Re: Problems when starting the install of Debian Woody Linux

2003-01-22 Thread nate
around, system's been running fine since). Other then that it's been flawless. Debian has the smoothest upgrading I've ever used. what problem(s) are you having specifically when installing? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

2003-01-22 Thread nate
t time I tried this, I could not figure out how to pass command line options to the kernel(e.g. different root, or init=/bin/bash) which made the disk very limited in it's usefulness it takes a while to load LILO onto the floppy but it does work. Takes forever to boot too, about 3 mintues

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread nate
is a common configuration of linux/unix no special howto required, just unplug the mouse/keyboard/monitor. never tried installing a system w/o a video card at all though if that's what your attempting. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread nate
ed for a special client, or have to authenticate against something to view the UPS status, and can view multiple UPSs at the same time(at my former employer I monitored 10 SmartUPS units with NUT). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread nate
heard the > fan shut off on our 1000XL yet. the 1500AVR has a fan but doesn't kick in unless it gets real warm. I emailed cyberpower's support and they said my temps were normal. The 900 AVRs that I have do not have cooling. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux with BSD libc..

2003-01-23 Thread nate
h their first glibc distribution in 1998. I know that slackware 3.2 and 3.4 which were my first distros used libc5. Debian 3 still has libc5 compadiblity to some extent via the libc5 package not sure if libc5 on linux was at all related to libc on *BSD.. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: gnome 1.4 or gnome 2 ??

2003-01-23 Thread nate
ut sooner. there may be 3rd party packages for gnome2 available for woody, I'm not sure. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread nate
pro to a friend 2 years ago.. while APC's products are expensive I've always been blown away by their technical support(very smart & responsive in my experience same goes for Sun and Cisco) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diskspace error in /tmp

2003-01-24 Thread nate
Matt Price said: > hey everyone. I'm getting a "no space left on device" error whenever howbout outpts of df / df -i / nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tmpfs / shm on 2.4.x

2003-01-24 Thread nate
fected by this, so I guess thats what everything I use uses ...if it uses shared memory. I suppose I'll unmount the filesystem and enable it again if I ever see a problem. thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-25 Thread nate
uot; >~/.xinitrc afterstep 1.6(What I run in woody, this is the same ver in potato) has a list of window managers in the debian menu(mine only has KDE and afterstep but I think thats all I have installed). just be sure you have the menu package installed. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: M$ Curse

2003-01-25 Thread nate
onf to point to them, including the new kernel, and run lilo -C /path/to/new/lilo.conf and if you don't have a 2nd system, worst case you can download an eval version of vmware and use that ;) nate (no dual booting with win32 for 4 years) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HDD clicking

2003-01-25 Thread nate
can occur until you've backed up all the data that you want(or are capable of backing up) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: M$ Curse

2003-01-25 Thread nate
nd 500kb, so I guess the growth is consistant:< nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory usage on debian

2003-01-25 Thread nate
Hans Wilmer said: > It almost looks as if the X server had a serious memory leak. Is there an > explanation for its enormous memory allocation? most of it is due to the video memory on your card, X includes that in the "memory usage". Another is memory leaks depending on what you run. Much of th

Re: Intel Raid Controller???

2003-01-25 Thread nate
an have a working system with an older kernel while you look for a new kernel if thats what you wanna use. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread nate
very very handy! I've been usin vmware on linux since they announced their first beta, have run win95, win98, win2000, nt4, suse, corel, freebsd, debian, solaris 7, redhat, and probably a couple other OSs on it as well. always worked flawlessly for me. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: SuExec on Apache

2003-01-26 Thread nate
sed suexec myself though(at least not intentionally, dunno if it's a default or not) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ports puzzle

2003-01-26 Thread nate
trying to start a 2nd copy of portmap didn't do anything so it should be safe nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mkreiserfs

2003-01-26 Thread nate
use tool in my experience. the partition type should be Linux(default). cfdisk does not have the ability to resize existing partitions. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shared or static qt?

2003-01-26 Thread nate
dd /path/to/filename', if it is a fully static app it will tell you that too. when using opera at least I always choose the static QT option. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing a patch

2003-01-26 Thread nate
set-selections :) (not sure how much compiling experience you have but in my experience, the above procedure is a snap compared to some systems ..) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving Woody /usr partition

2003-01-27 Thread nate
go back to runlevel 2 (logout, or 'init 2' or whatever runlevel you use) 7) run the system for a few days and make sure everything is good, once this is done erase /usr.old if you want. I've done this procedure dozens of time and have never had a problem. nate -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Good way to run Windows apps on Debian 3.0?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
y 800Mhz CPU, and 512MB ram. I run my virtual machines with 96MB memory(allocated to the guest OS). It works wonderfully, vmware is probably the most stable app I've ever used on any platform. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 3.0r_0 setup - lots of questions

2003-01-27 Thread nate
sonali said: > Hi > > 2. I can access www via a browser like say mozilla/galeon > using the http proxy config in teh Advanced tab...but can't > browse using links, etc. How do i tunnel other apps through > the http proxy? most config files are in /etc e.g. lynx.cfg wget.cfg, search for the word p

Re: partition table incorrect/ fdisk messed up?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
0 and the extended partition end on the same cylinder nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nbd-server can't do large files?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Mark Roach said: > Is anyone using these packages successfully on file systems +2GB? no but under debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.19 I had no problem sharing a filesystem that was 225GB. No files on the system were larger then 2GB though. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: sit (compressed files)

2003-01-27 Thread nate
may give some hints .. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving Woody /usr partition

2003-01-27 Thread nate
nate said: > 1) install the new disk, partition & format it as you like > 2) mount the disk somewhere on the root filesystem(I use /usr.new) 3) go > to single user mode ('init 1') > 4) cd /usr ; cp -a * /usr.new/ ; cd / ; mv usr usr.old > 5) edit /etc/fstab and add th

Re: HDD general (was: RE: HDD clicking)

2003-01-27 Thread nate
ood stuff(at least compared to IBM IDE). I did get a couple bad sectors on one of the disks about 10 months ago but the system never hiccuped. I run reiserfs on my laptop so my drive pretty much never spins down, I'm gonna reinstall soon, ordered a new larger disk for my laptop which sh

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread nate
. when you mounted the new /var/cache was there still files in the old /var/cache ? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread nate
h just outright block you from deleting the file, at least on linux I can delete it, and know it will be purged at the earliest possible time. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
uld be unable to mount a slink partition(though I can see it happening the other way around), though I haven't personally tried it. and partition type 83 is linux yes, but it's just a partition type, many kinds of filesystems can reside in there. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-27 Thread nate
and unmount /tmp and run fsck on it manually, then mount it again, and go back to default runlevel(logout, or 'init 2') and you should be set to go. if that doesn't do it, paste exactly what messages you see and perhaps someone can help further. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread nate
maybe 250CFM total) I ordered a new laptop HD which should get here tomorrow which should solve the laptop problem and triple my space at the same time :) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: setting up mysql-server

2003-01-27 Thread nate
and restarting mysql. I reccomend binding mysql to localhost(see docs on how to do this) and use something like stunnel to encrypt remote connections to the database. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Stan Heckman said: > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It is > possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? not try to set your date to something thats not accurate? why would you want to set your date in such a way anyways?

Re: what's fstype 83? &quot;Linux&quot;?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
ions would be the same file system. > > yet /dev/hdb2 mounts like a charm. I'd try what another poster suggested, try the debian slink rescue disks. or just format it and forget about it, if you haven't needed the data on that disk for 2 years you probably won't miss anythi

Re: redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working!

2003-01-28 Thread nate
it probably is, never done it that way myself nor have I seen it done that way in documents. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread nate
method at my last company, I use it on my home lan too. a bit over a year ago I wrote an semi extensive script for the backups at work, it worked out well, I'm no expert at scripting(not even that good!) but it worked wonderfully day in day out. http://portal.aphroland.org/resources/rsync/rs

Re: backport of ICH4 IDE support

2003-01-28 Thread nate
ould be very hesitant to use such a patch if it were to exist. Recently I read I think alan cox commenting again on how bad the IDE is in 2.5.x still, unusable for a lotta folk still. Save some pain and pickup a PCI ide controller, I reccomend Promise ATA/100, or ATA/66, never tried their ATA/133

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread nate
your curious(highlights are available in the archives of www.theregister.co.uk) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious disk activity)

2003-01-28 Thread nate
saw 6-9 months ago about people getting ~$300 bills and they probably use half the power I use ..! nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting gcc to work

2003-01-28 Thread nate
nt gcc packages you just installed to find the files that were included in those packages. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread nate
ixes. Debian's policy is good, no invasive changes during a stable release, I always cringe when I upgrade my frebsd systems. I remember upgrading from freebsd 4.4 to 4.6, and the firewall tool(ipfw) segfaulted until I built a new kernel and rebooted(!) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: need help in installing nic drivers

2003-01-28 Thread nate
the compact kernels). Assuming your using the main CD for installing, hit F1 for help when the boot loader comes up and you can see how to change kernels for installing. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread nate
h some known issues(e.g. software raid 1,5 not supported). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-29 Thread nate
ion. > have you used google? http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben/t30.html looks like a good place to get started. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=thinkpad+t30+linux&spell=1 nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help: motherboard works with Linux?

2003-01-29 Thread nate
tuff it should work, though the IDE may not. It may be difficult to get X running if that board has onboard video. perhaps sound too. winbond i/o is normal, most consumer boards have a winbond chip on them, I think this monitors temperature, fan rpms, voltage etc. winbond is a brand/company

Re: boot log

2003-01-29 Thread nate
are not logged. if you really need it logged I'd reccomend setting up a serial console. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpd not keeping time

2003-01-29 Thread nate
ate sets the clock properly, but ntpd is > failing to keep the clock in sync with the ntp servers. try 'ntptrace ' sample: defiant:/home/aphro# ntptrace redhat.aphroland.org redhat.aphroland.org: stratum 2, offset 0.001617, synch distance 0.07616 time.nist.gov: stratum 1, offset 0.00189

Re: Flickering

2003-01-29 Thread nate
has a Hsync of 31.5-48.5 and a Vrefresh of 55-90(Princeton E0500 is the monitor, but I also use it on a Gateway 15" with the same config). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nvidia corrupting kernel?

2003-01-29 Thread nate
fully open source and don't ask the kernel folks for help as they will ignore you. You have to ask the author of the driver for any assistance(in this case, nvidia). I haven't used nvidia'a kernel driver in 2.4.x but have used it quite a bit in 2.2.19 for the past year and a half(

Re: kernel

2003-01-29 Thread nate
he reason why it's not the default I suspect. I didn't start testing 2.4.x myself until about a month ago, wasn't stable enough for me either. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: sometimes it's good to see the competition

2003-01-30 Thread nate
irrors even the main SuSE site. If they aren't gonna provide the package, yank it so the update tool doesn't try to look for it! I still like SuSE, but I don't see it replacing any of my debian systems. And it would be nice if I didn't have to buy a CD to upgrade minor revisions

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?

2003-01-30 Thread nate
in a 32megabit stick..but most of the time the boards won't even POST. Last time I bought ram was about 7 months ago, would be good to know if this is the case though, everything I run uses SDRAM, no DDR or RDRAM. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: How to optimise memory use?

2003-01-30 Thread nate
e memory if/when it needs it for other things. so no worries. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?

2003-01-30 Thread nate
kernel, though most of mine(~95%) did not need this option. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freezeups with Logitech wireless mouse

2003-01-30 Thread nate
Wireless logitech trackball w/o issues. It gets extensive use all the time. Gone through a buncha batteries already :( I use it because my PS/2 mouse goes through a KVM and the KVM doesn't like the wheel(got the wheel to work once briefly but never since). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: How crazy is it to run 2.4.20 on woody?

2003-01-30 Thread nate
patches for 2.4.20 which are probably a good idea to apply if you plan to use ext3. oh and yes I do run woody, I don't run testing or unstable anywhere at the moment with no plans to change that(at the moment). My laptop is serving as my 2.4.x testbed, most everything else I run is 2.2.x still.

Re: SCSI CD-ROM disappeared

2003-01-30 Thread nate
0. and try the data cd your trying to mount in another CDROM as well, keep in mind you cannot mount audio cds, Video CDs(VCD), and probably a few other formats as well. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpd debugging in testing distro

2003-01-30 Thread nate
e output it generates on my NTP server here: http://bb.aphroland.org/bb/html/redhat.aphroland.org.ntpd.html nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?

2003-01-30 Thread nate
Courtney Thomas said: > Nate, > > I already tried the append="mem=384M". Didn't help. > > BTW, it is kernel 2.4.17. Does the BIOS detect all of the memory? I've never encountered a board in which the BIOS could see all the memory but the kernel could not wi

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh ?

2003-01-30 Thread nate
Courtney Thomas said: > Nate, > > Thank you for your interest. > > This motherboard is about 4 yrs old. I don't remember the brand but the > manual indicates that it is a M5SAB, if that helps. The RAM is Kingston > which I bought yesterday at Office Max. > > The doc

Re: VPNed networks

2003-01-30 Thread nate
link itself, or on a seperate machine perhaps in bridged mode monitoring the traffic. as for that specific system, are you able to access any of the other ports? is it reachable at all? what kind of vpn setup are you using? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-01-30 Thread nate
has quite a bit of info. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Configuration

2003-01-30 Thread nate
no officially supported central configuration tool for debian, though there are several options available including linuxconf and webmin. > iv) How to configure 'debianview' to read users' guide files ? never heard of the package debianview and never looked at the user's gu

Re: Mt Rainier Support?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
cess device, able to write on the fly without special software. looks like some info is here: http://www.cdfreaks.com/document.php3?Doc=75 i only read the first few words though. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Configuration

2003-01-31 Thread nate
actually be the default? it would make sense to me yes, I can't think of a reason not to do it, I haven't seen any programs that are aware of the file /etc/printcap.cups ..some programs use straight lpr to print, others seem to query /etc/printcap before printing. nate -- To UNS

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread nate
X for at least 5 years on different X servers/drivers on linux. as far as I know, most commercial X servers (IRIX, AIX, HPUX, Solaris) do not allow switching either, at least I've never figured out how to switch on those systems. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual Lilo boot with Debian and RedHat

2003-01-31 Thread nate
27;s so damn pretty. oh, you may need the initrd file as well from the redhat side else it will probably fail. that would be in /boot too? then add another line under the root= line that says initrd=/boot/filename_which_has_the_initrd . I think thats the right option, been a while since I used it.

Re: Input lockup problem

2003-01-31 Thread nate
http://xfree86.desiato.de/xfree86/pipermail/xpert/2000-November/003241.html I would reccomend another video card in the meantime. Or perhaps another X server, Metro-X or AcceleratedX may work better. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Upgrade 3.0beta->3.0r0->3.0r1 with buggy behaviour ?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
rect problems in debian(easier, and faster) then on some other systems. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCI Quirks?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
a couple motherboards that used that same audio chip, I always disabled it and installed a PCI sounblaster PCI 128 instead, worked much better(though perhaps the drivers for the VIA have improved since this was more then 2 years ago). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ncurses can't find libraries

2003-01-31 Thread nate
em without solving the problem. libncurses5-dev is required. (or if you like libncurses4-dev works too) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
f you build your own kernel for your own hardware, which it seems that you do(I do too) you probably don't need initrd(I don't use it myself), since you can just build your drivers directly into the kernel. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is my parallel port busy?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
ort). for 2.4.x kernels last I checked it's a module option, something like modprobe lp irq=7 (not sure if thats the right driver name), and am not sure if you can set this from the kernel command line. that's solved my parallel port problems. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread nate
think debian is the only one, and I am leaning towards the after effects of the worm still causing problems. There's probably a lot of bogged networks out there, and I can only imagine how much mail the mailing list server processes, theres probably a ton of processes that cannot connect which

Re: Input lockup problem

2003-01-31 Thread nate
our using a display manager or not, it's generally a good idea to not use a display manager when testing X configs, makes it easier to recover. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
eys it should be allowed in, doesn't matter what the IP is. Though I still use SSH v1 RSA keys for my stuff, haven't gotten around to migrating to SSH v2 yet. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-01-31 Thread nate
I reccomend samba-tng over samba for PDC stuff, the -tng branch is much more advanced, has more features(more PDC-like) then samba(in general) though it's been a while(march 2002) since I last tried samba as a PDC nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
with DSA authentication, last time I tried it, it was a real bitch to get working(this was about a year ago) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread nate
t how the disk is mounted the next time the system boots. You will see a message like "Remounting read-only" after seeing a bunch of errors on the screen if this occurs. It's only occured to me on a failing disk. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread nate
uess it's gone now. I have extensive info on my LDAP website http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP the samba-tng website is samba-tng.org, last time I downloaded a cvs copy(~6/02) they had debian build scripts that worked fine on my woody systems(that is, they made samba-tng .deb package

Re: updatedb running as user nobody

2003-02-01 Thread nate
ex all the files, and keep people from accessing those files. Unless your really paranoid about people knowing what filenames you have .. all of my machines run in a trusted enviornment so it's not really an issue for me. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread nate
ut on my LDAP page incase future versions were bad for whatever reason). in either case you'll need to recompile samba, unless you upgrade your whole system to sid. the samba 2. whatever version in sid may be decent too. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread nate
(LDAP is one of the main priorities of the project). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-02-01 Thread nate
ky, you can get a fully functional system in a few hours depending on your level of experience. I made the process as step-by-step as I could. also every page(except the front page) provides an area for users to comment, so if theres something you want to add to the guide its real easy to do. nate

Re: apm -s with vim open -> lockup

2003-02-01 Thread nate
'fg' to restore it. vim doesn't interact with the hardware in any way so it seems incredibly unlikely to me that vim would be the cause. it is not uncommon(for me at least) to have a laptop not suspend while in X. the workaround for me is to either risk CTRL+ALT+F1 and hope X can c

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
hers) alongside icwm and being able to switch between them(on the fly even). I do use KDM, thats the one thing I like about KDE, though I may be switching to GDM because it has the nice Xnest integration(gdmXnest I think it's called). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
automated tasks. that is, stuff from cron etc. if the system is properly secured the chance of a key getting compromised is not that great. on my more secure systems I lock them down to key logins only, so even if they have my root password or account password they have no opportunity to input them.

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
hen moved to mozilla once it got stable enough for use. console email clients don't seem to have the features I need. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
sktop, to which nobody but I had root to and even then they were not passphrase-less, yeah I'm paranoid :) ). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
of course handy for mailing lists, but it's not a real priority for me. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: supported hardware

2003-02-01 Thread nate
ally best because modems can 'lock up' and with an external you can power cycle it, with an internal you usually have to hard reboot. that and you can disconnect the external at any time and move it to another machine if needed w/o downtime. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: One NAT'ed machine fails.

2003-02-01 Thread nate
ECN off, in the 2.4.x kernel menuconfig it's in the networking options section. I would expect default debian kernels to have this off, so maybe you compiled your own kernel and turned it on? it's a common issue nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Steve Lamb said: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:54:02 -0800 (PST) > "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), > > [Snip a bunch of stuff] > > Sorry to drop in in the middle and if this has been

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Jamin W. Collins said: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 04:54:02PM -0800, nate wrote: > TMK, it has it. At least I haven't found anything I needed that it > doesn't have. ok > >> be able to view multiple folders at once(to see which has new mail), > > You can config

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread nate
Albert Knox said: > hi! i'm trying to compile a program from sources, but when I type > "./configure" it says that gcc is not working. The package is installed. > What can be the problem? programs that use configure usually generate a config.log look at that log t

Re: Disk Corruption (was: Disk formatting)

2003-02-02 Thread nate
e gone. it may be recoverable but chances are you probably don't want to spend the days/week trying to recover it. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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