Re: shutdown won't shutdown

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:08:32 -0500 jwyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Nothing will seem to poweroff my PC. I have tried various > commands, all with the same results. shutdown -h now > powerdown > halt > $ su -c '/sbin/halt' Try passing this option to the kernel: apm=power-off You d

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have seen cramfs and squashfs both of which have sub 2GB filesize limit problems and read/write random access issues. So they don't fit my needs. Please don't respond saying "just gzip each file" duh... I already thought of that. Hi, Squashfs has a 4 GB filesi

[solved] zsh: weird variable expansion

sorry, this was due to the rc_expand_param zsh option, which was set in a script I accidentally sourced. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debi

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

Hi, Alex Malinovich wrote: WRT the actual topic, squashfs is supposed to handle files up to 4 GB without problems. I have not heard of any 2 GB file problems with it, but my interest in squashfs has been purely academic. I've never run it in a business environment. While it is a read-only filesyste

Testing to Sarge "sources.list"

Hi all, Hey, is now a good time to switch my sources from "testing" to "sarge"? Thanks Ralph -- Linux, to keep you humble. pgpKPdrLlZb6S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

Michael Z Daryabeygi writes: > Human beings are multi-faceted. Free Software benefits from intellectual > people who have many interests. There are other mailing lists for your other interests. > You are arguing that politics is irrelevant and relevant at the same > time. Perhaps he is, but I a

NFS

Um... I'm kind of stuck on something that seems too simple... NFS with kernel 2.6.8. I have nfs-common installed, but I can't seem to find any other packages to configure it. I'm a little stuck because I'm trying to install LTSP and it's complaining that I have nothing installed for NFS. -- To

Re: NFS

Tom Allison said on Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:31:39PM -0500: > Um... I'm kind of stuck on something that seems too simple... > > NFS with kernel 2.6.8. > > I have nfs-common installed, but I can't seem to find any other packages > to configure it. I'm a little stuck because I'm trying to install

Re: NFS

Perhaps this is what you're looking for? Package: nfs-kernel-server Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 196 Maintainer: Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NFS exports are configured in /etc/exports Tom Allison wrote: Um... I'm kind of stuck on something that seems too simple... NFS wi

apt-get Failure

The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: libqt3-compat-headers libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libqt3c102-mt qt3-dev-tools The following packag

Re: apt-get Failure

Sed's postinst contains this line, which fails: sudo install-info --quiet --section "General commands" "General commands" /usr/share/info/sed.info The bug is apparently resolved so a fix should be on the way. Robert Tilley wrote: The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~

Re: apt-get Failure

As Thomas previously suggested: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281601 bye Robert Tilley wrote: The sed package causes apt-get upgrade to stop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been ke

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

David Jardine writes: > vi is the bee's knees. Sod emacs. aptitude is rubbish. Stick to > apt-get. > Is that better? Much. Let's have flamewars about things that _matter_. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Testing to Sarge "sources.list"

Ralph Crongeyer wrote: Hi all, Hey, is now a good time to switch my sources from "testing" to "sarge"? Thanks Ralph That depends on your purpose in so doing, the primary function of your system and whether you prefer to continue to track testing for more current software or want a more stable syste

[solved] SSH hostkey authentication and users' known_hosts files

also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.01.0810 +0100]: > We are successfully using SSH hostkey-based authentication for our > cluster. What I find really strange is that users still get to see > messages like: > > Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address > '

[solved] SSH host key stored with IP, not host name

also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.09.2318 +0100]: > Why is node01 being identified by its IP only Also thanks to weasel, this was due to the IP address missing from the comma-separated list preceeding each key in the global ssh_known_hosts file. If the line only reads nod

Re: Testing to Sarge "sources.list"

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 09:09 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Maybe I should say: It seems close to release time for Sarge. Would now be a good time to start tracking Sarge instead of testing? I don't want to continue doing updates past the release and then have to backtrack. Thanks Ralph > Ralp

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 19:49 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > David Jardine writes: > > vi is the bee's knees. Sod emacs. aptitude is rubbish. Stick to > > apt-get. > > > Is that better? > > Much. Let's have flamewars about things that _matter_. Such as this: Sarge. D-I. Sarge. D-I. Think about it

Re: lilo and mbr

Thanks for responding. But this is exactly what i am doing. I am booting off the boot floppy with my previous kernel. I guess my question is: Is there a way I can find out how the MBR is configured? --- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:34:14AM -0800, Punit A

Re: Testing to Sarge "sources.list"

Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hey, is now a good time to switch my sources from "testing" to "sarge"? If you want to track Sarge, not Testing, after Sarge becomes stable. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange error message when trying to upgrade

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:27:21 + (GMT) Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any idea how to correct this? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281601 > > -- Thomas Adam Just grabbed the "new" file listed in the bug rep

Re: ip masquerading

Thanks for the advice. It looks like I'll be at this for a while...if I can't make any headway with it, I'll ask for more help Thanks again, da On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:11:38 -0600, Yusuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your firewall rules look, uh, ugly, meaning, not meant for human eyes. > You sh

route takes long time to give the table

On Debian Testing running 2.6.7,the 'route' command is taking unusually long time to give the table: ~# time route Kernel IP routing table DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface x.y.z.z* 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 192.168.1.0

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

On November 16, 2004 19:44, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: Please reconfigure Thunderbird to stop sending out HTML-only messages (is this some kind of new default setting with TB?) > > Okay I'm done, this has gone to far. Yep And have you got TB set to top-post as well? > > > William Ballard

Re: route takes long time to give the table

Check your iptables settings...I had this problem months ago... H. S. wrote: On Debian Testing running 2.6.7,the 'route' command is taking unusually long time to give the table: ~# time route Kernel IP routing table DestinationGateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface x.y.z.z

Re: route takes long time to give the table

H. S. wrote: > On Debian Testing running 2.6.7,the 'route' command is taking unusually > long time to give the table: > However, 'route -n' command gives the output almost instantly. By default, 'route' attempts to resolve the IP addresses into hostnames. The extra time of 'route' vs 'route -n'

Re: Testing to Sarge "sources.list"

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:23:16PM -0500, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > Hey, is now a good time to switch my sources from "testing" to "sarge"? If you have to ask, you shouldn't even be running testing in the first place. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ")")

Trying to install sarge (woody doesn't have the support for my intel 1000M ethernet card), plain vanilla x86 hardware: Linux system was previously installed. I've tried four or five different releases of sarge, with different dates, and searched email archives and Google and found (almost) nothing

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav >> instead. http://www.clamav.net/ > > Well and to close the circle clamav sucks by default cause the virus > database is not maintained

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That's not free. They just don't charge you any money. > > Of course it is. > > $ dict free > [snip] > {Free cost}, freedom from charges or expenses. --South. > [snip] The default free in the context of fre

Re: route takes long time to give the table

Apparently, _Riccardo Tortorici_, on 16/11/04 22:39,typed: Check your iptables settings...I had this problem months ago... What did you find your problem was? How did you solve it? ->HS H. S. wrote: On Debian Testing running 2.6.7,the 'route' command is taking unusually long time to give the tabl

[OT] Pat needs our help

Hi All, First of all, sorry for this OT post and I'm prepared to be flamed for this but I think we should all read the txt below and give it a thought and help, if we can. ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP. txt -- Sharninder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Base system install- eval: 3: Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ")")

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:04:40AM -0500, Allen Williams wrote: > Trying to install sarge (woody doesn't have the support for my intel 1000M > ethernet card), plain vanilla x86 hardware: Linux system was previously > installed. I've tried four or five different releases of sarge, with > different

login script & xterm

Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, & when I open an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions? I want some commands executed when I login, but not when a shell is otherwise run, so I put them in my ~/.login, vs. my ~/.bashrc. Unfortunately, they aren't executed

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:27 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> That's not free. They just don't charge you any money. > > > > Of course it is. > > > > $ dict free > > [snip] > > {Free cost}, freedom from

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:08:26PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:23:05PM +0100, Martin Lorenz wrote: > > In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > >>>I have just complete a PDF form using both acroba

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:25 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav > >> instead. http://www.clamav.net/ > > > > Well and to close the cir

Re: [OT] Pat needs our help

Sharninder Khera wrote: Hi All, First of all, sorry for this OT post and I'm prepared to be flamed for this but I think we should all read the txt below and give it a thought and help, if we can. ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP. txt -- Sharninder Why

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 00:44, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote: > > Don't sent html to this mailing list -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

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