Re: Mounting windows boxes

2003-06-16 Thread Jake Johnson
Hi Terry, Thanks for the help, but this is what I get... mount -t smbfs //jr/tmp/ /mnt/Samba/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //jr/tmp/, or too many mounted file systems ...so I made sure that I could see the shares on jr smbclient -L jr added interface ip=192.168

CMIIW: CVS over SSH with no shell access

2003-06-16 Thread Abdul Latip
Hello: I just want to be sure that I have not make any potential security boo-boo here while setting CVS over SSH with no shell access. So far, so good, but please CMIIW. 1. Is it considered a security risk to put the root into the /var/www/cvs/ (web) directory while protecting the CVSROOT/

Re: xdvitune not working properly

2003-06-16 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Jun 15, 2003 at 10:00:27PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I can get the screen shifted to the left, as is with the 2 other > computers, but as soon as I log out, and log back into X, it's back to > the right. >From xvidtune(1): Without any options (or with only toolkit options) it pre

Re: nfs mount error

2003-06-16 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Rodney D. Myers > I've re-installed debian, trying to get better hardware detection/setup. > > Everything installed okay, still requires some tinkering. > > My one glaring problem. I cannot get my /home directory nfs mounted to > this machine. Nfs is a pain in the ... > > I've edited the /etc/e

Re: Mounting windows boxes - Got it!

2003-06-16 Thread Jake Johnson
Hi Terry, I found my issue. I didn't have the smbfs program installed. I didn't know that mount called this program. I simple issued the apt-get install smbfs and then reran my mount command. Works great. Thank for your time! Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.plutoid.com On Sun, 15

Re: Converting to UTF-8 from ISO-8859

2003-06-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030614 03:59]: > I've been working on converting my system over to using UTF-8 wherever > possible. I've already configured galeon, evolution, gnome-terminal and > just about every other graphical application to use UTF-8 by default. > I've set my locale to "e

Re: vim broken: unstable / hppa

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:08:43PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I filed a bug on this a few days ago, was wondering if anyone else has > been bitten. See #190585 > > vim segfaults on startup on this system. Given that it's my editor of > choice (currently using nvi, it *s

/usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Kimber
I don't seem to be able to do an upgrade. The system stops with a message:- /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10 If I try installing apt-listchanges, I get Sorry, but the following packages

Re: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:27:13AM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I don't seem to be able to do an upgrade. The system stops with a > message:- > > /bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory > E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10 Sou

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-16 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:39:08AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > I have modified /etc/X11/default-display-manager, it > shows: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm have you checked that xdm actually exists in that location? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which xdm /usr/bin/X11/xdm -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: APT newbie question

2003-06-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:49:52AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > If I am using stable distribution (Debian2.2r1), using > Python 2.1, how do I upgrade to Python 2.2.3 in > unstable distribution (I still want my default as > stable distribution). Mixing s

Re: Questions re kernel

2003-06-16 Thread cr
Thanks to those who helped, I've replied to them individually off-list so as not to be too repetitious. Briefly - > mount -t umsdos /dev/hdc1 /mnt/dosC > gives > mount: fs type umsdos not supported by kernel ... and of course I should have been using 'msdos' not 'umsdos' > Secondly, I'm hav

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-16 Thread Kristian Peters
iwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for > both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low > latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improving on the > resposiveness of the system. But does it in pr

Re: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:56:35 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like you want to 'dpkg --purge apt-listchanges' to get rid of > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges for now. > > See bugs #172171 and #195429. These both refer to bug #89830, fixed in > apt 0.5.5. Many thanks. That

hacked?

2003-06-16 Thread Moe Binkerman
I've noticed something odd, I did an nmap localhost after messing with inetd.conf, and say a weird port open. I ran it again and it wasn't there. Mostly I see just the normal services I am running, but 1 in a dozen nmap scans (as root) show some ports that are open for a second or so. Why would

Re: Low latency patch worth the fuss?

2003-06-16 Thread Tinus Kotzé
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 11:57, Kristian Peters wrote: > iwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for > > both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low > > latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improv

NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

2003-06-16 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:12:53AM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: > > Nfs is a pain in the ... > Just wondering: have you considered a replacement? Maybe you dropped it all together? For some reason I believe that the 2.5 kernel configuration help are not suggesting CODA in the strong way that the

Re: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:56:35 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like you want to 'dpkg --purge apt-listchanges' to get rid of > > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20listchanges for now. > > > > See bugs #172171 and #19542

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

2003-06-16 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Shaul Karl > Just wondering: have you considered a replacement? Maybe you dropped it > all together? For some reason I believe that the 2.5 kernel > configuration help are not suggesting CODA in the strong way that the > 2.4 used to. Does NFS v4 much better then v3? Haven't tried, really. Jus

Re: Postfix and amavisd-new backports on Woody

2003-06-16 Thread Valter G. Nogueira Jr.
Where do I find those backports? Valter - Original Message - From: "Christian Schoenebeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Postfix and amavisd-new backports on Woody > Es geschah am Freitag, 13. Juni 2003 20:36 als Valter G.

International characters in xterm

2003-06-16 Thread btom
Hi, None of the virtual terminals available on my debian (woody) system are able to display international characters, especially Swedish ones like (å,ä,ö). I used to have the same problem on the console but this disappeared when doing a dpkg-reconfigure locales and selecting Swedish as my default

Re: howto extract data from...

2003-06-16 Thread Grzesiek Sedek
Thanks, That worked well... On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:32, Ben Kal wrote: > On 11 Jun 2003 Grzesiek Sedek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone have an idea how to extract clear text from inbox file (actual > > file is from m$ entuage on mac called Messages) it got corrupded and > > mail client do

Ethereal (packet capture) - as normal user - how?

2003-06-16 Thread a
Hi, I've got a somewhat tricky problem wrt. Ethereal under Debian 3.0R1: The program works without any problem when run as user "root", but it doesn't work when running as normal user. To be exact, as a normal user, when trying to capture packets I don't see any interfaces available. Sure enough

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Fantastic thanks so very much for your help Bret and Roberto - much helpful! Have recompiled the kernel with SCSI support, SCSI disk support, USB mass storage support (when I checked my .config file, I noted an entry for "Jumpshot" in the USB drivers list, but can't find that in make menuconfig

Re: Beginning Linux Programming

2003-06-16 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Monday 16 June 2003 00:40, Tinus Kotzé wrote: > Hi > I am looking for a tutorial for linux programming. I have thorough > experience in Delphi and quite a bit in Java. I would like to start > programming for Linux in C. I am looking to start with KDevelop as > IDE. My problem is I don't know muc

exim mainlog question

2003-06-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! in my /var/log/exim/mainlog file I have the following lines: 2003-06-16 09:10:56 19Rsp6-AE-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost (nostromo) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=925 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fis.uerj.br 2003-06-16 09:10:56 19Rsp6-AE-00 failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/ret

re: user list email

2003-06-16 Thread Tom
please remove me from the email list my email address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being inundated with 200 emails daily and when i try to send you an email from that address to unsubscribe it's bounced back to me.   thank you for any help you can provide. Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

2003-06-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote: > * Shaul Karl > > Just wondering: have you considered a replacement? Maybe you dropped it > > all together? For some reason I believe that the 2.5 kernel > > configuration help are not suggesting CODA in the strong way that the > > 2.4 used to. Does NFS

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Fantastic thanks so very much for your help Bret and Roberto - much helpful! > > Have recompiled the kernel with SCSI support, SCSI disk support, USB > mass storage support (when I checked my .config file, I noted an entry > for "Jumpshot" in th

Re: old interne modem (ISA)

2003-06-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:51:56PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 01:22, Robin Gerard wrote: > > > Sure. Finely ground, your internal modem will make an extremely > > > strong cup of coffee. > > > > Okay, I've mad coffee with my internal modem who's volonteers for a cup ? >

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

2003-06-16 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Alvin Oga > add soft to your mount options, so that the sytem can keep going > vs using hard mount which waits for the remotefs to come back online > - i rather use/risk soft mounts than to sit and wait > in a hung state ... the pc is useless in that state anyway > > - and over

How can I killing a SMB mount

2003-06-16 Thread Jake Johnson
How can I kill a mounted samba share that has been removed. I get this problem a lot since I am always rebooting the windows machines and I can't unmount the smbfs. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jake Johnson http://www.plutoid.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Sorry, slightly OT: WLAN

2003-06-16 Thread Benjamin Swatek
Sorry, but nether googeling nor the wlan-howto enlighted me completely and I know that this is not so debian specific, but: For a home-wlan, do I realy need an accesspoint? I mean one of these nice little boxes which aren't more than this or can I use some linux-box set up as a router which I conn

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Jake Johnson
I also get the same problem, but only happens the first time I try to mount the compact flash. -Jake -- Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims and Car Audio Products On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Roberto

Floppy/network install question

2003-06-16 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I need to downgrade from testing to stable on my laptop. THis seems about impossible because of packages that were split, e.g. debianutils split off coreutils. Trying to downgrade debianutils fails because it tries to overwrite /bin/readline which is now in coreutils. If anyone knows how to do t

Re: NFS. [ Was: Re: nfs mount error ]

2003-06-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote: > * Alvin Oga > > add soft to your mount options, so that the sytem can keep going > > vs using hard mount which waits for the remotefs to come back online > > - i rather use/risk soft mounts than to sit and wait > > in a hung state ... the pc is

Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)

2003-06-16 Thread Mike Mueller
On Sunday 15 June 2003 20:53, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tinus wrote: > > Kevin wrote: > > > Tinus wrote: > > > > Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The > > > > programming C part I already have covered. > > > > > > I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoco

Re: How can I killing a SMB mount

2003-06-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Jake Johnson wrote: > How can I kill a mounted samba share that has been removed. I get this > problem a lot since I am always rebooting the windows machines and I can't > unmount the smbfs. Any suggestions? == == stop rebooting the windoze machine and the problem will g

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Repeated it many times, still doesn't work :/ Cheers - Piers Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Fantastic thanks so very much for your help Bret and Roberto - much helpful! Have recompiled the kernel with SCSI support, SCSI disk support, USB mass storage su

Re: How can I killing a SMB mount

2003-06-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 16 June 2003 16:04, Jake Johnson wrote: > How can I kill a mounted samba share that has been removed. I get > this problem a lot since I am always rebooting the windows machines > and I can't unmount the smbfs. Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Jake Johnson > http://www.plutoid.com Hi Jake

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Repeated it many times, still doesn't work :/ > > Cheers - Piers > Post the result of an 'lsmod' right after a mount attempt. -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Sorteos - http://loteria.yahoo.es Juega a la L

Re: Sorry, slightly OT: WLAN

2003-06-16 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Benjamin Swatek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry, but nether googeling nor the wlan-howto enlighted me completely > and I know that this is not so debian specific, but: > For a home-wlan, do I realy need an accesspoint? > I mean one of these nice little boxes which aren't more than this or can

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Hi Roberto Module SizeUsed by Not tainted sd_mod 10092 0 (autoclean) (unused) prism2_cs 57040 1 p80211 13048 1 [prism2_cs] usb-storage 21944 0 (unused) scsi_mod53548 1 [sd_mod usb-storage] Cheers - Piers Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Piers

Re: user list email

2003-06-16 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please remove me from the email list my email address at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being inundated with 200 emails daily and > when i try to send you an email from that address to unsubscribe it's > bounced back to me. > > th

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:19, Piers Kittel wrote: > Have recompiled the kernel with SCSI support, SCSI disk support, USB > mass storage support (when I checked my .config file, I noted an entry > for "Jumpshot" in the USB drivers list, but can't find that in make > menuconfig. Weird) You don't

Re: How can I killing a SMB mount

2003-06-16 Thread Kent West
Jake Johnson wrote: How can I kill a mounted samba share that has been removed. I get this problem a lot since I am always rebooting the windows machines and I can't unmount the smbfs. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jake Johnson http://www.plutoid.com I've found in similar situations that when smb

Re: How can I killing a SMB mount

2003-06-16 Thread Vanilla
Jake Johnson wrote: How can I kill a mounted samba share that has been removed. I get this problem a lot since I am always rebooting the windows machines and I can't unmount the smbfs. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jake Johnson http://www.plutoid.com mount: mount -t smbfs -o username=,passwor

Re: kernel with modules

2003-06-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:23:56PM -0400, Seneca insinuated: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:49:54PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i'm trying to set up samba to interface with my windoze network at > > work. i've apt-gotten samba, smbfs, and all the things the myriad > > howtwos i've found have deemed

Re: Wrong address on reply (on debian maillist)

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:02:34PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:37:22PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > * David Sudjiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I'm new on debian lists and I'm using pine455. > > > > > > When I replied from [EMAIL

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:26:10PM -0700, Jake Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I don't want to get into any long debate, but I am looking for a light > weight browser. I am currently using Opera, but crashes occasionally and > I am getting really annoyed. What are you guys using? Galeon on

Kernel will not compile

2003-06-16 Thread dhobner
I did the following: apt-get install gcc apt-get install kernel-package apt-get install kernel-source.2.4.18 apt-get install libc6-dev apt-get install tk8.3 apt-get install libncurses5-dev tar -jxf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2 make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --append-to-version=.030320 kernel_image

Re: nfs mount error

2003-06-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:12:53 +0200 Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Rodney D. Myers > > I've re-installed debian, trying to get better hardware > > detection/setup. > > > > Everything installed okay, still requires some tinkering. > > > > My one glaring problem. I cannot get my /home di

Re: hacked?

2003-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
Moe Binkerman wrote: > I've noticed something odd, I did an nmap localhost after messing with > inetd.conf, and say a weird port open. > I ran it again and it wasn't there. Mostly I see just the normal services > I am running, but 1 in a dozen nmap scans (as root) show some ports that > are open

Re: xdvitune not working properly

2003-06-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:08:07 +0200 Thomas Krennwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun Jun 15, 2003 at 10:00:27PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I can get the screen shifted to the left, as is with the 2 other > > computers, but as soon as I log out, and log back into X, it's back

Re: Sorry, slightly OT: WLAN

2003-06-16 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 10:03, Benjamin Swatek wrote: > I mean one of these nice little boxes which aren't more than this or can > I use some linux-box set up as a router which I connect to the internet > as an accesspoint via a wlan-pci-card? Does it need to be a special > wlan-card? This language

X

2003-06-16 Thread JakDaRippa
video card - ati all-in-wonder 128 (32mb) http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/aiw128pro/index.html monitor - sceptre p73 http://www.sceptre.com/archive/monitors/specification/p73.htm i burned the 1st cd and booted with it. the rest was done thru ftp. i chose x and web servers. after installation i

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Frank Van Damme
On Monday 16 June 2003 17:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I don't want to get into any long debate, but I am looking for a light > > weight browser. I am currently using Opera, but crashes occasionally and > > I am getting really annoyed. What are you guys using? > > Galeon on reasonable HW. Dill

alias in .xsession

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Touset
I'm trying to set up my .xsession to include an alias Unfortunately, the alias isn't created--when I run Eterm from the menu, it doesn't include the options. I'm positive that the file is being sourced, because the CVSROOT environment variable is being set correctly. How can I get the alias to

Re: nfs mount error

2003-06-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi jon... On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:12:53 +0200 > Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nfs is a pain in the ... > > > > > > > > I've edited the /etc/exports file, to match the previous settings, > > > but I'm getting this error message; > > >

Re: X

2003-06-16 Thread Kent West
JakDaRippa wrote: video card - ati all-in-wonder 128 (32mb) http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/aiw128pro/index.html monitor - sceptre p73 http://www.sceptre.com/archive/monitors/specification/p73.htm i burned the 1st cd and booted with it. the rest was done thru ftp. i chose x and web servers. aft

RE: How can I killing a SMB mount

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Mayes
** This email is subject to a disclaimer at the bottom of the message - please make yourself aware of its contents before reading the email ** Jake Your questio

Re: Kernel will not compile

2003-06-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:30:53AM -0400, dhobner wrote: > I did the following: > > apt-get install gcc > apt-get install kernel-package > apt-get install kernel-source.2.4.18 > apt-get install libc6-dev > apt-get install tk8.3 > apt-get install libncurses5-dev > > tar -jxf kernel-source-2.4.18.t

Problem setting up Samba

2003-06-16 Thread Cage
I've installed Woody 3.0 on my backup machine. I have it networked to my main box which also has 3.0 on it. A third machine (win95) is also connected to the main box and I access it through Samba. Samba on the big box works fine. But since installing on the backup machine I can't get it to acc

Re: How to set xdm as default

2003-06-16 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:00, Hugh Saunders wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which xdm > /usr/bin/X11/xdm And: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/X11 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 May 25 11:08 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ $ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Jose
Frank Van Damme wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 17:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: I don't want to get into any long debate, but I am looking for a light weight browser. I am currently using Opera, but crashes occasionally and I am getting really annoyed. What are you guys using? Galeon on re

How can I find out a packae's maintainer?

2003-06-16 Thread stan
w can I do this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

fatal error on RH partition

2003-06-16 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, in trying to partition this machine up and install various OSes on it, i've managed to screw up a lot. there's a redhat install on a different partition, and though i can mount it, i can't boot into it. more specifically, if i add a stanza (really basic, like below) to my /etc/lilo.conf

Re: Ethereal (packet capture) - as normal user - how?

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Heycock
sudo would be just the ticket. rgh On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a somewhat tricky problem wrt. Ethereal under Debian 3.0R1: > The program works without any problem when run as user "root", but it > doesn't work when running as normal user. > > To be e

Re: alias in .xsession

2003-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephen Touset wrote: > I'm trying to set up my .xsession to include an alias Unfortunately, the > alias isn't created--when I run Eterm from the menu, it doesn't include > the options. I'm positive that the file is being sourced, because the > CVSROOT environment variable is being set correctly

pppoe problem

2003-06-16 Thread Andreas Schulz
Hi folks, I use a woody - stable release for my router. My isp is german -telekom and i use a dsl modem sold by them. now having the modem plugged in for 3-4 days i get those messages: Jun 16 18:07:18 kai-router pppoe[179]: Bogus PPPoE length field (1494) the number in brakets differs from mess

Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers

2003-06-16 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Bret, Also, is the Smart Media card you're trying to read formatted ("is there gas in the tank?")? Heh! Yeah its formatted no worries - after all, I have used it in Win2k no problems. Followed your instructions, recompiled kernel with Jumpshot support built in, and installed hotplug manager,

Networked sound - any ideas?

2003-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all. I've got a few machines on the internal LAN that I'd like to network the sound on. Only one of them is connected to the hi-fi, but they all have sound cards in. I've had a look at Esound and ARTS, but never had any luck with implementing a system-wide solution that my non-techie partn

command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread David selby
Hello, I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI command so I can process its standard output. I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...but cant find one I know there must be a linux command

Where to keep .gnupg?

2003-06-16 Thread Nathan Malmberg
Knowledgeable Debian Users, As a part of developing security-conscious habits, I have kept my .gnupg directory on removeable media (first a floppy, then a zip disk). Recently, however, I have found that when I mount my ext2-formatted zip disk, the disk quickly becomes unreadable (it led to

pcmcia not identing cards on boot (2.5/sid)

2003-06-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
--SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable i'm running the 2.5 kernels and sid on my laptop, and for probably nearly a month my pcmcia nics have not been recognized correctly on boot. it tries to load memo

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:19:02PM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Mmmm, what if I have two machines that are on the same LAN segment, having a conversation of interest, but I want to run my sniffer from, say, a Linux server on the

evolution import kmail files ?

2003-06-16 Thread James D. Freels
I am experimenting with evolution. Previously, I have exclusively used kmail. Is there a way to import existing kmail folders into evolution ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nfs mount error

2003-06-16 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alvin, Just got both machines to nfs mount. everything is working. I had to "tinkering", ie getting very frustrated, and started sopping/starting all of the services on both machines, and exporting, re-exporting the di

Re: How can I find out a packae's maintainer?

2003-06-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
apt-cache show packagename -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I find out a packae's maintainer?

2003-06-16 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > w can I do this? apt-cache show $PACKAGE | grep Maintainer -- Thomas Weinbrenner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Networked sound - any ideas?

2003-06-16 Thread Andreas Schulz
what's about setting up a sound server (streaming )on each machine, and the one with the hifi-plug joins the streams ?? andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Andreas Schulz
> I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...but cant find one tried df ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Francois Chenais
df or df -v see man df On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:34:24 +0100, David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:34:24PM +0100, David selby wrote: | Hello, | | I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk | partitions. FYI, Disk and Memory are separate. There is no memory on your disk :-). (well, barring cache and firmware, but that doesn't count in this

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 6:34pm, David selby wrote: :Hello, : :I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk :partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI :command so I can process its standard output. : :I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...

Re: exim mainlog question

2003-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:53:18AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Hi! | | in my /var/log/exim/mainlog file I have the following lines: | | 2003-06-16 09:10:56 19Rsp6-AE-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost | (nostromo) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=925 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | fis.uerj.br | 2003-06-1

Re: Mail lists lots of headers but mozilla does not see any imap mail

2003-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:01:38PM -0700, J F wrote: | It even responds sort of: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# telnet 10.0.0.9 143 | Trying 10.0.0.9... | Connected to 10.0.0.9. | Escape character is '^]'. | ((It pauses a few seconds and then)) | Connection closed by foreign host. Apparently something

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 03:34, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. > > I have tried man -k free, man -k disk ... etc...

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> Hello, > > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. man df Jan C. Nordholz pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
df -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am wri

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Søren Boll Overgaard
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:34, David selby wrote: > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. df(1) -- Søren O.

Re: How can I find out a packae's maintainer?

2003-06-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:01:47PM -0400, stan wrote: > w can I do this? apt-cache show $package-name | grep Maintainer -- Jamin W. Collins Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with it unless you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Frank Simon
hello, On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 19:34, David selby wrote: > Hello, > > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. maybe df ? I wrote a little script

Re: command for disk free ?

2003-06-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:34:24PM +0100, David selby wrote: > I am writting a bash script, I need the free memory on my hard disk > partitions. I can get this via gfreedisk or kwikdisk but I need a CLI > command so I can process its standard output. man df -- Jamin W. Collins This is the ty

Re: Re: lpr margin problems (SOLVED)

2003-06-16 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op vr 13-06-2003, om 16:19 schreef David: > One thing you might not be aware of.. (and I _think_ I'm right) is that > the y margins seem to be from bottom to top of page.. That is, the first > (or smallest) y margin value is for the bottom margin and the larger one > is for the top. > > I noticed

Re: Networked sound - any ideas?

2003-06-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:58:21PM +0200, Andreas Schulz wrote: > what's about setting up a sound server (streaming )on each machine, > and the one with the hifi-plug joins the streams ?? Any suggestion on the package(s) to use for such a solution? -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix w

network / networking scripts + firewall script

2003-06-16 Thread Christophe Courtois
Hi, 1) My old P75 has a /etc/init.d/network script, which dates back to the first installation (slink). If I remember correctly, this script is obsolete (not found on a fresh woody). I used it a long time ago to connect to cable, before I had a router, I have no idea what the original conte

Re: International characters in xterm

2003-06-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > None of the virtual terminals available on my debian (woody) system are able > to display international characters, especially Swedish ones like (å,ä,ö). > I used to have the same problem on the console but this disappeared when > doing

Developer packages for libqt3c102?

2003-06-16 Thread Stefan Heinzmann
Hi all, like other people before me I ran into conflicts between libqt3-mt and libqt3c102-mt. Most of what's on my machine depends on libqt3c102, which is fine with me because I'd rather work with the newer gcc version. However I now want to compile a project (ieee1394diag) that won't ./configure

Re: X

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:58:53 -0400 JakDaRippa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > video card - ati all-in-wonder 128 (32mb) > http://mirror.ati.com/products/pc/aiw128pro/index.html > > monitor - sceptre p73 > http://www.sceptre.com/archive/monitors/specification/p73.htm > > i burned the 1st cd and boo

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