Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > I was unaware that there were 7 flavours ;) If you're going cross architecture, yes. Or way back in time. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud

Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Adelle L. Hartley
Hi, I hope this is the place for newbie questions... I am trying to install Debian on Virtual PC 5.2 (on a wintel box) The first part of the install works fine, but I am having trouble getting X-Windows to work. I have edited the XF86Config file to use the s3 driver, but I think I have made a m

Installing Debian question.

2003-12-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, Just join this list I am going to install Debian with Disk-1 and Disk-7 on a 6G hard drive for test purpose. They were burnt from following Official CD images of the "stable" releases from Debian mirror sites; debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso debian-30r1-i386-binary-7.iso I have not

Debian ZOPE default user & passward

2003-12-09 Thread John Foster
I have been going over all of the docs to no avail Yet!! If someone knows what the first login user & the passward for an out of the box debian version install of ZOPE (sid) is please advise.Seems strange that this info would not be in the readme.deb.txt or some such. -- John Foster -- To UNS

Re: only root can use cd player?

2003-12-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 08.12.2003 schrieb michelle um 14:26: > I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound > cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off > the cd. Not even members of the disk and groups can do that. > > How do I fix this so members

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:44:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wro

Re: Installing Debian question.

2003-12-09 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stephen Liu (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am going to install Debian with Disk-1 and Disk-7 on a 6G hard drive > for test purpose. They were burnt from following Official CD images > of the "stable" releases from Debian mirror sites; > > debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso > debian-30r1-i386

Re: Initrd problems

2003-12-09 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:04:22AM +1100, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: > > Basically the driver module is not loading and we can't mount the root > filesystem. The module FastTrak.o can't be found, but I've mounted the > rd image and can verify the inclusion. I've adjusted the modules file > within the

Spam, email, encrypted transit, harvesting (was Re: Earthlink and Swen)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:05:04AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:44:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrot

Re: Site packages

2003-12-09 Thread Gaëtan CAPOU
Gaëtan CAPOU wrote: Hi, thank for you rely, but, i need of this files to build the drivers of my LAN card to acces to internet. I need to download this files to Windows computer. Have you a other solution. thank you. gcp. Paul William wrote: Run the following command as root: apt-get install k

control init process

2003-12-09 Thread anh le
hello, I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam. I have installed gdm but I want to control it behavior like follow: 1. After loginng in, I do not want the system run gdm immediately, but stay in console mode so that I can startx as neccessary. 2. Each time I logout from gdm (System->logout) I w

Re: Something broke MatLab

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:53:51PM -0800, Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Something in the past few days broke MatLab on my sid box. (Perhaps it was > something I dist-upgraded - anybody have any ideas?) > > Previously, whatever way I wanted to launch matlab it behaved the same. > > Now, i

Re: Newbie! Some help needed.

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:20:57PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > I installed from a Knoppix CD image. Rather painless and it found most of > the hardware as well. Now to get the thing productive :-) > > 1. How does one set up the network to work with ADSL (using a 10/100 > connected to an ADSL modem

Re: Installing Debian question.

2003-12-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Andreas, Thanks for your advice. What I need is the basic Debian-Linux system with GNOME environment. If I need additional software not available on those 2CDs, I will use 'apt-get install' to get them from Debian website or their tarball from their respective website. Thanks and B.R. Stephe

Re: sudo su gives root without prompting for a password

2003-12-09 Thread Stephen Touset
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 19:33, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i recently removed the SUID bit from /bin/su. > The permissions now look like this: -rwxr-x--- > Now i can just type "sudo su" to become root and no password > is asked. Previously i needed to type the root password > when using su. A

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Mauro Darida
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 11:34:23 +, Steinar Bang wrote: > Platform: Intel PII 233 > debian sarge (testing/unstable) > xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-12.1 > kdm 3.1.3-1 > > I have an X server using kdm to handle sessions on the Ctrl-Alt-F7 > display, and I'm trying to start a seco

Mutt 1.3.28i and attachments

2003-12-09 Thread Mauro Darida
What kind of settings should I put in .muttrc to avoit Mutt displaying such annoying things: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: multipart/signed, Encoding:7bit, Size:1.2K --] [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding:quoted-printable, Size:0.7K --] and so on... Saluti, Mauro. -- On this l

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-09 Thread Burkhard Woelfel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 8:58 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fir

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-09 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > > I was unaware that there were 7 flavours ;) > > If you're going cross architecture, yes. Or way back in time. > well let's see: rex, bo, hamm, potatoe, slink, sarge and sid Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: control init process

2003-12-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:29:30AM +0100, anh le wrote: > hello, > > I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam. > > I have installed gdm but I want to control it behavior like follow: > > 1. After loginng in, I do not want the system run gdm immediately, > but stay in console mode so that I can st

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-09 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:58:34 +0100 Burkhard Woelfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, 5 Decem

Re: mc compilation

2003-12-09 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Can you please pass me the result of ldd /usr/bin/mc please ? Thank you On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote : » Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:45:55 -0600 » From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> » To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] » Subject: Re: mc compilation » Resent-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 18:15:46 -

Re: Which JRE?

2003-12-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 21:58, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > Team: > > I've always run the JRE from Blackdown.org. On my spiffy new unstable > machine where I'm giving gnome 2 a shot, which JRE do you recommend? > Blackdown's always worked, but seemed kinda ugly . . . . If Blackdown works for you, th

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-09 Thread Tom
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:55:32PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:07:20AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > I could pay $35 to 1-800-US-SEARCH and really fuck up your day! > > IANAL, but watch it. You're crossing into threats and harassment > territory with that one. No, agressive-t

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-09 Thread Haines Brown
I find that when I try to save a file in emacs that contains an accented character, I get "No default coding system to try." Apparently this is why (for some reason) it "suggests" using utf-16-le. Vineet, Your message was very helpful, for it suggests the above problem may be due to no character

How can I configure beforelight screensaver?

2003-12-09 Thread pinchatrenes
Hi list, I'd like set the start time of beforelight and screen type but I don't find information about this. Thanks, in advance. -- pinchatrenes Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 'woody' mailto: mis_listas at ono dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: sudo su gives root without prompting for a password

2003-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:33:38AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i recently removed the SUID bit from /bin/su. > The permissions now look like this: -rwxr-x--- > Now i can just type "sudo su" to become root and no password > is asked. Previously i needed to type the root password > whe

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Re: Buggy Kernel How-To?

2003-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:28, David Z Maze wrote: > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, in short, what I found by googling about for some time: The correct > > way seems to be to put the kernel-source in my (non-root) home > > directory, and then > > cd /usr/src/ > > ln -s /hom

XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-09 Thread Monika Strack
Hallo, I need some help to make our fileserver working with fibre chanel raid. The hardware of the machine is: 2 Pentium III (Coppermine) 4 GB RAM Ethernet Pro 100 on board Gigabit Ethernet-Controler Syskonnect AT-2970SX RAID-Controler GDT 6113RS/6513RS SCSI-Controler Adaptec AIC-7899P on board F

Irrating cron-messages on console

2003-12-09 Thread Johann Spies
I am busy installing Debian (sid) on a new PC. I regularly get cron messages like the following on the console: cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) cron(pam_unix)[15945]: session closed for user root cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session closed for user root What is causing

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-09 Thread Sebastia Altemir
Thanks Andreas, for your time ! Here comes the problem : there is no link to MODUTILS in any "/etc/rcN.d". The /etc/rc2.d (where network starting should happen) has : S10sysklogd -> ../init.d/sysklogd S12kerneld -> ../init.d/kerneld S14ppp -> ../init.d/ppp S20inetd -> ../init.d/inetd S20logou

Re: Irrating cron-messages on console

2003-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:26, Johann Spies wrote: > I am busy installing Debian (sid) on a new PC. > > I regularly get cron messages like the following on the console: > > cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) > cron(pam_unix)[15945]: session closed for user root > cron(p

Re: Irrating cron-messages on console

2003-12-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:34:35PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 13:26, Johann Spies wrote: > > I am busy installing Debian (sid) on a new PC. > > > > I regularly get cron messages like the following on the console: > > > > cron(pam_unix)[15946]: session opened for user roo

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:58:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've spoken to Brad Kuhn about this specifically. > > > > ISTR speaking to

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-09 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:58:59AM -0800, Sebastia Altemir wrote: > Thanks Andreas, for your time ! > Here comes the problem : there is no link to MODUTILS in any "/etc/rcN.d". /etc/rcS.d -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Opposed: (was Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user)

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:42:58PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:52AM -0800, Hereon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 3) The Debian community would be much better served > >a) by the creation now of two new mailing lists, called: > > 1) debian-user-woody, or po

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:25:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My understanding is that the developer's account on the machine in > > question had been disused for some time, and that the machine wasn't > > ve

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Kent West
Adelle L. Hartley wrote: I am trying to install Debian on Virtual PC 5.2 (on a wintel box) The first part of the install works fine, but I am having trouble getting X-Windows to work. I have edited the XF86Config file to use the s3 driver, but I think I have made a mistake somewhere. The output

ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread Debian User
I am searching for a good HowTo on firewalls and ipchains. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-8.html references a dead link at http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html Does anyone have another reference worth reading? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-09 Thread stan
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:51:49PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:47:39AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:19:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:12:05AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:29:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:39:38PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If somebody actually set up full scale enterprise-style global support > > for Debian, then we'd be happy to link to them, and probably help them

Re: sudo su gives root without prompting for a password

2003-12-09 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 19:33, Stephen Touset wrote: > My suggestion? If being able to use "su" without a password gives you > the heebie-jeebies (as well it should), then be far more restrictive in > what you allow in /etc/sudoers. After all, if you're just going to allow > complete access with "

Re: who calls /ETC/MODULES

2003-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:58:59AM -0800, Sebastia Altemir wrote: > Here comes the problem : there is no link to MODUTILS in any "/etc/rcN.d". > The /etc/rc2.d (where network starting should happen) has : Who says that network startup should happen in run-level 2 only? Debian starts the network l

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:03:43PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:25:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > My understanding is that the developer's account on the ma

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:09:38AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:51:49PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd recommend running spamc, using spamassassin in client/server mode. > > This cuts the rougly one-second overhead per message of spamassasin's > > star

Re: Fluxbox, Debian menu

2003-12-09 Thread Kristian Niemi
Thanks, it got me a bit on the way, *but* ... (There always has to be a `but', doesn't there?) First of all I had to change the following line: !include menu.h -- into: !include /etc/menu-methods/menu.h Don't know if that's good/bad/doesn't matter... Secondly, I get the following error: update-menu

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:10:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > That looks excellent. There's already quite a lot of cooperation between > HP and Debian, with a number of Debian developers employed by HP and > improving the distribution in directions that are favourable to both > parties. Employ

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:33:24AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:10:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > That looks excellent. There's already quite a lot of cooperation between > > HP and Debian, with a number of Debian developers employed by HP and > > improving the distribution i

Kernel 2.4.23

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Montagne
I'm a little new at this. I want to upgrade my kernel from my Libranet 2.4.21. I have a RAID controller (IDE) that appears as a SCSI device for some reason. So I need to use initrd to boot (correct?). At least that's the way Libranet set it up for me. That means that I can't use a pristine ker

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:54:47AM -0700, Paul E Condon said > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:56:50PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How can I create an updated Woody CD with the all the latest bug fixes > > like the new kernel patch and other bug fixes? I have the latest official > > CD, bu

Re: Setup of pam_ldap/nss_ldap

2003-12-09 Thread Craig Jackson
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 14:41, Craig Jackson wrote: > Friends, > > On Sid I am trying to setup pam_ldap and nss_ldap on server A to > authenticate to an openldap server B. Here's what's installed: > ii ldap-utils 2.1.23-1 OpenLDAP utilities > ii libldap2 2.1.23-1 OpenLDAP lib

File system error (power outage)

2003-12-09 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello: sometime last night my power must have gone off and back on again, I came to my computer today in the morning to find it saying: /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; run fsck manually (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note

Re: Fluxbox, Debian menu

2003-12-09 Thread Kristian Niemi
--- got it to work! Including how system.fluxbox-menu works. Sometimes `intuitive guessing' gets the job done. ;) Thanks for your help! h: Krisse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:58:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > As does DocBook and man. Deprecating man in favor of Info is _not_ > >

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread Rajkumar S
Paul E Condon wrote: Look at jigdo. As I recall, you can start a jigdo construction of an iso by first giving an iso that is almost right, i.e. the prior rev. , and then proceeding to download only the corrections that are needed. It is covered in the jigdo instructions, or FAQ, don't remember exac

Re: File system error (power outage)

2003-12-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:55, Francisco Castellon wrote: > Hello: > > sometime last night my power must have gone off and back on again, I > came to my computer today in the morning to find it saying: > > /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; run fsck manually > (i.e., without -a or -p

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote: > I am searching for a good HowTo on firewalls and ipchains. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-8.html references a dead > link at > http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html > > Does anyone have another reference worth r

Problems to install XFree C headers

2003-12-09 Thread Jose Francisco Neto
Hello All, I'm trying to compile wine but I'm facing the above problem. config.status: executing windows commands *** Warning: X development files not found. Wine will be built without *** X support, which currently does

nfs, ldap and group permissions

2003-12-09 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! I have the following problem with nfs: Server A exports a directory via nfs to client B. User and group informations are stored in LDAP. The exported directory has mode 770. Tests: Server: If I'm the owner of the directory or belong to the group, I can create new files or change th

Hyperthreading with 2.4.23 ?

2003-12-09 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, has anyone got HT working with kernel 2.4.23? When I switched from 2.4.22, I lost HT on my Dual Xeon Servers (Serverworks chipset). I tried to google for some infos regarding the change and got several hits, but nothing really helped: tried to activate/deactivate ACPI in the kernel configs, tr

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:54, Rajkumar S wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > Look at jigdo. As I recall, you can start a jigdo construction of an > > iso by first giving an iso that is almost right, i.e. the prior rev. > > , and then proceeding to download only the corrections that are > > needed. It is

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > I don't know what jurisdiction he was in, but in the United States I'm > told that copyright reverts to the widow upon an author's death, to such > an extent that she can renegotiate all publication contracts! No. Copyrights are heritable property and contracts are binding on th

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:08:15AM -0500, Debian User wrote: > I am searching for a good HowTo on firewalls and ipchains. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-8.html references a dead > link at > http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html > > Does anyone have anothe

kppp [was Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

2003-12-09 Thread csj
On 8. December 2003 at 7:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csj (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On 7. December 2003 at 10:52PM +0100, > > Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You can of course use predefined connections with pon/poff if > >> you are in the

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:58:15 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:58:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:

Mixing woody and sarge

2003-12-09 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, What will happen when I add testing lines also in sources.list of a stable (woody) box and apt-get a package available in testing? For example ulogd. After that will the box be stable (woody), with just that package (and dependencies) from testing? What happens when a security updates com

Limit network speed

2003-12-09 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I have a little network at home with 2 window$ workstations and 1 debian gateway / dns / dhcp server. My network speed is pretty high (both on upload and download), however I want to limit the upload speed (cause I have a upload limit). The reason I want this is because when I use BitTorren

In my defense! (was: Getting rid of MS XP)

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [SNIP] Goodbye XP. Box is pure Debian now (7 partitions with various flavors of Debian, overdoing it really ;-) ) Hugo. Congrats. And yes, 7 flavours of Debian on one machine is overkill :-) -Roberto This brings up a favorite topic, that I frankly

Re: Getting rid of MS XP

2003-12-09 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:03:49AM +0100, Peter Bartosch wrote: > Hi! > > > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > I was unaware that there were 7 flavours ;) > > > > If you're going cross architecture, yes. Or way back in time. > > > > well let's see: > > > r

Re: File system error (power outage)

2003-12-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya francisco if it gives you that "WARNING" ... do NOT e2fsck a mounted filesystem what you probably need to do ... assuming you have the following partitions /dev/hda1 / /dev/hda2 /tmp /dev/hda3 /var /dev/hda5 /usr /de

Re: XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-09 Thread Eric Sandeen
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Monika Strack wrote: > Hallo, > > I need some help to make our fileserver working with fibre chanel raid. > > Always I get "Unable to handle kernel Null pointer dereference" or "unable to > handle kernel paging request" You'll need to start by sending more information, ple

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread HdV
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote: > I am searching for a good HowTo on firewalls and ipchains. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-8.html references a dead > link at > http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html > > Does anyone have another reference worth reading

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread Ray
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:16, bob parker wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:54, Rajkumar S wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Look at jigdo. As I recall, you can start a jigdo construction > > > of an iso by first giving an iso that is almost right, i.e. the > > > prior rev. , and then proceed

Re: Debian ZOPE default user & passward

2003-12-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:17:45AM -0600, John Foster wrote: | I have been going over all of the docs to no avail Yet!! If someone | knows what the first login user & the passward for an out of the box | debian version install of ZOPE (sid) is please advise.Seems strange that | this info would n

Re: SID: Webmin will not let me edit, systems users

2003-12-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, John Foster wrote: > I have webmin installed from Debian.org not from the upstream developer. > I have always been able to use it to add users, groups , & edit them. > Now it has a warning that I can not, & it will not let me edit the > existing users or add new ones. What giv

Re: Mixing woody and sarge

2003-12-09 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:59:44PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: > > What will happen when I add testing lines also in sources.list of a > stable (woody) box and apt-get a package available in testing? For > example ulogd. If you don't set a Default Release or any other pinning configuration, the n

Re: control init process

2003-12-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 04:43:48 -0500, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:29:30AM +0100, anh le wrote: > > hello, > > > > I'm a Debian 3.0r1 newbie from vietnam. > > > > I have installed gdm but I want to control it behavior like follo

lvm and kernel 2.6

2003-12-09 Thread Benoit
Hello, I'm currently using debian unstable with a 2.6-test9 kernel from debian source, some of my partitions are lvm. It worked great until my last upgrade (yesterday was the first one after the come back of the ftp server). I now get an error on vgscan : ioctl, invalid argument cmd(0) It stil

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I don't think [the right of reversion] has any effect at all [on Free > Software]. I believe it only affects transfers, not licenses. I just did some research and it appears that I was wrong. See Looks like the best thing to do abo

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
  I have tried every card (I think) listed and I have not had any luck with virtual pc.   If anybody out there knows what it takes to configure the startx for the virtual pc environment I would be interested.  I know that it works, as I had it running with Knoppix at one time.  Unfortuna

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Steinar Bang
> Mauro Darida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try (look at spacing): > startx -- :2 vt8 Does the same as the same command without the "vt8", ie. starts an X display with no WM, three xterms and an xclock. It doesn't connect to the running DM using XDMCP, to get a login box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:08:15 -0500, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message : > I am searching for a good HowTo on firewalls and ipchains. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO-8.html references a dead > link at > http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html

Re: Mixing woody and sarge

2003-12-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:59:44PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: | Hi, | | What will happen when I add testing lines also in sources.list of a | stable (woody) box and apt-get a package available in testing? For | example ulogd. | | After that will the box be stable (woody), with just that package

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Steinar Bang
> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Does this mean that it actually starts 4 X servers? That doesn't seem >> to be the case, so I guess the "reserve" keyword makes the difference? >> What does "reserve" mean in this context? There wasn't anything about >> it in the comments of the file. >

Re: Installing Debian question.

2003-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all folks, Just join this list I am going to install Debian with Disk-1 and Disk-7 on a 6G hard drive for test purpose. They were burnt from following Official CD images of the "stable" releases from Debian mirror sites; debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso debian-30r1-i386-binary

Re: Remastering a Debian Woody CD

2003-12-09 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:42, Ray wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 10:16, bob parker wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:54, Rajkumar S wrote: > > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > Look at jigdo. As I recall, you can start a jigdo construction > > > > of an iso by first giving an iso that is almost rig

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread Debian User
yikes!! i have hit the wall at 37!!! i am running a 2.4 kernel and should have asked about iptables NOT ipchains. At Tuesday, 9 December 2003, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 09:08:15 -0500, >Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >: > >> I am searching f

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Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Kent West
Michael Martinell wrote: I have tried every card (I think) listed and I have not had any luck with virtual pc. If anybody out there knows what it takes to configure the startx for the virtual pc environment I would be interested. I know that it works, as I had it running with Knoppix at

Re: Limit network speed

2003-12-09 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Ron Rademaker said on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:31:24PM +0100: > Hello, > > I have a little network at home with 2 window$ workstations and 1 debian > gateway / dns / dhcp server. My network speed is pretty high (both on upload > and download), however I want to limit the upload speed (cause I have

RE: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
It lists it as a VGA Compatible controller S3 Inc 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64+] The x error is Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No devices detected. Fatal Server error: No Screens found. -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesda

backports.org routing fixed

2003-12-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Problem found in Europe/Germany. This is a forwarded message from my company's network provider as a follow-up to the discussion on Debian-User about Backports.org not being available from a number of networks yesterday. Fixed now after my report of where I was seeing the problem made its way

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:33:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:58:15 +, > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:58:26PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > On a more practical note: copyright would pass

Re: Mixing woody and sarge

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:59:44PM +0530, Rajkumar S wrote: > What will happen when I add testing lines also in sources.list of a > stable (woody) box and apt-get a package available in testing? For > example ulogd. Don't, it's a really bad idea. Pick one distribution or the other. Cheers, --

Re: XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-09 Thread Austin Gonyou
What qlogic driver, kernel version, XFS version, FC array, size volume, and oops output? All that will help tremendously. On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:36, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Monika Strack wrote: > > > Hallo, > > > > I need some help to make our fileserver working with fibre ch

make-kpkg

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Montagne
I use Grub as a bootloader. After making a kernel .deb using make-kpkg, I'm running dpkg -i Near the end you are asked to if you want to make a boot block. What is this? Is it just an entry in Grub or LILO? What I'm most concerned about is being able to boot to my old kernel if I screwed t

how long it takes an unstable package to come into testing?

2003-12-09 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I was going to install Debian on a new machine. Currently I am using unstable. I would like to know how long (I mean days) it takes a package to be moved from Unstable to Testing? Just wanted to know this information to have an idea how long I will have to wait for new packages if I am using T

Re: XFS , QLA2200 and SMP

2003-12-09 Thread Austin Gonyou
Pardon me for not seeing this earlier. have you created a debug qlogic driver? 6.06.10 prefferably. Also, are you using and ql2xopts in your modules.conf? Just curious. Some older versions may be messed up if you haven't re-written them. Also, tried moving the qlogic card to another slot? We have m

clustering software

2003-12-09 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Does anyone know if there is any clustering software for 2.6? I know mosix but there doesn't seem to be 2.6 support Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slack

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