re: sendmail msp problem: connection refused by [127.0.0.1] sm-client won't stop

2003-09-24 Thread root
bog, bog, bog... the opposite of spam.spam spam 1} Try this me pretties: follow s-link /usr/sbin/sendmail to /etc/alternatives arh! show me the mta-sendmail s-link to /usr/sbin/sendmail!!! If yer whalers like mine then there in no [EMAIL PROTECTED] mta-sendmail s-linked to /usr/sbin/sendmail.

deleted /tmp directory...can't login at all now!!!

2002-10-16 Thread root
Can someone help me recover here? I "meant" to do this: rm -r /tmp/* but instead I deleted the whole /tmp directory and now when I enter my user name and password I get thrown back to the graphical login screen. I am using Debian Woody and would appreciate any help because I am clueless on how

Cirrus Logic 7556, Xfree86 3.3, and Woody

2003-06-08 Thread root
I'm new to Debian and not a Linux expert, but I wanted to learn more about Debian (vs. HedHat). I took an old laptop that was running RH 7.3 and installed Woody from CD. It became clear after a bit of log-looking that the video chipset was no longer supported in xfree86 4.1, but appeared to

apt-get segmentation fault

1999-07-16 Thread root
Hello, I just ran fsck because at boot-time problems were reported with my disk. It seemed to have run okay, it fixed a bunch of stuff, and the reboot after that went normally (as far as I could tell). Now, when I run "apt-get update", "apt-get check", or "apt-get dist-upgrade", it seg-faults on

Re: 96% packet loss on my network

1999-02-13 Thread root
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: >I just set up my network (laptop to desktop). I'm running linux on >both. > >I pinged my desktop and it seems there is 96% packet loss there. Why >would this be? > Hardware problem somehwere...thats for sure...but I have no idea where you should look

Re: Moving partition

1998-12-23 Thread root
Dec 22, 1998 at 09:16:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> > I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on / >> > I have a swap partition /dev/hda3 >> > I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root >

Auto-Reply in Sendmail?

1999-01-30 Thread root
How would I do setup an email autoreply in Sendmail? Chris Wong | [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD Digital Media Inc. (c) 1998 http://addm.com/

fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-19 Thread root
Hello, I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost' and my hostname to 'local_domains=' and restarted exim, but

Lynx and .deb

1999-11-06 Thread root
I have used lynx for a while but am not familiar with it's advanced functionality, I have pored through the docs but cannot seem to find out where I can tell Lynx that when downloading a .deb file it should NOT download it as text. ;) does this have to do with system mime types, etc, or is there

Re: starting eth1 up on boot ?

2002-09-05 Thread root
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:27:54PM -0800, W.D.McKinney wrote: > I have a sever I just loaded up with Woody but it's not starting up > my network connection upon bootup ? What's the process in Debian to > add a service like this ? > > Thanks > Dee > Add an entry to /etc/network/interfaces

Dial out on boot of Woody box

2002-09-08 Thread root
I have just installed Woody on a new box (named galadriel). My old box (Potato, named gandalf) acts as DNS server and internet gateway (ISDN dial out). When I booted Woody, I noticed a dial out to my ISP on my old box. This dial out seems to be caused by DSN requests from Woody near the end of

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread root
> > Martin> Not necessarily so. Perhaps "gunzip figures.tar.gz" > Martin> followed by "tar -xvf figures.tar" works out all right. > > I have tried that, I get a "unexpected EOF error" when gunziping Maybe `gzip -dc figures.tar.gz > somename.tar` (and tar afterwards) will do better? --

xemacs and c++ //-type comments

1997-03-01 Thread root
The c++ mode in xemacs does not appear to recognize the double-slash comments in c++ code (these comments start with // and end at the following new-line -- like the '#' comment character in ksh scripts). Does anyone know if there is a patch or modification for the c++ mode so that it will recogn

Broken kde?

2000-09-20 Thread root
I'm getting this with my new woody. And what a woody it is. >startx starts startkde. Kde2 dies. If I look on console 1 at the output I see: /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.3 undefined symbol: Event__9QLineEditP6QEvent I think I've got just about every kde2 package loaded. No complaints from kdebase when

Re: xdm

2000-10-14 Thread root
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 09:13:07PM -0400, Eileen Orbell wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to configure XF86 setup. Some how I screwed up and now > debian boots into xwindows which would not be such a big deal but it locks > up. I can telnet in but how do I re-configure it to boot to command

reselling and distributing

2000-04-10 Thread root
Dear sirs, we are company from Lithuania and the are looking for new products to our market. We are very interested in Linux operating systems and software for it. PLease contact us via e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or telephone : +370 87 89 417 PLease send us your full catalogue with prices, di

AVA-1505A, USB

2001-01-11 Thread root
1)I read in the kernel helps that the SCSI driver for Adaptec aha152x can drive even the Adaptec AVA-1505 series. I can't make it run at all. Can some one, that had the same problem and resolved it, tell me how I must configure module or some other to make it run?? 2)Somedoby kwnos if is it poss

login......

2001-06-24 Thread root
I can not get into my 'user' account any longer only root password is working..i just finished using the passwd command successfully but it won't accept any password i use for this particular 'user'. is there an "X" version of this for debian? not t

re: no mouse movement

2001-06-24 Thread root
okay thanks much for info about mouse ie: /dev/psaux.. guaranteed I'll remember that one :) .. lee -==

Mirror Server for Intranet Servers

2001-11-09 Thread root
Hi, i want to make an intranet server with the stable testing and unstable distribution mirror ftp. In this way my other servers will be updated by this, configuring apt in appropriate configuration. I have tried the script found at the link http://www.it.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror that use

Re:

2001-11-14 Thread root
> David Crow wrote: > > How is it that Debian is able to read from and write to FAT32 > volumes? With Linux, this requires 3rd party software? > > Thanks, > David Crow the simplest answers are a) linux, whether debian or otherwise, is a real operating system, and b) no. welcome to a better worl

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-15 Thread root
this topic is inherently redundant. if the system environment justifies staying up, it stays up. if not, staying up is a waste of resources. can we close this before the group is reduced to redundancy itself? Tom Massey wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:19:00AM +, Frank Zimmermann wrote:

Printer problem

2001-09-19 Thread root
I can print with pr |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers, Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I print using the printer button. It seems unlikely that all are flawed so I must assume that something is wrong with my configuration. If somebody knows how to get my

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread root
Has no one any idea of how I can solve the problem stated below? I would really like to show that Debian is a real alternative to Windows. > I can print with pr |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers, > Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I > print using the

Re. Printer troubles

2001-09-20 Thread root
terminated (termsig=13) "" " job could not be printed (cfAOsidne My printer was set up with magicfilter. I am using root because Netscape 6, which has my correct name in the inbox, has this for the outbox. I will see if I can change it.

Re: install freezing

2001-10-02 Thread root
On Saturday 29 September 2001 08:12 pm, Jeff Reed wrote: > strange indeed...i've been trying to install deb 2.2, freebsd 4.3, and even > mandrake 8 on my pentium 3. as of late, it's been acting like a big piece > of junk. regardless of what distro i'm installing, it seems to halt at some > random

/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device`

2004-01-01 Thread root
note I'm having the same issue it says lrwxrwxrwx for access 1 root root 3 (date) /dev/cdrom -> hdc I had a harddrive hooked up to the same place previously could this be the reason it isn't mounting? * To: debian user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Subject: Re: cdrom not

how to export messages from outlook express

2004-03-19 Thread root
Hi, I'm in the last steps of my migration from M$ to Debian. I have 400MB of messages that I need to have available in my mail client. Using Ximian Evolution right now. I need suggestions on how to do it. TIA Hector -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: /usr 100%

2019-08-25 Thread root
Hi, if your /usr is full, you can do this: 1. Add a fresh harrdrive into your computer, format it ext2, 3 or 4, 2. mount it to some dir like /disk1 3. Then rsync all files from /usr to /disk1 4. edit /etc/fstab, so that the new harddrive is mounted to /usr 5. remount all, or reboot 6. You c

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-25 Thread root
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:12:44AM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:07:48PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > > The partition in which the chroot is is not mounted with the nodev option. > > It's mounted with ext3,defaults, just as / is. > > > > This is the strace I got: > >

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-26 Thread root
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:17:26AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 2/26/07, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:12:44AM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > (cut) > >From my gut, it doesn't seem like SELinux is getting in the way. I'd see >

inode warning

2006-12-08 Thread root
Can anyone tell me what this message means and what to do about it? 'iput: inode 00:00/0 count wrapped' This is a Woody install from CD on an old Pentuim system. TIA, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

inode aliases, inode count wrapped and kernel paging request/iput problems

2006-12-26 Thread root
el: Code: 8b 40 18 85 c0 74 02 89 c3 85 db 74 0d 8b 43 08 85 c0 74 06 These are clippings from /var/log/syslog: Dec 14 03:01:01 playground /USR/SBIN/CRON[7729]: (root) CMD ( /mc/bin/secure deb) Dec 14 03:01:54 playground kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6e

Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

2007-02-14 Thread root
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) > Subject: Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > > Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been runn

re: How to mount Solaris disk as slave?

2007-02-14 Thread root
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:13:07 -0600 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical > environment] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kelly wrote: > > It is not recognizing the data on the other drive. It only sees the > > swap sp

Re: Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

2009-07-22 Thread root
> They are recommends, and recommends are installed by default. But you can > change this. How can this be changed? I looked through the man pages for apt-get and the config file but didn't see any way to do so. TIA, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

find -ls

2009-06-28 Thread root
Is there any way other than modifying the source to get "find -ls" to return the file date as "month day year" rather than "month day time" for all files? TIA, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

root's offsite mail

2009-01-09 Thread root
How can I get 'root' out of the 'From:' line of root's offsite mail? I've scanned the docs for exim4, mutt and mailx on this Debian etch(mostly) system but nothing found so far. I know I can send mail as another user but would rather find a solution that doe

Re: Was I deleted?

2014-04-01 Thread root
Am Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:13:30 -0800 schrieb Greg Madden : > On Monday 31 March 2014 10:48:51 you wrote: > > Am Montag, 31. März 2014, 19:35:05 schrieb Ron Leach: > > > On 31/03/2014 19:22, Hans wrote: > > > > Hmm, I guess, you are right. It has something to do with > > > > "bounced", as I remember

Re: wheeezy-backports - strange policy?

2013-05-23 Thread root
On 2013-05-23 18:59 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > I made my minds about wheezy-backports now for a long time, and allow me, to > open this discussion. > > Pleae correct me, if I am wrong: IMO wheezy-backports is the successor to > debian-volatile No, it's not. Please read http://backports.de

Re: KDE - reset of graphics?

2016-08-08 Thread root
Hi Brad, > I haven't seen it recently, but yes. It happened most often when > various KDE part were upgraded (I run testing), but not all. As a > result, some parts of KDE were v4 and others were at v5. Things have > been okay for a while now. > I am running testing on my desktop pc (graphics o

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread root
t right. Debian users do not do all these things. The > maintainers take care of these trivial things for us. To install firefox > and and thunderbird all you need to do is run the following command with > root privileges > > apt-get install mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird I

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread root
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:09 +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Albert wrote: > > I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to > > install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a > > piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I

Not enough ptys + udev

2005-10-29 Thread root
Hi all, Recently, startx stopped working for all users on my laptop, due to: > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys since startx is still working for root, i suspect misconfiguration of the devices access privileges has occurred. So

LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-18 Thread root kea
Hello! I am using LUKS on LVM on Debian Stretch. I have encrypted /home and swap partition. When initram gets loaded it asks for password to decrypt swap partition. That passowrd doesn't get printed to screen. No stars. Nothing. But After which Kernel gets loaded (I think) and it asks password fo

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-18 Thread root kea
ase excuse the poor formatting. > On 12/18/17, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:41:00PM +0530, root kea wrote: >> is a screenshot https://imgur.com/bC4AF6H > My crystal ball says you're using systemd. It seems that it has a > special "unit"

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-19 Thread root kea
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:58 AM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:42:57AM +0530, root kea wrote: >> Now I just need to find out from where this `systemd-ask-password` is >> executed and then edit it's command

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-19 Thread root kea
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:58 PM, wrote: > So you might try to write your own agent, or file a wishlist > bug. I want *default* password agent to be consistent with traditional *Nix password handling. And that is echoing NOTHING at all. I am amazed that at times I had to defend not wanting sta

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-20 Thread root kea
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:15:36AM +0530, root kea wrote: >> And I just filed a bug report [0]. if anybody interested they can >> follow the discussion there. >> >> [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

savedefault in grub broken.

2006-02-13 Thread spoofy root
grub-reboot and savedefault seem to be broken in .97 neo:~# apt-cache show grub Package: grub Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 684 Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.97-4 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5) Suggests: grub

Grub and savedeafult

2006-02-15 Thread spoofy root
Anyone know where I can get the most recent version of grub that has the savedeafult and grub-reboot features working? I was told that its broken in .97 .. i know it worked in .95 .and I'm unsure about .96. thanks

Updates to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Ephemeral root
Am I the only one not getting any apt-get updates to the unstable version of Debian? I decided to check the sources list by hand and interestingly the dates of the lates Packages.gz and Sources.gz is 2005-07-21. What gives? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ [ ] Packag

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Ephemeral Root
Quoting Pete Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > > > > > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error > > > saying wrong fstype: > > > > > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/

USB2 Video/TV capture?

2005-09-19 Thread Ephemeral root
Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV capture device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The first result I got on a Google search for "linux video usb2 capture" is a link to somebody's Linux *in*compatibility list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: USB2 Video/TV capture?

2005-09-20 Thread Ephemeral root
Quothing Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:28 -0500, Ephemeral root wrote: > > Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV capture > > device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The first > > result I got on a Google s

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread Ephemeral root
Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi >We all know how important it is to read man pages. I > would like to collect info on different ways to read the > man pages. My > favorites are as follows > > 1) man pagename > 2) In konqueror, man:pagename > 3) In vim, Man pagename > >

Re: apt-get and authentication

2005-10-22 Thread Ephemeral root
Quoting Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why has apt-get started giving me this message: > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! That's part of apt 0.6's new security feature. You must add to your apt set-up the gpg public key of the archives where you downloaded the pack

Debian package management puzzle

2005-10-24 Thread Ephemeral root
How useful is grep-dctrl? Having nothing better to do, I did some informal tests of the program. The results have left me even more puzzled about the relation between dpkg, apt, aptitude and the other upcoming or obsolete Debian package managers? Can somebody account for the anomaly below? There ar

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed?

2005-10-26 Thread Ephemeral root
Quoting Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, /opt is where the files were written to, > indeed. But since dpkg was involved, the managing > system got in the middle. In the end, I removed all > the stuff, since apt-get can't do anything else > besides complain, 'till you remove'em. Thanks, I'

Re: Largedisk-HOWTO clarifcation

2001-12-28 Thread root/postmaster: genasis.freeserve.co.uk
On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:33 am, P Prince wrote: > This is true, however, the big implication of BIOS limitations for Linux is > the fact that while the Linux kernel does not address the disk space via > the BIOS, your boot loader (LILO) does. The boot loader must load the > kernel from your