firewall -- best practices

Hi, I have a couple of old machines that I will be installing Debian on them. I would like to dedicate one of the machines to a firewall, and the other machine to a mail server. I have a dsl line with a static IP (with the router acting as a firewall) and several other debian machines that w

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

On Thursday 20 February 2003 8:58 pm, J.F.Gratton wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:27, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the > > user/sysadmin wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you > > then run 'update-modules' as root, which re

How to burn a CD -- Helpful page

Hi, I found the following website very helpful when it came to burning a couple of CDs: http://www.cpqlinux.com/cdrw.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg error -subprocess paste killed by signal

On Friday 21 February 2003 9:16 pm, Carla Schroder wrote: > howdy, > > I'm running Libranet 2.7, which is woody 3.0 & lots of nice extras. > My troubles started with upgrading KDE 3.05 to 3.1. I didn't want to, > I wanted Quanta, and it needed KDE 3.1. So I says well, OK. > > I started with > > ap

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 10:48 am, Glenn English wrote: > Many thanks to all of you for the compassion and the information. The > little sucker is making pictures now - I learned a lot about X in the > past couple days. > > Next step is getting it to realize there's an Ethernet connector in > it's

Re: 'gcc logjam'

On Thursday 13 March 2003 8:14 pm, Matt Price wrote: > hi everyone, > > I've noticed frequent references in this list to the 'gcc logjam'. > Now, I know gcc is the C compiler, and that more or less everything > in Debian is dependent on it... ut I don't know much else. Can > anyone tell me what t

Re: RAID & EXT2-fs error

On Tuesday 21 January 2003 11:31 pm, Michael Kahle wrote: > > I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID > > 1 following the instructions given at > > http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ > > I am working on setting up a system with this configuration. I > decided to w

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:39 pm, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hey ppl, > > I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of > this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade > doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone > here could tell m

compiling modules-scyld-source

ernel-source-2.4.20 and need to figure how the Debian way for compiling the contents of modules-scyld-source. Do I need to recompile the kernel or can I just get away with compiling the modules that I am interested in. What is the proper way to set up the symlinks for /usr/src/linux? Thanks,

compiling for different architectures

build. This is the first time I have compiled from the debian source and want to find out the correct way to do things. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Politics of Java

On Thursday 21 November 2002 10:42 am, Kent West wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:04:30PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >| On Wednesday 20 November 2002 21:06, Kent West wrote: > >| > I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, > >| > not

new installation -- install lilo after making boot floppy

that was just running Debian and on a mac 68K and powerpc, but don't have any experience with lilo in a dual boot situation. I don't want to render my bosses windows 98 setup unusable if I can certainly help it. Any guidance would be very much appreciated. Thanks, John Schmidt [

Re: pon - Modem keeps redialing

Try this for the #modeminit: # modeminit '' 'ATZ' OK ATZ OK ATM0 the ATM0 turns off the sound completely. > # modeminit > '' ATZ I am not sure about the redialing thing. Don't know if it has anything to do with some ip6 hosts lookup??? Just taking a wild guess. I hope someone will correct m

Re: Help with login/environment: bash_profile, bashrc, xdm

Hi, I don't run either gdm or xdm, but do run kdm. For kdm, there is a file in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession. At the top of this file, it had: #!/bin/sh I changed this to #!/bin/bash --login and now when I fire up an xterm equilavents inside of kde, all the shells are login shells and my ~/.bash_p

finding network activity

oring tools that may tell me what is initiating tcp connections and forcing pppd to start up. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: finding network activity

ery is starting up coincides to when my modem starts to dial. Is there any way to block this query. I am running ipmasq with a 2.4.19 kernel which uses iptables. I just have the default setup. I am ignorant about the rules that are used, but I guess this is a good time to learn about them and h

Re: intel 7.0 compilers; rpm malfunctioning

s, and tweaking the code, the performance was no better than using gcc. In fact the optimizations they did to the code also helped gcc. We didn't find that the Intel compilers would yield any benefit. Your mileage will vary though. Good luck John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: dial on demand ... dials by itself !!

rchives under the subject "finding network activity" John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp won't dial out

On Friday 30 August 2002 07:50 pm, Jorge Santos wrote: > Hello, the phone compay provides me with an answering machine of > sorts, such that when I have a message the phone, instead of giving > me the usual dial tone gives me something like a busy tone, well, it > is broken now, and I got this bus

gcc-3.2 on a testing box

box and want to see if things are fixed in 3.2. I depend on this box to get my daily work done but don't want to mess it up. Thanks, John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc-3.2 on a testing box

source. Thanks for your input. John On Friday 06 September 2002 11:49 am, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2002 06:48, John Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am nervous about the removal of modutils and modconf and the > > update of binutils l

demand dialing with pppconfig

tting back (turn off demand dialing), the file in /etc/ppp/peers/provider was not edited correctly, in that the changes were at the bottom of the file. A quick edit of the file got things working with the manual pon/poff sequence. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: gcc 3.2 & kernels compiled with 2.95

he kernel and modules as stated above. If any of this is wrong please correct me. John Schmidt On Friday 27 September 2002 12:12 am, Andy Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I don't quite understand the complexity of the process to move Debian > to gcc 3.2. It seems there's an issue ab

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 02:54 am, John Batistic wrote: > INCLUDES= -I/usr/share/qt/include -I/etc/kde2/include Are you absolutely positive that the qt includes are in /usr/share/qt/include?? On my system, I have them in /usr/include/qt: jas@golden:~$ locate qlabel.h /usr/include/qt/qlabel.h

Re: Debian and Dell?

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 08:30 pm, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Hi All, > > I just purchased a Dell for my home office and am interested in using > Debian on a partition. As my only Linux experience comes from a Mac, I > have some questions: > > 1) Will I be able to easily dual-boot Windows or Linux

Re: Simple Email Server?

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 09:44 am, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:48, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What need I set to get exim4 to receive messages to my domain (dynamic) > > > directly? > > > > Basically just 'apt-get install exim4'. > > > > Have a look at this ar

module-assistant no GUI on startup

Hi, I have just upgraded module-assistant to version 0.7 and the default GUI does not start when I do: sudo module-assistant Does anyone else see this? I looked at the changelog.gz in the documentation and didn't see anything that relevant to this. Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: module-assistant no GUI on startup

On Tuesday 04 January 2005 09:37 am, Hanspeter Kunz wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 09:30 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just upgraded module-assistant to version 0.7 and the default GUI > > does not start when I do: > > > > sudo module

Re: Debian on an old PC

On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:42 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > ;-0 > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of > it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm

Re: Debian on an old PC

On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:37 pm, David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > > I would be surprised if that old machine could *boot a cdrom*. Have > > > > > > you tried *that*? > > > > > > ;-0 > > > > It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X)

Re: Starting wlan0 instead of eth0

On Thursday 26 May 2005 01:39 am, Jason Edson wrote: > I'm new to this part of my debian system. Instead of having eth0 load > up when my system starts, I want to run a script that enables my > wireless card(wlan0) that uses ndiswrapper to load. My script looks > like this: > > #!/bin/bash > echo "

Re: adduser problem

On Sunday 10 October 2004 09:45 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I volunteer in my church's computer lab (hence my email name) and > advocate Linux where and whenever possible. We have a sarge system as a > test system. A very knowledgeable Debian expert (call him Buddy) helped > me set it up.

Re: Keyed SSH login problem

On Monday 11 October 2004 10:43 am, Stephen Tait wrote: > I'm having a great deal of difficulty setting up two computers to log into > one another for automated backup purposes. For the moment, I'm just trying > to get one machine to log into the other non-interactively, and since it's > over the i

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 02:09 pm, Jeremy Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get a Debian sarge machine to authenticate against an > OpenLDAP server (running on the same box) with no success. > Take a look at: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: routing help please...

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 05:45 am, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: > > Thanks for reading! > > > > I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: > > > > I've attached a situation scetch. > > > > The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection >

Re: Problem with DSL and /etc/resolv.conf

On Friday 08 October 2004 04:21 pm, Andrew Carter wrote: > I'm having a problem with my /etc/resolv.conf file and I'm hoping > someone might be able to explain what is going on. My home network > has an ActionTec wireless DSL modem/router running as the DHCP. Qwest > is my DSL provider. I have t

Re: WiFi

On Monday 25 October 2004 03:43 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Gilbert, Joseph wrote: > > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ > > > > I haven't had a chance to work with it yet. Has anyone else done > > anything with this driver wrapper? > > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net does t

Re: Building binaries for older versions of libc6

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:47 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I have a C++ program which requires g++ 3.4 to build due to parser bugs > > in older versions of g++. I'm currently building on a development > > machine running mos

Re: List of packages

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:36 pm, Jim Hall wrote: > on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two > systems. > > Jim dpkg --get-selections > machine1.pkgs John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: different networks, same computer (map mapping ?)

On Monday 01 November 2004 03:19 pm, H. S. wrote: > I would like a laptop to work in two kinds of networks automatically if > possible. At home, I am running a DHCP server and if the laptop is > connected to my switch(CAT5 cable to eth0) and booted up, it looks for > and gets an IP address (it is r

Re: Sarge install problems with Adaptec 7902 controller

On Thursday 04 November 2004 09:41 am, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install sarge on a HP Workstation with a Seagate SCSI > disk on an Adaptec 7902 Ultra 320 SCSI adapter. However, the installer > fails to detect the hard disk at all. There was no such problem when > installing

Re: moving from woody to sarge

On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:19 am, linux wrote: > sorry, should have explicitly stated that one reason for the move from > woody to sarge is that the former doesn't recognise my Ethernet card so I > cannot do installations over the network > - Original Message - > From: "Jerome BENOIT"

Re: Error inserting ndiswrapper

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:59 pm, nornagon wrote: > I'm using the stock debian kernel 2.6.7-1-k7, to get that out of the way. > > I need to use ndiswrapper, since my card isn't yet supported by prism54. > > Okay, so I compiled ndiswrapper. Then, I modprobe it. > > Output: > $ sudo modprobe nd

Re: Newbie looking for some answers please...........

On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:17 am, Chad wrote: > I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some > anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or > all Please > > 1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs > (in Debian anywa

Re: alternatives to NIS and NFS

On Monday 02 August 2004 04:24 pm, Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am in charge of a small office network. The server is running Debian > stable with some testing packages and the desktops are running mandrake > 10.0. > > Currently we are using NIS for authentication and NFS to share the home > dir

Re: How to upgrade to 2.4.23 (or .18) kernel

On Friday 23 January 2004 02:01 pm, brfg3 at yahoo wrote: > I have Debian3 rc2. After installing from the CD, the command uname -r > shows a 2.2 kernel. I want to use a 2.4 kernel for USB and IPTables > support. I made two attemps to install a debian kernel image from two > different tutorials and

Re: Configuring Courier

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 01:36 pm, Upayavira wrote: > I want to set up a Debian based mail server, with SMTP sending, IMAP and > webmail. I am trying to do this with the Courier package. Actually, what > I want, at the moment, is a self contained mail system, it doesn't have > to deliver to t

dpkg-dist

Hi, I have some configuration files in my /etc/pam.d that have the dpkg-dist suffix. Is is safe to copy the dpkg-dist version over the current version? Once I copy over the dpkg-dist version and rename the current version, would this confuse the package manager? Thanks, John -- To UNSUBS

Re: creating swap partition

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:49 pm, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to > the size of the drive? > > another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? > > thanks! > > Jim A good rule of thumb is that the size of swap sho

Re: ext3 why?

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 08:10 pm, xucaen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:43:02PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote: > > > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs > > > instead of ext2? > > > > copy all your important *.mp3 and *.mpeg

Re: nss-ldap and different shells?

On Monday 23 February 2004 06:51 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Sorry for the strange subject, but I wasn't sure how to make this question > pithy. > > I have several hosts that authenticate off the same OpenLDAP server using > nss-ldap and pam-ldap. The problem is that not every shell that users may

Re: Install debian on raid system

On Friday 27 February 2004 08:21 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm trying to install debian on a raid system (Promise FastTrak s150 sx > with 3 SATA drives), I downloaded the netinstall iso and tried installing. > Unfortunately the drivers for the raid card aren't there and I

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:38 am, stan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:09:02PM +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:13:18AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:13:18 -0500 > > > From: stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re:

static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

Hi, My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a hostname. It seems that the current mechanism within Debian is to specify a hos

Re: static ip to dhcp conversion -- getting a hostname

On Friday 05 March 2004 09:00 am, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > >My university is switching everyone over from a static ip to one assigned > > via dhcp. In addition, they are specifying the hostname for each of > > these addresses. Unfortunately, we don't get an option to choose a > > hostname. It s

Re: LDAP client configuration question

On Monday 08 March 2004 05:23 pm, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I am relatively newbie in LDAP area, so please excuse me if the question > is not interesting. > > We have an LDAP server up and running redhat 8. I know that the ldap > server is functioning properly because I can access it from other

Re: NFS Groups

On Saturday 13 March 2004 10:07 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I want to thank those who helped me with the userid. The other half of > this, however, is the group id: > > Assume that a directory on the server is owned by root:users. The group id > number for users is different on the server and

Re: 8139too Module

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:24 pm, Timothy Paling wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:36, Timothy Paling wrote: > Producing this listing shows that 8139too is not in the list. > > modprobe simple reports that it cannot find the module. > > How do I proceed further? I've located the source for the m

Re: Cloning

On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:00 am, Pedro Hernandez wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm about to install Debian on 12 computers (i*86). They will use the > same setup regarding software, but the hardware differs somewhat > between them. > > I would like to know if there is possible to, for example, insta

Re: Font Mystery

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:43 pm, Hervé Piedvache wrote: > Steven, > > Did you also loosed the Fixed[Sony] and Fixed[Jis] fonts ?? > > Since I have updated from Woody to SID ... I have the same trouble of you, > and I also loosed those fonts but only under KDE ... I can choose them with > xem

Re: Home Mail Server

On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:49 am, Peter A. Cole wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:37 PM > Subject: Re: Home Mail Server > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:23:22PM +1000, Peter A. C

Re: apt-get update error

On Thursday 19 February 2004 10:21 am, Deboo wrote: > I'm using debian woody. After reading an article in LG on apt (Issue 86 - > Debian APT, part2), I wanted to try using some package from testing and I > did as per the artile, putting 2 new lines for testing and unstable in > sources.list. But af

Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel

On Friday 09 April 2004 12:41 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > of course, i've totally failed to show the slickness of apt to my > coworker, because as soon as i booted up with 2.6.4, my mouse (neither > USB nor PS2) didn't work, and i wasn't online. (right now, i've > reverted to 2.4 to type this :-P

Re: sparse matrix computation package

gt; appear in lapack too many extra zero lines). > > > > What a coincidence. I am also looking for similar thing - iterative > > solver > > Ask on the debian-science list. > > -- Look at petsc and hypre both available in debian. In our project we have used both to solv

Re: Is that all there is to it??

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:19, Jim Hyslop wrote: > OK, so I installed Sarge on my machine. The other day, I decided to > upgrade to Etch. I modified the sources file, changing "stable" to > "etch", and ran `apt-get --ignore-hold dist-upgrade`. After sorting out > one minor issue with inetd, apg-ge

internal lan configuration and web address issues

internal LAN machine. Outside of my LAN, I can access the webserver just fine using the registered hostname. Is there a way to configure things so that machines on my LAN can access the web server using the registered name. Would this require that I do DNS on my machines? Thanks, John Schmidt

Re: internal lan configuration and web address issues

On Friday 16 March 2007 14:18, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a home DSL connection with a static IP assigned. The DSL modem is > fed into one a ipcop firewall with port forwarding for port 25 and 80 > directed to my webserver/mailserver in my DMZ zone. Machines in the gre

Re: Speeding up boot time

normally without having the network timeout if you do not have a cable plugged in for your ethernet connection. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speeding up boot time

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:45, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:32:26PM -0600, John Schmidt wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:39, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no id

Re: Speeding up boot time

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:19, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:05:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/21/07 20:44, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:12:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On

Re: Speeding up boot time

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 20:24, Michael Pobega wrote: > Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from > /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? I would just install ifplugd and configure it and see if it doesn't help alievate the time delay that occurs if you don't h

Re: inserting mouse module in bootup

On Monday 27 November 2006 08:03, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > I would like to insert a mouse module somewhere in the kernel boot up. I > am currently typing "modprobe mousedev" to enable the mouse and therefore > X, too. Is there a config file for this? > > Thanks. > > Sam Install the program modconf

Re: Replacing Gnome with KDE

On Monday 27 November 2006 17:55, Arlie Stephens wrote: > I made the mistake of selecting 'workstation' when installing etch. It > managed to do the X installation correctly, without needing to be > rescued manually, which is way better than I've seen from earlier > debians. That's the good news. T

Re: Bash script question

On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +

recommended network/server layout for website, email, and backup hosting

Hi, I would like to host several low traffic web sites at my home with some older computers (400 Mhz P2) that I have laying around. I would like to get some recommendations on effective ways of setting up my set of computers that would provide a web server, and email server and back up servers

chroot testing of apache installation with multiple fqdn

lhost instead of the actual machine name/routeable address while still allow apache to start up regardless of where the initial apache installation was done? Thanks for any insight into this matter. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501. There is a > source package for Etch: > > spca5xx-source > > What is the best way to compile this? I generally just use stock > kernels and the modules that come with them so I am unfa

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Well, I tried to follow the above instructions, but... > > I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not > seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that > it was time to upgrade my kernel and upg

Re: ssh port not opening

On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is > > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there > > no output when you do that? Anything i

Re: ssh port not opening

On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > # dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh > openssh-client install > openssh-server deinstall > # > > Thanks to everyone for your help. > > Maybe I should remove ssh and reinstall? > aptit

Re: Driver loaded, now, how do I access the camera? (WAS: Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera )

On Tuesday 06 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > So my drivers seem to be loaded. Now, how do I access the camera, so > that I can capture an image to be processed? I am currently thinking of > using opencv through either C/C++ or Python. How would I access the > camera to generate an image

Re: how manage pasword with ldap

On Friday 19 January 2007 01:54, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a simple example or doc, for "authentification via ldap". > > I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at > anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and > password). som

Re: ldap + pam howto?

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam > authentication system for system users. > Would you know a recent howto talking about that? > I dont need generic howto, I am interested in the debian spec

Re: Fonts problem on Debian Etch

I selected: Automatic Next screen shows enable bitmapped fonts by default: Yes No I selected: No I then logged out, and restarted the xserver just to be sure, and my fonts were significantly improved. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: backup/restore

On Thursday 15 February 2007 14:28, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to temporarily backup then restore a Debian > install--preserving the filesystem contents and attributes. The caveat > is that the capacity of the drive I'll be restoring to is smaller (all > other hardare is u

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > Joost Witteveen wrote: > > On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > >> > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying

dma errors

Hi, I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. I get the following error messages from dmesg: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs:

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

ume mailing list.) This list is not moderated; posting is allowed by anyone. Posting address: debian-user@lists.debian.org Read the line that says, "Support for Debian users who speak English." How about getting a clue! John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fonts messed up

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:41, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely > messed up. > > I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing, and also gnome > is barely usable (most text disappear from menus and terminal in > gene

Re: LDAP howto?

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 17:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Pointers to good LDAP-howto for server coniguration > details. > > -ishwar This is where I started: http://people.debian.org/~torsten/ldapnss.html John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: automounting usb-storage 2

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 13:37, Bernd Kloss wrote: > Hello, > I read the thread contributed by Florian e.al.. > I have the same/similar problem (etch/KDE3.5.4) > Plugging in USB-device the automounter pops up with tree options: > open in new window > play with kaffeine > do nothing > > Choosin

Re: wired or not wired, that's the question

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 16:16, wimpunk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running debian testing on my laptop and I have a question about > choosing a configuration. > I use my laptop on wired and wireless environments. At this moment I > switch manually but I want to get it done automaticly: if there's a

Re: How to PIN a package?

On Monday 16 October 2006 00:26, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I didn't get any answer. > > Is it a really stupid question? (or I missed the replay?) > > Please help me: I need to PIN a package, but the documentation doesn't > help. > > Regards > Mirto > > Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: >

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:31, Matt Price wrote: > On 10/19/06, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 > > > > "Matt Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > i'm wondering whether it's po

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

> --Lee Lee, You might want to take a look at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall for doing a chroot install. I have never done this, but it might be a useful method for getting Debian installed with minimal interruption to your current system. John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: rsync question

On Friday 09 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > > Also, I get confused sometimes on the effects of a trailing slash on > > source and target arguments. Check for a ~/Documents/Documents/ > > directory or something. > > You are all correct. > There is a ~/Documents/Documents/. > > I must be using

Re: Kppp

On Sunday 11 November 2007, Darko wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Darko shared this with us all: > >> --} Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> --} > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 06:43:28PM +0100, Darko wrote: > >> In a terminal as root do: > >> > >> adduser dialout > >> > >> Consider usin

kppp groups

If you are trying to use the kppp program, you need to be part of the "dip" group: -rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 1211176 2007-10-15 07:16 /usr/bin/kppp John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No sound with video

On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 11/15/2007 11:50 AM, Tom Ashley wrote: > > I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with > > video. I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound > > with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.). I've sea

PII fast enough for firewall

changing the firewall to a debian box running shorewall, and was wondering if I could tweak the firewall/router to not slow things down appreciably like the ipcop box is doing. Thanks, John Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

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