Fwd: Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

2002-06-27 Thread Wayward Soul
Or you could just type in linux 1 at the LILO prompt. --- All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost... -Gandalf:Lord of the Rings - Forwarded Message - DATE: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:06:30 From: "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: find utility gives segmentation fault

2002-06-27 Thread Geoff Ludwiczak
That's right, the GNU version of find will default to the current directory if none is specified. Have you tried a different kernel? On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:40:26PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:22:37AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE--

making an emergency rescue floppy

2002-06-27 Thread vanillicat
Hello list, I'm trying to make an emergency rescue floppy that will be capable of booting my system in the event something happens when booting from the MBR. The idea is to get the same floppy that the installer asks if you want to create during the installation, as an alternate way of booting in

Re: find utility gives segmentation fault

2002-06-27 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:22:37AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 28 June 2002 00:06, Larry Smith wrote: > > I've been having trouble with the find utility in > > Potato. > > > > Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission >

Re: Which window manager to use?

2002-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> >> -- Straightforward graphical configuration. > > native simple option menus > some things still require hand editing of a rc but that is minimal. bbconf also exists to aid graphical configuring. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: find utility gives segmentation fault

2002-06-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 28 June 2002 00:06, Larry Smith wrote: > I've been having trouble with the find utility in > Potato. > > Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission > to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then > die with a segmentation

Re: find utility gives segmentation fault

2002-06-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:06:53PM -0700, Larry Smith wrote: > I've been having trouble with the find utility in > Potato. > > Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission > to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then > die with a segmentation fault. > > When this happens, I'm

Re: openssh

2002-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:47:15AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's only been added recently as part of the preparations for release. > > > > deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free > > You meant: > > deb http://securit

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 23:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:29:15PM -0400, David J. Weaver wrote: > > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to > > download Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right

find utility gives segmentation fault

2002-06-27 Thread Larry Smith
I've been having trouble with the find utility in Potato. Often, if I run find as root (so I can have permission to look in all directories), it will run awhile, then die with a segmentation fault. When this happens, I'm unable to do a normal shutdown, the system hangs during shutdown. I use the

Re: no expect bugs??

2002-06-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 27/06/02 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did speaketh: > expect not Expect. *sigh* Considering all .debs are lower-case (something I love), I didn't think it would matter in the search engine. Live and learn. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "...the word

Hello debian-user !

2002-06-27 Thread TUTU KABILA
Dear friend, I wish to introduce myself to you first. I am Tutu Kabila, the second son of the former president of Democratic Republic of Congo, who was mudered by one of his bogy gaurds. I got your contact from the internet out of my despirate search for a reputable person who can assist me in h

Re: Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:29:43PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > Gnome 2 seems to be the only interesting thing in there at the moment, > though. Then there's nothing interesting there. Gnome and KDE would be interesting if they weren't as slow, bloa

Hello debian-user !

2002-06-27 Thread TUTU KABILA
Dear friend, I wish to introduce myself to you first. I am Tutu Kabila, the second son of the former president of Democratic Republic of Congo, who was mudered by one of his bogy gaurds. I got your contact from the internet out of my despirate search for a reputable person who can assist me in h

Re: multiple tape backup?

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in > size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for > easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself. Afbackup work

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:03:21PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: (lots o' snippage) | You are not free to do what you will with it, so it is | not free software. Capitlize the Free :-). | Generally speaking, a restriction on the modification of source | kills something in Debian, Agreed. | since (I u

Re: multiple tape backup?

2002-06-27 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 11:25:56AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello list, > > I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in size > with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for easier > multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself. tar h

Re: Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Paul" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> There is also the experimental repository, but you don't want to go >> there unless you really know what you're doing. Paul> I hadn't heard or seen this. I take it it's off in obscurity for Paul> good reason then... If you look

multiple tape backup?

2002-06-27 Thread pahud
Hello list, I am planing to backup the /home directory which is around 30GB in size with multiple DDS3 tape--each has 12GB. Is there any tool for easier multiple tape backup like this? I can switch the tape myself. -- Patrick Hsieh<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahud

Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 06:35, Michael Jinks wrote: > Hi all. > > We're in the process of drafting a proposal for upgrading the Debian > machines in our public computing lab, as well as replacing our last > remaining SGI machine with a Debian box. The SGI in particular is > mostly used for scientif

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Cook wrote: > > > On 0, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The Java you get from Sun will require you to have the version of the C > > > runtime library that it was compiled for, which is older than what Woody > > > or Sid use

RE Abiword - SOLVED

2002-06-27 Thread Larry Smith
With some very helpful suggestions I was able to hunt down the necessary libraries to successfully compile Abiword. Thanks to all who made suggestions. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

Re: Grub Splash Image

2002-06-27 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 09:23, David P James wrote: > I've installed grub and have it running successfully > (version 0.92 from unstable) and I even changed the colours > of the menu a bit. But the other day I was helping my > brother with configuring grub for a multiboot involving > Windows on his R

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:29:15PM -0400, David J. Weaver wrote: > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to download > Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? Yes. They do this to get around the fact that the US h

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The Java you get from Sun will require you to have the version of the C > > runtime library that it was compiled for, which is older than what Woody > > or Sid use at this point. (I don't recall offhand what libc Potato > > us

Re: Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 04:18:49PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > always called Sid, who was the evil kid next door in Toy Story. (Sid > doesn't stand for "Still In Development", but no one will really care if > you want to think of it like that.) If I

RE: Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread Howland, Curtis
Try connecting in verbose mode for debugging, I think it's "ssh -v" or even "-v -v" as I saw someone suggest recently. Something changed. The goal is to find out what. Also try "ssh -1 ..." to force version 1 access and see if that works. Curt- > > First question: > > > > Has it worked before

Re: Which window manager to use?

2002-06-27 Thread Craig Dickson
Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Of the items listed, blackbox does a good number of them natively (or with > one or two helper apps): I find fluxbox (which is based on blackbox 0.61) far preferable to blackbox, openbox, or the others in that family. It has some nice new features, such as window tabs an

RE: Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread aku
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Howland, Curtis wrote: > First question: > > Has it worked before now? Yes. > > Second question: > > What did you change between then and now? no, i did not change anything with my configuration (ssh client or ssh server) -Ryansimon aku > > Curt- > > > Dear All, > > > > I

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread Ljungström
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:25:52 +0700 (JAVT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a problem with my ssh, when i try to connect to our server > using ssh have an error like this : > > ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2f65 7463 2f73 7368 > Disconnecting: Bad packet length 795178083. > > > Wh

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a problem with my ssh, when i try to connect to our server using > ssh have an error like this : > > ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2f65 7463 2f73 7368 > Disconnecting: Bad packet length 795178083. > > > What's Wrong with my server or my ssh cl

RE: Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread Howland, Curtis
First question: Has it worked before now? Second question: What did you change between then and now? Curt- > Dear All, > > I have a problem with my ssh, when i try to connect to our > server using > ssh have an error like this : > > ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2f65 7463 2f73 7368 > Disconnec

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 28-06-2002 01:47 Kent West wrote: > >Thanks for everyone's input. I think I'll go the Sun route. Anyone > >have any idea why Sid's isn't up-to-date? Is it a "freedom" issue? If > >so, does Sun not realize they are hurting the spread of Java by not >

Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-27 Thread louie miranda
Well, im in the office. And we have this "so-called" pc windows machine :) and i copy it using putty "search google.com" and i ssh on our other box :) cool!? thnx :) louie... - Original Message - From: "Erik Ljungström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

Re: Debian Newbie

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:23:05AM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: > Hi everybody. Im a mandrake convert whos fallen in love with debian. Best > installer ive used yet :) I thought so, too, but apparently many people have problems with it. (I've noticed th

Problem with ssh

2002-06-27 Thread aku
Dear All, I have a problem with my ssh, when i try to connect to our server using ssh have an error like this : ssh -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2f65 7463 2f73 7368 Disconnecting: Bad packet length 795178083. What's Wrong with my server or my ssh client. And how to solve them. Thank's Ryansimon Aku

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > I can get Java installed and working in my browsers, but at the risk of > > starting a Holy Way, what's the canonical way to install Java (run-time > > only needed, not dev. kit)? > > > > From Blackdown? From Sun? From Deb

Re: openssh

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:41:47AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:13:10 +0100 > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try woody/updates on security.debian.org. > > > > it is possible to put a line in /etc/apt

Re: Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-27 Thread Ljungström
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:06:20 +0800 "louie miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/sh > S_CATXT1=`grep "Jun\ 28" /var/log/local1.1 |grep "READ: \^B20"|grep > 21:777 > |wc -` > S_CATXT2=`grep "Jun\ 28" /var/log/local1 |grep "READ: \^B20"|grep > 21:777 > |wc -l` > S_CATXT_T=$(( $S_CATXT1 + $S_

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Derrick" == Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Derrick> Does Sun realize that they're hurting Java/Solaris by requiring Derrick> an X server on any (headless) server doing server-side Derrick> graphics? Apparently JDK 1.4 doesn't require an X server. Just add "-Djava

Re: Grub Splash Image

2002-06-27 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:23:30PM -0400, David P James wrote: > But the other day I was helping my > brother with configuring grub for a multiboot involving > Windows on his RedHat 7.3 box and he had a nice splash image > load with grub. Is this possible with the grub that comes > with Debian? N

Scripting problem "syntax error in expression (error token is "0 0 - + 95 ")"

2002-06-27 Thread louie miranda
#!/bin/sh S_CATXT1=`grep "Jun\ 28" /var/log/local1.1 |grep "READ: \^B20"|grep 21:777 |wc -` S_CATXT2=`grep "Jun\ 28" /var/log/local1 |grep "READ: \^B20"|grep 21:777 |wc -l` S_CATXT_T=$(( $S_CATXT1 + $S_CATXT2 )) echo $S_CATXT_T appshost2:/noc/scripts# ./txtme-102 ./txtsmart-102: 0 0 0

Re: abiword question

2002-06-27 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Larry" == Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Larry> I've downloaded the 1.0.6 source gzip and tried to compile it. Larry> The compile effort dies because it cannot find something called Larry> glib-config. You'll need libglib1.2-dev (or something like that -- I think Potato com

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Oki DZ
On 28-06-2002 01:47 Kent West wrote: Thanks for everyone's input. I think I'll go the Sun route. Anyone have any idea why Sid's isn't up-to-date? Is it a "freedom" issue? If so, does Sun not realize they are hurting the spread of Java by not making it truly free? In what way? The SDK is freel

Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:35, Michael Jinks wrote: > I know this question gets asked on a regular basis, but given a need for > quick and clear 3D imaging (OpenGL, usually), is there currently a clear > preference for which video card to use? I've had good experience with nVidia cards except their

Re: Which window manager to use?

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Allison
David Z Maze wrote: I can't seem to find a window manager I like. I'm not actually picky on the appearance, so long as it's not garishly ugly (for example, any of the Enlightenment themes). I'm running unstable on every machine this matters for; I'm also willing to consider things that aren't

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at all, should it? Thanks for the information! Andrew On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:28,

Re: Grub Splash Image

2002-06-27 Thread marshal
> "David" == David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> one go about creating one? (I have a nice "Debian" splash David> image for lilo, but it is a .bmp). -- David P. James Why don't you just use something like imagemagik (or GIMP, if you want overkill) and convert it. Just s

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:29, David J. Weaver wrote: > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to download > Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? > Yes the files are on non-us servers for legal reasons. They mostly involve encryption which can't be exported FR

Grub Splash Image

2002-06-27 Thread David P James
I've installed grub and have it running successfully (version 0.92 from unstable) and I even changed the colours of the menu a bit. But the other day I was helping my brother with configuring grub for a multiboot involving Windows on his RedHat 7.3 box and he had a nice splash image load with grub

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:01, Matthew Tedder wrote: > > As I understand, Woody is the most up-to-date version of Debian. > > Where can I find an ISO or all the files so I can put them in an ISO and make > it boot? > http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ Check the bottom of the page where it says

Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Gladding
On Thursday 27 June 2002 04:37 pm, nate wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > We're in the process of drafting a proposal for upgrading the > > Debian machines in our public computing lab, as well as replacing > > our last remaining SGI machine with a Debian box. The SGI in > > particular is mostly used

Re: Kmud Segmentation faults

2002-06-27 Thread nate
> I've been trying to run Kmud and it was working fine for > quite a while. The other night I started getting > segmentation faults. The exact error message is: > QGList::locate: Index -1 out of range > ./kmud: line 21: 4573 Segmentation fault > "$KDEDIR"/gin/kmud $1 > What could be caus

Re: Backup policy: What should I backup?

2002-06-27 Thread nate
> nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] XXX wrote: > What still concerns me are config files for applications. > Because these are machine-independant, I suppose they could appear > somewhere in /usr. > But would they? > And where exactly would they appear? that is completely depend

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:29:15PM -0400, David J. Weaver wrote: > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to download > Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? Non-US means "can't export from the US to outside the US", not "US people aren't allowed to use this".

Re: no expect bugs??

2002-06-27 Thread nate
>Hey people, > >I raised a Severity "grave" bug against Expect in Sid today, and I saw >it > earlier. I went to check on it now, and I find no bugs against Expect at > all. > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=Expect > >What gives? moon's gravity must be strong

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Re: SMTP with PostgreSQL

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:31:28PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:36:41 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:10:43PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | > | > | Hi all, | > | anyone kno

Re: NTP Server

2002-06-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya raffaele.. am ssuming that ntp can be configured for that kind of resolution and if not.. other daemons can if you need examples of sample ntp server config and sample ntp client configs... and commands for testing/debugging it.. http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/NTP/ one server f

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 07:45:18PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: | On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:41, Matthew Tedder wrote: | > That's the place I've spent hours looking... The mirrors are | > mirrors of lots of different things including plenty of Potato and | > jigdo but where is Woody?? | ^ | jigd

Re: SMTP with PostgreSQL

2002-06-27 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Ok. But what about the POP system with PostgreSQL? Thanks, Paulo Henrique. On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:36:41 -0500 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:10:43PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > | Hi all,

Re: installing stable on scsi disks

2002-06-27 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:09:25AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Can you see the SCSI disks among the kernel messages? > > Maybe you should provide a kernel parameter, something like > > > > linux aha1542=0x134 > > > > ? This thing is mentioned in the installation help screens (F1... at > >

Re: Which window manager to use?

2002-06-27 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:44:49 -0400 "David Z Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to find a window manager I like. I'm not actually picky > on the appearance, so long as it's not garishly ugly (for example, any > of the Enlightenment themes). (snip) > Requirements: > Of the items li

RE: no expect bugs??

2002-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2002 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people, > > I raised a Severity "grave" bug against Expect in Sid today, and I saw it > earlier. I went to check on it now, and I find no bugs against Expect at all. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=Expect > > Wh

Re: SMTP with PostgreSQL

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:10:43PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: | Hi all, | anyone knows any SMTP (Exim or others) to use with a Debian | GNU/Linux system? I know the Exim and Courier has MySQL support but | I only want to use PostgreSQL. Exim has postgres support. I don'

Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:06:30PM -0230, Michael D. Crawford wrote: | >This seems silly. Is there an easy/accessible way, preferably through | >LILO, to boot into single-user mode with few, if any, daemons running? | However, a preferable option is to use GNU Grub, I prefer grub too, but all yo

Cyrus Imapd / Saslauthd Configuration

2002-06-27 Thread Daniel Whelan
I'm attempting to install the cyrus21 2.1.5-1 packages on a Debian machine to utilize saslauthd authentication (saslauthd is set to look at PAM). I've made the requisite change in /etc/imapd.conf and enabled the saslauthd daemon in /etc/defaults/saslauthd, but I am still having trouble. When I

Re: Canonical Way to install Java

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:47:38PM -0500, Kent West wrote: | >"Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >>at the risk of starting a Holy Way, | | Do'h! Six or seven postings later, I notice the misspelling. It's | supposed to be "Holy War", as I'm sure everyone realized. :-0 Some of those who

no expect bugs??

2002-06-27 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people, I raised a Severity "grave" bug against Expect in Sid today, and I saw it earlier. I went to check on it now, and I find no bugs against Expect at all. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=Expect What gives? This is a shared-lib problem, preventing Ex

abiword question

2002-06-27 Thread Larry Smith
I'm running Potato, which I'd just as soon stay with for the time being. It comes with abiword 0.7.7. Is there anyway to get the 1.0.6 version running in Potato? I down loaded the 1.0.6 version of abiword from the unstable release, and it appears it isn't set up to run on Potato. I've downloade

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Oliver Beddows
On Thursday 27 June 2002 8:41 pm, Matthew Tedder wrote: > That's the place I've spent hours looking... The mirrors are mirrors of > lots of different things including plenty of Potato and jigdo but where is > Woody?? > > I never thought it would be this hard to get a woody off the Internet... Hel

Re: FreeSwan & ipchains

2002-06-27 Thread curtis
Ok, if I try to submit any iptables commands, like: iptables -L I get an error: "modprobe: can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.6a: can't initialize iptables table 'filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded." So, does this mean I

Which window manager to use?

2002-06-27 Thread David Z Maze
I can't seem to find a window manager I like. I'm not actually picky on the appearance, so long as it's not garishly ugly (for example, any of the Enlightenment themes). I'm running unstable on every machine this matters for; I'm also willing to consider things that aren't (yet) packaged. Pointe

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:41, Matthew Tedder wrote: > That's the place I've spent hours looking... The mirrors are mirrors of lots > of different things including plenty of Potato and jigdo but where is Woody?? ^ jigdo is the new way of gett

Re: NTP Server

2002-06-27 Thread nate
> Hi > > Is there a simple way to set up a NTP Server on Debian? I tried the ntp > (and the ntp-simple | ntp-reclock) package but it seemed that this was > only a client ntp daemon. It hasn't to be very acurate... just a time > server wich LAN clients can "ntpdate" to. > > Ok Some of u will say

Re: Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread nate
> Hi all. > > We're in the process of drafting a proposal for upgrading the Debian > machines in our public computing lab, as well as replacing our last > remaining SGI machine with a Debian box. The SGI in particular is mostly > used for scientific visualization applications. > > I know this que

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Matthew Tedder
On Thursday 27 June 2002 06:06 pm, Erik Ljungström wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:01:10 -0400 > > Matthew Tedder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I understand, Woody is the most up-to-date version of Debian. > > > > Where can I find an ISO or all the files so I can put them in an ISO > > and mak

Re: Backup policy: What should I backup?

2002-06-27 Thread nate
> I am about to re-install Debian, and want to start with a good backup > policy. > > What I know I should backup. > > I know /etc, /var, and /home need backing up. > I intend to rely in knowledge of which debian packages I've installed to > allow be to restore packages from the distribution CDs.

Re: FreeSwan & ipchains

2002-06-27 Thread curtis
So, iptables replace ipchains? Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, You many want to look at using iptables with kernel 2.4.x Cheers, Mike Quoting curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Having compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with Freeswan I discover the following problem: When I try to give the command, for example:

Re: NTP Server

2002-06-27 Thread John Hasler
Phil writes: > The ntp and ntp-simple packages are actually what you're looking for. chrony will also do what you want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: FreeSwan & ipchains

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi, You many want to look at using iptables with kernel 2.4.x Cheers, Mike Quoting curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Having compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with Freeswan I discover the following > problem: > > When I try to give the command, for example: ipchains -P forward DENY > I get an error: "ipchai

Ecuador Linux

2002-06-27 Thread Marcelo Pinto
Señores de Debian Linux, somos un grupo de emprendedores que quieren "masificar" LINUX en nuestro medio, nuestro pais. El miedo existe por la falta de conocimiento de parte de nuestros "Gerentes o Directores de Sistemas" de las empresas del medio. Nosotros poseemos la infraestructura y el capital

Preferred video cards for 3D?

2002-06-27 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. We're in the process of drafting a proposal for upgrading the Debian machines in our public computing lab, as well as replacing our last remaining SGI machine with a Debian box. The SGI in particular is mostly used for scientific visualization applications. I know this question gets aske

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On Thursday 27 June 2002 18:29, David J. Weaver wrote: > I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to download > Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? I know that at least with KDE's crypto support, you have to include non-US in your sources.list. Ian -- To

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 06:53:05 -0400 Andrew Biggadike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mentioned a rescue CD, how do I go about creating one? Is that a > PartitionMagic rescue CD or a Linux rescue CD? The Debian CDs can be used as rescue CDs. Otherwise, you can either download boot diskette images from

Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread David J. Weaver
I am in the US, but it sounds like (on the website) that I have to download Non-US files to get US encryption? Is that right? David Weaver I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving. -- Steven Wright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: NTP Server

2002-06-27 Thread Phil Brutsche
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi Is there a simple way to set up a NTP Server on Debian? I tried the ntp (and the ntp-simple | ntp-reclock) package but it seemed that this was only a client ntp daemon. It hasn't to be very acurate... just a time server wich LAN clients can "ntpdate" to. The ntp

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On 27 Jun 2002 00:01:43 -0400 Andrew Biggadike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), > and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on > the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any I have a dual boot

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Ljungström
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:01:10 -0400 Matthew Tedder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I understand, Woody is the most up-to-date version of Debian. > > Where can I find an ISO or all the files so I can put them in an ISO > and make it boot? > > Forget jigdo! I tried that andI just don't want to

Re: NTP Server

2002-06-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
you can run xntpd on 2 of your servers. Sync those 2 to the net and then build a heiarchy basing your internal servers against the top 2. Thus spake Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > From: Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: NTP Server > D

Re: Sleeping X

2002-06-27 Thread Ljungström
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 03:50:59 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:12:58 -0700 > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > on Wed, Jun 19, 2002, Jeremy Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am running Debian Sid with XFree86 4.1 and a USB keyboard and > > > mouse. When my dis

Re: 1:3.0.2p1-9 > 1:3.4p1-0.0potato1 ?

2002-06-27 Thread DvB
Alexander Steinert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is 1:3.0.2p1-9 considered greater than 1:3.4p1-0.0potato1 because it > > > comes from testing, is it a matter of order in sources.list or are there > > > rules I don't know yet? > > > > > > last night that confused me too. eventually i tracked

Backup policy: What should I backup?

2002-06-27 Thread Robert North
I am about to re-install Debian, and want to start with a good backup policy. What I know I should backup. I know /etc, /var, and /home need backing up. I intend to rely in knowledge of which debian packages I've installed to allow be to restore packages from the distribution CDs. I will also n

Re: OpenSSH - "Privilege separation user sshd does not exist"

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:12:44AM +0800, louie miranda wrote: > Im having a little difficulty on running the new ssh, > any ideas on this? > I tried adding "UsePrivilegeSeparation yes" and still no luck! Have you tried reading the error message? Does user sshd exist? > -- conf file --

NTP Server

2002-06-27 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi Is there a simple way to set up a NTP Server on Debian? I tried the ntp (and the ntp-simple | ntp-reclock) package but it seemed that this was only a client ntp daemon. It hasn't to be very acurate... just a time server wich LAN clients can "ntpdate" to. Ok Some of u will say: "Why the hell

Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Matthew Tedder
As I understand, Woody is the most up-to-date version of Debian. Where can I find an ISO or all the files so I can put them in an ISO and make it boot? Forget jigdo! I tried that andI just don't want to deal with all the complication of it for now. I once say an FTP site that had I think 7 o

Re: ssh security update and libpam-tmpdir

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:52:49PM -0700, Petro wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:50:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > If you have libpam-tmpdir installed, be careful when installing the > > > recent security update for OpenSSH

Re: ssh security update and libpam-tmpdir

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:50:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > If you have libpam-tmpdir installed, be careful when installing the > > recent security update for OpenSSH; libpam-tmpdir will stop working > > afterwards and cause ssh

Re: [he's got psm] Re: can't access some https with mozilla

2002-06-27 Thread DvB
Ben Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm still having trouble: > I've got "open unrequested windows" enabled. > I've also tried the link direct, but that did not work. > I just get the blank page, which comes up straight away. > > If you can see the form, then it's working. Don't worry abou

Re: 1:3.0.2p1-9 > 1:3.4p1-0.0potato1 ?

2002-06-27 Thread Alexander Steinert
> > Is 1:3.0.2p1-9 considered greater than 1:3.4p1-0.0potato1 because it > > comes from testing, is it a matter of order in sources.list or are there > > rules I don't know yet? > > > last night that confused me too. eventually i tracked it down to the > Packages file not being updated. I would s

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