Re: your mail

On 0, wrote: > (SquirrelMail authenticated user lance) > > by vishnu.hofflund.net with HTTP; > > Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:11:58 -0500 (CDT) > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:11:58 -0500 (CDT) > > Subject: mailto attachment name ? > > From:

Re: Woody NVIDIA X Setup

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:19:12PM -0700, Rusty Minden wrote: > > I have had Debian installed two times and have not yet been able too get X > working right. I found a mini how to but have not tried it out yet. At > http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html Is this up to date? Any > hel

Re: Mozilla 1.0

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:57:53PM -0400, Richard Beri wrote: > Am I the only person getting Mozilla 1.0 to crash all the time in Sid? > So many different pages it just locks up. I was having this problem > with RC1-3 and thought that 1.0final would clear it up but it hasn't. > Try http://ww

Re: Mozilla 1.0

briliant didn't realise ximinan had done this. thanks! At 11:48 AM 6/11/02 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: >On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:27, John Griffiths wrote: >> on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for >> potato? > >If you're talking about ready-to-install de

Re: Mozilla 1.0

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:27, John Griffiths wrote: > on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for > potato? If you're talking about ready-to-install debs of Moz 1.0, you can check out Ximian GNOME's debs for Mozilla. Add the line deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

Thank's for the information Mathias! On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 23:05, Mathias Gygax wrote: > apt-get -f install alsa-modules-2.4.18-686 alsaconf > > and alsaconf it. Works very well...:-) > > > CD-burner: HP cd-writer 9500 > > "hdX=ide-scsi" into append line of lilo.conf > > cdrecord -scanbus sho

Re: Mozilla 1.0

on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla 1.0

Richard Beri wrote: Am I the only person getting Mozilla 1.0 to crash all the time in Sid? So many different pages it just locks up. I was having this problem with RC1-3 and thought that 1.0final would clear it up but it hasn't. Try http://www.radiocontrolledclock.com and thats just the ti

Woody NVIDIA X Setup

I have had Debian installed two times and have not yet been able too get X working right. I found a mini how to but have not tried it out yet. At http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html Is this up to date? Any help would be appreciated. I have decided to move over to Debian after work

Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

Cheryl writes: > Now whatever one's oppinion of that is, perhaps this is why mawk is > installed by default. It is. Mawk is a required package and is in base. Size is _important_ there. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

> In your XF86Config, is the subsection listed inside a section? On my > system it is listed inside Section "Module". > > -- > Seneca > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your note above. In my XF86Config I don't have a Module section, as suggested above. In fact, the line indicated by the error mess

Mozilla 1.0

Am I the only person getting Mozilla 1.0 to crash all the time in Sid? So many different pages it just locks up. I was having this problem with RC1-3 and thought that 1.0final would clear it up but it hasn't. Try http://www.radiocontrolledclock.com and thats just the tip of the iceberg. I'

Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

As for gawk and mawk, what is written in the mawk package description is: Mawk is smaller and much faster than gawk. It has some compile-time limits such as NF = 32767 and sprintf buffer = 1020. Now whatever one's oppinion of that is, perhaps this is why mawk is installed by default. But one cer

Using both CDROM and Apt-get

hi, I have installed woody from 7 CDROM images, since the image are quite old. It was made on 2001. So I decided to use dselect to update my woody to the current one from the nearest server. What happen if I decide to use my CDROM again, that means the apt source-list will be replaced with CDRO

Re: Swapfile

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:07:04PM +0200, Jens Karsten Müller wrote: > Hello, > > today i created a swapfile instead of a partition, because i think > it's more dynamic. I only see advantages using a swapfile. So first of > all, I'd like to know about disadvantages, because almost everybody > uses

Re: Window Manager

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:53:35PM -0400, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: > Hi all, > I installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Sun Ultra sparc 5. And I think I made the > twm window manager as the default window manager while installing, which > is not user friendly. So, I am wondering whether I can change to a >

Window Manager

Hi all, I installed Debian 2.2r6 on my Sun Ultra sparc 5. And I think I made the twm window manager as the default window manager while installing, which is not user friendly. So, I am wondering whether I can change to a different window manager without actually installing the OS again. I have no

Re: potato or woody or testing or arrgghghg

Many thanks to all. I've got a clean, working version of gnome now. Joe On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:11:36PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:03:19AM -0400, Joe Biron wrote: > > Andy, thanks for your help. I've been removing ximian packages in my > > spare time (HA!) and I

Re: X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:55:44PM -0500, Eric Brooks wrote: > I got the error shown below on moving from potato to woody. I have done > an apt-get udpate and apt-get dist-upgrade so I assume I'm running an > X-windows version in synch with the xf86config utility that I ran to produce > the XF86Con

RE: Server Side Includes

Thanks a lot!! After reading that (and many headaches) I finally configured Apache well. Ronald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Wiseman Sent: lunes, 10 de junio de 2002 23:55 To: Ronald Castillo Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sub

Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:01:05AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > A> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its > A> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" > A> package managing tool. > > ok, if it is so standard It's not. > then it should be installed by d

Re: woody is so full of OLD stuff

Not a detailed reply because I am only a user not a developer or advocate or anything particular. I don't have any idea why the install takes you into dselect, apt is installed by default and if you know the name of the package you want you can apt-get install it. If you aren't sure of the name

Re: Debian beer at USENIX?

> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:21:30 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > If anybody here's at USENIX this week or otherwise in the > Monterey, CA, USA area, give a yell. We should get BoF session Yell. I'm also at USENIX in Monterey. I'll give a BOF at thursday a

Debian beer at USENIX?

If anybody here's at USENIX this week or otherwise in the Monterey, CA, USA area, give a yell. We should get BoF session scheduled or just go out for beers. And don't forget to go see Bdale's Guru Session. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgu

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 14:22, Robert Webb wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] > yup, there IDE RAID controllers out there. Whether they help speed or > not I don't know. > I am actually running one that does only RAID 1 for redundancy for my > firewall. Cannot > afford to have that go down

Re: kindly get back to me

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:35:59PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:09:45 +0100 > "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I believe that being subscribed does mean that you get whitelisted by > > the spam checks, though.) > > There are spam checks in use? As of a few

Re: audio volume playing CDs [SOLVED]

Forwarding to the list: Carlos Sousa wrote: > Perhaps the CD source volume is set too low? In this case, try aumix > -c100. Brilliant! On the button, loud and painful now. Thanks for your help. 8-) > There is also a volume control called PCM, set that to maximum as well > with aumix -w100. On

[Re: audio volume playing CDs [SOLVED]]

--- Begin Message --- Carlos Sousa wrote: Perhaps the CD source volume is set too low? In this case, try aumix -c100. Brilliant! On the button, loud and painful now. Thanks for your help. 8-) There is also a volume control called PCM, set that to maximum as well with aumix -w100. On some c

Re: Speedy na debian 2.2.r3 Potato

Olá, > Tenho uma placa SURECOM (desconhecida no linux), mas que vem com o driver > e o modulo e um passo a passo. Essa placa não é desconhecida. Use o módulo 8139too ('modprobe 8139too') > 1) Eu posso por qualquer IP aqui ${IPADDR}? Depende do teu serviço de Interne

Re: audio volume playing CDs

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:39:53 +0100 gob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evening all. I cannot obtain maximum volume from my system while > playing audio CDs with cdtool. Other apps work fine while playing > audio off the HD (xmms). I've used cdtool (cdvolume 255), aumix > (aumix -v100), and a smal

X11 Config Error on Moving from Potato to Woody

Debian friends, I got the error shown below on moving from potato to woody. I have done an apt-get udpate and apt-get dist-upgrade so I assume I'm running an X-windows version in synch with the xf86config utility that I ran to produce the XF86Config file. Does anyone have any insight on where I sh

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:45:22PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > > > > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on

Re: HDD vs. RAID -- pictures

hi ya for those that like raid pictures (or can understand pics easier) of various raid setup easier to understand/see the differences between raid0, raid1, raid5, raid10, raid01, - look for the parity info and where its located.. http://www.1U-Raid5.net/Differences/ c ya alvin

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:43:17PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > > > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a whil

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:46:45PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a while ago, and > > someone mentioned that it was specific to a certain brand > > of m

audio volume playing CDs

Evening all. I cannot obtain maximum volume from my system while playing audio CDs with cdtool. Other apps work fine while playing audio off the HD (xmms). I've used cdtool (cdvolume 255), aumix (aumix -v100), and a small app called volume (volume 255). All of these lift the volume slightly

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q) - fw

hi ya robert why not have two firewalls ??? ( 2x pentium-90Mhz for example .. something cheap, but fast enough) +-- fw1 --+ internet -> csu/dus -> hub -> + +--> hub -> your lan +-- fw2 --+ when one goes down use the other ...

Re: Tool to manage messages sent to web site

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:45:49PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | I am looking for a tool to manage messages sent to a web server, | with thread capability, etc. Can someone advice of one? What is a "message"? What do you mean by "manage"? apache can manage (HTTP) messages sent to a web serve

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Re: Server Side Includes

This is a bit OT, but ... On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Ronald Castillo wrote: > I was wondering if there is any way of installing Server Side Includes > for Apache without having to recompile from source. I have tried > changing the httpd.conf file, placing .htaccess files but with no > results. See h

Re: kindly get back to me

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:09:45 +0100 "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I believe that being subscribed does mean that you get whitelisted by > the spam checks, though.) There are spam checks in use? I'm just a little shocked at the pieces that have made it through then. Perhaps, as yo

Server Side Includes

Hello.. I was wondering if there is any way of installing Server Side Includes for Apache without having to recompile from source. I have tried changing the httpd.conf file, placing .htaccess files but with no results. Thanks for your help.. Ronald Castillo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

woody is so full of OLD stuff

A> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its A> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" A> package managing tool. ok, if it is so standard then it should be installed by default in the tasksel phase. no mention of it is made from the time we pop in the fir

Re: kindly get back to me

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:46:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > BTW as "Walter Hombold" I am not subscribed to the debian-user-list and > still I can post? I am subscribed with a _different_ name > though. Can this be the reason why my post as "Walter" does not bounce? With the exception of

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:46:07PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > Now I just have these left to config: > Sound: Creative Audigy Platinum eX apt-get -f install alsa-modules-2.4.18-686 alsaconf and alsaconf it. > CD-burner: HP cd-writer 9500 "hdX=ide-scsi" into append line of lilo.conf cdrecord -sca

kde sources.list

Hi all. What should I add to my sources.list to install kde (i want to run kdeveloper) on my debian/potato ? -- Eduardo Gargiulo ejg-debian @ ar.homelinux.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > I think it's possibly a dodgy RTC on the motherboard. I saw > this exact complaint come up on linux-kernel a while ago, and > someone mentioned that it was specific to a certain brand > of mobo. > > No URLs for you, I'm afraid, but if you google a bit, I'm sure > i

Re: kindly get back to me

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:17:57PM +0200, Walter Hombold wrote: >> "laurent mpeti kabila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE >> > -- >> > Your contact was availed to me by the ch

Time(zone) problems

Hi! I have some strange time problems. When I run date as normal user I get time in UTC timezone. And when I create files they also get timestamp with that time (and that's wrong time). But as root I don't have that problems and I have normal CEST time (as it should be). I have runed timezoneconf

Re: URGENT: Kernel upgrade breaks openAFS

Hi. I just grabbed openafs-modules-source 1.2.4-1 and kernel-source-2.4.18 2.4.18-5 and it worked fine for me. I'm using the gcc-2.95 in unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: debian/freebsd

> I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux > swap in the logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time > I try to install debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that > is corrupt I reinstall This is explained in a linux+freebsd howto (sorry don't have a

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 13:39, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The problem with JBODs (just big ole disks, i.e. single disks) > > JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, i.e., several drives operating > independently. A JBOD can be organized into a RAI

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

Dave Sherohman wrote: [snip] Any sort of true hardware RAID setup (beware the hybrids, since this doesn't apply to them) will interact with the rest of the system as a single device. The question of whether to put the individual drives on separate controllers or not doesn't apply, since the d

Re: GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 19:45, Balazs Javor wrote: > So my questions would be: > Is this true? > If yes, where could I learn about the reasons for this and similar issues? > Finally, in this particular case, would it be safe to upgrade binutils? > I'm having no problems running SID for over a year

Swapfile

Hello, today i created a swapfile instead of a partition, because i think it's more dynamic. I only see advantages using a swapfile. So first of all, I'd like to know about disadvantages, because almost everybody uses a swap partition. And finally I need to know what to change on my potato. I just

Re: gedit

On Monday 10 June 2002 11:52 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: > > i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian > > version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or > > directories whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how

Re: gedit

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 11:18, ben wrote: > i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian > version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories > whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? > > ben I just type a dot in the dialog

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:00:16AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > So, the way I'm reading this, a RAID 5 stack w/ 5 20 GB hard drives > provides improved access speed and reliability at the cost of slightly > reduced storage. Yep. Different RAID levels are basically different tradeoffs between

customizing aterm

Hi ppl, I want to use aterm and X-terminal-emulator shows already to aterm. Now i want to us a tranparent background and maybe other things, so what can i do, that for example irssi or Mutt startet from the Wmaker menu gets the wanted behaviour. Typing from the shell the whole bunch of options is

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 18:43, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 17:03, Helgi Örn wrote: > [snip] > At last I managed to get back into the system on the old kernel > (2.2.20), so now I just have to study further the art of upgrading the > kernel in Debian... :-) > apt-get remove kerne

Tool to manage messages sent to web site

I am looking for a tool to manage messages sent to a web server, with thread capability, etc. Can someone advice of one? Thanks, AR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:24:28AM -0700, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I > > can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it > > in the error messages) keeps jumping ah

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > The problem with JBODs (just big ole disks, i.e. single disks) JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, i.e., several drives operating independently. A JBOD can be organized into a RAID, but doesn't have to be. > With RAID solutions, the read-w

Re: kindly get back to me

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 08:17:57PM +0200, Walter Hombold wrote: > "laurent mpeti kabila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE > > -- > > Your contact was availed to me by the chamber of commerce. It was given > > As I found

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:46:45AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > So then, the primary advantages of RAID are access speed and data > redundancy The primary advantages of RAID are highly dependent on what flavor of RAID you're using. RAID0 and RAID1, e.g., are practically the opposite of each ot

Re: kindly get back to me

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Walter Hombold wrote: > As I found your first e-mail in my trash-box: So why then do you ask me > again for Fax & Telephone Numbers since you _already_ must know them, > as you stated that _all_ necessary information were made available to > you from the above source. > > Look

Re: kindly get back to me

"laurent mpeti kabila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE > -- > Your contact was availed to me by the chamber of commerce. It was given As I found your first e-mail in my trash-box: So why then do you ask me again for Fax & T

gedit

i like gedit a lot but in the default state of the most recent debian version, 0.9.6, it doesn't display--in the open dialog--files or directories whose names begin with a dot. anyone know how to modify this? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

Hi, I'm currently tracking testing with the /etc/apt/preferences set to: testing - 800 unstable - 700 stable - 600 Recently after doing an update in dselect/apt-get it automatically selected GCC 3.1 and several related stuff. Unfortunatelly they seen to depend on some libs and the binutils in SID

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

On Monday 10 June 2002 04:35 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: [snip] > > > next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the > > contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. > > those batteries should last for at least half a year. > > Cheers. Didn't know about t

NFS

Hello, I have one celerra server (NAS) that is serving filesystems to my lan. I have FreeBSD's boxes running diskless from that server... just fine. Solaris machines e etc... The problem is: My linux machines do not work. If i try boot diskless, the start up crash (mounting rootfs), if i tr

URGENT: Kernel upgrade breaks openAFS

Greetings- Upgrading to 2.4.18 today, I seem to have broken my openAFS client configuration. Using *either* version (the one from testing on debian.org or 1.2.4 from openafs.org) of openafs-modules-source, when I do make-kpkg modules_image the make fails thus: ../afs/../afs/../rx/../rx/rx_kmutex

Re: Problem: wall-clock jumping like Mexican bean

Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem must have occurred often enuff to other people, IMHO, but I > can't find the solution online. My 'wall-clock' (as xscreensaver calls it > in the error messages) keeps jumping ahead -- then back, semi-randomly. It > seems to do so by always the sam

ntop does not preserve traffic stats

I'm using ntop to monitor network traffic. ntop does not preserve the traffic stats over a reboot (which is crucial because the machine is not up all day). Whenever I look at the traffic stats page of web interface after a reboot, the figures are reset to 0. I understand that I need to start it

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 08:46, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > On 2002.06.10 03:35 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > > > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) > > > > No, it does matter. You

Re: Kernel panic... :-(

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 17:03, Helgi Örn wrote: [snip] At last I managed to get back into the system on the old kernel (2.2.20), so now I just have to study further the art of upgrading the kernel in Debian... :-) Cheers, Helgi Örn -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Fwd: Devfs & /dev permission persistence

Here's a message from the devfs mailing list. Potential problems like this are part of the reason why I don't do such things by default in my devfsd package. I could make it an option to allow such use if there was a serious demand. So far only one person has requested it, this was a German g

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:06:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under | debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather | timid about it. Pretty much point apt at woody and apt-get install kernel-ima

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:41:29AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: > > > I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been > > thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. > > I've never used it, but

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

> | Cheers. Didn't know about the alcohol trick. It's probably a terrible > | waste of snaps though... > > Don't use liquor, use "rubbing" alcohol. (Sorry, I don't recal the > scientific name off the top of my head right now. I used to know it.) Isopropyl alcohol. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

mailto attachment name ?

I have recently started playing around with the program mailto. One problem I am having is that when I send an attachment with "~*" and a person receives the email they cannot see the original filename. What they see is "Application/x-zip" or something. They do not see "myfile.zip". What do I ne

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 16:06, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under > debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather > timid about it. > > Thanks for any pointers. > I wish I had read a step-by-step guide _before_

ast-ksh debs anywhere?

Hello! Anyone know if there are any .debs out there for this package? I may take the free download from AT&T, but would prefer a Debianized package if available. Thanks! Aidan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE:Kernel upgrade docs

Andrew Perrin writes: > I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under > debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather > timid about it. Here's how I do it: 1. edit /etc/kernel-img.conf: % echo "do_initrd = Yes" > blah 2. use dselect or apt-

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under > debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather > timid about it. Last subsection of section 8 of the Installation Manual at http://www.debian.org/rele

Re: DHCP for PCMCIA interface: Being Canonical

Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a wireless (SMC 2632W) PCMCIA network card on my laptop which runs > Debian/Sid. (This is important.) > Works great, once up. However, I do have to manually "pump -i wlan0" > for it to get its address from the friendly neighbourhood DHCP > server. ... >

Re: fsck bus error: 'attempt to access beyond end of device' during boot

Hi, Nicos, Thanks a lot for your reply! On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:04:56PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 09 June 2002 22:36, Joost van Baal wrote: > > > > [Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.] > > > > The short summary: When booting, my box gives up, stating: > > > > NET4: Uni

Re: debian/freebsd

> "Henning" == Henning, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henning> Hello- I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD Henning> and debian Linux exist on. I want freebsd in a primary Henning> partition and I want linux and linux swap in the logical Henning> partitions in

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

> "Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading Andrew> the kernel under debian, but can't find it now. I'd like Andrew> to move to 2.4.18 but am rather timid about it. Andrew> Thanks for any pointers.

Kernel panic... :-(

Hello all! I just installed the 2.4.18 kernel on my Woody, now it doesn't even boot. First I ran it using the floppy with the new image (or so I thought it was like this: --- Loading... Uncompress Linux ran out of input data -- System halted --- I am running SuSE 8.0 on this

how to define my max_connections?

Hello list, I am running mysql-3.23.49 on Linux 2.4.18 for production purpose. Now I want to define a proper max_connections value in mysql. The document said, "The maximum number of connects MySQL is depending on how good the thread library is on a given platform. Linux or Solaris should be ab

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

> Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was > solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. > > Can I now safely remove the preferences file and put 'stable' in my > sources.list in anticipation of woody's becoming stable? Yes and you can use 'woody' instead o

Re: Non-Browser Compliance

On 2002.06.10 06:21 Helgi Örn wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 02:00, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > Yep. I remember a while back, there was a big stink because the UK had > developed an e-gov gateway that only worked with MSIE running on > certain versions of Windows. I also remember that case from medi

Re: Can I "downgrade" from unstable to woody?

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:24:47AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was > solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. Yeah, that'd be because a few files moved from groff to groff-base after the most recent version in woody.

Re: MP3 encoder

> > LAME (Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is the best encoder for all OSes. It's > packaged for sid, I think in the non-US section because of Fraunhofer > patent. Unoficcial packages are at http://marillat.free.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On 2002.06.10 05:48 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: > > - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die > within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early

debian/freebsd

Hello- I have one hard drive that I want to have freeBSD and debian Linux exist on. I want freebsd in a primary partition and I want linux and linux swap in the logical partitions in the extended partition. Every time I try to install debian, it corrupts my freebsd partition. After that is corrupt

Kernel upgrade docs

I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather timid about it. Thanks for any pointers. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

On 2002.06.10 03:35 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter > if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80

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