MRTG

2003-02-27 Thread Shawn Owens
Can anyone tell me if they have successfully run MRTG on a Debian box and a good source for installing and configuring it on Debian.     Thanks

IrDA - ppp-Connection via Mobile Phone

2003-02-27 Thread Dieter Schoppitsch
Hi all, I would like to etablish a ppp-connection via IrDA-port and my mobile phone to my ISP. But what works via serial cable - lacks on my knowledge about IrDA. dmesg shows the entry: IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 I need a IrDA-device for an entry in pppconfig. But I don't have a device e

Re: MRTG

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Shawn Owens said: > Can anyone tell me if they have successfully run MRTG on a Debian box and > a good source for installing and configuring it on Debian. I've been running mrtg on debian for nearly 3 years now. I have extensive docs on how to configure MRTG to monitor various types of devices: h

mplayer & motherboard with i810 chipset.

2003-02-27 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I have problems with using mplayer on motherboard on i810 chipset. I use mplayer 0.90rc4 & kernel 2.4.20 & XFree86 4.2.1.1 When I try to use xv or sdl codec I hev only blue image. Mplayer work only with x11 codec but with that I cannot fulscreen. Anybody have any ideas how can use xv or s

Re: kweather dosent update data

2003-02-27 Thread Simon Schweizer
Re: > hi, > i have a short problem with my kweather-applet. since the update to kde3.1 > (i run sid and have installed the packages from official debianserver + > kdenetwork from cheney) it doesent updates the information. either manualy > or automaticly update does the work. have anyone the same p

WLAN / IEEE 802.11b on Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Erik Dörnbach
Hello fellow Debian users, can anyone recomend a 802.11b PCI Card that would work reliable on my i386 Debian Woody server and will happily talk to my iBook with Airport cartridge? Second question (may be dull) - I guess there will be no problems setting up the routing/firewall rules, as the 802

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:42:43 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote: > > > Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do > > this: > > > > chmod -R 700 /home/* > > after you learn from your mistakes ... an

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread klaus imgrund
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:04 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. > > There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. > > I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. > > Both show that they

Setting up IPTables..

2003-02-27 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi all, Can anyone tell me where there is a HOWTO describing (or give me an outline of what I should do) setting up IPTables on my debian 3.0r1 box. I am using a self-compiled 2.4.20 kernel and connect using ppp/dialup so here's what I think I need to know: * What kernel options/modules should

old monitor and brightness for X

2003-02-27 Thread stavel
Hi, I would like to encrease brightness of old monitor. I can't already do this by monitor stuffs. Is it possible to encrease this by any software? Does anyone know some program for X to manage this? My friend told me that he does this by xine (??). :-) -- Jan Stavel -- To

Re: my CUPS RUnneth Over!!!

2003-02-27 Thread Matt Price
> | I saw on the web that CUPS stands for Can't Usually Print Stuff. > > Heh. It works well for me though. me too now! > > | Once upon a time, CUPS worked for me. Then I tasted of the fruit of > | knowledge, > > _of Good and Evil_. The Lord doesn't wish His people to be stupid. > He desires

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread Donald Spoon
klaus imgrund wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 08:04 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Klaus Imgrund wrote: Ok - found the problem but have no idea what goes wrong. There are only 11 mb on the cd after burning it - iso is 38 mb. I did burn it with k3b and after that tried with cdrecord. Both show that

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Storey
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:42:43 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and if i was admining your box... i'd "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin" > and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be > paged because something broke Two questions: 1) OK, I understand why "chmod 750 /

Re: Problem with kernel 2.4.20

2003-02-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Jaroslaw Tabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I was using kernel 2.4.20 compiled and installed by myself (without > initrd). Everything was working fine. > I've installed by apt kernel-image-2.4.20-686, updated lilo.conf to use > initrd and executed lilo. After this when I'm trying to use t

Re: Setting up IPTables..

2003-02-27 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:27:38AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, > Hi all, >Can anyone tell me where there is a HOWTO describing (or give me > an outline of what I should do) setting up IPTables on my debian > 3.0r1 box. I am using a self-compiled 2.4.20 kernel and connect > us

Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
Hello. I hope you do not mind a real dummy hanging around here. I know nothing about Linux or Unix, but I want to learn. I hardly know a couple of command-line commands, so I am in need to get an X Window in my GNU Debian I have been trying to install. I must be doing something wrong in the install

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:02:08PM -0500, Phil wrote: > >The command to do that is chmod, man chmod should get you started. in > >this case, chmod 700 is what I did. > > do I have to do this individually for each user? (all 120 of them) is > there a way to do this in the skel directory in. the f

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On 25 Feb 2003 16:11:48 + Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /tmp2gig > /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually > require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seperate > partition, it could be alot smaller. 512Mb should b

Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, I have plugged a tape drive and want to use it without rebooting it.It is connected to an scsi controller (aic7xxx_old module).Kernel 2.4.19 "mt -f /dev/st0 status" says : No such device If it is possible then how? Murat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Netinstall - nothing works?

2003-02-27 Thread klaus imgrund
> > I did mount them,too.Something is already screwed up then. > > Real strange - I just installed mandrake and try it with the tools there. > > If that doesn't work I'll install it with the regular boot CD. > > Ah-ha! If you mounted the d/l iso files, and they were screwed up, then > it looks l

(Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install on my daughter's computer, I have been speculating about Debian support for the hardware on my box (considering a Win2k Pro and Debian 3 rev.1 dual boot). I have been looking for info on my SOYO SY-K7V DRAGON Plus! motherboard, Asante

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:24:49 + John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and > would appreciate thoughts and guidence. Others have commented on your choices and offered their own ways of doing things. Here's one more.

Re: Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread David Purton
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:33:03AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Hello. I hope you do not mind a real dummy hanging around here. I know > nothing about Linux or Unix, but I want to learn. I hardly know a couple of > command-line commands, so I am in need to get an X Window in my GNU Debian I > ha

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > mplayer is quite slick. I really like how the GUI is optional in > mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as > a bug. Media players don't need 40,000 pounds of chrome over them > about as much as they need

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On 26 Feb 2003 18:10:30 GMT, Harvey Kelly writes: >But, and please forgive my newbie-ignorance :) why do you want him to >switch? Surely the fact that he's running SuSE and seems happy with it >should be enough? Debian and SuSE are both Linux after all - different >flavours of course, but not th

Re: manglement-compatible comparison of SuSE vs. Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:43:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why switch? SuSE is a great product, and easy to support. I would probably > recommend a business go with a commercial distro like SuSE as opposed to a > devout hobbyist/community based distro like Debian. One of my friends giv

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:42:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Now, one bash question I've been meaning to ask for a long time... > > I keep seeing this... > {} \; > > ...on the end of lines in bash scripts. I don't have a good bash book, > and I don't know what this means, and obviously "man

Want to creat a CD with indexed HTML content

2003-02-27 Thread Pat Colbeck
Hi I am working on a little project to produce some reference materail on a CD. Basically it will be a canned web site. The idea being that you could stick it in your CD drive and browse all the content easily. What I would like to do is have an option to search teh CD without the use having to in

Re: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:55:29AM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > > > > Hi, > I have plugged a tape drive and want to use it without rebooting it.It is > connected to an scsi controller (aic7xxx_old module).Kernel 2.4.19 > "mt -f /dev/st0 status" says : No such device > If it is possible then how

Re: getting bash back on a system

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:53:40PM -0500, Eric R Cheney wrote: > Well, I managed the dumbest: I uninstalled bash (don't ask, please > don't ask why...). Though apt complained it didn't want to...I did. > Ouch! > > Well, the system really has problems without bash, and I can't get it back > on.

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install on my > daughter's computer, I have been speculating about Debian support for > the hardware on my box (considering a Win2k Pro and Debian 3 rev.1 dual > boot). I have bee

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:16:07AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > In fact I don't think I've ever even got mplayer's GUI to work. I guess > if I had to I'd figure it out, but there's really so little incentive to > do so ... Go paruse /etc/mplayer.conf...you might want to change the vo and ao option

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Brian Durant
The Epson C80 is just a normal parallel port client printer, connected directly to my box. Cheers, Brian Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install on my daughter's computer, I have been spe

Re: Want to creat a CD with indexed HTML content

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:32:16AM +, Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > I am working on a little project to produce some reference materail on a > CD. Basically it will be a canned web site. The idea being that you > could stick it in your CD drive and browse all the content easily. What > I would l

Anybody familier with GNU Queue?

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi All, I'm trying to set up a machine farm using GNU Queue as the job scheduler, but I'm having difficulty understanding exactly what I need to do. The situation is... I have a number of machines, lets call them MachineA, MachineB, MachineC, etc. So my qhostsfile looks like this:

Fonts in mozilla menus

2003-02-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just started to try mozilla for e-mailing. The problem I have is: How do I change the font that is used in the menu bar and the message index? These are way too big (see screenshot at http://btcpxx.che.uni-bayreuth.de/CIP/biochem/bp0026/www/mozilla-font.png for better understand

How to create a 3.0r1 repository on disk?

2003-02-27 Thread Stephen Birch
I have an "official" Debian 3.0 dvd plus an "official" r1 CD. Can any tell me how to copy them both onto hard disk and combine them into a single 3.0r1 repository that apt can use. I have scanned the docks but cannot find a description - if the answer is a RTFM, could someone point me to the co

Re: Chinese input

2003-02-27 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:03, Robert Storey wrote: > Inspired by the question on Japanese input, I'd like to know if anybody > has a good solution for Chinese input? So far, the only way I've found is > with Xemacs (using mule) but that doesn't h

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 26 Feb 2003 18:23:18 +(-0500), Mark L. Kahnt wrote: [...] > Old Netscape and versions of mail, Mail and > mailx that haven't been updated may well not be able to handle custom > header filtering as well, For the record, Netscape 4 does custom header filtering. [...] -- Cheers, Clive

Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-27 Thread aublimoai
I will be inheriting a used laptop in about a week, and I need to purchase a PCMCIA NIC for it. Any suggestions for one that will work well with Woody Stable? Thanks everyone! Sincerely, M. Kirchhoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: IPv6 subnet?

2003-02-27 Thread - = k o l i s k o = -
man interfaces section: INET6 ADDRESS FAMILY kolisko On Čt, 2003-02-27 at 02:23, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I got a /64 from tunnelbroker.net and the tunnel is up and running > happily. I'm trying now to get my /64 subnet on the backend up and > running. They gave me: > > 2001:470:1F00:4

Re: Fonts in mozilla menus

2003-02-27 Thread Roman Joost
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi list > > I have just started to try mozilla for e-mailing. The problem I have is: > How do I change the font that is used in the menu bar and the message > index? These are way too big (see screenshot at > http://btcpxx.che.un

Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Dan Hunt
What is it called when you set up foo.mydomain.com I have Googled for domain node and I have nothing. I want to make a directory mybuddys-stuff and have it resolve to either foo.mydomain.com/mybuddys-stuff or mybuddys-stuff.foo.mydomain.com If you can name this feature I can read about it. Thanks

Re: IPv6 subnet?

2003-02-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
The question was on "how" to configure it to piggy back it on an IPv4 interface or the best method to do that. I ended up doing this: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 # up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 inet6 add 2001:470:1F00:465::1/64

Specifications for username

2003-02-27 Thread Johann Spies
My manager wants to know what is allowed and what not when choosing a linux username. I know it must be lowercase, not have spaces or special characters, but I don't know where it is documented. Any reference to documentation that specify this? Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon:

Re: where is libMP3.so

2003-02-27 Thread John Foster
as a .deb file by the author and is GPL copyrighted) I am still getting the error message indicated in the output snippet below. make[3]: Entering directory `/root/.mplayer-update/sources/mplayerxp-20030227/codecs/mp3lib' install -D -m 755 -s -p libMP3.so /root/.mplayer-update/sources/mpla

Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
Hi all, Here at work, I (have to) use Windows 2000. In only now dared to install Mozilla, and wondered if there's any way at all to make Mozilla look like IE to the outer world... I don't mean the theme or something (already changed that :-), but the browser string it leaves behind. Accessing the

Re: How to create a 3.0r1 repository on disk?

2003-02-27 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 27.02.2003 at 13:03 +, Stephen Birch wrote: > I have an "official" Debian 3.0 dvd plus an "official" r1 CD. > > Can any tell me how to copy them both onto hard disk and combine them > into a single 3.0r1 repository that apt can use.

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-27 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:16:43PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > The response is "not found". Remember, I am still in the install. I the response to what? ifconfig? lspci? also, were you able to install the kernel onto the hard disk? if you can finish the install process and boot off the hard

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 05:44, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 25 Feb 2003 16:11:48 + > Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /tmp 2gig > > > /tmp get used only during boot and such and like boot, doesnt usually > > require a seperate partition. If you are going to provide a seper

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:31:47AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > What is it called when you set up foo.mydomain.com > I have Googled for domain node and I have nothing. You mean you have the domain mydomain.com and want to also have foo.mydomain.com? I think you want a subdomain. Or perhaps you want a

Re: (Newbie) Compatibility while I am fumbling.

2003-02-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Brian" == Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> While I am fumbling with problems getting Debian to install Brian> on my daughter's computer, I have been speculating about Brian> Debian support for the hardware on my box (considering a Brian> Win2k Pro and Debian 3 r

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-27 Thread Kent West
Sean Finney wrote: but you don't have an ip address. this means your kernel see the device and configured it, but dhcp isn't coming through. do you have lines in /etc/network/interfaces that say something like: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp ? also, if this is on a private lan, how about stat

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Tom wrote: > Hi all, > > Here at work, I (have to) use Windows 2000. In only now dared to > install Mozilla, and wondered if there's any way at all to make > Mozilla look like IE to the outer world... I don't mean the theme or > something (already changed

Re: Fonts in mozilla menus

2003-02-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Roman fontset="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" That was it. My fontset was -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-15 Looks ok now. Thanks joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Specifications for username

2003-02-27 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> My manager wants to know what is allowed and what not when Johann> choosing a linux username. Johann> I know it must be lowercase, not have spaces or special Johann> characters, but I don't know where it is documente

Re: Specifications for username

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:43:16PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > My manager wants to know what is allowed and what not when choosing a > linux username. > > I know it must be lowercase, not have spaces or special characters, > but I don't know where it is documented. > > Any reference to documenta

RE: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Jan Johansson
>What is it called when you set up foo.mydomain.com If you are talking "apache" it is called "VirtualHost" or "VHOST". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread Kent West
Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello. I hope you do not mind a real dummy hanging around here. I know nothing about Linux or Unix, but I want to learn. I hardly know a couple of command-line commands, so I am in need to get an X Window in my GNU Debian I have been trying to install. I must be doing someth

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
you can modify the user.prefs general.useragent.override See http://www.geocities.com/pratiksolanki/ or use a GUI to do so http://uabar.mozdev.org/ http://preferential.mozdev.org there are others but I don't remember the names. or type about:config in your URL. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Specifications for username

2003-02-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:33:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > the source for adduser: Ah - thanks Colin! Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our s

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 27 February 2003, 02:52 PM +0100): > Hi all, > > Here at work, I (have to) use Windows 2000. In only now dared to > install Mozilla, and wondered if there's any way at all to make > Mozilla look like IE to the outer world... I don't mean the theme or

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote: > Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do this: > > chmod -R 700 /home/* What if you don't want to make all files executable writable and readable in everyone's directory? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Tom wrote: > Here at work, I (have to) use Windows 2000. In only now dared to > install Mozilla, and wondered if there's any way at all to make > Mozilla look like IE to the outer world... I don't mean the theme or > something (already changed that :-), but

XFree86 & Virutal Screen

2003-02-27 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi All, I have been trying to configure XFRee86 to *not* have a Virtual Desktop. Is this possible. I have found information about the Virtual Desktop being the same size as the largest screen resolution mentioned in the config file. Is there a way to actually turn it off entirely so pressing Ctrl

lmsensors on SOYO Dragon mobos

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:17:29AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I use the same mother board you do. All the hardware on the board I've > tried to use works (which means I have no idea about the smart card > reader). The built in ethernet is supported with the via-rhine module, > the sound is supp

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:31:47AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > What is it called when you set up foo.mydomain.com > I have Googled for domain node and I have nothing. > I want to make a directory mybuddys-stuff and have it resolve to either > foo.mydomain.com/mybuddys-stuff or mybuddys-stuff.foo.mydom

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Craig Dickson wrote: is a better solution than demanding that the rest of the world bend over backward for your defective software. Craig How am I asking the rest of the world to bend over backwards? *shrugs* Doesn't matter. I made my complaint, suggestions were made, I'm happy with the outco

using pcmcia and via82cxxx modules at the same time

2003-02-27 Thread Niall Mansfield
(Forgive me if this seems stupid -- I've confused myself utterly.) Installed Woody 3.0r1, mostly from CD-ROM, on a laptop. Using kernel image 2.2.20 idepci. PCMCIA support is perfect. I want to try out some audio stuff, and need module via82cxxx. However, this isn't available for 2.2.20-idepci (

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Tom
Richard Hector: >> Is there anything I can edit to make Mozilla behave like it was >> Internet Explorer? > > I have a couple of thoughts on this - first, it's nothing to do > with Debian. Hm. You're absolutely right; my apologies. Subconsciously, I must have considered this list to be the best

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 06:16, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 10:54:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > mplayer is quite slick. I really like how the GUI is optional in > > mplayer, and fail to grasp how people coming from Windows see this as > > a bug. Media players don't need 40,00

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Sharninder
> What is it called when you set up foo.mydomain.com > I have Googled for domain node and I have nothing. > I want to make a directory mybuddys-stuff and have it resolve to > either foo.mydomain.com/mybuddys-stuff or > mybuddys-stuff.foo.mydomain.com If you can name this feature I > can read about

Re: XFree86 & Virutal Screen

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Shri Shrikumar said: > Is there a way to actually turn it off entirely so pressing Ctrl+Alt+[+] > or Ctrl+Alt+[-] will actually switch the screen *and* desktop > resolution. not currently. There is a new X extension in I think xfree86 4.3 or something which has better on-the-fly resolution changi

Re: mplayer & motherboard with i810 chipset.

2003-02-27 Thread Emil Pedersen
Egor Tur wrote: > > Hi folk. > I have problems with using mplayer on motherboard on i810 chipset. > I use mplayer 0.90rc4 & kernel 2.4.20 & XFree86 4.2.1.1 > When I try to use xv or sdl codec I hev only blue image. > Mplayer work only with x11 codec but with that I cannot fulscreen. > Anybody have

Re: Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread aublimoai
One of the selections during video setup in the initial setup is something like "Use Kernel Frame Buffering". It has "Yes" chosen by default; however, my X system will NOT work unless I choose "No." I have a slightly newer nVidia card (GeForce2), but it's worth giving that setting a shot... -M.

Re: Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread aublimoai
One of the selections during video setup in the initial setup is something like "Use Kernel Frame Buffering". It has "Yes" chosen by default; however, my X system will NOT work unless I choose "No." I have a slightly newer nVidia card (GeForce2), but it's worth giving that setting a shot... -M.

Weird fs problems

2003-02-27 Thread Sean Burbidge
I am having a strange problem on my system where I am unable to remove directories, even if they are empty. This is showing up in two locations: First, with dpkg and apt-get. If I try to apt-get a package, I get this error: rm: cannot remove directory `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci': Directory not em

Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread Rich Johnson
Hi folks-- Let's see: To recover from a destroyed machine (fire, flood, head-crash) I need: - debian install disk/CD for the new machine (which may be a different architecture). - list of installed packages (dpkg --get-selections) - backup of non-standard .conf files - server data backup (

AW: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread Yildiz, Murat
I have installed the package and run rescan-scsi-bus.sh: Host adapter 1 (aic7xxx) found. Host adapter 0 (gdth) found. Scanning for device 0 0 0 0 ... OLD: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id

RE: Dummy

2003-02-27 Thread David Turetsky
Teilhard Knight wrote: ... >Also, the installation cannot detect my external USB modem (I have one >internal, but it is a Win Modem, so I have no hopes to use it in Linux). But >I have the Linux drivers (.rpm), but I do not have the slightest idea of how >to install them. Can you also help here?

YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound

2003-02-27 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, I get the following message on my console every few minutes.I configured it as a nis client and ypbind tells at the star that it cannot bind to domain. The NIS server is in a different subnet.If I put the client machine in the same subnet as the server , everything is ok. Why does the ypclie

MediaOne/AT&T Net install craziness

2003-02-27 Thread Steve Walsh
So, I'm attempting to install 3.0_r1 via a netinstall CD, when it fails to get an IP address from the DHCP server. I flip over to another virtual term and see that dhclient is being used (which doesn't by default give the info that AT&T 's picky DHCP servers want) instead of dhcpcd. Does any

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Rich Johnson wrote: > Hi folks-- ... > Is there a way to list the _non-default_, or modified, .conf files > required to transferd/or restore a configuration? > Files like: > - krb5.conf; > - httpd.conf > - timezone > - cron.d files > - bind files > > I already mai

Re: AW: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Yildiz, Murat said: > It couldn't detect the tape drive connected to aic7xxx.Is there anything > else I can check? try adding it manually, for one of my systems I have a tape drive on SCSI ID 5 and I do: echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi to add it and echo "scsi remove-sin

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:42:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > and if i was admining your box... i'd "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin" > and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be > paged because something broke ...which, even if it doesn't break things (like another poster's mention

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Mike" == Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Mike> I prefer if people DO cc me, it's much easier to see that someone Mike> replied to me, without having to remember what thread I was Mike> talking in, and checking all the replies. My MUA (gnus, if you're too lazy to check the h

Re: sniffing SSL (was OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?)

2003-02-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Will Trillich wrote: > > but the odd part is, they didn't just come in from the top > (first uri was not "/"). it reflects either a) the result of a > prior drill-down or 2) an exact echo of my previous request, but > somehow coming from outside in the internet. > You may have already done th

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-27 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> >> By using symlinks, filehandle open to the old library will continue >> to work while they are open. > > > Are you *sure* this is a reason to use symlinks? I really thought > old libraries stuck around until all filehandles t

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:42:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > > find /home -type l -exec chmod 777 {} \; > Now, one bash question I've been meaning to ask for a long time... > > I keep seeing this... > {} \; > > ...on the end of lines in bash scripts. I don't have a good bash book, > an

New abcde package: adds multiple-output, flac, normalize and batch support.

2003-02-27 Thread Jesus Climent
Hi. A new abcde package is available. The new package adds support for FLAC, Normalize, batch encoding and multiple-output support. Use at your own risk, since it is EXPERIMENTAL. Do not send your dogs/lawyers if it eats your HDD, puts your daddy on fire or decides to empty your back account.

Re: [unstable] terrible gnome 2.2 performance problems

2003-02-27 Thread Joey Hess
Troy Arnold wrote: > I have an LCD as well. When I first fired up gnome2 it looked > *horrible* the anti-aliasing was nowhere near as nice as what I was > used to with qt. However, experimenting with the settings did the > trick. Fonts are absolutely sharp now. > > Desktop_Preferences->fonts

[newbie] shutdown via shell & Path

2003-02-27 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
Pessoal, quero fazer um script shell que mude o usuario para root e de o comando shutdown -h now. como faço isso?? 2) qual o meio mais rapido para colocar novos caminhos no path? obrigado --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Vers

corrupt bash file

2003-02-27 Thread FU2 !
when trying to install debian it says that the file "instmnt/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05a_11_i386.deb" is corrupt, then it says it can't download it, i tried downloading the ISO file again in case it didnt download right the first time, but it still doesn't work. Do i need to download a different I

mistypes IP-address

2003-02-27 Thread
Dear fellas, At the moment I am installing an IBM-PC and during the instllation-process I mistyped the IP-address :-( . I thought I could correct it with: ifconfig eth0 address 192.168.what.ever. It won't accept the command What actions do I have to take to correct the address of eth0-interface,

Public wireless access and basic security.

2003-02-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
Can someone point me to any HOWTO's for basic wireless security. I use my laptop on some of the public WAP's in New York City. I would like to be able to download my email without compromising my POP mail password. I understand that with the proper software these can be snatched up by people lis

Gamepads

2003-02-27 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
This isn't so much Debian related as it is just general hardware info. I have a Gravis gamepad. It looks like a Playstation controller, which is great for SNES emulation. Unfortunately, the directional pad is hard to control. You have to really concentrate to make sure that when you change direct

RE: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread Narins, Josh
> From: Yildiz, Murat, Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:06 PM > > I have installed the package and run rescan-scsi-bus.sh: > > Host adapter 1 (aic7xxx) found. > Host adapter 0 (gdth) found. > Scanning for device 0

RE: mistypes IP-address

2003-02-27 Thread deFreese, Barry
Frank, Probably the quickest way would be to just to edit /etc/network/interfaces. Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell >

Re: Newbie administrator - chmod

2003-02-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:42:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > and if i was admining your box... i'd "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin" > > and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be > > paged because something broke > > ...which, even

How to redo mp3's

2003-02-27 Thread revooh_c
Hello, I have a bunch of mp3 type cd's that I am trying to add to my system. However, I would like to re-encode the mp3's to a lower bitrate since they are just a bunch of speeces. Can anyone recommend a good utility to do this? I would prefer on what I can run from a command line script. T

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