Re: Ext3... what about it?

2001-09-25 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > As far as stability, 0.9.6 has given me no problems, but I also haven't > > exercised it that much. There have been a few troubles with 0.9.9. I > > wouldn't touch 0.9.9 + Linux 2.4.10 with a 10-foot

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
> | On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > | > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either > | > 70 or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my > | > message appearing? I remember IBM punch card was 80 char wide. And last 8 column was s

Re: Java in Konqueror (Resolved)

2001-09-25 Thread Liu Tao
Hi Thanks for your help ! I installed j2re1.3 from blackdown.org, then I can use java in konqueror, everything is ok now :) -- Regards Liu Tao On Tuesday 25 September 2001 17:59, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > There's a similar discussion on this list at the moment and we said that > > mayb

kernel modules problems

2001-09-25 Thread Bart Himel
I've been a user of Debian for several years now. Due to a problem with libc last week, I had to go through the pain of reinstalling everything. Anyway, since then, every time I try to compile a new 2.4.x kernel, I get a message from depmod reporting dependency prioblems with almost ALL of my

Re: Ext3... what about it?

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel T. Chen
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > As far as stability, 0.9.6 has given me no problems, but I also haven't > exercised it that much. There have been a few troubles with 0.9.9. I > wouldn't touch 0.9.9 + Linux 2.4.10 with a 10-foot stick: major VM changes > + new filesystem == bad ju

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:15:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: | > | > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either | > 70 or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my | > message appearing? | | It's

Re: Upgrading potato -> progeny newton broke X11

2001-09-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:47:40AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: [...snip ranting] > I have a dialup system at home with potato on it. So I decided to > upgrade to progeny and to make a new installation. [...snip ranting] > I would appreciate some advice. My suggestion is to one of 3: (1) Reinst

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:43:19AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > > > i'm curious. why is it that the textwidth has to be set to either 70 > or 72 when the console can display 80? my tw=79 how is my message > appearing? It's not that it *has* to be set to 70 or 72. It's that by setting it there the

Re: ipmasqadm portfw

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Moss
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:15:07 -0500 "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i used to have this working like a champ, but now it folds its > arms and laughs and evil laugh-- > > we're trying to establish port forwarding so that a box internal > on our lan (192.168.1.2) can serve requests thro

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
> I haven't found a complete list of the multi_key combinations but have > found quite a few through trial and error and will be happy to write > up what I know if that would help. http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/X11/multi_keys.txt I don't know that it's a complete list, but it's certianly got a

Re: OT: netfilter inquiry

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Moss
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:10:22 +0800 "Rino Mardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi. i have installed from source iptables-1.2.3 thinking that the > message i'm > getting with iptables-1.2 was because of an older version. after > installation > i'm still getting the same message plus a newer one. i

Re: Help with install: Woody

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 08:56 pm, dman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: > | How do I install woody over a ppp connection? > | > | Here's what I've done so far: > | First I downloaded the images and created the three installation > | floppies, > | > | rescue

Re: Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 05:09 pm, Jaime cristerna Avila wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > This is my first time posting onto this list. I don't know if this > question is best directed to user-dpkg. Regardless, I will try asking > here first. > > > Is there any way, I can keep potato and just up

Re: X won't start in woody

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:25 pm, francisco m neto wrote: > Hi there, Hey! > I've been trying to install woody on a PIII with a SiS 620 graphics > chipset for the last 6 hours. You'll have to be a bit more specific with error messages and such for anyone to be of much help. Did XF

Re: xlib problem

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 10:04 pm, Brian Schramm wrote: > I am still trying to upgrade from potato to woody. With a modem this is a > panfull process at best. Here it is 4 days latter and now I cannot get > anywhere with it. Here is the error message that I get. > > Unpacking replacement xl

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Rino Mardo
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:06:58PM -0400 or thereabouts, dman wrote: > > Ditto for vim. > > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For > writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can > be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can

OT: netfilter inquiry

2001-09-25 Thread Rino Mardo
hi. i have installed from source iptables-1.2.3 thinking that the message i'm getting with iptables-1.2 was because of an older version. after installation i'm still getting the same message plus a newer one. i checked my filters and i can't see anything wrong with them. here's the message i'm

Re: xlib problem

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 10:04:45PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote: | I am still trying to upgrade from potato to woody. With a modem this is a | panfull process at best. Here it is 4 days latter and now I cannot get | anywhere with it. Here is the error message that I get. | | Moving old app-defaul

mysql root account stopped working

2001-09-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hello, yesterday's `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` broke mysql. I used to have the root account passwordless, but now this doesn't work anymore. mysql -u root is giving me ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO) and on shutdown I ge

Re: SSSCA (was Re: OT or relevent?)

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:54:39PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:34:51PM +0100, Lee Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Just read this. | > | > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html | | I *STRONGLY* encourage the use of descriptive subject lines and/or

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:49:50PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | Thus spake Matthew Dalton: | > dman wrote: | > > | > > Ditto for vim. | > > | > > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For | > > writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can | >

xlib problem

2001-09-25 Thread Brian Schramm
I am still trying to upgrade from potato to woody. With a modem this is a panfull process at best. Here it is 4 days latter and now I cannot get anywhere with it. Here is the error message that I get. Moving old app-defaults file XmAddressBook to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XmAddressBook.xlibs-old. M

Re: source.list error recovery

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 12:47 pm, Jacques Normand wrote: > I've just played with some unstable packages lists and it doesn't behave > like I want. Is there any way to downgrade all packages to the latest > avaibled in the corrected sources.list. I mean a softer way than a > reinstall ;-) I've

Re: Java in Konqueror

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 05:59 am, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > > Hmm, maybe you could just write a little mail to the list if it also works > for you. I'm using the Blackdown JRE 1.3 with Konqueror in 2.2.1 and Java seems to work. > Cheers, > > Stephan >

Re: Woody install over PPP: How?

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 01:18 am, Lars Jensen wrote: > How do I install woody over a ppp connection? I've got the three > floppies: > You're in for a treat. You need about 15 floppies formatted and ready to go. You might want to format them even if they're already formatted, as even a sm

Re: OT - Finding old PCI Ethernet cards

2001-09-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 05:03:17PM -0400, Doug Fields wrote: > Slightly off topic... > > I am still running an old 1.2.13 kernel system, and I have found it > increasingly difficult to buy a system with enough ISA slots for my old > hardware. So, I want to put a PCI ethernet card in instead of a

Re: About a laptop

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:49:39PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: | On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:09:03PM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: | > | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: | > ... | > | >As I was looking up info on th

Re: Help with install: Woody

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:09:20PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: | How do I install woody over a ppp connection? | | Here's what I've done so far: | First I downloaded the images and created the three installation | floppies, | | rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. | | The installation goes fine

Re: latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-09-25 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Tim Moss wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT) > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > apt-get upgrade this morning, upgraded a lot of GNOME stuff. Now galeon > > crashes a lot. Anyone else seeing this suddenly? > > > > Unfortunately, I don't have a

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Matthew Dalton: > dman wrote: > > > > Ditto for vim. > > > > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For > > writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can > > be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed > > as

Re: Word-wrapping text editor

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: > > Ditto for vim. > > See ":help textwidth" and ":help formatoptions" for more details. For > writing mails (such as this) I use ":set tw=70 fo=tcq". (BTW this can > be added to the .vimrc and executed automatically or it can be typed > as shown.) You can also set options for indi

Re: Ext3... what about it?

2001-09-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote of ext3: > As far as stability, 0.9.6 has given me no problems, but I also haven't > exercised it that much. There have been a few troubles with 0.9.9. I > wouldn't touch 0.9.9 + Linux 2.4.10 with a 10-foot stick: major VM changes > + new filesystem == bad ju ju. Agreed.

Solved! WAS: Re: ide zip drive problem with 2.4.9 ?

2001-09-25 Thread Rino Mardo
i thought a more appropriate subject is in order. - Forwarded message from Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:28:01 +0800 From: Rino Mardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users Subject: Re: ide zip drive problem with 2.4.9 ? Mail-Followup-To: Debian Users User-Age

Re: About a laptop

2001-09-25 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:09:03PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: > | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: > ... > | >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some > | > | I got suspend to disk work

Re: Help with install: Woody

2001-09-25 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 17:09, Lars Jensen wrote: > > > How do I install woody over a ppp connection? > > Here's what I've done so far: > First I downloaded the images and created the three installation > floppies, > > rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. > > The installation goes fine until t

Re: Getting Sound to work

2001-09-25 Thread Steven Farrier
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 09:02 am, dman wrote: > Run windows and record the IRQ, Base Address and DMA Channel that it > uses for the sound card. I had to provide the proper values as > options to one of the modules. I used to have a Compaq Presario (5035 > I think) and the ESS1869 worked gre

Re: Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > BTW: what is the difference between $KDEDIR and ${KDEDIR}? When is wich used? RTFM. Ok, ${FOO}bar means variable $FOO followed by "bar", $FOObar means variable $FOObar. Capisce? Dima -- I'm going to exit now since you don't want me to

Re: mozilla install broken?

2001-09-25 Thread Joe Barnett
I've looked into in more and the problem is with libc6. If you use the next-to-latest version (2.2.4-1, NOT 2.2.4-2) everything works dandily. -Joe On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 16:15, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010925 17:15]: > > > > > > Hi there, I'm trying to install

Re: Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > BTW: what is the difference between $KDEDIR and > ${KDEDIR}? When is wich used? They refer to the same data. The braces form is to seprate the variable from the context. For example: rename $fname $fnamebackup # is ambiguous,

Re: Simple backups

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I use tar and zip to do all my backups. simple and easy. but if your looking for another way, check out rsync Cheers, Mike Quoting Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all ! > > I want to make simple backups of my work, nothing more complex than > moving things to a different partitio

Re: Unix password config

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, I probably should have explained myself a little better. :) The purpose of the password changing is for a Samba lab. I didn't realize at first that I had to edit the smb.conf to allow smaller smb passwords. and I believe that when a user changes their smbpasswd, the passwd command that gets i

Re: Ext3... what about it?

2001-09-25 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all > > I'm seeing several messages about ext3 nowadays... for example this thread > about Ext3 on Install... > > I've seen it also in IRC, and some webpages... > > Can it be considered some "stable" now? Or what's happening? > > Thanks. > > BTW: I'm

Re: Simple backups

2001-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya daniel my preference is tar... -- extremely simple backup.sh for 10.1.1.1 --- # mount other_machine:/home/daniel.backup /mnt/backup tar zcvf /mnt/backup/daniel.datecode.tgz /etc/ home/daniel umount /mnt/backup mail -s "backup done for /home/daniel" daniel < /dev/null # - othermac

X won't start in woody

2001-09-25 Thread francisco m neto
Hi there, I've been trying to install woody on a PIII with a SiS 620 graphics chipset for the last 6 hours. Everything was working fine while I was using potato, but when I made a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' it began to complain about a lot of dependencies, and ended up saying that

Re: 2.4.10, problems?

2001-09-25 Thread csj
On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 19:56, Bostjan Muller wrote: > No problem, do not have to patch, you can use the plain vanilla 2.4.10 and than > use kernel-package tools to create .deb with the kernel image and modules > (source.deb creatin does not seem to work with latest kernel-package). I can confirm t

xlibs & aswedit

2001-09-25 Thread Martin WHEELER
anyone got any workarounds for this ? (last night's testing upgrade): * Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-5 (using .../xlibs_4.1.0-6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/

Re: CD Burner Permissions

2001-09-25 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Joachim Trinkwitz: > The solution to your problem is rather well hidden deep in cdrecords man > page: > >If you don't want to allow users to become root on your >system, cdrecord may safely be installed suid root. This >allows all users or a group of users

Re: mozilla install broken?

2001-09-25 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Joe Barnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010925 17:15]: > > > Hi there, I'm trying to install the latest mozilla packages (0.9.4) > in SID on my unstable box, and I'm getting errors in the postinstall > script. to be more specific, the regxpcom process segfaults. > > I'm sure its something with my sys

Help with install: Woody

2001-09-25 Thread Lars Jensen
How do I install woody over a ppp connection? Here's what I've done so far: First I downloaded the images and created the three installation floppies, rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. The installation goes fine until the installer asks where to find the base system. I'm not sure what to

Simple backups

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I want to make simple backups of my work, nothing more complex than moving things to a different partition and/or disk. I know I can do it with a few commands like tar, gz and cp, but perhaps somebody can tell me about other ways to do it that I should consider. Thanks in advance ! Da

Re: Mail Server

2001-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya wyatt ??? what do you mean too by "good package" - 1 minute of wrk to get it to do soemthing... - a couple days to test/configure/"understand" it?? in psuedo code... run it from cron... however often you want to check ping mail.your_domain.com if ( $error ) mail -s "

Re: Unix password config

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Alborn
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:52:06PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to setup "passwd" so that when a user > goes to change their password, it can be as short as they want > and as simple as they want? > > The default is setup so that a user's password has to have at leas

Woody install over ppp: How?

2001-09-25 Thread Lars Jensen
How do I install woody over a ppp connection? Here's what I've done so far: First I downloaded the images and created the three installation floppies, rescue.bin, root.bin, drivers.bin. The installation goes fine until the installer asks where to find the base system. I'm not sure what to d

Re: Unix password config

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:52:06PM -0700, Mike Egglestone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to setup "passwd" so that when a user goes to change > their password, it can be as short as they want and as simple as they > want? Yes. However, it's very strongly discouraged. T

Upgrading potato -> progeny newton broke X11

2001-09-25 Thread Johann Spies
Working in a Redhat dominated environment, I boasted about apt-get and that a Debian system never have to be reinstalled if it is managed properly. After my recent experience I would not boast easily again. I have a dialup system at home with potato on it. So I decided to upgrade to progeny and

Security, SSH connection speed (DNS?) (was: Newbie Questions, Performance and security...)

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:27:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My questions: Will I be in the safe side if I decide to use debian for > an internet server to serve web/mail/servlets/php/mysql and stuff like > that as far as performance and security goes? compared to a re

Debian 2.2r3 apt-get & dselect -> testing

2001-09-25 Thread Jaime cristerna Avila
Hello Everyone, This is my first time posting onto this list. I don't know if this question is best directed to user-dpkg. Regardless, I will try asking here first. My colleague and I have been installing Debian 2.2rx onto several computers built by my colleague and I. We prefer using G200 vi

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Giulio Morgan
Thanks to all for your replies, now that I can manage trial & error, I hope I'll get my exim.conf right...Thanks again -- Giulio

Re: Ext3... what about it?

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel T. Chen
ext3 essentially is a "journaled" ext2. See http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ I've been using ext3-0.9.9 on Linux-2.4.9-ac12 (+ assorted patches) for some time now, and it's _quite_ stable. --- Dan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc On

OT - Finding old PCI Ethernet cards

2001-09-25 Thread Doug Fields
Slightly off topic... I am still running an old 1.2.13 kernel system, and I have found it increasingly difficult to buy a system with enough ISA slots for my old hardware. So, I want to put a PCI ethernet card in instead of an old ISA NE2000. (I obviously can't upgrade the software else I woul

Re: Sys Admin guide specific to Debian?

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:40:10AM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:05:58AM -0500, Larry Holish wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:34:49AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > I'm a Linux beginner with Debian installed. I'm looking for a beginner's > >

SSSCA (was Re: OT or relevent?)

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:34:51PM +0100, Lee Elliott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just read this. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html I *STRONGLY* encourage the use of descriptive subject lines and/or appropriate context when posting naked links. The story is Dan Berke's syndi

RE: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread George Karaolides
Thanks, especially for the bit about the two cards working as expected when connected to two separate switches. I was trying to test the server before taking it up to our ISP, and I set up both NIC's on one switch, thinking to test them by disconnecting one cable at a time. This returned the s

RE: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Theo Zourzouvillys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning > of the sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration > file, you *must* remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to > determine how to HUP a daemon > without reb

Re: OT or relevent?

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:46:09PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > Just read this. > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21830.html > > > > LeeE > > > > I can't find any reference to Security Systems Standards and > Certification Act at http:

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: | I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the | sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* | remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon |

Re: time sync probs

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 07:04:05PM -0400, Doug Fields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I then restart the ntp daemon and noticed my date never changed. > > > However, earlier, I used ntpdate to sync with that time server > > > and it worked. (I make sure both aren't running at the same time) > >

Re: Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:24:12PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: | Hi, | | I have a problem with bash vars. For my KDE copileing stuff i have made some | files wich contain the "configure" command so that i can easily alter it and | that i can remember wich options i used. E.g. there is a file

Re: remote host identification has changed

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:00:42PM +0200, Martin F Krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach Emil Pedersen (on Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:54:12PM +0200): > > Doesn't this indicate that someone have been using the internet cafe for > > connecting to you before? I think otherwise she should have got

Re: About a laptop

2001-09-25 Thread dman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote: | In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: ... | >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some | | I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk | from http://www.procy

Re: Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
> it > > > takes the string "$KDEDIR". How can i bring BASH to take KDEDIR as a > > variable? > > I think what you are saying is you want to put > a line: ./configure --prefix=${KDEDIR} --enable-final ... > in your conf_kdelibs file and then have the main script > execute that (and other ) lines i

RE: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread Theo Zourzouvillys
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I shall certainly try using ipchains for this, and will let you > know if it works. > > Best regards, > > George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., > tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos

RE: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Jacques Normand
just kill -HUP where is the process ID of your daemon but another method is /etc/init.d/exim reload jacques -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 25 septembre 2001 20:48 À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet : restarting a daemon I am

Unix password config

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all, Is there a way to setup "passwd" so that when a user goes to change their password, it can be as short as they want and as simple as they want? The default is setup so that a user's password has to have at least 4 characters, and the new password can't be too similar to the old one. I w

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Eduard Bloch wrote: > Well, we do allready have patch-package for 2.2.19 and 2.4.9 and > kernel-image-2.2.19-udma100-ext3 in Woody. The stuff may not be in the > kernel source itself, but applying a patch-package is quite easy. It's easy if you're used to building your own kernels and applying pa

Ext3... what about it?

2001-09-25 Thread Julio Merino
Hi all I'm seeing several messages about ext3 nowadays... for example this thread about Ext3 on Install... I've seen it also in IRC, and some webpages... Can it be considered some "stable" now? Or what's happening? Thanks. BTW: I'm currently using ext2, and I don't switch to resierfs because f

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the > sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* > remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon >

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:58:59PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I hear that Staroffice is going to be a quartered stuck pig. The one > monolithic program is going to be split into separate tasks. I have > found SO to be agreeable to people only familiar with MS Word. Th

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon Your doc is telling you that you can send the process a signal--in this case a hangup or HUP--to ask it to reload its configuration. The signal-sending program in unix is 'kill'. So

Re: deadlock

2001-09-25 Thread Ben Hartshorne
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:04:20AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please clear these two doubts of mine : > 1. When does a deadlock happen on a Unix/Linux system ? Hopefully never. ;) > 2. What is a deadlock ? My favorite explanation of deadlock wasn't talking about computers at all. You kn

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the > sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* > remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon >

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Ano Nim
On 25 Sep 2001, Giulio Morgan wrote: > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the > sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* > remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon > without rebooting. Any h

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the > sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* > remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon >

Re: restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread frankie
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote: > I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the > sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* > remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon >

Re: Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[...] there is a file "conf_kdelibs" > the file contais that line: > ./confugure --prefix=/opt/kde --enable-final ... > Now i want to set for the prefix /opt/kde the $KDEDIR variable. > This "conf_kdelibs" file is called by my compile

Re: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I shall certainly try using ipchains for this, and will let you know if it works. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaoli

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Craig Dickson wrote on Tue Sep 25, 2001 um 09:12:23AM: > it's unlikely to take a major change like a new filesystem. So as far as > Debian Stable goes, I would be surprised to see ext3 built-in until the > next release after Woody, which is to say, more than a year from now. Well, we do

Re: latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Moss
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:15:07 -0700 (PDT) "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get upgrade this morning, upgraded a lot of GNOME stuff. Now galeon > crashes a lot. Anyone else seeing this suddenly? > Unfortunately, I don't have anything useful to add that might help solve the pro

restarting a daemon

2001-09-25 Thread Giulio Morgan
I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon without rebooting. Any help will be appreciated, thank you so much. -

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:58:21AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > is that even going to be possible?, I thought upgrading to ext3 required > a fresh partition. That would be cool though. Which reminds me, what exactly > are the real benifits to using ext3? > > i know i could rtfm, but im busy pe

rgb.txt and apt

2001-09-25 Thread Bob Frankstein
I fixed the font problem by removing and purging everything X and starting over. Then the next problem was that it would say it couldn't find RGB_DB. I found that there was a link to /etc/X11/rgb.txt in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, but the file /etc/X11/rgb.txt doesn't exist. So, I searched t

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

2001-09-25 Thread Ben Hartshorne
Hi Everyone, This setup seems very similar to something I saw done in the student computer centers at UC Berkeley recently. The situation there is that they had a whole bunch of pretty nice machines running Windows and MacOS. They wanted to make Linux available too, but didn't want to dedicate

Handling with BASH variables

2001-09-25 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi, I have a problem with bash vars. For my KDE copileing stuff i have made some files wich contain the "configure" command so that i can easily alter it and that i can remember wich options i used. E.g. there is a file "conf_kdelibs" the file contais that line: ./confugure --prefix=/opt/kde --

latest unstable, lots of crashing galeon

2001-09-25 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
apt-get upgrade this morning, upgraded a lot of GNOME stuff. Now galeon crashes a lot. Anyone else seeing this suddenly? -jwb

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Craig Dickson
Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:39:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > > Of course, once ext3 is in the standard kernel, one need only create the > > journal file (plus one or two other tweaks like disabling ext2 fsck), > > reboot (assuming even that's necessary) and, voila!, one's ext2 > >

Re: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
Well, although this is not really a solution to the problem, you can easily get round the problem with a simple firewall. I don't know the exact commands for a 2.2 kernel - I've only really ever learnt the 2.4 netfilter stuff, but basically, you should be able to specify both destination addresses

Re: Changing default console keymap

2001-09-25 Thread Guy Geens
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> How do you make it ***stay*** changed. Do dpkg-reconfigure console-common, and select the keymap you want. (Or select NONE to keep the upgrades from touching it.) -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250 Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Work: <[EMAIL

Re: [OT] folder-hook mutt question

2001-09-25 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Thanks to Sean and Sawomir for their quick reply. It works now. Ciao, viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Adam McDaniel
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:39:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > Of course, once ext3 is in the standard kernel, one need only create the > journal file (plus one or two other tweaks like disabling ext2 fsck), > reboot (assuming even that's necessary) and, voila!, one's ext2 > filesystem automagically become

RE: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote: > > I have an Intel Nightshade server motherboard installed in an Intel > > server case, running Debian 2.2r3 (potato). > > > > Its on-board Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 ethernet card works fine on > > its own. > > > > When I install an Intel EtherEx

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