Re: Re: Dual boot Linux on one box (about partitions)

2004-12-28 Thread trebuh
About dual boot: I have xp and one linux kind booting on mbr  while linux-one use grub for bootloader for all distros   All other kinds of linux distro are not using mbr but boot on there root partion. That root partion is used in grub menu of the only linux using mbr as boot.   So the grub l

contract bridge program

2004-12-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
Has anyone ever found an open source contract bridge program. Thanks in advance R.J.P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt alternates command

2004-12-28 Thread Randy Orrison
Mike M wrote: 2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz? I used: # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/ # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz # vi NEWS.Debian It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool. Others have pointed out zless (or even just "less" by itself, check

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:25:43 GMT, "Miquel van Smoorenburg" writes: 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,

Boot problem with a moved ext3 partition

2004-12-28 Thread jean
Hi, I have a laptop with windows XP and Debian sarge, the boot is from windows XP. I've transformed the debian ext3 partion in an extended partition with inside the orginal partition (I've used Partion Magic 8.0). The operation terminated with success and then I generated a new linux.bin to boot

Re: numlockx problem?

2004-12-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 27 2004, Greg Norris wrote: > Normally you're prompted for conffile replacement when the package is > upgraded, but I believe this can be overridden via /etc/dpkg/dpkg.conf. This is something that I don't understand: why aren't conffiles replacement handled by debconf? That would be nice ju

Re: Boot problem with a moved ext3 partition

2004-12-28 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On 28 Dec 2004, jean wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop with windows XP and Debian sarge, the boot is from > windows XP. I've transformed the debian ext3 partion in an extended > partition with inside the orginal partition (I've used Partion Magic > 8.0). The operation terminated with succe

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread saravanan ganapathy
I googled and couldn't find the .deb kernel package which supports highmem( its available in testing version only) So I think I need to use the latest 2.4.x kernel from kernel.org. If I am using debian kernel packages, then I can get security updates from debian. Is kernel.org provides security

Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Robert S
I have a debian (woody) server running at work and would like to back up the entire system onto some sort of removable media (USB hard drive, DVD, removable harddrive etc). I do daily backups of /etc and /home using tar, but would like to be able to restore my system quickly in the event of a

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
> > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:06:39 -0800 (PST), saravanan > > ganapathy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hai, > > > I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM > > > server. I have enabled smp support by installing > > > kernel-image-2.4.18-smp. Now it shows dual > > processor. > > > But th

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
May it an opportunity to migrate to Sarge. Any how Sarge is on the egde to be the stable version. hth, Jerome saravanan ganapathy wrote: I googled and couldn't find the .deb kernel package which supports highmem( its available in testing version only) So I think I need to use the latest 2.4.x kern

Re: numlockx problem?

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:37:40 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 27 2004, Greg Norris wrote: > > Normally you're prompted for conffile replacement when the package is > > upgraded, but I believe this can be overridden via /etc/dpkg/dpkg.conf. > > This is something that I don't

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Robert S wrote: > I have a debian (woody) server running at work and would like to back up the > entire system onto some sort of removable media (USB hard drive, DVD, > removable harddrive etc). I do daily backups of /etc and /home using tar, > but would like to be able

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:56:18 +1100, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a debian (woody) server running at work and would like to back up the > entire system onto some sort of removable media (USB hard drive, DVD, > removable harddrive etc). I do daily backups of /etc and /home using tar,

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

2004-12-28 Thread Chris
> "Andrea" == Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrea> What's the output of "ls /etc/udev/rules.d"? local.rules udev.rules@ udev.rules is a symlink to /etc/udev/udev.rules local.rules contains the following: BUS="scsi",SYSFS{model}="Python 04106-XXX",KERNEL="nst0",SYM

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

2004-12-28 Thread Chris
> "Jim" == Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> [1] Maybe this is related to the problem reported as Bug Jim> #287225 against udev at http://bugs.debian.org If your Jim> problem is (in part) the same, you'll find a workaround in Jim> that correspondence. Will check

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Robert S
>> Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the >> filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in >> Windows)? > > A backup is easily done with dd, for example: > dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1M | gzip -c9 > /media/usbdrive/sda1.bin.gz > > When restoring you m

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread saravanan ganapathy
Thx Jonathan for ur help . I got the kernel(2.4.28) from kernel.org and started recompiling. My steps: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.28 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-smp .config edit .config and include CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y & CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-image Then it prompts lot o

nfs.statd bind to internal interface only

2004-12-28 Thread Adrian Levi
I'm trying to remove all of the servers listening on my external interface after upgrading my firewall from woody to sarge. The last one is rpc.statd AFAIK it is started and stopped from /etc/init.d/nfs-common. There is an environment variable called $STATDOPTS and I can't find where it is defi

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

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:39 +, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> 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: > >>> [snip] > This quote doesn't mention "a time t

Problem with network after new kernel tryout

2004-12-28 Thread marko . helle
Hello Users, A couple of weeks ago I tasted debian first time and was so excited about what Linux can offer these days that I wanted to give a serious try to move permanetly to linux world and leave windows behind. Installing Sarge went without any complications, everything worked quite nice, altho

Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" 24/7. Is there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 periodically for a certain amount of time, check for activity, wait till free and then close it. This would be a cron'ed equivalent of bringing up Guarddog or

distro maker...

2004-12-28 Thread Muhammad Reza
Dear All, I'm interested in make a linux distro based on debian, just like as ubuntu, knoppix or libranet does. Can someone give me reference..howto..URL link of how to do that ? any kind help will appriciated regards reza -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Wayward syslog items

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
My syslog has failed items for pppd and chat. Just fine since I have no pppd connection and no chat. Question is why I am getting this? I did not see anything appropriate in /etc/init.d. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Exim4. When smarthost fails

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
Had messages frozen. Reset bounce timeout to hours. Messages unfrozen, errors ignored but messages not sent. Posting on this list about exim_tidydb. Tried that. No more frozen messages but smarthost timed out and nothing was sent. Contacted the provider being used as the smarthost but these guy

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
Something I proposed a while back: A workable backtracking mechanism in apt. There already is for single "off-site" packages--an option to explicitely enable a "downgrade" back to the original. Simplest would be the backtrack to the previous systems configuration. Snapshots would be a larger an

Re: nfs.statd bind to internal interface only

2004-12-28 Thread Adrian Levi
Poor form to reply to my own post but have figured out what was causing the error message, (the settings need to be in quotes) and that $STATDOPTS is defined in /etc/defaults/nfs-common. The daemon still seems to be ignoring the setting, it dosen't fail with an error but using a combination of

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

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:07:49 +0100, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Andrea" == Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andrea> What's the output of "ls /etc/udev/rules.d"? > > local.rules udev.rules@ > > udev.rules is a symlink to /etc/udev/udev.rules > > local.rules

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:02:00 +1100, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the > >> filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in > >> Windows)? > > > > A backup is easily done with dd, for example: > > dd i

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Tom Allison
Eugen Leitl wrote: 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 secu

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

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 22:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:39 +, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> 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:

Re: Problem with network after new kernel tryout

2004-12-28 Thread Bob Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Users, A couple of weeks ago I tasted debian first time and was so excited about what Linux can offer these days that I wanted to give a serious try to move permanetly to linux world and leave windows behind. Installing Sarge went without any complications, everything

Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Gear
Hi folks, A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? Back on Red Hat, i could 'rpm -iv' (install) a new kernel package rather than 'rpm -Uv' (upgrade), and it would upda

sid dvd jigdo site

2004-12-28 Thread Bob Alexander
Is there some dependable site serving sid images in DVD format ? I have used a site in .hu about ten days ago and now wanted to build the updated images but it complains about a mismatch between the NEW .jigdo and .template files I have just downlaoded from there. Thank you, Bob PS Just in case

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi, H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Nicolas de Sereville_, on 24/12/04 05:13,typed: Hi list, I have the following problem using debian sid (kernel 2.6.8-1). I am trying to get an icon automatically when I plug in my usb stick or camera. I use udev / hal / gnome-volume-manager. As a normal user the lin

Re: Exim4. When smarthost fails

2004-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 11:52, David Baron wrote: > Had messages frozen. Reset bounce timeout to hours. Messages unfrozen, > errors ignored but messages not sent. > > Posting on this list about exim_tidydb. Tried that. No more frozen messages > but smarthost timed out and nothing was sent. Cont

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 13:15, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi folks, > > A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image > packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image > package installed as well? I'm using grub, and debian puts in an entry for every ins

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

2004-12-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:46:33 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Strange LVM on RAID Behaviour with Sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Leni Mayo
Lucas Barbuto wrote: > ... > I get this error at the top of dmesg (repeated many times): > >> devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc I saw the same error message on a sarge installation with a 2.6.8-10 kernel, but not the 2.4.27 kernel. Recompiling

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:33:56 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > H. S. wrote: > > > Apparently, _Nicolas de Sereville_, on 24/12/04 05:13,typed: > > [...] > > However when I use pmount in a terminal as a normal user ("pmount"), it > tells me: > zsh: permission deni

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

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: You missed on of the best: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time

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

2004-12-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:16:01 -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> You missed on of the best: > >> > >> "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under > >> the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die;

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

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Wim De Smet wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:46:33 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sam Watkins wrote: No. Terrorist isn't used enough. In fact "Islamic Terrorist" isn't used enough. People who behead other people with a machete so those being beheaded Calling people islamic terror

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread John Hasler
Tom Allison writes: > Initially everything was single user in the world of DOS and dial up > connectivity was the only way to really have an opportunity of getting a > virus. No. Initially there was no connectivity and the only way to get a virus was from an infected floppy disk. -- John Hasler

Re: Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-28 Thread e.fontaine-lavoie
> > De: Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/12/28 mar. AM 12:14:14 GMT-05:00 > À: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Objet: Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:10:08 +0100, Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: > > I still have alsamixer: function s

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> Do I need hotplug installed for the kernel to see the drive? It's > currently not installed. no, you shouldnt (although it is a good package), instead try a different kernel. (either compile your own from kernel.org or up/downgrade to either 2.6.7 or 2.6.9) -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRI

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

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Wim De Smet wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:16:01 -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: You missed on of the best: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time

Re: Missing character set "ISO8859-1"

2004-12-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 20:37 +0100, Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all, > > When I execute graphical program under kde in command line, I have this > warning: ( > Missing character set "ISO8859-1". ) > How can I fixe this? > i am unfamiliar with kde and that error message, have you tried googling for th

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread Colin
saravanan ganapathy wrote: Thx Jonathan for ur help . I got the kernel(2.4.28) from kernel.org and started recompiling. My steps: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.28 cp /boot/config-2.4.18-smp .config edit .config and include CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y & CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y make-kpkg --revision=debian.2.4 kernel-im

gmailfs

2004-12-28 Thread Marc Demlenne
Hi, Has anyone already try GmailFS on debian ? Is there a way to find the packages needed by apt-get install gmailfs ? Dépend: fuse-utils (>= 2.0+2.1pre0) mais 1.3-1 devra être installé Dépend: python-fuse (>= 2.0+2.1pre0) mais 1.3-1 devra être installé The asked packages arn't availa

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:33:56 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, H. S. wrote: Apparently, _Nicolas de Sereville_, on 24/12/04 05:13,typed: [...] However when I use pmount in a terminal as a normal user ("pmount"), it tells me: zsh:

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

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:22 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --snip-- > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the > teachings of Mohammed and Islam. > 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to > the Bible and the Word o

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-28 Thread Endianto
Dear John & Dani, After running pppconfig and answer the questions, here is what I got from : # pon # plog - Dec 28 22:02:38 localhost pppd[2235]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root, uid 0 Dec 28 22:02:39 localhost pppd[2236]: abort on (BUSY) Dec 28 22:02:39 localhost pppd[2236]: abort on (NO

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:46:34 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > Hi, thank you for your help, > > I reinstalled the "pmount", "gnome-volume-manager" and > "gnome-desktop-environement" packages. Now I have: > ls -l /usr/bin/pmount > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root plugdev 22K

Re: gmailfs

2004-12-28 Thread George Iordanou
Has anyone already try GmailFS on debian ? Is there a way to find the packages needed by apt-get install gmailfs ? Dépend: fuse-utils (>= 2.0+2.1pre0) mais 1.3-1 devra être installé Dépend: python-fuse (>= 2.0+2.1pre0) mais 1.3-1 devra être installé The asked packages arn't available on '

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

2004-12-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Ecclesiates 3:1-8 > >>>= bull > >>What do you think "a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;" means, > >>then? > >> > >>I agree that the Q'uran contradicts itself numerous times, but there is > >>no evidence of such thi

Re: gmailfs

2004-12-28 Thread Marc Demlenne
> Give apt-get.org a try Yep, already done... But nothing found ... I should have mention it in my first message. Thanks for the reply ! -- Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread Laurent CARON
David Baron wrote: A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" 24/7. Is there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 periodically for a certain amount of time, check for activity, wait till free and then close it. This would be a cron'ed equivalent of brin

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

2004-12-28 Thread James Keasley
Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wim De Smet wrote: >> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:46:33 -0800, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Sam Watkins wrote: >>> No. Terrorist isn't used enough. In fact "Islamic Terrorist" isn't >>> used >>>enough. People who behead other people w

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-28 Thread Dani Belz
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:21:50PM +0700, Endianto wrote: Hi Endianto, looks like your modem is never even dialing... :/ Is there any pppd error after some time? Normally pppd gives you an exit code which you can look up in "man pppd". If your modem setup was correct it would look something like

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:39 +0100, Laurent CARON wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > >A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" 24/7. > >Is > >there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 periodically for > >a > >certain amount of time, check for activity,

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread Laurent CARON
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:39 +0100, Laurent CARON wrote: David Baron wrote: A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" 24/7. Is there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 periodically for a certain amount of time, check for

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

2004-12-28 Thread Ian Meyer
Ian Meyer wrote: 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

Re: Exim4. When smarthost fails

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 16:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can't tell without more info.  Whats in mainlog/reject log re these > messages? > > Whats in your exim4.conf Once messages were unfrozen, the error messages are: ... R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reach

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

2004-12-28 Thread Kent West
Okay, folks; perhaps it's time to start tapering off (or quitting cold-turkey) with this very off-topic, non-Debian-related thread? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
John Hasler wrote: No. Initially there was no connectivity and the only way to get a virus was from an infected floppy disk. *cough*BBSes*cough*Fido-Net*cough* I remember having a 300bps modem well in advance of any virus back in the day of the C=64, the CoCo and the Amiga. ;P --

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 17:39, Laurent CARON wrote: > >A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" > > 24/7. Is there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 > > periodically for a certain amount of time, check for activity, wait till > > free and then clo

emacs dies in latest sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
Never thought this would happen! I just updated my srage system yesterday (December 27). Todey I tried editing an ordinary text file. Emacs crashes after I enter about one line of text. After restarting it, id dies instantly. It just has time to flash its window onto the screen, and then th

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

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Parker
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the > teachings of Mohammed and Islam. > 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to > the Bible and the Word of God.

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Paul, Paul Gear wrote: > A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new > kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing > kernel-image package installed as well? > > Back on Red Hat, i could 'rpm -iv' (install) a new kernel package > rather than 'rpm -Uv' (

how to retrieve debconf defaults?

2004-12-28 Thread Leonardo Canducci
is there some way to make debconf forget about previous choices (and use first install defaults) when running dpkg-reconfigure foo? thanks, Leonardo Canducci -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:40:48 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>>Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill >>> itself? >>Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT >>kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ itself and its >>caller. >Any hints on wha

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or you could just set up knockd on the box. It will be a lot safer since > the port will only be opened when you request it with a particular knock > sequence. With a cron job that port will end up being open to the world > at particula

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Aube
saravanan ganapathy wrote: > I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM > server. I have enabled smp support by installing > kernel-image-2.4.18-smp. Now it shows dual processor. > But the os detects my RAM as 900 MB only. How do I > enable the os to detect actual RAM(2 GB)? Which architec

exim4: Hide local mail name in outgoing mail. domainname for dsl user

2004-12-28 Thread Leonardo Canducci
is that a good choice for a standalone pc with dsl fulltime internet access configured as "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail"? shouldn't the same task be handled by /etc/email-addresses file? one more question: shuld such a pc (connected via a dsl provider) have a domain name

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:46:34 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Hi, thank you for your help, I reinstalled the "pmount", "gnome-volume-manager" and "gnome-desktop-environement" packages. Now I have: ls -l /usr/bin/pmount -rwsr-xr-- 1 r

Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:42:40 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > I reinstalled the "udev" and "hal" packages and I have the "fam" package: > ii fam2.7.0-6File Alteration Monitor > > It doesn't change anything, the icons still don't appear

Re: Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2004-12-28 Thread talie-18
I want to instal colinux with debian could you please help me I am using a windows 2000 pro it seems like the image file doesn't load I want to use linux I have been trying for 2 weeks now this sucks but I am not giving up

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.28 17:42, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:40:48 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>>Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill >>> itself? >>Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT >>kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ it

Re: distro maker...

2004-12-28 Thread Brian
Hi, I'm interested in make a linux distro based on debian, just like as ubuntu, knoppix or libranet does. Can someone give me reference..howto..URL link of how to do that ? any kind help will appriciated Try the deb pkg, dfsbuild. Or morphix is a highly configurable roll-your-own-distro. Brian -

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:02:16 GMT, Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: >> So to me it seems like "signal(SIGSTOP, SIG_IGN);" either isn't >> honored, and killall5 itself killed, or else it kills something else >> essential, but what could that be? >No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all

Re: exim4: Hide local mail name in outgoing mail. domainname for dsl user

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:41:05 +0100, Leonardo Canducci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is that a good choice for a standalone pc with dsl fulltime internet > access configured as "mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or > fetchmail"? > shouldn't the same task be handled by /etc/email-addresses fil

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

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Wim De Smet wrote: Calling people islamic terrorists is about the same as claiming that Islam is responsible for their actions. Facts are facts. Outside of a few isolated incidents with the Irish where has the majority of terrorism come from in the past several decades? Hell, outside a few i

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

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto Sanchez wrote: 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. Well not entirely true. While terrorism in and of itself is laid out there are rules to it. Rules like non-combatants are not to be harmed, innocents will be spar

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

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:22 am, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > The difference is this: > > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the > teachings of Mohammed and Islam. > 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to > the Bible and the Word of God

Re: Correct syntax for mkinitrd command?

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Tsai
Andrew, I believe if you compile the kernel "the debian way" as they like to say on this list. your job is a lot easier. after configuring your kernel instead of make bzimage, do make-kpg --initrd -rev 1 kernel_image *Note you need to have the appropriate packages installed. then cd .. dpkg -i

Re: emacs dies in latest sarge

2004-12-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
Hendrik Boom wrote: Never thought this would happen! I just updated my srage system yesterday (December 27). Todey I tried editing an ordinary text file. Emacs crashes after I enter about one line of text. After restarting it, id dies instantly. It just has time to flash its window onto the

Re: Correct syntax for mkinitrd command?

2004-12-28 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:43:10PM -0500, Paul Tsai wrote: > Andrew, > I believe if you compile the kernel "the debian way" as they like to > say on this list. your job is a lot easier. > > after configuring your kernel instead of make bzimage, do > make-kpg --initrd -rev 1 kernel_image Typo sh

OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
I have one of those D-Link USB network interfaces, which are wonderful. Plug it in, get a regular 10/100 Ethernet interface, supported by Linux and working just fine. However, right now I am in dire need to establish a link between two machines, and my beloved ethernet cable will, of course, not do

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

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I agree that the Q'uran contradicts itself numerous times, but there is no evidence of such thing in the Bible. Care to back up your statement? Y'know, I was going to pick a few examples but after about 10 pages I decided just to give you the link to enjoy: http://www.

Re: the best solution to have a presentation support movie,text,graphics , background music under debian sarge.

2004-12-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
> > I have a debian sarge (or for woody) , I would like to make a > presentation channel ,something like a slideshow supports pictures , > text, movie with animation as non stop information , maybe also > source of the camera inside this presentation , so what is the best > solution ( software .

Re: Exim4. When smarthost fails

2004-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 15:34, David Baron wrote: > Once messages were unfrozen, the error messages are: > ... R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached > for any host > > after exim_tinydb, no more freezeups but: > ...R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (11

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:13 am, martin f krafft wrote: > What I really want is a USB-attachable network interface that has > a crosslink/normal switch, or automatically tries one after the > other to find a link. Do you know if such a device exists? The closest thing we have in stock would

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

2004-12-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:39:51AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Wim De Smet wrote: > >Calling people islamic terrorists is about the same as claiming that > >Islam is responsible for their actions. > > Facts are facts. Outside of a few isolated incidents with the Irish > where has the majority

Enigma

2004-12-28 Thread David Baron
My seven-year-old daughter has become addicted to "Enigma". This is one of the most attractive and varied games around. Not that either of us has figured out the objective of most of the boards, not to mention to coordination to get there! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:24:13 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 10:13 am, martin f krafft wrote: > > > What I really want is a USB-attachable network interface that has > > a crosslink/normal switch, or automatically tries one after the > > other to find a

Re: [Way off topic] babble babble bubble

2004-12-28 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Facts are facts. Outside of a few isolated incidents with the Irish where has the majority of terrorism come from in the past several decades? Hell, outside a few isolated Irish incidents where has *ALL* terrorism come from? Let me guess... from iraq? Oh, don't think so... why invade it th

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 08:14 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > No. Initially there was no connectivity and the only way to get a virus > > was from an infected floppy disk. > > *cough*BBSes*cough*Fido-Net*cough* > > I remember having a 300bps modem well in advance of any

Re: [Way off topic] babble babble bubble

2004-12-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Let me guess... from iraq? Oh, don't think so... why invade it then? Because of WMDs? nope... Already covered. So nice of you to snip it all. Riiight... when it's the others, it's for some oil scam, but when it's the USA, it's out of good heart. How could I not think

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

2004-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 10:16 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >>> I agree that the Q'uran contradicts itself numerous times, but there is > >>> no evidence of such thing in the Bible. Care to back up your statement? > > Y'know, I was going to pick a few examples but after a

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