Re: [OT] Complaint - spam-spam-spam ( monty python )

2003-02-28 Thread Cobb
Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: Also, see http://incanus.net/~nnorman/sound/spam.au and the rest of the spam sounds http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/spam.sounds/ mpeg samples for testing your sound/video/ra players http://www.Linux-Video.net/Samples c ya alvi

Kernel compilation

2002-10-30 Thread cobb
I have not been able to find a document specific to Debian on upgrading the kernel. I am running 2.2.20, but would like to use a 2.4 or better kernel. Can anyone explain it, or point me to a document SPECIFIC to Debian? I keep finding Redhat-specific information. - Jimmy ps: hi, I'm new to the

TV output, and my new project

2002-11-29 Thread cobb
Hello, I am going to be setting up my Linux machine, which is currently only being used as an Internet gateway/firewall and FTP/HTTP server, as an entertainment "server" as well, as seen in this crude diagram: http://tinyurl.com/33tb My question is, will TV output on, say, a GeForce 4 MX

HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Kevin Cobb
r tools such as Ghost and doesn't seem to be applicable.  Are there any Linux tools or procedures to accomplish this?  Unfortunately this is a mission critical box and I am not a Linux pro.yet!   Any help any of you might be able to provide would be much appreciated!   Thanks in advance,

Re: HDA is crashing..How can I duplicate it?

2000-06-12 Thread Kevin Cobb
ve from the command line? I'm sorry for the fledgling questions, I'm an MS guy who's trying to cross over. Kevin - Original Message - From: "servicom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000

Adding Date & Time to a script's output log

2017-06-01 Thread SUZANNE COBB
List, good afternoon, I am using a script to check and update a dynamic IP address in our DNS records. I have tried to add a date and time output to a log file which records IP address changes and updates - but the change I inserted is not working. I think the problem is that I have not under

gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Cobb
erent generations of compiler. One, maybe two, but not this fiasco. Where can I go to get the missing libs?? [ backports is also no help in this ]. Anyway, why is gcc-3.2 on the download site so incomplete? I also couldn't get 3.3 up and flying for very similar reasons - key libs miss

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-22 Thread David A. Cobb
Windows weren't such a piece of crap I would have about run out of patience and chucked the Linux install altogether. On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote: After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole insta

Re: gcc-3.2: what happened to libgcc1, libg2c0, binutils

2004-11-27 Thread David A. Cobb
Alexander Sack wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 00:19, David A. Cobb wrote: After five months of struggling ( I had connectivity very briefly before an "upgrade" make my whole installation useless and sent me back to the CD's ), it appears that I nee

Available printers

2005-06-21 Thread David A. Cobb
everything was working fine until one of my frequent aptitude--upgrade runs included the cupsys packages. Meanwhile, this has convinced my wife that I only installed Linux to annoy her. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian

cron, or something, chatters too much

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
't want it on my TTY ! I pops into the middle of an info screen or my editor or whatever else I'm trying to do. And it's not always easy to get rid of. How can I tell PAM or cron or whatever to log its complaints somewhere else; or to block any daemon logging messages from my T

dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
moved or downgraded. Right now I've fiddled sources.list so only 'testing' stuff is visible, since that is where I want to go. Isn't there a "better" way? It looked as though the "-o=whatever" was the trick, but I can't put anything there that do

dpkg-query --showformat

2004-10-02 Thread David A. Cobb
e file -- Package: ... Version: However, ${Filename} does not output anything -- always blanks. So, what's the magic? I'm running short on goats here ( and the smell of burnt goat hair is really annoying ). -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's

Newbie problems galore

2004-07-15 Thread David A. Cobb
I get dpkg / apt / aptitude to clean my machine totally, or what files should I remove to make all this stuff go away? Or, would it really be quicker to re-init my partitions and start again from the CD? Thanks, all, for your patience. I hope I see some answers before I do something mo

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
inline-> Kent West wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. My plan is to go to .26, but in the meanwhile I can't use X Windo

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches for 2.4.26. M

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-15, David A. Cobb penned: [snip] I don't have the brain power right now to answer your question about kernels ... so moving on ... I need to pass things back-and-forth between Linux and Windoze. I see references to VFAT FS on the web site, but fo

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
Ryan Waye wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:19:03 -0400, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nV

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-16 Thread David A. Cobb
e). But my email bounced. Anyway, it's not very mature - obviously. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy softwar

Re: Newbie problems galore

2004-07-17 Thread David A. Cobb
r info, it's hard to guess what correction was a good idea and what wasn't. Doesn't the Base-System create process leave a log behind anywhere??? David A. Cobb wrote: Hi! I purchased a CD set of "Debian 3.0 "Woody" Official" and started to install it. Firs

"Warning" failure in chroot . . .

2004-07-17 Thread David A. Cobb
REPLY INLINE Mark Pictor wrote: Well I guess I'm gonna reply to two people at once... --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <>Not a very successful day!!! Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my network controller. Two occurrences of "Warning&

Re: "Warning" failure in chroot . . .

2004-07-19 Thread David A. Cobb
used separate partitions. (Unless, of course, it was a windows partition!) Less install headache, and you don't run out of space on one partition while wasting space elsewhere... -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian m

Using APT with a local mirror

2004-07-24 Thread David A. Cobb
URCES.LIST? And, as a P.S., do the debian and backport servers / mirrors support RSYNC? It would surely save me a lot of manual stuff. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgri

Cannot get this virtual package right!

2004-09-09 Thread David A. Cobb
ject library by the same name that I should have but do not. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!

[Linux newbie asks:] Why "dhelp_parse: no title found for directory "

2004-09-09 Thread David A. Cobb
directory Apps " So, what am I missing here? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! begin:vcard fn:Da

Re: Cannot get this virtual package right!

2004-09-10 Thread David A. Cobb
REPLIES INLINE Travis Crump wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many key components up to the bleeding edge. I have apt at 0.6.25 I keep getting (aptitude, and others) depends on "libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3; however: Package libapt-p

Problems with .deb signatures

2004-09-18 Thread David A. Cobb
an idea of what might be happening? TIA -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! begin:vcard fn:David A. Co

Problems with apt

2005-07-30 Thread David A. Cobb
nyone give me a clue? TIA -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linux, I'm FREE at last! Life is too short to

Re: Problems with apt

2005-07-31 Thread David A. Cobb
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > David A. Cobb wrote: > >> After using it successfully several times a week, every run of apt-get >> or aptitude now ends with: >> >> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >> E: Error occurred while processing python2.3 (NewVersion2) >>

Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-06 Thread David A. Cobb
kg to re-install itself and that will cure whatever other things are destroyed. Can anyone identify what directories and files dpkg requires to exist? TIA -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner.&q

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only

Re: Broken /var filesystem

2005-08-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Joey Hess wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: I found a huge problem with my /var filesystem. Or, at least, fsck was going to take all day and more fixing 11 inode block numbers each pass. It's supposed to be possible to clean /var, or at least FHS suggests so. Not really, it only

Re: setting up clamav-freshclam on debian-user mailing list

2005-07-07 Thread David A. Cobb
'm showing ClamAV 0.85.1-2; and I do not get any failures showing during apt install or boot up. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at las

Two questions about building kernels

2005-08-29 Thread David A. Cobb
initrd kernel won't boot? It panics with Cannot open root device on (3,01), please specify a correct root. My lilo.conf indeed says root=/dev/hda1 which is correct. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actio

Concerning APPEND-TO-VERSION in make-kpkg

2005-09-08 Thread David A. Cobb
o I have to forcably get rid of the header line in '.config' where the LocalVersion appears? I am already removing 'include/linux/version.h' (and debian/official) before building. Are there other places where I need to remove remnants of the code? -- David A. Cobb, Softwa

Concerning make-kpkg --append-to-version

2005-09-08 Thread David A. Cobb
o I have to forcably get rid of the header line in '.config' where the LocalVersion appears? I am already removing 'include/linux/version.h' (and debian/official) before building. Are there other places where I need to remove remnants of the code? -- David A. Cobb, Softwa

cvspserver and frequent "inetd address already in use"

2005-09-22 Thread David A. Cobb
e conflict it might help, but other than that, can anyone give me a clue? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Free at last! Free at last! Using Linu

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb
the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. Could anyone confirm this. Thanks... -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinn

Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread David A. Cobb
ctly conflict with the older is not likely to break an application.  Is this a bug in apt?  If so, is it a known bug? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.Fre