Re: ALSA or OSS?

2004-12-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:59:19 -0500 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen a lot of discussion about how to get alsa to work. The main > > advice seems to be to disable OSS, which seems to sneak modules of its > > own into the kernel. This leaves me wondering -- which sound system

Re: web mail interface

2004-12-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:29:47 -0800 (PST) "Ron Farrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, December 8, 2004 4:29, Robert Vangel said: > > Gregory Seidman wrote: > >> I use squirrelmail on top of courier-imap, but I haven't tried it > >with> particularly large mailboxes. I have no trouble sending em

Re: howto rescue an install with an USB keyboard??

2004-12-09 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:22:28 +0100 Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > sometimes the reboot doesn't go well and the IPL gets stopped at the > stage where some disk needs attending... > > and there i am blocked > its now the 4th time i reinstalled the base system, since the

Re: mplayer and apt

2004-12-11 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:06:05 +0100 Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there any repository containing mplayer package? Hello, Yes, Christian Marillat maintains a repository with mplayer packages for stable, testing and unstable. Use the following line (replace 'testing' wit

Re: {ugh} Front Page Extensions

2004-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:30:59 -0500 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been on this list awhile now, and I've never seen this topic. I > was wondering if anyone here would consider mentoring a newbie > (off-list) with the installation of {ugh} FP Extensions on an > up-to-date Debian

Re: Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:54:24 +0100 Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After struggling with the onboard sata controller, on my brand new > Dell XPS gen 3 at work, I finally got Debian booted and installed, > using debian-installer rc2. Unfortunately, a few kinks remain to b

Re: Woody & Nforce 2 Chipset Mainboard Drivers - Frustrating

2004-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:01:36 +1100 "Byron Hillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Newbie here...but learning. > > I'm trying to get the Nvidia Nforce 2 Drivers running on a pretty > standard Debian > Woody Install. I'm running the 2.4.18 kernel (the optional one in > Woody(bf24),

Re: Dell XPS gen 3 trouble

2004-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:01:51 +0100 Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:55:20PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > > > The machine comes stock with a raid controller. I had to disable the > raid functionality for d-i to act

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:56:06 -0500 Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / hotplug > issues, getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, alsaconf, XF86Config-4 > etc. This was all to get a digicam and a flashdrive to be usefu

Re: Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:27:46 +0100 Thomas Ruschival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like to buy a 54 Mbit PCI-Wlan card for my PC, I googled a bit > through the internet and discovered that most Cards are only supported > through Ndiswrapper. What is a good, cheap naively supported adapter? > I kno

Re: Alsa Master is Mono?

2004-12-13 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:09:42 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Audigy2. I've done no special twiddling. I use Kernel 2.6.9 > with built in Alsa. > > Part of the output of "amixer" is: > Simple mixer control 'Master',0 > Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined > Playbac

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:28:16 -0500 Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > The Windows approach is fine, if you have the patience to deal with > > a lot of crashes, blue screens and problems without a seeming > > reason, cause or solution. Th

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:11:52 -0500 Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Jones wrote: > > lol. > > > > Sorry win2k/XP cannot find any diskspress f3 to exit and > > reboot > > > > Sorry your hardware is not supported by win2k/win2k3. > > > > This product is obsolete we

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:48:23 -0500 Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > I think the question answers itself when they have to stop adding > > features just so they can work on bugs and security holes. And they > > did make that announc

Re: PPPoE

2004-12-18 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:26:36 +0100 Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got it working. > > I used the unstable version of PPPoE and PPPoEconf. > > When I ran pppoeconf I got that gettext.sh didn't exist. I then > installet gettext-base and ran pppoeconf again. > > Then it works! > > Sometimes

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-18 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:37:21 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 18 December 2004 6:23 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > That's just pure hogwash. > > > > My outlook.PST file is 679,905KB, and works quite well on a 933MHz > > laptop with 256MB RAM. > > You're just lucky. Try

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-20 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:16:15 + Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > asg on #debian (freenode) mentioned using gpg + a text file + wipe > (for the tempfile). Seems like there should be an easier, more > convenient way of doing it, but his suggestion would certainly do the > job. :) I've b

Qmail Replacement?

2004-12-20 Thread Jacob S
Ok, I know Postfix is the mail server most people use when they're leaving qmail, but that's only the first part of the solution I'm looking for. My current setup is using qmail in conjunction with vpopmail and qmailadmin. Vpopmail is handy not just because I host several virtual domains, but also

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-21 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:10:38 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Jacob S > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:16:15 + > > Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > asg on #de

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:18:34 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse > is hidden? According to packages.debian.org, it's in the package libtimedate-perl. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:18:02 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module > > > Date::Parse is hidden? > > > > apt-get instal

Re: KDE screen problems

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:21:18 -0800 (PST) Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed sarge on an older machine. I do not > know the video > card specs. In kde the screen is pixelated. How can I > change the > settings to try a different resolution or whatever I > may need to > chang

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the gaim > buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried downgrading > to version 1.0.2, but the problem persists. has anyone else

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-05 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:54:43 +0100 (CET) "Vegard Lundby Rekaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB > RAM and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with > such a slow machine running debian (or any other linux dist)? I'

Re: Importing Windows Media Player URLs to RhythmBox

2005-01-07 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:44:57 -0500 Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does one import a stream intended for Windows Media Player in to a > Linux application like RhythmBox? The link I'm tring to access is: > > http://www.cfra.com/listen/index.asp# > > It's contents include: > >

Re: SSH Blocking (and then IMAP passwords)

2005-04-30 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:29:50 -0700 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:26:04PM -0700, Beretta wrote: > > The windows ssh client PuTTY.exe will easily fit on a floppy disk > > (368KB) and the private key half of a private/public key pair should > > consume around 2K

Semi-OT: cPanel :-(

2005-05-02 Thread Jacob S
Does anybody on the list use cPanel on a Debian server? I notice the cpanel website says Debian support is in beta... One of our customers at work wants a cpanel server and I really don't want to use another distro on any of our servers. TIA, Jacob P.S. Yes, I am aware of several of the GPL con

Re: sarge freeze, server colocation

2005-05-04 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 4 May 2005 14:24:59 -0400 William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to colocate a debian server and now I don't know if I > should install woody or sarge. > I'll be colocating it in 1-3 weeks. I am thinking that I should > probably use sarge. > Any advice? As long as you are care

Re: Telnet Problem

2005-05-05 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 06 May 2005 08:58:50 +0500 (IST) Arun Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sir , > >I am new to qmail ,after the installation of qmail .the service >qmail-smtp and qmail-send is running but i cant able to telnet it >throughs following errors . > > The service are running > > [

Re: Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 6 May 2005 14:41:11 +0100 David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every now and again I take a bucket-load of photographs, then I get > the job of organising them. To do this nicely I would like to be able > to create thumbnails of them. > > Just scaling the image isn't good enough, so

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 6 May 2005 15:39:21 -0500 "Patrick Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Eric Gaumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:28 PM > > > Hello, > > > Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file? > > mutt [EMAIL P

Re: hdparm init.d script?

2005-05-13 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 13 May 2005 16:38:01 -0400 "Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently discovered that I can greatly improve my harddrive > performance by customizing a few settings using hdparm on the > command-line. I'd like to make the changes permanent, but I'm not > sure where to do

Re: [OT] Hotmail calls mail from my server spam; how do I contact them?

2005-05-13 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 13 May 2005 19:58:07 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had to contact hotmail about this kind of thing? > > Mail from my server automatically gets put in the spam folder. My > server isn't blacklisted as far as I know, and it's a static IP. > > My ISP sai

Re: [OT] Hotmail calls mail from my server spam; how do I contact them?

2005-05-13 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 13 May 2005 21:17:12 -0500 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2005 19:58:07 -0600 > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone had to contact hotmail about this kind of thing? > > > > Mail from my

Re: [OT] Hotmail calls mail from my server spam; how do I contact them?

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 13 May 2005 21:10:54 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-05-14, Jacob S penned: > > On Fri, 13 May 2005 19:58:07 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks! I sort of had a small

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 14 May 2005 09:55:06 -0400 Bob Freemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick one as I couldn't find elsewhere. Libranet, ubuntu, knoppix, > etc. all have very nice login prompts, default color for "ls," > high-resolution console bootup, etc. I agree these should not be part > of a default i

Re: hdparm init.d script?

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 14 May 2005 10:08:04 -0400 "Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Marc Wilson > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: hdparm init.d script? > >Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:20:58 -0700 > > > >On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:38:01PM -0400, Thomas Chadwick wrote: > > > Is t

Re: Installing BOINC (Was KDE, Kernel, Varia Downloading and Installing)

2005-05-14 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 14 May 2005 23:04:04 -0400 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allow me to go in to this one by one. Firslty, Boinc. > > Alright. Here is what I did. > > # cd /home/david/BOINC > # gunzip boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz > # chmod a+x boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu > # boinc_4.19

Re: udev how to set up automatic /media/cdrom0

2005-05-16 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 16 May 2005 08:47:01 -0400 Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > are there any knowledgeable users of udev who can tell us how to > configure udev scripts to automatically create > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1? > > Also shouldn't this be part of the debian sarge installer?

Re: hdparm init.d script?

2005-05-16 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 16 May 2005 09:46:27 -0400 "Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Jacob S > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: hdparm init.d script? > >Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 09:19:29 -0500 > > [snip] > > >Ah, in Woo

Re: friendly scp (help)

2005-05-16 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:28:24 +0200 Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a "file manager" like mc, but for scp connections. > Cause, I often transfere several directories and I have to copy each > of them with a different command and passwd... :-( > > Do you know

Re: udev how to set up automatic /media/cdrom0

2005-05-16 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 16 May 2005 17:56:08 +0200 Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > En/La Jacob S ha escrit, a 16/05/05 14:52: > | On Mon, 16 May 2005 08:47:01 -0400 > | Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Openwebmail package removed ???

2005-05-17 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 17 May 2005 10:46:27 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-05-17, Robert Vangel penned: > > > > I'm using squirrelmail, and found it really nice. Obviously it isn't > > quite the same (IMAP as opposed to local spool) but it means I can > > use it to connect to a re

Re: Openwebmail package removed ???

2005-05-17 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 17 May 2005 14:15:20 -0500 "Rob Brenart (TT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was intrigued by this thread so I just installed sqwebmail on a test > box... and all I got in the /var/www/sqwebmail directory was a bunch > of image files and a css file. > > I was looking around the documentat

Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27

2005-05-19 Thread Jacob S
Hello, Is anyone using Freeswan with a 2.4.27 kernel? If not, what 2.4 kernel are people using? I've been trying to patch kernel-source-2.4.27 using kernel-patch-freeswan and freeswan-modules-source, but keep failing while applying the patches. I'm using the provided debian/rules in freeswan-modu

Re: Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27

2005-05-20 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:21:30 +0200 Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:21:22PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > Is anyone using Freeswan with a 2.4.27 kernel? If not, what 2.4 > > kernel are people using? > > > > I've been tryi

Re: dnscache: readproctitle service errors

2005-05-20 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:13:29 +0200 Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know what I should do to fix this: > > > > > > root 878 0.0 0.0 135220 ?SFeb25 0:00 > > > \_ readproctitle service errors: ...: warning: unable to wri > > > te to ./main/curre

Re: dnscache: readproctitle service errors

2005-05-20 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 20 May 2005 16:06:19 +0200 Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/20/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:13:29 +0200 > > Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > &

Re: Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27

2005-05-20 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 20 May 2005 21:34:11 +0200 Mirko Parthey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:13:47AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > The Debian kernel is already patched to include a backport of the > > > IPsec implementation from Linux 2.6. Although I havent&#

Re: dnscache: readproctitle service errors

2005-05-21 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 21 May 2005 15:47:23 +0200 Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/20/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 20 May 2005 16:06:19 +0200 > > Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/20/05, Jacob S <[EM

Re: dnscache: readproctitle service errors

2005-05-21 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 21 May 2005 18:10:01 +0200 Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/21/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2005 15:47:23 +0200 > > Jacob Friis Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/20/05, Jacob S <[EM

Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer

2005-05-24 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:44:58 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running Debian testing which has recently transitioned from > tuxracer to ppracer 0.3.1. > > The game has slowed by at least an order of magnitude, based on > side-by-side testing with a backed-up copy of old tuxracer. Th

Sound in Ppracer (was: Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer)

2005-05-26 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:48:01 +0200 Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since we're on the subject of ppracer. Can anyone > tell me how to get the music to work. The sound effects are fine but > they're .wav files. I installed cheesetracker and checked the music > box on the ppracer config

Re: Sound in Ppracer

2005-05-26 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 26 May 2005 22:50:21 +0200 Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > En/La Jacob S ha escrit, a 26/05/05 20:25: > | On Thu, 26 May 2005 18:48:01 +0200 > | Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | &g

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:41:35 -0400 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following > message printed on it: > > Only in the World >of Microsoft >are Options > Required >

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > >> On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird > >are > amazingly fast. This is really said ... > > > > Indeed. One thing that has puzzled

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:07:18 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 > > Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Rogério Brito wrote: > >> > On May 28 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: >

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 30 May 2005 18:06:44 +0300 Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List. > > At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in > order to interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux > routers. > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used Ope

Re: "Upgrading" to sarge when it goes stable?

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 30 May 2005 12:28:21 -0400 Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important > servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is > it like at an instant all the testing repositories will be l

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-30 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:39:25 +1200 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, I have a strange issue with mysql performance... We are > running sarge on our production web server and woody on our dev > server... MySQL is the only issue we have: > > Both servers are running MySQL 4.0.24, one D

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-05-31 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 31 May 2005 13:58:41 +1200 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > > What does 'hdparm' return for the RAID drive on each server when you > > don't give it any options (ie. 'hdparm /dev/hda')? You might also > > include

Re: Discover device drivers built into a kernel image

2005-05-31 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:42:26 -0300 Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies in advance for the basic question. I'm counting on the > everlasting patience and generosity of the list members. I googled to > no avail in search of an answer. > > How do I discover which device

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

2005-06-03 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 06:30:50 -0700 (PDT) David Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Pedro M (Morphix User)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anybody improve the page http://wiki.debian.net/?Move about the > > same topic ?. > > > Thank you a lot. > > > > After reviewing all of t

Re: copy one file, multiple machines

2005-06-03 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:54:32 -0400 jmr_071769 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > howdy everyone. > > this is more of a linux question. i have script_filename_sh that i'd > like to copy to multiple /etc/cron.daily/ directories on our network. > what's a nifty script that could save me from up-arrow'ing/

Re: 3.1_r0a ?

2005-06-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:13:48 +0200 Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:31 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > 3.1r0a fixes a minor bug in the originally mastered CD/DVD images > > that caused the installer to insert `testing' instead of sarge into > > the sources.l

Re: apt-cacher

2005-06-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:09:22PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also > > to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do > > as much

Re: apt-cacher

2005-06-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:09:22 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that I'll be upgrading my lan's server to sarge, I plan also > to install apt-cacher on it, so my other machines won't have to do > as much long-haul net traffic. > > Can I start the woody->sarge upgrade by updating,

Re: what is using my swap

2005-06-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:49:27 -0400 "theal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a program that suspect is cause my swap to grow to almost a > gig, but it would be nice to verify without restarting a very mission > critical program. Try running "ps aux | less" and look for any processes using more t

Re: apt-cacher

2005-06-08 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:53:56 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:57:06PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:37:33 -0400 > > > > Apt-cacher serves the same purpose as apt-proxy and works just as >

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:34:53 -0400 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote: > > be getting out of hand :) > > us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to > > Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give > > > My point

Re: Scanning Front End

2005-06-13 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 02:29:39 -0400 (EDT) Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all! Was wondering what a DECENT fron end for KDE or GNOME and > sane would be? I use the Gimp and Sane. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool

2005-06-13 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:09:33 -0500 "Michael Martinell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a backup/restore solution that would fall into the > following category: > 1. Web interface to apache > 2. Able to select mount points or files in the interface > 3. Able to perform a restore of a

Re: Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool

2005-06-13 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:41:07 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Martinell wrote: > > Does anybody have any suggestions for this? > > Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is > the killer because backup/restore is generally thought of an admin > task w

Re: replacing a NIC

2005-06-16 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:33:10 -0700 Marc Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We had a 3com NIC go bad and replaced it with and Intel card. > > I'm noticing odd behavior. The kernel/NIC runs a self-test and > says that it's up in 100 Full Duplex mode. [ This is good. ] > I try to

Re: NIC driver needed

2005-06-23 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:11:52 -0400 Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless > card. > > I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then > pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using > windows m

Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:06:12 +1200 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny > enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on

Re: problem with /pen

2005-06-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:19:45 +0200 (CEST) roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i encounter the following problem when i try to mount my usb pen on > debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8 > > ~:$ mount /pen > mount: special device /mnt/sda1 does not exist > > i attach here also the output in /var/lo

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-25 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:45:10 -0500 Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am seeking the advice of some of you who may have been down this > path before. Situation: I am working on an older 166 MHz Pentium-S > machine with 96 MB RAM, two 2.5GB hard drives, for a neighbor (rather > poor) here

Re: ssh recovery

2004-10-10 Thread Jacob S
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:15:37 -0700 "Daniel L. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My cable provider likes to disconnect me during especially long > sessions. Usually when I've been making extension changes to some > configuration file and haven't had a chance to save. > > Sometimes when I rec

Re: Radeon 9200 & AGP 8x

2004-10-11 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:03:03 -0400 "Scott V. McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:37:52PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > ... elision ... > > Excellent! Thanks, Andrea. > > > > I was googling and found some threads indicating I would ne

Re: What is PSM

2004-10-11 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:04:45 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using mozilla, why, when I click on a link on godaddy.com, do I get a > requestor saying: > >"This document cannot be displayed unless you install the Personal >Security Manager (PSM). Download and install PSM a

Secure Password Storage

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob S
Ok, so I know that using key based authentication is better, and that you should never write down passwords. But, I don't know of any websites that allow key based authentication (yet) and 135+ passwords is hard to memorize. :-) So, my next thought was removeable media. But, what happens if I lose

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-14 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:28:25 -0400 Doug Pollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2004 10:40 am, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 October 2004 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I am using Debian 2.6 Sarge. In KDE I clicked on > > > s > > > Thanks Do

Re: Secure Password Storage

2004-10-14 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:37:00 -0600 Torrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:28:35PM -0400, Icebiker wrote: > > This isn't a linux or open license solution, but FWIW I've been very > > happy using password vault software on my Palm to hold ~100 > > passwords and magic numbers.

Re: Mozilla to Xprint to CUPS = no output.

2004-09-27 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:43:52 -0500 "Christopher L. Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 05:36:09AM -0500, Christopher L. Everett > >wrote: > > > >>I haven't been able to google up any mention of no output at all as > >a>result of this type setup, d

Re: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-09-27 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:22:40 -0700 (PDT) "Mr. Jan Hearthstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ... >"Reading Package Lists... Error! >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >E: Read error - read (14 Bad address) >E: The package lists or status fil

Re: Icewm and backgrounds ?

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:30:12 +0100 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! > > I just resently installed debian testing onto my laptop, i have > selected a nice theme... but i cant set a nice background could > someone tell me how i can set a background and what format it needs to > be in ?

Re: 100Mbit Lan runs at sloow 417Kbs!!

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:56:40 -0400 Paul Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zachary Rizer wrote: > > >--- Adamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>oh sorry. i tryed tranfering over samba and SCP same > >>slow speed. on > >>the windows machine i used normal windows networking > >>SMB protocol. > >>T

SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
Every other day or so now I'm seeing attempts in my servers logs where some remote machine starts trying to guess a username/password combination to ssh into the server. They try everything from 'test', to 'NOUSER', 'guest', 'root', etc., doing at least one login attempt per second, each time from

Re: Firefox Install

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:51:05 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do I do from here? > > 1. Downloaded firefox. > > 2. tar zxvf firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz > > My directory has the following files/dirs in it: > config.ini > firefox-installer > firefox-installer.bin

Re: Icewm and backgrounds ?

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:48:21 +0100 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:30:12 +0100 > >Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I just resently installed debian testing onto my laptop, i have > >>sel

Re: Firefox Install

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:42:44 +0200 Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:33:54 +0200, Joost Witteveen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:14:12 -0500, Jacob S > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:55:59 +0200 Matthijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:10:24 +0200, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > So, my question is this. Is there a way to tell ssh to refuse > > connections from an ip address after a c

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:10:58 -0400 Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, my question is this. Is there a way to tell ssh to refuse > > connections from an ip address after a certain number of failed > > login attempts, or is snort the only way to do something like this? > > So far I've bee

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic i > added, an intel pro 100 S, with chipset number 82550. > > I'm trying to use the netinst cd and its not working because it keeps > failing to set up my netwo

Re: Idea

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:57:24 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > remy harel wrote: > > > I just want to improve the quality of the debian > >lists, and if quality was better, you would have more > >suscribers, especially gurus and experts. > > > > > I suspect the best thing would be to

Re: NOT ANSWERED asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:49:11 -0700 Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:20 PM 9/29/2004, you wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:54:49 -0700 > >Ian L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic > > > i added, an intel pro 100 S, with chip

Re: CONFIG_PARPORT_PC ??

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:52:10 -0400 "Mark D. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another installation config question. I'm installing VMware > Workstation for Linux and it "requires that the parallel port PC-style > hardware option (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) be built and loaded as a kernel > module (tha

Re: usb storage kernel module with 2.4 kernel

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:10:52 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:00:19PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > > > >>yet in my kernel config, i have: > >> > >>CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m > >> > >>so it seems like it should be modprobe-able ... >

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-09-30 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 02:13:02 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:09:58PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > Every other day or so now I'm seeing attempts in my servers logs > > wher

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