postfix didn't start after logrotate : fatal: master_sigdeath ...

2003-02-16 Thread DouRiX
Hi everybody, I have my postfix crashed this morning, apparently it didn't start anymore after a postfix restart after the log rotation. Here below the first logs : baleine:~# head /var/log/mail.log Feb 17 06:25:18 baleine postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system Feb 17 06:25:

Re: avi to free format

2003-02-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:06:34PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > Somebody send me a avi film but I would like to change it into a free > (as in free speech) format. What format should I use and what > packages should I intall? Unfortunately, there isn't a really good Free video format

Re: Secure browsing across insecure LAN

2003-02-16 Thread Elie De Brauwer
I think the most easiest way is to open aan SSH connection to your home, enable X11 forwarding en export your browser window to your workplace, this is the easiest way but may consume a little more bandwidth. hth > In my workplace they just installed Internet access. However, I wish I > could n

Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
I downloaded a souce package that I need to modify, build and install. The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when I try to do some operations I see, for example: moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permissio

Re: Secure browsing across insecure LAN

2003-02-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > I think the most easiest way is to open aan SSH connection to your home, > enable X11 forwarding en export your browser window to your workplace, this > is the easiest way but may consume a little more bandwidth. i presume the corp IT dept k

Re: Compiling kernel source

2003-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include David Turetsky wrote on Sat Feb 15, 2003 um 11:46:26PM: > > >>> David Turetsky wrote on Sat Feb 15, 2003 um 11:54:36AM: > >'uname -r' gives '2.4.18-bf2.4' but 'apt-get install Please fix your mail-quoting, it should include visible quoting levels and not only one line above a

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:23:05PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Yes, libfam0c102 conflicts with libfam0 (debatably so, see bug #181104). >> What I meant was that the KDE stuff in unstable that has not been >> upgraded to KDE 3 would have to be removed in

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > $ chown moseley ~/libdvdread2-0.9.3 > chown: changing ownership of `/home/moseley/libdvdread2-0.9.3': Operation > not permitted You need to be root to chown it to your user. -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:45:10AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable > program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the > /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? Yes. > If so, is

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:09:55AM -0500, Joseph Barillari wrote: > AFAIK, manually updating symlinks will work fine. The `debian way' is to > use update-rc.d(8) to adjust those symlinks. update-rc.d is a pain enough in the ass that I'm pretty sure most people recommend it only if you're using it

Re: Secure browsing across insecure LAN

2003-02-16 Thread Fred Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:27 am, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > However, I doubt which method could be better (easier to > install/manage?), I'm looking to Dante, Ipsec, socat or maybe some other > VPN. However, as I only want to secure WWW, maybe I coul

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > isn't redhat implementing apt-get on their stuff these days? Yeah, but it makes the pain of updating a Red Hat box less like being crushed by a dying elephant falling over to more like having your skin flayed. RPM has suffered so mu

Re: Windowmaker question

2003-02-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:37:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a Windowmaker question. When you launch a program (say xterm) > you get the program window and an icon. How do I get windowmaker to > not display the extra icon? I know that you can have the clip aut

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an >> interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a >> tool will make it much easier to keep your packa

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:21:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > before it asks you to commit to it. Nobody has yet demonstrated on > > the list anything that you can do in aptitude easier or faster than > > you can with some combination of apt-file, apt-cache and apt-get. > > Alrighty. Autom

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?

2003-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:33:35 +, > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon > > Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, > > and trying to convert it to a different format doesn

cron solved

2003-02-16 Thread
George, Thanx for your explaination. I read the man 5 cron manpage (I ran man 5 cron) and understood that you have to use (better to do so) the -u option. My problem was that I want to 'load' and 'unload' a firewall rule periodically. iptables runs (kernel 2.4.18) under root, so I had to edit

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 22:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an > > interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a > > tool will make it much easier to keep

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 01:13:25 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:21:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Alrighty. Automatic flag. :) There, ya got it. > Nope, no good. aptitude's automatic flagging is the same as apt's > default behaviour, last I check

Re: Browsers falling apart

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:52:42PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Mozilla (1.2.1-9) was nice because I had all the plugins setup up for it. > But it's a bit buggy. Today for some reason if I go to any site protected > by Basic Auth it no longer prompts me for a password. All I get is the > "Auth Re

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:35, Alvin Oga wrote: > == my raid test ... > > - unplug /dev/hda ... and try to boot ( into degraded mode ) > - unplug /dev/hdc ... and try to boot > > - it should still boot w/o any intervention/typing > > - copy a 2TB file to the raid

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:36:35AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no > sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything really simple. > Though, from what I

Re: avi to free format

2003-02-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 16 February 2003 03:53, Gemini wrote: > In my opinion, the best free avi format is XVid. See http://www.xvid.org/ > for more informations. It is really fast for encoding in its new 0.9 > version. I am using it for all my avi encoding needs. AFAIK, XVid isn't free but an implementation of

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when > I try to do some operations I see, for example: > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_reader.c > touch: creating `dvd_reader.c': Permission

Re: pbuilder failing

2003-02-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 19:00:53 -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > I am not sure what list to report this to, so I'll start here. > > pbuilder for ppc is failing when trying to create a sid base.tgz. > > specifically, it can't download libpcap: > > (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder creat

Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Frank Murphy
I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying them for Grub. (I failed and ended up installing from floppies.) What i

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On 16 Feb 2003 03:36:35 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But for just installing or finding a single package, I really don't see > the point in starting up any frontend when I can just do "apt-cache > search searchstring" & "apt-get install package". You're right. aptitude i

Re: I will never go back to RH

2003-02-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:52:26PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich Hi, > > isn't redhat implementing apt-get on their stuff these days? > > not that i've seen. I don't count up2date as an apt-get replacement > since it only (appears) to track installed packages. Well up2date and the connecte

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2003, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Jeff Elkins: > > Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They > > are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it > > was much more readable. > > Probably the best way to do this (and ens

Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:35, Alvin Oga wrote: > > == my raid test ... > > > > - unplug /dev/hda ... and try to boot ( into degraded mode ) > > - unplug /dev/hdc ... and try to boot > > > > - it should still boot w/o any intervent

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2003-02-16 Thread Sharninder
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Re: Hardware IDE ATA Raid 1 support in Linux Debian - Linux disapointment

2003-02-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 16 February 2003 13:37, Alvin Oga wrote: > > -- > > Got Backup? > > was it tested, and does it work I guess I'll use 'fortune -s' as sig again. I'm getting too many answers to this one! :-) -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

very slow Linux clock

2003-02-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi All, I have big trouble with my Linux Clock: it is very slow, so [1] the time becomes quickly wrong and [2] updates with NTP stuff (or others) seems ridiculous. How can we fix it ? Thank in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Replace MS Exchange 2000

2003-02-16 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
I am not aware of a full replacement. I saw an article written by some Ximian guys in a Linux magazine dated February 2003. Didn't buy it though. It didn't seem to include exact HOW-TO do it, neither whether the solution was 100% working. But it seemed like a good start. I remember openLDAP was me

Question about scripts in /etc/rc6.d

2003-02-16 Thread Qian Gong
In /etc/rc6.d there is a link S30urandom. But run level 6 means reboot, which should stop (K) urandom, instead of start (S). More interesting is that "init 6" actually stops urandom. Another link is S35networking whose name means "start", but in fact "networking" is stopped. Any idea to explain? Th

Re: xdmcp and gdm -- missing something ?

2003-02-16 Thread Donald Spoon
J.F.Gratton wrote: Don, Thank you so much, this is exactly what I looked for. I am stuck in the same position as you are, trying to automate the procedure. A temporary hack for now is to add the line you mentionned (X :1 vt8 etc etc) into my /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh. This is ugly, but hey.. it wor

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:38 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > About the only thing I miss from apt proper is apt-cache search. > Supposedly there is a way for aptitude to search names and descriptions but > I have not stumbled on it yet. To search for packa

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 5:22 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:32:13 +1100 > > Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried aptitude. Couldn't figure out how to specify > > stable/testing/unstable packages. Can it do that? > > In inter

Re: basic firewall question

2003-02-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:39:01PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I am planning on getting DSL in the near future, so I have been considering > what to do about a firewall. > > My intended setup is like this: > > www -> DSL modem -> cable/DSL router w/ hardware FW -> small LAN > > However, I woul

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2003-02-16 Thread GSO
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Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:36 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no > sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything

Re: KDE 3? or 4?

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 3:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:37:37PM -0700, Bill Webster wrote: > > I was confused by the fact that the packages say 'Version: 4:...'. In > > fact why do they? > > Not entirely certain. I usually igno

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 15/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > Why does everybody keep saying this when it's false? Aptitude and > apt-get are getting thier information from the same place and making > the same decisions. Both tell you quite specifically what is going on > before it asks you to commit to it. Nobody

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no > sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything really simple. > Though, from what I understand, I'm more

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 16/02/03 Brian Nelson did speaketh: > What if you want to honor a package's "Recommends" field with apt-get? > That'll take some extra effort that isn't necessary with aptitude. Or > what if you want to automatically remove the dependencies a package > pulled in when you delete that package?

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alaa The Great
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:35:03 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the best things about apt-get is that removals trace > dependencies, > so if I want to remove all X packages, all I have to do is apt-get > remove on a base X library, and _everything_ that depends

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-16 Thread Laurentiu Pancescu
Try to install the "rcconf" package (it provides a nice TUI frontend for update-rc.d) HTH, Laurentiu Jeff Elkins wrote: As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the /etc/rcX.d dir and movin

Re: Browsers falling apart

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:52:42PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Mozilla (1.2.1-9) was nice because I had all the plugins setup up for it. > > But it's a bit buggy. Today for some reason if I go to any site protected > > by Basic Auth it no longer promp

pppconfig error

2003-02-16 Thread Russell
Hi all, When i do pppconfig as root, i get: Internal error at /usr/sbin/pppconfig line 157. It's a perl file. I re-installed perl/stable and re-installed pppconfig/stable, but it didn't fix it. pppconfig --gdialog works tho. On another debian pc (stable), pppconfig works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: very slow Linux clock

2003-02-16 Thread Jan Trippler
On Son, 16 Feb 2003 at 15:05 (+0200), Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have big trouble with my Linux Clock: > it is very slow, so [1] the time becomes quickly wrong > and [2] updates with NTP stuff (or others) seems ridiculous. > > How can we fix it ? I'm not sure, but try to delete /etc/adjtime, set up

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:23:48AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > The owner and group were preserved on the source files so that means when > > I try to do some operations I see, for example: > > > > moseley@bumby:~/libdvdread2-0.9.3/dvdread$ touch dvd_r

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > Sounds like you extracted the source package as root. Don't do that; you > > don't need to. > > Ah, thanks. > > http://www.debian.o

Re: very slow Linux clock

2003-02-16 Thread René Seindal
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:50:39PM +0100, Jan Trippler wrote: > On Son, 16 Feb 2003 at 15:05 (+0200), Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I have big trouble with my Linux Clock: > > it is very slow, so [1] the time becomes quickly wrong > > and [2] updates with NTP stuff (or others) seems ridiculous. > > > >

OT Tunning your network

2003-02-16 Thread faisal gillani
Well sorry for this OT question .. well i have a 100mbps LAN with utp cable & 100mbps switch hubs .. connecting about 60 + pc together. there are all flavours of O/S running Linux , Windows & Unix . the name resolution is done by DNS . there is a local webserver Apache running that provides media

aptitude explanations

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Someone mentioned that aptitude can explain, for example, why a package is being held back. Please explain. I have a package now that it being held back, and aptitude is giving me no more information than apt-get does. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8B

Re: pbuilder failing

2003-02-16 Thread Jason Pepas
> > (pts/0)root@phaeton:/mnt/nfs/pbuilder$ pbuilder create --distribution sid > > --buildplace /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/tmp/ --buildresult /mnt/nfs/pbuilder/sid/ > > > > E: Couldn't download libpcap0 > > > > pbuilder: debootstrap failed > > Looks like your debootstrap is severely out of date. From the deb

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
Thanks Nathan! Jeff Elkins http://www.elkins.org On Sunday 16 February 2003 7:08 am, Nathan Poznick wrote: >Thus spake Jeff Elkins: >> Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? >> They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the >> upgrade it was m

backspace in aptitude

2003-02-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Seems that when I try the interactive search in aptitude, my backspace key doesn't work. Does anyone have a fix for this? It works fine in all my terminals. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive

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2003-02-16 Thread Anand Kumria
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APM and Linux Clock (WAS:Re: very slow Linux clock)

2003-02-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your reply: since I have remove the `Batterie Charge Monitor' applet (Gnome2 under testing/unstable) the Linux clock is fine. Is there a link between this aapplet (APM) and the Linux clock ? Thanks, Jerome Jan Trippler wrote: On Son, 16 Feb 2003 at 15:05 (+0200), Jerome BENOIT wrot

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-16 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:09:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Probably more people would use it if more ftp clients supported it... > > I don't know how well it's supported in MS and Apple worlds... > > I don't know of a single native Windows

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jeff" == Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to Jeff> enable/disable program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I Jeff> correct in cd'ing to the /etc/rcX.d dir and moving Jeff> SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disa

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2003-02-16 Thread Tom Vergote
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 + > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 489 > > Today's Topics: > Ongoing named trouble [ Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > Re: More detailed post

Re: ftpd-ssl

2003-02-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:22:28PM +0100, Burkhard Ritter wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Michael Heironimus wrote: Hi, > > I think it's partly a chicken-and-egg problem. Why use it when almost no > > software supports it and almost no sites use it? Why enable it on your > > site when almost nobody

[OT] hardware failure

2003-02-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
My computer has been on a downward spiral for a while now[1], but i've been too busy to deal with it. Now it won't even go into single-user mode. It just hangs at the boot prompt. Says, "Loading linux " and then prints anywhere from one to ten .'s before hanging. It's not the hard drive --

Re: Question about scripts in /etc/rc6.d

2003-02-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Qian" == Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Qian> In /etc/rc6.d there is a link S30urandom. But run level 6 Qian> means reboot, which should stop (K) urandom, instead of Qian> start (S). More interesting is that "init 6" actually stops Qian> urandom. Another link is S35netw

Re: pbuilder failing

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:06:14AM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > this is debootstrap from stable (woody). does this mean pbuilder is > incapable of building a sid base.tgz from a woody system? This is in general true, yes. sid changes such that debootstrap also needs to be changed to keep up with i

Re: aptitude explanations

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone mentioned that aptitude can explain, for example, why a package is > being held back. Please explain. I have a package now that it being held back, > and aptitude is giving me no more information than apt-get does. Select the package

Re: backspace in aptitude

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems that when I try the interactive search in aptitude, my backspace key > doesn't work. Does anyone have a fix for this? It works fine in all my > terminals. Unreproducible here... -- On a scale of 1 to 10? It sucked. msg31122/pgp00

Re: Question about scripts in /etc/rc6.d

2003-02-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In /etc/rc6.d there is a link S30urandom. But run level 6 means reboot, > which should stop (K) urandom, instead of start (S). More interesting is > that "init 6" actually stops urandom. Another link is S35networking whose > name means "start", but in fact "

Re: [OT] hardware failure

2003-02-16 Thread sean finney
hey nori, On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:47:25PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > My computer has been on a downward spiral for a while now[1], but i've > been too busy to deal with it. Now it won't even go into single-user > mode. It just hangs at the boot prompt. Says, "Loading linux " > and th

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:56:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Why not use a separate (but not totally bogus) address? Does your MTA > > support address suffixes such as scruloose-debian-user or > > scruloose+debian-user? Hmm.

unsubscribe still doesnt' work

2003-02-16 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
My last email, I was saying I thought I found the problem but no. I’m still here, subscribed more than ever. Can the list manager write to me? Anyone has access to the mysterious list server so that you can just delete me from the list manually?   Hadski

Re: aptitude explanations

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Someone mentioned that aptitude can explain, for example, why a package is >> being held back. Please explain. I have a package now that it being held back, >> and aptitude is giving me no more inf

Odd details in Mutt

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
Hi all, I have a couple of peculiar little questions about how things look in Mutt. First, what is the actual command to collapse all threads? When I hit -V it works, and the little keymapping help-screen says that the command is collapse-all. But when I hit : and type that in (or, more to the

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internalmachine using our external IP

2003-02-16 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:13, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) said on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:41:12AM +0100: > > > Your gateway/router is working as designed. The internal (LAN) and > > > external (WAN/Internet) are kept separated. This means that no WAN IP > > > can try to connect

Re: unsubscribe still doesnt' work

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > My last email, I was saying I thought I found the problem but no. I'm > still here, subscribed more than ever. Can the list manager write to me? You'd be better off asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Anyone has access to the mysterious li

RE: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot accessinternalmachine using our external IP

2003-02-16 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:10, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > something i do that you may or may not be able to use in your > situation is to have different a records for the same hostname. > > internally, my network uses the main.gaddis.org. subdomain, > which doesn't exist outside of the internal network.

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
Hi all. Me again. This is undoubtedly an awfully dumb question, but: When I make changes that affect the alsa section of my modules.conf file, what do I have to do before they actually take effect? i.e. when I change the 'options' line in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9, I force-stop alsa, update-modules,

Re: [Fwd: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot accessinternal machine using our external IP

2003-02-16 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 19:10, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) said on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:13:09AM +0100: > > I have this network configuration > > > >E > >| > > Internet > >| > >| (EXT-IP) > > ** R ** (Firewall) > >| (192.168.1.1) > > ___|___ > > | | | | > >

Stumped: openAFS client "Connection Timed Out"

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a home network that includes a linux machine using iptables to NAT packets from three user machines: a laptop (debian 3.0, 2.4.18 kernel), a desktop (debian 3.0, 2.4.20 kernel) and a windows machine. The two debian machines run openAFS clients to connect to UNC's AFS servers. This setup has

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] Sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of who likes cc and who doesn't. Personally, I actually like the cc's on lists that are someti

RE: unsubscribe still doesnt' work

2003-02-16 Thread Fer'had Erdogan
Did that 3 times. :) -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unsubscribe still doesnt' work On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > My last email, I was saying

Hard Internet conexion in woody laptop

2003-02-16 Thread Dragón
Hello!! I'm using woody in a laptop But I haven't been lucky setting it up to sail Internet, because when I'm in a network connected to Internet I'm able to ping the gateway but not to sail. I've just bought a real rs232 external modem but I get the same result. I ping the gateway with no

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > > I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have > booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried > following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying > th

ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
Hey all, I have a bit of an issue here. In my household are 2 PCs: My dual-boot debian/winXP box, and my girlfriend's win98. We're both plugged directly into the LAN side of a NAT router/firewall, whose WAN side is plugged into our DSL adapter. Using Trillian under windo~1, we both get flawless

kernel modules: built-in vs modules ??

2003-02-16 Thread Xavier Barnabe-Theriault
hello this is not totaly related to debian. The question is kind of open: Should we put every modules we can into modules or have some of them built-in ?? As I do not have any clue (except maybe for modules I do not use often as usb stuff) for any of the

Re: Permissions on source package

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:17:13AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:11:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > [Please don't send me private copies of list mail.] > > Sorry, I have a hard time keeping track of who likes cc and wh

Re: unsubscribe still doesnt' work

2003-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:20:01AM -0800, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > Did that 3 times. :) Nobody on debian-user has access to the list servers unless they're also on listmaster@lists, so there's no real point writing here asking for people to unsubscribe you manually if listmaster doesn't answer ...

Unmet dependencies in locales.?

2003-02-16 Thread Arild
Title: Message hi, When trying to install locales i got the following error. Is this a bug, or is there somthing missing. I cant find package glibc-2.2.5-11.2 anywhere only libc6 and that is installed whit newer version.   kyrre:/etc/apt# apt-get install localesReading Package Lists... Done

Exim error: transport flatfile_aliases: cannot find transport driver"redirect"

2003-02-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I'm trying to get the following working on exim. I picked the following config from an exim 4 server which works. The idea is to allow a file with the format domain.com: username to map domains to users. However I put the following config in. Restarted exim and got transport flatfile_a

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 16 February 2003 20:34, Scruloose wrote: > And Alicq seems to have imploded on install. Run it and it just exits > instantly with an error message (something about username or password not > supplied, IIRC), and when I edit its config file, I get one long line of > non-ascii garbage. No

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > > > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my > > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no > > sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes ever

RE: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internalmachineusing our external IP

2003-02-16 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> > internally, my network uses the main.gaddis.org. subdomain, > > which doesn't exist outside of the internal network. i run > > nameservers on the internal side which are authoritative for > > main.gaddis.org. subdomain. any machine inside the network that > > looks up (for example) www.main.ga

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:35:03 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the best things about apt-get is that removals trace > dependencies, so if I want to remove all X packages, all I have to do is > apt-get remove on a base X library, and _everything_ that depends on X >

rar support

2003-02-16 Thread Andrei Smirnov
is there any on linux? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:15:51 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 5:22 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:32:13 +1100 > > In interactive mode, v. v shows you all (v)ersions of the package > > available and you can decide which to install. > onl

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 13:34, Scruloose wrote: > GnomeICU will send and receive messages, initiate/accept chat mode, and > other people can see my status, but everybody always looks offline to me > (except 2 users, whose statuses update fine. No clue why they're special). > > GAIM just loses a hug

Re: rar support

2003-02-16 Thread Andrei Smirnov
sorry for that question -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:19:50 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To search for package names hit '/' followed by characters. It > interactively searches for a match anywhere in the package name string. If > it hasn't found what you want hit return to save the search string and then >

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