Re: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread Russell Shaw
deFreese, Barry wrote: -Original Message- From: Hubert Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Recompile kernel lost network "Barry" == deFreese, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Barry> Oh Gods of D

Re: Explorer-type file manager

2003-02-17 Thread Russell Shaw
John Griffiths wrote: You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the abov

Re: apt sources

2003-02-17 Thread Russell Shaw
alex wrote: I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources and have difficulty in getting packages with apt and dselect. According to the APT HOWTO, 2.1, The /etc/apt/sources.list file it says: (quote) "The entries in this file normally follows this format:" "deb-http://site

Re: Reply To Field in emails

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Sharninder Singh,,, wrote: hi all, I don't know if anyone this problem is being faced by anyone else also but whenever i press the reply button on my webmail client (Squirrelmail) on any of the mails from the debian-user list, the mail is sent to the guy who posted the msg and not debian-user. I

User ID of applications

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, Is it possible to find out what the effective user and group ID is that a program uses when accessing files? I had to chown a bunch of mozilla news files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt sources

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
alex wrote: My question is about the correctness of the following sources: ... Yes, I think I understand the general format in the examples you used but my question is about the format of the examples I listed above. It seems to me that there are some errors in them, ie., / and spaces in

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel B. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: ... My pick of ext3 was the fact that all the tools that work with ext2 work just as readily with ext3. I was also able to convert within a few minutes from ext2 on the command line. What do you use to convert? Daniel tune2fs -j /dev/ Can't remem

Group ID

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When a program access a config file, does it use the group ID of the programs own binary, or can it be set differently from within the program? Is there a way to check what group ID a program is using or going to use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Group ID

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 01:05, Russell Shaw wrote: When a program access a config file, does it use the group ID of the programs own binary, or can it be set differently from within the program? If the SGID bit is not set on the executable (normal), the

Re: IP Masquerade

2003-02-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:46:06PM +1100, Russell wrote: Hi all, I have a PC (PC_1) connected to the ISP via dialup ppp (DHCP assigned address). PC_1 also has an ethernet card: 192.168.0.1 Another PC (PC_2: 192.168.0.2) connects to PC_1 via ethernet. Can i access my ISPs DNS

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is set from within the program? Any particular reason it can't just be root:root -rw

Re: AW: modconf doesn't show drivers

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Yildiz, Murat wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:33:16PM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: I have woody 3.0 with kernel 2.4.19 self-compiled and now want to load a kernel module but when I run modconf no package is being shown. I have checked /lib/modules/2.4.19 , it exist.Where does modconf read av

Re: AW: AW: modconf doesn't show drivers

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Yildiz, Murat wrote: Oh sorry , of course I did "make modules_install"But I remember somethinlike "nothing found" and "leaving directory". As I said the directory 2.4.19 was created under /lib/modules but still I cannot see any drivers info within modconf. I'd just try it again, or do "depm

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to detect what GID the program uses if it is

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Leo Spalteholz wrote: On February 19, 2003 02:39 pm, Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: On February 13, 2003 07:28 pm, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... Are you using DMA? ... I didn't do anything outside of a normal stock installation to turn DMA support on or off. The

Re: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Simon Tod wrote: Thanks. Got the cpu speed bit solved. Looking through the PCMCIA HowTo I've checked to see that /etc/pcmica/config, /etc/default/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/pcmica are the same under both kernels. My new kernel is missing the line serial_cs 4384 0 (unused) from ls

Re: Group ID

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael Wardle wrote: On Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:14, Russell Shaw wrote: I set them all to my own user:group, but mozilla seems to have some 'stuck' settings. I found a useful command is: ps -eo pid,user,euser,fuser,group,egroup,fgroup,cmd Ah! So you're tr

Re: ppp server for debian

2003-02-19 Thread Russell Shaw
shr-heng wrote: > hi. > excuse me , if i want to set " ppp server " in the debian system, > where i can get the "ppp server" software. apt-cache search ppp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: module configuration

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just installed the alsa drivers for my emu10k1 SBLive card and I have 2 problems: 1. when I reboot, the system first loads the "emu10k1" kernel module before everything else so the alsa modules doesn't load. as a workaround I've renamed

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul M Foster wrote: I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the system I'm setting up is testing. I have a list of packages th

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

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
J.F.Gratton wrote: Good evening, I might have missed that one, concerning /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and modutils.. What does what in there ? I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get m

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

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- J.F.Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:53 PM -0500): I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get modules to load and to work

Re: Initrd, SCSI and USB

2003-02-21 Thread Russell Shaw
Ludwig Meyerhoff wrote: Hallo! I have a SCSI client running a AHA-2940. I wanted to run a USB flashcard-reader with it and that does not work. Same configuration on a IDE client works. After some playing around I compiled a new kernel with integrated USB support and modulized SCSI support - it

Re: Driver for Xserver

2003-02-21 Thread Russell Shaw
Samuele Pretini wrote: Hi, I try to install Debian 30r1 on my notebook, but the Xserver does't start. I suppose that this problem is generated of my chipset adn my graphics card ( Ati Radeon IGP 320M). My notebook is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 7600. There is a solution for my problem? Start wit

Multiple ethernet cards

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I put two ethernet cards in my pc. However, i can't ping a remote host from both interfaces (eth0,eth1, after swapping the cable over). If i disable one interface, then i can ping from the other. Both cards are pci of different brands. I've tried giving both cards the same address and differen

Re: crazy problems

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Garrett P. McLean wrote: > also, is there any way for me to add ide-scsi emulation as a module without recompiling? Select ide-scsi option in the source tree with make menuconfig, then make modules and make modules_install. Might need to add ide-scsi to /etc/modules too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and installit on another machine?

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Mark Janssen wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 11:35, Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto another machine - how do I go about doing this? I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's got a whole load of extra informat

Re: Multiple ethernet cards

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Johan Ehnberg wrote: I've been experimenting with this stuff, too. So maybe I can help you I put two ethernet cards in my pc. However, i can't ping a remote host from both interfaces (eth0,eth1, after swapping the cable over). snip... One computer could be 192.168.0.2, the other 192.168.1.2. The

Re: firewall

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Allan Andersen wrote: Hi! At the moment I've a RH firewall/router. It's quite unstable, so I would like to installa Debian as a firewall and router instead of RH. I need the box act as a firwall/router (I belive it's called masquarading) and enabled port forwarding. Is there any easy to go guides

Re: firewall

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
Allan Andersen wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 02:31, Russell Shaw wrote: At the moment I've a RH firewall/router. It's quite unstable, so I would like to installa Debian as a firewall and router instead of RH. I need the box act as a firwall/router (I belive it's called masquaradi

Re: help - install fails after 1st reboot

2003-02-22 Thread Russell Shaw
eauclair wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install Debian. I am trying both 2.2 and 3.0. I'd rather have 3.0 working, so I will focus on that one. I have a Compaq 6024. When I boot off the 3.0 disk, all my hardware is detected - usb (uhci), NIC (eepro100), and CD-roms (DVD & CDRW). When installing, I choos

A bug?

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, On my system, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc contains: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp Can anyone verify this on another system? This caused the screen to always be 100dpi (xdpyinfo), so i changed it to: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: A bug?

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.23.2229 +0100]: On my system, /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc contains: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp Can anyone verify this on another system? yes. This caused the screen to always be

Re: Screen scaling (was A bug?)

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Daniel B. wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: ... Doesn't that mean that any assumptions about font and window sizes by X apps is all wrong? Instead of 1pt being 1/72", it's more like 1/60", Actually, 1 point is always 1/72". (That's the definition of a point.) That

Re: Need help configuring box as router

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Justin Ryan wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:27, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: [ top posting SUCKS ] [ self-righteousness SUCKS ] Other than the Firwall HOWTO I referenced, what other areas of my install should I look at, and how should

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael West wrote: I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic kernel ( 2.4.18 ) The three cards are identical and use the eepro100 driver. For testing I have them set up on the same sub-net. All three cards are getting assigned all three ips. I am not passing any k

Xterm key mapping

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, Where can i find a list of key names for use in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like "BackSpace" aren't there. Does xterm have its own list? What does the tilde(~) character do? XTerm*vt100.translations: #override\n\ ~Ctrl ~Meta:insert-select

Re: Xterm key mapping

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Gregory Seidman wrote: Russell Shaw sez: } Where can i find a list of key names for use } in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of } things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like } "BackSpace" aren't there. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB You can also use xmodmap -pke to find o

Re: [OT] Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
David Cureton wrote: As an a-side but in a similar vein: How can one ensure that the physical interfaces get assigned to the same interface consistently after rebooting. Is the only way to explicitly specify the physical interface/physical hardware address combination as a kernel parameter.

Re: conflict when adding eth2 (diff, gateway)

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
louie miranda wrote: Actual interface.. --- eth0/inet addr:203.190.72.108 Bcast:203.190.72.111 Mask:255.255.255.248 eth1/inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 eth2/inet addr:203.190.77.156 Mask:255.255.255.240, Not yet added. This *might* work: Kernel IP routing table ---

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Russell Shaw
Michael West wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Michael West wrote: I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic kernel ( 2.4.18 ) The three cards are identical and use the eepro100 driver. For testing I have them set up on the same

Re: conflict when adding eth2 (diff, gateway)

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Shaw
louie miranda wrote: Got it, route add -net 203.190.77.144 netmask 255.255.255.240 gw 203.190.77.158 dev eth2 It is not anymore failing, but is it possible for ex. I have a LAN thats on 10.0.0.0/24 I want them when they access 203.190.77 block it will pass on my other gw is this possible? You mea

Re: Xterm key mapping

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Gregory Seidman wrote: Russell Shaw sez: } Where can i find a list of key names for use } in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of } things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like } "BackSpace" aren't there. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB You can also use xmodmap -pke to find o

Re: conflict when adding eth2 (diff, gateway)

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Shaw
louie miranda wrote: nope, make it 2 gateway.. But ex if they're accessing www.yahoo.com they will pass on my other gateway eth2 >>It is not anymore failing, but is it possible for ex. >>I have a LAN thats on 10.0.0.0/24 I want them when they access 203.190.77 >>block it will pass on my ot

Re: Xterm key mapping

2003-02-24 Thread Russell Shaw
Russell Shaw wrote: Gregory Seidman wrote: Russell Shaw sez: } Where can i find a list of key names for use } in vt100 translations? There's a bunch of } things in /etc/X11/xbd, but things like } "BackSpace" aren't there. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB You can also use xmod

Re: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Simon Tod wrote: Surely I don't need to do "make modules" and "make modules_install" when I'm not compiling a kernel, just installing a pre-built one 2.4.20-686 (and the corresponding kernel-pcmcia-modules file)!? The output of ~$ depmod ~$ modprobe -a \* gives me the lengthy output in the attached

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I am having problems configuring my ISP connection with ppp. After following the directions (from the howto's and faq's) I am still unable to get it functioning. I tried with PAP as well as CHAP. An error is returned from the [chat] section as Incorrect Input/Output

Re: new kernel, new problems

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
figuration problem... the same comment appears again and again in the output Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. What's that all about?! --- Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Tod wrote: Surely I do

Re: mouse sensitivity under X

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Jack Pistachio wrote: How do I increase the sensitivity of my mouse in X windows? I just got a new mouse, but it requires a lot more travel than my old one to do what I want to do. - jackp man xset -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Using PPP for Dial out connection to ISP

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
John Hasler wrote: Alex writes: Look up--- pppconfig HOWTO I'm aware of no such HOWTO. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=pppconfig+howto&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot change eth media type

2003-02-25 Thread Russell Shaw
Sean Proctor wrote: The switch I'm using is a little broken, so I need my ethernet cards to use 10baseT rather than 100base T. when I try to switch them using ifconfig, this is what I get: # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 media 10baseT port: SIOCSIFMAP: Operation not supported Does linux not support switching

Re: Mouse not working in GPM or X

2003-02-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Hugh Saunders wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Rowland Darbin wrote: I installed XFree86 -configure and it tells me that it can't find my mouse. So I installed gpm. When gpm is running and I move around the mouse, I don't get a curser, I get a white line on the top of the screen

Re: adding eth1

2003-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:06:03PM +0100, Ina&Frank wrote: Debian Folks I have a next question. ... I have no idea what /etc/ifstate is, but I'm pretty sure you don't need to edit it. /etc/network/ifstate It's just a status file. I think it's auto-generated by /etc/init.d/n

Re: debian on laptop w/ limited ram/speed/HD

2003-02-28 Thread Russell Shaw
Matt Price wrote: Hi everyone, A middle-aged (~4 years old -- so, not old, not new) laptop is about to become available to me, and I'd like to install debian on it. The system is an HP Omnibook A4100, P-II 300 96 meg ram 20 gig hard drive I'd like to take the machine on a month-long trip, where I'

Re: adding eth1

2003-03-01 Thread Russell Shaw
Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: On Friday 28 February 2003 21:53, Nathan E Norman wrote: First, I have to mention that I hate rtl8139 cards :-) Would you care to tell why? I want to buy one... I had one that wouldn't work in win98, but works in debian:) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-01 Thread Russell Shaw
debian_newbie wrote: Hello Everybody, How do I change the number of times I can boot up before fsck does a complete file system check? It does it on my Woody machine every 20 times. Also, I'm using ext3 filesystem. isn't it a journalized fs? I thought journalized filesystems didn't have to be fsck

Re: Two ISA NICs

2003-03-02 Thread Russell Shaw
mike wrote: Hello I've got a Debian Woody. I've got two ISA NICs (3com EtherLink III I guess). And I've got a problem :) A fragment of dmesg: eth0 : 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a dc ee bc, IRQ 5 eth1 : 3c5x9 at 0x300, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af 57 4d 4e, IRQ 10 Both of the car

Installing second gcc

2003-03-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, On woody, i got gcc-2.95.4 that came with the initial install. I just apt-got gcc-3.2, but gcc --version still says 2.95.4. Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc? Is it safe to build kernels with 3.2? "update-alternatives

Re: Firewalling under Debian

2003-03-03 Thread Russell Shaw
bob parker wrote: My son's proposed network is to be this: Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. Connects to hardware router / switch using 2nd nic. He has the switch and will be buying a PIII 400 2nd hand for the fw. We both know it's overkill but spares for PIIIs are c

Re: Installing second gcc

2003-03-03 Thread Russell Shaw
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:18:45PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Is there a debian way to make the system use 3.2, or do i just rename gcc-3.2 to gcc and apt-remove the old gcc? See /usr/share/doc/gcc-3.2/README.Debian.gz. "update-alternatives --display gcc" says

Re: Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe binfmt###c; error=8". That's from memory, so I forget what th

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4?

2003-03-05 Thread Russell Shaw
Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Something tells me this is a question that has already been asked, and that I'll probably be flamed for it, so, flame away! :-) Anyways - could anyone tell me where I could find the source for kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4? I've checked in Debian's archives, as well as kerne

Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin Segmentation fault I am in the audio group. What sound infrastructure

Re: 'apt-cache search' question

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:46:46 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was recently a question about which .deb added GIF capability to the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: search search perf

make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi all, In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/russell/Kernels/2.4.20-win4lin-ipmasq/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses

Re: Selection with mouse is bodged up on one machine

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Alan E. Davis wrote: I am stumped on this one: X selection (cut and pasting with the mouse) has been working, so that I can select a URL from an email, and middle click on galeon to follow the url. But on one machine, this isn't working, on any account. This is a sid machine, up to date, and

Re: Realplayer seg.fault

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Hi all, I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin. It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second, then seg.faults: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make menuconfig fails

2003-03-16 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Proulx wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: In the kernel source, when i do "make menuconfig" i get the error: Common problem. But most people just have not installed it yet. You look to have a corrupted library or something. Thanks. It must have got uninstalled when i was fixing brok

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-18 Thread Russell Shaw
Conrad Newton wrote: From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: ... But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well supported because it is an older printer. The 850 and the C82 are more recent, so it is perhaps not surprising that they are less problematic. The s

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Conrad Newton wrote: From Russell Shaw on Wednesday, 2003-03-19 at 14:59:01 +1100: Conrad Newton wrote: From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: ... But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well supported because it is an older printer. The 850 and the C82

Re: font size

2003-03-19 Thread Russell Shaw
Ruediger Noack wrote: Hi all I'm using woody, Gnome 1.4, Mozilla 1.2.1, ... with X resolution of 1280x1024. All seems well, but... Currently I'm using a locale with latin-1 (de_DE). But if I change it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]) all my fonts in X are very small (gdm greeter, Gn

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for apt-move, which wasn't valid yet. I corrected that, and ran 'apt-get update' again, and then ran apt-get install -t testing zope, as you recommend. Attached is that script file. The errors are essentia

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Johan Kullstam wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote: Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken dependencies etc. If you have to ask, s

Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hello, i reinstalled a local broken server using my own desktop backups. It's a mixed testing/unstable system. All went well but when i tried to remove some packages, something went wrong with dpkg. It seems linked to base-files. dpkg is version 1.10.10, base-files 3.0.10

Re: woody newbie help

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
mnicolet wrote: Hello I am a newbie to Linux, but not to the *NIX world. I allways tried Debian distros. But I had no time to go too far. Now I installed woody ( bf2.4 ). All went ok exception of 1) My Debian box has a generic two button serial mouse. Using some utility ( don´t remember which one )

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
Vikki Roemer wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:14:02PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: In same directory: dpkg-source -x metalog_0.7beta-3.dsc cd metalog_0.7beta dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot cd .. dpkg -i metalog_0.7beta-3_i386.deb Ok, I did all that, but when I try to run dpkg -i, I get the

Re: Why held back? Command ...

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a bunch of machines on unstable ... one is holding back a lot of stuff on update/upgrade ... is there a command/switch that will tell me what dependency is holding things up? ... I'll just kill it off if it's non critical, as it's holding up postgres, openoffice, php a

Re: dpkg fails after removing some packages

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op zo 07-09-2003, om 04:45 schreef Russell Shaw: apt-get update apt-get install -f base-files Nope, that doesn't work. Apt-get downloads the packages, then says (Reading database...) and shortly afterwards, i get the E: Subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpected

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Alexander Mikhailian wrote: I recently upgraded to testing and found out that netscape 4 is missing in the list of packages. Where can I get a working version of netscape 4 for testing? Netscape is based on mozilla, so install that instead. Mozilla has options to stop pop-up ads, but netscape has n

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, Thanks for the continued help. I tried the command you suggested, and the result is in the attached script file. Still no luck. On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Russell Shaw wrote: Russ Cook wrote: Russell, The sources.list file was OK, but it referenced a local mirror for

Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
Jon Haugsand wrote: * Russell Shaw dpkg --audit or dpkg --yet-to-unpack dpkg --audit The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect

Re: Install a dfiferent network card on debian 3.0

2003-09-07 Thread Russell Shaw
momo momo wrote: Have been trying to install a different NIC, a Tulip card. Tried running /usr/sbin/base-config This does not reconfigure the NIC Would appreciate it if someone can point me in the right direction. Make sure the card driver is available as a module or is built into the kernel. If

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Hi Russell, I ran apt-get update, then apt-get install python. I did not specify a version. The system stated I am already at the latest version. I then ran apt-get install --reinstall --fix-broken zope. The log looks the same. If you still have a log of the session I sent p

Re: kdm

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! i have a problem in woody: I installed it in a ibm thinkpad A31, but xfree (4.1.0) wasn't working because the video card (radeon M6) is not supported, so i went to xfree86.org and download 4.3.0 version, and installed it (with Xinstall.sh). All is working ok, excep

Re: Mozilla and Print

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Jerome Lacoste wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 20:59, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:28:22PM -0400, Rodrigo Gesswein wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian 3.0r1 and Mozilla 1.4, but when I try to print a html page, CPU goes to 100% and nothing happend, I must kill mozilla manua

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fn and Ctrl-Alt-Bksp switch to blank screens in X

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Edward Ho wrote: Recently I've installed Woody on my Dell CPt laptop (Mobile P2-400). The installation was started from scratch using the bf2.4 floppy+http (not from cdrom), so I'm sure my system has the latest stable release. Since GUI is required for my engineering work, I used apt-get to install

Re: Upgrade to 'testing"

2003-09-08 Thread Russell Shaw
Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks, I am now running 'stable' which I installed from a CDROM created online. Now I intend to upgrade to 'testing'. What's the easiest way to go about it? Can I upgrade online by downloading some approriate packages or do I have to create a 'testing' CDROM? http://www.d

Re: CUPS gone mad

2003-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Christophe Courtois wrote: Hi, I'm going crazy. Thanks for any idea how to solve this mess: * Although it worked perfectly some times ago When trying to print something from Gimp or KDE, Cups creates hundred thousands of files (000) in /var/spool/cups/. These are almost all 34796 bytes lon

Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

2003-09-09 Thread Russell Shaw
Russ Cook wrote: Thanks for the continued help. Attached are the results of 'whereis python' and 'ls -l /usr/bin/python'. The symlink points to python2.3. And yet, the zope pre-removal script encounters errors in python1.5, which makes me think it is explicitly seeking and calling routines from

Re: Remove pakages and it dependents

2003-09-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Wathen, Metherion wrote: My guess is to use 'dselect' after you select the package you want to remove it shows you the dependencies, IIRC. -Original Message- From: Victory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:32 AM To: Debian-User Subject: Remove pakages and it de

Re: CUPS gone mad

2003-09-10 Thread Russell Shaw
Christophe Courtois wrote: Le Mercredi 10 Septembre 2003 04:24, Russell Shaw a déclamé : Check the partition with fsck. If that doesn't help, reinstall CUPS. !!! ...but it worked (dpkg -r --force-depends and apt-get). Thanks ! But my first problem is not solved (only when printing is fro

Re: spam software

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul Johnson wrote: Please reply on list. Please do not top post. http://learn.to/quote/ On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no configuration/install help for sendmail ?? Is there any docs/help for sendmail

Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo "Mailfiltering" | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn't work. If i try: /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cr

Re: Cron

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Travis Crump wrote: Russell Shaw wrote: Hi, I set this with crontab -e : 3 * * * * /usr/bin/mailfilter ; /bin/echo "Mailfiltering" | /usr/bin/mail -s mai 1 * * * * /bin/echo "Date is `date`." | /usr/bin/mail -s cron root ### I should get mail every minute, but it doesn'

Exim (was Re: spam software)

2003-09-26 Thread Russell Shaw
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:24:55AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: | Paul Johnson wrote: | >On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:28:49AM -0400, Vivek Kumar wrote: | > | >>Thanks.. I got it. I was reading the docs and it seems there is no | >>configurati

Re: Exim (was Re: spam software)

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Ross Boylan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:43:13PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: ... all From and Reply-To headers only on mail that is sent out the smtp transport to my dialup isp. However, exim3 doesn't let you rewrite envelope addresses on per-transport rewrites. The only other option is t

Re: Lots of scary segfaults

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Hi all! Last night, the cronjob on my main server reported this: ... So, there is a segfault there too, but I guess this really doesn't imply there is a trojan, but that this is a consequence of the same problem as above. Any ideas? fsck the disk. Find a specific program

Re: Lots of scary segfaults

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Thanks for the quick response! On Saturday 27 September 2003 16:21, Russell Shaw wrote: fsck the disk. OK! However, physical access to this computer is a complex issue, and to run fsck on the / and /usr partitions (which are the most obvious places to look), I can&#

Re: OpenOffice.org Margins?

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
Robert Tilley wrote: I am moving some documents from M$ Word to my home computer that uses Debian Linux. The document in question was saved in the RTF format from Word and then re-opened in OOo Writer. The issue with the document is margin-spacing. I wish to have a document-wide left and right

Re: kernel painic, failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k

2003-09-27 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "kmod : failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k VFS : cannot open root device "305" or 03:05 Pleace append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic; VFS:unable to mount root fs on 03:05 Hello, this is the message when I try to boot up with my compiled 2.4.21 kernel, I did no

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