Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:14:48AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > > Paul Gear wrote: > > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > > > ... > > > >>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a > > > >recent>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'! > > > > > > > > >

Re: apt-listchanges

2004-08-01 Thread Achim Löbbert
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed apt-listchanges. And now see during an apt-get or in > synaptic that the changelogs are being read. But I don't see see the > changelogs. > > From the man pages I know that I have to change > /etc/apt/listchanges.conf and I mucked around a

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Re: xserver

2004-08-01 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Saturday 31 July 2004 10:34 am, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On startx it tells me: > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux > No such device > (EE) Mouse1: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1" > > Ok - fine so far.The problem I got with this is

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-08-01 Thread Dave Hathaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hathaway) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when roadrunner > is not jam packed. After too much pain, I dselected cnews+suck and went w

How to save the iptables rules for booting?

2004-08-01 Thread NabilM
Fellows,   I know the script /etc/init.d/iptables can be used to save the rules. I made it save in the ‘active’ rule set. But what is the standard way to run ‘/etc/init.d/iptables load active’ at boot time. I manually added a symbolic link to the /etc/rcS.d folder for ‘/etc/init.d/iptable

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Re: Gimp 2.0.3 losing EXIF data

2004-08-01 Thread Alex Nordstrom
On Sunday, 25 Jul 2004 00:56, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > Presumably following a recent upgrade, Gimp (2.0.3-1) appears not to save > JPEG files with EXIF data intact. Well, I didn't get any responses, but just a followup note for completeness: the problem is fixed in 2.0.3-2. Glad it was taken care

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Sam Halliday
John Summerfield wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > >cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know how > >to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian way of > >loading up a firewall on startup... like a file i need to dump my > >(customised) `iptables-save` o

Re: How to save the iptables rules for booting?

2004-08-01 Thread Jon
Actually, calling '/etc/init.d/iptables start' will be the same as 'load active'. So you just need a standard symlink in /etc/rc?.d/S05iptables -> /etc/init.d/iptables Then to save your rules (as im guessing you already did) just manually issue /etc/init.d/iptables save - Original Message

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Aug 01 08:52 -0500]: > :-) yeah... but i actually have an iptables script lying around, so its just a case > of copying it to /etc/init.d and making a symlink... but i'd prefer not to do such a > homemade job of it. Well, I dropped mine in /usr/local/etc/

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 02:31:21PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Sam Halliday wrote: > > >cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know how > > >to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian way of > > >loading up a firewall on st

RE: How to save the iptables rules for booting?

2004-08-01 Thread NabilM
But that would be just like running /etc/init.d/iptables. But what we need is running the command '/etc/init.d/iptables start'. I tried to make a link with the start parameter like >ln -s /etc/init.d/iptables '/etc/rcS.d/S38iptables start' But the above also doesn't run it the way we want it t

RE: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread NabilM
That works that's what I was looking for. But I still didn't get the working. dpkg-reconfigure iptables just make the symbolic links to /etc/init.d/iptables. Where does is say to start it. I mean calling /etc/init.d/iptables alone doesn't work and simply puts out the help. Regards, Nabil. -

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-08-01 Thread Adam Funk
On Friday 30 July 2004 15:10, Tom wrote: > * [Friday 30 July 2004 15:34] Adam Funk: > >> For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` >> output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear >> them (`cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the >> probl

Re: Debianised Firewall

2004-08-01 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:51:13PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That works that's what I was looking for. > > But I still didn't get the working. dpkg-reconfigure iptables just make > the symbolic links to /etc/init.d/iptables. Where does is say to start > it. I mean calling /etc/init.d/i

Re: How to save the iptables rules for booting?

2004-08-01 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:40:57PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But that would be just like running /etc/init.d/iptables. But what we > need is running the command '/etc/init.d/iptables start'. > > I tried to make a link with the start parameter like > > >ln -s /etc/init.d/iptables '/etc/r

Re: Tasksel is not what it was....

2004-08-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
John, On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 09:13:04 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't like the way tasksel works, file a bug report with > reportbug. It's not difficult, and one of the better ways to get > problems fixed. What a strange answer that was. I really don't care how t

Start postgresql for the first time

2004-08-01 Thread Bob Parnes
After using mysql for several years, I decided to try the testing version of postgresql, but I cannot get started. I cannot log in to create users, and I cannot create a database. According to the documentation, the system contains a predefined user, 'postgres'. However, when I run psql -U post

xerver pb after updating kde

2004-08-01 Thread messmate
Hi, after an update of kde today, the xserver wouldn't start. A message appears as 'display is not set'. So I setted it " export DISPLAY=:0" without any change. This message is there: "xset: unable to open display :0" XFCE or blackbox are running correctly, so why not kde ? Thanks for your help. me

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 01 August 2004 10:40 am, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 30 July 2004 15:10, Tom wrote: > > Pretty useless reply, but I've noticed the same thing. It's been like > > that for several months here, now. > > Actually that's useful for me to know: it makes it less likely that I've > screwed it

I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
I've been trying to figure out why, why, why my /var partition was filling up. Not logs, not the package cache, not this, not that, not the other. Then it hit me. I've been downloading random things to look at to /tmp for months since the last reboot. Source for Open Office, kdelibs, kdebase,

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-08-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 31 July 2004 8:04 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > Does it create a raw image for you for an audio project ? (could be that > I missed something or that it was a buggy version). I sit corrected... when I tell it to make an image it just gives me the wavs as well :/ I guess that's what I get f

Re: Start postgresql for the first time

2004-08-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:40:06 +0200, Bob Parnes wrote: > After using mysql for several years, I decided to try the testing > version of postgresql, but I cannot get started. I cannot log in to > create users, and I cannot create a database. > > According to the documentation, the system contains a

iptables rule for sshd

2004-08-01 Thread NabilM
I am running sshd on my Debian machine with iptables. I want it to accept ssh connections from outside. I added this rule and it doesn’t work.   Iptables –A INPUT –p tcp –sport ssh –j ACCEPT   Why do you think its not able to match this rule? When I turn off the firewall, I am able to

Re: iptables rule for sshd

2004-08-01 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:29:52PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -sport ssh -j ACCEPT > Try: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT Didar -- BOFH excuse #299: The data on your hard drive is out of balance. Random signature generated

Re: Xnest keyboard map lost? (Woody, XFree 4.1)

2004-08-01 Thread Web Michael
Martin, I had the same problem under linux. Try to disable the X-keyboard extension with the option "-kb". Example: " Xnest -query localhost -kb :11" . Please tell me, if it works. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

ALSA setup problem

2004-08-01 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm trying to get sound working under Sarge using ALSA. I'm confident that my cables, speakers, etc. are working because I get sound from Knoppix. I've found some instructions at the alsa web site which seem to include consideration of details specific to Debian. My sound card is CM8738. My kernel-

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:56 pm, Silvan wrote: Another stupid luser trick. Don't do a package install that restarts CUPS while you're in the middle of printing a 200-page double-sided document, and you're halfway through the second side. Yerk. I can't believe I did that. -- Michael McInty

Re: iptables rule for sshd

2004-08-01 Thread jjluza
Le dimanche 1 Août 2004 19:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I am running sshd on my Debian machine with iptables. I want it to > accept ssh connections from outside. I added this rule and it doesn't > work. > > > > Iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -sport ssh -j ACCEPT > > try -dport instead of -sport. R

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 12:56:08 -0400 Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know where I can buy a bigger hard disk for my brain? This one > is getting bad sectors, I think. You /could/ try US Robotics and Mechanical Men, Attn Dr. Susan Calvin Cybe R. Wizard -- Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.

Re: where to get old hard drives?

2004-08-01 Thread David T-G
Michael -- Sorry to hear about your loss. Where should we send flowers? :-) If you ask google for something like used hard drive quantum viking scsi you'll find some places such as 9to5computer.com harddrivesforless.com harddrives.yourbeststores.com lowendmac.com megamacs.com pa

Re: Tasksel is not what it was....

2004-08-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:22:54 +0100, Keith O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a strange answer that was. I really don't care how tasksel works. I have no > idea if a bug exists. I was asking if the lists that used to make up the tasksel > groups exist as lists anywhere. > > I'm sure you

can a SSH server initiate a connection?

2004-08-01 Thread rich
I have a (woody) box running sshd sitting behind a firewall. From outside the firewall, I want to be able to ssh in. I can see that I could get around the firewall if the connection was initiated from within the firewall, ie. if somehow the person could give a command on the server which someho

Re: can a SSH server initiate a connection?

2004-08-01 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:08:16PM +0100, rich wrote: } I have a (woody) box running sshd sitting behind a firewall. From } outside the firewall, I want to be able to ssh in. } } I can see that I could get around the firewall if the connection was } initiated from within the firewall, ie. if someh

Re: iptables rule for sshd

2004-08-01 Thread Sam Halliday
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -sport ssh -j ACCEPT try iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 \ -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/

Re: Tasksel is not what it was....

2004-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Keith O'Connell wrote: > Where can I find out what files comprised; > > lsb The lsb package. > unix server Too ill-defined to really be useful, but FWIW, it comprised these packages: ssh telnetd talk talkd ytalk finger fingerd ftpd zsh tcsh pdksh s

Re: ALSA setup problem

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 01 August 2004 02:12 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/alsa/snd-pdaudiocf.o depmod: *** Unresolved > symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/alsa/snd-vx-cs.o > > This looks bad to me. Is it? What do I do about it? The short, simple ans

kde applications signal 11

2004-08-01 Thread Maurice Leutenegger
Hi, I'm trying to determine if I have a bug and where I should report it to. I'm running debian testing, with kde as my desktop. Whenever I close an application which is from kde, I get this error message: "The application unknown (konsole) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)." Of course

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Metzler wrote: > But that's the best way it can play out. The worst way -- which is > thankfully uncommon, but can and does happen -- is if Depends or > Conflicts don't catch the problem. An example: package A in stable > requires libfoo version 2.4 or greater; user installs package B, whic

Re: Samba as a PDC

2004-08-01 Thread Adam Aube
Clement wrote: > Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read > the docs and sample configure to no success. > Here is the smb.conf: > security = yes This isn't a valid setting for the security parameter. Since you are using Samba as a PDC, it should be "secu

Re: Squid problems

2004-08-01 Thread Adam Aube
nx13372 wrote: > Hi all, > All i do, was: > #/etc/init.d/squid stop > #rm -fr /var/spool/squid > #rm /var/log/squid > #squid -z > #/etc/init.d/squid restart > Squid starts ok. > Now squid works, but don't cache. The > #du -sh /var/spool/squid is always 16452! Are there any entries in access.l

Re: Problems with sshd. [SCANNED]

2004-08-01 Thread David Thurman
On 7/31/04 4:53 PM, "Leonardo Marques" wrote: > I having problens with sshd, it doesnt starting and i dont know > why. > I looked in all files on /var/log and all i find about ssh was > it: > > Jul 31 18:49:13 luciana sshd[5668]: fatal: daemon() failed: > Success > > That was in auth.log > > I

Re: Tasksel is not what it was....

2004-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:04:48PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:22:54 +0100, Keith O'Connell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What a strange answer that was. I really don't care how tasksel > > works. I have no idea if a bug exists. I was asking if the lists > > that used t

Re: Toshiba suspend from command line

2004-08-01 Thread dircha
Ian Knopke wrote: I'd like to be able to put my toshiba laptop in suspend mode from the command line. Currently I can do it using the wmtuxtime applet in Windowmaker, that comes in the toshutils package. Is there a way to do this without the applet? I'm not familiar with that applet. Are you usi

Re: can a SSH server initiate a connection?

2004-08-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:08:16PM +0100, rich wrote: > I have a (woody) box running sshd sitting behind a firewall. From > outside the firewall, I want to be able to ssh in. > > I can see that I could get around the firewall if the connection was > initiated from within the firewall, ie. if some

Re: Start postgresql for the first time

2004-08-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 18:00, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 17:40:06 +0200, Bob Parnes wrote: > > After using mysql for several years, I decided to try the testing > > version of postgresql, but I cannot get started. I cannot log in to > > create users, and I cannot create a datab

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-08-01, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:56 pm, Silvan wrote: > > Another stupid luser trick. Don't do a package install that restarts CUPS > while you're in the middle of printing a 200-page double-sided document, and > you're halfway through the second sid

Re: Tasksel is not what it was....

2004-08-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:31:16 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Where can I find out what files comprised; > > > > lsb > > The lsb package. > > > unix server > > Too ill-defined to really be useful, but FWIW, it comprised these >

Re: Toshiba suspend from command line

2004-08-01 Thread Ian Knopke
Yep, that does it. Thanks! The command is apm --suspend or apm -s. A guy sure learns a lot on this list... I was just starting to poke through the wmtuxtime code. It seems to accomplish the same thing using an ioctl call and dumping a struct directly into /proc/toshiba, while apm works with /pr

Sending files with Kopete

2004-08-01 Thread Tim Raats
I can't send files with Kopete. I don't know why I have this problem. Is this a known error ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-08-01 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
> There's another problem with the above C++ code: If ny and nz > aren't constant, you can't write > > double s[ny][nz]; > > Instead, either you allocate the array in two stages: > > double** s = new (double*)[ny]; > for (j=0; j < ny; ++j) s[j] = new double[nz]; Actually, the first

Re: Sending files with Kopete

2004-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Tim Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't send files with Kopete. I don't know why I have this problem. Is > this a known error ?? http://kopete.kde.org/index.php?page=faq How come file transfers don't work? There are many reasons for this. First, MSN is the only protocol in which we've i

Re: Installation plea: install with / and /boot on RAID 1

2004-08-01 Thread Paul Gear
Alvin Oga wrote: > ... >>I know - that is why i was very disappointed to find that it wasn't >>supported even in the latest Sarge snapshot (i honestly expected it to >>be supported in Woody as well). > > > yup ... people's ( developer's ) preferences and requirements are > different or "just plai

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 01 August 2004 05:35 pm, Juha Siltala wrote: > One day, a couple of years ago, I had a couple of harmless xterms open on > my pretty desktop. I was about to clean up my ~/shit (or something, just a > temporary directory), but issued 'rm -rf *' in the wrong xterm. Hey, the > contents of m

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > >>Hi >> >>I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) >>using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). >> >> > > Oh dear. > > Sven has much the same idea I have. > > Before I f

MIMEDefang Notification.

2004-08-01 Thread MIMEDefang
An e-mail you sent with message-id was modified by MIMEDefang. (http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/). The recipients were: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here are the details of the modification: The attachment 'document.zip' was deleted. It contains a known virus. Here is the output from the virus

Permissions for console devices

2004-08-01 Thread Tim Connors
I have a need for a console device (/dev/tty11) to be chmod 666. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any file where I can set these permissions, other than /dev/MAKEDEV. So If I change the perms manually, upon next upgrade, debian helpfully resets my perms, and my app breaks. What is the acce

Debian Unstable not updating?

2004-08-01 Thread Kelly Harding
Hi, I've been running Debian for about a year or two now. I've had no real problems I've not been able to sort out with using google or the debian documentation. However, I appear to have a puzzling problem that I can't think where best to look for answers. Doing 'apt-get update;apt-get -u dist

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
Silvan wrote: On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:56 pm, Silvan wrote: Another stupid luser trick. Don't do a package install that restarts CUPS while you're in the middle of printing a 200-page double-sided document, and you're halfway through the second side. Yerk. I can't believe I did that. Act

iriver iHP

2004-08-01 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, trying to interface with an iriver iHP music player. following basic instructions here: http://lonelymachines.org/iriver.html however, when i plug the thing in, dmesg tells me: hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 12 usb.c: USB device 12 (vend/prod 0x1006/0x3002) is not c

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread William Ballard
> On Sunday 01 August 2004 05:35 pm, Juha Siltala wrote: > > > One day, a couple of years ago, I had a couple of harmless xterms open on > > my pretty desktop. I was about to clean up my ~/shit (or something, just a > > temporary directory), but issued 'rm -rf *' in the wrong xterm. Hey, the > > c

Re: MIMEDefang Notification.

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
If anyone here's at blakeschool, please ask nice for them to a) Update the software. The vendor is sure uou have an old version b) Turn these notifications off. The vendor agrees with me they're a bad idea. The software is supplied by Roaring Penguin It's free software, won't cost a cent for th

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Hi I am running Debian unstable on a 30GB drive (IBM Deskstar 75gxp) using ext3. I recently bought a 120GB drive (Western Digital WD1200). Oh dear. Sven has much the same idea I have.

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select. You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one. Haven't looked very hard then... I think y

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread Paul Gear
John Summerfield wrote: > ... I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select. >>> >>> You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one. >>> >> >> >> Haven't looked very hard then... I think you'd find it close to >> impossible >> to put your hands on a 8

Re: Strange apt-get error

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
I would guess that the packages are unsigned (??) or failed their md5sum check. I would do one of two things: a. File a bug report on it. This is an excellent way of ensuring the maintainer(s) know about it and is in line with Debian's policy of no secrets b. Ask the maintainer what's going on

Re: Networking Problem

2004-08-01 Thread Jonathan Barnes
Matt Perry wrote: On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Jonathan Barnes wrote: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 0.0.0

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select. You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one. Haven't looked very hard then... I think y

.NET and debian

2004-08-01 Thread Didier Caamano
Hello, I just got the mono and mod-mono installed on my debian box, I'll presume they are working, although I have not yet tested if they work, and that's why I'm writing. Perhaps someone knows hot to configure, or can point me to a good how to in order to start developing my web applications u

Re: Installation plea: install with / and /boot on RAID 1

2004-08-01 Thread Paul Gear
John wrote: > ... > Numbat:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 1.3G 232M 1016M 19% / > tmpfs 31M 0 31M 0% /dev/shm > ... > Didn't do it with the Sarge installed: I installed into a small patition > and worked from the

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: The crossover cables I have seen are for MFM drives and for floppy disks. They have a section cable this has a twist in it. None of my ATA cables, eithe r 40-pin or 80, has such a twist. They don't have a twist. They are just straight through cables. The difference is

Re: Toshiba suspend from command line

2004-08-01 Thread dircha
Ian Knopke wrote: How would I adjust the permissions so apm -s could be run by a normal user? Does this require me to adjust permissions to the /proc directory? How would I do that anyways? Since this is a laptop, I don't see any harm in adding the following line to you sudoers file (edit with vis

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-08-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:53:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: > >I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select. > > You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one. Haven't looked very hard then... I think you'd find it close to imposs

Strange apt-get error

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metcalf
I've been getting the strangest error from apt-get lately: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/krezel# apt-get install ntop Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgdome2-0 The following NEW packages will be installed: libg

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-08-02, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I'm not doing LyX, but I've taken the point you used to make about how > much you hate word processors. I'm using OO, and writing HTML (crap HTML, > but let's just not go there) and letting the styles do their job. I never "Crap HTML" y

RE: iptables rule for sshd

2004-08-01 Thread NabilM
Dah.. :-) thanks for the help. You guys are life savers. Also, after adding this it didn't work either. Then I realized that since I was trying to ssh from the same machine, I need another rule for the INPUT chain to ACCEPT every thing from the lo interface. Even though I use >ssh -l It still

Re: svg support under Linux

2004-08-01 Thread ricktaylor
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ > -Original Message- > From: John Taber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: svg support under Linux > > 1) do any of the browsers support SVG or support the Adobe plug-in ? > 2) do eith

Re: Networking Problem

2004-08-01 Thread Matt Perry
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jonathan Barnes wrote: > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:1C:13:5C:8D > inet addr:10.1.1.1 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 That's odd. The line above should contain "RUNNING" but it doesn't. Ca

advice needed: CMS for constructing a CVS-based file library front end

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
I'm looking for advice on a CMS, ideally one available from Debian. The main purpose is to provide a nice front-end to a file library, enabling users to upload, browse/search the contents, and download. Other content will eventually be provided also, but the file library is the main thing. Ideal

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-08-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:59:52 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Metzler wrote: > > But that's the best way it can play out. The worst way -- which is > > thankfully uncommon, but can and does happen -- is if Depends or > > Conflicts don't catch the problem. An example: package A