Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-08 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 10:53:27AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Miaoling Chiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Wow! I've been using Linux for a year, and even from the first week > > I have been trying (without success) to figure out how to do exactly > > that (ren *.doc *.txt). > > Someone else

Re: CrushLink > Welcome!

2001-08-08 Thread Mike McGuire
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:43:59PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK. Who signed in? Are you going to post the password? Probably some sick twisted individual, like the one that signed up the LUG list at my college... as someone else said, could be Bill Gates. ;) But anyway... NNNO

Re: GIMP 1.2 +GIFs

2001-08-08 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:53:13AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dpkg is your friend. you should definitely learn how to use it. > http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html is a good starting point, as is the item mentioned in the following sig': -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #33 f

Re: what is a framebuffer?

2001-08-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote: > This is possibly offtopic, but can someone explain to me what a > framebuffer is, and why one should care about it? I have seen it It's the area of RAM on the video card that holds the actual image being displayed. The framebuffer device is the interface

Cameras for linux: pan/tilt/zoom

2001-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anybody out there have a pan/tilt control on the camera controlled by the webpage arrow/links ?? iomojo.com has a camera with xy controls... ( but i refuse to login to a server before i can see a demo - - for more info of xy tables, pan/tilt stuff.. - http://www.Linux-Video.net/WebCam/com

what is a framebuffer?

2001-08-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, This is possibly offtopic, but can someone explain to me what a framebuffer is, and why one should care about it? I have seen it mentioned quite often on this newsgroup, most often in connection with recent Matrox graphics cards like the g400 and g450. It appears to be something to d

Re: Cameras for linux: the million $ question

2001-08-08 Thread Rafael Sasaki
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:47:56PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > High, > > > > > I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital > > > camera to use with it and the Gimp. > > > > > > Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility

Re: Need devfs help

2001-08-08 Thread nnorman
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:20:18AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Hi list, > > Compiling the latest kernel (2.4.7) I decided to enable devfs support > and also start devfsd at boot. Most things seem to work fine except > the sound card, the cdrom (both mounting and playing CDs) and cdrw, > Accessi

RE: CrushLink > Welcome!

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Perry
I bet it was Bill Gates > > > OK. Who signed in? Are you going to post the password? > > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:09:24AM -, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear asdlh, > > > > Welcome to CrushLink! We wish you the best of > > luck as you search for your secret crush. > > > > To manage your

Re: headless debian

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Mueller
Cool. I'll let you know how it works out. Thanks for the reassurance. Mike - Original Message - From: "Tim Moss" To: "Michael Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:39 PM Subject: Re: headless debian > Michael Mueller wrote: > > > Yeah, good question. For no

Re: I'm new to Debian and need advice

2001-08-08 Thread David Witbrodt
Kirk, Thanks for the response! > I can't speak for most people, but I personally enjoy testing. It's not > quite as stable as, well, stable, but I rarely encounter any significant > errors. The benefit is that you get much newer versions of many of the > packages. That helps. I will proba

Re: headless debian

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Mueller
Yeah, good question. For now, just headless operation as a backup to SSH access. In the future (6 months), I'll probably want headless install just for peace-of-mind. - Original Message - From: "Tim Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, Augu

Re: ssh- cannot load host key

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Mueller
Hi, I am new to SSH too. I have it running in a private net (192.168.x.y). Here are some quick general thoughts. Strongly suggest getting the "snail book" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg/). I spent a week reading it before trying things out like compiling, installing, keygen, starting th

Re: Qt and Gnome both on system?

2001-08-08 Thread Aaron Traas
Not quite... if you are using GNOME or KDE apps, you at least have to have the libraries installed. Feel free to use the apps in another window manager, but if the base libraries aren't installed, the apps won't run. In the case of most KDE apps, Qt isn't enough. The KDE folks extended Qt quite a

Re: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front end?)

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:49:38AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:17:21PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > > I have both "set followup_to" enabled (true) in my ~/.muttrc, as well as a > > line that says "lists debian-user" (which means the same thing as > > "subscribe debia

Re: CrushLink > Welcome!

2001-08-08 Thread John Griffiths
as the pent up passion of 10,000 debian users are simultaneously released in serial, as opposed to usual parrallel arrangements. At 08:43 PM 8/8/01 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >OK. Who signed in? Are you going to post the password? > > >On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:09:24AM -, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Cameras for linux: the million $ question

2001-08-08 Thread Dale Morris
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > High, > > > I've a laptop with debian potato 2.2r3 and like to buy a digital > > camera to use with it and the Gimp. > > > > Any suggestion about cameras and their compatibility with debian? > > > I have heard that the Logitech (USB's?) are a bad choice

Re: CrushLink > Welcome!

2001-08-08 Thread mark
OK. Who signed in? Are you going to post the password? On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:09:24AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear asdlh, > > Welcome to CrushLink! We wish you the best of > luck as you search for your secret crush. > > To manage your CrushList in the future, > always sign in to

headless debian

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Mueller
Can anyone give me a thumbs up/down on running headless (serial console on ttyS0) with Debian? I am loading Debian 2.2r3 in the AM. This short article specs out the process to set things up (www.osdlab.com/tips/tip_003.shtml) - does this look right? Praise for Debian: I just finished making bina

Re: Qt and Gnome both on system?

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:38:45AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > Your question is sort of unclear. First of all, I should clarify > something- Qt is just a GUI toolkit- a library which programs can, if > they chose, link against in order to provide the widgets which Qt > provides. Since it's just

Re: Somebody has a crush on you

2001-08-08 Thread John Griffiths
can't resist if its for real he/she is going to be mighty busy over the coming weeks. At 07:31 PM 8/8/01 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > >hi ya > >sorry... i generally ignore these posts...but >didnt know that 'something/someone' can have a crush >on a mailing list... :=-) > - yeah, i know its ju

Re: Somebody has a crush on you

2001-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya sorry... i generally ignore these posts...but didnt know that 'something/someone' can have a crush on a mailing list... :=-) - yeah, i know its junk mail...but... have fun alvin On 9 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Guess what... you've got a secret admirer! > Want to find out

Re: Speedo font?

2001-08-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Jeff Maxson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > last line says "Could not init font path element > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from list!" and that's all she > wrote. Does your XF86Config-4 include the Load "speedo" in the Module section? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: Speedo font?

2001-08-08 Thread Aaron Traas
You could try editing your XF86Config-4 file and removing the line that includes those fonts... Don't know if this will make X work, but at least it will fix this error. (I am assuming that since you are running woody, you are also running XFree86 4.0x) --Aaron Jeff Maxson wrote: > > I got my

Re: policy/philosophy: bugs that depend on input files

2001-08-08 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:36:03AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I recently filed a bug with, in my opinion, quite sufficient > documentation. At least the level of documentation was such that had > been routinely accepted with other bugs I'd filed in the past. In a > subsequent update, I even

CrushLink > Welcome!

2001-08-08 Thread CrushMaster
Dear asdlh, Welcome to CrushLink! We wish you the best of luck as you search for your secret crush. To manage your CrushList in the future, always sign in to CrushLink with Email address - debian-user@lists.debian.org Password - Have fun and good luck! Sincerely, The Crush M

XKeysymDB, what is it?

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I come across with something called XKeysymDB and wonder what that is. I know it is for keymap or something. Is there any more information on it? -- Edwin ERTW Lau _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

Somebody has a crush on you

2001-08-08 Thread CrushMaster
Guess what... you've got a secret admirer! Want to find out who it is? Just click to http://www.CrushLink.com Email address: debian-user@lists.debian.org Invitation code: zjnt2f Make sure you enter in this information exactly as shown above. See you soon! Sincerely, The Crush Master

Re: Speedo font?

2001-08-08 Thread Jeff Maxson
I just tried it with "generic VGA" settings and the same thing happened, except with no "modules unresolved" type errors. There was something about APM failing to load, but that was the only error in the log at that point. What is APM? I really do appreciate the help. Jeff On Wed, 8 Aug 2001

Re: Speedo font?

2001-08-08 Thread Jeff Maxson
Ahh...there is a bunch of "Symbol drmR128** from module unresolved!" stuff in my log (the modules all relate to r128_drv.o). should I just go get the stuff right from the xf86 folks? Jeff On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > Any errors in your /var/log/XFree86.0.log ? That "spee

Re: Sendmail directories... /var/state/sendmail...

2001-08-08 Thread Rich Puhek
Ian, Those directories are used to store state information about hosts your sendmail has tried to contact. By storing the info here, sendmail can check to see what the last state was of a host it may have recently tried to connect. The idea is that if you have multiple queue runners delivering mai

nautilus so slow

2001-08-08 Thread San Segkhoonthod
hi, Just double clicking on an folder icon takes so long. And, if I run nautilus from teminal, I noticed that it printed something like "/bin/sh: esd: command not found". Does this happned to anyone? and what should I do with it? thanks, san

Speedo font?

2001-08-08 Thread Jeff Maxson
I got my rage 128 video card today, fired up xf86config, went through that, and did the startx thing. Tadah! There was the grey screen and an X in the middle...for about half-a-second. The thing then quits, and spits me back out to console (on cntl-alt-F7, whatever you call that). I hit cntl-a

Re: I'm new to Debian and need advice

2001-08-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2001-08-09T00:48:26Z, David Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like most people are running the "testing" version even though it > might crash more, right? I can't speak for most people, but I personally enjoy testing. It's not quite as stable as, well, stable, but I rarely enco

Re: Replacing a RAID Drive - paranoia

2001-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Mike true... i wait for resync to finish... just out of paranoia... and similarly before putting it live and online... i wanna reboot one more time fo rparanoia.. c ya alvin - - http://www.Linux10.org - Linux' 10th Anniversary Picnic/BBQ - On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed,

Re: Replacing a RAID Drive

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:14:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya robert > > > after you install the new disks... let it do its magic to resync > itself ( dont write any new info to it for a while ) > > watch the counter/timer to see when its done resyncing back to its > happy self... >

I'm new to Debian and need advice

2001-08-08 Thread David Witbrodt
Hi, I'm in the process of backing up a decade's worth of old files I want to keep, burning to CD-R. Once finished, I plan to partition and install 4 OS's, including Debian. I have the CD from a book, "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleased", but the kernel there is 2.0.36. From the reading I've done,

Sendmail directories... /var/state/sendmail...

2001-08-08 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have noticed some wierd directories on one of our mail servers, and so I checked the others. hey are on all of them in some varying degree or another. /var/state/sendmail then ae. at. au. etc then in au. asn. com. edu. gov. then in com. aapt. acay. then in acay. job which contains V

anacron vs cron, conflict?

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, I just find out that there is a package called anacron which does similar things to cron. I wonder why they are no conflict to each other. What happen if both anacron and cron run some maintance script? would it run double? -- Edwin ERTW Lau __

ssh- cannot load host key

2001-08-08 Thread Jacob Stowell
Hi all, I am fairly new to using SSH, and I was wondering if anyone may be able to help me with a problem. For some reason I am not able to ssh into my home machine from any other location. When I try, I get the following message: Secure connection to satchel1.dyndns.org refused. I can rlogin,

Re: Debian.

2001-08-08 Thread Luiz Carlos Santos de Alencar
Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: > > Olá, sou usuário da Conectiva e gostaria de esperimentar o Debian, > vocês poderiam me informar onde pego uma imagem ISO do cd do Debian de > ultima versão estável??? Procurei no FTP mas não encontrei. > > Abraços > Gilberto Villani Brito CD do Debian 2.2r3 (bin

XFree86 + NVidia drivers use all my swap-space!

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Williams
I've noticed that XFree86 seems to claim a whole bunch of swap-space on my box, and that msot of it is non-resident. The memory usage shot right up when I installed the NVidia-GLX drivers. Here's the output of top(1): CPU states: 1.2% user, 2.4% system, 0.0% nice, 96.4% idle Mem:3

Re: wake on lan

2001-08-08 Thread D. Hoyem
Markus, If you open lilo.conf on the box that will not go to sleep you will see a line in there called append="" make it look like this append="apm=on" and then in the terminal type lilo and that will make the change take effect. The wake on lan pc will then shut down after you tell it to. I hop

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya gazillion ways to backup a disk... best is to use tar/cpio, etc... ( dd can be good or bad...you'd need to know what you are copying http://www.Linux-Backup.net - lots of free code/examples if the (new) message is just "device not ready etc"... check your ide cable and/or

Re: Replacing a RAID Drive

2001-08-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya robert after you install the new disks... let it do its magic to resync itself ( dont write any new info to it for a while ) watch the counter/timer to see when its done resyncing back to its happy self... cat /proc/mdstat - should tell you how long it has before fin

Dysfunctional ne (RTL8019AS)

2001-08-08 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, I recently replaced my old SB16 with a Sound Blaster Live, which caused quite some reassignments of IRQ's etc. I have two network cards in the machine, one that "ne2k-diag" claims is an RTL8019AS (bought as an ne2000 compatible, and served faithfully until now). (The other is an rtl8139, an

Re: wake on lan

2001-08-08 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
allright. shutdown -h waits for you to push the reset button or turn off and back on the power. But very likely you are using an atx board. Well I heard that to use the full functionality of the ATX board, ( turn off autmatically) you must configure lilo ( lilo.conf). I also think you must enable s

Re: problems with gcc and fopen() in debian 2.2

2001-08-08 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
are you sure you have the right permitions? if you dont, or there is some other problem, the file isnt opened and your code still assumes it is. do somethng like if ( !( infile = fopen(sdgjflgfdf) ) ) abort(); Dont trust the system :-) On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Andreas Maresch wrote: > Hello! > > I a

Re: XMMS hanging system?

2001-08-08 Thread Steve Gran
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:51:11 Michael Heldebrant wrote: > Hm. I've never encountered a sblive, they are pci pnp right? Can I > see the output of uname -a, /proc/pci and /proc/sound /proc/devices > output? I don't see anything out of the ordinary in these files. uname -a: Linux gashuffer 2.4

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Shriram Shrikumar writes: > If someone was to distribute actual loaded weapons to someone who is > almost certainly going to use it to cause harm - would that not be > considered aiding and abetting of criminal behaviour ? They would have to know or have reason to believe that a specific individua

Re: Java plugin under Galeon

2001-08-08 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Don't know if anyone care. I get it working (partially) it runs applet (I think)but it segfault if I exit galeon. But if I just close it(close the last window, it exit gracefully. a bug in jre? anyway, I am sort of satisfied now and thanx for those who helped me. and attached is the error messa

Re: Module Errors not in Dmesg

2001-08-08 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> A better way, is to disable xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm, then Kent> reboot. When you get logged in, you can then Shift-PgUp Kent> through the error messages. That's correct so far. Kent> (For some reason, xdm/gdm/kdm/wdm seems to cl

Re: Imation LS-120 (Solved!)

2001-08-08 Thread steve
> If you have the 2.4.x kernel (I'm not sure x>what, but I use the > lastest one, 7.) there is support for Mass Storage Devices under USB. > You need to have scsi emulation, and scsi disk support for it. But > you might already know this. > > I just mount it under /floppy. Here is my fstab line:

Re: jurisdictions (was: FW: Careful. This is for information only.)

2001-08-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On 8 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Bruce writes: > > Searching the RCMP site reveals they consider "computer crimes" to be a > > matter for the local police. > > Sounds good to me. Sure, once an offender has been identified. > > Not encouraging. > > Why? I've seen no evidence that the bungling

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
> > In theory, is it not their product that is "hacking" into other > computers > > - as opposed to the operator who may not even be aware of the > infection. > > Unfortunately it is seen as a law enforcement problem, not a > software bug. > The authorities, the media, and the public seem to belie

Re: Key board won't work in runlevel 2

2001-08-08 Thread heissu
Victor Torrico wrote: > Help!My keyboard works fine in the maintenance mode (Runlevel 1) > however none of the keys work when in runlevel two. I have reloaded > all pertinent packages. This message was generated in aargh windows. > Running 2.4.7 i386 with all the unstable packages. Help --- I'm

DRI error in Xfree 4.1.0

2001-08-08 Thread Herbert Pirke
Hi, I have a little problem running DRI in Xfree 4.1.0 on a debian woody with kernel 2.4.7-SMP and a Voodoo3. I get the following message: (II) TDFX(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) TDFX(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed, disabling DRI. Does anybody know why I get this error? Is there any known SMP pr

Re: Key board won't work in runlevel 2

2001-08-08 Thread Kent West
Victor Torrico wrote: Help! My keyboard works fine in the maintenance mode (Runlevel 1) however none of the keys work when in runlevel two. I have reloaded all pertinent packages. This message was generated in aargh windows. Running 2.4.7 i386 with all the unstable packages. Help ---

ldap and kmail

2001-08-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey, does anyone know if KMail supports LDAP for address lookups? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitti

sndstat - no such device

2001-08-08 Thread Herbert Pirke
Hi, I have a little problem with my sound configuration. I have an esd sound deamon up and running fine for all apps that use it. But the normal dsp device doesn't seem to work properly. First I had problems getting the sound-module es1371 loaded automatically by kerneld. So I loaded it by defaul

RE: A problem

2001-08-08 Thread adcarlson
I'm in the process of trying to apt-get dist-upgrade by Debian system from Potato to Woody-Testing, and seem to have stumbled across the "roadblock" shown below that has limited my progress... If anyone has any suggestions on how this matter might be resolved it would be much appreciated. Ear

libmp3lame.so -- where?

2001-08-08 Thread James Green
I've been battling to make 'vcr' work for some time now, and it's moaning about a lack of libmp3lame.so at runtime. The library is allegedly found in lame, which isn't in Debian. I downloaded the source tarball, created a deb from it, only to find it only creates libmp3lame.a, not .so. I looked at

Key board won't work in runlevel 2

2001-08-08 Thread Victor Torrico
Help!   My keyboard works fine in the maintenance mode (Runlevel 1) however none of the keys work when in runlevel two.  I have reloaded all pertinent packages.  This message was generated in aargh windows.  Running 2.4.7 i386 with all the unstable packages.  Help --- I'm dead in the water. 

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
How much do you think it'll take for MS to make it's TCP backward compatable so router vendors don't just work with it. If they don't you get another $12Billion advertisint blitz "We want to make the net safer and more secure but Cisco is working against us" type deal. Cisco stock drops, and th

Re: No WindowManager (Was NVidia Problem)

2001-08-08 Thread Anthony Lau
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 08:11, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am using XFree86 v4.0.1. Does one still use startx? I have been > typing XFree86 -configfile= <> to start the X server. When I type > startx it seems that the system tried to run X ver3 which does not > support my card. At least, it

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Robert L. Harris wrote: > Did you see this yet? > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html > > Was going around one of my local mailing lists. Pretty scary read. This was discussed on Slashdot recently. I get the impression Cringely has never heard of IPv6. He also refers to "

wake on lan

2001-08-08 Thread Markus Hansen
hi guys i have the following problem but it seems to me that it is a little OT. i want to use wake on lan for a pc. this pc shall be woken up on lan if another pc is present (this pc sends automaticly the wake sequence) my problem is: i put the pc into the state to be woken up on lan. one pc wakes

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:08:57PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > Has anyone asked the NatCops what they think of vermicidal and > > antibiotic software? (i.e., has it come up before and elicited an > > official response from any organisation) > > Late last

Fwd: Ansuwering machine

2001-08-08 Thread Fede
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've just sen't this to progeny-users, but I would like to have as many options as posible. Any help from you guys is greatly welcome. My modem is an external CNet 56K Fax/Modem

Re: jurisdictions (was: FW: Careful. This is for information only.)

2001-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Bruce writes: > Searching the RCMP site reveals they consider "computer crimes" to be a > matter for the local police. Sounds good to me. > Not encouraging. Why? I've seen no evidence that the bungling boobs at the FBI have been any help. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: Replacing a RAID Drive

2001-08-08 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Personally, I wouldn't even bother with the second system. Shut down, > swap drive, restart, partition new drive on system containing the > array, raidhotadd, and you're good to go. The only thing you're really > buying yourself by using a separate sys

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
Did you see this yet? http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html Was going around one of my local mailing lists. Pretty scary read. Thus spake Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > You'd think within 12 days people would figure out how to download a

Re: Replacing a RAID Drive

2001-08-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:23:47PM -0400, Robert James Kaes wrote: > How does the RAID system know which hard drive _was_ the bad when > I reboot. In other words, where is this information stored? Since I have > the new hard drive partitions set to type FD they should be automatically > included in

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-08 Thread Aaron Hall
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > bin: > > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What > good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of > binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian > policy, or the chan

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Robert L. Harris wrote: > You'd think within 12 days people would figure out how to download and > install a service pack. Kinda scary how long this has been going on > in the first place. Indeed. The basic problem, I think (not that this is anything terribly revelatory), is that the Internet is

Re: Replacing a RAID Drive

2001-08-08 Thread Robert James Kaes
On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Looks good to me. I don't see anything missing, but there are a > couple unnecessary steps in there: Thanks for responding! I do have one more question which I hope you can answer. How does the RAID system know which hard drive _was_ the bad when I reb

Evolution 0.12 and LDAP support

2001-08-08 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I'm testing the Evolution package in unstable and can't get it to work with my LDAP servers. Has anyone succeded in testing this? I can access the LDAP servers with a bunch of other utilities so I'm pretty sure this is a problem with Evolution or with the debian package (probably compiled

jurisdictions (was: FW: Careful. This is for information only.)

2001-08-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On 8 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Bruce Sass writes: > > Here in Canada it would be the RCMP > > Except that the US purports to have no national police, police power being > one of those powers supposedly reserved to the States by the Constitution. Searching the RCMP site reveals they consider "

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
You'd think within 12 days people would figure out how to download and install a service pack. Kinda scary how long this has been going on in the first place. Thus spake Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > Based on the anaylses I've read, CR2 doesn't have a 'stop

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Dave Sherohman wrote: > Based on the anaylses I've read, CR2 doesn't have a 'stop growing and > DDOS' phase at all. It's set to shut down at the end of this month > and, until then, it's just propagating and spreading back doors as fast > as it can. That's my understanding, too. Nice of the auth

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:14:44PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > Code Red II is, according to published reports, a new worm that borrows > Code Red's infection mechanism but is otherwise completely different. I > have not seen any statement that Code Red II cares about the White > House's web site.

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:08:57PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > Has anyone asked the NatCops what they think of vermicidal and > antibiotic software? (i.e., has it come up before and elicited an > official response from any organisation) Late last month, news reports say that there was much discussi

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Sass writes: > Here in Canada it would be the RCMP Except that the US purports to have no national police, police power being one of those powers supposedly reserved to the States by the Constitution. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Debian.

2001-08-08 Thread Miguel Griffa
Hi, I don't speak portugueses (spanish yes) I think you are looking for cdimage.debian.org At 04:58 p.m. 08/08/01 -0300, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: Olá, sou usuário da Conectiva e gostaria de esperimentar o Debian, vocês poderiam me informar onde pego uma imagem ISO do cd do Debian de ultima

Re: Dpkg Disaster

2001-08-08 Thread JakeCatfox
I decided to just reinstall Debian. No big deal.. I have all my stuff on CD-Rs. -- Deven

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Craig Dickson
Robert L. Harris wrote: > Ok, so your thinking is so much better than everyone else's. You take > over the world and be the benevelant dictator. Hardly my point. Apparently you consider it perfectly normal to start proposing workarounds and solutions when you don't understand the problem and hav

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Bruce Sass
On 8 Aug 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Bruce Sass writes: > > > The NetCops ("Nat" was a typo?) > > No. 'NatCops' == 'National Police': FBI, BATF, DEA, Treasury Agents, etc. > It comes from an old alternate-worlds sf story I disremember the name of. > In that world one did _not_ call a NatCop 'NatCop

Debian.

2001-08-08 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Olá, sou usuário da Conectiva e gostaria de esperimentar o Debian, vocês poderiam me informar onde pego uma imagem ISO do cd do Debian de ultima versão estável??? Procurei no FTP mas não encontrei.   Abraços Gilberto Villani Brito

potato and glibc-2.2.3 distrib

2001-08-08 Thread Nic Ferrier
I'm trying to setup a machine for development and I just can't get glibc-2.2.3 to build on potato. background In the past I've used debian-unstable for doing development, the trouble is I find that, well, too unstable. I considered using debian-testing but the stuff I'm working on (network i

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Sass writes: > The NetCops ("Nat" was a typo?) No. 'NatCops' == 'National Police': FBI, BATF, DEA, Treasury Agents, etc. It comes from an old alternate-worlds sf story I disremember the name of. In that world one did _not_ call a NatCop 'NatCop' to his face. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: kernel 2.4.7 questions

2001-08-08 Thread Hall Stevenson
> I have a P3 733mHz with an Adaptec 2940u2b > scsi and a Matrox G450, the dist that I have is > potato 2.2r2 if that helps any. > > Another problem I have is updating the packages. > I do not have a web connection, so I would have > to download everything on to zip from school and > bring it home.

Re: ldconfig

2001-08-08 Thread john gennard
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:23:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:06:56PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > > I have dselect in somewhat of a mess, having a number of programs > > 'in limbo' (including libc6). Trying to downgrade libc6, I got > > the same error message to that b

Re: kernel 2.4.7 questions

2001-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
I didn't have to do anything special except the shm filesystems to the fstab: none/dev/shmshm defaults0 0 just compiled the kernel with normal options, install, lilo and reboot. As per the updates, that'll be a little uglier. At work do you have

kernel 2.4.7 questions

2001-08-08 Thread Matt Jones
Hello, I would like to update my kernel and I have tried before and it wouldn't work because of the initrd problem that seems to be rather common. What exactly needs to be done? I have found Howtos for redhat and others but they do not work. Is there a Debian kernel howto? I last tried upgradin

Re: easy twm question

2001-08-08 Thread Mike Pfleger
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:21:14AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Well the pirate flag is also called skull and bones wich might be > the link to their usage. But indeed it is funny. > . > > And people say the Germanic tongues are odd :\ > > Who says that?? I shouldn't name any of names; they

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thus spake Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > 2 thoughts. > > If you want to call them that, okay. > > Sorry, I'm getting mildly annoyed by the conversation at this point. > We seem to be dividing into two groups: those with a clue, and those > who neither h

Re: pump

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Heldebrant
I take it that is your own network? Try and have the dhcp server supply the proper domain to your clients. That may or may not clean this up. I'm not sure about how pump cleans and restores the resolv.conf or why you get a zombie. --mike On 08 Aug 2001 20:07:47 +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: > Mi

Pci sound card advice

2001-08-08 Thread Matthew M Carroll
I am wondering if anyone can give some advice ? What is the better sound card the pci sound blaster 128 or the aopen AW744PRO both are supported by alsa? I will also ask the alsa guys Im just thinking the more info the better. Thanks, Matthew M Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
Right. So we have a 2 parter. Either we ignore the first 20 days and let it run, keep track of who is doing it, maybe a "Is your company irresponsibly spreading this POS"? with a list or we do the "remove the wurm binary. But for the last third of the month we can still cut the bandwidth us

Re: Backing up harddisk prior to failure

2001-08-08 Thread Michael Heldebrant
This may be a great time to buy a nice tapedrive and learn the joy of dump and regular backups. If someone else is footing the bill go for a dds-4 or vxa drive. Otherwise "beg, borrow or steal" a DDS-1 or 2 and some tapes. Get a nice new maxtor disk. They're so quiet you can't even hear it shre

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