezone. And when I create files they also get timestamp with that time (and that's wrong time). But as root I don't have that problems and I have normal CEST time (as it should be). I have runed timezoneconf

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Walter
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:17:57PM +0200, Walter Hombold wrote: >> "laurent mpeti kabila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE >> > -- >> > Your contact was availed to me by the ch

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Rich Puhek
Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a while ago, and > someone mentioned that it was specific to a certain brand > of mobo. > > No URLs for you, I'm afraid, but if you google a bit, I'm sure > i

kde sources.list

2002-06-10 Thread Eduardo Gargiulo
Hi all. What should I add to my sources.list to install kde (i want to run kdeveloper) on my debian/potato ? -- Eduardo Gargiulo ejg-debian @ ar.homelinux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

2002-06-10 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:46:07PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > Now I just have these left to config: > Sound: Creative Audigy Platinum eX apt-get -f install alsa-modules-2.4.18-686 alsaconf and alsaconf it. > CD-burner: HP cd-writer 9500 "hdX=ide-scsi" into append line of lilo.conf cdrecord -sca

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:46:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW as "Walter Hombold" I am not subscribed to the debian-user-list and > still I can post? I am subscribed with a _different_ name > though. Can this be the reason why my post as "Walter" does not bounce? With the exception of

woody is so full of OLD stuff

2002-06-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
A> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its A> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" A> package managing tool. ok, if it is so standard then it should be installed by default in the tasksel phase. no mention of it is made from the time we pop in the fir

Server Side Includes

2002-06-10 Thread Ronald Castillo
Hello.. I was wondering if there is any way of installing Server Side Includes for Apache without having to recompile from source. I have tried changing the httpd.conf file, placing .htaccess files but with no results. Thanks for your help.. Ronald Castillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:09:45 +0100 "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I believe that being subscribed does mean that you get whitelisted by > the spam checks, though.) There are spam checks in use? I'm just a little shocked at the pieces that have made it through then. Perhaps, as yo

Re: Server Side Includes

2002-06-10 Thread Patrick Wiseman
This is a bit OT, but ... On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I was wondering if there is any way of installing Server Side Includes > for Apache without having to recompile from source. I have tried > changing the httpd.conf file, placing .htaccess files but with no > results. See h

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Re: Tool to manage messages sent to web site

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:45:49PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | I am looking for a tool to manage messages sent to a web server, | with thread capability, etc. Can someone advice of one? What is a "message"? What do you mean by "manage"? apache can manage (HTTP) messages sent to a web serve

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q) - fw

2002-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya robert why not have two firewalls ??? ( 2x pentium-90Mhz for example .. something cheap, but fast enough) +-- fw1 --+ internet -> csu/dus -> hub -> + +--> hub -> your lan +-- fw2 --+ when one goes down use the other ...

audio volume playing CDs

2002-06-10 Thread gob
Evening all. I cannot obtain maximum volume from my system while playing audio CDs with cdtool. Other apps work fine while playing audio off the HD (xmms). I've used cdtool (cdvolume 255), aumix (aumix -v100), and a small app called volume (volume 255). All of these lift the volume slightly

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a while ago, and > > someone mentioned that it was specific to a certain brand > > of m

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > > > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a whil

Re: HDD vs. RAID -- pictures

2002-06-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya for those that like raid pictures (or can understand pics easier) of various raid setup easier to understand/see the differences between raid0, raid1, raid5, raid10, raid01, - look for the parity info and where its located.. http://www.1U-Raid5.net/Differences/ c ya alvin

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:45:22PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > > > > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on

X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

2002-06-10 Thread Eric Brooks
Debian friends, I got the error shown below on moving from potato to woody. I have done an apt-get udpate and apt-get dist-upgrade so I assume I'm running an X-windows version in synch with the xf86config utility that I ran to produce the XF86Config file. Does anyone have any insight on where I sh

Re: audio volume playing CDs

2002-06-10 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:39:53 +0100 gob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evening all. I cannot obtain maximum volume from my system while > playing audio CDs with cdtool. Other apps work fine while playing > audio off the HD (xmms). I've used cdtool (cdvolume 255), aumix > (aumix -v100), and a smal

Re: Speedy na debian 2.2.r3 Potato

2002-06-10 Thread Francisco M Neto
Olá, > Tenho uma placa SURECOM (desconhecida no linux), mas que vem com o driver > e o modulo e um passo a passo. Essa placa não é desconhecida. Use o módulo 8139too ('modprobe 8139too') > 1) Eu posso por qualquer IP aqui ${IPADDR}? Depende do teu serviço de Interne

[Re: audio volume playing CDs [SOLVED]]

2002-06-10 Thread gob
--- Begin Message --- Carlos Sousa wrote: Perhaps the CD source volume is set too low? In this case, try aumix -c100. Brilliant! On the button, loud and painful now. Thanks for your help. 8-) There is also a volume control called PCM, set that to maximum as well with aumix -w100. On some c

Re: audio volume playing CDs [SOLVED]

2002-06-10 Thread Carlos Sousa
Forwarding to the list: Carlos Sousa wrote: > Perhaps the CD source volume is set too low? In this case, try aumix > -c100. Brilliant! On the button, loud and painful now. Thanks for your help. 8-) > There is also a volume control called PCM, set that to maximum as well > with aumix -w100. On

Re: kindly get back to me

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:35:59PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:09:45 +0100 > "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I believe that being subscribed does mean that you get whitelisted by > > the spam checks, though.) > > There are spam checks in use? As of a few

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 14:22, Robert Webb wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] > yup, there IDE RAID controllers out there. Whether they help speed or > not I don't know. > I am actually running one that does only RAID 1 for redundancy for my > firewall. Cannot > afford to have that go down

Debian beer at USENIX?

2002-06-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
If anybody here's at USENIX this week or otherwise in the Monterey, CA, USA area, give a yell. We should get BoF session scheduled or just go out for beers. And don't forget to go see Bdale's Guru Session. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgu

Re: Debian beer at USENIX?

2002-06-10 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:21:30 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > If anybody here's at USENIX this week or otherwise in the > Monterey, CA, USA area, give a yell. We should get BoF session Yell. I'm also at USENIX in Monterey. I'll give a BOF at thursday a

Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

2002-06-10 Thread Jeff Green
Not a detailed reply because I am only a user not a developer or advocate or anything particular. I don't have any idea why the install takes you into dselect, apt is installed by default and if you know the name of the package you want you can apt-get install it. If you aren't sure of the name

Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:01:05AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > A> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its > A> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" > A> package managing tool. > > ok, if it is so standard It's not. > then it should be installed by d

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