Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:20:16PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:47:33PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > * Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030304 18:30]: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > Moving target or not, I think 200+ day u

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:42:33AM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:17:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > So, try this: > > > > rxvt*background:black > > rxvt*foreground:white > > > > I don't know for sure what class name rxvt actually uses, > > but a

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Mark Schouten
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I > can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME 1.4 > running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it brings me > to the G

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 03:11, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:20:16PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:47:33PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > * Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030304 18:30]: > > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, sta

Re: DVD player

2003-03-05 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi! Dvdnav should depend on dvdread, which in its turn recommends you to install css functionality. There's a script included for this: /usr/share/doc/libdvdread2/examples/install-css.sh Another possibility is to add some package rep. which includes this support. Look at www.apt-get.org. The Vi

strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Cristi Banciu
Hi, I have some strange problem with my machine It just freeze (no keybord or mouse activity, no ping reply). It happens while I am in X. And from time to time I get this message: "hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }"

Fwd: Reenvíala por favor. En serio

2003-03-05 Thread Álvaro Eixea
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Speaking of strange problems...

2003-03-05 Thread Jeremy Cheng
Speaking of strange problems, I have a load of them. The biggest one is that ever since I upgraded the motherboard of my server, I have not been able to type in console. The key set is all messed up(ie, I type j and another character comes up and F7 is backspace,etc). However, if I find a way to

Re: Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Not sure about the keyboard error, but the LSR safety check messages are because setserial is trying to load your autosaved seriel port settings, which are now different. To update it (and thus fix the error message) do the following: man setserial setserial /dev/ttyS0 autoconfig setserial /dev/t

Building Nvidia driver

2003-03-05 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, I'm trying to build the nvidia driver, and I posted some questions before. One of the answers was a step-by-step manual on how to do it. One of those steps is: 6. Then build nvidia-kernel package: cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/Debian/rules binary_modules When I d

Re: Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2003-03-05 Thread Jon
Thanks Jack, I hadn't thought of setserial. On my Sarge system I don't have a /etc/serial.conf But I do have a /var/lib/setserial/autoserial.conf I just ran dpkg-reconfigure setserial and chose the 'manual' option for editing the config file. Then I commented out the line for /dev/ttyS0. Reboot

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 08:11:29AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:20:16PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:47:33PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > * Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030304 18:30]: > > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37

combine and extract PDFs

2003-03-05 Thread Hannes Loeffler
Hello, are there any utilities which combine single PDF pages and/or exctract individual pages from a PDF. TIA, Hannes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Transition problems Qt2->Qt3

2003-03-05 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hello! I am trying to recompile a program of mine which uses Qt (package "turqstat"). Since the new version isn't done yet, I am just trying to recompile with GCC 3.2 and libqt3. After fixing the configure.in I get compiling, and get a lot of warnings due to change of include files (I'll have to f

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:31:57PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Moving target or not, I think 200+ day uptimes ina 24x7 production > > environment say something about teh :stability" of the testing release. > > Therfore it appears to me to be

Re: Transition problems Qt2->Qt3

2003-03-05 Thread Peter Karlsson
Sorry, wrong list. Didn't notice that I misspelled "devel" into "user" until the second after I hit "send"... :-/ -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:44:41PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:11 PST]: > > My point is that the testing release ahs proven to be stable in a > > production environemnt (for me at least), and has, for example, much more > > current perl modules, than stable.

Re: Building Nvidia driver

2003-03-05 Thread Glyn Millington
"Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 6.Then build nvidia-kernel package: > cd /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel-1.0.2880/Debian/rules > binary_modules > > When I do that, I get: > > -bash: rules: command not found Willem - it looks like you are missing the cd at the begi

Re: Speaking of strange problems...

2003-03-05 Thread Jeremy Cheng
Well, guys, I fixed the keyboard problem by doing a "dpkg-reconfigure console-data" Why didn't I think of that earlier instead of fighting with it for so long. Anyway, the mouse is not fixed though... so I am still open for advice for that. Thanks Jeremy Jeremy Cheng said: > Speaking

Re: strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:19:50AM +0200, Cristi Banciu wrote: > I have some strange problem with my machine > It just freeze (no keybord or mouse activity, no ping reply). It happens > while I am in X. > And from time to time I get this message: > "hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComp

RE: Building Nvidia driver

2003-03-05 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
I'm sure of that, because I've learned spaces an capitals are very important in Linux. I looked in the command history and the command was typed correct, So that isn't the problem HTH, Willem-Jan Meijer <-- Alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mail worden gescand op virussen --> <-- All incoming and o

Re: Building Nvidia driver

2003-03-05 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:08:45 +0100 "Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to build the nvidia driver, and I posted some questions before. > One of the answers was a step-by-step manual on how to do it. One of those > steps is: > > 6.Then build nvidia-kernel package: >

boolalpha (c++ question)

2003-03-05 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm learning C++ and ran into a bit of difficulty with boolalpha. I guess I don't have all the right libraries loaded (although I would have thought this one was quite basic) because the following doesn't work: cout.setf(ios_base::boolalpha); // from textbook The err msg I get is: `ios_base'

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:53:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:30:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > Not idael at all. As a matter of fact, it makes

Re: Updating packages while being able to use the old distributionCDs

2003-03-05 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:04:53 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I run "apt-get update", Debian logs on to the updates ftp site > (such as ftp.debian.org) and downloads an entirely new list of > packages which overrides the older list. Thus if I install Debian from > CDs and update, I will no lo

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:08:21PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:53:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > > > acn be used in production> F

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > > acn be used in production> For instance how old are the prel modules, and > > devlopment environ

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:17:50PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > stan wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > >> Someone else running testing in a production environment. > >> > > > > > >And my choices are? > > > >As I see them. > > > >2. Run stable and have 1970's v

restarting slapd and slurpd

2003-03-05 Thread Alexey Chetroi
Dear All, I've configured slapd and slurpd on my woody box and everything works fine, except when I restart slapd, init script complains about missing pid of slurpd: lexa:/home# ps -ef|egrep 'slapd|slurpd' root 21418 1 0 13:37 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/slapd root 21420 1

Re: strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Roman Joost
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:19:50AM +0200, Cristi Banciu wrote: > Hi, > > I have some strange problem with my machine > It just freeze (no keybord or mouse activity, no ping reply). It happens > while I am in X. > And from time to time I get this message: > "hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady

Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Sharninder
hi all, I have been using kde 2.2 which comes with woody since a long time now. But recently i downloaded all the 250 MBs of backported debian packages of KDE 3.1 from ftp.kde.org. And i have them on a comp. somewhere on my network. Now, i want to upgrade my personal desktop to kde 3.1. I downloade

Re: combine and extract PDFs

2003-03-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:27:03PM +0100, Hannes Loeffler wrote: > Hello, > > are there any utilities which combine single PDF pages and/or exctract > individual pages from a PDF. You *could* convert them to PostScript (pdf2ps in the gs-common package), extract the pages you want (psselect in the

Re: boolalpha (c++ question)

2003-03-05 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:33:19 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm learning C++ and ran into a bit of difficulty with boolalpha. > > I guess I don't have all the right libraries loaded (although I > would have thought this one was quite basic) because the following > doesn't work:

Re: restarting slapd and slurpd

2003-03-05 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I can confirm this as I've seen this behavior since the earlier version that was in potato. I do however notice that it does actually stop the slurpd processes and that the messages are merely an annoyance of an unclean check... I don't believe the slurpd process itself creates a PID file

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Johan Ehnberg
If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine, the right way is to download the debs and install the using dpkg. Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from where you got the packets from to your sources.list. deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/l

Re: Speaking of strange problems...

2003-03-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Jeremy Cheng wrote: Also, the mouse is not properly working in X either. All I get is a black box in place of the pointer and some error messages about detecting the mouse. I am wondering if it has to do with the motherboards mouse and keyboard ps/2 ports. I am also wondering if upgrading the ke

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Sharninder
> If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine, > the right way is to download the debs and install the using > dpkg. > Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from > where you got the packets from to your sources.list. > > deb http://download.us.kde.org/pu

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 05:13:33PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt insinuated: > > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's question. > > > he doesn't even want to run top, he wants to stick in a

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Sharninder wrote: If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine, the right way is to download the debs and install the using dpkg. Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from where you got the packets from to your sources.list. deb http://download.us.kde.or

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 07:04 PM 3/5/2003 +0530, Sharninder wrote: > If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine, > the right way is to download the debs and install the using > dpkg. > Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from > where you got the packets from to your sourc

Re: boolalpha (c++ question)

2003-03-05 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:21:39PM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote.. > AFAIK GCC 2.95 doesn't have the ios_base namespace , you'll have to > use ios instead. > > however boolalpha is not implemented in 2.95, so you'll have install > g++-3.2 (only in testing I believe). > > if you plan on lear

Re: nautilus - dont want home icon

2003-03-05 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 00:26, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 23:36, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > > hi there! > > > > sorry if this is a little off-topic... i just install nautilus, i like > > some of the features -- well, primarily thumbnail views of images... > > but, i do not want to ha

Re: Building Nvidia driver

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:08:45PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to build the nvidia driver, and I posted some questions before. > One of the answers was a step-by-step manual on how to do it. One of those > steps is: > > 6.Then build nvidia-kernel package: > c

Re: boolalpha (c++ question)

2003-03-05 Thread Alaa The Great
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:29:15 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Second, question about how to best set up the dual compilers: Like > you, I'll use 2.95 to compile downloaded software, and 3.2 for stuff > I write. Do you change the symlink in /usr/bin depending upon what > you are doi

Re: strange problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Hmm, looks like either a driver issue, or a corrupted fs. Possibly the drivers are trying to overoptimize the dma interface. I got similar errors before when fiddling with hdparm... didn't really pay attention to all the warnings in man hdparm until afterwards... -jackp --- Cristi Banciu <[EMAIL

Re: SOLVED User dialup access

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
Problem solved. Looks like I had a bad default route and simple file permission issues from messing with this long ago. - jackp --- John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jackp writes: > > What is missing here? > > What happens when you configure with pppconfig and have > the users start ppp >

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:58:37AM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Desktops are mostly RedHat > > 6 or so, with some potato, a very little woody, or X terminals > > connected to a potato server. I have yet to receive a single > > complaint f

VIA Tahoe onboard LAN

2003-03-05 Thread Gabriel Granger
Hi All, I'm looking into setting up a 1U rack server, I'm looking at getting a board with LAN ie saving the 1 pci I will have for something else, Epox do a motherboard with onboard LAN which is VIA Tahoe. Does anyone know if this supported under debian, and if so how good it compared with say

Re: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:07PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > What packages are out there which facilitate editing? a good one that you can run from the command line is sox. it has a bunch of basic effects and filters you can pass the sound through, i've used it in the past and been happy wit

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Is there a way to coerce bash to behave as my old ksh? I like the different histories myself. But I have been recommending this to people who have asked who wanted it. In your .bashrc file. This syncs the histories between shells in the same way as ksh did. PROMPT_

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread David Z Maze
Leo Spalteholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On March 4, 2003 09:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: >> > I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm) >> > implements a menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot. >> >> Hmm, doesn't the v

some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
Hey guys... 1) How can I make some commands available to all user. (i.e.) shutdown (only root can execute this, what can I make to other user do this too?) 2) which is the easiest way to upgrade jdk 1.3.1 to jdk 1.4.1? 3) how can I get a new ssl certificate? I have apache-ssl installed and now t

lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

2003-03-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! after the last update of my unstable distribution on my laptop, the whole X system is out of order the start option for the xserver tcp isn't anymore wanted, but even after removing it, i am far from a usable system. some graphical stuff starts up, but stops somewhere leaving m

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz insinuated: > On March 4, 2003 07:51 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated: > > > IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works > > > to reboot the machine. > > > > so, say you

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-05 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:49:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson insinuated: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 20:41, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 05:13:33PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt insinuated: > > > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's qu

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Regarding the former, I am speaking of the general sense, in which I > frequently change terminal sessions, and I know that I typed out some > complex string in last couple of days, but I'm really not interested in > foraging all open sessions to find that one (1) exquis

USB device detection problem

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Pistachio
After either rebooting from windoze to linux, or even with a complete shutdown/poweroff, my two usb mass-storage devices aren't detected unless I boot Linux twice! Loading and unloading modules doesn't help. Everything USB works fine in linux afterwards (and beforewards). There are no error messa

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread csj
At Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:10:59 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 3:16 am, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: > > Hi Yall, > > > > spotted the above titled article & it seemed to me some of us > > & me might find it of use, so here is the url > > > > http://www.osnews.com/print

Re: lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

2003-03-05 Thread Mark Schouten
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > the start option for the xserver tcp isn't anymore wanted, but even > after removing it, i am far from a usable system. > some graphical stuff starts up, but stops somewhere leaving me > basicly with the background that exis

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 05/03/03 Gilberto Garcia Jr. did speaketh: > Hey guys... > > 1) How can I make some commands available to all user. (i.e.) shutdown (only > root can execute this, what can I make to other user do this too?) man sudo Sorry, I don't use Java. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 19:15 PST]: > By-the-by, where does a bash session keep track of command history while > that session is open? > > How does it know whether to use ~/.bash_history or this elusive memory > pointer? It always performs history search/substitution fr

howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread Ray
how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they don't match the output of md5sum -b /dev/cdrom i used x-cdroast 0.98+0alpha9-9 and didn't get any error/warning messages, and it all seemed to go fine. and the cd m

Re: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-05 Thread Brian Dockter
Eduardo wrote: > Did you set the DNS ? > I always get this... my dns server doesn't work full > time :(, but what I > do is: > change to other console i.e. alt+F2 and edit > /etc/resolv.conf and put > the new dns in the file Since I am behind a firewall, I can't directly access the mirror, so I w

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-05 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Vineet Kumar (Wed 05 Mar 02003 at 09:17:47AM -0800): > * Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 19:15 PST]: > > By-the-by, where does a bash session keep track of command history while > > that session is open? > > > > How does it know whether to use ~/.bash_history or this e

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > don't match the output of > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom Not really an expert on what happens on cds but I belive it has something

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:44:07AM -0500, stan wrote: > I agree thta it is not -the only_ measuer of stability. However in this > case, the stated uptime includes all apps (including X). So I think it's > still a valid indication of the stability of the entire release (as used in > this particular

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:53:16AM -0500, stan wrote: > Is it possible that some mechanisim could be set up such that a package > which has recieved a security related update in stable, could become the > latest package for testing? > > I'm trying to think of a way to leverage the fact the securit

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to "shutdown -r now" than holding the > power button.. To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to `/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now`, per /etc/inittab. -- The freedoms that we

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > However, if you trust people enough to enable > XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot > the machine. Uh... No. X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may rely on a

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-05 Thread Travis Crump
Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: 4) why a simple hello word program in java, that works fine on windows, return this error on linux (java.lang.NoDefFoundError) bash$cat test.java public class test { public test() {} public static void main(String[] argc) { System.out.print

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread Craig Dickson
bob parker wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > > don't match the output of > > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom > > Not really an expert on what happens on

kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Has anyone created a file that shows all the options available in menuconfig when doing a kernel compile? It would be handy so that I can note on it what options I absolutely need for various configurations. Curtis Vaughan North Pacific Corporation WashTech (CWA Local 37083) IWW x353203 -- To U

Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
When I recompiled the kernel for one server, dhcpd would not work. According to the error I didn't compile the kernel for certain aspects of dhcpd. However, when I went through all the configuration items in menuconfig I couldn't find what it seemed to be requiring. What in fact do I need to c

Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-05 Thread DOUGLAS RIST
I am trying to install Debian 3.0rc1. My system is: AMD K6-350 ASUS Motherboard Adaptec AHA-294x/AIC-78xx Seagate SCSI HD (9Gb) Intel Pro/100+ ATI Tech 3d Rage Pro PCI Hitachi CDR-7930 I boot up and get the message that "No hard disk drives were detected". Everything else can detect th

kernel compile for ide modules

2003-03-05 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I have tried compiling my kernel twice now, but the ide modules that would appear in modconf don't show up. What do I need to check? And by the way, if I just download a kernel and install it, it will have all the modules with it. Surely there's a command that can be issued when compiling a ker

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 08:05, Sharninder wrote: > I have been using kde 2.2 which comes with woody since a long time > now. But recently i downloaded all the 250 MBs of backported debian > packages of KDE 3.1 from ftp.kde.org. And i have them on a comp. > somewhere on my network. Now, i want t

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > However, if you trust people enough to enable > XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot > the machine. Uh... No. X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may rely on a

Re: kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:12:09AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone created a file that shows all the options available in > menuconfig when doing a kernel compile? how about /usr/src/linux/.config ? or maybe i misunderstood you? you can also see what kernel options are compiled into yo

ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread Gary Turner
I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? tnx -- gt

Re: kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Curtis" == Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Curtis> Has anyone created a file that shows all the options available Curtis> in menuconfig when doing a kernel compile? //.config? Curtis> It would be handy so that I can note on it what options I Curtis> absolutely need for various

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:03:28AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > bob parker wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: > > > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? > > > > > > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they > > > don't match the ou

Re: The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel

2003-03-05 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
And I heard Haralambos Geortgilakis exclaim: > spotted the above titled article & it seemed to me some of us & me might > find it of use, so here is the url > > http://www.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=2949 I was very excited to see this link, but after scanning the article concluded that t

Re: Debian SCSI HD Install Failing

2003-03-05 Thread nate
DOUGLAS RIST said: > I boot up and get the message that "No hard disk drives were detected". try the compact kernel it's on the debian 3.0 install CD. view the help in the boot loader to figure out how to load it. Last I checked the stock kernel did not support adaptec SCSI cards w/o loading modu

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Curtis" == Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Curtis> When I recompiled the kernel for one server, dhcpd would not Curtis> work. According to the error I didn't compile the kernel for Curtis> certain aspects of dhcpd. However, when I went through all the Curtis> configuration items

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread nate
Gary Turner said: > I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home > machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. > Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will > some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit

Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

2003-03-05 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 7:03 pm, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > If you want to set up your server as an apt source then I'm sure that can > be done as well (I'm just not sure how). Set up apache to serve a directory such as /var/www/debian as http://y

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hello! I had the same problem once, and it turned out you need to compile in some extra functions. At least CONFIG_FILTER (Socket filtering) was required. There might have been other options too, but I don't remember which right now. hth, /johan Curtis Vaughan wrote: When I recompiled the kerne

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread David Gaudine
> I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home > machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. > Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will > some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? Here are

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread John
Have you checked the config files for ssh, here theyre located under /etc/ssh ( debian unstable ) cheers Gary Turner wrote: I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I c

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-03-05 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:19:09 +0100 Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus, > > so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and when > it does not? I would be very interested especially concerning Debian > ... > > Michael Sorry, late reply - technical problems. Basicall

Help please - KDE GUI won't display

2003-03-05 Thread Marsha Petry
I did a dist-upgrade this morning, and now my initial KDE screen comes up with an OK background but a black box where the user login should be. I can figure out where the text input boxes are for logging, but when I log in the desktop shows my wallpaper with some icons scattered around and that's

Re: VIA Tahoe onboard LAN

2003-03-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Gabriel Granger wrote: > I'm looking into setting up a 1U rack server, I'm looking at getting a > board with LAN ie saving the 1 pci I will have for something else, Epox > do a motherboard with onboard LAN which is VIA Tahoe. Does anyone know > if this supported und

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread chris1622
Yep, read Net-HOWTO, but still I can't get it to work. ... Setting up the loopback and pingin it works fine, pinging into the machine also works fine (tried from an old win95 machine). But pinging out of the machine dosn't work, I'm getting the error message "Unable to connect to remote host:

Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-sourcepackage

2003-03-05 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm trying to build a cross compiler using the toolchain-source and dpkg-cross packages, along the lines of what is described at http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html But I'm running into problems: 1. When building binutils the scripts complain about dh_split not found. I thought t

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread David Gaudine
Here is a link to a pdf file that contains everything I know about running remote X clients with and without ssh, and with and without xdm. Since it contains everything I know, it's a very short download. http://annette.concordia.ca/~david/X.pdf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

RE: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread deFreese, Barry
Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Network config help needed > > > > Yep, read Net-HOWTO, but still I

Re: lost X... non valid arg: tcp ....

2003-03-05 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:07:26PM +0100, Mark Schouten wrote: > Perhaps you could be more specific? uhm indeed the image shown me on the start of xdm is a pixelized chaos, i thus disabled xdm in fact a strange mix of old images somehow still stored in the grafic card buffer started wi

RE: Working with WAV files

2003-03-05 Thread David Turetsky
>>> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:07PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: What packages are out there which facilitate editing? >>> sean finney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:14 AM a good one that you can run from the command line is sox. it has a bunch

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > the new safe signals implementation has caused some problems which mean > that the next upstream release will allow them to be turned off. Argh. Do you know if that is a compile-time switch or a run-time switch? I've had some very fun debugging sessions based on perl's signa

Re: Network config help needed

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Setting up the loopback and pingin it works fine, pinging into the :machine also works fine (tried from an old win95 machine). But :pinging out of the machine dosn't work, I'm getting the error message :"Unable to connect to remote host: N

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