Re: install without cdrom

2001-05-03 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:11:23PM -0500, DvB wrote: > I have an old P75 without a CD-ROM that I'd like to install Debian on. I > tried Progeny's nfs install but it didn't recognize the old ISA Ethernet > card that's in it. > Are there instructions somewhere on how to install debian via ftp (or

Re: motherboard suggestions

2001-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi Gregory... i've been collecting urls for dual cpu motherboards... http://www.linux-1u.net/1U_Features/dual.txt ( these are just the flip-chip cpu style ) since cpu and memory is so cheap now days... it might be good to replace the mb/cpu/mem just in case ??? have fun alvin http://www.L

Re: Minor Technical Difficulties

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:06:35PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > don't know about the scsi errors, but loosing the graphical login is > easy. > > dpkg --purge xdm > > if you only want to disable it change the /etc/rc.d/S99xdm symlinks > to /etc/rc.d/K01xdm ...via the debian-friendl

install without cdrom

2001-05-03 Thread DvB
I have an old P75 without a CD-ROM that I'd like to install Debian on. I tried Progeny's nfs install but it didn't recognize the old ISA Ethernet card that's in it. Are there instructions somewhere on how to install debian via ftp (or nfs)? Will it recognize my network card? I'm putting off in

Re: difficulty with autofs mounting my home directory

2001-05-03 Thread idalton
I'm having trouble groking how to set up amd, though it doesn't seem too different than how autofs does things. What I was hoping for was something that would handle /share/acct as the mount point without affecting everything else under /share or using a symlink.. -- Ferret

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-03 Thread Oki DZ
Ilya Martynov wrote: > It is called read-only because user programs that work at level of > files and directories can't write on mounted filesystem. Tools that > mount filesystem work on lower level. I have visited the web page you pointed out the other day; I have no conclusion (neither did they,

Re: dpkg totally broken. some more details inside.

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On 3 May 2001, Forrest English wrote: > grickle:~# dpkg --configure -a > dpkg: /home/doogie/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_9/dpkg-1.9.4/main/packages.c:191: > process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. > Aborted > > due to earlier nastyness with dpkg segfaulting and stuff, i've got a > bunch of packag

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:19AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > The difference is on the setting of the kernel. > I use Debian and my system get powered

Re: apt-get failures?

2001-05-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
http.us.debian.org resolves to several different servers. Perhaps one of them was corrupted while another was correct. I've seen the apt-get process hang when one of the servers was apparently not reachable. Repeating the apt-get command usually results in success (YMMV). Bob On Thu, May 03, 2

dpkg totally broken. some more details inside.

2001-05-03 Thread Forrest English
grickle:~# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: /home/doogie/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_9/dpkg-1.9.4/main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted due to earlier nastyness with dpkg segfaulting and stuff, i've got a bunch of packages that just didn't install correctly. so now whe

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
By reading recent kernel source, I found new way (SMP friendly) is: append="apm=power-off mem=256M" I never done it .. On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:04:19PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:30:28AM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say

motherboard suggestions

2001-05-03 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I need to replace a dual PIII-600MHz motherboard, which apparently got fried. I'd appreciate any suggestions for a good, Linux friendly one. Preferably something which can make use of ECC memory, which the dead one (i840 chipset) couldn't. It's not yet clear if either CPU survived, so feel free t

Re: Debian samba 2.2.0

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:38:18PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:19:40PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > > I installed samba_2.2.0.final-2.deb but ran into a problem. Profile > > loading by W98 clients does not work for me. > > > > Can ayone please either confir

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:19AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > BTW, I think it would be nicer if all the Linux distros assume that all > Intel motherboards are ATX. How many bytes would get added if you have > the APM support on the kernel? None in byte since kernel has these compiled and disabled if c

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread ktb
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:04:19PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:30:28AM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > You can do that with any Linux. Suppose yo

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Oki DZ
Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? The difference is on the setting of the kernel. I use Debian and my system get powered off after "poweroff" command; of course, the feature came after I ha

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-03 Thread Oki DZ
Ilya Martynov wrote: > It is called read-only because user programs that work at level of > files and directories can't write on mounted filesystem. Tools that > mount filesystem work on lower level. I guess the guys at www.reiserfs.org should create a better startup message; currently, it says (a

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
This question was asked earlier today. Put the line: append="apm=on" in your lilo.conf and rerun lilo. -- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Caroli

Re: Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:30:28AM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? You can do that with any Linux. Suppose you have 256MB RAM and APM enabled MB, add following to /etc/lilo.conf

Shutdown/switching computer power off automatically ?

2001-05-03 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
I've noticed that Linux Mandrake 7.2 is the only Linux distribution I've come across that actually switches off my (ATX) computer after shutdown. What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? -- "S+M is outta the question, ha

apt-get failures?

2001-05-03 Thread William Jensen
I want to try upgrading to testing (woody). First I went to the debian site and plucked the following sources directly from them: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free Then I did the following:

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 08:12:24PM -0300, Dario R. Paiva wrote: > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot my root > password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? > I`ve been looking in the howtoos but I cant didn`t find anything. http://www.aokiconsult

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Richardson
MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200): > > get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the > > partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your > > configuration) and you'll find a line like: > Hit shi

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach William Leese (on Fri, 04 May 2001 01:31:15AM +0200): > get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the > partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your > configuration) and you'll find a line like: or just give the command linux i

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread William Leese
On Friday 04 May 2001 01:31, William Leese wrote: > > Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot > > my root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? > > get a bootdisk sorry, a rescue disk. a popular one: http://www.toms.net/rb/download.html

Re: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread William Leese
> Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot my > root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? get a bootdisk, boot the comp with it, mount your root partition or the partition containing /etc, open /etc/shadow (or passwd depending on your configurat

RE: I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Brett
From what I hear, if you're physically sitting at the server itself, you can use something called "single user mode" to get yourself out of this mess. This is all I know though so do some searching on the web with "single user mode" as your search criteria. Good luck.   Brett. -Origin

I forgot my root Password

2001-05-03 Thread Dario R. Paiva
Please I need your help, I know I`m a fuckin silly user, but I forgot my root password, please I need your help, how can I recover it? I`ve been looking in the howtoos but I cant didn`t  find anything.   Thanks you so much!     Dario Paiva An argentinan new user

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya... though we are getting slightly off topic... - dual power supply issues... the problem is how to connect two power supplies together... one at 5.25v and the other at extreme of 4.75v if using just a diode...( no matter what kind - power or schottky )... it wont work as one diod

Re: Minor Technical Difficulties

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, don't know about the scsi errors, but loosing the graphical login is easy. dpkg --purge xdm if you only want to disable it change the /etc/rc.d/S99xdm symlinks to /etc/rc.d/K01xdm -Jon

Re: Having 3 jpg images side by side to create one bigger image?

2001-05-03 Thread Shaul Karl
> At 988868879s since epoch (05/02/01 17:47:59 -0400 UTC), Shaul Karl wrote: > > Is there a utility to have 3 jpg image files put side by side in order to > > create one image? > > You could try to talk `montage` (part of the imagemagik suite) into doing > it. Montage will stick pictures next to

max concurrent processes can't be > 257?

2001-05-03 Thread Brett
I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for hundreds of outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spammer but the new admin of some very large, dynamic mailing lists). I'm using Debian Linux 2.2.18pre21 and from what I read, it should be quite possible to adjust the maximum proce

Minor Technical Difficulties

2001-05-03 Thread Jim Darrough
Greetings! I recently set up a debian box using the following equipment. I am experiencing a SCSI problem which I believe to be hardware-related, but I remember reading something about SCSI timeouts and wonder if someone can help me. What happens is the SCSI bus is reset, then the driv

Re: irda-common: won't install/remove in unstable

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
Thank god I'm not the only one with this problem. Chech the thread on removal catch-22 earlier today. I completely removed it by editing the dpkg status file, because my system was stuck completely. Be careful and good luck. --Hans At 01:31 PM 5/3/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >I've been gettin

apache My::Module::handler undefined -- but it's defined!

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
okay, this is a bit off topic. but since the debian incarnation of apache is a bit different from the roll-your-own style for other distros i'm hoping someone here can at least shed a glimmer of light on this... "undefined subroutine Some::Package::handler" even though it's CLEARLY defined in the

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
>When all else fails, do it manually. >You can edit the entry for the package out of /var/lib/dpkg/status, >then use the info in /var/lib/dpkg/info/.list to rm the >files in the package. You'll also want to check for anything done by >the {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts in the info dir. Best to keep

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > ... > > > > Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both > > continuously running. At hopefully < 50% capacity. > > Interesting. Could you post

Re: IRQ 0 for 3C900 Combo PCI?

2001-05-03 Thread Steve Gran
Hi there - You picked a slightly fidgety ethernet card to use under linux - I know, I have one from the same family. Don't worry, all it needs is some tweaking. The site below can answer all your questions better than I can, but essentially your card uses the #c59x series of drivers, but that

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Richardson
Greg Madden wrote: > > Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I recently went from Netscape 4.76 to 4.77 via stable and have just > > noticed that the spell check option is greyed out on the menues now. > snip > > For whatever reason spellcheck does not get upgrqaded/replaced during an > upg

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, May 1, Alvin Oga did write: > > hi osamu... > > coolthat your script goes to cdr ... > ( looks like a manually run backup script due to "yn" question > > but its not a full nor incremental backup since its not backing > up "user defined" system config changes in /usr/local,

Gnus: two questions

2001-05-03 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks to everyone who helped me to get gnus going. My first question relates to the problem I had in sending the second one to the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup: Gnus refused to send it complaining about a void nntp-soup-request variable or something like that. I could not get gnus to work with slrnp

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Rich Puhek
http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_pedge_1_pedge_2550.htm ...Has a system with dual power supplies. If anyone is interested in putting together a system like that, I suggest they go ahead and buy one. Otherwise, let's leave the design stuff to the power supply engineers at Power One and

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:01:00PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:04:23AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux

Re: Debian samba 2.2.0

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:19:40PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > I installed samba_2.2.0.final-2.deb but ran into a problem. Profile > loading by W98 clients does not work for me. > > Can ayone please either confirm or deny that they are having the same > problem so that I know where to sta

Re: i wrote a program: xtar

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Kristopher Sandall
On Fri, 4 May 2001, a wrote: > if you know any site that accept uploading my program, please let me know http://www.freshmeat.net accepts program submissions. /* *Eric Sandall ICQ: 667348 *email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

i wrote a program: xtar

2001-05-03 Thread a
i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It works by calling tar/gzip/gunzip. It is based on Athena widgets, readily available in every X packages. It's built on Debian 2.0. Please give it a try. It's in the attachment. if you know any site that accept uploading my program, please let me k

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> Hi! > > > > > at these extremes... the diodes wont helpand the dioes will simply > > > burn up due to the current it has to pass to get to that "voltage" > > > one side being a diode drop ( 0.7v ) across itself.. > > > - a power mosfet is better suited ... > > hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense t

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya keith when i work on a backup system - i assume your primary machine yu are backing up lost its disks - i assume the backup disk can also lose its disk... - disk failures etc is easy to simulate... - just pull the cable off the disk... and see the panic and can

Installation Problems with USB keyboard

2001-05-03 Thread Christoph Pickart
Hello debian users, since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and mouse. I also read another thread about the problem and made a rescue disc myself with kernel 2.4.1 where I included input core and USB HID support, I tried the keyboard in all

Re: Weird apt error

2001-05-03 Thread Philippe Gramoulle
Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > > Hello all-- > > I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt > seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice > would be most welcome. > > crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm > Reading Package Lists... Error! >

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread straylite
At Thu, 3 May 2001 22:36:27 +0200 , Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC they only work like switches A MOSFET is a type of field-effect transistor ... hence the "FET" part of the name -- it can be sued for much more than a switch. Get your ow

Web-based email w/notes field?

2001-05-03 Thread Robb Kidd
A bit off-the-wall, but does Debian include a web-based email implementation that offers a "notes" field for e-mails? I'm in a position where it might be helpful for some of my users who share a mailbox for public information requests and the like to have a web interface to the mailbox with

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > > at these extremes... the diodes wont helpand the dioes will simply > > burn up due to the current it has to pass to get to that "voltage" > > one side being a diode drop ( 0.7v ) across itself.. > > - a power mosfet is better suited ... hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC

irda-common: won't install/remove in unstable

2001-05-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've been getting the following messages trying to install irda-common on a TuxTops 20U laptop (x86, unstable) for the past month or so: Preparing to replace irda-common 0.9.5-2 (using .../irda-common_0.9.14-3_i386.deb) ... Stopping IrDA Manager: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script

VNC problems in stable?

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I've been using VNC on a bunch of platforms (Debian/unstable(x86 and sparc); Debian/stable(sparc); Solaris; RH6.2; Win32), but the two x86 Debian/Stable boxen I've tried are having troubles. Xvnc starts, but none of the clients in my startup file will start. I get a bunch of Xt auth denied e

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:04:23AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) # apt-get install cdrecord To create CD-ROM of files under t

Netscape Error: Readlink error: Invalid argument

2001-05-03 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I recently got a new hard-drive because I was running out of space and I created a new partition on this which I mounted as /usr. I copied (cp -R ) all the files from the original /usr. Now netscape does not run at all. The version of netscape is Netscape navigator 4.73, my linux is slink

Re: alian fails to unpack a .rpm file

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Gerd Arlitt wrote: > I used alien successfully for a set of RPM packages which I am using > here. Now some will install and some will not with the following errors: > > e.g. > > alien -i XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm > > error: query of XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm failed > . > . > error: q

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Thu, 3 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > but the server i made him try uses RBL extensively and did not refuse > him. i think he's suffering more a client side problem... but i am a > postfix expert, no clue about exim... You're right! It was my configuration of exim. I had it doing hostname lookup

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 03 May 2001 02:19:43PM -0400): > If your IP address has been flagged, this could be a reason. but the server i made him try uses RBL extensively and did not refuse him. i think he's suffering more a client side problem... but i am a postfix expert, no clue about

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread csj
On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) > > > > It is not reliable as HD but it will never get erased. > > got some pointers you could share? say you've got a deb

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > > On what basis could a mail server decide which hosts it > > > is going to allow to connect to it? > > > > ip addresses mostly... > > Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide > which IP addresses to block? Why would it suddenly decide > that it doesn't like mine? :) Mail se

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach David Steinberg (on Thu, 03 May 2001 11:09:37AM -0700): > > are you behind a firewall? > Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects. no it doesn't. i saw your connects... > Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide which IP > addresses to block? Why wou

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Thu, 3 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > are you behind a firewall? Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects. > try to telnet to port 25 of mail.madduck.net - if you get a refusal, > then you have a problem on your side and i think you might have a > firewall that blocks outgoing 2

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > >dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common > > > >See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the > >potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this > >package, especially since you've n

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach David Steinberg (on Thu, 03 May 2001 10:05:44AM -0700): > When it tries to connect to a mail server, the connection is either > refused or just hangs and then times out. Just to test, I also tried > using telnet to connect to port 25 of the same hosts. Same thing: either > "telnet: Un

corrupted ext2 filesystem with raidtools 0.42 and nbd 1.4

2001-05-03 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all, I'm gathering together 15 sparse 1GB files distributed in 5 PCs with 3 files each to get a 15GB block device. I'm using nbd 1.4 and raidtools 0.42 in linear mode. Kernel is 2.2.15 I intend to use the block device as a debian archive mirror but after some amount of successful downloading t

Weird apt error

2001-05-03 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello all-- I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice would be most welcome. crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to write mmap - msync (5 In

[joris@linux.be: X4 + 2.4 causes system freezes?]

2001-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X4 + 2.4 causes system freezes? Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 08:10:13 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I know you're probately not the right person to email this to, but

buz.c inkernel compile

2001-05-03 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi everyone,i'd apretiate some help a lot! i'm having trouble compiling my kernel, :( specifically, it's with the buz.c in the 2.4.3 (unstable/sid), it tries to call a funtion named KMALLOC_MAXSIZE which isn't defined, i actually don't know if i need it, it's an optional thing for compiling for th

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Hans wrote: > > > >dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common > > > >See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the > >potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this > >package, especially since you've never actually install

SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread David Steinberg
Hi all, I'm trying get a Debian box to act as a mail server. I'm using exim. Presently, it receives mail, but it won't send mail, at least to the destinations I've been using for testing. When it tries to connect to a mail server, the connection is either refused or just hangs and then times o

Re: how can I help?

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am not quite qualified to make something IMPORTANT to debian users, as >package/solutions development, but I can 'spray' the debian's name and >help on translating something to my primary language, portuguese. Translations are great - try http://www.debian.org

Re: gnome/sawfish: windows only open on workspace #1

2001-05-03 Thread Ross Boylan
I have had the same problem for quite awhile. However, it's erratic: sometimes everything ends up in my top left pane, and sometimes it doesn't. I have set automatically remember position for sawfish.

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
Hello, Add a rule to your incoming chain something like: ipchains -A input -p tcp -s hostname.net -d you.local.ip 80 -m 100 to set a mark on all packets coming from some hostname to your local webserver ip. Then add an ipmasqadm rule something like: ipmasqadm mfw -A -m 100 -r ip.of.webserver p

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > I've put to work portforwarding with a 2.2 kernel and it works > wonderfull. However I want to push it a bit farther and was wondering if > this can be done: > > Using plain port forwarding what you get is calls to port Pa on host A > get forwarded to port Pb on hos

Re: Configure PS/2 mouse for new Debian install

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:15:38AM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > How can I configure a mouse for use with Debian ? > > I've gone through xf86config and chosen /dev/tty0 but to be > frank, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to configure thereabouts. I saw several comments which made me wonder

Broken e2fs...please hellp

2001-05-03 Thread Dean A. Roman
Hello all, It appears that the superblock is bad? I have tried some other superblocks with no luck. The following commands below show the problem. I can't mount the file system either. I checked the partition table with fdisk and everything looks fine...except the partition no longer lists

Re: Fasttrak IDE Raid + Quotas

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Daniel Sand wrote: > > Hi Debian Folks, > > I have some problem with a new Fileserver on my work. > > Specs: > > PIII 800 > 256 MB Ram > FastTrak IDE Raid Controller ( 3 HD ( 75 GB IBM ) = STRIPE ) with a while i can't answer your question directly its best not to use the fast trak ide raid co

Re: difficulty with autofs mounting my home directory

2001-05-03 Thread idalton
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:39:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ferret > > autofs hides things that would be under your mount point > ie using autofs to mount server:/home /home will > hide all your /home/ on your local pc... > ..all you'd see is server:/home > > - that

how can I help?

2001-05-03 Thread Marco
Hello doodies :) I am not quite qualified to make something IMPORTANT to debian users, as package/solutions development, but I can 'spray' the debian's name and help on translating something to my primary language, portuguese. How could I join to Debian's team? I am waiting for response, I only w

Re: ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:50:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed today that openssh released version 2.9 Monday. Can someone > tell me why debian is using 1.2.3-9.3. Is it that debian is only > supporting ssh1, or is the version numbering just different? Thank you > for your time.

Re: Supermount patch for 2.2.18pe21 - anyone?!

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Viktor Lakics wrote: > Does anyone outhere run a patched debian kernel 2.2.18? i do, however i don't use the supermount patch. i run patches like: eepro patch ipsec patch openwall patch ide patch lm_sensors patch i2c patch not all patches on all systems of course:) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
AP> Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning AP> the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" AP> commands. I used to rely on this feature for shutting down my own and AP> other machines remotely. I used to compile my own kernels but recently AP

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Akop Pogosian wrote: > > Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning > the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" > commands. I used to rely on this feature for shutting down my own and > other machines remotely. I used to compile my own kernels

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need to enable apm support on startup - from memory, just add: -apm to the LILO startup line and it should work. ap Akop Pogosian wrote: > > Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning > the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" > comman

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:45:16AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: -| Using the 2.2 kernel you could use ipchains to mark the packets then use -| ipmasqadm to forward based on the mark set. How would I do something like that? I mean marking the packages depending on the host-name they come from?

Re: ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > I noticed today that openssh released version 2.9 Monday. Can someone > tell me why debian is using 1.2.3-9.3. Is it that debian is only > supporting ssh1, or is the version numbering just different? Thank you > for your time. simple really. when openssh2

power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Akop Pogosian
Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" commands. I used to rely on this feature for shutting down my own and other machines remotely. I used to compile my own kernels but recently I switched to a pre

ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
All, I noticed today that openssh released version 2.9 Monday. Can someone tell me why debian is using 1.2.3-9.3. Is it that debian is only supporting ssh1, or is the version numbering just different? Thank you for your time. Andrew

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
Using the 2.2 kernel you could use ipchains to mark the packets then use ipmasqadm to forward based on the mark set. Andrew On Thu, 3 May 2001, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I've put to work portforwarding with a 2.2 kernel and it works > wonderfull. However I want to push it a bit farther and w

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > I'd use disk as backups... if i was starting from scratch > - nothing need be done...unlike tapes that requires regular > possibly daily interaction ) > Are you not concerned that your disk controller will go wacky, fubarring both drives? I'd be in

Re: email options and --force with dpkg

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following helpful replies from Kent(ktb) and Steve Gran to a >request under the subject of 'email options', I've been looking >further into the possibilities. > >I want to try qmail which I've found and built. It will not install >as it conflicts with ssmtp - seems I c

Re: create png files on gnome

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
T> Hey You! T> Which useful graphical tool of potato2.2r3 i can use to create little T> png files? Need some selfmade icons... gimp? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

Re: is dpkg broken currently?

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
"Forrest English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i get a LOT of segfaults whenever i'm trying to install an application. > >so, i basicaly can't install anything anymore. Welcome to unstable :) dpkg --version http://bugs.debian.org/dpkg -- Colin Watson [E

is dpkg broken currently?

2001-05-03 Thread Forrest English
i get a LOT of segfaults whenever i'm trying to install an application. so, i basicaly can't install anything anymore. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing

Using Unicode in emacs20

2001-05-03 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I think I am going to solve a weird problem. I never managed to run emacs20 with utf-8 encoded files. Now I know the reason. I am using emacs20 and had the package user-de installed. This contains the file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50user-de.el which contains the line (standard-display-europ

create png files on gnome

2001-05-03 Thread Timeboy
Hey You! Which useful graphical tool of potato2.2r3 i can use to create little png files? Need some selfmade icons... TIA Cu, yours Timo

Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I've put to work portforwarding with a 2.2 kernel and it works wonderfull. However I want to push it a bit farther and was wondering if this can be done: Using plain port forwarding what you get is calls to port Pa on host A get forwarded to port Pb on host B. Now what I need is, depending on the

Re: Does apsfilter work?

2001-05-03 Thread Brian Nelson
> -- Forwarded Message -- > Subject: Re: Problems with printing > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: Problems with printing > Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - > > In reply to:

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