Re: keyboard HOWTO

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 05:22:09PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > will trillich bewilderedly inquired: > > > > how can i type an accented e? or a c-cedilla? or a u-dieresis? > > > > There are many ways to do that. If you use xterm, you can get a Meta > key working and the 8bit characters

Re: xmms did a disappearing act

Well, you can edit your ~/.xmms/config file, and delete the two lines that say "player_x" and "player_y" and see if that helps. On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:47:01PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > > I'm running a self-compiled gnome/sawfish setup. I also have a > self-compiled xmms installed on my

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any > > security and safety consious Debian users would > > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, > > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better > > practice to use C

SOLVED (was Java (was Re: [OT] beware citibank!)

DvB muttered: > Paul Mackinney wrote: > > Jens Gecius uttered: > There's something seriously messed up with debian/mozilla/java. However, > I found the following usenet thread which helped me get mine working > (I'm using the blackdown jre from testing with mozilla nightlies). The > only thing I

xmms did a disappearing act

I'm running a self-compiled gnome/sawfish setup. I also have a self-compiled xmms installed on my system. Anyway, the other day, I logged into gnome after a reboot, and I couldn't get xmms to display. I have a quick launch icon for xmms on my toolbar. When I pressed it, no windows appeared tha

Re: Converting SuSE to Debian

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:17:23PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > - I would like to some programs (like dpkg/dselect and the like) to my > running SuSE linux and then start a program that (like dselect) which > allows me to convert the SuSE installation to a Debian based on. > - Is there such a way?

Re: Characters shown as ? in mutt

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:58:17AM +1000, Doug Hespe wrote: | Hi J?rgen, | I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as | "J?rgen". The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where | it is shown as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=". I don't

PS/2 mouse, what device?

Hi all, This should be easy, but I can't get it: My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: New-to-Debian

It's called "that damn GUI-thing that all the lusers want to deal with" :) On 18 Jul 2001, John Hasler wrote: >Kent West writes: >> "And remember, it's called X Window, not X Windows!" > >No. It's called either 'The X Window System' or 'X'. > -- The early worm gets the bird. Who is John Galt

Re: How to give non-root user the right to start X

On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have Debian 1.2. root can start X and other users can't. > How to give non-root user the right to start X? I don't think anything prevents a normal user from running 'startx'. Just to test, I just now shut down kdm on a Debian box

restricting postfix

i am annoyed, because there are so many dorks out there who attach just about whatever they can find to an email and send it off. unfortunately, we are paying for transfer volume, so i'd like to fend these huge mails off before too much damage (i.e. too many bytes) has happened. i am using postfix

Re: OT: which journaling file system

I too asked this question ; there are a lot of comparison around the net. But not from the benchmark, ...; just from my experience. I tested all of those. Reiserfs still has stability problem and it uses system resources more than others. Not JFS serious stability ; absolutely not XFS: Good, st

Re: accounting total traffic

Check out MRTG. It's a bit of a challenge to set up, but it's worked for a ton of sites in the same situation. On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:05:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > hey guys, tonight i am bombarding you with questions... sorry. > > i need to get a semi-exact idea of the traffic thro

Re: free software likes http://remindme.arsdigita.com/

Peter Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to know where I can get free software as function > > http://remindme.arsdigita.com/ Maybe http://www.arsdigita.com/acs-repository/? I don't know that they have it available, but it wouldn't surprise me. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

free software likes http://remindme.arsdigita.com/

Hi all I would like to know where I can get free software as function http://remindme.arsdigita.com/ Tks much Regards Peter

Re: How to give non-root user the right to start X

In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (if one exists), you want the first line to say: allowed_users=console -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ Knowing Murphy's Law won't help either.

Re: Screwed up cursor under X -- SOLVED

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:48:20PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 14:49, you wrote: > > Option "sw_cursor" > Worked perfectly, thanks. What does it actually do? My understanding is it gets X to render the cursor in software rather than through your graphics card.

accounting total traffic

hey guys, tonight i am bombarding you with questions... sorry. i need to get a semi-exact idea of the traffic through one of our servers, in and out. i understand that netstat -s gives me interface statistics, but there are two problems with it: (a) it lists packets only. as i understand, a packe

Re: RPM ...

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:10:49PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Does anyone know of a really featureful and intelligent > rpm update tool out there, besides these listed? Mandrake's urpmi, which has similar features to apt-get. Though I don't know if you'd get it to work with RedHat.

Re: Sendmail newbie question

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > On the machine you want to be the mail hub, configure > it to accept mail for your (local) domain. On the other > machines, tell them to send all local mail to the mail > hub for delivery and to use it as a smart host also. > > A qu

Re: MP3 players

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:54:28 +0530 harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:55:17AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > > > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > > with > > it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp

Re: Converting SuSE to Debian

>>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:17:23 +0200, >>> "Lukas" == Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Lukas> - I would like to some programs (like dpkg/dselect and the like) to my Lukas> running SuSE linux and then start a program that (like dselect) which Lukas> allows me to convert the SuSE

intentional mail-slowdown on murphy.debian.org?

Hi! Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn´t respond for a week or so, I thought someone round here might know if my perception that murphy.debian.org[0] lets connections sit in the below state for approx. 3-5 minutes is a general one, or if it´s just a problem on my end. sendmail: TAA30329 murphy.d

Re: locatedb question

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:27:09PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > router:~# locate \* | wc -l > 68558 > router:~# updatedb > router:~# locate \* | wc -l > 91395 > > Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 > files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i se

Re: Segmentation error

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:01:56PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What is segmentation error and how do you solve it ? A segmentation fault occurs when a program doesn't behave with its memory. Generally this only occurs with programs wirtten in a language that provies direct access to memory

Tape backup software

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, Can anyone recomend some tape backup software for a DAT drive? I need software that can allow backups to span multiple tapes. Thanks. Regards, Stephen. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For in

Kernel 2.4.x and IP Problems

Hello, I use an application, which connects over internet to an other machine on high port (56003 / 56005). Since I upgraded to kernel 2.4.5 (with packages from A. Bunk) I get no connection to this other machine. For testing I made "telnet remote.machine.tld 56003" With tcpdump or

Re: New-to-Debian

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P wrote: > > Hello, > > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in > > Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain > > some feedback as to whether Debian is appropriate for new users. The bes

apache vhosts - quotas/details

hi guys, is it possible to configure apache to log the total amount of traffic (in Mb) that is generated by a virtual host? how would i set that up? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- #define emacs eig

Re: Folders in Mutt

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:02:13PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > - My system is essentially single user, right now I'm only checking one > POP3 account for incoming mail. I use exim to forward local mail to my > user account (root, webmaster, etc. all go to my Linux username) and to > send outgo

How to give non-root user the right to start X

I have Debian 1.2. root can start X and other users can't. How to give non-root user the right to start X? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list soon.

it keeps crashing

hi guys, i have a 486DX-2/66 doing my routing on kernel 2.4.6. it's only got 8Mb of RAM but i am frantically searching for more - it takes FPM, and that's really hard to find these days (if you have any that you could spare, would you sell it to me?). anyway, i configured /dev/hda2 to be a 256Mb

Re: Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:28:38AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without > having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan > the scsi bus (cfr "drvconfig; disks" on Solaris) ? The scsitools package contains a nice script to do it,

Re: PS/2 mouse, what device?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > This should be easy, but I can't get it: > > My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be? On the keyboard connector? ;-) Cheers, Joost

How to give non-root user the right to start X

I have Debian 1.2. root can start X and other users can't. How to give non-root user the right to start X? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list soon.

Re: X 4.0.3 and agpgart

* Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-18 22:00): > I recently up-graded to X 4.0.3 as part of the upgade to debian > testing. Also kernel version 2.4.5. There were some things to sort > out, but all seems basically well at this point. > > There's one glitch, though, that I'm still trying to

Re: intentional mail-slowdown on murphy.debian.org?

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 02:08 pm, Mike Pfleger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:10:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn?t respond for a week or so, I thought > > someone round here might know if my perception that > > murphy.debian.org[0] lets connec

Re: Am I being attacked?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is all basically a set of port scans of people looking for holes on > > 216.15.108.184. They are all normal on today's internet, and (IMO)

Installation problems on a Blue Note II Labtop with Debian 2.2 and woody

Hi, I've a problem with the installation on a Blue Note II Labtop. I know this is old Hardware but hey it's Linux ;-) When I boot up with the Debian 2.2r0 floppys I run into the following error: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for modprobe... When I try the woody floppys (from the LinuxTag Beta E

RE: office 2k files under linux

Staroffice ;) -Original Message- From: Philipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 3:21 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: 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,

strange error

I get this error when i do basic command line operations (eg 'ps'): {isdn_ppp_unregister_compressor} {isdn_ppp_unregister_compressor_R__ver_isdn_ppp_unregister_compressor} Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel data. What does this mean, and does it make any problems, (anythin

Re: sound card not working properly

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:05:57PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:21AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: . > I think you missed my mention of this in the last post. modprobe is > probably reading this as decimal (base 10) but it should be > hexadecimal (base 16).

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:04:27AM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > > Could you tell me how-to configure a printer in my debian potato? > > What packages Should I install? Are there any doc ? > > The Printer is a HP Laser Jet 4050 N There is a CUPS howto at http://www.ebbs.com.au/~mark/cups-gimp-print

RPM ...

Sorry to pain everyone with RPM questions, but at work we run all rh6.2 boxes and we're doing research on finding the best command-line rpm update tool. Currently we're looking into: up2date autorpm updateme (a tool we have written ourselves) Does anyone know of a really featureful and intellig

Re: New-to-Debian

Kent West writes: > "And remember, it's called X Window, not X Windows!" No. It's called either 'The X Window System' or 'X'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: New-to-Debian

All of you are wrong, it's the "X Window System" :) On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 05:34:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > "And remember, it's called X Window, not X Windows!" -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.aripollak.com / __ |/ ___/ /_/ |_/_/ Knowin

Re: Am I being attacked?

Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is all basically a set of port scans of people looking for holes on > 216.15.108.184. They are all normal on today's internet, and (IMO) not > something to worry about unless the thing has been hacked. I still send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in

Re: RPM ...

Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a really featureful and intelligent rpm update > tool out there, besides these listed? People on redhat lists would really be most likely to know. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Be incomprehens

Re: Quick mail delivery question

See the "Folders in Mutt" thread on this list.

Re: gnucash missing /etc/gnucash/config

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 18:20, William S. wrote: > Today I updated and upgraded my packages running on > unstable on a 2.4.5 kernel. > > When I run gnucash though I am getting: > > gnucash: [W] "failure loading ""/etc/gnucash/config" > > I looked at /etc/gnucash but it is empty. Is there > anothe

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 02:22:30PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > I've never used mc, but I did try gmc a while back. I | > stopped using gmc when I tried to _copy_ some files | > from a floppy. Instead the default drag-n-drop action | > is move. | | From being a fairly experienced windows use

Re: New-to-Debian

harshu wrote: hi, Any book on unix will give you a good idea about the commands. The only other distribution I tried was Redhat. In my opinion it is a distribution to keep away from. and one more thing it is X-Windows and not windows. Um, not quite. According to the HOWTO at http://www.l

Re: PINE

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:28:42PM -0400, dude wrote: > > I know PINE is not what debian users use, > but i recently convinced my girlfriend to > let me install debian on her windows computer. > Her only gripe with using it is > that there are no debs of Pine. There are unofficial (and perfectly

Characters shown as ? in mutt

Hi J?rgen, I am having difficulty reading your name in mutt where it shows up as "J?rgen". The problem is even worse in Xemacs and in regular Emacs where it is shown as "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_A=2E_Erhard=22?=". There was some discussion on the list a while ago about this sort o

Re: Perl Question Recap

--- Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for all the inputs !!! Just condensing all the answers given (more for myself) >I'm really new to Perl and I'm guessing that >I can't run shell commands within a perl script... Check out system() and exec()...

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

> I've never used mc, but I did try gmc a while back. I > stopped using gmc when I tried to _copy_ some files > from a floppy. Instead the default drag-n-drop action > is move. >From being a fairly experienced windows user, and apparently one of the few who understand and use drag-n-drop (I've s

Re: locatedb question

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >router:~# locate \* | wc -l > >68558 > >router:~# updatedb > >router:~# locate \* | wc -l > >91395 > > > >Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 > >files from the locatedb. > > P

Re: intentional mail-slowdown on murphy.debian.org?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:10:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > Since [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn?t respond for a week or so, I thought > someone round here might know if my perception that > murphy.debian.org[0] lets connections sit in the below state for > approx. 3-5 minutes is a ge

Re: MP3 players

Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > After reading your mail, I tried each of the output plugins. Only one > produced any sound at all and of course, it was heavily distorted. What do you mean by "heavily distorted"? If it just sounds badly clipped or overdriven, you might try lowering xmms's volume (u

Re: Setting up printing

"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > > > I use CUPS with a Stylus Color 880 and the stock stcolor.ppd from the > > cupsys package. No ghostscript. No cupsomatic. It just works. > > > Good point. I do a lot of printing from Netscape; it seems to want to > output in ps form

Re: Folders in Mutt

Sam Varghese muttered: > > I'd like to have a few folders into which I can > move mail after reading but if the mail supposed to > go there does so automatically I wouldn't mind either. > - My system is essentially single user, right now I'm only checking one POP3 account for incoming mail. I us

Re: Sendmail newbie question

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:35:50PM -0500, Jay Latham wrote: > I have three computers in my home. I use one as a router to masq > the other two to the internet. I would also like to use this one > as the mail hub. There is only one user for the three boxes. > What I would like to do is to be able to

RE: Sendmail newbie question

On the machine you want to be the mail hub, configure it to accept mail for your (local) domain. On the other machines, tell them to send all local mail to the mail hub for delivery and to use it as a smart host also. A quick example is in order, me thinks. I have three Linux machines here along

Re: RPM ...

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Sorry to pain everyone with RPM questions, but at work we run all rh6.2 > boxes and we're doing research on finding the best command-line rpm > update tool. > > Does anyone know of a really featureful and intelligent rpm update tool > out there, b

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

Joel Mayes wrote: "Linuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There are several packages for printing avaliable in Debian I prefer cupsys, cupsys-client and cupsys-driver-gimpprint which give v. good print out on my el-cheepo HP-DeskJet, Do you not use cupsomatic? That's the only way I could get c

Re: locatedb question

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 at 15:19:06 -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: [Please do *not* cc me on list mail. I read the list. Thanks.] > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > Perhaps it's ignoring some of the paths and filesystems it's told to > > prune in /etc/updatedb.conf? Those are only noticed by

Woody -> Installation of XFree86 _BIG_ Problem

Hello,   I first upgraded from potato to woody, with only the essential : console tools.   I then decided to install XFree86 (with dselect).   But after downloading, and configuring some packages, my screen got frozen on the xserver-common / xserver-xfree86 script configuration.

Re: Urgent: how to rescan SCSI channel for new drives?

Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it possible to add a scsi drive to a Linux system without > having to reboot the machine i.o.w. is there a way to rescan > the scsi bus (cfr "drvconfig; disks" on Solaris) ? In testing or unstable, you can: apt-get install scsiadd For ex

X 4.0.3 and agpgart

I recently up-graded to X 4.0.3 as part of the upgade to debian testing. Also kernel version 2.4.5. There were some things to sort out, but all seems basically well at this point. There's one glitch, though, that I'm still trying to resolve. I have a Matrox G400 card and I'm using the mga driver.

Sendmail newbie question

I have three computers in my home. I use one as a router to masq the other two to the internet. I would also like to use this one as the mail hub. There is only one user for the three boxes. What I would like to do is to be able to read my mail from any box but still save it on the hub. So that if

Re: Am I being attacked?

Probs to those ports are very common lately. They are probably script kiddies doing sweep scans on those ports looking for potential machines to attack. Since you are blocking those ports you are most likely safe (you aren't an easy candidate). If you got dozens of logs from the same source you sho

Re: locatedb question

Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, there´s no point in making files only readable by specific users/ > groups if locate would locate them just nicely for everyone ;-) Of course there is! They may be able to locate them, but they still can't _read_ them. Now, there may be cases

Re: New-to-Debian

hi, Any book on unix will give you a good idea about the commands. The only other distribution I tried was Redhat. In my opinion it is a distribution to keep away from. and one more thing it is X-Windows and not windows. And one more thing. It is advisable to send mails to the list rath

Re: New-to-Debian

Subject: New-to-Debian Date: Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000 In reply to:K.P Quoting K.P([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in > Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain > so

OT: which journaling file system

hi! this is perhaps somewhat off-topic, but the reason for my question is not... I'm installing woody on a dell i8k notebook and want to use a journaling file system for the partition that shall contain /usr, /var and /home. I asked myself (and now ask you) what fs would be appropriate? It seems t

Re: MP3 players

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 18:43:03 + Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:55, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > > with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce > >

Re: Perl Question Recap

thanks for all the inputs !!! I ended up using the rmtree command... I needed to execute this in Perl because I have a web based emailer written in Perl... One part of the program will create an upload directory for the user ... however... I couldn't get a quota on it so I just delete the

Re: locatedb question

Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >router:~# locate \* | wc -l >68558 >router:~# updatedb >router:~# locate \* | wc -l >91395 > >Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 >files from the locatedb. Perhaps it's ignoring some of the paths and filesystems it's told

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote: > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any security and safety > consious Debian users would use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. > move, copy, change permissions) ?? There are those who say that a security- and safet

Re: RAID

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:51:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can somebody please tell me all about RAID . I could, but it's a lot easier to just tell you to find a copy of the Software-RAID-HOWTO. > If I set up RAID autodetect on say /dev/hda4 , > does it destroy data any where ? For sta

Strange problem with ps (System.map does not match kernel data)

I am running Debian/unstable, and the 2.4.4 kernel, patched with SGI xfs: $ uname -a Linux cbgb 2.4.4-xfs #1 Sun Jun 10 21:03:50 PDT 2001 i686 unknown When I boot the system, everything is fine, but after a day or so, whenever I run ps, I get the following error: $ ps -ef {shmem_file_setup}

Re: New-to-Debian

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P uttered: > Hello, > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly recommended in > Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it yet and I hope to gain > some feedback as to whether Debian is appropriate for new users. > Gah! Don't do

Re: Screwed up cursor under X -- SOLVED

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 14:49, you wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:21:11PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X > > 3.3.6. Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now > > a white long and thin re

MP3 players

I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce horribly distorted sound. Since mpg123 works properly, it seems to me that I have the right sound drivers and that they are configured correctly. An

Java (was Re: [OT] beware citibank!)

Paul Mackinney wrote: Jens Gecius uttered: I have installed the j2sdk, I've tried manually placing symlinks from .../jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji140.so to mozilla's plugin folder. Netscape 477's java VM works fine, but with ugly fonts and bad windows sizes. Any suggestions? The

RE: HELP: qmail-smtp isn't started by default????

> but only similar can't imagine what the extra struff as > /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb is supposed to do and why that command is so > complicated anyways the above mentioned line works, while the init > line manifestingly doesn't work > Try this.. echo '127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' > /etc/

Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....

> > -- > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #61 from Hamma Scott > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Ever have troubles with EITHER X OR CONSOLE LOCKUP? > If your session is hung you can type F2- > F6 to get to another login session. This way, you > can shut your machine down properly, or kill > whichever process

Re: Segmentation error

segfault -> some pointer got some problem resolvation: dump the core gdb it bt it show us the workout done vivi la PERLa loca... :) question: do spanish support hackish verbalization, noun-ization, post-modern-ed, or so? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday

Re: New-to-Debian

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 12:28 pm, harshu wrote: > hi, > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:52:53AM +1000, K.P wrote: > > Hello, > > I am NEW to the world of Linux and Debian has come higly > > recommended in Australia for its versatility. I have not tried it > > yet and I hope to gain some feedback as

Quick mail delivery question

Okay, I know I must be overlooking something really dumb, but here goes: I would like to have mail delivered to a mailbox file in each user's home directory instead of residing in /var/spool/mail/foo. This is to be the same as another environment my users are coming away from.

Re: Am I being attacked?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > The answer is probably yes, but do the following indicate script-kiddie > probes? They are directed at portmap, lpr, and nmbd. I don't know why the > ones on the smtp port were rejected. The

Re: locatedb question

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes: >Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 >files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb >runs as nobody. Is there a particular danger in running this as other >than nobody? On multi-u

Re: locatedb question

I believe there's a restricted locate, called slocate. Then again, it looks like it's trying to do the same thing anyways, so that's what's confusing me. Fortunately, I have no shell users =) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:27:09 EDT, Mike Dresser writes: >

Re: PINE

Downloiad the recent version of pine 4.33, APPLY the pathces(check main page at UW for pine, are somewhere at top.) I found that at least 2 of them must be applied all.patch and time.patch I think Run ./build lnx. If still have problems, identify the file-problem and input at top something li

Re: MP3 players

On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:55, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce > horribly distorted sound. Since mpg123 works properly, it seems to me that > I have th

locatedb question

router:~# locate \* | wc -l 68558 router:~# updatedb router:~# locate \* | wc -l 91395 Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000 files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i see updatedb runs as nobody. Is there a particular danger in running this as ot

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any | > security and safety consious Debian users would | > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, | > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better | > practice to use C

Re: Mail Reports

Paul Rae wrote: > 2. How can I run of reports for mail that has been sent? i.e. produce a > report saying x mails have been sent in this time period, or user x has sent > the following mails, etc You could install lire and configure it to send you daily reports of exim's activity, derived f

Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?

> Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any > security and safety consious Debian users would > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better > practice to use CLI w/ suid to make those kind of > changes. If you're referring to gmc's

Re: Real Player

Jesper Holmberg wrote: > > I am trying to install Real Player, and I have downloaded the package > from real.com. However, as I install the realplayer deb with: > > apt-get install realplayer > > it crashes after the first dialogue with this message: > > dpkg: error processing realplayer (--con

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