Re: mouse & xf86conf-4

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:05:32PM -0500, Jim wrote: > What must I do in order for my 3 button mouse to work properly? > Thanks > > >Section "InputDevice" > > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > > Driver "mouse" > > Option "CorePointer" > > Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" > > Option "Protocol" "Mic

Re: folder /etc/sysconfig/ in debian

2004-12-27 Thread Dani Belz
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:05:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:36 +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I found on the net a how-to for setting up of my IrDA device. > > Unfortunately the how-to is written for RedHat and points to some file > > /etc/sysconf

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-27 Thread Norbert Gruener
Hi Skylar, On Sat, Dec 25 2004, Skylar Thompson wrote: > Skylar Thompson wrote: > > >Norbert Gruener wrote: > > > >>It's kernel 2.4.27 which is part of Sarge. > >> > >> > >Weird. A friend of mine has a Dell laptop with a Broadcom 4400 running > >Debian Woody with the v2.4. I'll see if I can tak

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread TAKARA,Daigo
Hi, Sarav. How will be it if I do not let you use Perl besides a manager when I try to change authority as follows? chown root:root /usr/bin/perl chmod 700 /usr/bin/perl I think that this is a simple method most. However, I have not tested it. I think whether the command that does not change co

xawtv

2004-12-27 Thread Bayrouni
Hello all, When I launch xawtv I have the following: $ xawtv -noxv /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway. Is there any idea to fix it.? I am using kernel 2.6.9 debian sid an conexant tv card (driver cx8800 compiled in the kernel) I can see vhs

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:53:47PM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Hai, > I need to remove perl for security reasons. What's insecure about having perl on a machine? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
Mr. Ballard is dead-on target, and is to be commended for his courage: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 02:38:12 -0500, William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was a bit put off when I went to www.ubuntu.org and found a bunch of > pro-Palestinian and anti-American propaganda, but I gathered that both >

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread saravanan ganapathy
Refer the url for more details http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/doc/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html --- Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:53:47PM -0800, saravanan > ganapathy wrote: > > Hai, > > I need to remove perl for security reasons. > > What's insecure a

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Bob Alexander
Greg Folkert wrote: So what do you think of those of us that *DO* use Sid + Experimental for Production? Careful what you say... I do have experience with Debian. No I am not an idiot, I have very UN-limited needs, I have been known to talk out of /dev/ass, have built very elaborate systems to ensu

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Parker
On Monday 27 December 2004 06:32, Steve Lamb wrote: > Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > > Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have > > difficulty with english as localization is quite poor) > > Although I cannot comment on the localization issue let's please not > repeat th

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Tom Allison
Mauro Darida wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 14:10:33 +, Greg Folkert wrote: One word: Ubuntu www.ubuntulinux.org You could do that with Debian, but why not just use something that is geared for Humans, that is based on Total Technical Geekness - Debian. The folks there should change the name: I

Re: Debian on SATA HD

2004-12-27 Thread Piotr Kopszak
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:37:27PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0200, roy wrote: > > > > I'm going to buy a SATA HD dedicated for Debian (out of IDE connections and > > the HD's are always full). > > > > I've never installed Debian (or linux) before, just wanted

Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem is that it's not rebooting, eg if I call `reboot` or `telinit 6`, it starts sending out TERM and KILL signals, and everything is stopping, up to and including klogd and syslogd. Then, instead of writing "Rebooting...

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:43:32AM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > The money trail might prove interesting. Clearly, the founders of the > ubuntu linux project could not have been unaware of the dubious > political connotations of the term. Who pays for all those free cd's? Mark Shuttleworth, I supp

Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 > 2.4.27-6

2004-12-27 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Michael Murphy wrote: Hi Michael, I guess you didn't notice my posting on this list dated 24/12/04 with the subject alsa mismatch... Anyway as Thomas Hood pointed out this is known as kernel bug #284356. I would suggest the following: 1. apt-get update then apt-get upgrade then apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:38:16PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:19:13PM -0500, Douglas Ward wrote: > > If you just want something for carrying encrypted passwords, get an older > > model Palm from eBay; many of the +4 year old models are > > $30 and less. > > It's u

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
> > > I need to remove perl for security reasons. > > What's insecure about having perl on a machine? On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:54:39AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Refer the url for more details > http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/doc/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html They say that having

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:48:00PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Right. However, Windows has some fairly stupid ways of handling user > privledges, thus many games require Administrator rights. So guess > what most people run as in Windows? Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutu

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread Ali Alphan Bayazit
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 00:54 -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Refer the url for more details > http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/doc/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html > I saw compromised systems where attacker had installed Perl. Besides, for most of the architectures, executables (as deb packages

Montar servidor de apoyo.

2004-12-27 Thread AntonioCadiz
Buenos días y Feliz Navidad a todos. A ver si me explico en pocas palabras. Yo tengo un servidor (a partir de ahora M) montado en debian (apache, postfix, mysql, ...) y ahora voy a montar uno que sea un "clon" (en adelante S) de mi debian. La idea es que el servidor M actualice al servidor S de

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem It must be one of the most mentioned boxes on these lists, a distinction I wouldn't crave, as it's manufacturer... (Hey, HP, are you listening? You are using Debian inh

Make another Server

2004-12-27 Thread AntonioCadiz
Merry Christmas. I have a debian server (Master) with apache, postfix, mysql, ... and I want to have now other debian server (Slave) whith the same data and configuration than Master. I want that Master make schedulle copies of itself in Slave. If Master fails, i want to connect Slave and give

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: >On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: >> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem > It must be one of the most mentioned boxes on these lists, a >distinction I wouldn't crave, as it's manufactu

sarge-evolution 2.0 eating cpu

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
Hi All, run a sarge laptop and run regular update. Recently evolution upgraded to 2.0. Since then evolution regulary "eats the cpu" for a couple of minutes, while it is giving the message "generating message list (...)". This usually occurs when I switch between local folders (not vfolders

Re: remove perl

2004-12-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 00:54 -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Refer the url for more details > http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/doc/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html > From rom the quoted page: So, without Perl and, unless you remake these utilities in shell script, you will probab

gconfd filling up my logs

2004-12-27 Thread Bob Alexander
gconfd spews out stuff to my syslog and messages: Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/root/.gc

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-27 Thread Ridge Chittenden
--- Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge > Chittenden wrote: > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI > chip > > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for > me > > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no > more. > > I

resolv.conf

2004-12-27 Thread Endianto
Dani, I connects to internet from KDE 3.2. KDE, Internet, KPPP then connect. The results was : - Modem Ready Initializing modem --- But I never get connected Regards, Endianto - Original Message - From: "Dani Belz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Mo

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-27 Thread Ian Meyer
Ian Meyer wrote: Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and paste any

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-27 Thread Dani Belz
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 09:40:53AM +0700, Endianto wrote: > Dani, > > I connects to internet from KDE 3.2. > KDE, Internet, KPPP then connect. > > The results was : > - > Modem Ready > Initializing modem > --- You never get to "Connecting..."? Then you should

thank you

2004-12-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
thank you so much sam! I will try to understand and play with your suggestion today. but my main interest is other network applications besides ssh, that are themseelves not dependant upon ssh, that the same have behavior (checking reverse dns) that is parallel to that of ssh, which also time

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 11:32 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have difficulty with english as localization is quite poor) Although I cannot comment on the localization issue let's please not

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Brendan
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:58, Bob Alexander wrote: > Kelley ? His opinions are valuable as any other and, sadly, expressed > with a tone that surely does not make them sound more authoritative than > the tantrums of a freckled face 14 yr old nerd. He has freckles? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

iptables TARPIT

2004-12-27 Thread Simon Morgan
Hi, Has anyone managed to get the iptables TARPIT module working with debian? I notice there's a module for it included with the iptables package: bollo:~# dlocate TARPIT iptables: /lib/iptables/libipt_TARPIT.so but getting it to work isn't that simple: bollo:~# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:39 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: --snip-- > If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are > one of > > 1. an idiot > 2. have very limited needs/no experience > 3. talking out of your ass > 4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for

deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still flagged as boot partition. although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve a backup of the /boot partition from another hard disk i have.

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 my root= optio

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
Ridge Chittenden wrote: >I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip with a measly 2MB of video RAM. Before getting a new mobo, you might see if a BIOS upgrade is available that lets you increase the video RAM. Also, there's some sort of video setting for some chipsets, like "IgnoreB

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Harland Christofferson wrote: an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount roo

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 22:39 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > --snip-- > > If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are > > one of > > > > 1. an idiot > > 2. have very limited needs/no experience > > 3. talking ou

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:37 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 14:10:33 +, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > One word: Ubuntu > > > > www.ubuntulinux.org > > > > You could do that with Debian, but why not just use something that is > > geared for Humans, that is based on Total Tec

Problem starting x server

2004-12-27 Thread Adrian S. Glover
Hello!   I'm new to Debian and this GNU/linux. I've installed from CD but the machine returns an error saying "I cannot start x server,  it is likely that it is not set up correctly etc etc". Then next screen says "warning process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested etc". Next

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Laurent CARON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Harland Christofferson wrote: > >>an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when >>trying to boot, i see: >> >>request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted >>VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:0

bluetooth keyboards on sarge

2004-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
I've spent some time searching setting up Bluetooth wireless keyboards (Apple wireless keyboard here) on Debian, but found no simple HOWTO. How do I go beyond nitrogen:/home/eugen# tail -f /var/log/messages Dec 28 16:54:24 localhost -- MARK -- Dec 28 17:14:24 localhost -- MARK -- Dec 28 17:34:24

Hard Disk Errors

2004-12-27 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[testing/sarge; 2.4.26-1-686-smp] Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog: Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \ status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \ error=0x40

Re: evolution 2.0 broken on sarge

2004-12-27 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 08:42 -0600, John Foster wrote: > > So, my question is, does anyone know how to get the wretched thing to > > work, or to file a more formal set of bug reports? I can only use my > > web-based email for so long before my eyeballs begin to bleed. I did a Sarge net install a

Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

2004-12-27 Thread Darryl Clarke
Hi List, Ever since I did a dist-upgrade a couple of weeks ago to get gnome 2.8 on my 'testing' box my syslog is filled with: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Now, this is because of gnome's volume manager checking each of my cdrom/dvd drives at regular intervals in ord

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 11:40 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > But I do absolutely agree that for mission critical systems, stable > > should be the only real choice. > > With or without backports? Or hand compiled packages? or Third

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:20:49PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: >> If you aren't in a domain new users in XP are by default added to the >> Admins group. In reality almost everybody at Microsoft ran as Admin on >> their own box. > There are Linux distributions that do the sam

Re: Problem starting x server

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
Adrian S. Glover wrote: Hello! I'm new to Debian and this GNU/linux. I've installed from CD but the machine returns an error saying "I cannot start x server, it is likely that it is not set up correctly etc etc". Setting up X is one of the most common difficulties newbies have, especially if

Re: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:42 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Hi List, > > Ever since I did a dist-upgrade a couple of weeks ago to get gnome 2.8 > on my 'testing' box my syslog is filled with: > > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > > Now, this is because of gnome's volume

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Tsai
I have debian installed on a toshiba m35 laptop. I before I used RedHat and FreeBSD. I'll be honest with you, with the M35, there is a lot of new hardware that isn't "fully" supported. For instance, the synaptics touchpad, you have to set the framerate to 40 or else you get funky behavior in

Re: Problem starting x server

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 17:08 +, Adrian S. Glover wrote: > Hello! > Adrian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Adrian, in case of a misconfigured xserver you can do a couple of things that all come to basically the same thing: modifying your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 This is your central xserver config

Re: wireless pcmcia card

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Tsai
I would recommend Orinoco, good Open Source community and very compatible with airsnort ;). Ryan D'Baisse wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:30:19 +, Glyn Tebbutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've also got 2 of these cards, once it was up and running it was fanastic, the only issue i had with it

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-27 Thread John Hasler
Endianto writes: > I connects to internet from KDE 3.2. KDE, Internet, KPPP then connect. Junk KPPP. Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then start the connection with pon and stop it with poff. If you must have a GUI install gpppon, which is a GUI for pon and poff. -- John Hasler

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-27 Thread Dani Belz
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:40:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Endianto writes: > > I connects to internet from KDE 3.2. KDE, Internet, KPPP then connect. > > Junk KPPP. Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then start the > connection with pon and stop it with poff. If you must have

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > # restricted > # alias=1 > initrd=/initrd.img You need to symlink boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7 to /initrd.img signature.asc Descr

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: >>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: >>> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem > >> It must be one of the most men

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] info> wrote: >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >> >cat /etc/lilo.conf >[..] >> image=/vmlinuz >> label=Linux >> read-only >> # restricted >> # alias=1 >> initrd=/ini

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Daniel B.
Rogério Brito wrote: ... For that very reason I'm using 1280x960 at 86Hz of refresh rate for quite some time (thanks to the Colas Modeline Generator [*] for generating good modelines for that). [*] http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines You young whippersnappers are using modeline _gener

Re: Debian's at(1) is so bad, what does GNU use?

2004-12-27 Thread Daniel B.
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: A> nohup sh -c "(sleep 100h; move-my-toes)" & Yeah, never rebooted where you live. Does at survive a reboot? Of course. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

2004-12-27 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:57:48 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:42 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Ever since I did a dist-upgrade a couple of weeks ago to get gnome 2.8 > > on my 'testing' box my syslog is filled with: > > > > Device not ready

/dev/uba in 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 and cdrecord

2004-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have an external ATAPI<->USB adapter with a DVD writer, so I can burn by using my USB interface. In 2.6.8 and preceeding, this device was mounted as a SCSI device, getting a device node /dev/sr0 and a SCSI ID. With kernel 2.6.9 and 2.6.10, my device is mounted as /dev/uba, and is not recog

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-12-27 Thread Daniel B.
Sam Halliday wrote: ... it IS differnet. if you start from the console, you should really do > `startx &` to detach from the console and allow you to continue working > on the console and X; hence 2 logins. No. That's not 2 logins. It's two things (a console shell and a whole X session) spawned

OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
Daniel B. wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: ... For that very reason I'm using 1280x960 at 86Hz of refresh rate for quite some time (thanks to the Colas Modeline Generator [*] for generating good modelines for that). [*] http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines You young whippersnappers are

Re: Hard Disk Errors

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Kenneth Jacker wrote: [testing/sarge; 2.4.26-1-686-smp] Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog: Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \ status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \

Re: exim4 doesn't connect to smarthost

2004-12-27 Thread Robin Battey
I just struggled with this for a few hours, found and solved the problem, and thought I'd post a response to explain what (I think) is going on in your situation. Exim (at least, exim4) in its infinite wisdom, caches transport "hints" in its retry and wait_transport databases. When my smarth

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: --snip-- > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? > > Back in the good old days I calculated modeline values by hand. > > > You had hands?! Luxury! We had to do it in our heads. And we enjoyed it! And I su

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > info> wrote: > > >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 > 17:47]: > > > >> >cat /etc/lilo.conf > >[..] > >> image=/vmlinuz > >> labe

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > --snip-- > > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? Back > > > in the good old days I calculated modeline values by hand. > > > > > You h

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:50:40 +1100, Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this thread is ridiculous, unworthy of further comment. Discussions of the politics of computing are hardly thought "ridiculous" by most serious people. I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he obvi

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 02:13 am, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutually exclusive, > as far as mainstream is concerned. Well, look who they've been trained by. > It's perfectly possible to turn a Unix into a point-and-drool box, and > if it ever h

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:49:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutually exclusive, > > as far as mainstream is concerned. > > Well, look who they've been trained by. Out of a population of available systems at the time the Redmond one was se

video mode extensions and i855GM

2004-12-27 Thread Yves Grenier
Hi! My asus laptop is running debian sarge, kernel 2.6.7, xfree86 4.3.0. The chipset is Intel 855GM and I use i810 driver. I would like to change the gamma of the display, and I do not succeed. I tried xgamma. It showed old and new gamma, but it had no effect on the screen. No error message! I

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-27 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Vineet Kumar said... > * Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041222 14:56]: > > # find $dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g=u,o=-rwx > > To reduce this yet further, you could do it as > > chmod -R g=u $dir > > This handles both directories and files in one pass, setting g

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Eric d'Alibut wrote: Discussions of the politics of computing are hardly thought "ridiculous" by most serious people. Correct, however, this is not a rational discussion. > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, Here you claim ignorance... > but he obviously does not hesita

[Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he > obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" > semantically -- with so-called revolutionary movements known for their > terrorist agendas. In wha

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:49 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Eric d'Alibut wrote: [snip > To give a sledgehammer example what you're doing is saying that the > *Republic* of the United States of America, the Irish *Republican?* Army and > the People's *Republic* of China are somehow in cahoots wit

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread John Hasler
Eric d'Alibut writes: > Be afraid kiddies; be very afraid. I'm not a "kiddie", and the only thing I see to fear here is that the sort of lunacy you are trying to promulgate is being taken seriously by far too many otherwise rational people. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:02 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he > > obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" > > semantically -- with so-called revolu

sid - udev, cdsymlinks.sh and kernel module cdrom

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second IDE and a CD-ROM as secondary. I see in /etc/udev/scripts a script for cdsymlinks - this reads /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info. Have no /proc/sys/dev/cdrom - a little googling suggests that this needs a modprobe cdrom and this does crea

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:21 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > --snip-- > > > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? Back > > > > in the

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Sam Watkins wrote: In what way does "ubuntu.org" have a terrorist agenda? Or does pacifist equate to terrorist in your dictionary? When a pacifist defends those who behead innocents on video tape is there a difference? "Terrorist" has become such a bull-shit word. No. Terrorist isn't use

Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread William Ballard
Sorry for starting a new thread; I deleted it. Microsoft has a whole division of people and has written special software ("PoliCheck") that automatically searches source code and source texts for politically sensitive words and culturally sensitive phrases. It's better to avoid such names alto

OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
William Ballard wrote: One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) John 1:1 Yep; that one should be free of controversy. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread cfk
On Monday 27 December 2004 14:36, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:21 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > > > > --snip-- > > > > > > > > You y

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam > for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest in > Iraq either way. If I remember correctly, the USA also supplied

Re: sid - udev, cdsymlinks.sh and kernel module cdrom

2004-12-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:32:20 +0100, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second IDE and a > CD-ROM > as secondary. > > I see in /etc/udev/scripts a script for cdsymlinks - this reads > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info. > > Have no /proc/sys/dev

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 01:15 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > By mainstream I understand high two-digit percentile. OS X is > completely niche with its 2-3% penetration. Debian doesn't exist as > far as market volume is concerned. Maybe in your area, but the local trade rags put Windows only arou

OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 02:51 pm, William Ballard wrote: > Sorry for starting a new thread; I deleted it. > > Microsoft has a whole division of people and has written special > software ("PoliCheck") that automatically searches source code and > source texts for politically sensitive words an

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > John 1:1 > > Yep; that one should be free of controversy. Hah! No kidding. For those who do not have a Bible, the verse cited reads, "In the beginning was the W

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 16:56 -0600, Kent West wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > > > > > > > John 1:1 > > Yep; that one should be free of controversy. Well, whatcha' 'spect from a bunch o' gol darned Commie Atheistic Hippies up there in Starbuc

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: If I remember correctly, the USA also supplied Iraq with weapons, when it was fighting Iran. And to the Taliban when it was fighting the USSR. How does that make the USA better than the rest of the world, exactly? It doesn't. Difference is we didn't let those past pract

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:15 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 02:51 pm, William Ballard wrote: [snip] > > > One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > Why? Debian didn't pick a boring name. Neither did Apache, and that > name (arguably) isn't politically correct. ab

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:57 +, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam > > for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest > > in

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 01:15 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > By mainstream I understand high two-digit percentile. OS X is > > completely niche with its 2-3% penetration. Debian doesn't exist as > > far as market volume is concerned. >

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> info> wrote: >> >> >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 >> 17:47]: >> > >> >> >cat /etc/lilo.c

Re: Make another Server

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
AntonioCadiz wrote: > I have a debian server (Master) with apache, postfix, mysql, ... and I > want to have now other debian server (Slave) whith the same data and > configuration than Master. I want that Master make schedulle copies of > itself in Slave. If Master fails, i want to connect Slave a

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread René Seindal
Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would name a product "Apache". There's the Apache attack helicopter, which the producer probably sells to a few select friends of the

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: US-30/I-84 freeway to WalMart and ask the kid in the electronics What part of the world is that? Erm, somewhere in the Nothern half of the US. I'm guessing norther Oregon, Southern Washington or maybe somewhere in Wisc

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