automatic poweroff

My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do so properly when shut done from Windows. I tried 2 things: 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to the kernel. 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled. None of them work. I went through the list

Debian network and samba -- Partly Solved

Thanks to some expert help, I now have the gateway aspect of my debian system solved. I'm still puzzled as how to get to a printer on my RedHat server. The printer is set up through samba so some windows systems can get to it also. Must the Debian system get to it as a samba printer, or can it j

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed: > > > > So just wondering if it's just me that has problems with twinview stuff ? > > Or > > is there any other settings that you would recommend - how well is Matrox > > G400 or Agp+PCI settings ? they run well ? > > > > I use a dual head matrox card every day

Re: automatic poweroff

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:00:36AM -0400, Patrick M wrote: > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do > so properly when shut done from Windows. > > I tried 2 things: > > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to > the kernel. > > 2- I compil

exim doesn't deliver to maildirs

I've been trying to switch from mbox to maildir, but exim won't deliver to my maildirs. Here's the relevant section of my exim.conf: Default address_directory transport: address_directory: driver = appendfile no_from_hack prefix = "" suffix = "" # maildir_format What I've put

Re: Problems with 2.4. series kernels and Adaptec scsi card

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:42:32AM -0500, Russ Cook wrote: > I am still running the 2.2 series kernels on my machine, because I've > been unsuccessful compiling and running a 2.4 series kernel. > I have an Adaptec AHA-2940 scsi card. When the kernel tries to boot, I'd suggest using make-kpkg with

Re: automatic poweroff

Thanks for your quick answer. It's not SMP. I have a single Pentium III (Coppermine). As for the switch, i'm not sure what you mean... If you're referring to some bios option, i would guess that theyre all right cause it works on windows... Any other ideas? PM, 22 On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10

Re: automatic poweroff

#include Patrick M wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:00:36AM: > I tried 2 things: First: when you use ACPI kernel, enable ACPI in BIOS. When you use APM kernel, enable APM. > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to > the kernel. You may have one of those weird boards t

Re: bootdisk for jigdo cdrom

#include Francois Chenais wrote on Fri Jun 21, 2002 um 02:34:12PM: > Hello, > > I have a jigdo cdrom but the computer I use doesn't want to boot > on it :-| > > So, which boot disk must I uses to boot bf2.4 woody dist ? The two disks calles rescue.bin and root.bin, located in

SIIG SCSI Card

I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card. It claims it has Linux support, in the manual and on SIIG's website. Apparently either Advansys or Initio chipsets are used in these cards. Trying to install the kernel module for either of these SCSI chipsets has been unsuccessful. Is

Re: recovering hard disk partition info after boo-boo with using dd

hi ya paolo i dont think things is as bad as it coulda been ??? ( no such device as /dev/hd0 -- which means that dd just created a copy of "someimage" as a file called /dev/hd0 .. or at least that's what it was supposed to do -- since there is no such device... w

Re: Debian network and samba -- Partly Solved

hi ya larry > I'm still puzzled as how to get to a printer on my > RedHat server. assuming oyur printer is connected to the rh box... and lets say your /etc/printcap looks something like... lp|Xerox|Xerox DocuPrint: :sh:\ :ml=0:\ :mx=0:\ :sd=/var/spool/l

my guess as to where to put the dialup iptables rules

Regarding Rusty's Really Quick Guide To Packet Filtering /usr/share/doc/iptables/html/packet-filtering-HOWTO.html#toc5 where are we supposed to put that? /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/somefile I suppose. If you tell me to put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d I will tell you that it only needs to be run once...

Re: FHS: PATH and /opt

on Fri, Jun 21, 2002, Jerome BENOIT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Bonjour, > > I have just install the "/opt" directory, > and I wonder where to put the directory "/opt/bin" > in the ENV_PATH varibles (defined in `/etc/login.defs'. /opt is a "local variants" convention. Depending on which side of

postfix cleanup stuck (cannot kill it)

it happened twice in last few weeks: the cleanup (part of postfix) eats up all the cpu cycles and cannot be killed (even with -9). I guess that means that it's stuck in system call - it looks like kernel problem. any ideas on what to do (well, I know I can reboot:-)? how to troubleshoot? th

Re: multiple servers in gdm

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:52:56 -0400 Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [servers] > 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 > 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Looks good. :) > /var/log/gdm/:1.log has the following to say about this topic: > > (==) ATI(0): Write-combining range (0xfd00,0x80) > (**) ATI(0): DPMS

Re: Man Pages and Info Question

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 08:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I notice that the man pages and info help cover far > less topics than on my old RedHat system. > > On RedHat I had to run a thing called "makewhatis" to > unpack and install all the man pages. > > Is there somethin

SELL Domain name "www.HitFuck.com"

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KDE3 link?

Hi! I would like to upgrade to KDE3 in Woody, is there some link to KDE3 Debian packages which is usable with apt-get? Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814 ~ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

Hi! --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have temporary set it to world readable and now > > AUTH > > H! That defeats the point of shadow passwords! TEMPORARY!!! :-) Just for debuging process. Mike __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Of

makepasswd: naive question

Hello all! We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd', but how can we decrypt them ? Thanks in advance, Jerome BENOIT -- Jerome BENOIT, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: makepasswd: naive question

Jerome BENOIT wrote: > We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd', > but how can we decrypt them ? You can't. It's a one-way trapdoor function. Wouldn't be much point in using it otherwise. -- Tom Zych This email address will expire at some point to thwart spammers. Permanent address

Re: About GNOME Setting and XMMS Sound

> 1. Yesterday, I got a nice Theme installed with GNOME > (forgot what's the name, I only remember it was a blue > colored theme), but today, I can't found those Themes in > GNOME Control Center anymore. Try to find the GTK engines. Your theme might be listed there. > > 2. XMMS Sound, yesterday

Re: automatic poweroff

> It's not SMP. I have a single Pentium III (Coppermine). > > As for the switch, i'm not sure what you mean... If you're referring > to some bios option, i would guess that theyre all right cause it > works on windows... > > Any other ideas? Make sure SMP support isn't enabled, else poweroff won

Re: my guess as to where to put the dialup iptables rules

One thing that you could do, since you've installed iptables, is setup all the chains manually. Then run (as root) /etc/init.d/iptables save active And if you always want them to be the same /etc/init.d/iptables save inactive. This will save the chains so that they start up everytime that you

Re: Kernel install error?

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 17:40, curtis wrote: > I just compiled and installed a kernel and then after it made changes to > lilo.conf, I typed lilo and got the following error: > > Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 0x48 returned different head/sector > geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 > > Doing a Google s

gnus: reading debian lists by NNTP want to reply by mail

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well. In gnus Info it says: `gnus-mailing-list-groups' If your news server offers groups that are really mailing lists gatewayed to the NNTP server, you can read those groups without pro

Re: Console Login/Auth ~= GDM/KDM Login/Auth

Mark, Thank you for the reply. I have studied the files in /etc/pam.d and I am not sure I can figure out what is wrong. Here are the files: login - auth requisite pam_securetty.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_unix.so

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

Hi! > Originally I tried adding mail to the shadow group, > but that didn't work, so I took mail back out of > shadow, and chown root:mail /etc/shadow. This worked. But won't that broke the use of "shadow" group? Than programs which use that won't be able to read it. Mike _

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

Hi! > | But it doesn't work with Pegasus Mail. > > Install 'tcpflow' and watch what is sent through the > socket. You can pipe it through 'base64-decode' to see > what it sends as the user/password. I have solved the problem. I have Norton AntiVirus set and so username wasn't correct. And it's 1

Re: Question: Sound recording from radio station

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 00:19, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > > Im not sure, but I dont think ext3 nor reiserfs suffer from this > > affliction. So you might try an upgrade to ext3. This would fix your > > file limitation problem. Anyone wanna tell me Im wrong? > > As I said,

Re: hdd change

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 15:33, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > csj wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:55:52AM: > > > It doesn't. Grub can be installed from another disk, after which you > > just need to edit {Temporary_mountpoint}/boot/grub/menu.lst. You can > > Well, as far as I know, Grub also rel

Re: makepasswd: naive question

Original Message Subject: Re: makepasswd: naive question Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:55:38 +0300 From: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tom Zych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Zych wrote: > Jerome BE

Group

Hi! If i add a user to a group in /etc/group, what shall i do to make my changes work? I don´t think a have to reboot every time i change that file... :-) / Jimmy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Group

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:58:03 +0200 Jimmy Vil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > If i add a user to a group in /etc/group, what shall i do to make my > changes work? > I don´t think a have to reboot every time i change that file... :-) > > / Jimmy Logout and login again, no need to reboot. -

[Fwd: Re: makepasswd: naive question]

Original Message Subject: Re: makepasswd: naive question Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:00:15 -0400 From: Tom Zych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords

CD writing for non root users

Hi, What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs without requiring to be root? Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD writing for non root users

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:04:16 +0200 Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs > without requiring to be root? The only way I've managed to do that was to set cdrecord up to run setuid root. Giving users access to the raw device is not really

Re: KDE3 link?

Hi, Helgi Örn wrote: > I would like to upgrade to KDE3 in Woody, is there some link to KDE3 > Debian packages which is usable with apt-get? See http://calc.cx/kde.txt. Haven't tried that out yet. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpLhAIjOEAt

Re: hdd change

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'? It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2). Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: automatic poweroff

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do > so properly when shut done from Windows. [...] > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled. You need to compile the kernel with _all_ ACPI options enabled (I only say that because I

Sound Blaster Live Problems

I'm having trouble setting up my Sound Blaster Live card.  I have kernel 2.4.18 and it is compiled with sound as a module.  I load the soundcore module and then when I try to load the emu10k1 module it says "init_module: no such device."  I'm not sure why this happens.  Any advice?

Re: makepasswd: naive question

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:52:50PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by > makepassd, and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root: I > guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them in view to > unprotect my ZiP floppies. Can

Re: Sound Blaster Live Problems

High, On 23 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote: > I'm having trouble setting up my Sound Blaster Live card. I have kernel > 2.4.18 and it is compiled with sound as a module. I load the soundcore > module and then when I try to load the emu10k1 module it says > "init_module: no such device." I'm not s

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

>> >> I use a dual head matrox card every day. >> > I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager > which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of > blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better > than xinerama since my di

Re: Sound Blaster Live Problems

I tried that but it still gives me the same error (init_module: no such device). On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 11:53, Sebastiaan wrote: High, On 23 Jun 2002, Reid Gilman wrote: > I'm having trouble setting up my Sound Blaster Live card. I have kernel > 2.4.18 and it is compiled with sound as

:pluger" Plug In for Galeon?

I was tyring to look at a site refernced from Slashdot, that needs a quicktime plugin. I'm using Galeon, so I folowed the "download plugin" link. Yhis took me to this site: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html I downloaded the tar file & rna make install as root, but, when I wnet to the test pa

Re: ghost scsi ?

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I don't have any scsi on the machine. Why is linux still looking for a > scsi card. Is SCSI support enabled in your kernel? Unless you've built your own, I'd bet it's in the default kernel. Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lin

Re: CD writing for non root users

Balazs Javor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > What's the best/recommended way to be able to write CDs > without requiring to be root? Xcdroast lets you burn CD as user http://www.xcdroast.org/ there is also a deb-package too > > Many thanks for your help in advance! > best regards, > Bala

Re: CD writing for non root users

Whenever I try to start an X program from an xterm it always says "connection refused to :0.0" anyone know why? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: automatic poweroff

Try apm=on,power_off=1 ~mark - Original Message - From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:13 PM Subject: Re: automatic poweroff > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:00:36AM -0400, Patrick M wrote: > > My machine wont power off when shut dow

Re: CD writing for non root users

Reid Gilman wrote: Whenever I try to start an X program from an xterm it always says "connection refused to :0.0" anyone know why? I presume you're trying to run these programs as root? In that case your problem is that the ~/.Xauthority file of the user you logged in as has the magic for

Re: automatic poweroff

Tried it, didnt work. Thanks for your help! PM, 22 On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:03:26AM -0700, Mark Lanett wrote: > Try apm=on,power_off=1 > > ~mark > > - Original Message - > From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-user" > Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:13 PM > Subject:

Re: :plugger" Plug In for Galeon?

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:20:20PM -0400, stan wrote something like this: > I was tyring to look at a site refernced from Slashdot, that needs a > quicktime plugin. I'm using Galeon, so I folowed the "download plugin" > link. Yhis took me to this site: > > http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html >

Re: SIIG SCSI Card

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just recenctly purchased a SIIG Fast SCSI Pro (PCI) card. It claims it has > Linux support, in the manual and on SIIG's website. Apparently either > Advansys > or Initio chipsets are used in these cards. Trying to install the kernel > mo

Re: poppassd

also sprach Micah Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.10.0127 +0100]: > Potato has 1.2-14 as its latest for poppasswd... I agree that > v1.8-ceti would be a better solution, especially considering the > security issues you cited. What does it take to get this version into > the security updates?

Re: automatic poweroff

Indeed, I had not compiled ACPI support with _all_ ACPI options. I therefore compiled a new kernel with all options selected. I now notice that: - Hitting the power button for less than 4 secs wont do anything. - Hitting the power button for more than 4 secs will poweroff the machine immediately

Re: man or info?

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:04:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:45:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Osamu Aoki writes: > > > Another one is information on "libc". "apropos libc" does not offer good > > > pointer to "libc" in manual page. > > > > File a bug. > > On wh

Re: KDE3 link?

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 17:36, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > See http://calc.cx/kde.txt. Haven't tried that out yet. > Thank's. I'll see if I dare take the step...:-) Cheers, HÖ -- ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814 ~ signature.asc Description: This i

Re: automatic poweroff

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 13:03, Mark Lanett wrote: > Try apm=on,power_off=1 > > ~mark > > - Original Message - > From: "Osamu Aoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian-user" > Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:13 PM > Subject: Re: automatic poweroff > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:0

upgrade to woody failed; debconf can't configure [was: Re: Help?]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 03:10:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > Setting up debconf (1.0.32) ... > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > > LANGUAGE = "C", > > LC_ALL = (unset), > > LANG = "en_US" >

eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

Hi, I can't find the files eepic.sty and amssymb.sty in my system I have installed tetex-base, tetex-bin and tetex-extra packages, in previous installations of Debian this seemed enough for me. Can anyone point me to the set of packages I should install? Thanks in advance, Luiz Gadelha Jr. __

dns setup with domain name

Hi, I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network even though I don't have a registered domain name? Is this possible? I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something? Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

Strange I have them and I have installed the same package. Anyhow you can download them from a CTAN site: http://tex.loria.fr/index.html Luiz Gadelha Jr. wrote: Hi, I can't find the files eepic.sty and amssymb.sty in my system I have installed tetex-base, tetex-bin and tetex-extra packages,

SCSI emulation with GRUB

Hello, I want to emulate SCSI for my IDE-CD-burner. I compiled Linux with SCSI support for CD-ROMs and generic devices an I enabled SCSI emulation. I read that I have to add »append="hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-scsi"« to /etc/lilo.conf in »Start Lilo global Section«. But I use GRUB so I edited my /boot

Re: dns setup with domain name

also sprach Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.23.2140 +0200]: > I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network > even though I don't have a registered domain name? > Is this possible? yes. use something like egglestone.home as the domain name. you could use egglestone.com, b

Re: makepasswd: naive question

> Tom Zych wrote: > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > > > >>We can generate encrypted passwords with `makepasswd', > >>but how can we decrypt them ? > > > > You can't. It's a one-way trapdoor function. Wouldn't be much point > > in using it otherwise. > > > I guess that I missed something: > I want to p

Re: dns setup with domain name

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:40:18PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > Hi, > I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network > even though I don't have a registered domain name? > Is this possible? > > I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something? > Any help would be appre

Re: eepic.sty amssymb.sty?

Are you using woody? Jerome BENOIT wrote: Strange I have them and I have installed the same package. Anyhow you can download them from a CTAN site: http://tex.loria.fr/index.html Luiz Gadelha Jr. wrote: Hi, I can't find the files eepic.sty and amssymb.sty in my system I have installed te

Re: SCSI emulation with GRUB

On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 15:46, Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > Hello, > I want to emulate SCSI for my IDE-CD-burner. > I compiled Linux with SCSI support for CD-ROMs and generic devices an I > enabled SCSI emulation. > I read that I have to add > »append="hdx=ide-scsi hdy=ide-scsi"« > to /etc/lilo.conf

Re: How stable is dual head... Matrox G400

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry declaimed: > >> > >> I use a dual head matrox card every day. > >> > > I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager > > which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of > > blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which

Toshiba Tecra 8000

Hi can anyone tell me which apm/acpi features work on my tecra 8000. i tried it with all kernel features selected, but sometimes i had kernel-panic. thanks Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automatic poweroff

Eduard, On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:41:41AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Patrick M wrote on Sun Jun 23, 2002 um 01:00:36AM: > > > I tried 2 things: > > First: when you use ACPI kernel, enable ACPI in BIOS. When you use APM > kernel, enable APM. I tried both seperatly. > > > 1- I in

Re: automatic poweroff

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > > > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled. > > > > What happens, when you press the Power button for a short time? Do you > > see kernel messages then? > > With full ACPI support, pressing the power button for a short time > doesnt give me any kerne

Re: package lists or status file unreadable

> Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Problem parsing dependency Depends > E: Error occured while processing rio500 (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList Try dselect --update Regards, Cuse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: hdd change

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > > > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'? > > It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2). The GNU cp command does those... "cp -a". Other "cp" variants ma

Re: `which` and infinite recursion

> > I would probably file a bug against which that it should use #!/bin/sh > > instead of #!/bin/bash. > > Ah, that would be a bad idea unless it's also rewritten: > > $ ash /usr/bin/which gcc > enable: not found > -p: not found > gcc is /usr/bin/gcc > > ('enable' and 'type -p' are bashi

Re: `which` and infinite recursion

Bob writes: > Is ash ever a possible /bin/sh? Yes. Scripts that start with #! /bin/sh and fail when /bin/sh points to ash are broken. > Does ash claim POSIX shell syntax compliance? ash is about as POSIX as it gets. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- T

Re: automatic poweroff

* Patrick M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 22:00]: > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do > so properly when shut done from Windows. > > I tried 2 things: > > 1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave "apm=on" parameter to > the kernel. > > 2- I compiled a new ker

Re: `which` and infinite recursion

* Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020623 14:19]: > You were using /bin/ash not /bin/sh. I know nothing about ash, please Well, you're not going to find the "real" /bin/sh Free anywhere, so that's about as close as it gets. > educate me. Is ash ever a possible /bin/sh? Does ash claim POSIX > sh

Need tips tricks on installing & configureing onshore-timesheet

I just installed onshore timesheet to my Debian woody server. It seemed to go OK but as there is no debconf templates for the install I am not sure whether it is set up correctly. What I have done so far is: Installed using dselect. added Include /etc/apache/onshore-timesheet.conf to my httpd.conf

Re: man or info?

Good discussion! Learned something! Thanks, Paul -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: automatic poweroff

Patrick, On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:55:34PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > > > > > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled. > > > > > > What happens, when you press the Power button for a short time? Do you > > > see kernel messages then? > > > > Wi

Re: automatic poweroff

Yes, acpid is running. Still, good call! ;) Thanks, PM, 22 On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 02:35:52PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Patrick M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 22:00]: > > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do > > so properly when shut done from Windows. > > > >

Re: package lists or status file unreadable

said Christian Schoenebeck (on 2002-06-23), > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Problem parsing dependency Depends > > E: Error occured while processing rio500 (NewVersion1) > > E: Problem with MergeList > > Try > > dselect --update I tried 'dselect update' with the same resu

Re: automatic poweroff

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:55:34PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: [...] > > Are you saying that pressing and briefly holding the power button > > _doesn't_ initiate a shutdown? > > Yes, I'm saying that pressing the

Re: dns setup with domain name

Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I wondering if I can setup a dns server on my home network even though I don't have a registered domain name? Is this possible? I guess all I would need to do is install bind or something? Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks Mike Yes. I did

noffle user must be "news"

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to news.software.readers as well. Noffle: I don't think I've met any command like it, one must run it as user "news" or else you either can't display any info $ noffle -l Cannot open /var/spool/noffle/lock/global (Permissi

Re: my guess as to where to put the dialup iptables rules

> "m" == marshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: m> One thing that you could do, since you've installed iptables, is setup m> all the chains manually. Then run (as root) m> /etc/init.d/iptables save active m> And if you always want them to be the same m> /etc/init.d/iptables save inactive. m

Seagate Travan questions

I am using a Seagate Travan 10 GB uncompressed tape drive to backup a file server, (on the same machine). Does anyone have problems with this drive and/or the driver? Sometimes it will return with an I/O error and a tape is in the drive. Another time it will work fine. Or it may say the resourc

Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

Hi there, $ apt-cache show base-config ... Depends: ..., aptitude WTF? Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpaBLU60UpHs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why does the base-config package depend on aptitude

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:37:58AM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > $ apt-cache show base-config > ... > Depends: ..., aptitude base-config in unstable offers users the chance to use aptitude instead of dselect, and it would be unreasonably confusing if it then broke when aptitude turned out not t

SCSI emulation

Where in the kernel configuration menu would SCSI emulation be, I can't seem to find it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Install to HDD only system?

 I have a Fujitsu Point 510 with only the internal hard drive.  How would I write a bootloader to the harddrive on another system with network drivers so I could get debian installed?   Thanks, Barry

Re: SCSI emulation

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 08:45:57PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote: > Where in the kernel configuration menu would SCSI emulation be, I can't > seem to find it. It's somewhere between the IDE options, but it only appears if you've enabled "SCSI support" and "SCSI generic support" in the SCSI menu. It's r

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Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:42 pm, tvn1981 wrote: > Hello > > I have a Woody system (kerne 2.4.18) with XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1. I > also have a Radeon 7000ve with twinview, and an Nvidia gforce2 quadro > with twinview. > > However, I just can't get dual monitor run well on this system. For > the

Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:38:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set up telnetd so only a couple of users can use > > telnet to log in, and the rest must use some other, more secure method, > > such as ssh? I have a few secure guest accounts that I want

Re: allowing telnet for only a few users?

Joey Hess wrote: Eric G. Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:38:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Does anyone know how to set up telnetd so only a couple of users can use telnet to log in, and the rest must use some other, more secure method, such as ssh? I have a few secure guest acco

sound card question

Right now, I'm using a creative vibra sb16, and it's working fine. However, I can't have more than one sound playing without getting a device or resource busy error. So I'm wondering, what can I do to be able to play more than one sound at the same time (without esd or other sound daemons). I kn

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