Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:15:23AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > >>I just ran the command "sudo nmap -sT -sU localhost" which listed the > >>following: > >>12345/tcp openNetBus

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'd mostly call myself a "regular user" -- although I do have a web server > installed on my laptop it doesn't broadcast to the world...it's just me > the couch and the tv and occassionally the cat. Hmm...

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:29:56PM -0800, nate wrote: > some additional data. redhat's user list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has > been pretty responsive recently, but today it seems to have stalled, Really? I've always gotten better responses out of debian-user. *duck* -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PRO

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0900, Andy wrote: | > OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in | > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm | > sure donations will be accepted :-) | | WellI will be the first to step up to the plate!

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 01:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:36:29AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Reminds me of when I saw in a Usenet group an AOL'er giving netiquette > > advice to a WebTV'er - ahh, some of 'em are starting to grow up ;) > > Not that I don't believe you, but

Re: disk partitioning & partition size allocations

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
David: replying to you and list in event you've given up on us... on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:58:38PM -0800, David W. Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on > the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8 > b

Re: lightweight window pager and app launcher (was Re: GNOME == bloatware?)

2003-01-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:08:13AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > | On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:01:14PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > (and a "session manager" that will keep the X session alive yet still > | > allow me to

Re: not quite the regular sources.list problem

2003-01-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:05:04PM -0800, lenny bruce wrote: > I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem > that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have... > > > I picked some bad sources and entered the deb lines incorrectly > before I figured out the correct w

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Pigeon" == jah pigeon writes: Pigeon> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad Pigeon> wrote: >> You can use 'mount -t cramfs -o loop /mnt intrd.img.file.path' >> to look into an initrd image. You will find it quite >> instructive I'm sure. Pigeon> Th

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread Herbert Xu
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The rescue disks appear to use an initrd in 'root.bin' which isn't > cramfs... at least the above doesn't work, nor does -t auto. Any idea > what type this is? My curiosity has been aroused! It's a gzipped ext2 file system. Uncompress it with gunzip before m

problems getting started

2003-01-31 Thread Benjamin Meakin
Hello, I just installed debian on my system and I am having trouble getting gnome to work properly. Gnome starts up but the desktop does not fit to screen, random icons appear in the middle of the screen,and various other odd problems. If anybody could tell me how to go about fixing this I would gr

Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-01-31 Thread Pietro Calogero
Dear Virgil, Running a ThinkPad 770 with 256 MB ram, Kernel 2.4.18. This kernel recognizes the remainder of the RAM, but when I was running 2.2.20 I had to add: append = "mem = 261568K" to lilo.conf. I don't even remember where I read this, but about 512K is claimed right off the top by something

Re: XF86Config -> XF86COnfig-4 converter?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:12:14PM -0500, Narins, Josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello Gentle Debian Users; > > I'm running a chroot sid on a long-running stable box, and it works > well, except X (heh). > > Perhaps there will be other issues, but the main problem is that I > do

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-01-31 Thread JOSEPH A NAGY JR
On 01 Feb 2003 00:12:27 -0600 DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you decide to do this, You should probably make sure you install it in /usr/local which is, AFAIK, the designated place to put apps that you don't install with the package management system. I thought /usr/local/bin was the place

Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)

2003-01-31 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > > > > So ... now that things are sort of back to normal, my question > > is this: what caused the filesystem to become read-only to > > begin with? Could it be hardware

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-01-31 Thread Virgil
--- ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't found a .deb for acroread, Acrobat's linux version of > their > .pdf reader. Does one exist? > I've dled the tarball, but can I install it without screwing > something > in my woody system? (aka, apt?) I believe that gv (a postscript

Re: Mt Rainier Support?

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:18:20AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > On some days, you can see Mt. Rainier from Portland? Holy crap, that's > cool. I don't think we can ever see Mt. Hood from Seattle... Yup. On one *really* hot and slightly breezy day (so the smog couldn't set in), we actually were

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Andy
> OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm > sure donations will be accepted :-) WellI will be the first to step up to the plate! I will donate $100 (US) right NOW! It is the least I can do c

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:01AM +, Pigeon wrote: > It's not clear whether the OP is "always-on" or using dialup; I > suspect the latter. If so, daemon mode isn't really what you want. For > a dialup it's probably better to simply call it by typing 'fetchmail' > when you connect. This is why

Re: Mt Rainier Support?

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:45:33PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > Looking at the kernel archives it appears that there is some code in 2.5 > for this, but I do not know whether this has been backported to 2.4. I > think it relies on the UDF packet writing code, but I am not sure. Hmm, something

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-01-31 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:45:21PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > I haven't found a .deb for acroread, Acrobat's linux version of their > .pdf reader. Does one exist? I realize it isn't free, but I also > cannot get xpdf and/or ghostview to deal with passworded pdf files (as > sent to me by my wif

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:05:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or maybe it just makes those particular newbies look like > arrogant hardasses, while you just remain known as a > hardass, hardass. ;) I think even you can agree, though, that it's really annoying when someone asks a question th

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:51:32PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Not /etc/fetchmailrc, ~/.fetchmailrc - see example in my previous post. If he's got it installed systemwide, then it would be /etc/fetchmailrc. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- De

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:36:29AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Reminds me of when I saw in a Usenet group an AOL'er giving netiquette > advice to a WebTV'er - ahh, some of 'em are starting to grow up ;) Not that I don't believe you, but this sounds a bit incredable. Got message-ids? -- .''`.

Re: Quicky about acroread...

2003-01-31 Thread DvB
ZephyrQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't found a .deb for acroread, Acrobat's linux version of their > .pdf reader. Does one exist? I realize it isn't free, but I also > cannot get xpdf and/or ghostview to deal with passworded pdf files (as > sent to me by my wife's student loan peo

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Thanks for your help. This solved the immediate problem ... > > Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [ ... ] > > > > 1) You cannot remount / because other filesystems are mounted on it > > (I > > surmise this because y

Quicky about acroread...

2003-01-31 Thread ZephyrQ
I haven't found a .deb for acroread, Acrobat's linux version of their .pdf reader. Does one exist? I realize it isn't free, but I also cannot get xpdf and/or ghostview to deal with passworded pdf files (as sent to me by my wife's student loan people...) I've dled the tarball, but

Re: Mouse help

2003-01-31 Thread Doug
At 10:53 PM 1/31/03 -0600, Kent West wrote: Doug wrote: Hail: I am new to Debian and have mostly only used GUI versions of linux in the past. I have a problem, and I hope that you can help. On my Debian machine while setting it up I misidentified the serial port that the mouse is using. Sh

Re: i2c and lm_sensors

2003-01-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya usually... ( at least for me ) its easiest to d/l the latest/greatest lmsensors package and build it separate from the kernel http://www.Linux-1U.net/LCD/lm_sensors.Txt/i2c.uHowTo.txt c ya alvin On 1 Feb 2003, karrottop wrote: > I am trying to get im_sensors running on my debian box, b

Re: Mouse help

2003-01-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:29:55 -0700 Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hail: > > I am new to Debian and have mostly only used GUI versions of linux in > the past. I have a problem, and I hope that you can help. > > On my Debian machine while setting it up I misidentified the serial > port that th

i2c and lm_sensors

2003-01-31 Thread karrottop
I am trying to get im_sensors running on my debian box, but I am getting some opposition. First of all, I do have my kernel source, and it is symlinked to /usr/src/linux. but for some reason when I go to where i2c installed from apt get /usr/src/modules/i2c (or something to that effect) and then

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Thanks for your help. This solved the immediate problem ... Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ ... ] > > 1) You cannot remount / because other filesystems are mounted on it > (I > surmise this because you don't mention /usr or /home). > > 2) / is readonly either because you provid

SOLVED: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-01-31 Thread Virgil
I just: 1) updated the BIOS, from IBM site 2) re-did the ram installation Maybe only one of the above was necessary, but in any case it seems that Linux was not really at fault...maybe the problem was also affecting XP, and I wasn't careful checking...I don't really use XP that much...although I

Re: Mouse help

2003-01-31 Thread Kent West
Doug wrote: Hail: I am new to Debian and have mostly only used GUI versions of linux in the past. I have a problem, and I hope that you can help. On my Debian machine while setting it up I misidentified the serial port that the mouse is using. Short of reformatting my hard-drive and reinst

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
ian wrote: >I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations? Emacs is my editor of choice for nearly everything. I am learning to like Cooledit. It's a very lightweight editor with syntax highlighting for several languages, including LaTeX2e. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTE

Mouse help

2003-01-31 Thread Doug
Hail: I am new to Debian and have mostly only used GUI versions of linux in the past. I have a problem, and I hope that you can help. On my Debian machine while setting it up I misidentified the serial port that the mouse is using. Short of reformatting my hard-drive and reinstalling Debian

Re: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
Narins, Josh wrote: >DEAR DEBIAN USER, this is joke e-mail. I think. > >We are manipulating the time in the headers >in order to cover the tracks from our efforts >to monitor the e-amail from sketchy users >such as yourself >to prevent them from posting rude or obnoxious e-mails > >We've noted you

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:13:03PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ snip ] > The problem is that yesterday, my root file partition started booting > up read-only. Because /var and /tmp are on that partition, my system > is virtually useless. [ snip ] > A while ago, I had changed my /etc/fstab by

Re: ppp on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Sigmund Svertingsson
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. Here is a bit more detail: Machine "Return" (it lives in my air conditioning return ducting at the end of the hallway) is my gateway to the outside world (via my dial-up ISP). My ISP gives me a dynamic IP address. I'm pretty sure my statically configured

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I have some more info about my problem that might be useful. I booted up off of disk 1 of my Woody installation CDROM set. My root partition is /dev/sda2, so I entered the following at the "boot:" prompt ... rescue root=/dev/sda2 However, this errored out quickly. I got a couple screens' wort

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:30:26PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > /etc/fetchmailrc: > > > > # /etc/fetchmailrc for system-wide daemon mode It's not clear whether the OP is "always-on" or using dialup; I suspect the latter. If so, daemon mode isn't really what you

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > You can use 'mount -t cramfs -o loop /mnt intrd.img.file.path' to look > into an initrd image. You will find it quite instructive I'm sure. The rescue disks appear to use an initrd in 'root.bin' which isn't cramfs... at least the ab

PreDepend error in installing Woody from CDs

2003-01-31 Thread David Turetsky
After having been away from my Debian Linux system for some time, I just purchased the set of 7 CDs to upgrade my system to Woody   I followed the Release Notes, upgrading using dselect, and ran into a PreDepend error, which aborted the upgrade   I’ve been spending some time reading the

Re: ntpd not keeping time

2003-01-31 Thread Gary Turner
Pigeon wrote: [...] > >Like it... reminds me of "*Any* car can be made to do 0-60mph in under >3 seconds - allow me to demonstrate with yours." Achieving ~32 ft/sec^2 acceleration is not that difficult. Finding an unobstructed 121 ft "dragstrip" with a non-blockaded starting line might be more p

Re: Gkrellm and app launcher

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 31 January 2003, 04:42 PM -0500): > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:28, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > (on Friday, 31 January 2003, 12:33 PM -0500): > > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:38, Francois Chenais

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:08:56 -0500 (EST) > "Lloyd Zusman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ ... ] > >> > in the options field try putting 'defaults' >> > >> > you can also jump to runlevel 1 'init 1', and when you login >> > type: >> > >> > mount / -o remo

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:08:56 -0500 (EST) "Lloyd Zusman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you VERY much for this help. > > I have a question though ... see below: > > > Lloyd Zusman said: > > > >> #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > >> /dev/sda2/ ext3

Re: booting reiserfs rescue

2003-01-31 Thread George Georgalis
Have been looking at the doc and can't find a single thing wrong with this one ( http://www.systemimager.org ), in other words it looks perfect! Thanks Neil. // George On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:40:12AM -0800, Neil Schneider wrote: >Take a look at systemimager http://www.systemimager.org It's sui

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:57:01AM +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 01:55, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > > Does anyone have a FAQ on how to set this all up? > > Below is what worked for me. I think that it may vary according to the > version of the SSH protocol that you wa

Re: System dies after logging out of an X session - SOLVED

2003-01-31 Thread Mark Janssen
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 01:18, Marcin Chady wrote: > Disabling dri has done the trick. BTW, I'm not that familiar with dri. What > functionality have I lost by disabling it? Hardware accelerated 3D rendering (opengl) Software rendering takes over this task, but it's a lot slower, so 3d games and pro

Fw: Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:13:03 -0500 (EST) "Lloyd Zusman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem with my testing+unstable system, and > I'm not sure whether it's a hardware or software problem. It > has rendered my system virtually useless. But before I start > fooling around with hardw

Subversion 0.17.1 for Debian 3.0

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
now present although untested. See http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/subversion-woody/APT for directions on accessing this repository. 20030131 Started this ChangeLog. All packages now have distinct (and lower) version numbers than their counterparts in unstable. You w

apache-dev dependencies bug?

2003-01-31 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I've tried to install apache-dev on woody with apt-get and I've got this error: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: apache-dev: Depends: libdb2-dev (>= 2.7.7-2.1) but it is not going to be installed A little search with apt-cache revealed that I only have libdb2-dev 2

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:39:22PM -0800, nate wrote: > SSH v2 is not *too* much different. though it's been a while > since I tried it with DSA authentication, last time I tried it, > it was a real bitch to get working(this was about a year ago) erm, iirc it's the same thing, only if you're using

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Thank you VERY much for this help. I have a question though ... see below: > Lloyd Zusman said: > >> #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 >> /dev/sda2/ ext3 0 1 >^^ > > in the options field try pu

[NEWBIE]: HP DeskJet 710c - installation problems

2003-01-31 Thread vince jenkins
the packages I have used successfully for this "winprinter" are: -- magicfilter -- pnm2ppa -- lprng all of these can be obtained with apt-get install as root run magicfilterconfig and answer questions it asks you -- if answered properly all will work great here is a copy of my printcap file: -

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 01:55, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:08:31PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > doing the ssh-keygen thing works like a charm; you copy your > > private keys to the remote box and then just slap it into your > > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file and poof, no

Re: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread nate
Lloyd Zusman said: > #/dev/sda2 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/sda2/ ext3 0 1 ^^ in the options field try putting 'defaults' you can also jump to runlevel 1 'init 1', and when you login type: m

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: > Does anyone have a FAQ on how to set this all up? i have a real quick basic thing with SSH v1 on my mrtg page: http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/MRTG/IPFWCountersWithMRTG SSH v2 is not *too* much different. though it's been a while since I tried it with DSA authenticat

Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:42:04AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 03:09, Ric Otte wrote: > > Bob, > > > > I tried your suggestion, but it didn't work. > > But then I got the idea to see if DMA affected it. So I turned off DMA > > by typing > > > > hdparm hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc > > > >

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:32:19PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:36:52AM -0800, nate wrote: > [...] > | as far as I know, most commercial X servers (IRIX, AIX, HPUX, Solaris) > | do not allow switching either, at least I've never figured out how > | to switch on t

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:00:48AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Now, on to the question: I installed fetchmail but I'm > doing something wrong > > I added the /etc/fetchmailrc file I hope you can point > out what's going wrong - I copied from the example > file and added the mail server but it mus

Root partition stuck in read-only mode.

2003-01-31 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'm having a problem with my testing+unstable system, and I'm not sure whether it's a hardware or software problem. It has rendered my system virtually useless. But before I start fooling around with hardware, I'd like to see if my problem might be familiar to any of you, and if perhaps there is

twiki installation

2003-01-31 Thread Matt Price
Anyone out there use twiki? how do you do the initial configuration?? (like, setting the webmaster's password, etc) doesn't seem to be indicated in /usr/share/doc/twiki, and I didn't notice it in the debconf setup. thx for the help... matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:08:31PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > this is probably item #2 of the really-obvious-faq that i'm not > yet aware of, so i'll go ahead and ask because i haven't taken > the opportunity to look like a goober in, oh, about half a day, > now... > > doing the ssh-keygen thin

broken download ?? help ??

2003-01-31 Thread Dave Selby
This is a second posting, I'm pulling my hair out !!! I want to update my system, I type the following apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get upgrade --fix-missing The server at the other end persistently closes the connection before it completes the download. Usually while downloading kdeba

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: John Hasler wrote: Donald Spoon writes: -Snip- < It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. No. It uses the pres

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:08:31PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > this is probably item #2 of the really-obvious-faq that i'm not > yet aware of, so i'll go ahead and ask because i haven't taken > the opportunity to look like a goober in, oh, about half a day, > now... > > doing the ssh-keygen

Re: Setting up the mail program

2003-01-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:00:48AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > > /etc/fetchmailrc: > > # /etc/fetchmailrc for system-wide daemon mode > # This file must be chmod 0600, owner fetchmail > > # Daemon configuration > # These two are set in /etc/default/fetchmail > set d

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-01-31 Thread nate
Curtis Vaughan said: > So, just to make sure I'm doing this right. I am going to install the sid > samba package on a woody server. If I temporarily change my > sources.list for sid, run apt-get install [the samba package], then I > should also get just those dependencies I need, right? Then I ca

Re: ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread nate
will trillich said: > it's ip-based, isn't it? in my experience it is key based. though I think with ssh2 you have a more extensive set of options available to you to restrict access further, perhaps to the IP level. but if you just have the keys themselves in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys it should be

Re: System dies after logging out of an X session - SOLVED

2003-01-31 Thread Marcin Chady
> I had a very similar problem with my Radeon 8500 and CVS builds. The only > thing I found would resolve this was to disable DRI (commented out the load > line in the Modules secion of XF86Config-4). You should have a look at the > dri-devel maillist archives and see whether there are crashes repo

ssh keys from two behind-the-firewall boxes?

2003-01-31 Thread will trillich
this is probably item #2 of the really-obvious-faq that i'm not yet aware of, so i'll go ahead and ask because i haven't taken the opportunity to look like a goober in, oh, about half a day, now... doing the ssh-keygen thing works like a charm; you copy your private keys to the remote box and then

Re: [NEWBIE]: HP DeskJet 710c - installation problems

2003-01-31 Thread Travis Crump
ketil V. wrote: I am trying Debian for the first time, and can not find any support for my printer. In RedHat the printer is supported by the pnm2ppa - system, along with the 712, 720, 810 and 1000 - series, but I do not find this package in my Woody CD-set. Does anybody know where I can find

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Donald Spoon writes: > > > >-Snip- < > >>It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to > >>start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. > > > > > >No. It uses the presenc

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:42:22PM -0800, nate wrote: > Matt Price said: > > hi there, > > > > can someone help me figure out what exactly initrd is, and why > > kernels use it? I have looked through the docs, and I understand that > > it's thefile used for an initial ramdisk in some cases, but I

Re: initrd -- what exactly is it?

2003-01-31 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Matt" == Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> hi there, can someone help me figure out what exactly initrd Matt> is, and why kernels use it? I have looked through the docs, Matt> and I understand that it's thefile used for an initial Matt> ramdisk in some cases, but I

Re: starcraft on wine

2003-01-31 Thread Travis Crump
Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:57:40PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: a black screen and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such Here the situation: Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen) ... i tried to change b

Re: CDRW UDF file system scripts

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:31:05AM -0800, Roy Pluschke wrote: > The only problem is shutting down without unmounting -- the packet-CD > driver process is terminated before the attempt to umount the drive and > so the shutdown just hangs. > > I don't know how to change the shutdown scripts in a deb

Re: ntpd not keeping time

2003-01-31 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:02:37PM +, Stephanie Boyd wrote: > ( Apparently this > is because the master crystal is often uncalibrated, so the clock > was advancing at the wrong rate.) The hardware RTC relies on a 32.768kHz crystal. The vast majority of 32.768kHz crystals are designed for dig

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Ulf Rompe wrote: ... > As an example, another useful (for me) addition to the inputrc is > this one: > > # Ctrl-Left/Right jumps wordwise on cmd line > "\e[D": backward-word > "\e[C": forward-word I fail to see the Control part here, it j

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:45:28AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > > It is not clear from your message whether you have gotten your USB set > > up properly. What output do you get to "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" and > > "cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers"? > > > T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00

Re: Samba + LDAP

2003-01-31 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Try http://samba.idealx.org/dist/samba-ldap-howto.pdf or Sid: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178206 Sid sounds like it has the answer. So, just to make sure I'm doing this right. I am going to install the sid samba package on a woody server. If I temporarily change my sourc

Re: Input lockup problem

2003-01-31 Thread Mike M
On Friday 31 January 2003 16:30, nate wrote: > Michael Mueller said: > > I tried commenting out the whole Generic Mouse section in XF86Config-4. > > I get no mouse control at all and I must telnet in to uncomment the > > section and init 6 the box. > > what about keyboard control? CTRL+ALT+BACKSP

Re: pppd on demand trouble

2003-01-31 Thread Donald Spoon
John Hasler wrote: Donald Spoon writes: -Snip- < It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not. No. It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to start the pppd program at bootup. W

Re: X11 stability

2003-01-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 11:36, nate wrote: > S Yuval said: > > Ever since I installed Debian, I have to hard boot at least 3 times a day, > > because X windows crashes and hangs the machine. This usually happens when > > the system is busy installing programs, or doing some other resource > > consumi

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Mueller
Maybe this link will work. The author of this book: http://www.softpro.com/0-07-138880-x.html used LyX. I apologize for shamefully plugging a relative's work. Mike On Friday 31 January 2003 16:08, Lars Jensen wrote: > LyX - a debian package - is a front end for LaTeX. Does everything you > need

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Michael Mueller
The author of this book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/007138880X/qid=1012937772/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_67_1/103-1153374-9935838 used LyX. I apologize for shamefully plugging a relative's work. Mike On Friday 31 January 2003 16:08, Lars Jensen wrote: > LyX - a debian package - is a front end f

Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-01-31 Thread Virgil
I tried it, a couple of times to be sure, but , NO, it does not solve the problem. Thanks, though. V. --- Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Virgil wrote: > > > I added > > append="mem=256M" > > to lilo.conf and ran and executed /sbin/lilo -v > > Try mem=255M and see w

Re: Problem printing man pages (Correction)

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:31:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I bet I know what's happened, then: you have some old cat pages in > > /var/cache/man that were cached with a groff that output the ANSI SGR > > escapes. Clean out everything

Re: .efx to Gimp generated file

2003-01-31 Thread Andy
>On Friday 31 January 2003 08:17, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Efax (apparently not related to Unix Efax, which is strange) is a fax > application that runs on MSWindows (but not Unix) and converts the > common fax format to their (probably proprietary) format, xxx.efx. Is > there any reasonable way to

Re: CDRW UDF file system scripts

2003-01-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 31 January 2003, 06:01 PM +): > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:32:36AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > Have you tried the update-rc.d executable? My under

Re: mtools

2003-01-31 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Mark Laird Copper wrote: > How do people configure mtools under Debian? My default install won't > let a user access /dev/fd0. Google and the mtools mailing list searches > turn up recommendations to run mtools setuid, but the mtools info > clearly say

Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-01-31 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Virgil wrote: > I added > append="mem=256M" > to lilo.conf and ran and executed /sbin/lilo -v Try mem=255M and see what happens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:08, Lars Jensen wrote: > LyX - a debian package - is a front end for LaTeX. Does everything you > need. > > Lars. > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > emacs + auctex > > - Original Message - > > From: "ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "debian"

Re: Problem printing man pages (Correction)

2003-01-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:47:32AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: <-- Snip -->> > > > I used man 'man' as an example. It turns out it was a bad example as > > the above commands pri

Re: Gkrellm and app launcher

2003-01-31 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:28, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 31 January 2003, 12:33 PM -0500): > > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:38, Francois Chenais wrote: > > > Is there any application launcher for GKrellm. > > > Don't find one with apt-ca

RE: list delay

2003-01-31 Thread Narins, Josh
DEAR DEBIAN USER, this is joke e-mail. I think. We are manipulating the time in the headers in order to cover the tracks from our efforts to monitor the e-amail from sketchy users such as yourself to prevent them from posting rude or obnoxious e-mails We've noted your peculair penchant for postin

Re: LaTex editor

2003-01-31 Thread Virgil
True...but I do not believe you'll find the latest version 1.2.2 as a debian package. Last time I checked, the deb package is quite outdated (1.16?). You can however install from source. See www.lyx.org __Virgil --- Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LyX - a debian package - is a front end f

RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-01-31 Thread Virgil
Running Debian Woody Kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM Thinkpad T-22. Upgraded RAM from 128M to 256M. Windows XP recognizes new RAM, and apparently has no difficulties with it. Linux does NOT seem to recognize the added RAM. free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem

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