cron, won't change time !

2003-07-24 Thread David selby
OK Ive looked into this, but I can't get it to work ... my /etc/cron.daily executes at 7:35 AM +- a couple of mins. I need it to execute at 1:30AM +-, no problem I thought .. I enterd /etc/crontab # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' #

Re: java 1.4 issue

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:53:39AM -0400, Stephen wrote: > Thanks John, fixed that issue, still won't install. Dependency on what I > can't seem to figure out, seems circular: Could you avoid wrapping your error messages, please? This ... > Setting up j2re1.4 (1.4.0.99beta-1) ... update-alternat

apm power_off hangs system

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
After 8 years of running Debian, I've never had Linux crash on me before, not once! Until now that is... I've just upgraded my wife's PC from OS/2 to Woody. No real problems, other than I found it a bit tricky getting X 4.3 installed, so that I could use the GLX drivers for her nVidia GeForce2

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Unfortunately, though, in this case relatedness is not the same thing as > ancestry - one of the possible histories here is that SCO stole code from > GPLed code bases, not the reverse. I

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 12:41:47PM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > How can i have a gpg public key? See gnupg documentation. I think kgpg is a clicky interface for KDE GnuPG users, which might help you out if you're new as well. - -- .''`. Paul

make-kpkg fails on changelog with wrong name after patch

2003-07-24 Thread Mark C
Hi, I have just downloaded and installed on woody the following: kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-patch-grsecurity-2-4 I untared the source, and then cd'ed into the top level directory, used a default config (make menuconfig and Save), just applied the grsecurity option (wanted to make sure it compil

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-24 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:30:08PM +0200, Alan Connor wrote: > > Am working on a sed script that will remove most of the headers and put > in > front of the lines in the body, etc That sed script (or the way it is used) still needs some tweaking it seems. While you can strip out headers it i

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:08:53PM -0700, Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D. wrote: > 1st: A problem with this list is its huge signal to noise ratio. > If you don't have an answer to give jokes are less than helpful. Looking at lists.debian.org, I see this is

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:38:27PM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > webdev:~# gpg --list-keys > /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg > > pub *** > sub *** > > I wonder whats the sub ? I also see other users have gnupgpid: x9374483 > (whate

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:48:23PM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > I mean, for ex this one. > > > GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A > > Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A > > Is this different from the one that i generated? Yes, it

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:56:16PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > What do you do when you switch systems? E.g. I heve > done the key-gen thing and all, but now I want to gen > a new Debian Sarge from scratch. What do you have to > copy to have what yo

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > 1) xdm-log showed an error msg about not being able to open Xwrapper.config > because it was not found. This that a red-herring since everything seemed > to be working fine? Yup. Your

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:30:20PM +, Vittorio wrote: > I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at > boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical > display any longer as with the previous kernel. I

Why pppoe bothers to bring the interface up?

2003-07-24 Thread Shaul Karl
/etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl has the following lines: # Bring the interface up /sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE up Why bother? Isn't /etc/rc0.d/S35networking guaranteed to run before the pppoe has a chance to bring the interface up? -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t -- To UNSUB

Re: bash: can I cd from a script

2003-07-24 Thread David selby
Dave Carrigan wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 07:36, David Z Maze wrote: Depending on how complicated the script is, rewriting it as a shell function might be appropriate. You could add to your .bashrc file something like cdls() { cd "$1"; ls; } and then "cdls foo" would change directories to

Re: Help needed with router vs Apache problem

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:54:31PM +, Daniel Lesage wrote: > I then configured the router to forward requests to port 81 to the debian > box. Why? Your ISP is blocking connections to port 80. Have your router redirect incoming connections from

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I think > it looks better and is easier to use than a GUI file > manager. You may be int

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Vittorio wrote: I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical display any longer as with the previous kernel. How could I set lilo (or the kernel?) to have that penguin at boot time? Ciao Vittorio Easiest wa

Re: Install problem

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:33:09PM -0400, Philip Juels wrote: > I'm attempting to install version 3.0r1 on an AlphaServer 800 via ftp > and when I get to the Base installation it bombs out complaining it > couldn't download the libpcre3 package. I'm

bootcd2disk

2003-07-24 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, I have successfully created a bootcd and booted with it. When I run bootcd2disk I get the following error : Why do I get this error? (woody 3.0 bf2.4 , bootcd 2.32) test:/var#bootcd2disk To see full output: tail -f /var/log/bootcd2disk.log /usr/bin/bootcd2disk: P: unbound variable test:/va

Re: error upgrading debconf in debian unstable - python2.2: invalidoption -- O

2003-07-24 Thread johan
On Thursday 24 July 2003 01.26, Joey Hess wrote: > johan wrote: > > Hello! I have problems upgrading to debconf 1.3.4. I get the following > > error message: > > > > Setting up debconf (1.3.4) ... > > python2.2: invalid option -- O > > Try `python2.2 --help' for more information. > > dpkg: error pr

Re: Network speed

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:44:13PM -0400, Dan Jones wrote: > Is there a straightforward way to determine what speed (10 or 100mbs) a > NIC is running? How about to determine if it is in half or full duplex > mode? If it's running at 10Mbit, it will n

Re: New packages

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:08:59AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I've found a rather useful little app that doesn't appear to be in the > distribution yet. How can I go about getting it in there? I have > looked through the Debian policy page, but c

NFS Problem

2003-07-24 Thread Bart Lenoir
Hi, I'm running an NFS server on Red Hat. Connected to the Red Hat I have a Debian which I want to use as an NFS client. Ping, Ftp, Telnet, ... all seems fine. Mount and Umount is working well, however I don't have access to the selected directory. "Permission denied". The only way I can have acc

grub-install can't find BIOS drive

2003-07-24 Thread Amy Tanner
I'm trying to install grub on a Compaq DL360 G1 with 2 9GB drives doing RAID 0. I get this error: # grub-install --recheck /dev/ida/c0d0 Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. /dev/ida/c0d0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I'm running grub 0.91-2. Any ideas?

RE: bootcd2disk

2003-07-24 Thread SCHUMACHER,BERND (HP-Germany,ex1)
Hi Yildiz, seems you have found a bug. P will only be set if DISK=auto is defined. But it should be set in each case. Please set P="" at the start of the bootcd2disk skript for now. If it works it will be fixed in the next Version. Please tell me if it works. Regards Bernd -Original Mess

Re: Graphic boot...

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Gilles Missonnier wrote: ->Easiest way to do this is to copy the config file from the bf24 kernel ->to /usr/src/linux/.config, then make oldconfig before you start ->configuring your new kernel. That way you get all the options that were ->set in the bf24 kernel, and can start turning off the ones

Solved: bootcd2disk

2003-07-24 Thread Yildiz, Murat
Hi, should I report the bug :) I haven't thought that the bootcd Skripts were shell Skripts. Anyway I was able to bootcd2disk and to boot from the disk after setting P="" at the start of the bootcd2disk skript. Thankx Murat -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: SCHUMACHER,BERND (HP-Germany,ex1)

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:31:49 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I

Re: cron, won't change time !

2003-07-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, July 24 at 8:13 AM EDT David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab ># Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' ># command to install the new version when you edit this file. ># This file also has a username field, that none of the other

incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread Richard Lyons
I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut down, leaving me with a 'Enter root password... or ctl-D for...' message. Is it okay t

ports and www.debian.org

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Hello, with an iptables firewall set to a default REJECT I can load almost every web site but www.debian.org which gives me timeouts. Opening ports 7 echo/icmp or 113 auth doesn't make a difference. When I open all ports for 192.25.206.10 the pages load immediately. What ports would I have to

Re: incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Thu, July 24 at 2:09 PM EDT Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g >desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to >login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut >down, leav

RE: Solved: bootcd2disk

2003-07-24 Thread SCHUMACHER,BERND (HP-Germany,ex1)
Hi, I will upload the next bootcd version at the beginning of august. The bug is already fixed in my cvs sources. For people using bootcd meanwhile, it could be good if you report the bug. Thanks Bernd -Original Message- From: Yildiz, Murat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Donnerstag, 24.

Re: NFS Problem

2003-07-24 Thread Zhao You Bing
Bart Lenoir wrote: Hi, I'm running an NFS server on Red Hat. Connected to the Red Hat I have a Debian which I want to use as an NFS client. Ping, Ftp, Telnet, ... all seems fine. Mount and Umount is working well, however I don't have access to the selected directory. "Permission denied". The only

Re: incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread Zhao You Bing
Richard Lyons wrote: I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut down, leaving me with a 'Enter root password... or ctl-D for...' m

Re: Network speed

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're > running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network cables > only have four leads connected, you're using 10. Actually, you can have full duplex on 10BaseT. 100BaseT runs o

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well said. There's simply "no there there" - SCO has no plausible claim against anyone on these grounds. Given that, there's no excuse for playing it "safe" as they try to steal one. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~ap

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities to begin with. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * a

Re: root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-24 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On 23 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:45, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root device set > > to /dev/hda1 my "computer" boots up fine. With newer 2.4 kernel images > > (kernel-image-2.4-386, kernel-image-2.4.21-1-386

Re: incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread David Z Maze
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g > desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to > login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut > down, leaving me with a 'Enter root p

crack traces in /var ?

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Hi all, Google didn't yield anything specific, so does anyone know what sort of crack my desktop machine (NAT behind an up to date woody stable iptables firewall) seems to have suffered? Symptoms are a dir named /var/bobsdata, containing "admin.pwd" with a string like $1$WmspYkT9$POV... and su

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-24 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > > > look in > > > > ~/.kde/Autostart > > > > Make a file > > > > #!/bin/sh > > export ... > > > > Change its permissions to executable, > > > > This should work No, it shouldn't. Whenever you put something into ~/.kde/Autostart, it gets _executed_ on KDE startup. That means all exports i

Re: Difference between dhcp clients

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:14:46PM -0400, Nicolas wrote: > Which of the dhcp client is the best for a router/firewall? > dhcp-client, dhcp3-client, dhcpcd or udhcpc? I go with dhcp3-client because it's the current version and it works. - -- .''`.

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:25:23PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released > updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and > above video cards. Anything's gotta be bette

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:28:49AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > BTW, I have not yet tried flphoto's rotation. Will come back after some > more experiments :-) > Am back after my trials with flphoto. It rotates in a lossless fashion and has an option of storing the exif data. Checked

Re: root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:52:52AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > On 23 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:45, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root > > > device set to /dev/hda1 my "computer" boots up fine. With

updates *always* updating same three (3) packages ???

2003-07-24 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Recently, apt-get update updates the same three (3) packages -- to themselves -- since that version to which they update is already installed, and functioning ;> # sudo dpkg -l po-debconf spamassassin spamc Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Fail

OT: Four leads = 10Mbit? (was: Network speed)

2003-07-24 Thread breno . moiana
>If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're >running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network cables >only have four leads connected, you're using 10. I´ve noticed that some of the most recent 100Mbit cards I've been buying (Genius low end cards, model GF10

x-pstn header?

2003-07-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone know what puts the x-pstn header into mail -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. |-- Lenny Nero - Strange Days

make menuconfig

2003-07-24 Thread john gennard
Normally, I've used make config for kernel recompiling. I've decided to move a Woody installation to the 2.4.x kernels (2.4.21 in fact) and use make menuconfig so that I can 'go back' to alter mistakes. The compilation went fine (I thought), but when I looked at the config file I see menuconfig

Re: make-kpkg fails on changelog with wrong name after patch - SOLVED

2003-07-24 Thread Mark C
I have now managed to solve it, it seems a bit weird way, but it works, and I've tried it around 6 times now (after each time rm -rf kernel-source-2.4.18). 1. extract kernel-source 2. copy over .config to kernel-source top level directory 3. make-kpkg --added-patches=grsecurity_2_4 4. hit CTRL-C a

Re: OT: Four leads = 10Mbit? (was: Network speed)

2003-07-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:48AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're > >running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network > >cables only have four leads connected, you're using 10. > > I?ve noticed that some of t

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-24 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:47:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > If only, I could get the gphoto2 cvs debs, then my Canon A70 would be > easily recognised. It's your lucky day. You can find gphoto2 packages from the last release candidate at: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/gphoto2/ Please rep

Re: make-kpkg fails on changelog with wrong name after patch -SOLVED

2003-07-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 24-07-2003, om 16:58 schreef Mark C: > I have now managed to solve it, it seems a bit weird way, but it works, > and I've tried it around 6 times now > (after each time rm -rf kernel-source-2.4.18). > > 1. extract kernel-source > 2. copy over .config to kernel-source top level directory > 3.

Re: x-pstn header?

2003-07-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Steve Lamb: > Does anyone know what puts the x-pstn header into mail I believe it's Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. - Edwin Percy Whipple pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

error trying to upgrade gzip

2003-07-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm trying to upgrade gzip, but it keeps aborting with this error message; sudo aptitude install gzip Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: apache apache-common attr automake1.7 bash cpp cvs d

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:31:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I think > > it looks better and is easier to use than a

Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Bill K
Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user. Furthermore, I cannot use pon to establish a ppp connection as the non-root user. Does anyone have any solutions to either of these problems. Thanks. --

do I need to re-install from scratch?

2003-07-24 Thread Richard Lyons
Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop without an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC (PCcard), I cannot get any connection - when I try # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up I get SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface

OT: card catalog system for public library?

2003-07-24 Thread Henry House
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My local public library wants to replace its antiquated card catalog system with something completely modern. Unfortunately, their response to my local LUG's offers of help is that they want software that is off-the-shelf and used by other libraries, n

Re: do I need to re-install from scratch?

2003-07-24 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:14, Richard Lyons wrote: > Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop without > an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC (PCcard), I > cannot get any connection - when I try > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > I get > SI

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:25:23PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and above video cards. Anything's

Re: Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Bill K wrote: Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user. This is the normal default behaviour, as you would normally never need to do this. If you feel you must, there is a setting in the gdm con

Re: Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:46:10AM -0400, Bill K wrote: > Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with > gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root > user. Good, that's by design. Don't use X as root, really. (There's a flag in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to

All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying to get working with debian. I plugged it into my linux box with a flash card with some data on it and linux detected the device being attached a

Re: OT: card catalog system for public library?

2003-07-24 Thread Favio Garcia
You should check the Koha libray system at www.koha.org Cheers On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Henry House wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > My local public library wants to replace its antiquated card catalog system > with something completely modern. Unfortunately, their re

Re: make-kpkg fails on changelog with wrong name after patch -SOLVED

2003-07-24 Thread Mark C
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:50, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > You can also use patch -p1 path_to_path in the /usr/src/linux directory > to apply the patch and then use steps 5 & 6. > That's what i did to apply the debian-logo patch. It also didn't work > when using the --added-patches switch so i had to

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a flash card reader which is designed to read > from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying > to get working with debian. I plugged it into my > linux box with a flash card with

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-24 Thread Antonio Rodr
Hey Christophe, you seem to be the man. I have a Sony DVD camcorder (DCR TRV 33). Are there any USB recognitions plans for it? I think firewire already works there, I am not sure... Thanks On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:

Re: OT: card catalog system for public library?

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
I just happened to have the following message still around, because I'm interested in cataloguing systems. I haven't tried it at all, but it might fit your needs: Date: 03 Sep 2002 19:14:20 +0200 From: tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANNOUNCE] a library software toolkit

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Johnson wrote: Anything's gotta be better than what I've got right now...anybody know the ETA of seeing this in Debianized form? Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going ina few minutes usi

Restore a debian backup

2003-07-24 Thread Erhard Schultchen
Hi, I'm looking for the right way to restore a backuped debian system: The main system ist archived by "dar", excluding all binaries in /sbin, /bin and the complete /usr directory. There is a list of alle installed packages, retrieved by dpkg --get-selection The backup medium (harddisk) contains a

Re: can't configure authentication in exim (SOLVED!)

2003-07-24 Thread Francesc Oller
The problem was that Lotus Domino smtp server answers to EHLO AUTH with 250-AUTH=LOGIN The equal sign (=) is non-standard, should be a blank as per specs, but this is common practice in some Windows related MUAs, MTAs. exim author Philip Hazel (with good reasons) refuses to change exim's code t

Re: Need GNU-based live CD [WAS - Re: Important!]

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Sunil wrote up a step by step account of modifying Knoppix at: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue87/sunil.html HTH, Patrick. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

solved alsa and alsaconf problem with kernel 2.6.0-test1

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
This problem came up in the thread concerning kernel 2.6.0-test1 and the alsa problem. Apparently alsaconf expects the kernel modules to end with .o but the ending was change somewhere along the 2.5 kernel line to .ko (don't know where exactly but certainly appears with 2.5.75 and 2.5.69). A crude

Re: x-pstn header?

2003-07-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:54:52 -0500 Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Steve Lamb: > > Does anyone know what puts the x-pstn header into mail > I believe it's Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service That would be it. Thanks for the help. -- Steve C. Lamb

abcde is failing me

2003-07-24 Thread Antonio RodrX
If I run it as root, it works good. If I run it as user, not so. I've tweaked the $HOME/.abcde.conf and have been able to make the list of errors get smaller, but still. Next I copy what I keep getting. It seems as if cdparanoia is not working fully for the user. However, at the command prompt i

Re:Samba Problem

2003-07-24 Thread Don Nash
I snipped this from the samba How-To at samba.org: encrypt passwords is necessary unless you need to provide support for Windows 95/NT computers. It's recommended that you read ENCRYPTION.txt, WIN95.txt, and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. The default is "no", although most people will want

how do i type my own words

2003-07-24 Thread James
 

Creating a patched binary package

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Worrall
Hi all, I wish to create and install a patched version of fetchmail. I would like to take the source package plus the patch file and produce my own binary package. What is the best way to do this? -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

installation of package installer

2003-07-24 Thread Sam Virgillo
I have an embedded version of Debian running on an Intel 486 single board computer. I cannot find the Apt-get program or the dpkg program to install packages. If I download these apps from your site they are in the .deb package format and I have no way to install them (catch 22). Can I get just

Re: how do i type my own words

2003-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:53, James wrote: What the heck does that mean? Is it zen? -- +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I just sent the following, rather clueless, and somewhat Debian-specific message to the openafs-info mailing list. If anyone has any insights to share they would be welcome. Does anyone here have any experience setting up an openafs server on Debian and would be willing to share his

video4linux (quickcam) on unstable - /dev/???

2003-07-24 Thread Chris Searle
Unstable running the latest unstable devfs. Just downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21 and qce-source. Built the kernel with make-kpkg and got two deb files: kernel-image-2.4.21_10.00.Custom_i386.deb and qce-modules-2.4.21_0.40d-2+2.4.21+10.00.Custom_i386.deb. Installed - rebooted. lsmod shows: Mo

Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Hood
I have a laptop with an 802.11b card. When I am in the vicinity of an access point (AP) I can see the AP's details by running "iwlist IFACE scan". However, in order to associate to APs with encryption switched on I need to set the encryption key using "iwconfig IFACE enc KEY". My question is: h

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 24 13:20:34 2003 > ... > Description: Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - normal > version Midnight Commander is a feature-rich file manager. It has mouse > support in a linux console and in an xterm. It started as a Norton > Commander clone but now i

Running processes unniced as a normal user.

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Mestnik
I was hoping there was an easy unix(debian,posix) way of doing this. Running processes unniced as a normal user. AFAIN I need to be suid0 for this, but I can't find any examples in yahoo. The problem is that I'm using ANDeamon that puts gkrellm at 15(nice:), this is what I like. What I don't

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-24 Thread Ian Melnick
Well, all the users in shadow -- their passwords expire in 9 days. The machine account doesn't have anything specified in the password expiration field; I assume that must mean that it just does not expire at all. For the user accounts, in the following field, is a 7, representing that 7 days b

Re: make menuconfig

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:31, john gennard wrote: > Normally, I've used make config for kernel recompiling. > > I've decided to move a Woody installation to the 2.4.x > kernels (2.4.21 in fact) and use make menuconfig so > that I can 'go back' to alter mistakes. > > The compilation went fine (I th

Re: root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:23, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:52:52AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On 23 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:45, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > > With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root > > > >

Re: Unable to configure PS/2 Mouse in woody!

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 21:00, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > SRIKANTH NS wrote: > > > I installed debian woody (3.0 r0)after wiping RH7.3. Machine Celeron > > 900MHz, 128 MB RAM, i815e M/B ( Kobian brand ,16MB shared RAM) already > > having Win98 > > and MDK9.1. > > > > Installation went alri

Re: cron, won't change time !

2003-07-24 Thread David selby
Shawn Lamson wrote: On Thu, July 24 at 8:13 AM EDT David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that

Linux 2.6.0-test1, PCMCIA modem

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I'm trying to figure out how to get 2.6.0-test1 running on a laptop. I've gotten it to run fine on many desktop systems, but on the laptop I just can't seem to figure out what I'm supposed to do in order to get a PCMCIA modem to work (the laptop has internal eth0, and a Winmodem).

Re: [Fwd: nautilus keeps scanning mount points]

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:13, Mark Roach wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:10, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am running nautilus version 2.2.4 (from unstable) and autofs (ver 4) > > The problem is that Nautilus keeps probing the mount points which consequently > > keeps > > mounting the floppy and cdro

Re: installation of package installer

2003-07-24 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:10:07 +0200, Sam Virgillo wrote: > I have an embedded version of Debian running on an Intel 486 single > board computer. I cannot find the Apt-get program or the dpkg program > to install packages. If I download these apps from your site they are > in the .deb package form

Re: ports and www.debian.org

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
ouch - I accidentally had blocked the host which I could unblock unknowingly with another rule. Sorry. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
For using my Cisco Aironet 350 on my Sony Vaio laptop that goes between several WiFi networks using WEP I just created a script that I use in /etc/network/interfaces that handles the mapping for me... The script basically scans the network and tries to match an ESSID it finds from scanning

Re: virtual terminals

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 08:52, Jeff Wiegley wrote: > The file you probably want is /etc/inittab. > > the lines in my (unstable) setup that control the virtual > terminals are: > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 > 4:2

Re: setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Todd Pytel
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:06:37 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I'm using AFS on the University of North Carolina campus. Much about AFS is specific to your institution. I'll make some guesses, but you need to talk to your IT department. > 1) When using an afs client, th

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