Re: Gnome 2 vs. KDE
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:07:04AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I am running Woody, and loading some packages I want from backports I've > found on the web. > > It seems that installing the Gnome 2 backport removes my KDE desktop. > I've even found a KDE 3.1 site, but the Gnome 2 install threatens to > remove KDE without replacement. I don't think that should be a problem any more in unstable, now that libfam0c102 provides libfam0. You'd really need to ask whoever maintains the backports, though, or at least tell us which backports you're using. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unbootable FastTrak TX2 100
[[[ Please "Cc:" me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. ]]] I admit it. I'm spoiled. I have come to expect Linux setups to just "work", so when they don't I'm quite tenacious in trying to fix things. Currently, I'm trying to get an APPRO 1124i system (http://www.appro.com) to work using the Linux 2.4.18 native ataraid support. This PC Class server is using the Tyan Thunder K7 motherboard, dual AMD MP2400+ processors, 1GB DDRAM, and the Promise FastTrak TX2 100 PCI card. I have the 4 disk Array Configured in "Security" mode or Mirror/Stripe. I'm booting with LordSutch's Debian Woody 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, which has ataraid support compiled in (yes, I know this is a Red Hat list). The machine boots successfully off of CD and recognizes the ataraid device correctly. I've been able to partition and format the ataraid device with a working Debian install. What I cannot seem to accomplish is to boot the system off this raid device: /dev/ataraid/d0. Grub simply won't ackowledge the ataraid device as useable and instead just lists the four physical drives as being available. lilo 22.2-3 installs into the MBR, but fails with "L 01 01 01 01...". lilo 22.5.4 installs, but instead fails at boot time with "L 99 99 99 99 99". Apparently something was fixed between 22.2 and 22.5 to allow lilo to see the device correctly, but now it doesn't seem to want to accept the detected geometry as correct. I've compared the geometry as reported by the Promise card at boot time with the geometry from the lilo diagnostic disk (compiled from 22.5.4 source), and they match perfectly. I have not touched the /dev/hd[e-h] devices as directed by the FAQ's, etc. I honestly don't know what else to do. I don't know if this problem is isolated to lilo or if it's influenced by what the initial kernel is reporting to lilo. Should I be upgrading the installation kernel to 2.4.20? 2.4.21-preX? Does the ataraid driver support the mirror/stripe configuration I'm using, or am I being naieve? Advice? Flames? Etc. -- Chad C. Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 247 Gortner Hall Asst. Coordinator of IT Help: 612-625-9284 CBS Computing Services, UMN Phone: 612-624-2918 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /bin/bash: Permission denied
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:32:46 +0200 "gabriel meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> So login is possible at the moment only for root. > > >> I checked all the user rights of / /bin /bin/bash and its dependend A few ideas come to mind: Did your non-root logins ever work? When did the problem start happening? What are the permissions of your home directory and the dot files in it? Try login in as root and root# strace su gmeier -c /bin/bash and see if anything is revealed. -- _ __ | || | ___| |___ ___ _ __ __ _ | || |_ / __| / __| / _ \| '__/ _` | |__ _| (__| \__ \| (_) | | | (_| | |_| \___|_|___(_)___/|_| \__, | Dan Dofton, Automation Asst. |___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (607)723-8236e313 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sawfish - keybinding funny.
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:22:59PM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote: } On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] } > How odd. I'm using sawfish from testing (i.e. sarge, i.e. version 1:1.3-2) } > with GNOME2 and it works just fine. A version or two ago they broke the } > configuration tool (sawfish-ui), but it works now and it uses GTK2. My } > bound keystrokes work every time. GNOME2 has also gotten pretty solid and } } It is only whn I run an external command (eg xterm, galeon) that cause a } problem. Internal commands (next work-space, shade etc) all work } perfectly. } } Can you binding say Galeon to a key and see if it works for you? I have several shell commands bound to keys (e.g. xscreensaver-command -lock), and they work fine. I have had some path issues on occasion, so try giving the full path rather than just the command. } > stable, and now that gaim is GTK2 everything I use plays nice together } > (well, okay, it can't remember anything about xterms and I refuse to use } > any other terminal emulator, but that's a personal problem). } } How can you live without a terminal!?!?!?!? You misunderstand. I use xterm. I use many xterms. But I only use xterm. [...] } rgh --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?
> Joerg Johannes wrote: > > I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I > > recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the > > net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies are not > > displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I > > can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? > > offlineimap? > > (don't know if KMail supports Maildir, though) >From KDE 3.x on , it does. 2.x versions do not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?
> > Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I > > > recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the > > > net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies are not > > > displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I > > > can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? > > > > offlineimap? > > > > (don't know if KMail supports Maildir, though) > > It does. What about courier-imap ? I didn't get it how you'ld solve the problem with courier-imap: Courier is a imap server. Are you suggesting to run it locally? And how would you fetch/synchronize from the remote server? Via IMAP aswell? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SOLVED] Re: Q: Pointers to configure SMTP AUTH
Hi Alexander and Gregory, thanks for your help, using cram-md5 authentifacation and encrypting the transfer over ssl works now. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DriveStatusError
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 03:37, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:58:09PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
> Drive is dead. Expect serious problems to develop quickly from this
> point, don't expect good things after a reboot or power down. Time to
> get a new drive.
That's exactly the point. Error 0x04 does NOT necessarily mean this. If
there's BadCRC or anything other than DriveStatusError alone, things are
different, but DriveStatusError alone seems to be more or less harmless. The
thing that irritated me was that nobody seemed to know what those messages
were about, and the link I posted was the _only_ halfway authoritative thing
I found about it in two hours worth of googling.
After I activated SMART, the drive went through 'mke2fs -c -c' without a
hitch, BTW.
> > Got Backup?
>
> Do you? That's also a good idea right now.
Believe me, I do. After a 9GB SCSI drive blew up without any warning, I
installed an 80GB mirrored RAID on a machine and rsync regularly.
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Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:36:52 +0200 Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I > can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? I use fetchmail to dump my imap mail into my local spool via exim. I then have it locally available to sort with Sylpheed's filters . Here's how I do it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat .bash_profile if [[ `pgrep fetchmail` == "" ]]; then fetchmail -d 30; fi . .bashrc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat .fetchmailrc poll mail.4cls.org with proto IMAP user 'ddofton' password '*' folders main ipswitch keep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB Epson scanner problem
Greetings- I've been trying to move my scanner (an Epson 1640SU) from SCSI to USB in preparation for a new machine which will not have a SCSI card. I've got USB working (it mounts a USB memory stick fine) and the scanner module installed, as well as hotplug. Hotplug notices the scanner and assigns it to the usbscanner driver. sane-find-scanner finds the scanner. But xsane and scanimage don't. Any advice? Debian 3.0 (woody) Kernel 2.4.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sane-find-scanner # Note that sane-find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected # to a SCSI bus and some scanners that are connected to the Universal # Serial Bus (USB) depending on your OS. It will even find scanners # that are not supported at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that # is connected to a parallel or proprietary port. # You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices. # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access # permissions as necessary. sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010a) at device /dev/usbscanner sane-find-scanner: found USB scanner (vendor = 0x04b8, product = 0x010a) at device /dev/usbscanner0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scanimage scanimage: no SANE devices found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scanimage --list-devices No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). Thanks- Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Root RAID with Debian supplied kernels?
Hello, Has anyone succeeded in making Debian boot a root RAID array with a stock kernel? I've gone through this twice now and cannot figure out how why the initrd I'm making isn't working. For now I've punted and gone back to compiling custom kernels, but I was surprised to see that google doesn't really turn up any links on the subject. So if anyone has a setup like this working, I'd greatly appreciate a description of how you managed it. PS: Please, CC me any responses since I do not subscribe - much appreciated. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon. He fires Holy-Water from it.It is a Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses the Hell out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He has it pierced.It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He makes it official. It is a Canon Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sawfish - keybinding funny.
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:51, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:22:59PM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote: > } On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: > [...] > } > How odd. I'm using sawfish from testing (i.e. sarge, i.e. version 1:1.3-2) > } > with GNOME2 and it works just fine. A version or two ago they broke the > } > configuration tool (sawfish-ui), but it works now and it uses GTK2. My > } > bound keystrokes work every time. GNOME2 has also gotten pretty solid and > } > } It is only whn I run an external command (eg xterm, galeon) that cause a > } problem. Internal commands (next work-space, shade etc) all work > } perfectly. > } > } Can you binding say Galeon to a key and see if it works for you? > > I have several shell commands bound to keys (e.g. xscreensaver-command > -lock), and they work fine. I have had some path issues on occasion, so try > giving the full path rather than just the command. Tried that. The same. To recapitulate. I've tried it: * not using a path * using the full path * using the inbuilt Xterm command. All the same. I don't even know how to go about debugging it. Having said that I just tried strace'ing sawfish and guess what it works every time. I hate stuff like this. So does this mean that it's not sawfish at fault, is it one of the libraries? Mutter, Mutter... Could you check that these are the same: librep.so.9 => /usr/lib/librep.so.9 (0x40012000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4007) libgmp.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmp.so.3 (0x4009d000) libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 (0x400c5000) libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x400d4000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400e5000) libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x40106000) libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x40136000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4013a000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x4013d000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4019f000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x401a7000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401bc000) libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x40278000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x40289000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x402d9000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x402e6000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x402ed000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40312000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4032) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40333000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x40443000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) I'm running out of ideas here. > } > stable, and now that gaim is GTK2 everything I use plays nice together > } > (well, okay, it can't remember anything about xterms and I refuse to use > } > any other terminal emulator, but that's a personal problem). > } > } How can you live without a terminal!?!?!?!? > > You misunderstand. I use xterm. I use many xterms. But I only use xterm. A. I tried gnome-terminal for a while but I reverted back to xterm (uxterm actually). rgh > > [...] > } rgh > --Greg -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ethernet lockup
I have noticed a thread on this list around a week ago that dealt with the ethernet lockup with the Linux hme driver. There was a posting by Joshua Uziel that pointed to a patch to this driver. I'm new to Debian so my question may seem strange to some here, but I cannot see how to use this patch since the 2.4.18 kernel that comes with my 3.0_r1 installation seems to be monolithic, and vanilla kernel source does not build on my system. How does one go about this? Thanks in advance. Best regards, David List -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem: want x-window-system without xdm
I have installed x-window-system in order to use gnopernicus for gnome accessibility. But I do not want X to start at boot. I was advised to change my runlevel from 2 to 3 in my /etc/inittab but that did not solve my problem. finally I removed xdm using --ignore-dpendency=x-window-system. My installation works fine, including gnopernicus/gnome. However, now apt-get won't let me upgrade or add packages; it just keeps complaining about how i should run 'apt-get -f install" because of the unmet dependencies. I am using debian unstable; in earlier distributions you could install x-window-system without xdm; I'm not sure when or why that changed. Is there anything I can do about this? thanks. Cheryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron
How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Sawfish - keybinding funny.
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:52:46AM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote: } On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:51, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:22:59PM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote: } > } On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] } > I have several shell commands bound to keys (e.g. xscreensaver-command } > -lock), and they work fine. I have had some path issues on occasion, so try } > giving the full path rather than just the command. } } Tried that. The same. To recapitulate. I've tried it: } } * not using a path } * using the full path } * using the inbuilt Xterm command. } } All the same. I don't even know how to go about debugging it. Having } said that I just tried strace'ing sawfish and guess what it works every } time. I hate stuff like this. } } So does this mean that it's not sawfish at fault, is it one of the } libraries? Mutter, Mutter... } } Could you check that these are the same: [...] Other than the hex in parens, they are the same. I don't know what the hex numbers signify but, with the exception of librep and /lib/ld-linux.so.2, yours are all higher than mine. In fact, they are all higher by either 0x1000 or 0x3000. I have no idea what that signifies. } I'm running out of ideas here. I don't have any better ideas either, I'm afraid. Try apt-get install --reinstall on sawfish and those various libraries? [...] } rgh --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem: want x-window-system without xdm
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:21:44AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I have installed x-window-system in order to use gnopernicus for gnome > accessibility. But I do not want X to start at boot. I was advised to > change my runlevel from 2 to 3 in my /etc/inittab but that did not > solve my problem. That was wrong advice from somebody used to Red Hat or similar. You can do something like 'mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/s99xdm' on Debian. > finally I removed xdm using --ignore-dpendency=x-window-system. My > installation works fine, including gnopernicus/gnome. However, now > apt-get won't let me upgrade or add packages; it just keeps > complaining about how i should run 'apt-get -f install" because of the > unmet dependencies. I am using debian unstable; in earlier > distributions you could install x-window-system without xdm; I'm not > sure when or why that changed. Is there anything I can do about this? Yes, remove x-window-system. It's only a metapackage for convenience, to install a more or less complete X Window System; if it's not convenient, remove it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 06:36, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody > > I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I > recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the > net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies are not > displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I > can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? Try archivemail, it's great for keeping archives and auto-cleaning you mailing list folders. It can read from imap, mbox, and maildir, and save as compressed or uncompressed mbox files suitable for reading with your favorite mail client. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sawfish - keybinding funny.
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 01:54, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:52:46AM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote: > } On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:51, Gregory Seidman wrote: > } > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:22:59PM +1000, Richard Heycock wrote: > } > } On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: > [...] > } > I have several shell commands bound to keys (e.g. xscreensaver-command > } > -lock), and they work fine. I have had some path issues on occasion, so try > } > giving the full path rather than just the command. > } > } Tried that. The same. To recapitulate. I've tried it: > } > } * not using a path > } * using the full path > } * using the inbuilt Xterm command. > } > } All the same. I don't even know how to go about debugging it. Having > } said that I just tried strace'ing sawfish and guess what it works every > } time. I hate stuff like this. > } > } So does this mean that it's not sawfish at fault, is it one of the > } libraries? Mutter, Mutter... > } > } Could you check that these are the same: > [...] > > Other than the hex in parens, they are the same. I don't know what the hex > numbers signify but, with the exception of librep and /lib/ld-linux.so.2, > yours are all higher than mine. In fact, they are all higher by either > 0x1000 or 0x3000. I have no idea what that signifies. It's the address of where it resides in memory. > > } I'm running out of ideas here. > > I don't have any better ideas either, I'm afraid. Try apt-get install > --reinstall on sawfish and those various libraries? I think you probably right I'll give it a go. rgh > > [...] > } rgh > --Greg -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
John Hasler wrote: > Deryk Barker writes: > > Actually it's mainly the hard drive manufacturers. > And the ISO. In the digital world we had this nice system of binary powers of two. But the non-digital side of life claims prior art in this area. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html I feel like I am in a dispute over which end of the egg to break open! [Do they really expect their "pronunciation" suggestions to catch on? Looks more like a not so obvious attempt to squash the binary terms.] Sigh. Bob P.S. Note that the coreutils and other support your choice to decide for yourself by --human-readable versus --si in 'ls' for example. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gnome 2 vs. KDE
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 09:07, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > It seems that installing the Gnome 2 backport removes my KDE desktop. > I've even found a KDE 3.1 site, but the Gnome 2 install threatens to > remove KDE without replacement. > Which gnome2 backport? The gnome2.2 I maintain coexists with kde from woody, but I don't know about kde 3.1. Mine uses this line in sources.list: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody gnome2.2/ Jamie -- James Strandboge Targeted Performance Partners, LLC Web: http://www.tpptraining.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (585) 271-8370 Fax: (585) 271-8373 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel 82562ET NIC on Intel D845GEBV2
ourclan wrote: Hello I am trying to install Debian using a Debian CD (just downloaded latest stable ISO) to a Intel D845GEBV2 Motherboard. This motherboard as an integrated Intel 82562ET NIC. So I try to have it install the eepro100 module, but it doesn't install. I did check and the NIC is enabled in BIOS. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com I noticed that there are 2 verison of this kernel driver in kernel 2.4.19 and above (I'm not 100% about that), the standard version (by Donald Becker IIRC) and Intel's version. You might want to try compiling one of these kernel's on another machine perhaps? Intel's module goes by the name of e100. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ergonomic laptop keyboard?
hello geeks, i'm about to begin work at a new job. the shop is really chill, to such a degree that everyone hangs out on couches and beanbag chairs and works on laptops. this is awesome, but for one factor -- i can't type on a laptop for longer than about 20 minutes without severe wrist pain. this isn't usually a problem, as i have a desktop system at home and in the lab where i've been, and work on ergonomic keyboards (e.g., the Micro$oft Natural). what would be ideal for me i don't think exists yet, and google isn't helping. I would love to see a normal laptop, but with a keyboard whose two halves could pop up in the middle, and then rotate inwards to whatever degree the user wanted, kind of like [1], except built into a laptop, and without the numerical keypad, obviously. does such a thing exist? if not, could i build one myself somehow? how can i get whoever makes laptops to design one? could i patent it? (heh heh ...) whatever; i just want a laptop that I can type on ... any tips would be appreciated. [1] http://www.maenad.net/geek/split_keyboard.jpg -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ get my (*new*) key here: http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape 7 or 7.01 or 7.02 in a debian package?
Is there a trusted place to apt-get Netscape 7 or 7.01 or 7.02 in a debian package? I really like Netscape better than Mozilla since it seems to work with more websites (like flash) and has a spell checker already built in. ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Deryk Barker writes: > > Actually it's mainly the hard drive manufacturers. > > And the ISO. > > > To them 1GB = 1,000,000,000 as you note above. > > Correct. Giga -> 10^9 = 1,000,000,000. > > > Of course, most software does the right thing and report in terms of > > powers of 2, where 1GB = 1,073,741,824. > > Incorrect. Gibi -> 2^30 = 1,073,741,824. Which, unless my eyes are far worse than my optician thinks, is *precisely* the number I entered above. Evidently I'm missing your point. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inserting a into sed's replacement string
On Fri, 30 May 2003 17:16, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Attempting to actually type a tab key in the place of the '\t' in the > > replacement string just has the xterm barfing and I get the same result > > if I log on in a real terminal. So does attempting to insert Ctrl-I. > > Try typing ctrl-v before the tab. The ctrl-v allows you to insert the > next character you type literally, be it tab, newline, backspace, > whatever. > Thanks, The ctrl-v seems to work the best. Thanks to all who replied. Regards Bob Prker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdrecord: behaves as if not suid root when it is, sorta.
Hi. I've used cdrecord lots of times, but I've just recently run into an odd problem. When I use cdrecord as a non-root user, I get warning messages that are not present if I use cdrecord as root: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. >From searching the web/newsgroups, I can see that this is fairly common -- cdrecord needs to be run as root, or as suid root. However, there are a few important differences. First, I *don't* also get the warning message of: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). which usually comes with trying to run cdrecord as non-root and without suid root access. Second, cdrecord *does* proceed to the write -- it doesn't say: cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/cdrom'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. and quit like it normally does if you try to run it as non-root and without suid root access. And finally, and most importantly, my cdrecord *is* suid root: stax:/usr/src-789> ls -al /usr/bin/cdrecord -rws--s---1 root cdrom 314476 May 14 05:28 /usr/bin/cdrecord* Other potentially useful info: stax:/usr/src-790> groups cmetzler cdrom floppy audio dip src video users stax:/usr/src-791> ls -al /dev/scd0 brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Aug 27 2002 /dev/scd0 stax:/usr/bin-805> dir /usr/bin/cdrdao -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 532292 Oct 15 2002 /usr/bin/cdrdao* Does anyone have a clue why I'm getting these warning messages? What have I missed? Thanks much. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling 2.4.18-BF from apt-get source
On 2 Jun 2003 Jesse Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jun 2003, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > That being said, then how do you then remake the kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 > package? I could just replace the kernel image without telling dpkg, but > that doesn't seem to be a good idea. Life's easier when I don't go > behind the package manager's back. One more tip for dealing with Debian packages of custom kernels and other home-brewn 'Debianized' software: it is possible to maintain a local archive of Debian packages, on your hard disk, from which you can install packages with apt-get just like from a cd or an ftp site. If the directory you put such a local arhive in were /var/lib/deb you would have to specify it in /etc/apt/sources.list as deb file:/var/lib/ deb/ man dpkg-scanpackages provides more information on setting up a local Debian archive. It takes some trouble to add packages to (or remove them from) a local archive. In particular, after every addition or removal one has to run dpkg-scanpackages with the right parameters, and apt-get update, to update the list of available packages. I have automated this with two scripts and since then it has been very easy to work with my local Debian archive. Regards, Ben -- B.F.M. Kal Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands tel +31 23 5324909, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More dist-upgrade problems on stable
On 2 Jun 2003 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency > Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 76%Building > Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Failed > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or > kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable > E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held > packages. > What can I do to fix this? What I have done when I got messages like this was: trying an install of the packages that were reported to not going to be installed or to be not installable. Not in the expectation that they might nevertheless be installed, but to see what error messages that would generate. Generally, these say something about the cause of the 'uninstallibility'. If that cause was that the uninstallable packages depend on one or more other packages that were uninstallable, I repeated the procedure for those other packages. Up to now, I always pretty soon found some 'root cause' of the problem that could be solved by installing / upgrading / removing packages in the right sequence. But I admit I never had to do this during a dist-upgrade The chain of dependencies you will encounter when trying this method may be very long. Just try if no one offers you a better solution. Regards, Ben -- B.F.M. Kal Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands tel +31 23 5324909, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xscreensaver not starting with Gnome
On 2 Jun 2003 Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I make xscreensaver start when I log into Gnome? Currently I have > to right click on the lock applet > Restart Daemon before I can lock my > screen. > > I have xscreensaver-gnome 3.34 with Gnome 1.4 on Woody. Then you probably have to deal with the problem that the Gnome screensaver configuration tool messes things up. Read http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnomecc If you don't want to upgrade to versions of xscreensaver and gnome-control-center that do not have this problem, then configure xscreensaver by editing /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nogl for system-wide defaults, ~/.xscreensaver (suppose 3.34 has that file) for user customization and never touch the Gnome screensaver configuration tool. To make xscreensaver start on every login to Gnome, put the line xscreensaver & into ~/.xsession before the line gnome-session Read http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html for more info about xscreensaver. Regards, Ben -- B.F.M. Kal Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands tel +31 23 5324909, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is $MAIL set? (login process)
In a message of 1 Jun 2003 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This time I decided to start using xdm to manage logins. > > This caused icewm to no longer display the little mailbox icon, so it > turned out that the problem was that MAIL was not being set when logging > in with xdm. > > From what I gather, login(1) sets MAIL, but xdm bypasses login. Bypass is not the right word here, xdm *replaces* login. > So, I'm wondering why MAIL is not being set with xdm (seem like it > should) So it seems to me, but more knowledgeable people may be able to explain the good reason why it does not. It is not hard to have MAIL set in X sessions started by xdm, you can insert a statement like export MAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME in one of: /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession called by xdm to start the user's X session, calls /etc/X11/Xsession the general script to start an X session /home/*/.xsession each user's customization of an X session unless the more knowledgeable people I referred to before warn us that that is a bad idea. > and I'd also like to understand how it gets set normally when using > login -- e.g. is it read set in a startup script? I assume there's a > setting to say mail is in /var/mail/$USER. 'man login' tells me that login constructs MAIL from the information in /etc/passwd. Exactly how is not stated; my guess is that login appemds the user name of the user who has just logged in to the home directory of user 'mail', so that with the following lines in /etc/passwd mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh ben:x:1001:100:Ben Kal,,,:/home/ben:/bin/bash for user ben MAIL is assigned the value /var/mail/ben > Secondly, is there a simple explanation of the boot and login process for > Debian? Something that explains the order of programs and scripts run. The boot process: I am afraid that a really *simple* explanantion would not add much to what you already know, while a valuable explanation would be quite a long story and requires knowledge of some details of your system, for instance what boot loader you use and whether your kernel uses the 'hotplug' facility or not. My advice is to study the documentation of your boot loader and search the web for descriptions of the boot process. I suppose there must be some. The login process: The man pages of - login - xdm - bash or tcsh or any other shell you use are pretty clear about what happens (mostly what startup scripts they execute) under what circumstances. Issues to be aware of are: - xdm replaces login but does not set up the environment in exactly the same way as login does, in particular it does not set MAIL as you have found - the shell of an X terminal is not a login shell (the user is already logged in through xdm) so the startup scripts for login shells, /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile in the case of bash, are not executed! This easily causes the environment of shells on virtual consoles to be radically different from the environment of shells in X terminals. - environment variables have to be set only once and are inherited by all processes that are children of the login shell or the X session, but things like aliases and shell options have to be set every time a shell is started. To ensure that: - the environment is the same in all shells - on startup shells do not read more startup scripts than necessary I did the following: - put all settings of environment variables in /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile - put all aliases and shell options in /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bahsrc - made /etc/profile source /etc/bash.bashrc - made ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc - made ~/.xsession source both /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile, after setting an environment variable that to /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile signals that they have been sourced by ~/.xsession; in that case they do not need to source /etc/bash.bashrc resp. ~/.bashrc, and instead unset that environment variable. Regards, Ben -- B.F.M. Kal Anjelierstraat 1, 2014 TC Haarlem, Netherlands tel +31 23 5324909, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xdm starting, but not configured
Is there a way to boot into a "safe-mode" instead of having xdm start? I didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of having xdm start. Is it possible? I tried running my install CD with "rescue" instead of install, but it boots and uses xdm, which does'nt help me. thanks! emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin Xtrinsic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet lockup
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David List wrote: >I have noticed a thread on this list around a week ago that dealt with >the ethernet lockup with the Linux hme driver. .. Oops, that was on the debian-sparc list. Sorry. Best regards, David List -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:55:33PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:59:23 +0200 (CEST) > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is true only in the technical sense. I.e., the spec sheet for my > > laptop says it has a 20GB harddrive (and in 2 pt. font, at the bottom, > > they define a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes). So, in the technical sense, my > > drive is only 18.6 GB (20e9/1024^3). Leave it up to the marketing types > > to cloud the issue. > > Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a > gibibyte: Gibidigibidibigigidigibigidibigidibibigibi Human language isn't amenable to standardisation. In common usage, kilo, mega etc. in the computer context refer to the power of 2 which is closest to the power of 10 to which they refer in decimal contexts. So a megabyte *is* 1048576 bytes, etc, and I don't think this usage is particularly likely to change. Of course, a megabyte is also 1024000 bytes, eg. when some program gives you an output of a figure quoted in kilobytes and you mentally shift it three places to the right to get the megabytes. If only Ug in his cave had counted on his fingers in binary, we'd never have had the problem... It is interesting that SCSI hard drive specs do not attempt to mislead you by exploiting this confusion. A gigabyte on a SCSI drive is a real, honest, binary-context, 2^30 bytes gigabyte. If the same drive mechanism is available with both SCSI and IDE interfaces, the IDE one will be sold as (say) a 20GB drive and the SCSI version as 18.6GB. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
help: APT - locked
Hi all, I was remote updating my system with ssh when the connection was lost, all packages were downloaded. Now, when i try to redo apt-get upgrade, i get this message 40 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded. E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the download directory Any hints? thks.. Guilherme B. Viebig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
* Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030603 10:38]: > Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Deryk Barker writes: > > > Actually it's mainly the hard drive manufacturers. > > > > And the ISO. > > > > > To them 1GB = 1,000,000,000 as you note above. > > > > Correct. Giga -> 10^9 = 1,000,000,000. > > > > > Of course, most software does the right thing and report in terms of > > > powers of 2, where 1GB = 1,073,741,824. > > > > Incorrect. Gibi -> 2^30 = 1,073,741,824. > > Which, unless my eyes are far worse than my optician thinks, is > *precisely* the number I entered above. Look at the unit, not the number. > Evidently I'm missing your point. I think his point was that 1073741824 is a gibibyte, commonly (?) abbreviated as GiB. GB is the abbreviation for gigabyte, 10 bytes. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
kdm init files and xmodmap
Hi, I bought a logitech cordless keyboard and I have been running xmodmap manualy on every startup for making the extra buttons work with X. As this is quite annoying to do everytime I want to put the xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc line on some init script that runs on X startup (I'm using KDM). The problem is I just can't find any file that will actually execute that line and add the new buttons. Where should I put it? TIA, Tal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is mkboot bugged? Need another pair of eyes.
Hi. mkboot (part of the debianutils package) appears to be bugged to me, both in use and in looking at the code. But I've looked in BTS and in /usr/share/doc/debianutils, and have searched web, usenet, and mailing list archives, and haven't turned up anything. Since I'm almost always not the first person to spot a bug, I suspect I'm just missing something. So I'd like someone else to look at it, if they can. There are two issues that I see; both involve the use of mkboot to create a floppy off which one can boot. 1. The man page for mkboot indicates that it uses the kernel /vmlinuz by default, but that you can specify a different kernel on the command line. However, it doesn't say that when you supply the pathname for a kernel to use, that pathname *can't* be the actual path to the kernel, and that it *must* be a symbolic link instead. But that appears to be the way mkboot functions; if you supply a symbolic link to the kernel you want, it works ok, while if you supply a full pathname to the actual kernel file, it bombs. It makes an ext2 filesystem on the floppy, copies the kernel over, and then quits there, without doing anything with a bootloader to make the floppy bootable. Looking at the mkboot script, the problem appears to me to be in the function "makelilo", and occurs just after the kernel is copied over, in the following lines of code: # if a symbolic link, look for the real file kfile=`readlink $1` # see if we need an "initrd=" line in lilo.conf kdir=`dirname $kfile` $1 is the command-line argument that carries the kernel path to use. If a symbolic link is supplied, readlink returns the file that it links to (which could itself be a symbolic link, by the way; did the author of this script mean to use "readlink -f"?). But if the kernel path supplied *isn't* a symbolic link, readlink returns a null string. In that case, the next line sees dirname not having enough arguments, and the script bombs. Or am I missing something? 2. For the purposes of making a boot floppy, mkboot completely assumes the use of lilo; if you do not have lilo around, the script will bomb in one of two places. This is not documented in the man page, and the debianutils package doesn't have a dependency on lilo. There are functions present in the script for checking whether lilo and/or grub are in use; but from my read of the main portion of the script, those functions are only called in the case where mkboot is being run as part of the new kernel installation process (that is, with the "-i" flag), and they're only called to determine whether to update your hard drive's MBR or whether to suggest updating grub's menu.lst. They're not used in the portion of the script that involves making a boot floppy. Instead, when making a boot floppy, the machine simply assumes the use of lilo. It attempts to construct a sensible lilo.conf for the floppy, and then runs lilo on the floppy. In my case, I don't even have lilo installed; I use grub exclusively. Since the attempt to construct a sensible lilo.conf starts by reading in and parsing /etc/lilo.conf, this fails because the file isn't present, and so the script bombs there. If the file *is* present but lilo itself is not (say, you had lilo once upon a time, but replaced it with grub; but the /etc/lilo.conf is still around), the script will instead bomb when it tries to run lilo on the floppy. Am I right about these? Are these bug-report worthy? Thanks. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails
Hi All, What package contains 'adsl-start'? I couldn't find it... I too can't connect with my new PPPoE/DSL setup. Thanks, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04 Apr 2003 12:04:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote: Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I fought with it for a while. Just to see what happened, I tried adsl-start and it worked immediately. I have not had time to figure out why this is, but it worked for me. I have been using that for the past week or so, until I can figure out why. Thanks for that. I'll give it a try. By the way, I haven't been able to access news.verizon.net either since this happened. It doesn't respond to ping or anything. I also cannot ping it from other machines, so it seems down to me. But it seems strange that this occurred with the other change. HTH. That's weird. I waited to send you that server name until I had connected to it and updated my list of newsgroups. Today I can't ping either news servers. FWIW, Verizon's mail servers have been like yo-yo's the past few days -- up and down. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache mod-ssl HOWTOs?
* ScruLoose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030602 21:22]: > Hi everybody, > > I've got apache 1.3 installed and running pretty much "straight out of > the box", and I have mod-ssl installed but not configured yet. > On a Woody box, that is. > > I want to have regular http access to most of the stuff on my server, > but also a "private" area that would require https *and* some sort of > user authentication (I assume auth-basic over https would be fine). > > I have a single, dynamic IP address; so my domain is accessed through > dynDNS. According to the mod-ssl manual, I canNOT solve this using > virtualhosts... https virtualhosts won't work without having separate IP > addresses, apparently. Have you read this? http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ Specifically, http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_howto.html#ToC10 > So I *think* what I need to do is to have two separate invocations of > apache running all the time: one listening for http on port 80 and the > other listening for https on port, umm... 443 I think it was. If you want to do this, don't use mod_ssl. Just install apache and apache-ssl; the two packages do precisely this: run a non-ssl webserver and an ssl-only webserver that coexist independently. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice for all. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
modem compatibilty
Some months ago I bought a modem as a spare for the wife. At the time she ran W98 only. Now I've got her interested in Linux and she runs Knoppix as well as W2000. I think the original modem is starting to give trouble, so if possible I'd like to replace it with the spare, but I'm not clear exactly what I have and the wealth of literature seems to confuse me. The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port and has a model No 1456 EVS. The main chip inside the case shows:- Conextant Smart SCM/56 CX 88168-11 E73197.1 0035 TAIWAN MRI does not support Linux and staff are unable to say if it will work with Koppix. They were not disinterested, just unable to help. Is anyone conversant with this modem and able to help. (I can't find out what 'SCM' means - there's a lot of talk of 'HCF' and 'HSF' but I don't understand exactly what is involved there). Grateful for any assistance or pointers. John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling 2.4.18-BF from apt-get source
Ben Kal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One more tip for dealing with Debian packages of custom kernels and > other home-brewn 'Debianized' software: it is possible to maintain a > local archive of Debian packages, on your hard disk, from which you > can install packages with apt-get just like from a cd or an ftp > site. The mini-dinstall package (not in stable, I don't think) is great for this. I think it does check that you have GPG-signed changes files for everything, though, which can be a slight pain. (The normal Debian package build process does give you these, and make-kpkg has good hooks for it, but individual kernel module packages don't necessarily support it well; I keep meaning to file bugs but never get around to it.) > It takes some trouble to add packages to (or remove them from) a local > archive. In particular, after every addition or removal one has to run > dpkg-scanpackages with the right parameters, 'dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9 > Packages.gz' is actually sufficient for a single directory with just a bunch of packages. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm starting, but not configured
"Emma Jane Hogbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to boot into a "safe-mode" instead of having xdm start? I > didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless > screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of > having xdm start. Is it possible? You might be looking for single-user mode; have your boot loader add 'single' as a parameter to the kernel. (Probably type 'linux single' if you're using LILO, edit the 'boot' line appropriately in GRUB.) This starts you up with almost no services at all, but sometimes this is what you want. If you want, you can also set up a runlevel to start without xdm; remove the appropriate symlink in /etc/rc3.d for runlevel 3, for example. 'telinit 3' from the single-user boot prompt would then send you into this runlevel; adding '3' to the kernel command line would boot straight into it. If your video card isn't that hosed by the abortive X startup, you might also be able to switch to a text console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 after you boot up normally. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help: APT - locked
Thus spake Guilherme Viebig: > Hi all, > > I was remote updating my system with ssh when the connection was lost, all > packages were downloaded. > > Now, when i try to redo apt-get upgrade, i get this message > > 40 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded. > E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource > temporarily unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the download directory That specific error looks suspiciously like you're running out of file descriptors on the system... What does cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr return? -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The soil of a man's heart is stonier [...] A man grows what he can... and he tends it" -- Stephen King, Pet Sematary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help: APT - locked
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 03:40:50PM -0300, Guilherme Viebig wrote: > Hi all, > > I was remote updating my system with ssh when the connection was lost, all > packages were downloaded. > > Now, when i try to redo apt-get upgrade, i get this message > > 40 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded. > E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource > temporarily unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the download directory Looks like another process still has the lock. If only the connection was severed, it is possible that the process is still running (but then, wouldn't the update be finished by now? but I do not know when 'now' is...). The other possibility is that the process died, but could not remove the lock file in time. If that is the case (check with ps first) you can safely remove the lock file and try again. HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm starting, but not configured
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:11:35PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Is there a way to boot into a "safe-mode" Don't log in as root :-) > instead of having xdm start? I > didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless > screen of junk. You've booted Windoze by mistake :-) > I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of > having xdm start. Is it possible? chmod a-x /etc/init.d/xdm or rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a console. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
what does rsync do when an input file changes?
Anybody know OTTOYH how rsync would behave if an input file was changed while it was doing its thing? Does it check checksums after syncing a file? If it does, does it go back and try again if they don't match? I'm migrating some huge files over a not-too-fast link, and other users may write to these files during the rsync operation. If rsync doesn't handle this well, any suggestions for something that might? I've also considered running rsync multiple times, so that on successive passes it will pick up the changes. I just hope that the first pass won't generate inconsistent files on the target side if the file changes in the middle. Just thought I'd ask before digging into the code. thanks, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice for all. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: modem compatibilty
Have a look at http://www.modem-drivers.com/drivers/79/79937.htm AND http://www.modem-drivers.com/companies/247.htm But there is indeed no reference to linux! YvD john gennard wrote: Some months ago I bought a modem as a spare for the wife. At the time she ran W98 only. Now I've got her interested in Linux and she runs Knoppix as well as W2000. I think the original modem is starting to give trouble, so if possible I'd like to replace it with the spare, but I'm not clear exactly what I have and the wealth of literature seems to confuse me. The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port and has a model No 1456 EVS. The main chip inside the case shows:- Conextant Smart SCM/56 CX 88168-11 E73197.1 0035 TAIWAN MRI does not support Linux and staff are unable to say if it will work with Koppix. They were not disinterested, just unable to help. Is anyone conversant with this modem and able to help. (I can't find out what 'SCM' means - there's a lot of talk of 'HCF' and 'HSF' but I don't understand exactly what is involved there). Grateful for any assistance or pointers. John. -- Yves Delhaye Voice: +32-2-6463810 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to Identify Mailing Lists
Hi list.
[Please CC: me on list replies, I'm too far behind in ML traffic.
Thank you.]
I've googled every which way I can, but I didn't find it. "It" being
a list of identifying markers for various mailing lists.
What I'm looking for is a way to tell a mail filtering tool how to
automatically sort mails from mailing lists.
To be usable with all filtering tools, such a procmail, mailagent,
maildrop etc, we'd need a list of headers, or specific header
contents, that various MLMs add to mails they explode.
For example, this procmail recipe automatically sorts mails coming
from a Mailman ML:
DEFAULT=${HOME}/Maildir/
LISTID=`formail -zc -xList-Id|sed 's/.*<\(.*\)>/\1/'|tr / -`
MM_FOLDER=${DEFAULT}.${LISTID}/
:0
* ^List-Id:
$MM_FOLDER
BTW, List-Id is defined in RFC2919. I'd love it if all MLMs would use
that, then this whole problem would be solved.
Does such a list exists? If not, I'd be willing to (try to) assemble
one. Probably not that easy due to the various versions in use, and
various local hacks applied.
Or maybe it's easier to just lobby the various MLM authors to add
List-Id? If so, where could I find a list of MLMs and their
respective authors?
Bye, J
PS: This whole problem bothered me for years now... when I found out
about List-Id, I was happy. Until I found the adoption rate to
be... depressing.
--
Jürgen A. Erhard
My WebHome: http://jerhard.org
"vi has two modes the one in which it beeps
and the one in which it doesn't" -- Alan Cox
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Re: modem compatibilty
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:17:03PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > Some months ago I bought a modem as a spare for the wife. > At the time she ran W98 only. Now I've got her interested > in Linux and she runs Knoppix as well as W2000. > > I think the original modem is starting to give trouble, so > if possible I'd like to replace it with the spare, but I'm > not clear exactly what I have and the wealth of literature > seems to confuse me. > > The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer > Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port and has a model No 1456 > EVS. The main chip inside the case shows:- > Conextant > Smart SCM/56 > CX 88168-11 > E73197.1 > 0035 TAIWAN > > MRI does not support Linux and staff are unable to say if it > will work with Koppix. They were not disinterested, just > unable to help. > > Is anyone conversant with this modem and able to help. (I > can't find out what 'SCM' means - there's a lot of talk of > 'HCF' and 'HSF' but I don't understand exactly what is > involved there). An external serial modem is as close to guaranteed to work with Linux as you're likely to get... just try it and see. Do you have any particular reason to believe it might not work? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Resizing ReiserFS Partition
Hi there: I have a big partition here (8 GB) , which uses the ReiserFS filesystem (version 3.6 if I am not mistaking) and is mounted as my /home. I want to split this partition in to two. I want to make my /home around 3 GB, and make a new 5 GB partition out of it. currently this partition has about 2 GB data in it. I wonder if such a thing is possible. Can I resize a ReiserFS partition, without losing data ? If yes, with what tool ? Cheers -- /* There is SCO owned IP all over the Linux kernel. SCO will hunt them. Free software infidels are liars. We will kill them all, and roast their stomach in hell. Our estimates show that all slashodot viewers will die. --Mohammad Al-Sahhaf SCO Sopkesman, Former Iraqi information minister*/ Aryan Ameri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modem compatibilty
ohn gennard writes: > The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer Research UK > Ltd, uses a serial port... You shouldn't need to do anything special. Just plug it it in place of the other one and it will probably work fine. Most (unfortunately not all, but most) external modems are fully interchangeable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:55:33PM -0400, Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:59:23 +0200 (CEST) > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That is true only in the technical sense. I.e., the spec sheet for my > > laptop says it has a 20GB harddrive (and in 2 pt. font, at the bottom, > > they define a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes). So, in the technical sense, my > > drive is only 18.6 GB (20e9/1024^3). Leave it up to the marketing types > > to cloud the issue. > > Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a > gibibyte: > > http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=340&PHPSESSID=cc5d94e5ff669af1a325ba1d5196c985 Or perhaps more authoritatively: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html See also: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SiPrefixesForBinaryMultiples http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GiB http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/MiB But oddly enough, not (yet): http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/KiB Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with fetchmail and exim
(I'm not subscribed to the list sp forgive me for not replying to my own message properly) I recently asked for advice on how to make fetchmail + exim not choke on bogus email messages. I managed to find the answers by myself (much thanks to two different patches on the fetchmail-friends mailing list). A more verbose explaination can be found in my post in the fetchmail-friends archive of June 2003: http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2003-June/thread.html Hopefully this will help other people... Regards, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Resizing ReiserFS Partition
on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:12:32PM +0300, Aryan Ameri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there: > > I have a big partition here (8 GB) , which uses the ReiserFS filesystem > (version 3.6 if I am not mistaking) and is mounted as my /home. > > I want to split this partition in to two. I want to make my /home around > 3 GB, and make a new 5 GB partition out of it. currently this partition > has about 2 GB data in it. > > I wonder if such a thing is possible. Can I resize a ReiserFS partition, > without losing data ? If yes, with what tool ? I'd suggest looking at the progsreiserfs and reiserfsprogs packages. They conflict. Both claim to have resizers. > /* There is SCO owned IP all over the Linux kernel. SCO will hunt them. > Free software infidels are liars. We will kill them all, and roast their > stomach in hell. Our estimates show that all slashodot viewers will die. > --Mohammad Al-Sahhaf SCO Sopkesman, Former Iraqi information minister*/ On that note, see: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SCOvsIBM Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Eccentrica Gallumbits, did you ever meet her? The triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six. Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. Me, I disagree, I say five." -- HHGTG -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: modem compatibilty
Hi John, > Some months ago I bought a modem as a spare for the wife. Wow, impressive. No modem can replace *my* wife! ;-) > The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer > Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port and has a model No 1456 > EVS. The main chip inside the case shows:- > Conextant Are you sure it's not "Conexant" (confused by Google's output here)? Anyway, might be a Rockwell type chipset, so that should work. > Grateful for any assistance or pointers. I've found wvdial to be of great use: Description: PPP dialer with built-in intelligence. WvDial sacrifices some of the flexibility of programs like "chat" in order to make your dialup configuration easier. When you install this package, your modem will be detected automatically and you need to specify just three parameters: the phone number, username, and password. WvDial knows enough to dial with most modems and log in to most servers without any other help. . In particular, you no longer need a "chat script" to handle the most common situations. That, and pppconfig. HTH... Nico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is $MAIL set? (login process)
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:54:46PM +0100, Ben Kal wrote: > The login process: > > The man pages of > - login > - xdm > - bash or tcsh or any other shell you use > are pretty clear about what happens (mostly what startup scripts they > execute) under what circumstances. Issues to be aware of are: > - xdm replaces login but does not set up the environment in exactly the same > way as login does, in particular it does not set MAIL as you have found > - the shell of an X terminal is not a login shell (the user is already > logged in through xdm) so the startup scripts for login shells, > /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile in the case of bash, are not executed! > This easily causes the environment of shells on virtual consoles to be > radically different from the environment of shells in X terminals. Yes, so now I'm sourcing those in my .xsession file. > - environment variables have to be set only once and are inherited by all > processes that are children of the login shell or the X session, > but things like aliases and shell options have to be set every time > a shell is started. Good to know. (I'm still not clear about variables shown with "set", but I'm sure that's just a google away...) > To ensure that: > - the environment is the same in all shells > - on startup shells do not read more startup scripts than necessary > I did the following: > - put all settings of environment variables in /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile > - put all aliases and shell options in /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bahsrc > - made /etc/profile source /etc/bash.bashrc > - made ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bashrc > - made ~/.xsession source both /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile, > after setting an environment variable that to /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile > signals that they have been sourced by ~/.xsession; > in that case they do not need to source /etc/bash.bashrc resp. ~/.bashrc, > and instead unset that environment variable. Thanks, that's very helpful. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what does rsync do when an input file changes?
>From Vineet Kumar on Tuesday, 2003-06-03 at 12:37:58 -0700: > Anybody know OTTOYH how rsync would behave if an input file was changed > while it was doing its thing? Does it check checksums after syncing a > file? If it does, does it go back and try again if they don't match? > I'm migrating some huge files over a not-too-fast link, and other users > may write to these files during the rsync operation. If rsync doesn't > handle this well, any suggestions for something that might? I have heard of people successfully using rsync to download a corrected version of a corrupted CD---only the corrections were downloaded, not the whole CD. This was over a modem. I hope your connection is not any slower than that! > I've also considered running rsync multiple times, so that on successive > passes it will pick up the changes. I just hope that the first pass > won't generate inconsistent files on the target side if the file changes > in the middle. This was the first idea that occured to me, too. I would guess that more sophisticated procedures are possible, but I do not know what they might be. Conrad > > Just thought I'd ask before digging into the code. > > thanks, > Vineet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error from root
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:46:18AM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > > I keep getting this error: > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts > > --report /etc/cron.daily > > > > /bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found > > > > and when I do: > > web:~# dpkg -l anacron > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > > uppercase=bad) > > ||/ Name VersionDescription > > +++-==-==- > > pn anacron (no description available) > > > > I get this. > > So if I'm not totally off here, someting is running anacron, > > wich isn't installed? > > You're totally off. :) The crontab entry quoted above is malformed; it > looks to me like you or something else has taken a line from > /etc/crontab and copied it straight into another crontab file. However, > /etc/crontab has a special syntax: it has an extra field for the > username, that is "root" above. When you use lines like that in other > crontab files you need to remove the username field. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks Collin, and the rest of you replying. In my crontab I had added some jobs, and I't looked to me that one of the them was mailformed. I have edited the file and hope that helps, followed what's in man and found some examples on the net. Thanks all. /e-m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dlink DFE 690 TXD vs. Netgear FA511
Hallo, I'm currently thinking about a replacement for my defective 3com Officeconnect PCMCIA Network Adapter. I've found two cards available at local stores not using a media converter, the netgear FA511 and the dlink dfe 690 txd. As the XJack connector on the 3com card was a disappointment, I would like to hear some oppinion from someone actually using one of those cards (with linux?). Thanks for Your help, Jonathan PS.: For those interested in xjack, it is some form of rj45 socket, where the plug has to be inserted vertically. Therefore it has to deal with some mechanical stress. Unfortunately (at least at my card) the connector seems not to be made strong enough. It is no longer working reliable, losing connection whenever the network cable is even touched -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists
* Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030603 13:03]: > To be usable with all filtering tools, such a procmail, mailagent, > maildrop etc, we'd need a list of headers, or specific header > contents, that various MLMs add to mails they explode. I don't think you'll have much luck with this. Your best bet is probably to examine the headers for each list as you subscribe, and create a new handler for it if necessary each time. > Or maybe it's easier to just lobby the various MLM authors to add > List-Id? If so, where could I find a list of MLMs and their > respective authors? You could try this. I'd bet that most popular MLMs already have wishlist bugs to support RFC2919, but if you find any that don't it's probably a good idea to file one. btw, I filter debian lists via X-Mailing-List: . good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -- Barry Goldwater pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mailman + postix Debian (sid)
Is mailman + postix working rightly on Debian (sid)? Regards, Davi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)
Hi, I'm posting this as a last resort, as I'm now at my wits end, after several hrs googling and reading the man pages, I'm still no closer to solving this mystery. My NFS server is running stock woody (with all updates) and exporting several shares, a few for public access and one for the /home directory ,which clients mount (ok, only me and my wife), I have decided to change my workstation to woody (was running redhat, due to it having more cutting edge stuff, but lets not go there), I have woody running perfectly, yet it takes an age to read/write any files from my nfs server, where as redhat is (for nfs clients anyway) blistering fast, I have tried several wsize and rsize options, but its still very slow, I'm currently running 2.4.20 kernel (hoping this would help, but nope) Heres my current mount arguments in /etc/fstab: loki:/nfs-exports/tmp /pub/tmp nfs nfsvers=2,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,hard,bg 0 0 And I am running lockd and rpc.statd on the client as well I decided to dual boot with redhat and woody, and do some comparisons, Copying 1.2GB of data (a single tarball) from client to server Redhat: 15 mins Woody: 55 mins As I mount my home directory, its causing all programs to slow down to a crawl, whilst they are reading or writing to the directory. Please do not take this as a threat (and its not meant by this at all), I'm seriously looking at switching back to redhat, not that I want to but from what I have read I have tried most things, as its now got to the point of being unbearable ad causing my to do little or no work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dlink DFE 690 TXD vs. Netgear FA511
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 22:28, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Hallo, > I'm currently thinking about a replacement for my defective 3com Officeconnect > PCMCIA Network Adapter. > I've found two cards available at local stores not using a media converter, > the netgear FA511 and the dlink dfe 690 txd. I'm currently using the FA511 on my old, but semi trusty Compaq Presario laptop, and this pcmcia card has given me no problems at all, and pretty evenly priced as well, it works out of the box, (they do ship Linux drivers AFAIK), but I have a nasty habit of putting the cd's that come with hardware in the bin :( yenta_socket is the name of the kernel-level PCMCIA driver it uses. Hope this helps Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compiling 2.4.18-BF from apt-get source
* Jesse Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030602 22:27]: > Well, the problem is, I need the pcmcia_cs.o module for my laptop > NIC. The only package that includes that is the > pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-bf2.4 package, which, as its name implies, > requires the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. > > Unfortunately, the bf2.4 kernel, being an installation kernel, is > pretty bloated. So I want to recompile and reinstall the package > 2.4.18-bf2.4, instead of recompiling both 2.4.18-bf2.4 and all > the modules for cs-modules. > > Am I nuts for doing this? Yes ;-) If your purpose is to end up with a "non-bloated" kernel, you should just download a kernel-source package (i.e. kernel-source-2.4.20 or kernel-source-2.4.18, if you want to stick to stable) and build your own. Trying to save the work of recompiling the modules and instead recompiling the kernel is a little silly, IMO. You'd be better off downloading a non-bf kernel (i.e. kernel-image-2.4.18-, again sticking to stable) and the corresponding kernel-headers package and pcmcia-source and building your own pcmcia-modules package. That's just the way I'd do it, anyway (if I wanted to avoid compiling a custom kernel, that is). good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice for all. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)
Mark C said on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:40:13PM +0100: > I have woody running perfectly, yet it takes an age to read/write any > files from my nfs server, where as redhat is (for nfs clients anyway) > blistering fast, I have tried several wsize and rsize options, but its > still very slow, I'm currently running 2.4.20 kernel > (hoping this would help, but nope) > > Heres my current mount arguments in /etc/fstab: > > loki:/nfs-exports/tmp /pub/tmp nfs > nfsvers=2,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,hard,bg 0 0 > > And I am running lockd and rpc.statd on the client as well Are you running portmap on the client and server? Are you sure that portmap knows about the NFS progs (what does pmap_dump tell you?) M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cdrecord: behaves as if not suid root when it is, sorta.
When cdrecord is run suid root it will work. However, it won't have access to the function setpriority() listed below. If you want to do away with those errors, you will have to run cdrecord as root (ex: sudo cdrecord) - Ryan On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:39:40PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Hi. I've used cdrecord lots of times, but I've just recently run into > an odd problem. When I use cdrecord as a non-root user, I get warning > messages that are not present if I use cdrecord as root: > > cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler > cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). > cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. > pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: modem compatibilty
john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The modem is an external one made by (?for) Microcomputer > Research UK Ltd, uses a serial port It's almost certainly compatible. (Serial modems are decades-old technology now, and don't depend at all on what's inside the box.) The big compatibility issue is more with internal "modem" cards that depend on the CPU to do all of the actual DSP work, and generally only have Windows drivers. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 23:09, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Are you running portmap on the client and server? Yes > Are you sure that portmap knows about the NFS progs (what does pmap_dump tell > you?) It would seem so, as her is the output regarding on both the client and server: Client: # pmap_dump 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 1000211 udp 32768 nlockmgr 1000213 udp 32768 nlockmgr 1000214 udp 32768 nlockmgr 1000211 tcp 32769 nlockmgr 1000213 tcp 32769 nlockmgr 1000214 tcp 32769 nlockmgr 172 udp729 ypbind 171 udp729 ypbind 172 tcp732 ypbind 171 tcp732 ypbind 3910021 tcp 32771 sgi_fam 3910022 tcp 32771 sgi_fam 1000241 udp 32772 status 1000241 tcp 32788 status Server: #pmap_dump 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 132 udp 2049 nfs 1000211 udp 32788 nlockmgr 1000213 udp 32788 nlockmgr 1000214 udp 32788 nlockmgr 151 udp 32789 mountd 151 tcp 32821 mountd 152 udp 32789 mountd 152 tcp 32821 mountd 1000241 udp 32802 status 1000241 tcp 32836 status 142 udp992 ypserv 141 udp992 ypserv 142 tcp995 ypserv 141 tcp995 ypserv 172 udp998 ypbind 171 udp998 ypbind 172 tcp 1001 ypbind 171 tcp 1001 ypbind Yes I'm running it as a nis server as well, the only difference is that the server is running nfs and mountd, these AFAIK are server related only. Mark -- Please be aware that I do not read or reply to messages with attachments in any proprietary format. Please send attachments in any standards compliant format. Proprietary format attachments are a major obstacle to the broader adoption of GNU/Linux. Remember: Competition is good for business; Proprietary denies choice.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debian installation-helpppp
Hi I guess it should be nomral to format your hard disk for the 3rd time if you are a newbie to Debian. The last BAD thing I have done is: I compiled and installed the new Qt (3.2beta1) and guess what ? KDE does not work any more. I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no difference. Still I get the same error message: "libkdefx.so.4 : undefined symbol: _ZN6QStyle6polishEP12QApplication " So please help me before I format my drive ;-) Thanks in advance Hamid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)
Support said on Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 11:40:02PM +0100: > Server: > #pmap_dump > 102 tcp111 portmapper > 102 udp111 portmapper > 132 udp 2049 nfs ^ ^ Just a guess: I have 4 of these entries... and I'm pretty sure that you're supposed to have more than one kernel NFS thread on the server. Are you using the userspace NFS server? That would account for the poor NFS performance. You're also using NFS v2 instead of v3... v3 will probably help you also. What is the RPCNFSDCOUNT in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server? And how many nfsds are you running? (ps ax | grep nfsd) > Yes I'm running it as a nis server as well, the only difference is that > the server is running nfs and mountd, these AFAIK are server related > only. That's correct. M pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
can't lock /var/run/crond.pid?
How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)
doh! sorry for the last post, I sent it from the wrong address, I was checking the support email at the same time.. Anyway, I have done a bit more investigation, and it seems that I only get the slowdown if I write TO the nfs server from the client, As I copied some large binaries across to the nfs share and they took around 30 mins, I then copied them back locally and it took 6 mins. Am I correct in that I may have to alter the rsize? on the client end, or is there a configuration on the server side I can do, but it would seem very client orientated. Mark -- Please be aware that I do not read or reply to messages with attachments in any proprietary format. Please send attachments in any standards compliant format. Proprietary format attachments are a major obstacle to the broader adoption of GNU/Linux. Remember: Competition is good for business; Proprietary denies choice.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very slow nfs client (woody) > server (woody)
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 00:01, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Just a guess: I have 4 of these entries... and I'm pretty sure that you're > supposed to have more than one kernel NFS thread on the server. Are you using > the userspace NFS server? How would I tell that? (sorry to sound silly) I basically install nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server and set them, up as pre the man pages. > That would account for the poor NFS performance. > You're also using NFS v2 instead of v3... v3 will probably help you also. Yes, I removed --no-nfs-version 3 from /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server,. but still slow to write to the server (read is fine) > > What is the RPCNFSDCOUNT in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server? And how many nfsds > are you running? (ps ax | grep nfsd) 8 Also ps -ax | grep nfsd reports: 8 threads in use Thanks for the help :) Mark -- Please be aware that I do not read or reply to messages with attachments in any proprietary format. Please send attachments in any standards compliant format. Proprietary format attachments are a major obstacle to the broader adoption of GNU/Linux. Remember: Competition is good for business; Proprietary denies choice.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?
Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: > > > Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > > I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I > > > > recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the > > > > net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies are not > > > > displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I > > > > can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? > > > > > > offlineimap? > > > > > > (don't know if KMail supports Maildir, though) > > > > It does. What about courier-imap ? > > I didn't get it how you'ld solve the problem with courier-imap: > Courier is a imap server. Are you suggesting to run it locally? > And how would you fetch/synchronize from the remote server? Via IMAP > aswell? The program to do that is offlineimap, in the package by the same name, as mentioned above. -- see shy jo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debian installation-helpppp
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:03:08PM -0400, Hamid wrote: > The last BAD thing I have done is: > I compiled and installed the new Qt (3.2beta1) and guess what ? KDE > does not work any more. Maybe I'm a little confused here, but you're suprised that install "beta" software breaks things? I'm sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, but if you're not ready for things to break in unknown and new ways, stick to stable released versions of software. > I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no difference. Did you completely remove the 3.2beta1 installation? -- Jamin W. Collins This is the typical unix way of doing things: you string together lots of very specific tools to accomplish larger tasks. -- Vineet Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome 2 vs. KDE
Damn, I thought this was going to be a Gnome v. KDE religous war thread. :) On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:07 am, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I am running Woody, and loading some packages I want from backports I've > found on the web. > > It seems that installing the Gnome 2 backport removes my KDE desktop. > I've even found a KDE 3.1 site, but the Gnome 2 install threatens to > remove KDE without replacement. > > Does anyone know what the issue is here? I'd like Gnome 2 primarily so > I can run a working version of GnomeMeeting, and I'd just as soon keep > KDE as my desktop. > > Thanks in advance, > Bret -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thinkpad and Serial Port
Below is from the readme but I am still very new to linux. I have successfully recompiled my kernel but below eludes me what does it mean when it says use make-kpkg to make a module. Please advise If you are using Debian, install the thinkpad-base package, then install the thinkpad-source package and use make-kpkg to make a thinkpad-modules- package for your kernel and install that. You are finished. - Original Message - From: "JG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Thinkpad and Serial Port > Hi, > > "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have an IBM ThinkPad 600e and every once in awhile the bios will > > reset and the serial port won't work. Rather the IR > > port is on and the serial port has been disabled. I then have to load > > up windows and use the windows utility to change > > the IR port to disabled and the Serial Port to enabled. Is there a > > debian/Linux app that would allow me the same > > functionality. Kris > > > > $ apt-cache search thinkpad > > brings to me > > thinkpad-base - Configuration files for thinkpad-modules packages > thinkpad-source - Source code for thinkpad-modules packages > tpctl - IBM ThinkPad hardware configuration tools > > you have to install thinkpad-source and compile and install the kernel > modules (is not that difficult), and then you might be able to use the > tpctl instead of the windows utility. Note that not all the options run > on all thinkpads. > > Note also that there is a debian-laptop list, where there might be better > informed people. > > Regards, > > Jaume > > > -- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:11:12 -0700 "kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I fix this can't lock /var/run/crond.pid Well, one way that you don't fix it is by sending the same question to the list three times in less than 24 hours. Please give people who only read the mailing list once a day, or once every few days, a chance to actually *see* your message first; and give other people, who've seen it but can't answer for some reason, a break by not asking them again and again. I don't mean this as a flame, I promise; but you might want to take the time to read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html It's basically a guide to the etiquette of online tech support; it'll help you get useful answers to your questions in the future. As for your question, cron creates that file when it starts. It contains the process-ID of crond itself, in text. This is explained in the first few entries returned in a Google search on "crond.pid". (hint!) You didn't say under what circumstances you got that error message (which is usually a good idea, btw); so I'll assume it showed up on your console or in your syslog. Your message typically means that when cron started up, it tried to create that file, but was unable to. Usually, this is because the file is already present: either cron is already running (with the process ID contained in that file); or cron didn't clean up after itself the last time it quit, and left that file behind for some odd reason. If the former, there's nothing to fix; you're getting the error message because you're trying to run a second instance of cron, which you don't want to do anyway. If the latter, you should be able to just remove it by hand. All such files are cleaned out of /var/run automatically during the boot process anyway. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome 2 vs. KDE
* Brian Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030604 02:08]: > Damn, I thought this was going to be a Gnome v. KDE religous war thread. :) Why don't you start one? ;) Sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
odd `ps` behavior
Whenever one of the basic utilities behaves weirdly, I worry I may have
been hacked, but this is on a 2-day old Debian install:
~$ ps
{module_list} {module_list_R__ver_module_list}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.20-compact does not match kernel data.
I've made no kernel changes on that system. Any idea what might be up?
Patrick
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Re: Gnome 2 vs. KDE
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 16:07, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I am running Woody, and loading some packages I want from backports I've > found on the web. > > It seems that installing the Gnome 2 backport removes my KDE desktop. > I've even found a KDE 3.1 site, but the Gnome 2 install threatens to > remove KDE without replacement. > > Does anyone know what the issue is here? I'd like Gnome 2 primarily so > I can run a working version of GnomeMeeting, and I'd just as soon keep > KDE as my desktop. I had many problems like this, but since I've put the official kde release in sources.list almost everything is ok. here are the relevant entries: #- KDE 3.1 from kde.org -# deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable main deb-src http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable main #- Gnome 2.2 -# deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/ deb-src http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/ #- XFree86 4.2.x -# deb http://people.fsn.hu/~pasztor/debian woody xfree Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > What package contains 'adsl-start'? I couldn't find it... I think it's part of the pppoe or pptp source (not the debian package. I don't know why but it was taken out). just google for it. Bye > > I too can't connect with my new PPPoE/DSL setup. > > Thanks, > Mark > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 04 Apr 2003 12:04:18 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote: > > Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative. I had been using > pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for > months. However, about a week ago, it stopped working. I fought with > it for a while. Just to see what happened, I tried adsl-start and it > worked immediately. I have not had time to figure out why this is, > but it worked for me. I have been using that for the past week or so, > until I can figure out why. > > Thanks for that. I'll give it a try. > > > By the way, I haven't been able to access news.verizon.net either > since this happened. It doesn't respond to ping or anything. I also > cannot ping it from other machines, so it seems down to me. But it > seems strange that this occurred with the other change. HTH. > > > > That's weird. I waited to send you that server name until I had connected > to it and updated my list of newsgroups. > > Today I can't ping either news servers. > > FWIW, Verizon's mail servers have been like yo-yo's the past few days -- up > and down. -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
python weaver error
Hi people. I tried to install de weaver module for python from www.scipy.org. With this module you can execute c++ code in python at c speed. Anyway, it didn't work in my debian unstable. Is someone with experience with this module around? Alfredo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:47:12PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:55:33PM -0400, Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a > > gibibyte: > > > > http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=340&PHPSESSID=cc5d94e5ff669af1a325ba1d5196c985 > > > Or perhaps more authoritatively: > > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > > See also: > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SiPrefixesForBinaryMultiples Except that as the nist site points out, it's not an SI standard. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm starting, but not configured
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:11, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Is there a way to boot into a "safe-mode" instead of having xdm start? I > didn't configure it properly. When it starts up I get a totally useless > screen of junk. I need a way to boot the computer to the prompt instead of > having xdm start. Is it possible? There are different runlevels: 6 is reboot 5 is run X and networking 3 is run networking 2 is single user mode so: linux 3 is what I would say. Then you can type 'startx' are you using: /usr/sbin/mkxf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config-v3 -Kev > > I tried running my install CD with "rescue" instead of install, but it > boots and uses xdm, which does'nt help me. > > thanks! > > emma > > -- > Emma Jane Hogbin > Xtrinsic -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: ergonomic laptop keyboard?
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 13:08, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > I would love to see a normal laptop, never in a million years. its form factor doesnt allow it. > but with a keyboard > whose two halves could pop up in the middle, and then rotate inwards > to whatever degree the user wanted, kind of like [1], except built > into a laptop, and without the numerical keypad, obviously. I guess you mean those 'natural' keyboards. > > does such a thing exist? if not, could i build one myself somehow? > how can i get whoever makes laptops to design one? could i patent it? > (heh heh ...) whatever; i just want a laptop that I can type on ... > > any tips would be appreciated. > > So your only choice would be an external keyboard. Natural? Maybe a wireless keyboard? I recall in college putting the keyboard on my knees most of the time. -K > > [1] http://www.maenad.net/geek/split_keyboard.jpg > > -- > .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu > /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ >// \\ @ maenad.net > /( )\ www.maenad.net >^`~'^ > get my (*new*) key here: >http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc > (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!) -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists
Hi, I was parsing my last 4000 emails and these were some headers with the word 'list': 1 X-List-Processor 1 X-sparklist-type 2 X-List-Unsubscribe 2 X-Mailinglist 4 list-help 4 list-post 4 list-unsubscribe 7 X-List-Administrivia 15 Mailing-List 581 List-Software 582 List-Owner 1504 List 2803 List-Archive 2970 X-Mailing-List 3391 List-Id 5777 List-Subscribe 6356 List-Post 6358 List-Help 6436 List-Unsubscribe -K On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:35, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030603 13:03]: > > To be usable with all filtering tools, such a procmail, mailagent, > > maildrop etc, we'd need a list of headers, or specific header > > contents, that various MLMs add to mails they explode. > > I don't think you'll have much luck with this. Your best bet is > probably to examine the headers for each list as you subscribe, and > create a new handler for it if necessary each time. > > > Or maybe it's easier to just lobby the various MLM authors to add > > List-Id? If so, where could I find a list of MLMs and their > > respective authors? > > You could try this. I'd bet that most popular MLMs already have > wishlist bugs to support RFC2919, but if you find any that don't it's > probably a good idea to file one. > > btw, I filter debian lists via X-Mailing-List: . > > good times, > Vineet > -- > http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:56:58 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a > > gibibyte: > > Gibidigibidibigigidigibigidibigidibibigibi > > Human language isn't amenable to standardisation. In common usage, > kilo, mega etc. in the computer context refer to the power of 2 which > is closest to the power of 10 to which they refer in decimal contexts. > So a megabyte *is* 1048576 bytes, etc, and I don't think this usage is > particularly likely to change. I didn't say I liked it, I just pointed out the "correct" usage. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debian installation-helpppp
Am I supposed to remove all files and links manually, 'cos Qt does not have any make unintsall or make remove ? Thanks Hamid Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:03:08PM -0400, Hamid wrote: The last BAD thing I have done is: I compiled and installed the new Qt (3.2beta1) and guess what ? KDE does not work any more. Maybe I'm a little confused here, but you're suprised that install "beta" software breaks things? I'm sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, but if you're not ready for things to break in unknown and new ways, stick to stable released versions of software. I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no difference. Did you completely remove the 3.2beta1 installation? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome2.2 Window Manager
Hi I am using ICE Windoe Manager and I am not very happy with it. What is the default window manager for Gnome2.2 ? Thanks Hamid -- Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://shopnow.netscape.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid?
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:30:16 +0200, kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I fix this cron: can't lock /var/run/crond.pid? > Does the file /var/run/crond.pid exist? Can you, as root, create files in /var/run? Is it possible that /var is out of space or is not mounted (if you have a separate /var partition)? -- This place is called Antarctica. There is no kitten here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debian installation-helpppp
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:39:06PM -0400, Hamid wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:03:08PM -0400, Hamid wrote: > > > > > I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no > > > difference. > > > > Did you completely remove the 3.2beta1 installation? > > Am I supposed to remove all files and links manually, 'cos Qt does not > have any make unintsall or make remove ? If necessary, yes. Such are the joys of, IMHO, incomplete makefiles (since they don't provide for an uninstall) and the risks of beta software. If you haven't done this, then it is likely that the 3.2beta1 files are still in your library paths and are conflicting with your stable libraries. Thus, your removal and reinstallation of the other software was useless. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sending messages to tty1 after xdm exits
On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 19:50:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using xdm for logging in to my laptop. I wanted to be able to > shutdown so I added buttons to the xdm logging screen[1]. > > When the shutdown button is clicked this command is run: > > exec /sbin/shutdown -h now 2>/dev/console >/dev/console > > The "problem" is that X shuts down and I see my original tty1 screen > (with the left-over startup messages). But the normal shutdown messages > are *not* displayed. I'd like to see those messages. > > xdm normally starts xconsole via /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup so I disabled that > in case that was redirecting console messages, which then meant > /dev/console was not where it used to be). > > I also tried just running shutdown without redirecting to /dev/console, > but that didn't do the trick, either. > Try redirecting to /dev/tty1 ? -- A box of dancing mechanical pencils. They dance! They sing! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ASUS P4B533
Hello to all, I do have a hardware issue: I would like to use the ASUS P4B533 including the 5.25 " IPanel Multimedia front module extension under Debian. Does anybody have experience on how to setup and configure this module? I appreciate your comprehensive answer very much! Regards, Bleckie
Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debianinstallation-helpppp
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:03, Hamid wrote: > Hi > I guess it should be nomral to format your hard disk for the 3rd time if > you are a newbie to Debian. > The last BAD thing I have done is: > I compiled and installed the new Qt (3.2beta1) and guess what ? KDE does > not work any more. > I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no difference. > Still I get the same error message: > > "libkdefx.so.4 : undefined symbol: _ZN6QStyle6polishEP12QApplication " > on my system this is supplied by: kdelibs4 Do you have: kdelibs kdelibs3 kdelibs4 installed? -K > So please help me before I format my drive ;-) > > Thanks in advance > Hamid > > -- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debian installation-helpppp
Yes I do, I have to do some manual removals :( Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 19:03, Hamid wrote: Hi I guess it should be nomral to format your hard disk for the 3rd time if you are a newbie to Debian. The last BAD thing I have done is: I compiled and installed the new Qt (3.2beta1) and guess what ? KDE does not work any more. I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no difference. Still I get the same error message: "libkdefx.so.4 : undefined symbol: _ZN6QStyle6polishEP12QApplication " on my system this is supplied by: kdelibs4 Do you have: kdelibs kdelibs3 kdelibs4 installed? -K So please help me before I format my drive ;-) Thanks in advance Hamid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xdm starting, but not configured
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > Don't forget Ctrl-Alt-F[1..6] to get from your garbled X screen to a > > console. > > Tried that, no dice. So i re-installed. I'm so impatient, eh? Ack, my apologies - I should have mentioned that there's a shell option on the install disk from which you could have disabled your xdm login. Go as if to install; on the screen with the scrollable menu that the installation process walks you through, scroll down the menu and somewhere near the bottom you'll find "Execute a Shell". So you just go straight to that without doing any installing, and you can then mount your HDs by hand and edit the init scripts or whatever. Bit late now, but might come in useful in future. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: About to format the hard drive for the 3rd Debian installation-helpppp
Thanks, I have to give it a try Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:39:06PM -0400, Hamid wrote: Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:03:08PM -0400, Hamid wrote: I removed and re-installed KDE3.1 with libqt-mt 3.1 but no difference. Did you completely remove the 3.2beta1 installation? Am I supposed to remove all files and links manually, 'cos Qt does not have any make unintsall or make remove ? If necessary, yes. Such are the joys of, IMHO, incomplete makefiles (since they don't provide for an uninstall) and the risks of beta software. If you haven't done this, then it is likely that the 3.2beta1 files are still in your library paths and are conflicting with your stable libraries. Thus, your removal and reinstallation of the other software was useless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
