Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
I have a server with very little memory. It's primarily an application server, but apache and exim are running for very light use. I'd like to ensure that apache and exim never starve other programs for memory by limiting their resident set sizes to a total of 6 and 4 megs apiece. I'm fine with th

RE: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-10 Thread Adelle L. Hartley
OK, I now seem to be making some progress, although not quite enough. Following advice received on this list, I have used "lspci" to get the bus id of the video card, and then by running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" a few times, I have managed to get x-windows to start in 300x200 mode, using

Re: control init process

2003-12-10 Thread [loonyx | rolf joho]
anh le wrote: hello, I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam. I have installed gdm but I want to control it behavior like follow: 1. After loginng in, I do not want the system run gdm immediately, but stay in console mode so that I can startx as neccessary. hmm - actually gdm is the login-manage

First time installation

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, I installed Debian 3.0 on a PII-box for test purpose. Everything seemed going on smoothly, except following problems found after installation. 1) X-server could not start At time of installation I have no idea what chip to be selected for the old graphic card - Maxi Gamer Phoenix,

Re: No email for some users

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:33:27PM -0800, Jeremy Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello, > I have a woody box that acts as a web/email server. I host some sites > for other people, using the ~username functionality of apache. By > default, those users can send and receive email. I would pref

Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! This feels like a really stupid question, I thought this was going to be trivial... Basically, my workstation is connected to the net with ADSL, and now I added a second NIC, and connected a laptop to the NIC with a cross-over cable. I then configured the eth1 interface on the works

Re: weird problem: X restarts if I click in an ssd'ed xterm

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:01:45 -0500, "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Last night I tried to work from home on my university's network. First > the command "ssh -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm -sl 2048 -fg beige" didn't > work. I got "can't open display" erro

Re: First time installation

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:15:26PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi all folks, > > I installed Debian 3.0 on a PII-box for test purpose. Everything seemed > going on smoothly, except following problems found after installation. > > 1) X-server could not start > > At time of installation I have no

Re: First time installation

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stephen Liu (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I installed Debian 3.0 on a PII-box for test purpose. Everything > seemed going on smoothly, except following problems found after > installation. > > 1) X-server could not start > > At time of installation I have no idea what chip to be selecte

Re: Getting kicker back

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:34:59 -0700, Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello list: > > I seem to be having a problem with my KDE desktop. Somehow my brother > managed to get rid of the kicker menu at the bottom of the screen. So > what I have now is

Re: control init process

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:05:00 +0100, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ..'init 1' should kill gdm, then rc.d-config (or somesuch, ..it's update-rc.d . -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:22:18 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all! > > This feels like a really stupid question, I thought this was going to > be trivial... > > Basically, my workstation is connected to the net with ADSL, and now I > added

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:40, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..'cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' sez?  ;-)   0 on both machines... Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-10 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:25, Michael Martinell wrote: > It appears that xfree86 does not support the base S3 card after 3.3.6. It > only supports the savage series. > > Is there a recommended downgrade path that works? > > Or in other words, what would the apt-get command for this be? For S3Trio ch

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-10 Thread Sebastia Altemir
Thanks Bill and Marc - you are rigth : Andreas pointed to rcS.d, but I was fixed on looking into rc2.d ! Now that it's clear that rcS.d does it, I dont understand the difference between level "1" and level "S" ! I see rc1.d is almost empty (?), but rcS.d not. Can someone tell me the boot level sequ

how to write Console output to a log file

2003-12-10 Thread Sebastia Altemir
If, under SuSE 8.2, I put this line echo "*** Running /ETC/INIT.D/NETWORK ***" in "/etc/init.d/network", I can find this line in /var/log/boot.msg Under Debian, - kernel 2.4.20 -, I place a similar ECHO line in "/etc/init.d/networking", can see (very fast) on the console screen, but can't find i

Re: Kde3.2beta for Sarge/testing: any apt repositories?

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Am Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 22:04 schrieb Colin Watson: > Not unless the KDE maintainers get a move on in a big way ... they > haven't even got round to getting 3.1.4 working properly yet. I suspect > 3.2 will have to wait for sarge+1. I see. Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CD burner setup problem

2003-12-10 Thread Ben Edwards
I am trying to get my CD burner working. So far I have added append="/dev/hdd=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf and loaded ide-scsi module. lsmod gives me:- Module Size Used byNot tainted apm 9116 1 (autoclean) ipt_LOG 3136 4 (autoclean) ip

Re: New Debian installer?

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Fitterling
Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 03:41 schrieb Paul Johnson: HI. > Nope, that's it. That's how you get it. What FS actually are supported? I appreciate Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel recompilation - just copy over and make oldconfig

2003-12-10 Thread Burkhard Woelfel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:16, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I've been running 2.4.21. I had Debian's 2.4.21-5 and now see that > 2.4.21-6 is available, with the fix that's been on everyone's mind. > > Can I safely just copy a few files over from t

Re: New Debian installer?

2003-12-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:22:35 +0100 Alexander Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 03:41 schrieb Paul Johnson: > HI. > > Nope, that's it. That's how you get it. > What FS actually are supported? > Hello Alex. For detailed information, you may well be better off

Re: Done yet?

2003-12-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 23:12, Nunya wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:59:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Yes. You're acting like you're two. FOAD. > > Okay, you made your point. Like I said, I'm completely comfortable with > whatever you think of me. Whatever you say, I refuse to ex

finding modules in "make menuconfig"

2003-12-10 Thread David Selby
Given a modules name, is there an easy way to locate it in "make menuconfig" without searching through & making educated guesses ? I am trying to locate information on af_packet ... which has sprung up in /etc/modules ... what does it do ? ip_conntrack_ftp ... where is it in "make menuconfig" ?

yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: devfs_register(nvidiactl): cou

Kazaa, iMesh.....proxy server

2003-12-10 Thread Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI)
Title: Kazaa, iMesh.proxy server Hi, i have a Debian linux box acting as a proxy server to access the internet, for my Win2k clients, with squid, perdition and ntpcache as proxys for web, msn messenger, icq, email and newsgroups access to the net. I don't have ipforwarding enabled and

Re: Kazaa, iMesh.....proxy server

2003-12-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > > Hi, > > i have a Debian linux box acting as a proxy server to access the internet, > for my Win2k clients, with squid, perdition and ntpcache as proxys for web, > msn messenger, icq, email and newsgroups access to the net. > I don't hav

Re: how to write Console output to a log file

2003-12-10 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:30:27AM -0800, Sebastia Altemir wrote: > If, under SuSE 8.2, I put this line > echo "*** Running /ETC/INIT.D/NETWORK ***" > in "/etc/init.d/network", I can find this line in /var/log/boot.msg > > Under Debian, - kernel 2.4.20 -, I place a similar ECHO line in > "/etc/i

troubles with tar, compression and cron

2003-12-10 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi, I wrote a script which uses tar to backup a filesystem to a Seagate DAT. If I run the script from the shell it works fine, but when started by cron (as root) I get this: tar (grandchild): gzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now /dev

Re: CD burner setup problem

2003-12-10 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:14, Ben Edwards wrote: > I am trying to get my CD burner working. So far I have added > > > But 'cdrecord -scanbus' gives me:- > > cdrecord.mmap: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot > open SCSI driver. > cdrecord.mmap: For possible targets try 'cdrecor

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:36:14 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:40, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..'cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' sez?  ;-)   > > 0 on both machines... ..for those in need of spoonfeeding the wee

Re: CD burner setup problem

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:14:07 +, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am trying to get my CD burner working. So far I have added > > append="/dev/hdd=ide-scsi" ..tried append="hdd=ide-scsi" ? > to lilo.conf and loaded ide-scsi module. -- ..med venn

Re: XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-10 Thread Monika Strack
Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 16:02 schrieb Monika Strack: > Am Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 16:36 schrieben Sie: > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Monika Strack wrote: > > > Hallo, > > > > > > I need some help to make our fileserver working with fibre chanel raid. > > > > > > Always I get "Unable to handle k

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe 'nvidia' manually, and then it loads, but with an error: devfs_reg

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:22:41AM -0800, Sebastia Altemir wrote: > Thanks Bill and Marc - you are rigth : Andreas pointed to rcS.d, but I > was fixed on looking into rc2.d ! > Now that it's clear that rcS.d does it, I dont understand the > difference between level "1" and level "S" ! > I see rc1.d

only root able to play music cds?

2003-12-10 Thread michelle
I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and audio groups can do that. How do I fix this so members of audio can use cd player apps (playing cds from al

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weird PATH_INETDPID file in root directory

2003-12-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, since a while a file PATH_INETDPID a created in my root directory at boottime: it sounds very weird to me and I wnat what is going wrong: any idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-10 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:56:34PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman insinuated: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 at 03:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > >> > > it's not just the grammar. there are two meaninngs for 'seite': > > page and side. the situation is also confused by the fact that > > 'links' means left, but i

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 16:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..for those in need of spoonfeeding the wee hints: > 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' on the box > you wanna forward _thru_, opens the forwarding, > 'echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' to close > the forwarding. Uhm, well, yea

Re: troubles with tar, compression and cron

2003-12-10 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:39, Jukka Salmi wrote: > The command which causes this error is 'tar -czf /dev/nst0 ...'. The same > error happenes if I use bzip2 (tar -j). Not using compression at all solves Just a wild guess... try to omit the dash, like 'tar cfz /dev/...' I have on several occasions

Install Debian

2003-12-10 Thread Joseph MICHEL
Hello,       I have just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my PC (Intel Pentium 233 Mhz MMX, Ram 64 Mo, Disk space 8 Go, Graphic card : Matrox Millenium 4 Mo). There was no problem during installation. However, everything is extremely slow : the least application (even the desktop menu) takes s

exim hogging upstream on debian

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Davis
Hi,I am in a small office that uses an adsl connection for its internet access.We have a debian box with exim installed to send mail. When a large email issend (anything over 1mb really) it hogs all of the upstream, disconnects myssh sessions etc and making using the internet impossible unti

Re: Logging from Linksys BEFSX41 Router to Debian Server (progress)

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Stovenour
I wrote an SNMP listener in Python that updates a mysql table.  I was using it primarily to log incoming connection attempts (i.e. port scans) since my linksys should never have inbound traffic for most of the common server ports.  It’s somewhat like a honeypot, but only able to log connect

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread John Foster
Joseph Jones wrote: I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install from. Could anyone advise me as to how I do this, if possible in relation to the ins

Apache virtual hosts with MySQL?

2003-12-10 Thread Greg Bolshaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does Apache have support for virtual hosts that are stored in a MySQL database? If not, are there any other web servers that allow virtual hosts to be created from data stored by MySQL? Thanks Greg - -- +

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-10 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday December 10 at 03:24pm Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just bought a new GeForce 5600 (Gainward Ultra 780 TV/DVI) and > for that occasion I've upgraded my nvidia drivers to 4496-10. after > upgrading, X wouldn't start (error loading 'nvidia') unless I modprobe > 'nvid

Re: only root able to play music cds?

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello michelle (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the > sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play > music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and audio groups can do > that. > > How do I fix this so membe

Making a distribution

2003-12-10 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, One of the things I often do in my line of work is install a Linux bridging firewall. I generally install a minimal Debian, recompile the kernel, and run my bridge and firewall scripts from bootmisc.sh. What I'd really like is to create a distribution of my own that would install automat

Re: Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:12:33AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote: > Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to include an RSS option, > > so I'm not sure I can run that before each daemon to force the > > resident set size. > > RSS stands for "res

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-10 Thread Mike Mueller
On Monday 08 December 2003 18:20, Colin Watson wrote: > You can go further by requiring physical presentation > of smartcards or similar in order to use the key, which is less > convenient but makes a passphrase more or less useless on its own. Aren't smartcards similar to dongles in some respects

Re: First time installation

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Kevin and Andreas, Thanks for your advice. X-server starts now. But following problems still remain 1) Mouse - optical mouse Selecting /dev/input/mice, X-server can't start Selecting /dev/psaux, X-server starts but mouse dies. Toggling between 'init3' and 'init5' impossible. Had to force

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:43:07 +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 16:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..for those in need of spoonfeeding the wee hints: > > 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' on the box > > you wanna fo

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:35:12AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2003 18:20, Colin Watson wrote: > > You can go further by requiring physical presentation > > of smartcards or similar in order to use the key, which is less > > convenient but makes a passphrase more or less usel

Re: exim hogging upstream on debian

2003-12-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -, Colin Davis wrote: > Hi, > > I am in a small office that uses an adsl connection for its internet access. > We have a debian box with exim installed to send mail. When a large email is > send (anything over 1mb really) it hogs all of the upstream, disconne

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-10 Thread Kent West
Adelle L. Hartley wrote: I am too much of a newbie at this to have even figured out how to go back to the bash prompt. (I'll have to figure that out before I attempt to change anything else). Ctrl-Alt-F2 should get you to the second virtual terminal (VT) console. At that point, you can kill your X

Re: Apache virtual hosts with MySQL?

2003-12-10 Thread James Williamson
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 4:04 pm, Greg Bolshaw wrote: > Does Apache have support for virtual hosts that are stored in a MySQL > database? If not, are there any other web servers that allow virtual > hosts to be created from data stored by MySQL? You'll need to write a customise the config process,

Re: SID: Webmin will not let me edit, systems users

2003-12-10 Thread John Foster
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, John Foster wrote: I have webmin installed from Debian.org not from the upstream developer. I have always been able to use it to add users, groups , & edit them. Now it has a warning that I can not, & it will not let me edit the existing users or add

Re: Install Debian

2003-12-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:04:39 +0100, "Joseph MICHEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I have just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my PC (Intel Pentium > 233 Mhz MMX, Ram 64 Mo, Disk space 8 Go, Graphic card : Matrox > Millenium 4 Mo). There was no

Re: Install Debian

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joseph MICHEL (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my PC (Intel Pentium > 233 Mhz MMX, Ram 64 Mo, Disk space 8 Go, Graphic card : Matrox > Millenium 4 Mo). There was no problem during installation. > However, everything is extremely slow

Re: Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Lucas Bergman
Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to ensure that apache and exim never starve other programs > for memory by limiting their resident set sizes to a total of 6 and > 4 megs apiece. I'm fine with these running slowly. > > [ ... ] > > bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to

Re: SID: Webmin will not let me edit, systems users

2003-12-10 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, John Foster wrote: > No luck with that either. I tried adding several no-login users with the > result that webmin creats a /home/username/ site with owner 11 & group > as specified. However the group properties are not passed either. In > short all it does is create the direc

Re: limiting specific users on squid by time and username

2003-12-10 Thread André Carezia
Louie Miranda wrote: Hello, How will i be able to block certain users on using my proxy? They are all connected via dhcp, and some i allowed full access and some i wish to deny even on time ex. user-full-access = NO LIMIT user-1-access = 12pm to 1pm only access user-2-access = 6pm to 7pm only acc

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 17:56, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..huh?  'route -n ' on both boxes sez? Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 80.213.224.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 10.42.42.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255

Re: Install Debian

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joseph MICHEL wrote: Hello, I have just installed Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my PC (Intel Pentium 233 Mhz MMX, Ram 64 Mo, Disk space 8 Go, Graphic card : Matrox Millenium 4 Mo). There was no problem during installation. However, everything is extremely slow : the least application (even the desk

Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 16:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..for those in need of spoonfeeding the wee hints: 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' on the box you wanna forward _thru_, opens the forwarding, 'echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ' to close the forwarding.

Re: Newbie! Some help needed.

2003-12-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "David Baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 09:20 Subject: Newbie! Some help needed. > I installed from a Knoppix CD image. Rather painless and it found most of > the hardware as well. Now to get the thing producti

Re: First time installation

2003-12-10 Thread Kent West
Stephen Liu wrote: X-server starts now. But following problems still remain 1) Mouse - optical mouse Selecting /dev/input/mice, X-server can't start Selecting /dev/psaux, X-server starts but mouse dies. Toggling between 'init3' and 'init5' impossible. Had to force-reset the PC Now I am using a

I2C support

2003-12-10 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the lm-sensors package. TIA, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've subscribed to uklinux ADSL and according to BT the line is working. I have an Ethernet card and an ADSL modem router (Mentor). This appears to be installed correctly: at least, ifconfig recognizes the card and the modem ADSL light is on. I have placed the username and password provided by

OT: Re: Add route from laptop through workstation...

2003-12-10 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 17:27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Vennlig Tiddeli-bom, > > > > Kjetil > > Mmmm... Vennlig Tiddeli-bom refers to them spoons? ;-) > > Straws perhaps? Hehe, no it refers to my long-standing admiration for Winnie-the-Pooh... There is a hum, which in English goes: The m

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Paul Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 09:11 Subject: Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)) is an interesting and thoughtful man. > > Hav

Re: Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to include an RSS option, ulimit -m -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Everything you say and do is a reflection of the inner you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-10 Thread Antony Gelberg
- Original Message - From: "Anthony Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:56 PM Subject: Can't connect with my new ADSL > > I've subscribed to uklinux ADSL and according to BT the line is working. > I have an Ethernet card and an ADSL

Re: problems with networking on boot

2003-12-10 Thread Andrea Tasso
uhm, you have dhcp, I do not, so I have 4 ex auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.0.1 network 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 gateway 10.0.0.138 On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:43:49PM -0500 or thereabouts, Lou Losee wrote: > * Andrea Tasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-09 14:32]: > > On Tue, Dec

Re: Logging from Linksys BEFSX41 Router to Debian Server (progress)

2003-12-10 Thread BruceG
  - Original Message - From: Michael Stovenour To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re: Logging from Linksys BEFSX41 Router to Debian Server (progress) I wrote an SNMP listener in Python that updates a mysql ta

Re: XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-10 Thread Austin Gonyou
Which FS is it that you're writing to? A NFS, or is it local and being shared as NFS? Something seems very odd in that stack trace given the oops that you have. -- Austin Gonyou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coremetrics, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've subscribed to uklinux ADSL and according to BT the line is working. > I have an Ethernet card and an ADSL modem router (Mentor). This appears > to be installed correctly: at least, ifconfig recognizes the card and > the modem ADSL light is on. > >

lilo doesn't boot win

2003-12-10 Thread LeVA
Hello! I have these lines in my /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdg1 label="Win" When I run 'lilo', it says: ... Added Win ... This hdg drive, is on the motherboard's raid controller, and I can boot from it, if I setup that in BIOS. When I select this 'Win' line in lilo (LILO version 22.5.8), I

Re: finding modules in "make menuconfig"

2003-12-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 13:39 GMT, David Selby penned: > Given a modules name, is there an easy way to locate it in "make > menuconfig" without searching through & making educated guesses ? > > I am trying to locate information on > > af_packet ... which has sprung up in /etc/modules ... what does

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 16:02 GMT, John Foster penned: > Joseph Jones wrote: > >> I can compile a kernel into a .deb package as described in the >> newbiedoc, but I need to compile a kernel with drivers for my >> laptop's NIC so I can make a rescue disc to do a network install >> from. Could anyone

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-10 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 15:07 GMT, Nori Heikkinen penned: > > sure, it's a common problem in comp ling -- called "word sense > disambiguation." part of many systems being developed commercially > (including the one i work for), but not freely available on any decent > translator i know about. >

mozilla-firebird bookmarks import: howto ?

2003-12-10 Thread James D. Freels
I have an html file containing collected bookmarks from opera. I want to import them into mozilla-firebird. I use manage bookmarks->import->opera6.html. However, they do not appear and are not saved. I can view the opera6.html file just fine within the browser. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. Oak Ri

Re: Can spamassassin remove SIGs?

2003-12-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:04:50PM -0800, Nunya wrote: | For now, I've set my .muttrc to color signatures as "black/black", which | is doing a pretty good job. Look at the 'tofu' package. It will do what you want. | But since most sigs follow quite regular patterns structurally as | well as co

Re: test7

2003-12-10 Thread michelle
michelle wrote: > new strategy this all that gets through? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: start program at login

2003-12-10 Thread John L. Fjellstad
s. keeling wrote: > What's the rationale behind this failure to communicate? If this is > annoying to me (a long time user), what's it look like to a new user? Open Source/Free Software developers are suffering from a severe form of NIH. Everybody thinks other people's solutions suck, and their

Re: finding modules in "make menuconfig"

2003-12-10 Thread Nathan Barham
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 13:39 GMT, David Selby penned: Given a modules name, is there an easy way to locate it in "make menuconfig" without searching through & making educated guesses ? I am trying to locate information on af_packet ... which has sprung up in /etc/modules

Re: Compiling a kernel without making a .deb package.

2003-12-10 Thread H. S.
Monique Y. Herman wrote: dselect #get latest kernel src package cd /usr/src/kernel-source- make mrproper #clean any leftover compile stuff I tried this a few days ago, but I hadn't read the makefile to know what mrproper was doing and I lost my old config file which I had renamed, IIRC, as .conf

Re: I2C support

2003-12-10 Thread David Z Maze
"Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the > lm-sensors package. The packages in Debian claim to support kernel 2.4 and not kernel 2.6. The upstream Web page (http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/) claims that there's now userspace s

Re: I2C support

2003-12-10 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the > > lm-sensors package. > > The packages in Debian claim to support kernel 2.4 and not kernel > 2.6. The upstream Web page (http://secure.n

Debian installation trouble on server

2003-12-10 Thread ads
Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian (latest) on a 1U rack-server. Specs: P4, Raid (hot spare), no floppy, no cdrom, no PS/2 ports, 2 USB ports. My problem is the following: I cannot connect a cdrom drive, so I thought about installing Debian using floppies via a usb floppy drive. However, the 1s

Command: ip

2003-12-10 Thread Frank A. Uepping
In what package is the cmd `ip' hidden? /FAU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LSI Fusion MPT ?

2003-12-10 Thread ke-list
I'm trying to install Debian on a Dell Dimension 360 with an LSI 21320 Fusion MPT SCSI adapter. As I understand things, most 2.4.18 kernels don't support it but 2.4.19 does. Unfortunately, the Woody bf24 install uses the former. I've tried making a rescue disk based on 2.4.22 but initrd.img is too

Re: start program at login

2003-12-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: > s. keeling wrote: > > > What's the rationale behind this failure to communicate? If this is > > annoying to me (a long time user), what's it look like to a new user? > > Open Source/Free Software developers are suffering from a severe form of > NIH. Everybody

Re: lilo doesn't boot win

2003-12-10 Thread duck
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:00:25 +0100, LeVA wrote: > I have these lines in my /etc/lilo.conf: > > other=/dev/hdg1 > label="Win" > > When I run 'lilo', it says: > > ... > Added Win > ... > > This hdg drive, is on the motherboard's raid controller, and I can boot > from it, if I setup that in

Re: Command: ip

2003-12-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:35:49PM +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > In what package is the cmd `ip' hidden? 'iproute'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Command: ip

2003-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 20:35:49 +0100, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > In what package is the cmd `ip' hidden? In "iproute". -- Linux is many, many years away from being an enterprise-ready operating system that can compete with, and challenge, the Windows platform. There is also no vision or driving

Re: Command: ip

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Frank A. Uepping said on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:35:49PM +0100: > In what package is the cmd `ip' hidden? iproute. M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do I get a warm fuzzy feeling about kernel upgrade?

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have reaffirmed that I'm clueless this morning. I found this security > bulletin: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html > > this morning. This worried me since I just installed debian last

Re: I2C support

2003-12-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jeffrey L. Taylor (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Quoting David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > I was thinking about 2.2, not 2.6. I mistakenly booted from CD 1 and > ended up with a 2.2 kernel. (Actually, IIRC this was a network > in

Re: finding modules in "make menuconfig"

2003-12-10 Thread Graeme Tank
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:39:05PM +, David Selby wrote: > Given a modules name, is there an easy way to locate it in "make > menuconfig" without searching through & making educated guesses ? > > I am trying to locate information on > > af_packet ... which has sprung up in /etc/modules ... w

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