Re: Samba setup question: security setting

Quoting Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I suppose this has nothing to do with Debain, but what does it mean to be > a Primary Domain Controler? And does that apply to Win98 and WinME > machines or only W2K/XP/NT machines? > > This will help setup control for your network. This applies to a

cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

Please can you help with this error? Below is the log, env and .bashrc DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY root@debian:/root # env PWD=/root PAGER=more PS1=root@debian:$PWD # USER=root MAIL=/var/mail/root EDITOR=vi SSH_CLIENT=10.100.4.117 2842 22 DISPLAY=debian:0.0 LOGNAME=root SHLVL=1 SHELL=/bin/b

Re: kernel recompile

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:38:34 +0800 Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just recompiled my kernel and it failed at the very last > step (installing the kernel). My procedure: > > 1) Use "make xconfig" to choose my settings > 2) make dep clean bzImage modules > 3) make install modules_in

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:51:45PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > I have a dial-up system that is going to be a server for > my home network. I want my inside machines to sync to seal > (the ss20) and seal to sync to outside machines when the link > is up, and to just provide time to the inside

Re: kernel recompile

--- iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install kernel-package The FAQ will also help get you started http://www.au.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html#s-customkernel Cheers Geoff http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

I will give several levels of answer, since I don't know how much Linux and filesystem experience you have. First of all, as everyone notes, drive partitioning is a personal decision, and more art than science. It varies from machine to machine. That said, depending on how you want to use your sys

How to enable non-standard tcp port connections from a non-localhostmachine?

I'm trying to set up an ssh tunnel from a machine behind a firewall to a machine with a public IP with a command like this: $ ssh -R 20150:localhost:22 computer.server.com This should cause port 2501 on computer.server.com to be an alias for port 22 (sshd) on my local computer. This command ex

Re: Nvidia compile error

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:13:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Have you run 'make dep' in your kernel tree? Have you pointed the nvidia > source tarball at the correct place for your kernel tree? If you're using the debian sources, you'll have to make a symlink from /usr/src/kernel-source- to /us

Re: Nvidia compile error

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:11:33PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > My nvidia drivers are not installing. I downloaded the source tarballs > from the nvidia site, md5sum check them and do 'make install' or 'make' > and got this error: > > > In file included from nv.c:14:

Re: Linux and Intel's Hyperthreading

nick lidakis said: > I was looking to replace my 1Ghz P3 and motherboard with a stable, but > fast mb/cpu combo that was fully supported by a recent linux kernel. I > was looking a an Intel 845PE motherboard with a 3.0Ghz cpu. My question > is, how is Hyperthreading supported under linux? Is it a

Nvidia compile error

My nvidia drivers are not installing. I downloaded the source tarballs from the nvidia site, md5sum check them and do 'make install' or 'make' and got this error: In file included from nv.c:14: nv-linux.h:24 linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory make:

Re: kernel recompile

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kernel recompile

I've just recompiled my kernel and it failed at the very last step (installing the kernel). My procedure: 1) Use "make xconfig" to choose my settings 2) make dep clean bzImage modules 3) make install modules_install I received no error messages until the very end when make install tried to write

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Re: hard drive partitioning questions

on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:12:21PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right > now i'm thinking: > > / 100M > /usr 3G > /tmp 100M > /var 3G > swap 384M > /home rest That looks better. Probably a bit rich f

Re: gnome-volume-control

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:25:04PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > I'm not sure how you reorder the volume controls in gnome-volume-control > but XMMS allows you to set the PCM or Master volume with the OSS output > plugin. Not sure if that's what you were looking for, though. This has zero effect f

Linux and Intel's Hyperthreading

I was looking to replace my 1Ghz P3 and motherboard with a stable, but fast mb/cpu combo that was fully supported by a recent linux kernel. I was looking a an Intel 845PE motherboard with a 3.0Ghz cpu. My question is, how is Hyperthreading supported under linux? Is it a matter of enabling SMP

Forcing apt to oblige

I installed a package forcibly with dpkg which was built against sid's version of libc6. It works fine using woody's version, but now I get dependency problems when I try and use apt to do anything. This should be very trivial, but I don't know exactly what to do. Can anyone offer any suggestion

Lexmark z23 revisited

sebastian: I am copying this message to the list. I am hoping you have succeeded with this printer on a Debian box. Here's my experience: I bumbled through two or three different ways of installing it. I don't understand CUPS or FOOMATIC. But I downloaded the foomatic lexmark kit (I think t

Re: gnome-volume-control

This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said: > How can you change the default volume control to PCM from master? > Master's pretty useless when it comes to using XMMS...and I refuse to > run esd. I'm not sure how you reorder the volume controls in gnome-volume-control but XMMS allows you to set

gnome-volume-control

How can you change the default volume control to PCM from master? Master's pretty useless when it comes to using XMMS...and I refuse to run esd. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a sys

Re: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

I have been doing some further tests about my usb problems and I found out that my testing procedure is flawed. Every new kernel I built was built using bzdisk as the last step in the process so I left the kernel on my boot drive alone and was using a new kernel built on a floppy disk. I b

Re: Crypto issues

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 00:42, Jack O'Quin wrote: > I did it the Debian Way, which works very well. :-) > > But, that *does* involve running make-kpkg, the Debian Way to compile > kernel images. Charlie, if you haven't tried this script, it's a > really clean way to make kernels and kernel module

Re: ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:51:45PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > when I set the following in /etc/ntp.conf: > > server 127.127.1.0 > fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 > > > Why? 127.0.0.0/8 is localhost. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `

Re: OK, I know I'm too impatient, but...

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:53:41PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > "After nearly two years of development, we are happy to announce the > release of GNU Mailman 2.1." > > How soon can be expect it to show up in testing? A while from now. If you want the bleeding edge, go to unstable. Oh, by the wa

Re: Linux PDA (voice, writing recognition)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Tautz [MFCF] wrote: > just wondering if people have any experience with Linux based > PDA, I'm particularly interested in voice to text abilities. > Also hand writing recognition would be desirable. > > A good voice activated tape recorder wou

Re: hard drive partitioning questions - more

hi ya nori On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nori Heikkinen wrote: ... > - i *do* need to specifically partition /home as its own partition, > right? yeah, okay, i do. and this can be the entire rest of the > disk? i don't need to leave anything left over? or should i, just > as some sort of securi

Re: Boot clean to KDE

Jim Hickman said: > Originally sent 12/27... No responses. Just checking, would there be a > better place to post this request? I know that Lindows is Debian based. so are many other distros, doesn't mean someone here can help :) I reccomend using a lindows list. One thing you could try, is re

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 01:12 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right > now i'm thinking: > - i don't think i need a /usr/local, as i don't think i usually > download and compile a lot from non-debian sources ... but i might > be wr

Re: Answers to your questions about W3C patent policy

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) > I don't see how that can possibly coexist with this sentence of the > GPL, section 7: > > : if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of > : the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly > : through you, then

Re: VESA X-server for debian 3.0

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 02:50 pm, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > Thanks to Marc Wilson for his suggestion. But we can't find the vesa > X-server in the Debian package list. What should we be looking for? > > Again, thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. > > Larry Hunsicker In Woody,X

VESA X-server for debian 3.0

Thanks to Marc Wilson for his suggestion. But we can't find the vesa X-server in the Debian package list. What should we be looking for? Again, thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. Larry Hunsicker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Answers to your questions about W3C patent policy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > From: James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From Bruce: >> > The code that makes use of >> > the patented principle must be under the MIT license, which allows a >> > scope-limited patent license. That may be linked into GPL code and >> > distributed. >> >>

Re: Crypto issues

Stefan Radomski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that Jack managed to get cryptoloop working without > recompiling the kernel, he did it 'the debian way', as reported here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200212/msg05110.html I did it the Debian Way, which wo

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right > now i'm thinking: > > / 100M > /usr 3G > /tmp 100M > /var 3G > swap 384M > /home rest > > a couple questions more: > > - i need to make / bootable, right? > > - i don't think i

Boot clean to KDE

Originally sent 12/27... No responses. Just checking, would there be a better place to post this request? I know that Lindows is Debian based. ___ Help a Linux newbie Got early Christmas present from friend, a Lindows box. Nice! Been wanting to dip a toe i

OK, I know I'm too impatient, but...

"After nearly two years of development, we are happy to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.1." How soon can be expect it to show up in testing? -- "Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

ntpd; local clock reference 127.127.1.0

I get the following in my logs [manually wrapped for legibility in email] Dec 31 15:44:27 seal ntpd[17700]: attempt to configure \ invalid address 127.127.1.0 when I set the following in /etc/ntp.conf: server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 Why? I'm runn

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

thanks to all who responded -- this has been immensely useful. right now i'm thinking: / 100M /usr 3G /tmp 100M /var 3G swap 384M /home rest a couple questions more: - i need to make / bootable, right? - i don't think i need a /usr/local, as i don't think i usually download and co

ghostscript, apsfilter, and SMB/WIN client question

Hi all, Happy New Year. Thought I'd finish out the year with one newbiesque question. At work, I'm trying to print from my Debian box (woody) on a Lexmark Optra M412 (a postscript compatible laser printer) connected to a networked Windows machine. I'm presently using apsfilter and lpr (although I h

RE: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

> -Original Message- > From: Aryan Ameri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 10:25 AM > To: debian users > Subject: IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem > > > Hi there: > > In order to be able to burn CDs using my ATAPI DVD/CDRW drive, I did the > followings to get

Re: Limiting SU

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:49:08AM -0500, Ludwig wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 05:34, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? > > > > As root, > > chmod go-x /usr/bin/who > This won't do anything. $ last -f /var/run/utmp will do the same thing as who What y

Re: Can you install programs without apt packages?

Colin: "There's a guide to "Using APT Offline" in /usr/share/doc/apt (once you've installed) which may be of help. Abstract This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment, specifically a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades. You can certainly compile things

Re: debian on openbrick

Bao C. Ha wrote: > What I did in the article is for the OpenBrick-E. The OpenBrick-E > has 256M RAM in the default configuration, compared to the 128M > RAM OpenBrick. My next step would be to uncompress the cloop- > based filesystem and mount its entirety on the tempfs. Next, I > would be able

users and x/gdm

Something seems wrong with the archives at the moment... I just finished walking remote hands through a not so simple x configuration. whew. now a user can 'startx' and use the session, but with gdm the session starts then immediately returns to the gdm login.

Re: Command for random? recursive?

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Gnome uses whatever you tell it to use as the window manager. I was referring to the default. Getting a response like Gnome to a question of what Window Manager one uses, tends to indicate that the user hasn't changed fro

RE: Crypto issues

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 21:25, Charlie Reiman wrote: > Thanks. You mean: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200212/msg04708.html > > It looks like I have to rebuild the kernel to get this working. As I > mentioned, I really can't do that. Is it possible to get the patched > c

Re: Can you install programs without apt packages?

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 10:09 am, Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I am fairly new to the Linux world and am going through all of the > documentation and installation info for Debian 3.0. > > I will have a system that is going to be offline and probably never > connected to the internet. Am I going to b

RE: Crypto issues

> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Radomski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Crypto issues > > > Hi Charlie, > please search the archive, exactly this issue was solved a week ago.. > Thanks. You mean: http://l

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Quoting Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Is it possible (and is it recommended) to move to security = user on my > > home LAN when the Windows machines don't really have a password? I guess > > what I'm asking is how best to setup Samba and

Answers to your questions about W3C patent policy

From: Pierre Machard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do you have any reason to think that the position you defend will > satisfy Patent holders ? Some of them have threatened to walk off of W3C in response to even so mild a position as the draft policy. Nobody thinks they'll really do it. But your question

Re: Crypto issues

Hi Charlie, please search the archive, exactly this issue was solved a week ago.. -- "boredom is not a burden anyone should bear" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can you install programs without apt packages?

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 07:09:47PM +, Scott wrote: > I am fairly new to the Linux world and am going through all of the > documentation and installation info for Debian 3.0. > > I will have a system that is going to be offline and probably never > connected to the internet. Am I going to b

Re: Lean and clean IMAP client

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: | I have looked around for information about sending mail, and am totally | confused. mutt follows the unix tradition of separating responsibility and using the program "/usr/lib/sendmail" (through a pipe) to send mail. The actual

Re: Can you install programs without apt packages?

On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 19:09, Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I am fairly new to the Linux world and am going through all of the > documentation and installation info for Debian 3.0. > > I will have a system that is going to be offline and probably never > connected to the internet. Am I going to be a

Re: Command for random? recursive?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 08:02:17AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:58:36AM +0900, Elijah wrote: | | > btw, I'm using gnome | | IIRC, gnome uses sawfish as its window manager. Gnome uses whatever you tell it to use as the window manager. I use sawfish. It seems that

Can you install programs without apt packages?

Hi, I am fairly new to the Linux world and am going through all of the documentation and installation info for Debian 3.0. I will have a system that is going to be offline and probably never connected to the internet. Am I going to be able to choose source files and tarballs, etc. to compil

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

Quoting Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is it possible (and is it recommended) to move to security = user on my > home LAN when the Windows machines don't really have a password? I guess > what I'm asking is how best to setup Samba and the Windows machines I'm > running. And, more importan

IDE SCSI Emulation and USB problem

Hi there: In order to be able to burn CDs using my ATAPI DVD/CDRW drive, I did the followings to get ide-scsi emulation working. I first loaded the ide-scsi module using modconf. Then Added the following lines to /etc/modutils/actions "alias scd0 srmod alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options id

Crypto issues

I'm trying to set up an encrypted loopback filesystem on my laptop (running sid). It works with XOR (which might as well not be encrypted at all) but I can't use any other form of encryption. losetup returns: The cipher does not exist, or a cipher module needs to be loaded into the kernel ioctl: L

Re: Samba setup question: security setting

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 07:33:26 -0800 (PST) Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've read many Samba HOWTOs but I always have trouble -- and never really > sure if I have it right. > > On my home LAN I have two Windows machines (Win98 and WinME). Neither are > setup with passwords -- well

Re: Problem

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:48:24 -0600 (CST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:45:41 +0100 (CET) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www-data) > > Hi > > My name is Ziga Dolher and I am from Slovenia. > I want to install a Slovenian keyboard (for special l

Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

Aravind Gottipati wrote: > -SNIP- < One thing I noticed that was different between xdm on NetBSD and Debian was that NetBSD stored all its xdm configs in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm, but Debian stores it both in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and /etc/X11/xdm (they refer to each other and its a mess in debi

Re: Command for random? recursive?

Yeah that's the one! I got it working now thanks to that command, running the files randomly won't be much of a problem now. Thanks again :) Elijah On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 01:30, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:47:49PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > I believe the command you are looki

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Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2002.12.31 13:44 Bruce Perens wrote: There's a long discussion below. I'm asking you to do something once you read that discussion: Please write to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and tell them something like this (please elaborate - everyone discounts rubber-

Re: Getting a Higher Version w/out upgrading

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 12:25 am, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm still having problems with my ATI card. I know it's worked fine under > XFree86 4.2, but Woody has X 4.1. How can I upgrade to X 4.2 w/out > upgrading anything else or moving to unstable? > > Hal Thanks to all who responded. I took

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

On December 31, 2002 01:06 am, the fabulous Nori Heikkinen wrote: > there can only be 3 primary partitions if i want a logical one too, if > i've read correctly ... so, do i make the first three primary, and the > rest logical? or is there a better method to going about it? it > doesn't really m

Re: hard drive partitioning questions - raid

hi ya fraser On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Fraser Campbell wrote: > fraser@shieldaig:/lib$ df -h > FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 471M 258M 190M 58% / > /dev/md31008M41M 917M 5% /tmp > /dev/md14.0G3.3G 5

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

On December 31, 2002 10:06 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > i always want at least 6 partitions ( my quirks ) > ( or some silly set of similar sizes ) > - you dont need /boot in modern pcs that know how to get pass > the first 1024 cylinders ( 500MB ) problem > ( 500MB is plenty of r

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:50:20PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system > >(i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap > >partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figur

What Happens When the USB Mass Storage Driver Doesn't Work?

I am trying out a new external Maxtor 5000 LE hard drive I bought with the understanding that I can return it if it won't work under Linux. I built a 2.4.19 kernel, adding support for the usb port, the mass-storage driver and SCSI disk support. I had SCSI emulation working

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

Nori Heikkinen wrote: i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system (i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions i should specify. i'm reading the the woody installation how-tos [1], and

RE: Debian questions

I’d like to thank all those who helped out, Nate, Moops and Rob Weir, with the two questions I posted below.   I was able to get the SMP kernel 2.4.20 compiled and working after two days of trying.  The NIC problem has reached a new level where I can see the card after ‘ifconfig –a’.  I now

Re: Command for random? recursive?

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:47:49PM +0900, Elijah wrote: > works great now (for ztxt), but whenever it opens mplayer it closes > the window immediately before playing and plays the next file, this > keeps going until the end of the mpg files. Can I delay the recursing > until the current file is do

Duron, 2.4.19, ACPI, APIC

Hallo! Like many other people, I have problems running a newer kernel like the 2.4.19 on a machine with an AMD Duron 1300 and an ECS K7VMM mainboard. While starting the kernel I get the message "ESR value before enabling vector: 0002" after that the system dies. This happened with every Deb

Re: SCSI emulation for IDE CD-writer

Steve Doerr wrote >I overlooked the SCSI cd support when I built my kernel. > >It's working perfectly now. I did almost the same thing on a system at work except I forgot the Generic SCSI support. I had a system that looked like it should work if you did the cat /proc/scsi/scsi tests, a

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:06:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i'm installing debian on a brand-new new hard drive on my home system > (i.e., personal usage), and am at the point of making a swap > partition. cfdisk is up, and i'm trying to figure out what partitions > i should specify. i'm re

Re: rp-pppoe: How can I configure a fix IP address?

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 13:37, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > can anyone of you give me a hint how I can > configure a fix IP address with the roaring penguin ppp packet? > > Thanks for any hint! If you modify the ppp peer file (usually /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider) you should see a line that say

Re: xdm locks up keyboard and hogs cpu

--- Donald Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > problems, as you point out. I would "suspect" it is > a configuration > issue, since some installs work OK (at least one I > know about..mine :) > > I am talking here about that portion of XDM/GDM/KDM > that allows you to > display remote compute

Samba setup question: security setting

I've read many Samba HOWTOs but I always have trouble -- and never really sure if I have it right. On my home LAN I have two Windows machines (Win98 and WinME). Neither are setup with passwords -- well nothing that I would call a password. I think one machine gives a login prompt but I just hit

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Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:44:08PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > The code that makes use of the patented principle must be under the > MIT license, which allows a scope-limited patent license. You are asking us to support a proposal that goes against point 6 of the Debian Free Software Guideli

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

hi ya On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh: > > > i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole > > thing, right? i'm thinking: > > > > /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?) > > /dev/hda2 -- /usr (83)

Re: Getting a Higher Version w/out upgrading

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm still having problems with my ATI card. I know it's worked fine under > XFree86 4.2, but Woody has X 4.1. How can I upgrade to X 4.2 w/out upgrading > anything else or moving to unstable? I've got branden's sources listed: $ fgrep branden /etc/ap

Re: apt-get upgrade (potato -> woody) dependency problem?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:07:15PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich said: > > couldn't get the ~elphick/postgresql apt thingie to work, so i'm > > omitting that for now (hopefully the official woody version will work) and > > i went and did > > > > apt-get update > > > > apt-get upgrade

Re: OK. How can I share CDRW on other computers? Or are there GUI that I can share on other computers?

hi ya On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi. > Who had solved the some problem? > Not use ssh. the dumb/easy way... cdrw is at 192.168.1.1 cdrw# make sure cdrecord can see your cdrw drive cdrecord -scanbus -- dont pass go till you can read/write the cdrw device locally c

Re: OK. How can I share CDRW on other computers? Or are there GUI that I can share on other computers?

http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhaeger/webCDwriter/ Egor Tur said: > Hi. > Who had solved the some problem? > Not use ssh. > Thanx. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

OK. How can I share CDRW on other computers? Or are there GUI that I can share on other computers?

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RE: SCSI emulation for IDE CD-writer

Speaking of this... I had a kernel which was just missing the SCSI emulation modules. Was there a way I could have _just_ built the modules I needed, and not needed to rebuild the whole kernel? Are there any modules that can work like that? --thanks -Original Message- From: Steve Doe

RE: hard drive partitioning questions

If this is _just_ a kick around machine, / and swap are fine. But, if you are accepting incoming email, and there is the slightest chance you might be flooded with 2 Gigabytes of email (3 attachments from your dear relative!) you will want /var on it's own. /tmp on its own is really more of a mul

A letter to the W3C (was: Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy)

Hi, On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:44:08PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: [SNIP] > Please write to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and tell them > something like this (please elaborate - everyone discounts > rubber-stamp comments): > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Approve of draft policy - disapprov

Re: make: wish: Command not found [xconfig] Error 127

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:53:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:09:13AM -0800, Kevin ( KD7HAH ) wrote: > > wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk > > make: wish: Command not found > > Install the tk8.3 package. > > In future you can use the "Search the contents of packages" engine

Re: Limiting SU

"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Andrew" == Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? Shyamal> Well, how about you create a group and change the group Shyamal> owner and execute permissions on /bin/

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

On 31/12/02 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > -A PREROUTING -d 208.163.68.11 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6346 -j DNAT > --to-destination 192.168.0.8:6346 > > And I have gtk-gnutella set up to use port 6346. Now, based on my > admittedly basic understanding of NAT and iptables, this should redirect > all

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 31 December 2002 07:57, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Here's the rule that I'm using (as spit out by iptables-save): > > -A PREROUTING -d 208.163.68.11 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 6346 -j DNAT > --to-destination 192.168.0.8:6346 Perhaps try to do filt

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

On 31/12/02 Nori Heikkinen did speaketh: > i just bought a new 80G hard drive. i should partition the whole > thing, right? i'm thinking: > > /dev/hda1 -- / (Linux (83)) -- 100M (is this appropriate?) > /dev/hda2 -- /usr (83) -- 1G (too much?) > /dev/hda3 -- swap (82) -- 128M (i have that much

Re: Limiting SU

"Andrew" == Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Is there a way of limiting who and SU to root? >> > >> >> don't tell them the root password? >> >> iain Andrew> I can just see some jokers trying to guess the root Andrew> password. I realise this

Re: how to setup postgres user

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:14:52PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > when i run setup_beancounter, it says, no postgressql user 'sandip'. it > also recommends me to su - postgres. > > when i do this, neither my root password nor my user password works! > what am i doing that is incorrect? 'su - p

Re: Getting a Higher Version w/out upgrading

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 12:25:48AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm still having problems with my ATI card. I know it's worked fine > under XFree86 4.2, but Woody has X 4.1. How can I upgrade to X 4.2 > w/out upgrading anything else or moving to unstable? Try the backport at

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