Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Eliot, after posting the first time with a newly created email the day after I received ~100 virus emails. I saw a least three different virus types. Since I don't want to download all these mails (got a slow connection) I installed a filter at GMX (my email provider) which says 'Delete ever

Re: Raid system

2003-10-16 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Just a general hint: You could try to boot from a rescue CD like Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index.html). It has a pretty good hardware recognition. After booting, see 'lsmod' if your controller has been recognised (most times your guess is right). (Maybe read the docs in the kernel

Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

2003-11-25 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, auf der Konsole werden äöü etc. nicht dargestellt. Was muss ich tun um das zu beheben? Mfg, Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

2003-11-25 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Urg... sorry should have been posted in debian-user-german. Grtz, Tim Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 13:05 schrieb ben: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:37:15 +0100 > > Tim Ruehsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > auf der Konsole werden äöü etc. nicht dargest

Re: Keine Umlaute auf der Konsole

2003-11-25 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 13:36 schrieb Christian Schnobrich: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:07, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > Urg... sorry should have been posted in debian-user-german. > > Na,na,na... auch hier gibt's Leute, deren Muttersprache nicht englisch > ist. > >

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 03:02 schrieb Chema: > Heya there. > > Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for > "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved > the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. > > Is there a m

Re: My machine compromised?

2003-12-03 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 10:03 schrieb Vanh Phom: > Hi folk, > After reading on report of servers compromised. Just for curiorsity I > run chkrootkit on my own machine and come up with this result: > > Searching for anomalies in shell history files... nothing found > Checking `asp'... not infe

Re: modules.usbmap

2004-11-29 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hey guy, if you have a problem with your USB device, why don't you just tell us what your problem is? I just had a problem that I could not mount an USB stick (unstable, Kernel 2.6.8.1). There was no such device /dev/sd* (check with 'fdisk -l /dev/sd*). But in dmesg|grep -i usb everything seeme

Re: Samba not accessible with 3.0.8

2004-12-03 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Since 3.0.8 I have a smbfs problem (maybe it is related). I can mount, I can see and read all the remote files. But when changing a file, input is hanging for ~30s (e.g. console or editor), coming back with 'i/o error'. Now, the remote file has 0 bytes. This always happens. It also happens with

packet libmyodbc broken in SID?

2005-06-28 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, a few days before packet odbcinst1 has been replaced by odbcinst1debian1. In this process 'apt-get dist-upgrade' removed the packet libmyodbc. Of course, my apps using MySQL via ODBC do not work any more. Trying to 'apt-get install libmyodbc' results in: ... file bug report ... The following

Re: power-button >> poweroff

2004-10-14 Thread Tim Ruehsen
You should have ACPI enabled in BIOS and install the packages 'acpid' and 'acpi'. If everything is working correctly, the acpi daemon gets an event, if you press the button. You can configure the wanted behaviour (e.g. calling 'poweroff'). If it doesn't work, try APM (install package 'apmd' and

Re: Fork: resource unavailable

2004-09-30 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Try ps|wc -l and ps -e|wc -l to see if there are too many processes. Tim Am Donnerstag, 30. September 2004 12:55 schrieb Nils-Erik Svangård: > Hello! > > I got 1Gig ram and 2.5 Gig swap, I often get an error stating something > like fork: resource temporarily unavailable. > What is causing that

KDGKBENT at index 128 in table 0: Invalid argument

2004-01-07 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, with SID I got the following error today: blitz-lx:# apt-get dist-upgrade ... bla ... Setting up console-common (0.7.34) ... Looking for keymap to install: de-latin1-nodeadkeys KDGKBENT at index 128 in table 0: Invalid argument Failed to dump keymap! This might be because your console cannot

Re: Sarge Kernel 2.6 and (K)dm)

2004-05-21 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hello Björn, I had the same problem with SID. First of all I had to update /etc/modules: (Commented entries were working with kernel 2.4) #usb-uhci uhci-hcd #input #usbkbd #keybdev psmouse mousedev e100 #ide-scsi usb-storage With kernel 2.6 PS/2 mouses have an own kernel module. My active mouse

Re: fsck very slow

2004-06-11 Thread Tim Ruehsen
My experience says 5mins are ok for ext2. My machines with different kernels (2.4.x), ext2 and just a few GBytes of used diskspace take 15-20mins for a fsck (CPUs have 500-1000 MHz, using fast UW2 SCSI systems). This is why i switched to journalling filesystems on newer systems. Regards, Tim Am

Frage bzgl. Kernel2.6.3 und XFree86 PS/2 Mouse Einbindung

2004-03-12 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hallo, nachdem ich mit dem 2.6.3 Kernel gebootet habe, wurde meine Maus (PS/2) nicht von XFree86 erkannt (also KDE/X11 wurden nicht gestartet). Nach einem 'modprobe psmouse' und 'modprobe mousedev' ging es dann. Warum werden diese Module nicht per Default geladen? Ist PS/2 für Mäuse inzwischen

Upps, sorry wrong list

2004-03-12 Thread Tim Ruehsen
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Re: Cloning

2004-01-29 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Just to add a point to #2: Instead of dd'ing you could cpio one or more archives onto a NFS (or SMB) drive, partition all your drives and play back the cpio archives. This seems to bee good if you have a big HD but little space used (e.g. 80GB drive, but just 3GB data). AND you could start the c

Re: Unix command(s) to eliminate file extension?

2006-05-12 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 11:58 schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > > Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, > > all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate > > that suffix from all of them. > > Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, > > that can do so? > >

Re: How to make a link backup?

2008-06-11 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 schrieb Magicloud: > Hello, > > Assuming I have two WAN link, with two different routes and ips. > And I have two nics in my box. > > Usually, I only use one link, the primary link. But sometimes, the > primary link is down, I need to switch to another l

Re: Trouble

2008-12-02 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008 schrieb Amarantita Mieltostada: > Hi, my name is Amaranta, and i'm from Chile. In the page says that I have > to write you in english, so i'm trying, but i'm not that handy though, so > please be patience. > > I have 2 problems: > > 1.- I sort of need the login.cc file

Re: gwenview

2013-09-06 Thread Tim Ruehsen
I use digikam at home and had similar problems with one of the childs cameras. I hardly remember but I think I needed mtp-tools to be installed installed. But newer digikam/gphoto2 should support PTP directly. If this doesn't help, try a search machine. If that still does not help, I could ask my

Who changes /bin/ping on my system ?

2014-03-04 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, every now and than ping loses it's capabilities to be executed by a normal user. Like here: $ ping example.com ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted I didn't care so far and just reinstalled iputils-ping and everything worked again. I did this three or four times since ~ November

Re: Who changes /bin/ping on my system ?

2014-03-06 Thread Tim Ruehsen
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 09:16:15 Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Does anybody know who or what changes my ping utility ? Is this a known bug > (I couldn't find anything) ? I just found the package 'prelink' which explain the changes of my ping (and all other) binaries. I installed t

[SOLVED] Who changes /bin/ping on my system ?

2014-03-06 Thread Tim Ruehsen
I just found this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2014/02/msg00132.html So I mark this issue as solved (I leave a copy of my initla mail down below for reference). Thanks again for all your help ! Tim On Tuesday 04 March 2014 09:16:15 Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Hi, > > ever

Re: Who changes /bin/ping on my system ?

2014-03-06 Thread Tim Ruehsen
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 12:33:16 Brian wrote: > On Tue 04 Mar 2014 at 09:16:15 +0100, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > # ls -la /bin/ping > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46672 01-02-14 22:18:43 /bin/ping > > The file size indicates this is /bin/ping6 (amd64 platform) > > >

Re: jmeter 2.3.4-2 bug report in unstable justified?

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Gernot, I just found all my Java apps coming out with "java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable" when trying to connect via TCP/IP. Workaround: Start the java app with "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true". Linux 2.6.32 together with Sun's Java might be the problem... but I had no time

Re: UML skas patches for "linux" kernel packages

2006-01-30 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Nic, do you *really* need SKAS? UML works without SKAS, but I heard it should be somewhat slower without it. I have 2 UML envs running on my SID desktop (an old SID and a very old SuSE system). They are pretty well used by my collegues as development systems. And they do not feel much slower

Re: icc with gcc 4.0.1 fails

2005-07-15 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Freitag, 15. Juli 2005 00:46 schrieb michael: > On my 'unstable' box, gcc recently got upgraded to > 23:35:48 ~/C$ gcc --version > gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-1) > > but now my existing Intel C compile installation falls over: > 23:43:58 ~/C$ icc test.c > Command-line error: invalid G

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your > operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under > control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. Many people say so, but it is not true. Ext2 takes some precautions to reduce fragmentation a bit (in com

Re: Using RPM on Debian

2005-08-25 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> What is the best/easiest way to convert an RPM to a Deb? Can I install > RMP on my Debian machine, or is there a conversion utility? apt-get install alien man alien Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, on my SID system, I experience that alsamixer settings are not restored after booting. It looks like /etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils is called at the wrong time (too early?). Because after rebooting I can restore alsamixer settings just by calling '/etc/init.d/alsa-utils start' or alternatively by

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
t things which will be called while > booting. > > David > > > > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:54 +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > on my SID system, I experience that alsamixer settings are not restored after > > booting. It looks like /etc/r

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, > I experienced the same problem. When alsa-utils was called, the driver > module for my sound card was not loaded yet. alsa-utils wouldn't trigger > autoloading of the module either, so it failed to restore the mixer > settings. The module was autoloaded later, probably when KDE started up.

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Graham, - make shure, that file is not a symlink. It should tell you if you do 'ls -la'. - make shure that not one of the directories has obscure permissions. You could (as root) copy the java file into /tmp and try to execute it there. Does it work? If not, maybe the file is corrupt. Try th

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
I just forgot: make shure, you don't have an alias in your shell. Try 'alias' in your bash. Tim Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 13:32 schrieb Graham Smith: > Hi, > > I know this might seem a little strange but my system seems to have developed > a blind spot for Java. > > I have a JDK installed

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> > or 'ldd java', > > this looks bad > > $ldd java > /usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) Here we go. Let's concentrate on this. Normally, /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is a symlink to e.g. (on my SID system)

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> # ls -la /lib/ld-* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97904 2005-08-20 00:03 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root11 2005-08-22 16:17 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> > ld-2.3.5.so > > Hmmm I wonder if this is has something to do with the upgrades going on in > unstable at the minute. Shouldn't t

Re: packet libmyodbc broken in SID?

2005-07-04 Thread Tim Ruehsen
200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > a few days before packet odbcinst1 has been replaced by odbcinst1debian1. > > In this process 'apt-get dist-upgrade' removed the packet libmyodbc. Of > > course, my apps using MySQL via ODBC do not work any more. &g

Re: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 16:48 schrieb Žáček Kryštof: > Lucky you. I did not even get so far to spoil the CD. K3b permanently fails to burn any data CD for me with 2.6 kernel. > It keeps reporting something about failing mkisofs or cdrecord, operation not permitted or so. I recently had a s

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-23 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Rutger, > PORTSTATE SERVICE > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 80/tcp open http > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 113/tcp open auth > 903/tcp open iss-console-mgr Before starting nmap, use netstat. You can find out which program uses which port with netstat -tulpen for your in

Re: killproc

2005-11-30 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> I have an external programme that is calling for the function killproc. > This is apparently not available in Debian Sarge. > > What is the policy? What is the story? What should be used instead? If you are using killproc for sending signals to processes by name (instead of by processid)

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-05 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Paddy, try to find a good (beginner's) book about digital electronics. It will start with some discrete logic, should explain memory, i/o, algorithms, math, clocking, circuits etc. and how it all comes together to build up a (very small) 'computer'. For the further understanding of how an a