Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-09 Thread Katipo
cr wrote: is a fault between the street and the incoming junction box in my house, which is only apparent when powered up? Amazing what I learn on deb-user! cr This is what the original tech. meant. In most installations, the public utility stops at the street, and you are responsibl

Re: Functions or aliases?

2004-05-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-05-08 22:00:38 -0400, alex wrote: > alias win+='mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1; cd /mnt/hda1; ls > -aF --color=auto'(This is located in /root/.bashrc) [...] > I've read that aliases should be limited to simpler > commands such as: > alias cd..='cd ..' or alias lsl='ls -l' >

Re: No access but root

2004-05-09 Thread Pritpal Dhaliwal
no one else has a clue? come on guys ( and girls).. its the debian users list.. If I wanted to start doing fresh install when things get messed up.. I could stick to windows... help me out please Paul Pritpal Dhaliwal wrote: Hi Adam, Here are the goodies.. mail:~# ls -l /etc/bash.bashrc

Thinkpad with 2.6 -- Trackpoint dead

2004-05-09 Thread Alex C-G
Hi, I've just upgraded to 2.6.5-1 from unstable. Using GRUB I can boot into it fine, except when I get into X the mouse pointer just sits in the middle of the screen. Moving the trackpoint has no effect I'm using an IBM Thinkpad G40. Anyone have any ideas? Incidentally, when using LILO I just get

Re: Thinkpad with 2.6 -- Trackpoint dead

2004-05-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +1200, Alex C-G wrote: > Hi, I've just upgraded to 2.6.5-1 from unstable. Using GRUB I can boot > into it fine, except when I get into X the mouse pointer just sits in > the middle of the screen. Moving the trackpoint has no effect > > I'm using an IBM Thinkpad G

mouse doesnt work in console

2004-05-09 Thread Andres LG
I cant use mouse in console, even though I installed gpm. this is my /etc/gpm.conf device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=imps2 append="" sample_rate= When I put $cat /dev/psaux I get a lot of garbage on the screen, so I am sure it is the right device. but after I make $gpmconf

OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Evenin' all. I've installed ClamAV+Exim4 to reject viruses at SMTP time. d-u's headers don't seem to mention anything about /virus/ scanning (as opposed to SpamAssassin), so I guess I'm ok asking this question here: The whole point of having virus scanning while the sender still has an open c

Re: No access but root

2004-05-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Pritpal Dhaliwal had the gall to say: > no one else has a clue? > > come on guys ( and girls).. its the debian users list.. If I wanted to > start doing fresh install when things get messed up.. I could stick to > windows... > > help me out please Please remember you're talking to /volunteers/

Re: OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm fine with (a) - I think that still holds - but is (b) incorrect when > dealing with listmail? I don't believe so. I do it. > Since the mail has already been received and accepted by murphy, am > I just pushing the sending of spoofed bounce me

Re: mouse doesnt work in console

2004-05-09 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 09 May 2004 05:05, Andres LG wrote: > I cant use mouse in console, even though I installed gpm. > this is my /etc/gpm.conf > > device=/dev/psaux > responsiveness= > repeat_type=raw > type=imps2 > append="" > sample_rate= [...] Derek usually answers these - but he sounds a bit fed up with

Re: Monitoring debian server

2004-05-09 Thread HdV
On Sat, 8 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in such tool. > Please let me know if you found something useful. > MRTG is based on SNMP which can supervise network activities... but i don't > believe that it can monitor process like SSH. I guess you have to analyse your > lo

Re: graphic card problems

2004-05-09 Thread James Hosken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Hosken wrote: | | | James Hosken wrote: | | I've tying to configure xfree86 on a old PIII450, it running Sarge. It | | has a on-board graphics card, the output from lspci is | | | | pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices | | :00:00.0 Host

Fwd: bash and sshd hang

2004-05-09 Thread Ping Wing
Hi. When I close my xterm with alt-f4 , remote sshd && bash hang every time and sshd starts to eat processor and memory: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps xuw USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND axel1263 46.4 0.2 9488 2684 ?R 14:44 0:44 [ss

Re: kernel build questions

2004-05-09 Thread Colin
Ben Edwards wrote: Colin wrote: Do a "make-kpkg clean" before changing the revision number should do the trick. Ta, that did the trick. When I dpkg -i the image it complaines that '/lib/modules/2.6.3 (may) belongs to a old install', I have been moving it to .old but douse this mean that if I

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PS/2 Mouse Problem!

2004-05-09 Thread Kaveh Gh
Hi! (Again) In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, the mouse device has been defined according to the following lines: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Pro