Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

On 07/16/01 21:12:16 -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > The easiest way I know is to manually edit the file /etc/group. Hmmm. I didn't think of that! ;-) Okay, will do. Thanks! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Adding a user to a group

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > i am sure that there are command-line utilities to do that, but then > again, /etc/group is so old and so standard that you can safely do > this by hand without violating some debian policy or philosophy, > right? That's basically what "adduser usern

Re: AGP 2x in X ?

* Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > With XFree86 4.1.0 it's > > Option "AGPMode" "2" > > Sean > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:18:43 + (UTC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastian Drews) wrote: > > > Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone of you know how to tell the X serve

Re: Two monitors on one machine...

* Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I setup X to use two monitors on one machine? The system has a Matrox > Millenium G400 32MB video card with two video ports on it. > > -- > Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Infobahn Offramp > I am the pa

Re: "man" command made easy?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:02:31PM -0400, D-Man wrote: [snip] > Thanks. Actually, I'm not 100% sure that vim supports backreferences > like that (the \1 in the replacement text). I know that Python's and > Perl's regex engines do. I think I've heard/read that vim does do > backreferences. Yes.

Re: Kernel upgrades

Hello Wayne, I always upgrade my kernel with kernel source that I have downloaded. But I would think that if you are using apt-get to upgrade your system, that it would offer you a newer kernel via it's upgrade method. If you're not using apt-get you could download a newer kernel .

Re: sl anyone? was [Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:57:24PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:09PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > | Hi, > | > | I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made > | symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love that train coming down the track! Ok, > > Alia

Re: xlibs-dev problem

Thank you... I don't know why I didn't think of this. Scott J. Vaverchak On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:02:43AM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote: > Add "-L/usr/X11R6/lib" to the gcc command line. This will add > /usr/X11R6/lib to the library path, because this is where libX11.so/.a > is located. > > -- >

Re: "man" command made easy?

Rebecca Dridan uttered: > > And for those who, like me, don't like the key bindings in info, check out > pinfo, apt-get install pinfo. Thanks, Bec. I don't much like the Info bindings. (Don't like Lynx too much either, but I'd rather learn as few sets of keybindings as possible...) Paul

Re: xlibs-dev problem

Add "-L/usr/X11R6/lib" to the gcc command line. This will add /usr/X11R6/lib to the library path, because this is where libX11.so/.a is located. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ A man needs a good memory after he

xlibs-dev problem

Ok this is what happened: I ran "gcc Concept1.c -I. -I/usr/include/GL/glut.h -L/usr/local/lib -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lm -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -libXi -o Concept1" And got this for an error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Concept1] Error 1 So I did

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

William Jensen uttered: > > I'm experiencing 20 to 54% packet loss coming into my pc and going out. > Charter cable company has been "resolving" this for almost 8 months now. > I've even showed them the exact ip to their local router that's causing > the problems, yet the continue to want to ping

Re: sound card not working properly

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: > okay, windoz give me : sound card: sb > irq :05 > dma :01 > io : 220 > linux give me :sound card sb > irq: 0

Print Share: MSWin98 to Linux

Greetings All! My first Linux (Potato) box is really coming up nicely. Star Office is working well. I have Samba giving me access to drives on Win98 boxes, just need to make em r/w :) My Win98 boxes can print to the printer on my Potato box. BUT, my Potato box can't seem to print to my Win98 b

Kernel upgrades

I've noticed that progeny Debian has auto-upgrade of kernel upgrades. How do I do this with my Desktop Debian system, and what are the cons? Wayne

Re: sound card not working properly

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: | okay, windoz give me : sound card: sb | irq :05 | dma :01 | io : 220 | linux give me :sound card sb | irq:

Re: "man" command made easy?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:41:01PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | D-Man uttered: | > | > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but] | > | > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | > | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and | > |

Re: sl anyone? was [Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:09PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: | Hi, | | I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made | symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love that train coming down the track! Ok, Aliases are better than symlinks because it doesn't muck up your filesyst

Re: how to switch root file system?

Steve Kieu wrote: > How can I do that? can I do a > > chroot /mnt/loop /sbin/init > > or chroot /mnt/loop /bin/bash These will probably work (I've never chrooted and ran init; if init is already running it won't work). But they do leave behind that unsightly original root fs. Even if you can't s

Re: AGP 2x in X ?

With XFree86 4.1.0 it's Option "AGPMode" "2" Sean On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 00:18:43 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastian Drews) wrote: > Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone of you know how to tell the X server to use AGP 2x > > mode ? > > > > I have a Matrox G4

Re: pppd redial

David Purton writes: > perhaps, how can I tell and or fix? "alarm" means that chat is timing out. The default timeout can be changed with chat's '-t' option: man chat. You could also just call pppd with the 'persist' option (pppconfig can set this up). 'Persist' wonn't bring the connection back

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sl anyone? was [Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?]

Hi, I found that I type 'la' by mistake more often than 'sl', so I made symlink for sl to la. :-) I Love that train coming down the track! Ok, so there's no track. Maybe that could be in a future version of sl? Anyway, I love that choo-choo. Jim Richards To err is human, but to rea

Re: pppd redial

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:45:16AM +0930, David Purton wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to get pppd to try for n times to connect to my > > isp before giving up. > > You need to write a chatscript that does that then. mmm - I thought this might be the ca

Re: RealPlayer Installer

Hi, Thanks for this posting - it fixed me up. One change below. Eric Janto Trappe wrote: > > > It's a bug realplayer installer procedure. A workaround for potatos > realplayer 8.0.1 posted by Frodo Baggins: > > --8<-- > > 1. run >dpkg-reconfigure debconf > to reconfigure the deb

Re: Newbieish question

> "Andy" == Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> On Sid about a 100 or so packages are updated everyday. A few weeks ago, I Andy> had a severely disabled system when the PAM modules failed to function. In Andy> essence, I couldn't log into the system. Another importan

Re: But ....

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:38:06PM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: > Thought I'd add this mail I got to the discussion. Incidentally, my > list came from lwn.net. > > Andrew Agno uttered: > > > Is there any way of installing Linux onto a FAT (Win 98) part. , > > > without standing the risk of losing

Re: Adding a user to a group

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:33:50PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > Done, thanks. > But, in order to access /dev/dsp for audio, I still have to 'newgrp audio' > or 'sg audio -c [command]', and enter a password. The problem here is that I > want, for example, artsd, which is started automatically by

how to switch root file system?

Sorry if it is silly, I need to do something like: 1. boot the normal root dd if=/dev/zero of=loop.fs bs=1M count=4 mke2fs loop.fs mount -o loop loop.fs /mnt/loop copy my second root file system to /mnt/loop Now I want the current root / is changed to /mnt/loop. How can I do that? can I do a

Two monitors on one machine...

How do I setup X to use two monitors on one machine? The system has a Matrox Millenium G400 32MB video card with two video ports on it. -- Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Infobahn Offramp I am the painting on the canvas; I am the painter, the one who shares..

Re: Getting more from the Sun4M ???

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:34:50AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ken Seefried wrote: > > > Guenter Millahn writes: > > > > > > 1) Is it possible to run the SCSI connection with a higher speed? > > > > There are SBus cards that can run faster. I've got an SBus FWD SCSI dri

MRTG

This may sound like a stupid thing to say but i can't get mrtg working!!! tis is my first attempt and i am new to debian. Can someone please help me out??? i keep getting this message.   > Error:>   can't resolve "router.localnet" to IP address> SNMPGET Problem for [EMAIL PROTECTED]> SNMPGET

Re: ./ in PATH, always bad?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:34:40AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Nathan Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So if your path is "/bin:/usr/bin:./", it will only search ./ if it > > doesn't find the command in /bin or /usr/bin. Which means that there > > is much less danger of someone replacing a

Re: Audio CD Problems with Potato

On Monday July 16 2001 01:47, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 07/16/01 07:20:47 +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: > > Better is: add your user to the cdrom group and chmod the device to that > > group instead of disk. > > Thanks for the heads up. I know how to add a user to a group, but how > does one remove a use

Re: A small doubt ..

On 16 Jul 2001, at 21:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My part size (primary DOS part) is 1.96 GB (used : 1.65 GB, free : 315 MB) > > fips complaints that the last cylinder is not free .[even after a full > defragmentation] > Can I install into a FAT part without destroying contents ? Hi again

Re: Newbieish question

Yes, I'm learning the "if it ain't broke" rule the hard way. ::Sighs:: I think once I get this system back on its feet (the whole libc thing has just shot it to hell, that I'll do a fresh reinstall from floppies to potato, and upgrade only what's necessary for samba-tng. Thanks for your suggestion

Re: sound card not working properly

Robin Gerard wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:02:12PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Philipp wrote: > > > huh. (email doesn't display the tone, this is a thoughtful "huh", > > not a confused "huh") > > > > > > One time I decided it was time to solve this

Re: Newbieish question

Hi Brian, I recently went through two upgrade cycles - from stable (AKA Potato) to testing (AKA Woody), and then to unstable (AKA Sid). On Sid about a 100 or so packages are updated everyday. A few weeks ago, I had a severely disabled system when the PAM modules failed to function. In essence,

Re: Adding a user to a group

also sprach Nathan Weston (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:17:40PM -0400): > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing > chmod a+rw on the relevant files. /etc/group describes the groups on a system. a comma-separated list of users at the end of a particular line stands for

Re: GUI for GCC

"Ellenkamp, Guus" wrote: > > Hello Matthias, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Might be I'm looking for an ADE. I used to work with an Atari-ST, which had > a nice integrated editor/compiler/linker/debugger (edit sources, compile, > jump from errors to source, graphical debugger...) > > Which one d

Re: Getting more from the Sun4M ???

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ken Seefried wrote: > Guenter Millahn writes: > > > > 1) Is it possible to run the SCSI connection with a higher speed? > > There are SBus cards that can run faster. I've got an SBus FWD SCSI drive > that makes a different. > > Ken Seefried, CISSP Sorry, Ken, for my

Re: conflict in imagemagick 3:5.3.5-2

Emil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emil> Preparing to replace imagemagick 3:5.3.5-2 (using .../imagemagick_3%3a5.3.5-3_i386.deb) ... Emil> Unpacking replacement imagemagick ... Emil> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_3%3a5.3.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack): Emil> trying to overwr

Re: Adding a user to a group

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:17:40PM -0400, Nathan Weston wrote: > How do I add a user to a group? > I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing > chmod a+rw on the relevant files. adduser ie adduser blah audio HTH Bec

Adding a user to a group

How do I add a user to a group? I want to give my user account access to cdrom, audio, etc without doing chmod a+rw on the relevant files. Thanks, Nathan

Re: AGP 2x in X ?

Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone of you know how to tell the X server to use AGP 2x > mode ? > > I have a Matrox G400 32Mb (AGP) card, and use a custom 2.4.4 [...] Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Graphics Device" Driver "mga" Option "AGP

Re: "man" command made easy?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > All that Will said about the man pages is true, and I completely agree > about the need for examples; I to have wasted hours fighting syntax > errors, all the while with an ugly feeling that I might not even be > trying the right com

Re: X4 scrolling

On Sunday July 15 2001 22:55, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:30:03PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > [snip] > > Subsection "Display" > > Depth 24 > > Modes "800x600" "640x480" > > ViewPort0 0 > > Virtual 800 600 > > EndSubs

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

Hi! Just an interesting note We had traceroute and ping disabled on our firewall, and our support guy got _deluged_ with calls from ppl claiming the server was down 'cos they couldnt ping it. They had tried to actually use the service it offered of course (typical lusers!). So consider what

Re: font-lock-colors in xemacs21

On 24 Tammuz 5761, Stephen Rueger wrote: > Can I tell my XEmacs21 to use different font-lock-colors, when I'm > using it within X and on the console? This would probably be better for comp.emacs.xemacs, but you might be able to use customize to get all your faces looking right for one, make a cop

Re: NFS alternative

Thankfully, I forget the details[0]. From experience, no, it won't be exactly hosed: you'll end up with a .nfs004950384672385721380937 file that will grow and eventually fill up the partition... nothing an rm -rf / won't fix. And then there's negative cookies and stale mounts that require a re

Re: hard drives

I seem to recall that way back (around 1994, 1995) I found that with a Tekram IDE card (set up as secondary IDE controller) I could only see the last drive if I had it primary on the controller, with the CD as slave. It might be the IDE controller causing you grief - although I'm surprised if that

Re: But ....

Thought I'd add this mail I got to the discussion. Incidentally, my list came from lwn.net. Andrew Agno uttered: > > Is there any way of installing Linux onto a FAT (Win 98) part. , > > without standing the risk of losing data (either of the disk or of > > the partition ) ? > > Yes there are

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > As an only marginally related question, does anyone know of a good way > to configure a linux system to refuse all connections to any system that > is brokenly not responding to ICMP packets? Hmm... very, very nice idea. I suppose a modified version of the

Re: Kernel upgrade

--- Kevin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a (stable) potato rv2, that's running > kernel 2.2.18pre21. Before I upgrade and compile > kernel 2.4, is there any thing I need to watch out > for? I heard somebody said that some modules, > headers path, whatever, have to change. Can

Aspell systemwide?

How do I make Aspell the system wide spell checker for my system? Currently I have it working for mutt, but I'd also like to use it with vim and other apps. I tried doing a symlink but maybe didn't do it right, it didn't work. thanks

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

Laurent PETIT wrote: > > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate > > what package has the broken template file. Then file a bug on that package. > > Yes, it worked ! Thanks to Joey Hess. > After a couple of hours, so, but it worked. So did you find the broken package

Re: xine (testing) (was: [xine-user] sockets)

Hi Jim, sorry for not answering immediately, but the problem is that I can't see any problem (see below for explanations) On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Jim McCloskey wrote: [...] > I just installed Xine (version 4.3) from testing. I also installed > xine-dvd-css (from an unofficial debian site). I'm ru

Re: office 2k files under linux

also sprach Philipp (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:21:05PM +0200): > i am willing to do the step to remove windows2k for the whole time from my > system. > The problem is, that i receive at work many files, that are created with > office2k (e.g. excel-, word-, powerpointfiles). > WHat program can i use, t

Re: "man" command made easy?

D-Man uttered: > > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but] > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and > | then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home/start > > 2 hou

How to get an Iomega 100MB USB Zip Drive to work with Debian?

I am new to Linux, and have just installed Debian/GNU Linux on a Dell Dimension XPS R400. The only problem I am facing, is - how to get an Iomega 100MB USB zip drive to work with Debian 2.2r3? I have installed the module for USB-storage, but have no clue how to go from there. Also - how do I get

Re: Kernel upgrade

* Kevin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-16 23:10): > I have a (stable) potato rv2, that's running kernel 2.2.18pre21. > Before I upgrade and compile kernel 2.4, is there any thing I > need to watch out for? I heard somebody said that some modules, > headers path, whatever, have to

Re: sound card not working properly

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:02:12PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:36:22PM +0200, Philipp wrote: > huh. (email doesn't display the tone, this is a thoughtful "huh", > not a confused "huh") > > > One time I decided it was time to solve this problem so I booted > windows and re

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

> Laurent PETIT wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60 chunk 3 > > Upgrade to the debconf in woody (apt-get install debconf). > > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate > what package has the b

Re: boot disks (again)

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which file should i use (/vmlinuz or /boot/vmlinuz2.2.17pre19), and how can i > make it work? dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17pre19 of=/dev/fd0 rdev /dev/fd0 $(rdev | cut -d ' ' -f 1) rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 If you're not sure about

Kernel upgrade

Hi,     I have a (stable) potato rv2, that's running kernel 2.2.18pre21.  Before I upgrade and compile kernel 2.4, is there any thing I need to watch out for?  I heard somebody said that some modules, headers path, whatever, have to change.  Can someone give me some guidance?     Kevin

AGP 2x in X ?

Hello list, Does anyone of you know how to tell the X server to use AGP 2x mode ? I have a Matrox G400 32Mb (AGP) card, and use a custom 2.4.4 kernel, which has agpgart and matrox accel support built in. Anyhow, when I have a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, here is what I get (excerpts): ... (==

kdm and /etc/security/group.conf

Hello you all folks! In /etc/security/group.conf I have the follwing line inserted: *; tty* & !ttyp* ; * ; Al-2400 ; floppy, cdrom, console, audio this allows that each uses that logs in in my system by the console gets attached to the system groups "floppy", "cdrom", "console"

conflict in imagemagick 3:5.3.5-2

Preparing to replace imagemagick 3:5.3.5-2 (using .../imagemagick_3%3a5.3.5-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement imagemagick ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/imagemagick_3%3a5.3.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/include/error.h', which is also in package libc6

Re: .bashrc

Joost Kooij uttered: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 08:00:16AM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > > > > There might be a better way that doesn't > > require modifying /etc/X11/kdm/Xsession > > and I'd be happy to hear it. > Here's what I'm doing: I installed gdm, then deleted the 'S99gdm' symlink from /etc/r

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

William Jensen wrote: > I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been, > up to this point, extremely satisfied with its performance. However, > I've recently started having some signifiant issues with my cable modem > provider and they routinely want to ping and tracerout

Re: Getting more from the Sun4M ???

Guenter Millahn writes: 1) Is it possible to run the SCSI connection with a higher speed? There are SBus cards that can run faster. I've got an SBus FWD SCSI drive that makes a different. Ken Seefried, CISSP

Re: office 2k files under linux

Use Sun's StarOffice, I use it, and it is very compatible with office documents. Plus unlike Corel, StarOffice is free. Just go to sun.com, it's under downloads. Wayne On Monday 16 July 2001 14:21, Philipp wrote: > Hi there, > > i am willing to do the step to remove windows2k for the whol

Adaptec problems with 2.4.6?

Hello! I'm having some problems with kernel 2.4.6 and an Adaptec AIC-7890 controller. The first one is that it shares the interrupt with the sound card. This should not be an issue, since they are PCI devices, and it never gave any problems, except lately, when if I play mp3 and make some heavy a

Re: "man" command made easy?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:35:30PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote: > Even vi is an overkill here, let alone an advanced editor:-) > > #!/bin/sh [snip] Even easier: install package dwww, point browser to: http://localhost/dwww Cheers, Joost

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: > I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been, > up to this point, extremely satisfied with its performance. However, > I've recently started having some signifiant issues with my cable modem > provider and

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

Laurent PETIT wrote: > Hello everybody, > Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm > line 60 chunk 3 Upgrade to the debconf in woody (apt-get install debconf). Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate what package has the broken templ

Re: lanuage

"Martin Bretschneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is posted with my brand new INN, so I hope it receives you by mail;) Not sure if this is what you mean, but posts to news:linux.debian.user> are not sent to the mailing list (only the reverse is true). > I use a recent Sid and have got a

Re: hard drives

On Monday 16 July 2001 12:52, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:32:21PM -0700): > > in addition, if i were not seeing hdc already, i would not be as > > mystified. on the other hand, given that hdc is there, i would have > > expe

Re: Installing Java

Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as java itself goes, there are blackdown java 2 packages at: > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > $DIST non-free I use: deb http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debia

Re: newbie questions re: memory usage, leaks and troubleshooting

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 08:53:32PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I'm running potato with Apache and MySQL and have noticed some memory > problems that I'm not sure how to troubleshoot. Basically, available memory > keeps getting used up and not reclaimed. Swap space doesn't seem to get > used much,

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

Depending on who you talk to there and how reasonable they are, tell them you use a firewall and don't want to leave your machine "vulnerable" like this. It's possible that they will use the same machine or machines when they want to ping or traceroute to you. If so, you can allow just those mach

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

What do you think is dangeous about allowing ping/traceroute? Neither are be used to establish a service which could be exploited, so why so you care about denying ping / traceroute? Exactly, I'm going about the firewall as deny everything, then just let through what I know I want to come thr

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:01:53PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > So, does anyone have a way to recover using only shell builtins, for > > just in case there aren't any executable files left? > The sash shell (in the sash package) has built-ins for most of these utilities (chmod, chown, ls, cp,

Re: "man" command made easy?

D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [I haven't been following most of this thread, but] > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > | Night before last I ran 'find /usr/doc -name "index.html" >foo.txt' and > | then spent 2 hours adding links from foo.txt to my local home

Re: Anyone succesfully using Alsa 0.9 and esound on unstable ?

Lars Knudsen wrote: > Hi folks, > > the subject really says it all. I have alsa 0.9 > working nicely when using aplay, but so far have > not succeded in making it work with esound. > With my crappy integrated VIA686 esd works, but there is a disturbing noise on the left channel (if i use OSS the

Re: zip drive?

D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:24:06PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/ZIP-Drive.txt.gz advised people > | to do this in /etc/fstab: > | > | /dev/sda1 /zip ext2 noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync > | /dev/sda4 /zipdos vfat noauto,rw,user,n

Re: Netscape Plugins

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:36:14PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > I'm sync'd to Unstable as of a few days ago. But this is a > problem that's stayed there through many upgrades of Netscape. > > It won't recognize plugins. > > I have installed RealPlayer via the debian package and it kept > telli

Re: zip drive?

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeld The Dark Elf wrote: > > > There is a wierd problem with ZIP disks. The ones formatted for > > windows have their main partition at /dev/hdd4 while the ones > > formatted with ext2 are /dev/hdd1. Don't know why. > > I've never seen any formatte

Re: VPN for linux?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:43:56PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: Dunno about VPN. | Basically the problem is to able to setup a lab where people with | laptops can login into the VPN with the appropriate authentication | and be able to do `work'. A wireless capability would be bonus but | not absolu

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, William Jensen wrote: > I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been, > up to this point, extremely satisfied with its performance. However, > I've recently started having some signifiant issues with my cable modem > provider and they routinely wan

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

William Jensen wrote on Mon Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM: > These appear to work, however, am I overlooking something from a > security point of view by allowing any icmp and ip's through? What do you think is dangeous about allowing ping/traceroute? Neither are be used to establish a service whic

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

> ...and they routinely want to ping and traceroute to > my machine. This requires me to take down my > firewall and wait for them to finish, then put it back > up. I'd like to make, as part of my rule set, ping and > traceroute able to get through. So far I've done this > for my input chain for

Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

Hello everybody,   WHAT I HAVE DONE I'm upgrading from potato to woody. What I have done is: - install a potato from the CD's. I made a simple installation, without X, HTTP servers - I then installed an external package: conf-isdn-account to configure my ISDN Card & all my ISD

Re: Library versions (libg++2.7.2/libc6.1-1)

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:31:04AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > I think you need to install the package 'libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1'. It > installs a symlink > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so Nope, that didn't do it. The installer still segfaults, presumably b

Re: hard drives

also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:32:21PM -0700): > in addition, if i were not seeing hdc already, i would not be as mystified. > on the other hand, given that hdc is there, i would have expected hdd to be > as well. am i missing something here??? hdc

Re: usb scanners & printers

On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 10:06:48AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > Hi. The local computer fair is in town today > and I'm in the market for a new printer and > scanner, preferably USB. Any suggestions for > either of these? The printer should be able > to print a decent picture. > I am using HP b

Re: newbie: passing parameters to a module

Hello, On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Huebel, David wrote: > Hello, > > I believe that my question is this: I have seen that you can pass > parameters to a module like irq=9 dma=whatever io=whatever. If a > card uses more than one range of dma addresses, is there another > parameter I need to pass to

office 2k files under linux

Hi there, i am willing to do the step to remove windows2k for the whole time from my system. The problem is, that i receive at work many files, that are created with office2k (e.g. excel-, word-, powerpointfiles). WHat program can i use, that can also read and edit these files? Maybe Corel office?

Re: NFS alternative

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:13:10PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote: | On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:45:22PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | > | * D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: | > | ... | > | > Ok, that makes sense. How about if probability leaves us behind

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: >> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file >> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing >> (do that quite often myse

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