cd burning

2003-07-30 Thread Conrad Schuler
Hello All,   It has been a struggle, but "Woody" is installed using the bf24 option. I have Xinerama working, the scanner scans, the computer can communicate with the digital camera.   But I'm hitting a wall with the cd burning.   I get to the part in the Howto where you test for the modules:   id

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:25, Chris Kenrick wrote: > I've got my A70 working under 2.0final-4 which is the version in > stable. The trick is to have all the right USB modules loaded, and > pass a fudged command line to gphoto2 (trick it into thinking it's a > different camera) > > Try > gphoto2 --

Re: (progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-30 Thread ThinKer
Thanks for the suggestion, but this machine has no CD ROM so I can't use knoppix. On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:54, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Hey, why not try a new method: > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall > > Use knoppix to boot from and establish net connectivity

Re: cd burning

2003-07-30 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Conrad Schuler wrote: > Hello All, > It has been a struggle, but "Woody" is installed using the bf24 option. > I have Xinerama working, the scanner scans, the computer can communicate > with the digital camera. > > But I'm hitting a wall with the cd burning. > > I get to

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030729 21:12]: > Well, on of the maintainers closed the report. Seems it's supposed to be > a bad download. Works for me. Maybe your mirror has a bad deb? wingnut:/usr/src% ls -l kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r--1 root root 31380359 2003-0

Re: Opening account in gnucash

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, probably you should send GnuCash questions to the gnucash mailing list. You will get more help there as you will find mor peaple that know GnuCash well. Regards Andreas. Aaron Maxwell wrote: I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash and its dependencies are

Re: Kicking users

2003-07-30 Thread cr
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 23:13, Aaron wrote: > On -32-Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:03:36AM -0600, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > > Aaron wrote: > > > Subject: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell. > > > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:29:38 -0400 > > > > > > Hey ladies and gents- > > > > > > I

Re: cd burning

2003-07-30 Thread J. Zidar
Wednesday 30 of July 2003 08:41 je &F pisal: >Hello All, > >It has been a struggle, but "Woody" is installed using the bf24 option. I > have Xinerama working, the scanner scans, the computer can communicate with > the digital camera. > >But I'm hitting a wall with the cd burning. > >I get to the pa

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:29, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...detailed install instructions cut...] > > In para. 1. there is no directory like > > /usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/ - I cannot find any > > *pcmcia*/include/. What s

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:40:08 +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Greetings list, > > I have recently taken over as the admin of a small lab at school. The > current admin has graduated and gone off to grad school and today we > spent the day going > over the lab setup. Anyhow, the point is that I d

Re: no days in uptime

2003-07-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Sebastiaan! At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote: > I have encountered a strange problem in my uptime status. I have a > computer running for over 500 days and a script that displays the > uptime in days with MRTG. > > For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return d

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
> Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something > that Debian can't help the admin with. [Rural modem users have lots of CDs.] Ron> Why not use "-t"? I have a "mostly sarge" system with some sid. Ron> The "-t" makes it very easy to do this: Ron> # apt-get -t testing upgrad

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`; apt-get install $@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: cd burning

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Sebastiaan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> It has been a struggle, but "Woody" is installed using the bf24 >> But I'm hitting a wall with the cd burning. >> I get to the part in the Howto where you test for the modules: >> >> ide-cd >> ide-scsi >> loop >> scsi_mod >> sr_mod >> iso9660 >> >> and m

Re: DVD audio extraction

2003-07-30 Thread Mark C
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:52, Bill Moseley wrote: > I can get audio extracted from vob files with mplayer, but I was > wondering if there were any tools to make it a bit easier. Give transcode a go, being lazy I use k3b or acidrip for all my cd burning and dvd ripping (uses transcode on the backen

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-30 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 05:07, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the > only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: > set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| > sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`

Re: no days in uptime

2003-07-30 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Sebastiaan! > > At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote: > > > For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day > > information any more: > > > > $ uptime > > 08:36:00 up 14:48, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.18, 0.16

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:07:15AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the > only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: > set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| > sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla-mail: ctrl+shift+c doesn't work anymore

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Fromm
Hi, does anybody know why on the new mozilla 1.4-2 mailreader the key combination Ctrl+Shift+c to mark a mailbox or newsgroup as read doesn't work anymore. On my old mozilla 1.0 (testing) it worked nicely but since I upgraded to unstable it dosn't. Regards Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: <...> > If you don't need any of them... uncomment all of them. > > Then run "update-modules" Hmm, didn't help. :-( uncommented all but piix, run update-modules, rebooted, but there are still many un

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:29, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:20:47AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...detailed install instructions cut...] > > > In para. 1. there is no directory like > > > /usr/src/linux/pc

bboxconf ?

2003-07-30 Thread Adam Bogacki
Is there a wmakerconf type program for blackbox ? I've got four themes in ~/.blackbox in either /background or /style' files, have run genmenu on blackbox - but there is no sign of them in the menu when I restart blackbox. It might need more tweaking or configuration. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Getting man pages in color

2003-07-30 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030730 09:49]: > How do I get man pages to show in color? > used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured > out how to enable it under debian. As others had said you were probably using most as your default pager. Now you just need

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Mark C
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 05:31, gerard wrote: > Everything was working fine with my nfs, rebooted, and now when I try to > mount an nfs drive this is the error I get "mount: RPC: Unable to > receive; errno = Connection refused". Any ideas? I havent changed > anything either, thats why I find it strang

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-test2,Nvidia and The story of the missing X :)

2003-07-30 Thread ramzez
Le Mercredi 30 Juillet 2003 07:55, Jeetu Golani a écrit : > Hi there, > > I have a NVidia GeForce2 MX 400 card and I'm trying to use kernel > 2.6.0-test2 with it. The kernel compiles fine but I don't have X. I tried > recompiling the driver I was using with kernel 2.4.18 but I get the message > tha

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > You need the kernel header files. Try apt-cache search > kernel-headers and grab the one that goes with your kernel. It may sound stupid, but I have no idea which kernel Debian has installed. "bf24" tells me it is 2.4.x, but I don'

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:14, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote: > [...] > > > You need the kernel header files. Try apt-cache search > > kernel-headers and grab the one that goes with your kernel. > > It may sound stupid, but I have no idea which kern

Re: Keyboard fun

2003-07-30 Thread Bec Dridan
Antony Gelberg wrote: Two things: 1. My pound sign is a hash in X. Works fine in the console. From XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree8

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] You need the kernel header files. Try apt-cache search kernel-headers and grab the one that goes with your kernel. It may sound stupid, but I have no idea which kernel Debian has installed. "bf24" tells me it is

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:14:18PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote: > [...] > > You need the kernel header files. Try apt-cache search > > kernel-headers and grab the one that goes with your kernel. > > It may sound stupid, but I have no idea w

Unable to connect DShot II camera

2003-07-30 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've just bought the Oregon Scientific DShot II digital camera. I can't access the images. Does my kernel need reconfiguring? Or is it something to do with usbdevfs? The error message reads: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus 1/3, assigned de

combining multiple ip's into one variable on iptables script?

2003-07-30 Thread Mark C
Hi, I'm running a firewall using iptables on each server, these are just standalone firewalls they then have to go through my main firewall after woulds to go to their final destinations (just do not ask why ;)). As each pc will have to use apt-get get get new packages and security updates, if th

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > In para. 1. there is no directory like > > > > /usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/ - I cannot find any > > > > *pcmcia*/include/. What should I do here? [...] > > So I'm guessing I need first to install a further pac

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Andrew McGuinness wrote: The RPM stuff has probably been unpacked by your driver disk. It looks like the driver module is supposed to compile against pcmcia-cs (I'm not sure why). Possibly you need to get the source of this package. Woody uses 3.1.33, but you would want to get the source fro

cnews or inn2 ?

2003-07-30 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
I need to set up a handful of local only groups for workgroup collaboration. I have no experience with NNTP administration whatsoever although I'm getting reasonably comfortable with mail/web/etc. server administration. Which software should I use ? cnews and inn2 both seem to be good choices with

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:31:13AM -0400, gerard wrote: > Everything was working fine with my nfs, rebooted, and now when I try to > mount an nfs drive this is the error I get "mount: RPC: Unable to > receive; errno = Connection refused". Any ideas? I havent changed > anything either, thats why I f

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Bob Proulx writes: > Logically DHCP is its own service. It does not really belong either > place. If you are doubling up on the duty of a machine (which is fine) > then it is your choice where you put it. Put it on the machine running your local dns server. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Danc

Re: combining multiple ip's into one variable on iptables script?

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > i.e I use ftp.www.mirror.ac.uk > > running nslookup on this gives me multiple ip addresses, I could create > a variable for each IP, i.e > > APT_MIRROR_AC_UK_1="194.83.57.3" > APT_MIRROR_AC_UK_2="194.83.57.7" > > and so forth, then cre

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-test2,Nvidia and The story of the missing X :)

2003-07-30 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi there, Thanks a lot for your help. Have gotten the kernel to work with the nv driver for the moment, will try the patch for the Nvidia driver. > > about /dev/ttySX => I have the same problem ;) > You need to say Yes to Character/Serial Drivers/8250/16550 and compatible serial support. By

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:27:26PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:16, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > In para. 1. there is no directory like > > > > > /usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/ - I cannot find any > > > > > *pcmcia*/include/. What shou

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-30 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 03:53 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > python-glade - Put a bit of python code behind interfaces built with GLADE. Getting this package got rid of the error about the python bindings. > python-glade2 - GTK+ bindings: Glade support > python2.2-glade2 - GTK+ bindings: Glade suppor

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 06:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: > > Hmm, didn't help. :-( uncommented all but piix, run update-modules, > rebooted, but there are still many unused modules still loaded. That

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > 1 fileserver (2x80GB RAID-0) houses user home directories, is the print > > server > Using RAID0 for a fileserver like this is very inefficient. If users open > a small file, both disks have to read a part of the file. I'd recommend > you to

Re: (more progress) Network card not detected or listed ininstallation

2003-07-30 Thread ThinKer
Just for fun (and because I am frustrated and looking for other options at this point), I downloaded and installed the Mandrake 9.1 network.img boot disk and booted my machine with it. It laoded the driver for the network device: National Semi:DP8310 10/100 Ethernet. Asked me if I wanted to config

Re: Unable to connect DShot II camera

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Tim wrote: Hi, I've just bought the Oregon Scientific DShot II digital camera. I can't access the images. Does my kernel need reconfiguring? Or is it something to do with usbdevfs? The error message reads: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus 1/3, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device not

CD Boot Problem

2003-07-30 Thread Mustafa Al-Shawaf
I am trying to install Debian on my computer.  I used jigdo to get the iso.  Then I burned the iso to cd.  When I try to boot from the cd, the drive spins up then spins down a lot.  Sometimes I get a message from the BIOS that there was a boot failure.  Other times, It starts booting, but th

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:18, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > Use script. man script for details. Basically it's like a wrapper > that records everything on your terminal between typing script and > doing a Ctrl-d. > > But, as was pointed out earlier, you _could_ try modprobe 8139too. 8139too e

Re Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-30 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, Thanks for the responses. Those double d commands are marvellous; simple and yet effective. It even produces a positive side-effect; a backup copy of the floppy image in the harddisk. I don't know if I'm the only one with this problem; I read through 'dd' with 'man' but is left with

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 03:53 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: Now it is complaining that it can't find gnome-config. I have searched for gnome-config with no luck except finding messages from other people who had the same problem. Anyone know where to get this? # apt-get install

Re: (more progress) Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:41, ThinKer wrote: > Just for fun (and because I am frustrated and looking for other > options at this point), I downloaded and installed the Mandrake 9.1 > network.img boot disk and booted my machine with it. [...] FWIW, I have a parallel problem (in another thread he

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 02:00, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:19 pm, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:43, Marino Fernandez wrote: [...] > > > How do you do or try swsusp... how do you suspend the machine?. > > > > I don't personally, I tried it once, didn't work ea

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:25:25AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > Now it is complaining that it can't find gnome-config. I have > searched for gnome-config with no luck except finding messages from > other people who had the same problem. Anyone know where to get this? There's a search engin

Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello folks, Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which files I need to use in order to get the OS installed. Do I need to burn CD

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:18, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] Use script. man script for details. Basically it's like a wrapper that records everything on your terminal between typing script and doing a Ctrl-d. But, as was pointed out earlier, you _could_ try modprobe 8139too.

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: > Hello folks, >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section > (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), > but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which fil

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:56:21PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I suppose my only alternative route now is to start again with the > standard version and ext2 partitions. I thought the ext3 was worth > having on a laptop, where there is an extra risk of needing to unplug > the power when i

Re: Re Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:36:17PM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > Those double d commands are marvellous; simple and yet effective. It > even produces a positive side-effect; a backup copy of the floppy > image in the harddisk. I don't know if I'm the only one with this > problem; I read through 'dd'

Re: Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jianan Huang (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > More about the BIOS. In DOS machine, hardware diagnostics and > initialization is done by the BIOS. And this is done before the operating system is loaded. Which means that it is done by the BIOS, independent of if Linux or DOS is installed on t

Re: bboxconf ?

2003-07-30 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:09:44PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Is there a wmakerconf type program for blackbox ? I'm not familiar with wmakerconf, but there is a configuration tool for blackbox, called "bbconf". -- Jamin W. Collins Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Kent West
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello folks, Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am confuse

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:18, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] > My mistake, 8139too is built into bf2.4, not a module, so if it > worked, it would have picked up the card at boot time (or would it, > with the card being pcmcia, have needed some pcmcia-cs to run > first?). Oh, thanks andrew. Tha

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:38, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: [...] > you can convert an ext2 partition to an ext3 partition using a > single command. These links from google provide more information. That easy, eh? Looks as though I am some kind of masochist, doing everything the hard way... > So

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:55:29PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:18, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > > My mistake, 8139too is built into bf2.4, not a module, so if it > > worked, it would have picked up the card at boot time (or would it, > > with the card being pcmc

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives > section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to > woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am > confused as to which files I need to us

Re: Later kernels

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:30, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any reason why I can't grab kernel-source-2.4.21 from testing > and build it for stable? My system satisfies all the dependencies. You should be able to. Have you tried? -- +-

RE: CD Boot Problem

2003-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
sounds like the cd media you burned has an error.  this can be caused by a manufacturing error on the cd.  burn another cdrom and give it a try.  also, try not burning at full speed.  sometimes people burn disks that are rated 12x at 30x+ and will make cd's that behave like you describe.  

hotplug question

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Kimber
Docs found with Google all seem to say that there is a Debian way of setting up hotplug, using an update-usb.usermap script. This script does not exist on my machine, nor can I see it listed on the testing and unstable package web pages. It does seem to be part of the Mandrake rpm for hotplug, h

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:51, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:31:13AM -0400, gerard wrote: > > Everything was working fine with my nfs, rebooted, and now when I try to > > mount an nfs drive this is the error I get "mount: RPC: Unable to > > receive; errno = Connection refused". An

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-07-30 Thread Yves Goergen
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: "Shawn Lamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 23:12 Betreff: Re: sudo doesn't work > On Tue, July 29 at 10:41 PM EDT > "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >(...) > > I note that two different comman

Re: no days in uptime

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:09, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Florian Ernst wrote: > > > Hello Sebastiaan! > > > > At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > > > For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day > > > information any more: > > > > > > $

Re: hotplug question

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:19:41PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > Docs found with Google all seem to say that there is a Debian way of > setting up hotplug, using an update-usb.usermap script. This script does > not exist on my machine, nor can I see it listed on the testing and > unstable packag

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:07, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the > only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: > set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| > sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:38, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > 1 fileserver (2x80GB RAID-0) houses user home directories, is the print > > > server > > Using RAID0 for a fileserver like this is very inefficient. If users open > > a small file, both

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:08, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > No, you've got the wrong end of the stick. 8139too is probably > _not_ right for your card. Hence you do need to compile the > driver. Rats! I have now tried the 2.2 standard install, and you are right - Andrew is right: the 813

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:17:36PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:08, Antony Gelberg wrote: > [...] > > > No, you've got the wrong end of the stick. 8139too is probably > > _not_ right for your card. Hence you do need to compile the > > driver. > > Rats! I have now

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:17, Richard Lyons wrote: > Rats! I have now tried the 2.2 standard install, and you are right - > Andrew is right: the 8139too driver does not work. So this throws > me into trying the method given at > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:34, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something > > that Debian can't help the admin with. > > [Rural modem users have lots of CDs.] > > Ron> Why not use "-t"? I have a "mostly sarge" system with some sid. > Ron> The "-t"

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:51, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Make sure you're running the most recent ones or else > > downgrade to 1.0.3-1. > # dpkg -l | grep nfs > ii nfs-common 1.0.3-2 NFS support files common to client and serve > i

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:43, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > > Why can't you compile the driver? Now you have the kernel headers, > it shouldn't be too difficult. I thought you stopped trying when > you thought that 8139too might work. > > If you decide to try, it might help to post actual erro

Problem with ifconfig

2003-07-30 Thread TR
I am having some problem that I don't understand with ifconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig : error fetching interface information: Device not found However, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:09:86:ED inet addr:192.168.

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:15:19PM +0200: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: > > <...> > > > If you don't need any of them... uncomment all of them. > > > > Then run "update-modules" > > Hmm, didn't help. :-

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: > > It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which > is quite hard to istall and to configure. I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an admin. One of the bigger differences betwe

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:35:24AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > That should have been /etc/modutils/aliases > > SORRY for the confusion I didn't notice that. :-) I know what file You mean. But it really doesn't help. :-( Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Identify dhcp client to server using hostname

2003-07-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have created a range of dynamic ip-numbers and have tried to find > a way to identify those hosts that need a fixed address using host > statements. The client-supplied "host-name" parameter won't do it. Instead, you need to configure the client

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:46:23AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > If you're using the default Debian kernel, it loads all of the modules > from the initrd, before it even mounts root. > > If you want to see what's going on, run: > > mount -oloop /initrd.img /mnt > > and look in /mnt. It's a cram

swsusp for Debian was: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > Look here for starters. > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html > > My laptop only gives: > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep > S0 S3 S4 S5 > > so no acpi sleep for me. If you have a similar situation, try swsusp Do anyone have s

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread tallison
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:19 pm, Mark Roach wrote: >> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:43, Marino Fernandez wrote: >> > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 4:05 pm, Mark Roach wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > > My laptop only gives: >> > > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep >> > > S0 S3 S4 S5 >> > > >> > > so no acpi sleep for me.

Newbie - Using Samba client

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Quintin
I want to a. Access "network neighborhood" shares b. Not share anything on my machine c. Not open any security holes I've tried to muddle through without much luck. What specifically do I need to do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:43, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] Why can't you compile the driver? Now you have the kernel headers, it shouldn't be too difficult. I thought you stopped trying when you thought that 8139too might work. If you decide to try, it might help to post ac

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-30 Thread Ian Melnick
> I browsed the archives and found many people having your type of > problem, but no solution. > Perhaps the Samba folks know something, or maybe someone jumps in > here... Thanks! Glad to know I'm not the only one :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:08, Greg Folkert wrote: > aptitude install libaspell15 aspell gnome-spell > > Will get you aspell, aspell-en (ia, ib and ic versions), pspell and > gnome-spell I followed this. It added 'gnome-spell' to my install, saying the others were already up to date. When I go

New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-30 Thread Ian Melnick
Hi all, Just dist-upgrade'd and now have a new problem. I have a typical setup where one computer is the nis/nfs server, and the other workstations use autofs to mount the home dirs on login. Seems like after a certain period, the home directories become unexported, or something. I have to restart

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:32, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 6:02 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:24:05 -0500 > > > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody knows how to do this? > > > > > > I've learned in the net that, for example in Man

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:47, Greg Folkert wrote: [...] > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall [...] > I have used that procedure MANY times... > > Maybe even just use knoppix as the booting OS. > > I'll tell you I should edit that page to show how to do it with >

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:54, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > The cause of the errors was that linux/version.h was being included > from a 2.2 kernel, but linux/netdevice.h was being include from a > 2.4 kernel. Thanks Andrew. I'm impressed. > > You said you installed kernel-headers-2.4.1

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-30 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Ian Melnick writes: Ian> Just dist-upgrade'd and now have a new problem. I have a typical setup Ian> where one computer is the nis/nfs server, and the other workstations use Ian> autofs to mount the home dirs on login. Seems like after a certain Ian> period, the home directories become

Re: Newbie - Using Samba client

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Quintin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to > a. Access "network neighborhood" shares > b. Not share anything on my machine > c. Not open any security holes > > I've tried to muddle through without much luck. What specifically do > I need to do? You need the smbclient packag

extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-30 Thread A. Loonstra
Hi, I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list # XFree 4.2 deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main co

Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Hartmann
I run a small server that is used for myself and some friends and family to host email, webpages, etc. I'm looking to put a new mail server into place and after much research I'm even more confused than ever, and I'm looking for some advice. I've look at many packages, but I might be missing a fe

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Yves Goergen
i'm learning exim right now. i'm going to use this as MTA along with courier-imap for POP3. from what i know, exim should be able to handle all the things you mentioned (except that filter setup from within a MUA). but you wouldn't have to mess around with a shell account. i've heard of sieve as

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