klineak: Microsoft Internet Keyboard and konqueror

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, my trusty keyboard decided it was time to die. By some stupid luck, I got a coupon for $15 off any keyboard $20 or more at OfficeDepot today. So I bought a Microsoft Internet Keyboard for $5. Anyrate, I'm wondering if anybody knows how to call

gzip segmentation fault on Woody

2004-02-11 Thread techlists
I have had a rescent problem where gzip nolonger works on my woody server. it seg faults. I tried to # apt-get install --reinstall gzip Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to g

Re: keep x session open

2004-02-11 Thread Kent West
techlists wrote: If you're using a graphical login screen, like kdm or gdm, you can configure it to present a graphical login for multiple sesions instead of using the text-based login. How would you do that? I'm running Sid, with kde3, and I would love if you could give me some pointe

Re: test

2004-02-11 Thread canarias
This is an autoresponder. I'll never see your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Calendar apps

2004-02-11 Thread Bostjan Muller
* On 11-02-04 at 08:43 Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:47:13AM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > > II. korganizer (used without KDE environment) > > - importing repeating events does not work for vCalendar files > > But this i

Re: hp deskjet 600c please help

2004-02-11 Thread dm
here is the relavent parts of cups' error log D [11/Feb/2004:02:19:08 -0600] [Job 7] --> Output goes directly to the renderer now. D [11/Feb/2004:02:19:08 -0600] [Job 7] D [11/Feb/2004:02:19:08 -0600] [Job 7] D [11/Feb/2004:02:19:08 -0600] [Job 7] Starting renderer D [11/Feb/2004:02:19:08 -060

ssh -t B sftp C (Was Re: ssh -X from A through B to C)

2004-02-11 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Cristian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ssh -X B ssh -X C xclock Is i possible to do something similar with sftp? The following creates an sftp line from b to c, but I wish to create a line from a to c. ssh -t B sftp C -- Niels L Ellegaard http://dirac.ruc.dk/~gnalle/ -- To UNS

Re: Failure mounting extra partition on boot

2004-02-11 Thread Joost Witteveen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce wrote: > /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 defaults,auto,users,exec,noatime,notail 0 0 [..] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount /mnt/hda1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, >or too many mounted file

Re: ssh -t B sftp C

2004-02-11 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: >Cristian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>ssh -X B ssh -X C xclock > >Is i possible to do something similar with sftp? The following creates >an sftp line from b to c, but I wish to create a line from a to c. > >ssh -t B sftp C Yes, indirectly. You first need t

how to drag the window list bar of gnome back to bottom?

2004-02-11 Thread Zhao You Bing
I ocassionally dragged it to the right but later I found that I can no longer drag it back to bottom again. I'm using gnome 2.2 and window manager is sawfish. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with Apache (Was: hi please i need your help)

2004-02-11 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, I see u 2 things off-hand. 1) it looks like another instance of web service or some other service is using port 80 2) I.P address is not set for the machine. Regards, Sanjay

Re: hp deskjet 600c please help

2004-02-11 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, check www.linuxprinting.org just search for hp dj 600 c in their database listing and follow the instructions. if u have problem, post the problem to the list.

sarge installer: unsure what images needed

2004-02-11 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi, I'm attempting to install 'testing' on a very old PC which will not boot from CDROM, and does not have a "common" NIC (it's an SMC something). I have referred to http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO and have tried to install, but got

Re: Old x486 as thin client

2004-02-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > The biggest problem I see is that 486s had really minimal video support. > 640x480, *maybe* 800x600 if you're lucky. A small color pallet, > probably 256 max (8-bit). I think you're selling the VLB hardware a bit short there -

pcnet32 driver for vmware

2004-02-11 Thread jwardlaw
Hi, I'm attempting to install debian(woody) on vmware 4. I was able to install it, with networking, using the vanilla bf image. However, I really prefer some of the options available in the bf24 image. How would one either 1) inject the pcnet32 driver into the installation or 2) just manually

Re: Problem getting sound to work

2004-02-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:16:36 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:18:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: > On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:21:09 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:

ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-11 Thread Dave Howorth
Hi, Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address. (I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything other than Outlook Express has finally stung me into action.). Thanks, Dave -- To UN

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb ~Honorable Dr Lou Who um 09:51: [lots of rants against Debian] Dude, that's why Debian is the worst choice for Linux beginners. Your friend should have told you that. Go get a SuSE, Mandrake or another distribution. But that'll cost ya a few bucks. Or if you a

Downgrading to recent mailman security release

2004-02-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! I'm in a bit of trouble concerning installing the recent security upgrade of Mailman. A few days after the release of Woody, I had still "testing" in my sources.list, so, I got a few upgrades that I didn't intend to have (yep, I was very new at the time). Probably, among those, Mailman

Re: hi QUESTION

2004-02-11 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb ~Honorable Dr Lou Who um 08:56: > Nice site! Question > > Why don't you have installs for like Compaq 850 Intel chips? Or old > 200 chips? or 500 Athelons, NOT SERIAL number codes? First, there is no such thing as a "Compaq 850 Intel chip". These are only Intel chip

Installation of Debian 3.0.23 hangs on Sun Netra t1

2004-02-11 Thread Wilfried Lesnik1
Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to Linux installations on Sun machines but I can't get Debian 3.0.23 running on my Sun Netra t1 105. I tried it hard for a couple of days now - googled the web and scanned forums, mailing list etc., but couldn't get a solution. I also don't know if this is the co

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/02/04 11:15), Dave Howorth wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the > UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address. > > (I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything other than > Outlook Express has

DINB 9: rcnd: connection refused

2004-02-11 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi there, I am setting up a BIND for my local network (anydomain.bom) acessible only for local domain. This is the second time I build BIND, my old Debian crashed after I accidently unplug one of my hdd-ide cable (there are 3 hdd(s) ) and Debian kernel starting panic... When I start Bind from '/e

Project collaboration pkg.

2004-02-11 Thread Katipo
Hello, I'm in the throes of developing an open source project collaboration site. I'm fairly certain of what else I require, but I have had no experience with collaboration software. Is there anybody here that has had practical experience in this aspect, that could provide a pointer? Regards and

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-11 Thread stephen parkinson
Dave Howorth wrote: Hi, Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address. (I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything other than Outlook Express has finally stung me into action.). T

Re: Getting DRI going for Mach64 (was laptop HW detection ... )

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:30:00AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > <<< > Make sure you have the following line in the module section > Load"dri" > > Also add the following section if it doesn't exist > Section "DRI" > Mode0666 > EndSection > > > These have been th

kernel 2.6.0. build error

2004-02-11 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, Im working with Sarge. Now im trying to make the kernel 2.6.0. kernel working, I did a make xconfig and save the .config file. After that i did a make-kpkog kernel-image. Then the following is happening : debian:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.0# make-kpkg kernel-image test -f stamp-configure ||

Re: Getting DRI going for Mach64 (was laptop HW detection ... )

2004-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:30:00AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > <<< > Make sure you have the following line in the module section > Load"dri" > > Also add the following section if it doesn't exist > Section "DRI" > Mode0666 > EndSection > > > These have been th

Re: DINB 9: rcnd: connection refused

2004-02-11 Thread Joost Witteveen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: > Hi there, > > I am setting up a BIND for my local network (anydomain.bom) acessible > only for local domain. This is the second time I build BIND, my old > Debian crashed after I accidently unplug one of my hdd-ide cable (there > are 3 hdd

Re: Exim Config.

2004-02-11 Thread paul.murphy
I have more or less bottomed this out. So I thought I'd reply (to myself) in case anyone else has similar problems. I don't fully understand what seems to be going but heres how I got it going. The address data in the alias file (e.g. bertsmith) is unqualified with a host name. Exim therefore qua

Re: hp deskjet 600c please help

2004-02-11 Thread M . Kirchhoff
Sanjay Chigurupati lntinfotech.com> writes: > Please help me configure my deskjet 600c, I keep finding lists every > like here Have you tried the following HOW-TO to ensure you've got all the necessary components? http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html --M. Kirchhoff -- To

Re: ADSL ISP in UK

2004-02-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Feb 2004, stephen parkinson wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in > >the UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address. > > > >(I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything othe

Re: hp deskjet 600c please help

2004-02-11 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> dm writes: dm> Please help me configure my deskjet 600c, I keep finding lists every dm> like here dm> dm> http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/printmodedescr.php#DJ6xx dm> dm> and various listervs but no matter what I try i can not get it dm> configured. dm> dm> I have tried foom

Apt-get Error: Package needs to be reinstalled

2004-02-11 Thread Jeff Self
I tried building a kernel 2.6.0 last week using make-kpkg. When I run dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb I get the following message: dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kernel-image-2.6.0' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. 121265 files and di

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Katipo
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:51:37 -0500 "~Honorable Dr Lou Who" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a mess! > If this is an attempt at self-analysis, you are a master of understatement. I would respectfully suggest that you come back after about eight hours, when the speed has worn off. The personalit

security.debian.org == slagroom.snt.utwente.nl

2004-02-11 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, I know about the recent crash of klecker.debian.org, and I read on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi that klecker is still down. I searched the archives on this list as well as on the announc-lists I could find on lists.debian.org, but did not find anything regarding security.debian.org r

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 08:51, ~Honorable Dr Lou Who wrote: > What a mess! > Are you smoking crack? You know there are special places for people like yourself to get help. It's called a "Psychiatric hospital". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: security.debian.org == slagroom.snt.utwente.nl

2004-02-11 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Helge! On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:47:18PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: I know about the recent crash of klecker.debian.org, and I read on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi that klecker is still down. I searched the archives on this list as well as on the announc-lists I could find on lis

Re: Free antivirus

2004-02-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-11, Paul Johnson penned: > > Turn your line wraps on to 72 columns if you want future responses. > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:28:48PM -0200, Antonio Alberto Lobato > wrote: > >> Is there available a free and good antivirus for run on GNU/Linux >> (but searching windows viruses)? > > We

Re: security.debian.org != slagroom.snt.utwente.nl

2004-02-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:47:18 +0100 Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I know about the recent crash of klecker.debian.org, and I read on > > http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi > > that klecker is still down. I searched the archives on this list as > well as on the announc-l

Warning: debby@bancaakros.it - User unknown!

2004-02-11 Thread MDaemon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - no such user here. There is no user by that name at this server. : Message contains [1] file attachments : DISCLAIMER: This e-mail is for the sole use of the intended recipient and any

clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-11 Thread stan
I've just discoverd clamav. I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and spamassian to fetch mail from various POP accounts, for loal reading on one of my debian boxes. Can I add clamav to this processing stream? If so is there a document on how to do this with debian? -- "They that would give up essentia

Problems with Debian machines as cricket tragets

2004-02-11 Thread stan
I'm setting up cricket to keep track of the preformance of my systems. So far I've got it working with FreeBSD, and OpenBSD machines, but all of my Debian machines return no data. I've installed teh snmpd package. What do I need to do on the Debian boxes to make them supply data to teh cricket mac

Re: Free antivirus

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:12:36AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Mac viruses ... I'm not sure they count since they only seem to affect public school students... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debia

Re: Failure mounting extra partition on boot

2004-02-11 Thread Adam Aube
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 12:20 am, Bruce wrote: > I have a rather strange problem that I can't figure out. I have two > ext3 partitions on my Sid system, with the following lines in > /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 defaults,auto,users,exec,no

Re: hi QUESTION

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:56:43AM -0500, ~Honorable Dr Lou Who wrote: > YOU MUST ELABORATE ON ABOVE LINKS, like for PC266 chips to 1.2 gigs Pentium and the > next Athelon. > > Gee's this is bad! Then to tell me or any user to read 4,000 PAGES AND CO

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:34:25PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb ~Honorable Dr Lou Who um 09:51: > > [lots of rants against Debian] > > Dude, that's why Debian is the worst choice for Linux beginners. No, Linux is th

Re: hi QUESTION

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Folkert
I know this is an answer to a troll, but here goes! On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 02:56, ~Honorable Dr Lou Who wrote: > Nice site! Question > > Why don't you have installs for like Compaq 850 Intel chips? Or old > 200 chips? or 500 Athelons, NOT SERIAL number codes? Compaq's PC machines have used variou

decompress install error

2004-02-11 Thread Rick Weinbender
I'll try to make this a general install question. I'm trying to decompress/install with the following command: tar -xzf tmda-cgi-0.12.tgz (as root) Error Message: "tar: tmda-cgi-0.12/htdocs/display/dyn_buttons/subtopic9.png: Cannot change ownership to uid 102725, gid 10

How to Print to Printer from g++ program?

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas H. George
As a physicist I wrote large programs in Pascal before retiring in 1994 but nothing since until last week. I thought of a problem I wanted to solve, read up on C++ and got my program working with only a few struggles with syntax but how to write directly to the printer has eluded me. I could

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 03:51, ~Honorable Dr Lou Who wrote: > What a mess! Yes indeed, you have one. > Ok, obviously, if I'm viewing this from Windows and want to install > online to another hard drive and download the updates or what I need > for it to install. You are not installing WINDOWS Soft

очистка таможенная грузов шд иэ у ие ув бк з

2004-02-11 Thread "ДeльтаКаcтомз" Втехин
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Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Rob Weir
Why are you trying to use Debian at all? It's not intended for newbies you want to rant on mailing lists about how it's all too hard for them. If you just want to dip your toe into Linux, try Mandrake or Xandros or Fedora or SuSe or most any other distro. Debian is for people who already now thei

Re: Sid et DHCP

2004-02-11 Thread Pierre-François Gandolfo
Le 10 février à 10:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: > Bonjour tout le monde, > > je viens de faire un dist-upgrade sur ma woody (noyau 2.6.1) pour passer en > sid. Tout s'est bien passé jusqu'au reboot. > En effet, maintenant je n'ai plus accès au réseau (via dhcp)! alors qu'avant > cela ne posait

Re: odd errors in dmesg log

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 10:40:33PM -0500, George wrote: > 4) apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) >apm: overridden by ACPI. ACPI & APM support can't work together. Thus: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help: If both ACPI and Advanced Power Management (APM) suppor

Re: Setting up coloured directory listings

2004-02-11 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 17:07, Bruce Ward wrote: > Greetings folks. > > I could use some help. It seems that a basic installation of Woody does > not automatically set up dircolors. > > I know how to enable the coloured directory listings by editing .bashrc > and/or .profile in the users home dir

Re: keep x session open

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:33:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > techlists wrote: > >On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:46, Kent West wrote: > >This seems to work well, but what about sound? In my experience opening > >up a second x session on a different Virt-terminal, the first session > >has the sound card,

Re: clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-11 Thread Marcel Weber
stan wrote: I've just discoverd clamav. I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and spamassian to fetch mail from various POP accounts, for loal reading on one of my debian boxes. Can I add clamav to this processing stream? If so is there a document on how to do this with debian? Hi I'm using fetchmail wh

Re: How to Print to Printer from g++ program?

2004-02-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:27, Thomas H. George wrote: > > If this question is regarded as wildly off target for this list, It probably is, and so, I'll not respond directly to your question, but rather ask a new one... :-) > As a physicist I wrote large programs in Pascal before retirin

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-11, ~Honorable Dr Lou Who penned: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_0136_01C3F052.59484980 Content-Type: > multipart/alternative; > boundary="=_NextPart_001_0137_01C3F052.59484980" > > > --=_NextPart_001_0137_01C3F052.59484980 Content-Type: t

Re: How to Print to Printer from g++ program?

2004-02-11 Thread Lucas Bergman
> As a physicist I wrote large programs in Pascal before retiring in > 1994 but nothing since until last week. I thought of a problem I > wanted to solve, read up on C++ and got my program working with only > a few struggles with syntax but how to write directly to the printer > has eluded me. Th

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:51:52AM -0800, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hullo the group! > > I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable > router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to boot > using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from GRU

[Auto-Reply] HI

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Re: Reboot a distant server with a new kernel

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:03:51PM -0500, Thomas wrote: > > I was wondering if there is a way to reboot just for once on the new > kernel and if it doesn't work then it would reboot on the working one. > Grub can do this with a 'fallback' option. -- Mark Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Better program than Putty?

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:49:52PM +0100, Mark Maas wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been using Putty (Windows) to remotely connect to my Debian box as > long as I can remember. Recently though i'm getting tired of the way it > works... > > Does anyone use a program that can handle "cut and paste", ha

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:18:26PM -0500, David P James wrote: > I've searched and searched and I just can't seem to find a simple, > command-line phone dialer for use with pulse/rotarty (ie non-touch > tone) phone lines. I find it amazing that I can send out faxes via my > modem in linux but ca

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:54:31AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > This one is weird. > > I'm running apache 1.3, and just did a restart, and it won't come up. > > When I execute 'apachectl start' I get: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ apachectl start > Processing config directory: /etc/apache/conf.d >

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +, Svens wrote: > hi, here is a vary short HOWTO about speed up IDE Harddisks: > > open file /etc/init.d/hwtools and insert this lines: > > if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then > # insert begin >hdparm -c3 -d1 -D1 -k1 -u -X68 /dev/hda > # insert en

My drive only operates in UDMA2?

2004-02-11 Thread Darin Strait
I'm troubleshooting something that has been bugging me for a while... Why does my drive seem to run only in UDMA2 and only do about 19.50 MB/s, according to hdparm? Everyone else always seems to have a faster drive than me, so I'm assuming that I'm misconfiguring something and it's not my hardw

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 04:47:13PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: > > What command would you use to display details about your hardware - cpu, ram, > drives, etc? > > I know my BIOs tells me some of this. I am looking for a command line tool. > bash, ls, less, cat and the /proc hierarchy. Most

Re: clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-11 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 05:13:57PM +0100, Marcel Weber wrote: > stan wrote: > > >I've just discoverd clamav. I'm using fetchmail, procmail, and spamassian > >to fetch mail from various POP accounts, for loal reading on one of my > >debian boxes. > > > >Can I add clamav to this processing stream? I

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread David
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:51:37 -0500 "~Honorable Dr Lou Who" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a mess! [snip miles of babble] Uhhh... this guy's _gotta_ be trolling, hasn't he? No one could be this clueless.. could they However, this could be a prime example of the class of people

Re: gzip segmentation fault on Woody

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:03:26AM -0600, techlists wrote: > I have had a rescent problem where gzip nolonger works on my woody > server. it seg faults. Hi, techlists. Once gzip gets f*** up, the system is almost unusable. My few $0.01 are: (0) Backup the current /bin/gzip, so you can investig

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:22:14PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I blame Microsoft directly for having created an environment in which > malware thrives. The virus and worm writers are merely supplying the > payload that exploits that environment. And we all end up paying for > the mess everytime so

Re: decompress install error

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:25:58AM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > "tar: tmda-cgi-0.12/htdocs/display/dyn_buttons/subtopic9.png: Cannot > change ownership to uid 102725, gid 100: Invalid argument" Hi, Rick. In Linux 2.4, the GIDs (& UIDs too) are 16 bit, i.e. 0 to 2^16 - 1, which is 65535. 10272

Re: clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-11 Thread Marcel Weber
stan wrote: Other than I'm running exim, this sounds like what I'm trying to do. Can you enlighten me as to how you did this? Thanks. Well the key is setting up amavis, or amavisd-new (which is a backported package, you can find some places on apt-get.org). For clamav you can get the newest

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:42:28PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Why don't you use sftp? (installed with ssh) > scp is also included with ssh. you can securely transfer files either > interactively or through scripting sftp itself is not very handy, no reconnect support build in (afaik) s

Re: My drive only operates in UDMA2?

2004-02-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Darin Strait (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm troubleshooting something that has been bugging me for a while... > > Why does my drive seem to run only in UDMA2 and only do about 19.50 > MB/s, according to hdparm? Everyone else always seems to have a faster > drive than me, so I'm assumin

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-11 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:20:42 +0100 Jan Suchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sharing/copying /var/cache/apt/archives is possible. > But how to make apt see all those new packages? > apt-get update does this by fetching package lists > from the internet.

Re: whew

2004-02-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 18:07, David wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:51:37 -0500 > > "~Honorable Dr Lou Who" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What a mess! > > [snip miles of babble] > > Uhhh... this guy's _gotta_ be trolling, hasn't he? Yup. > No one could be this clueless.. could th

Re: Phone dialer for Linux

2004-02-11 Thread John Hasler
David P James wrote: > I've searched and searched and I just can't seem to find a simple, > command-line phone dialer for use with pulse/rotarty (ie non-touch > tone) phone lines. I find it amazing that I can send out faxes via my > modem in linux but can't just dial a number. I've never used PP

AIDE problems

2004-02-11 Thread Keith Nasman
I've set up AIDE to run on a few of my boxes and I've put the aide.db file on a write-protected floppy. It occurred to me that if the box was rooted, the conf file could be edited, a new aide.db generated. So, I thought it would be wise to put the aide.conf file on the floppy as well. This requires

RE: Disk duplicate

2004-02-11 Thread peteredhair
peteredhair wrote: >I have a Debian box running which needs to have a fast recovery timing. > >I've got spare hardware to replace it however i also need to have an offline >duplicate of it's contents in order to be abble to replace the disk and boot, puting >the system to work again in a very sh

Re: X4.3 (Again)

2004-02-11 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
You probably mean libxcursor-dev Vlada On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 07:47, Josh McKinney wrote: > On approximately Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:08:29AM +, Sam Halliday wrote: > > > > maybe off-topic... but does anyone know if the new cursor themes are off > > by default for the X4.3 builds? i just came fr

Re: Permissions

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:38:53AM -0600, daybrown wrote: > I have a dos text mode program I'd like to port to Linux. > but- it routinely changes the dos font and number of screen lines > besides the default terminal 25 line screen. This would be probably perceived as annoying by the Unix users.

Re: Project collaboration pkg.

2004-02-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-11, Katipo penned: > Hello, > > I'm in the throes of developing an open source project collaboration > site. I'm fairly certain of what else I require, but I have had no > experience with collaboration software. > > Is there anybody here that has had practical experience in this > aspec

Re: reutilizing downloaded packages

2004-02-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:50:25 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:20:42 +0100 > Jan Suchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #2 use apt-proxy. It caches both debs and package lists. > > apt-get update is t

Re: Permissions

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:10:27PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Tuesday February 10 at 12:14pm > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could always get them from your latest backup *cough* > > Some stuff, in places like /var/, I neglect to backup. In a case like > this, where some fil

Convert Red Hat 7.2 to Debian 3.0

2004-02-11 Thread System Administrator
I am about to cobvert a system from Red Hat to Debian. Idealy I would do a fresh install from scratch, but am trying to avoid this. While at the Linux Expo in NYC last month, the Debian Booth people reccomended a program that I think they reffered to as "Debian Hijack" or something similar, to

Re: SSL capable FTP _client_?

2004-02-11 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:02:52PM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: > So: anybody know a graphical (preferably) client, that can do FTP over SSL > or tunneled via SSH? Just about any ftp client or a (WWW) browser. Maybe you'd have to install the non-US variant (if there is anything like non-US in your

snmp and MIBs - missing interface properties

2004-02-11 Thread peteredhair
i'm trying to get iog to run on debian stable. Downloaded the .deb from testing, installed all dependent packages from stable and installed the iog .deb. Everything went ok. Now for the troubled part. When i run iog i get the message: bear:/etc/postfix# iog SNMP Error: no response received SNMP

Re: clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-11 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:27:27PM +0100, Marcel Weber wrote: > stan wrote: > > >> > > > >Other than I'm running exim, this sounds like what I'm trying to do. > > > >Can you enlighten me as to how you did this? > > > >Thanks. > > > > Well the key is setting up amavis, or amavisd-new (which is a b

Re: Convert Red Hat 7.2 to Debian 3.0

2004-02-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-11, System Administrator penned: > I am about to cobvert a system from Red Hat to Debian. Idealy I would > do a fresh install from scratch, but am trying to avoid this. While > at the Linux Expo in NYC last month, the Debian Booth people > reccomended a program that I think they reffer

Re: keep x session open

2004-02-11 Thread Angus D Madden
techlists, Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:20:55PM -0600: > I am running Sid with KDE, and was wondering if I am logged in and have > some programs running, is there a way for someone else to log into x on > the same terminal, without shutting down the programs I have running? > that way when they are fin

Re: Convert Red Hat 7.2 to Debian 3.0

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 System Administrator wrote: I am about to cobvert a system from Red Hat to Debian. Idealy I would do a fresh install from scratch, but am trying to avoid this. While at the Linux Expo in NYC last month, the Debian Booth people reccomended a progra

Kernel 2.6.2 and mouse problems

2004-02-11 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, Has anyone else experienced mouse problems with Kernel 2.6.2? I just compiled with make-kpkg. Everything seems to work but I get synchonazation problems with psmouse.c and mouse does not function properly in either X or a console. Same problem. If I try to move the mouse it goes all over

Re: Convert Red Hat 7.2 to Debian 3.0

2004-02-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: > On 2004-02-11, System Administrator penned: > > I am about to cobvert a system from Red Hat to Debian. Idealy I would > > do a fresh install from scratch, but am trying to avoid this. While > > But I'd strongly suggest biting the bullet and installing debian fr

Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Kent West
At the risk of starting holy war, why has the GNU project decided to go with info pages instead of man pages? I googled several times with different search terms, but didn't find much; this was probably the best hit I found: http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/dtil/howto_9.html and it doesn't

mapping mouse buttons

2004-02-11 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
I have been looking around with no luck. Is it possible to map extra mouse buttons, like buttons 6 and 7, to keycodes? For instance, map button 6 to alt-tab? -- www.suave.net - Anthony Ball - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSB - http://rivendell.suave.net/Beer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Kernel 2.6.2 and mouse problems

2004-02-11 Thread No Spam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, Has anyone else experienced mouse problems with Kernel 2.6.2? I just compiled with make-kpkg. Everything seems to work but I get synchonazation problems with psmouse.c and mouse does not function properly in either X or

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