Re: Trouble setting up ALSA for a AC97

Henrik Grotjahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HG> today I was trying to set up ALSA on my Debian testing. Since I have HG> this shitty Onboard Soundchip AC97 I need to use at least ALSA 0.5, HG> because the chip is not supported by earlier versions. ... HG> Am I missing any packages or kernelmodules?

Printer Question

Hi all, Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new printer. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880. Still running Potato. Anyway, I have

Re: startx missing in potato - 4.0.3

On Fri, 25 May 2001 23:35:50 CDT Dana wrote: > I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to get to 4.0.3 of xfree86, and now > I'm getting a startx not found in /usr/X11/bin. The sysbolic link > is present in /etc/X11/X so, anyone have a startx file they'd mind > sending to me for potato 2.2.r3? I had to reb

Re: preferred dialup program

On Fri, 25 May 2001 23:30:02 CDT, ktb wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:14:51PM -0500, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > > > is there a "best" dialup program? I have been using wvdial, and it seems > > to work ok, so I guess "don't fix what ain't broke", but maybe another > > program is somehow better...

Caching-only nameserver - which bind

Hi all, I'm about to configure a caching only nameserver for my dialup box, and I noticed that there are two variants of the bind package available, bind and bind9. I know that the bind package is version 8.x Which version should I use? Is there an advantage or disadvantage to the newer versi

startx missing in potato - 4.0.3

I did a apt-get dist-upgrade to get to 4.0.3 of xfree86, and now I'm getting a startx not found in /usr/X11/bin. The sysbolic link is present in /etc/X11/X so, anyone have a startx file they'd mind sending to me for potato 2.2.r3? I had to reboot to Windows since my mailer under Linux is balsa, o

Re: preferred dialup program

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:14:51PM -0500, Jeff Maxson wrote: > > is there a "best" dialup program? I have been using wvdial, and it seems > to work ok, so I guess "don't fix what ain't broke", but maybe another > program is somehow better... I used to have good luck with pppconfig. kent -- Fr

[Kris.VanHeurck@siemens.atea.be: i810 chipset on potato]

Can someone help this guy out, please? - Forwarded message from Van Heurck Kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Van Heurck Kris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: i810 chipset on potato Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 15:00:39 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

ICMP message type destination unreachable...

Hi all, I have been receiving the following entries in my syslog: May 25 22:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 They are triggered whenever I fetch my mail from my POP account. Both fetchmail and masqmail cause the same thing. This also happens

preferred dialup program

is there a "best" dialup program? I have been using wvdial, and it seems to work ok, so I guess "don't fix what ain't broke", but maybe another program is somehow better... -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dselect won't install gnucash

I am using debian potato. I have been using gnucash (I am not sure which version). After updating my system with dselect, it deleted gnucash. When I try to reinstall gnucash (version 1.3.4-3 is all that is listed) with dselect it gives me a dependency problem. It says I need libguil

Re: kbhit

Oliver J. Enders wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Just wanted to let you know. You are awesome! Thanks for having your > kbhit program on the web (in response to someone elses question two > years ago). It sure made my day. I've been trying to figure out how to > read in characters under Linux. ... I ca

Re: Woody SSH and spurious DNS calls

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:48:10PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not sure if it's the same in woody, but on potato I'd take a look > > at the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. In there make sure that you have a > > line like: > > > > hosts: f

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

* Walter L. Preuninger II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme ... > Which example gives the best performance. None of the above. Put it on a separate drive. If it's IDE, make that a master with no slave, too. > Does 2.2 do elevator seeking Dunno

Re: Progeny install problems

On Fri, 25 May 2001, jennyw wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "John Galt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> First of all, this is a Debian list, not a Progeny list. They are > > > >I thought this list was for general discussion about Debian, and that would >include specific forms of Debian. Or ar

Re: [users] Re: a quickie - pride - deflate

> and to default "pride" a little those puppies been up for 1000 days+ oopps... "deflate" pride.. > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > > -- just cover the part of what OS they are running... at least its still >open source...

Re: [users] Re: a quickie - pride

hi ya > > > so what does 114 days of uptime buy you? > > > > > > > A sense of pride. it also means you';re NOT a windoze weanie that hits reset or powerdown whenever you install a patch or upgrade etc...etc... and to default "pride" a little those puppies been up for 1000 days+ http://up

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

hi ya walter good question ... - anybody measued any of the partition schemes ?? am assuming "a" is the outer tracks "d" is the inner tracks... -- swap should be NOT an issue... if you sustain constant 32Mb or 64Mb or 128Mb of swap space usage ADD that much more memory !!!

Re: [users] Re: a quickie

Also, if you're running, oh, say, and email or web server on you server rack, you might be concerned if the server were rebooted, since the service would be unavaliable for a while. On a heavily-loaded email server with a large (ext2) mail partition with quota support enabled, the checkquota proces

CMU lisp problem

Hello, I installed all the woody cmucl* packages on my machine (all version 2.4.22): cmucl cmucl-clm cmucl-clx cmucl-defsystem cmucl-graystream cmucl-hemlock cmucl-normal cmucl-safe However all attempts to run lisp results in a core

Re: Progeny install problems

- Original Message - From: "John Galt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > First of all, this is a Debian list, not a Progeny list. They are I thought this list was for general discussion about Debian, and that would include specific forms of Debian. Or are we only supposed to discuss pure Debian he

Disk performance and SWAP file location

I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Example A space a b swap(center of drive) c d Example B a b swapc d Example C a b c

Re: `who' is broken?

So Who is broken, Whereis uninstalled and Which is on hold? ;) Sorry :) gdh

Re: help me, g++ crash.

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Casper Gielen wrote: >On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:09:14PM +0200, Ricardo Santiago Mozos wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I got this message when I try to compile any .cc >> >> g++: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 11 > > >unfortunatly signal 11 usually means some so

Re: LILO error: "ran out of input data"?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:52:57AM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote: > Hey all... > Just tried installing Debian 2.2 on an old K6 I had lying around... after > wading > through LOTS of stuff (the installer crashes at random points, I get "unable > to > handle null dereference" or kernel paging errors

Re: fetchmail/fetchpop etc.

Subject: fetchmail/fetchpop etc. Date: Sat, May 26, 2001 at 08:03:41AM +1000 In reply to:Alan Davis Quoting Alan Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For years I used fetchmail to fetch the mail on my ISP's POP3 server. > Now, for at least a year, I have had trouble with fetchmail, and h

Re: Best sniffer?

I've found best results with iptraf and a Linksys LNE100 (mod 4). The NIC has a profound effect on the quality of promiscuous mode and may vary by individual card. Ethereal (sp) is good and provides a lot of information, but I have an aversion to throwing X into the picture when running a packet

Re: Progeny install problems

On Fri, 25 May 2001, jennyw wrote: >I'm trying to reinstall Progeny Debian 1.0 (boxed copy), and I'm getting >weird problems. First of all, this is a Debian list, not a Progeny list. They are related, but Debian has a different installation system (a better one IMHO). >My original plan was to

fetchmail/fetchpop etc.

For years I used fetchmail to fetch the mail on my ISP's POP3 server. Now, for at least a year, I have had trouble with fetchmail, and have resorted to fetchpop. Fetchpop doesn't work right for my current ISP---but that's another issue. With fetchmail, I get something like the following. I su

Re: automounting home directories with nfs

hi andrew normally... you want /home to be automounted so that your home directory and look and feel is the same on any machine you login on... where you should put /home is a separate issue /home /export/home /where_ever/home where these paths are defined in yo

Re: gnome development - update

Eric Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > I would like to compile "gbonds", a GPL US bond management system, from > snaught.com/gbonds on Debian potato. The requirements are libgnome > 1.2.x, gtk+ 1.2.7 and libxml 1.8.x and gnome-print 0.25. > > I installed libgnome-dev which installs libgtk1.2-dev and I

Re: Message type unreachable - bad...

On Fri, 25 May 2001 12:25:47 PDT, Eric wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: *snip* > > > > I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing > > up > > in my syslog every hour on the hour: > > > > May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message

Re: Anacron message re:/etc/cron.daily/slocate

> On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:12:14 EDT, hall answered my question: > > *snip* > > > > > > Is it safe to remove /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ? > > > and create a new one? > *snip > > with: > > > > I've deleted the existing file on more than one occasion > > and it's been recreated the next time slocate r

Re: [users] Re: a quickie

> > so what does 114 days of uptime buy you? > A sense of pride. > > does it matter that much??? > To me, no. To others, maybe. -- Paul T. Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -currently seeking employment-

Re: Anacron message re:/etc/cron.daily/slocate

On Fri, 25 May 2001 15:12:14 EDT, hall answered my question: *snip* > > > > Is it safe to remove /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ? and > > create a new one? *snip with: > > I've deleted the existing file on more than one occasion and > it's been recreated the next time slocate runs with no > problem

Re: Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:00:34PM +0200, Jan Krupa wrote: > I have got S3_ViRGE and Matrox Millennium. > It seems (from the xfree site) that XFree86 version 4 support these > two video card but I cannot find SVGA server. > Has the SVGA server replaced by many different servers e.g. > Matrox Mille

Re: Message type unreachable - bad...

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > Question about logs, logging, etc. > > I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing up > in my syslog every hour on the hour: > > May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unre

Re: help me, g++ crash.

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:09:14PM +0200, Ricardo Santiago Mozos wrote: > Hi! > > I got this message when I try to compile any .cc > > g++: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 11 unfortunatly signal 11 usually means some sort of hardware problem. See http://www.bitwizard.

Re: [users] Re: a quickie

also sprach Leonard Leblanc (on Fri, 25 May 2001 10:32:36AM -0500): > heh, you pretty much summed up my reaction. so what does 114 days of uptime buy you? does it matter that much??? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAI

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:49:07AM -0700, Abner Gershon wrote: > Thanks for your replies. I found the files > /usr/local/NVIDIA. I untarred them in /usr/local. No I > don't know why "make install" won't work. Did you change to the root user before attempting the make install. If not you should. Ot

Re: Anacron message re:/etc/cron.daily/slocate

> Today I recieved one of those wonderful mails from Anacron > with thre following content: > > /etc/cron.daily/slocate: > updatedb: this is not a valid slocate database: > /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db > > Is it safe to remove /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db ? and create > a new one? I've deleted the e

Re: Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4

> > There are packages for XFree86 4.0.3 under potato. Just add the > > following lines to your sources.list: > > > > # Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 - XFree86 Version 4.0.3 > > deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/ > > deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/i386/ > > > > J

`who' is broken?

i'm running i386 debian unstable. the who program is cutting off the locations strangely, as you'll see below. also when logged in from a dialup with a long reverse hostname, who will only print part of the first entry and segfault. is this a known problem? it's been pretty consistent for at le

Message type unreachable - bad...

Hi all, Question about logs, logging, etc. I have the following (or similar) message from ippl (my ip logger) showing up in my syslog every hour on the hour: May 25 12:02:02 j001 ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from 127.0.0.1 (sorry about not wrapping that) I've det

Anacron message re:/etc/cron.daily/slocate

Hi all, Today I recieved one of those wonderful mails from Anacron with thre following content: /etc/cron.daily/slocate: updatedb: this is not a valid slocate database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db Does anyone know why /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db would be "not valid"? I've read the manpages for

Re: ssh

Subject: ssh Date: Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:22:02PM -0500 In reply to:Andrew D Dixon Quoting Andrew D Dixon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi All, > I've recently started having problems logging into my machine as root > over ssh. Anybody know what may be causing this? check /etc/ssh/ssh

proxy arp

Hi. I have problem with proxy arp. The exact problem is that I can't manually add 'pub' arp entries in arp table. In fact, I can add entry, but new entry doesn't have the mac address I have specified. Instead, new entry has mac address 00:00:00:00:00:00. This happens only when I try to add entr

help me, g++ crash.

Hi! I got this message when I try to compile any .cc g++: Internal compiler error: program cc1plus got fatal signal 11 I have Debian 2.2 whith this packages: * libc6 2.1.3-18 * libc6-dev 2.1.3-18 * libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13 * libstdc++2.10-dev 2.95.2-13 * g

Re: Newbie: where did my tar.gz file decompress to?

Thanks for your replies. I found the files /usr/local/NVIDIA. I untarred them in /usr/local. No I don't know why "make install" won't work. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Re: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice

I too have got a problem that's bugging me sometime now. Whenever I try to compile a kernel, or uncompress some big file, arbitrary characters get inserted in some files, leading to parse errors. For example, If I start compiling a kernel, it ends with a parse error. I check out, and find

Re: ssh

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:22:02PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > I've recently started having problems logging into my machine as root > over ssh. Anybody know what may be causing this? Debian's default setting of not allowing ssh connections as root? You really, really shouldn't allo

Re: ssh

on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:22:02PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > I've recently started having problems logging into my machine as root > over ssh. Anybody know what may be causing this? ...you've looked at your logs and ssh verbose output, naturally. Care to share

Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc

on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for the input guys... > I took it upon myself to do some VERY basic testing... > and I'll share my results if anyone's interested. > > The test: untarring a 88MB file full of .gifs and .html files >

ssh

Hi All, I've recently started having problems logging into my machine as root over ssh. Anybody know what may be causing this? Andy

problem running xf86cfg

hi I just upgraded to XFree 4.0.3 but when I try tu run xf86cfg I get this error message: Xserver is running an old XFree86-VidModeExtension version (0.8) Minimum required version is 2.0 Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.3 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.1 X

RE: Progeny install problems

On Fri, 25 May 2001 00:12:42 -0700, Jen wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall Progeny Debian 1.0 (boxed copy), and I'm getting > weird problems. > > My original plan was to boot off the CD, use the partition program to remove > the root partition and reformat it, and proceed with the install. Th

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

Darryl Röthering wrote: > > Eric: > > Thanks! You guys are great. Unfortunately, I now realize that I am screwed > worse than I thought. How would I easily alter this script to list files in > a case insensitive order? In other words, the idiots who preceeded me > imported a few times into this

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

I miss read the author in my former mail. Sorry for not being more observant. // Emil

Re: ADSL

No, this motherboard has one of those USB hubs you buy seperately. I believe my problem is that the software has changed but the instrucions have remained the same. Its a mess. - Original Message - From: "Jaye Inabnit ke6sls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:00 PM Sub

Re: a quickie

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:07:13AM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Hey Guys, > > This one should present no problems for most guru's out there. How do I > disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. I recently got my uptime to > 114 days and due to the multiple keyboards on my desk, I acciden

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:51:35PM +, Darryl Röthering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric: > > Thanks! You guys are great. Unfortunately, I now realize that I am screwed > worse than I thought. How would I easily alter this script to list files in > a case insensitive order? $ man sor

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #704

on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:32:45AM +0200, andrea gelmini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > state through a filesystem-like interface. /proc/mounts **IS** the > > definitive state of your system. > > > > cat /proc/mounts > /etc/m

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

"Darryl Röthering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a directory with >several thousand files named inconsistently with a mix of uppercase and >lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be named with all lowercase. I >know you guys will have

Re: Install over another Linux

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:50:49AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: | Installing Debian will work just finejust start the Debian install... | You may have to tweak the /etc/lilo.conf after the install | and re-run lilo | but everything will go smooth...:) If (by some chance) you do have a

Re: a quickie

Wouldn't it be better to replase the shutdown command with a long echo: This isn't a windows box. Are you sure you really need to reboot? If so, type "init 6" at the prompt, but make sure please first... Robert Thus spake Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I think you can pound out a

Re: Install over another Linux

Rafael Sasaki wrote: > > Hi, > > I`m with a machine to install the Debian Linux on it. I`ve already got the > files to install it, but i`m with a doubt. > The machine has a Windows 98 and a Conectiva Linux (a brasilian > distribution of Linux) and I`m supposed to install Debian over the Conec

Trouble setting up ALSA for a AC97

Hello together, today I was trying to set up ALSA on my Debian testing. Since I have this shitty Onboard Soundchip AC97 I need to use at least ALSA 0.5, because the chip is not supported by earlier versions. I know that it works together with my card just fine, since I had a SuSE some time ago an

Re: ADSL

Hi Patrick, I'll just mention this and you can chk your mainboard docs. I was working on a older amd box last night. The owner purchased a quickcam and a USP adapter to plug into a pci slot. I wasn't interested in it, just noted it and an ethernet adapter displayed in the system setup. As

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

Eric: Thanks! You guys are great. Unfortunately, I now realize that I am screwed worse than I thought. How would I easily alter this script to list files in a case insensitive order? In other words, the idiots who preceeded me imported a few times into this directory & never paid attention to

Re: Install over another Linux

Installing Debian will work just finejust start the Debian install... You may have to tweak the /etc/lilo.conf after the install and re-run lilo but everything will go smooth...:) Mike - Original Message - From: "Rafael Sasaki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 25, 200

Re: Install over another Linux

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:19:30PM -0300, Rafael Sasaki wrote: > Hi, > > I`m with a machine to install the Debian Linux on it. I`ve already got the > files to install it, but i`m with a doubt. > The machine has a Windows 98 and a Conectiva Linux (a brasilian > distribution of Linux) and I`m su

Re: a quickie

heh, you pretty much summed up my reaction. Leonard Leblanc, Webmaster / Intranet Administrator www.emergeknowledge.com - Original Message - From: "Cliff Rowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:32 AM Subject: Re: a quickie

Re: a quickie

> This one should present no problems for most guru's out there. How do I > disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. I recently got my uptime to > 114 days and due to the multiple keyboards on my desk, I accidently rebooted > the server when winblows froze up on me, boy ... that sucked :)

Re: a quickie

> > This one should present no problems for most guru's out there. How do I > > disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. I recently got my uptime to > > 114 days and due to the multiple keyboards on my desk, I accidently rebooted > > the server when winblows froze up on me, boy ... that suc

Re: a quickie

I think you can pound out a line in the /etc/inittab file. look for # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel: blah blah Mike - Original Message - From: "Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 8:07 AM Subject: a quickie >

Re: a quickie

"Leonard Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, > How do I disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. you can do that it in /etc/inittab. See you, Henrik -- GnuPG-Key now available on public keyservers - http://www.gnupg.org/

All help items in JED are undocumented

According to the documentation you should be able to read documentation about jed's functions by using the command ESC-H F . However, all functions give the same result "undocumented". The directory /usr/share/jed/lib shows lots of .slc files. These files are, as far as i know, the help files. It

Re: a quickie

N! I dont know the answer to your question, but... N! Cliff Rowley The reader this message encounters not failing to understand is cursed. - while (!asleep) { code(); } On Fri, 25 May 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote: > Hey Guys, > > This one should present no problems fo

Re: a quickie

Leonard Leblanc wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > This one should present no problems for most guru's out there. How do I > disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. I recently got my uptime to > 114 days and due to the multiple keyboards on my desk, I accidently rebooted > the server when winblows

Install over another Linux

Hi, I`m with a machine to install the Debian Linux on it. I`ve already got the files to install it, but i`m with a doubt. The machine has a Windows 98 and a Conectiva Linux (a brasilian distribution of Linux) and I`m supposed to install Debian over the Conectiva instalation. But I was thinking

Re: apt-get offline

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:11:41AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Just do a > > apt-get upgrade --print-uris -y &2>1 | grep ^deb | todos > download.txt > > (writing this from memory - maybe typos) > > and on Windows Commander 'ftp download from file'. Works nice for me. This part of the pro

Re: Samba won't start

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:34:32PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: | On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:55:14AM -0400, D-Man wrote: | [...] | > Does samba work when run from xinetd? | | Yes, samba works from xinetd but you must add a special flag for nmbd in | xinetd.conf: | | service netbios-ns | { |

a quickie

Hey Guys, This one should present no problems for most guru's out there. How do I disable Ctrl-Alt-Del rebooting on a debian box. I recently got my uptime to 114 days and due to the multiple keyboards on my desk, I accidently rebooted the server when winblows froze up on me, boy ... that sucked :

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

"Darryl Röthering" wrote: > > Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a directory with > several thousand files named inconsistently with a mix of uppercase and > lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be named with all lowercase. I > know you guys will have a dozen ways to

Re: Problem with Adaptec AIC 7xxx driver with Debian 2.2 (kernel2.2.17)

Sachin Garg wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Daniel Faller wrote: > > > On Friday 25 May 2001 13:55, Sachin Garg wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I am trying to install Debian 2.2 with 2.2.17 on a system with the Adaptec > > > chip supported by the AIC 7xxx driver. > > > > > > While booting up, I get

Re: Debian2.2 and XFree86 version 4

%% Derya PALANCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dp> I had the same problem so i did what you told someone else... but dp> it removes some packages now i cannot make "xf86config" it says dp> command not found... do i have to do something? dp> I have a i810 board, debian potato 2.2 , newly ins

Re: Best sniffer?

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:49:17PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: > What's the fav sniffer for you Debian gurus? Whether a .deb, source, or > whatever, what is the most versatile and all-round best sniffer that is > available? Thanks! karpski's got a nice GUI on it which actually makes it more u

Help! Exim+mutt problem

Hello, I'm having a problem with my setup - all the non-local emails sent with mutt fail (illegal From), while /usr/bin/Mail is working just right. My .muttrc doesn't change any of the use_from and use_domain. The system-wide config is the default one. My only additions to the exim configurati

Re: VIA chipset problem

I'm not sure, but it seem like I remember that one of Alan Cox's earlier 2.4.4 patches contained a fix for the VIA chipset which was backed out again after a few days. Anyone have any corrections on this info? -- Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "Edwin Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fr

Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

> Darryl Röthering (DR) writes: DR> Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a DR> directory with several thousand files named inconsistently with a DR> mix of uppercase and lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be DR> named with all lowercase. I know you guys will h

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>> After compiling the new kernel, I get the 'uncompresing >> kernel...OK' text and then nothing happens, the system >> just hangs and i have to reboot it. any ideas!? >> >> My system is a P200 MMX with 128MB RAM. Debian 2.2 >> fully upgraded with a > > Do you still have the config file that you u

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Re: script to convert filename to lowercase

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:36:04PM +, Darryl Röthering wrote: > Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a directory with > several thousand files named inconsistently with a mix of uppercase and > lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be named with all lowercase. I >

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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:48:10PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > I have had some rather bad disk corrpution (laptop battery failed on > me I think). The easiest way for me to > fix it as far as I can see is to re-install as there are a few key > applications that don't work.. I have a root parti

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On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:23:48PM -0400, Paul Wright wrote: > > Yeah, the kernel keeps on growing, it's almost like another OS I'd heard > of once... > Just like pretty much any other software. I challenge you to find 3 programms under active development for over a year that didn't grow. With

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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:57:36AM -0700, patrick q wrote: > > I will _guess_ that unstable is i486 as I don't think kernel 2.4 > supports i386 any longer. I wouldn't be surprised to be corrected > though. Ok, guess what I'm going to say. 2.4 supports 386 just fine, what gave you the impression

script to convert filename to lowercase

Can one of you gurus quickly help me with a script? I have a directory with several thousand files named inconsistently with a mix of uppercase and lowercase. I need to rationalize these to be named with all lowercase. I know you guys will have a dozen ways to do this. Regards, Darryl ___

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