Re: Sending all processes the TERM signal

2004-12-09 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 09 December 2004 07:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > n addition, after system booted up, I get the following error: >   > "kernel panic: attempted to kill init" >   > and the system hangs. >   > Hung  > > HXD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading kernel to 2.6.x from Sarge install

Re: putting ascii keys in a script

2004-12-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert Vangel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.09.0154 +0100]: > what about > > echo -e "\n" echo -e "\012" (that's octal) -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, user,

Re: udev question

2004-12-09 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> udev creates /dev/hdc(burner) with permissions 640 and with owner > root.hal. Therefore hal group members cannot burn. And any change is > reversed on reboot. How can I tell udev to create it with permissions > 660? Or should I just put it in a script to chmod /dev/hdc on every > boot? 1. Use

Question about debian with HP/Compaq ML350G4

2004-12-09 Thread Jiihoo Lehtonen
Hi! We are buying a new server for web use and have decided it'll be the ML350 (with SA641 Raid). I'm just wondering if it's hardware will work fine with Debian Linux? Has anyone any thoughts about this, some experience or anything..? Either good or bad news? :) With regards, Juha _

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-09 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Eugen Leitl on Wednesday, 2004-12-08 at 16:15:49 +0100: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > > > Linksys WRT54GS and Sveasoft firmware + fwbuilder. Don't diss Linksys: > > > their > > > firmware is pure crap, but the hardware (radios) is excellent (you'll nee

Re: Sarge Install help (kernel panic)

2004-12-09 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> OK just completed primary mail server. HW is Tyan Tiger i3320 mobo, > dual 2.8 xeon nocona, 2GB kingston ECC registered ram, 3ware 9000 4 > port SATA with 4 x 200GB drives. installed sarge using 'linux26' > install... the lan and raid card are all recognised perfect... > partitioned the dri

Re: Howto change the default font used by gs?

2004-12-09 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hello! > > still trying to get my printer (aculaser c4100) working... > > actually the stuff issued is written out in a too big font (lines merge > a littel) and a font that wobbles over the lines... Please describe exactly what are you doing to get wrong fonts. >From what software do y

Re: putting ascii keys in a script

2004-12-09 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:29:06AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Robert Vangel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.09.0154 +0100]: > > what about > > > > echo -e "\n" > > echo -e "\012" > > (that's octal) IIRC the OP wanted character 13, that is "\r" or "\015" Frank > -- > Please do n

Usb not a valid block device

2004-12-09 Thread 牛坤
Dear debianers, I've a Debian3.0 r2 installed. I updated my kernel to 2.4.18. Each time I want to mount my usb mass storage device. mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb I always get the error code "not a valid block device". Read from some maillist that I should install the sd_mod module. Once again,

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2004-12-09 Thread gentoo-dev+owner
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Re: Usb not a valid block device

2004-12-09 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
I would suggest moving to a 2.6 kernel, why not 2.6.9 for example, and make sure you load the scsi_mod modules: sg, ide_scsi, sd_mod, usb_storage. Check with lsmod. Alex. Le jeudi 9 DÃcembre 2004 10:05, çå a ÃcritÂ: > Dear debianers, > > I've a Debian3.0 r2 installed. > I updated my kernel to 2

Re: Configuring proftpd

2004-12-09 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
> somebody lend me a hand? Don't know, but you'd have a much better chance of getting a response if you didn't post html. Some people don't even read that stuff, because of security, and because some clients don't support it. Alex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: apt-get over SSH - unexpected results

2004-12-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:21:28PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > Setting up fam (2.7.0-6) ... > Starting file alteration monitor: > > # At this point remote process stops indefinitely. > > # Pressing Ctrl-C > Killed by signal 2. > > There is obviously a bug somewhere but it is not obvious t

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:42:34PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Xorg will wait until Sarge+1 (namely, Etch). You don't need it anyway. Based on precedent, someone will in fact package Xorg for Sarge, but it won't be part of the official release. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ja

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:42:34PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Based on precedent, someone will in fact package Xorg for Sarge, but it won't be part of the official release. Will? Has. Search for xorg on apt-get.org. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:52:06AM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > For the moment I am only interested in home use, but just to satisfy > my curiosity, could you describe an alternate setting where you have > used a different set of antennae? I haven't yet modified a Linksys box, only read other pe

Re: Re: the new installer for the previous sarge

2004-12-09 Thread belahcene
ok, In fact I put all the CD's in a directory ( in local web ) and install all machine from that web ( i have several machine , the connexion to the net is bad, so I preferre download the CD once); It is working very fine , I just want to use a new installer , I thought that the new one is more

Re: Question about debian with HP/Compaq ML350G4

2004-12-09 Thread Pete
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:39 +0200, Jiihoo Lehtonen wrote: > Hi! > > We are buying a new server for web use and have decided it'll be the ML350 > (with SA641 Raid). I'm just wondering if it's hardware will work fine with > Debian Linux? Has anyone any thoughts about this, some experience or > an

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Eugen Leitl wrote: This is getting a bit offtopic for the list, perhaps we should take it to private mail. Please keep it on the list. It's a very interesting thread. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Persistent port forwarding without ssh

2004-12-09 Thread Robert S
I am wanting to set up a VPN using ssh between my office and my home Windows PCs, using a debian box at the remote end. The setup is as follows: HOME (winxp)- - - -- - - - DEBIAN SERVER (win2K) I have managed to connect (using vnc) to SERVER using PuTTY or ssh at the home end thus: 1

Re: apt-get over SSH - unexpected results

2004-12-09 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:21:28PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > I have difficulties installing a package on a Debian Sarge machine. The > problem is rather strange, installation fails when I run apt-get > remotely over ssh and works fine when I work on the console. If I understand correctly,

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:56:47AM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: } On Friday 03 December 2004 06:35 pm, Brad Sims wrote: } > I have a 512mb Sandisk Cruzer, it works perfectly. However when unmounting } > it the light stays on, it goes off on Windows... Just was wondering if } > anyone had a soluti

Re: Persistent port forwarding without ssh

2004-12-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:49:47PM +1100, Robert S wrote: } I am wanting to set up a VPN using ssh between my office and my home Windows } PCs, using a debian box at the remote end. The setup is as follows: } } HOME (winxp)- - - -- - - - DEBIAN SERVER } (win2K) } } I have managed to co

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > I heard a lot about X.org en thatin some distro's X.org wil replace Xfree. > > Is X.org better than Xfree ?? > Does someone has X.org getting on work with debian Sarge ?? I see a lot of discussion about packaging and whi

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 02:27 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:42:34PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Based on precedent, someone will in fact package Xorg for Sarge, but it > > won't be part of the official release. > > Will? Has. Search for xorg on a

Re: Usb not a valid block device

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 17:05 +0800, 牛坤 wrote: > Dear debianers, > > I've a Debian3.0 r2 installed. > I updated my kernel to 2.4.18. > Each time I want to mount my usb mass storage device. > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb > I always get the error code "not a valid block device". > Read from some m

Ghostcast similar; g4u, udpcast ?

2004-12-09 Thread Renan Mendes Carvalho
i think the subject says it all =P some googling got me -g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ -udpcast http://udpcast.linux.lu/ if someone knows a better solution plz hlp =P its kinda of urgent... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Problem about installing Sarge

2004-12-09 Thread FPAx
Hi! I've got a problem, i need to install the "netinstall" cd this OS to an Asus Pundt-R machine (which have ATI chipset), and after the first restart, the machine hang-up with kernel panic message. I was read, that the kernel above 2.6.6 is supporting this chipset, but I'm a single user, a

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:16 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I heard a lot about X.org en thatin some distro's X.org wil replace Xfree. > > > > Is X.org better than Xfree ?? > > Does someone has X.org getting on work wit

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread John covici
Thanks much for your response -- this will be very handy, but it answers a different problem -- I was hoping for an equivalent of the apm -s command which is much less drastic and happens automatically with no activity, so it seemed like a good idea to have such a thing -- I suppose I could just su

OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread michael
Hi - I've had a quick look on the WWW but can't find much of help. I've a dual Xeon box running testing and kernel from backports: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux r 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux The SMP kernel does indeed make use of

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Ru

Re: Howto change the default font used by gs?

2004-12-09 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:30:33AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Please describe exactly what are you doing to get wrong fonts. > >From what software do you print? > Which print spooler do you use (lpr? lprng? cups?) have a new epson aculaser C4100 (from google it seems that lots of

Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be verbose ;-) Does anybody have experience with the following? 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes smaller and slower laptop parts? 2) What about serial terminals? The new ones are $400 at CDW.com, but I see that

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Pete
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be > verbose ;-) > > Does anybody have experience with the following? > > 1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes > smaller and slower laptop parts? > > 2)

Re: Cloning a workstation

2004-12-09 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hello Sarunas, a minor correction: Karsten Heymann wrote: > A very low-level way to [clone a workstation] it is using netcat. boot > both systems from cd (knoppix or similiar) and let them have access to > each other over the net (a cross-cable and manual chosen 192.168.0.x IP's > will do). Both

Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Khan
Hello, What will be my best choises with software for password creating? TNX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Vinu Jacob
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote: >Hello, > >I heard a lot about X.org en thatin some distro's X.org wil replace Xfree. > >Is X.org better than Xfree ?? >Does someone has X.org getting on work with debian Sarge ?? > >Roelof > try htt

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 03:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 02:27 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Will? Has. Search for xorg on apt-get.org. ;) > Haven't you heard of "past-tense will"? Only when Data finally took Picard's statement the other way. ;) -- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Thu 9 December 2004 14:15, Vinu Jacob wrote: > Anxiously awaiting inclusion of xorg to sid. (Hence awaiting a sarge > release as well ;-/) You could also use the packages from Ubuntu Linux. I added these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restri

Re: Mod4 vs. Super_L on Windows Key

2004-12-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:48:55PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm having an issue with my Windows key. I'm trying to set up my > keyboard shortcuts in Gnome using the Keyboard Shortcuts tool. I already > have Windows+D set to show desktop. In the shortcut tool this shows up > as Mod4+D. > > H

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:48 +, michael wrote: > Hi - I've had a quick look on the WWW but can't find much of help. I've > a dual Xeon box running testing and kernel from backports: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux r 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 >

Re: Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:33 +0100, Khan wrote: > Hello, > > What will be my best choises with software for password creating? $ apt-cache search password create | sort adduser - Add and remove users and groups dsniff - Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities ldaptor-uti

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:48 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:33:28AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wro

Re: Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Robert Vangel
Khan wrote: Hello, What will be my best choises with software for password creating? TNX I use pwgen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread michael
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:53, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:48 +, michael wrote: > > Hi - I've had a quick look on the WWW but can't find much of help. I've > > a dual Xeon box running testing and kernel from backports: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > > Linux r 2.4.27

Re: Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Yury Timoshevsky
Ð ÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÑ ÐÐÑÐÐÑÐ, 09-ÐÐÐ-2004 14:33 Khan ÑÐÐ(a): > Hello, > > What will be my best choises with software for password creating? > > TNX Package: apg Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 192 Maintainer: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.2.3-1 Depend

Re: Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
What will be my best choises with software for password creating? TNX I use pwgen Perl's Crypt::Passgen module is pretty cool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:10:10 +0100, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > 3) Since an old laptop is a possible solution based on it's size, > any reccommended sources for purchasing used laptops that are > known to be able to run Woody?! Probably anything thats not too recent would work well, though for you

Re: Software to create passwords

2004-12-09 Thread Robert Vangel
Yury Timoshevsky wrote: Package: apg [...] The client/server version of apg has been deliberately omitted. That is fairly cool, even gives you the phonetic way to remember it :) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H. S. wrote: Apparently, _John Covici_, on 08/12/04 15:56,typed: Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked because the machine is an

Re: Cloning a workstation

2004-12-09 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Sarunas Burdulis wrote: Thank you for all the input. Certainly more than one way to do it, as usual... For the single case a simple scp/rsync + grub install seems adequate. However partimage looks like something worth getting familiar with --- so I'll try that. Sarunas F

sarge installation causes BIOS to freeze on harddisk detection

2004-12-09 Thread Bogdan Calmac
I am trying to install the latest Debian sarge distribution (2004-12-04) on a Gateway E-4100 computer (P4 2.8GHz, 512 DDR, 60 GB Maxtor IDE Drive, 16x Liteon DVD, 100MB LAN). Pretty standard configuration. The base installation goes smooth, - kernel 2.6 - partition the disk in root and swap, use

Re: Learning GTK+ proramming under Debian

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Madden wrote: What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+ or Qt seem more acceptable under Linux. Maybe th

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on what people would expect in a retail kit for Debian, as I've been put in charge of pushing Debian in the shop I work at. Right now, since we're concerned only with i386, I'm thinking a Sarge CD set and a printed copy of the installation manual,

openoffice

2004-12-09 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Hi. I would like to state my disappointment with openoffice. OpenOffice Impress does not import Microsoft Powerpoint presentations correctly. Some bullets appear as a " , and it is very difficult to manipulate diagrams, select their parts, group, ungroup. It was able to export PowerPoin

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:15:00 +, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:53, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:48 +, michael wrote: > > > Hi - I've had a quick look on the WWW but can't find much of help. I've > > > a dual Xeon box running testing an

Re: Learning GTK+ proramming under Debian

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Michael Madden wrote: What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+ or Qt seem more acceptabl

Re: udev question

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
Kudret Güler wrote: > udev creates /dev/hdc(burner) with permissions 640 and with owner > root.hal. Therefore hal group members cannot burn. And any change is > reversed on reboot. How can I tell udev to create it with permissions > 660? Or should I just put it in a script to chmod /dev/hdc on eve

Proxy Tester

2004-12-09 Thread Collet Brunel
Does anyone know a proxy tester for linux? One that make tests just like www.proxyjudge.org? Collet Brunel __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: openoffice

2004-12-09 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041209 14:56]: > Hi. I would like to state my disappointment with openoffice. > OpenOffice Impress does not import Microsoft Powerpoint > presentations correctly. Some bullets appear as a " , and it is very > difficult to manipulate diagra

Wacom tablet

2004-12-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
My wife wants to get started with some computer art, so she is asking her parents for a Wacom tablet for Christmas. I looked at the Linux Wacom project on sourceforge (linuxwacom.sourceforge.net) and made sure that she asked for one of the supported models, so now I need to make it work on her Debi

xserver

2004-12-09 Thread Giorgio Raccanelli
Hello list, I'm having problem while starting the Xserver. I detected my videocard by doing # lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4151 (prog-if 00 [VGA]) ... therefore I set the device section of the XF86Config-4 as follows Section "Device" Identi

Re: openoffice

2004-12-09 Thread Khan
Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. I would like to state my disappointment with openoffice. OpenOffice Impress does not import Microsoft Powerpoint presentations correctly. Some bullets appear as a " , and it is very difficult to manipulate diagrams, select their parts, group, ungroup.

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Curt Howland
That's a good question. Did you know that prior Debian "stable" releases have had books written about them? http://www.linux.org/perl-bin/search_db?qid=4&spp=20&q=debian I expect that when Sarge is finally released, there will be a book about it. Such a book with CD would make the perfect "ret

samba/pam/winbind username case

2004-12-09 Thread Matt Johnson
Hi all, Not sure whether to turn to smb.conf, my pam config or somewhere else to sort his one. Some pointers would be appreciated. I've got my debian terminal server authenticating from an NT server. Very pleased. It's even creating home directories on the debian machine with pam mk_homedir. Grea

/dev broken on upgrade to 2.6.9

2004-12-09 Thread Matthew Kay
Hi all! Have got a nasty error on upgrading my kernel, using make-kpkg, to 2.6.9. I didn't change very much, just wanted to take advantage of the updated ACPI code. Specifically, the problem is that /dev is completely broken. It shows up but I can't cd into it (Not a Directory). I seem to be using

Re: cannot display with res 1024x768

2004-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
jack kinnon wrote: Hi, You can read through all the mails concerning my problem in Debian's Dec User mail-list by "Author". Did. You were told what the problem is on Dec. 5 by Ron Johnson. HTH H Cheers Jack Do you Yaho

Re: openoffice

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 09 Dec 2004 13:56, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Hi. I would like to state my disappointment with openoffice. > OpenOffice Impress does not import Microsoft Powerpoint > presentations correctly. Some bullets appear as a " , and it is very > difficult to manipulate diagram

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread michael
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:59, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:15:00 +, michael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 12:53, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:48 +, michael wrote: > > > > Hi - I've had a quick look on the WWW but

Mirroring a remote server on a local server (Debian Woody and Sarge)

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We would like to mirror a remote server of ours on a local server through broadband (2Mb). We would like to mirror the whole server disk, including installation, /boot and so on, for carrying over local test installations before going live on the server. We did not find an easy way of doing i

colors in the Debian console /services

2004-12-09 Thread vincent . tournebise
Hello all, I'm using Sarge and just added an unstable reference to my sources.list which upgraded all my packages recently. So maybe I should considere I'm running a Sid (?). I just turned to Debian after a Redhat / Mandrake short initiation. Anyway, I'm a bit desapointed that I don't have all th

Configuring proftpd

2004-12-09 Thread Mike
I am trying to configure proftpd on my woody box and having no success. I want to beable to log in with the account called "upload" an have all premissions. I want all files to be uploaded into the /var/www folder. I am very confused. I followed the documentation and had no luck. Can somebody

Re: Cloning a workstation

2004-12-09 Thread Kenneth Jacker
rs> For your needs, systemimager may be a better choice. Does the 'updateclient' command in 'systemimager' properly/easily keep the clients current after making changes (packages, config files, etc) on the "golden client"? Allegedly (I haven't used any of these apps yet), 'replicator' provides

Re: IP masquerading

2004-12-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ethx -j SNAT --to > ppp_address this is the wrong approach for a dialup where you would get a dynamic ip. use masquerading instead. (this will always work regardless of your external ip assigned from the ISP) do the following commands: # iptables -t nat -A PO

pop3 server????

2004-12-09 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
Debian: Testing Exim: 4.38 Hello everyone, I have exim configured and working, the question is: exim can be used as a pop3 server? if not, which pop3 server is the best, I will appreciate any feedback. I want the users be able to get the mail from the server via pop3. Regards. = --

Re: putting ascii keys in a script

2004-12-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 18:38 -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > I have a script that I need to send an enter keystroke with. perhaps the 'expect' package? -- matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev question

2004-12-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 02:37 -0500, Kudret Güler wrote: > udev creates /dev/hdc(burner) with permissions 640 and with owner > root.hal. Therefore hal group members cannot burn. And any change is > reversed on reboot. How can I tell udev to create it with permissions > 660? Or should I just put it in

Re: IP masquerading

2004-12-09 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ethx -j SNAT > --to > > ppp_address > > this is the wrong approach for a dialup where you > would get a dynamic > ip. use masquerading instead. (this will always work > regardless of your > external ip assign

Re: colors in the Debian console /services

2004-12-09 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> Anyway, I'm a bit desapointed that I don't have all these nice colors > available > with "ls" or in a Emacs Java mode, for example, whereas the ugly orange and > green dressing of Aptitude just works fine. It would make my links sessions > easier as well ! > Any idea where to configure this ? l

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Stephen Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 09 09:31 -0600]: > Probably anything thats not too recent would work well, though for > your purposes I'd suggest an IBM Thinkpad 760EL, ok, thats a P1 with a > 2 gig disc but this model doesn't have any fans so the only noise is > the hard drive (

Re: pop3 server????

2004-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: Debian: Testing Exim: 4.38 Hello everyone, I have exim configured and working, the question is: exim can be used as a pop3 server? if not, which pop3 server is the best, I will appreciate any feedback. I want the users be able to get the mail from the server via pop3. R

Re: Mirroring a remote server on a local server (Debian Woody and Sarge)

2004-12-09 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:07:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ecrit : > We would like to mirror a remote server of ours on a local server through > broadband (2Mb). > We would like to mirror the whole server disk, including installation, /boot > and so on, for carrying over local test installation

Re: hardware raid card recognition before mount of /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-386 and raid2

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed a debian system on a machine that stores data on a > hardware raid 3ware 7806-5 and another system that uses an adaptec 2400a. > both are ata hardware raid devices. During bootup, the boot halts while > going through /etc/rcS.d/ when it runs S30checkfs.s

Re: Problem about installing Sarge

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
FPAx wrote: > I've got a problem, i need to install the "netinstall" cd this OS to an > Asus Pundt-R machine (which have ATI chipset), and after the first > restart, the machine hang-up with kernel panic message. I was read, that > the kernel above 2.6.6 is supporting this chipset Then use the bo

boot from a compact flash card

2004-12-09 Thread Micha Mutschler
hi Is it possible to install and boot sarge on/from a compact flash card that is conectet to the pcmcia bus? (after I start /etc/init.d/pcmcia the card is usually known as hde) Micha -- Linux-User #354776 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Bitte senden Sie mir keine Word- oder P

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

2004-12-09 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:10:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a > >>daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the > >>machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked > >>because th

Re: Proxy Tester

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
Collet Brunel wrote: > Does anyone know a proxy tester for linux? One that > make tests just like www.proxyjudge.org? See what "apt-cache search open proxy" turns up. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up > in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) Version Number Syndrome. This all too common condition occurs when the person involved assumes that hig

Re: xserver

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Giorgio Raccanelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BusID"PCI:1:0:0" You can quite happily comment this line out, as X will detect this for you. It's only ever useful if you have more than one card. Many people do not. Secondly, consider NOT posting your logs to the list, but providing

Re: xserver

2004-12-09 Thread messmate
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:04:32 +0100 Giorgio Raccanelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello list, > >I'm having problem while starting the Xserver. >I detected my videocard by doing > ># lspci -v > >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device > 4151 (prog-if 00 [VGA])

Re: Configuring proftpd

2004-12-09 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:08:44AM +, Mike wrote: > I am trying to configure proftpd on my woody box and having no success. > > I want to beable to log in with the account called "upload" an have all > premissions. > I want all files to be uploaded into the /var/www folder. I am very > con

Re: Nightstand Terminal

2004-12-09 Thread dsr
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:54:16AM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be > verbose ;-) > > Does anybody have experience with the following? > > 2) What about serial terminals? The new ones are $400 at CDW.com, > but I see that you can get ref

Re: Upgrading from another debian machine

2004-12-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:35:24 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have woody on one machine and would like to upgrade to sarge. > > I have another machine [laptop, PCMCIA modem] that I upgraded from woody to > sarge. I did not delete the .deb files. > > Can I us the deb files

Re: pop3 server????

2004-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 07:29 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > Debian: Testing > Exim: 4.38 > > Hello everyone, > > I have exim configured and working, the question is: > > exim can be used as a pop3 server? > > if not, which pop3 server is the best, I will > appreciate any feedback. > > I

Re: colors in the Debian console /services

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another question: how do "services" and, well, basically daemons, work > under Debian ? You know, I was used to those sweet "service dhcpd > restart", "service --status-all" from the Redhat family and it seems to be > slightly different there. By default you run the scr

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) >case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning >HT off helped -- when it was on then for -np 2 there was no speed up >(top implied the

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-12-09 04:55:56 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:42:34PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Xorg will wait until Sarge+1 (namely, Etch). You don't need it anyway. > > Based on precedent, someone will in fact package Xorg for Sarge, but it > won't be part of the official r

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread michael
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) > >case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning > >HT off helped --

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:16, Jon Dowland wrote: > I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up > in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) In a nutshell, X.org was created because the XFree86 people wouldn't accept patches from out

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