RE: About user nobody

> -Original Message- > From: Danie Roux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:08 PM > To: Milanuk, Monte > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: About user nobody > > Heh, Caldera sponsors Webmin. > Eh? I knew they were involved to some degree, but I thought tha

Re: About user nobody

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:41:29PM -0800, Milanuk, Monte wrote: > > I've never really heard anything bad about Webmin, other than some people > less than satisfied w/ the web access security? I guess if you are in a > situation where security is that high of a priority, use ssh or physically > si

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

Hi (scroll down), On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-03 22:23]: > > > Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the > > order of the fontpaths is non optimal. You probably also have a > > .bak file with the

RE: About user nobody

> -Original Message- > From: Joseph A Nagy Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: About user nobody > You are right about linuxconf being broken. As far as I can > tell, it's > never worked. > > I remember using it

Problem installing woody

Hello I am trying to install the current stable version of Debian thru the network. I have a Netgear FA311 NIC. So while I am adding modules to the kernel, I add the netsami module(National Semiconductors). Now when I try to go online to download other packages, I can not do this. I have a veri

trap 123

Guys, I'm kinda newbie here. Does anyone know the meaning of command "trap 12345" in file /etc/profile? And, in what file can I put minimum password length restriction string? And what's the correct string for it? Thanks so much for your attention. Bram Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger f

Debian on Dell Precision 420 and SCSI

Hello, I've got a Dell Precision 420M at work, dual P3s, pretty much all of the specs from the following email on this list: The only question unanswered from that thread was that of the SCSI controller. It has an

VNC server not accepting keyboard input

not entirely debian related but the system is based on debian(at least the kernel is last I checked..) I'm talkin about the ThinkNIC(www.thinknic.com) a few months ago I seriously hacked up my grandpa's NIC, including stuff like a SSH server and VNC server incase I need to get in to do something w

Re: About user nobody

Milanuk, Monte wrote: The user doesn't appear in the linuxconf interface. Try 'less /etc/passwd'. There are probably a lot of 'users' in there that you don't recognize, and that aren't in linuxconf. A lot of them are system daemons or other accounts necessary for programs and services to run w

Re: Gamepads

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:25:14PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > > So I am in the market for a new gamepad. It is one thing to find out > what is supported in Linux, but it is another to buy a gamepad that is > not only comfortable but intuitive. > Any suggestions? People have suggested MS

Re: Nvidia Geforce 2 capability's not fully used

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:08:47PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Yeah? I'm fairly sure that X 4.2.1, which has been in sid for a very > long time, supported GeForce4's with the nv driver. Also, the vesa > driver should work (for some values of 'work', anyway). The VESA drivers work up to 1024x768 @ 1

Re: Firewalling under Debian

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:38AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > Just connect the two new PCs into two NICs on the gateway pc. Verify the > local connections work and that the cable connection works on the gateway > pc, then install ipmasq. This works, but be sure to check /usr/share/doc/ipmasq for

Ogg encoding broken in Sarge?

Just confirming that I'm reading the bug reports correctly... I went Woody --> Sarge last night without a hitch, except that Ogg encoding broke. Running "oggenc" dies with a message about missing libvorbisenc.so.0, which sure enough is nowhere to be found. There are numerous bug reports (150+ days

Re: About user nobody

Satish Iyer wrote: Hi, I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop system. At times I notice a process with high disk activity running under user name "nobody". How can I figure out which program is responsible for this and what exactly is it upto? The user doesn't appear in the linuxconf inte

RE: About user nobody

> -Original Message- > From: Satish Iyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: About user nobody > > > Hi, > I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop > system. At times I notice a process with high disk > activity runn

Re: About user nobody

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:38:33AM +, Satish Iyer wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop > system. At times I notice a process with high disk > activity running under user name "nobody". How can I > figure out which program is responsible for this and > what exactly is i

Re: xfree86 4.3

On approximately Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:29:55PM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: > apologies if this is not the proper list. > > when can we expect xfree86 4.3 to find its way into unstable? > Please read this: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/xsf.html Then go here: http://penguinppc.org/~da

Re: About user nobody

Quoting Satish Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop > system. At times I notice a process with high disk > activity running under user name "nobody". How can I > figure out which program is responsible for this and > what exactly is it upto? > Start wi

Re: xfree86 4.3

> "matt" == matt zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: matt> apologies if this is not the proper list. when can we expect matt> xfree86 4.3 to find its way into unstable? See http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/xsf.html in particular the February 27 announcement. And remember that Brande

About user nobody

Hi, I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop system. At times I notice a process with high disk activity running under user name "nobody". How can I figure out which program is responsible for this and what exactly is it upto? The user doesn't appear in the linuxconf interface. Regards, Sat

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

On March 3, 2003 06:33 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 20:19]: > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the > > > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for gettin

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

On March 2, 2003 11:12 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 11:52 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I think I'd like to give KDE a shot now... Call me Nicolas > > Petrely-fied > > ... > > > So, I'm pretty certain there are "K" equivalents

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine

On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:10:20 +0100, JAVALIN wrote: >I'm trying to install a KZPSA (Scsi) on an iintel machine (Pentium II >400) with debian. Erm .. isn't a KZPSA a DEC-brand card intended for use in DEC Alpha systems (the kind with PCI buses, rather than Futurebuses) (where DEC=Compaq=Hewpaq as n

Re: xfree86 4.3

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:29:55PM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: > apologies if this is not the proper list. > > when can we expect xfree86 4.3 to find its way into unstable? When it's ready :-) There're test debs around already, so I wouldn't imagine it'll take all that long. -- Rob Weir <[EM

xfree86 4.3

apologies if this is not the proper list. when can we expect xfree86 4.3 to find its way into unstable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xfs problem (actually X crashes after 1 second)

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:35:12AM +0100, Miky J wrote: > > Here's the new log file i have, i only have two warnings but it doesn't work, i > still don't understand why the system wants apm. > Could this be because of the matrox drivers ? or because the system doesn't detect > the matrox card ni

Re: Dselect and apt problems

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:11:45PM +, rehm wrote: > I'm having problems updating my software list for dselect. > Under the debian documentation, if I got anything wrong, to update my > dselect list by using iso cd's i made of Woody r3, I would go > > -> apt-cdrom add ..which is succesful fo

Re: Kernel-sourcecode directory

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:22:04PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello for the 3rd time today, > > I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the > documentation. You have to give a command wich gives this result: > > We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel so

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

Disclaimer: I've never used knoppix, this is basically just what I've heard from confused newbies on #debian :-) On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:28:45PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote: > I didn't want to butt onto someone else's thread, I hope I did this the > right way 8-) I have tried the Knoppix CD to t

Re: netiquette (was Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.)

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:37:36PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 22:10 PST]: > > Sorry Kent, I tried posting after as a response and it sucks. I use > > spell checking and as most spell checkers are pretty dumb and start at > > the top, I end up having

Re: Newbie administrator

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:47:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > someone please shut him up. What on earth are you babbling about this time? Also, your mailer is STILL broken. Context retained, in the hope that there was a point to this: > McEwan Family > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:09:41 -0600

Re: Nvidia Geforce 2 capability's not fully used

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:14:42AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > I had to do this to get my Geforce4 MX440 to work on unstable. Yeah? I'm fairly sure that X 4.2.1, which has been in sid for a very long time, supported GeForce4's with the nv driver. Also, the vesa driver should work (for some valu

Re: Font antialiasing on Phoenix

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:54:51PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 20:45, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have tried Phoenix and found it pretty fast and interesting browser. > > The only concern is the fact that I can't get antialiased fonts. However > > in both Moz

Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone built up a small firewall/mail machine lately? > > I'm looking for a motherboard replacement for a firewall machine on a > small lan. I'd like to go all on-board for simplicity and cost, so > on-board video, and dual nics (but

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

* Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030303 20:19]: > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the > > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for getting KDE > > packages. I used that and am running KDE right

Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

hi ya On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm looking for a motherboard replacement for a firewall machine on a > > small lan. I'd like to go all on-board for simplicity and cost, so > > on-board video, and dual nics

Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm looking for a motherboard replacement for a firewall machine on a > > small lan. I'd like to go all on-board for simplicity and cost, so > > on-board video, and dual nics (but I'm

nfs mount during debian install

Hi, Is using an nfs mount for / during the debian insall supported in any way? or plan to be supported? -jason pepas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms, realplayer, and plugger

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:54:12PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm using plugger with galeon. > > Few questions: > > - When I click on an audio file the entire file is downloaded before xmms > begins to play. Is there a way to get xmms to start playing before the > download is complete (stre

memory leaks, and the proper way to interpret memory usage

Hi, I am tired of memory leaks, and the first step in solving them is figuring out what is causing them. today is a typical example. My box has been up for 5 days, running a single gdm gnome/nautilus session the entire time. mozilla has been running pretty much the entire time, with lots of

Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm looking for a motherboard replacement for a firewall machine on a > small lan. I'd like to go all on-board for simplicity and cost, so > on-board video, and dual nics (but I'm open to other suggestions). > Something the bf2.4-xfs

Re: "label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:55 am, Jeff Hahn wrote: > I like to use the "LABEL=usr /usr" format in fstab so that re-arranging > scsi and/or ide drives doesn't necessarily require changes to /etc/fstab. > > I don't recall exactly, but the error message during boot was something > like "Special device LABE

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I guess I didn't read close enough... I went and read up at the > davidpashley site and in it, he has an apt entry for getting KDE > packages. I used that and am running KDE right now. > > Any advantage to using the DEBs from KDE.org instead

RE: Installing php4-mysql 4.2.3-9

> -Original Message- > From: bernhard [mailto:bernhard] On Behalf Of Bernhard Kuemel > > I'm a bit clueless how to activate mysql support with the > php4-mysql/unstable package. There are no instructions included. The postinst script for php4-mysql should ask if you want it added to your

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

* Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030302 20:23]: > > Start here, KDE3 and Debian : Frequently Asked Questions > http://davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html > > There are at least three different sources for KDE debs. Use only the ones > from kde.org. KDE3 won't make it into stable for a whi

usb-kb

I just installed Potato (r6 from CD) on my home built box (SOYO Dragon KT-333 MOBO). I installed win98SE, w2kp and XP Pro (in that order) before installing Potato. During the install a borrowed s PS/2 keyboard from a friend because my USB keyboard would not work during installation. I made sure

[Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.

Anyone built up a small firewall/mail machine lately? I'm looking for a motherboard replacement for a firewall machine on a small lan. I'd like to go all on-board for simplicity and cost, so on-board video, and dual nics (but I'm open to other suggestions). Something the bf2.4-xfs net install CD

Installing php4-mysql 4.2.3-9

Hi Adam! I'm a bit clueless how to activate mysql support with the php4-mysql/unstable package. There are no instructions included. I can see it includes the following files ... s:/usr/share/doc# dpkg -L php4-mysql /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/php4 /usr/lib/php4/20020429 /usr/lib/php4/20020429/mysq

Re: Xfs problem (actually X crashes after 1 second)

Here's the new log file i have, i only have two warnings but it doesn't work, i still don't understand why the system wants apm.Could this be because of the matrox drivers ? or because the system doesn't detect the matrox card nicely ? Thanx   # lspci00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD

Re: "label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:55:14PM -0600, Jeff Hahn wrote: > Woody/testing... > > I like to use the "LABEL=usr /usr" format in fstab so that re-arranging scsi > and/or ide drives doesn't necessarily require changes to /etc/fstab. > > I don't recall exactly, but the error message during boot was

Re: Firewalling under Debian

Actually my firewall has no X installed on it... I use fwbuilder on my workstation behind the firewall and copy the script over via scp... My firewall is a dedicated head-less machine with a 4-port switch card for the external interface and a 10/100 NIC for the internal... Jeremy

Re: Firewalling under Debian

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:38:01AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Now that is appealing, I run 3.0r1, so I can build the fw script on my m/c. > Does it support iptables? I am a complete newbie at this but I think I should > go for the latest techniques. > > Thanks > Bob > Firewall Builder ha

Re: networking problem and philosophy

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 13:25, David Z Maze wrote: > Hmm. Is there anything informative in /etc/network/interfaces (the > "normal" place for network settings under Debian)? You also might try > running your DHCP client by hand, and seeing if that works. Also, > check that your kernel configuratio

"label=" option in fstab in Debian??? (newbie question)

Woody/testing... I like to use the "LABEL=usr /usr" format in fstab so that re-arranging scsi and/or ide drives doesn't necessarily require changes to /etc/fstab. I don't recall exactly, but the error message during boot was something like "Special device LABEL=usr not found" Any special Debia

Re: Firewalling under Debian

Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:11:12AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > My son's proposed network is to be this: > > Firewall / NAT / Gateway machine connected to cable using 1 nic. > Connects to hardware router / switch using 2nd nic. > He has the switch and will be buying a PIII 400 2nd hand for the

Sound solutions for Woody

I have a Debian stable (Woody) box with a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer running on the standard 2.2.20 kernel. What sound solutions do I have available to me? I can get by with just hearing a cd or some mp3s or something through it, for now. - Joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Sound solutions for Woody

I have a Debian stable (Woody) box with a SoundBlaster Audigy Gamer running on the standard 2.2.20 kernel. What sound solutions do I have available to me? I can get by with just hearing a cd or some mp3s or something through it, for now. - Joel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Sign

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

* Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-03 22:23]: > Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the > order of the fontpaths is non optimal. You probably also have a > .bak file with the config before the change - to see what it did. > I compared the settings. They have b

Re: Installing Debian on a Proliant DL380

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 16:18, nate wrote: > David Falk said: > > I cant seem to get Debian to see the hard drives. I have a Smart Array > > controller and that is setup correctly but I cant get Debian to see it. > > Any Suggestions? > > use the compact kernel, I've installed debian 2.2 on a few DL3

RE: dselect

Can our friend Sukrit be helped? What I am thinking is he could find out which disk the package he wants to install is on... Then he could change his sources to be just that one disk Then install. Would that work? How would he find which disk the package is on? > -Original Message- >

RE: Installing Debian on a Proliant DL380

>I cant seem to get Debian to see the hard drives. I have a Smart Array >controller and that is setup correctly but I cant get Debian to see it. >Any Suggestions? Look for a module under Block Devices for something about Compaq Smart Array. Load the module. Debian will see what volumes you have

Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

On March 2, 2003 06:43 am, Brian Durant wrote: > The only thing interesting that I found, was with the "dmesg" command. > The response was "eth0: Media Link Off". I have run into this response > with Deb 3 rev. 1 as well. Don't know what it means one of the replies > from the thread stated that it

Re: Installing Debian on a Proliant DL380

David Falk said: > I cant seem to get Debian to see the hard drives. I have a Smart Array > controller and that is setup correctly but I cant get Debian to see it. > Any Suggestions? use the compact kernel, I've installed debian 2.2 on a few DL380s and it worked fine with the compact kernel(I alwa

Re: man pages for xfree

* Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030303 11:36 PST]: > It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on > a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I > "startx" I get > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin

Re: Firewalling under Debian

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:49:57AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 08:11, bob parker wrote: > > > The fw machine is to run Debian with 2.4 kernel and iptables. > > My question is, what is the best way to go about setting up the Debian fw > > machine? > > Shorewall is an ip

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 Mar 2003 4:29 pm, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > last Friday, I run an update of debian sid. > > Since then, the "graphical" fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and > xclock changed. Debconf seems to have updated /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: Font antialiasing on Phoenix

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 20:45, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried Phoenix and found it pretty fast and interesting browser. > The only concern is the fact that I can't get antialiased fonts. However > in both Mozilla and Galeon, installed in the same box, I have > antialiasing workin

Re: Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > last Friday, I run an update of debian sid. > > Since then, the "graphical" fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and > xclock changed. FWIW, I've noticed something similar: my laptop, having been relatively off the network for a week, spontaneously changed i

Re: man pages for xfree

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0500, Phil wrote: > > Woody - 3.0 just installed from CDs > ~~ Well, then you 'apt-get install' xserver-xfree86 and finish the configuresteps. Also, check if 'xbase-utils, xfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-100dpi-t

netiquette (was Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.)

* Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030227 22:10 PST]: > Sorry Kent, I tried posting after as a response and it sucks. I use > spell checking and as most spell checkers are pretty dumb and start at > the top, I end up having to correct or skip other people's misspelled > words before I get to

Installing Debian on a Proliant DL380

Title: Message I cant seem to get Debian to see the hard drives. I have a Smart Array controller and that is setup correctly but I cant get Debian to see it. Any Suggestions?    

Re: man pages for xfree

At 08:50 PM 3/3/03 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Phil wrote: > It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on > a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I > "startx" I get > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: urs

Re: man pages for xfree

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0500, Phil wrote: > It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on > a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I > "startx" I get > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir > /

RE: Kernel-sourcecode directory

Using the Utah GLX drivers is more legal, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell Bastard. On 03 Mar 2003 11:00:05 -0700 "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- "Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello for the 3rd time today, > > I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and n

RE: Kernel-sourcecode directory

It may be better to use the 3D Utah GLX driver as its more legally sound, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell Bastard. On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:11:16 + Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:22:04PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello for the 3rd time t

Re: networking problem and philosophy

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 13:25, David Z Maze wrote: > > Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to get Debian going on my Thinkpad T21, and synchronize with > > my Sony Clie PDA. > > (This works fine for me, but I always build my own kernel. I've had > better luck using

man pages for xfree

It's been a while since I set up an X configuration. The last time was on a potato machine. There is no XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and when I "startx" I get /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: ursr/bin/X11/X No such file or dir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: ursr/bin/X11/X cannot

Re: Kernel-sourcecode directory

"Willem-Jan Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello for the 3rd time today, > > I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the > documentation. You have to give a command wich gives this result: > > We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory > tr

Re: Debian and SquirrelMail

"Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installed cyrus-admin package and add user with cyradm. > The mailbox was added ok but still go the same problem. > Could this be file systems permissions ? i've even tried chmod 777 on several > dirs without results. > > Thanks > Did you adj

Re: Couple of more questions.

Teilhard Knight wrote: I tried to test the modem, but I have no permission to dial, urgh!, and the system says that I should add myself to the dialing group. "addgroup knight dialout" as root, then log knight out and log knight back in. I didn't know how to do that and it was late, so, I will try

RE: dselect

> "Josh" == Josh Narins writes: Josh> 7 CDs? ?? Josh> :) Josh> You do not need 7 CDs if you have network. Josh> You will want to change your /etc/apt/sources.list to remove Josh> all those CD entries, and just point to the standard sources Josh> for your area.

Re: Xfs problem

Hi, On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:13:20PM +0100, Miky J wrote: > > Oh sorry i though i jointed it to the mail. > > (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" > (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) > (**) | |-->Monitor "Iiyama Vision Master 404" > (**) | |-->Device "Matrox G400" > (**) |-->Inpu

Re: Kernel-sourcecode directory

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:22:04PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello for the 3rd time today, > > I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the > documentation. You have to give a command wich gives this result: > > We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel so

Re: networking problem and philosophy

Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get Debian going on my Thinkpad T21, and synchronize with > my Sony Clie PDA. (This works fine for me, but I always build my own kernel. I've had better luck using coldsync than pilot-link, and the first sync always fails.) > I'm

Re: Couple of more questions.

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 00:32, Teilhard Knight wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Sebastiaan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 8:56 AM > Subject: Re: Couple of more questions. > > > > Hi, > > > > On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Kent West wrote: > > > >

Re: Kernel-sourcecode directory

Ok. So this is what you have to do: Install kernel-source, which should be the same as the kernel running. cd /usr/src tar -jxf kernel-source-[your kernel] ln -s kernel-source-[your kernel dir] linux cd linux make menuconfig Choose "load an alternative conf" -> /boot/config-[your kernel] Exit and s

RE: Kernel-sourcecode directory

> -Original Message- > From: Willem-Jan Meijer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Kernel-sourcecode directory > > > Hello for the 3rd time today, > > I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the >

Re: slow network name resolution?

On 3470 September 1993, Dave Howorth wrote: > This problem does not occur with other machines on the network > (including an identical PC installed with Suse Linux) so I suspect > some quirk of Debian's network configuration (3.0r1 stable). What nameservers are your computers asking? Compare "cat

RE: Kernel-sourcecode directory

> > Hello for the 3rd time today, > Hello back just once. :) > I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the > documentation. You have to give a command wich gives this result: > > We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory > tree. Since we are

RE: Debian and SquirrelMail

Installed cyrus-admin package and add user with cyradm. The mailbox was added ok but still go the same problem. Could this be file systems permissions ? i've even tried chmod 777 on several dirs without results. Thanks -Mensagem original- De: Ramin Motakef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviad

Firewall install hangs?

I've been running a hobbled version of a commercial firewall package on an old 486/66 (w dual nics) and I'm tried to get stable installed on it as a replacement firewall. The installation is floppy based and seems to go fine until the base system install. It then seems to hang on: "valid

Kernel-sourcecode directory

Hello for the 3rd time today, I've downloaded the nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glc-src and read the documentation. You have to give a command wich gives this result: We do not seem to be in a top level linux kernel source directory tree. Since we are trying to make a kernel package, that does no

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

Klaus, so did you find a pattern under what circumstances it works and when it does not? I would be very interested especially concerning Debian ... Michael Klaus Imgrund wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:46:50 +0100 > Michael Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have tried to get DHCP working

RE: Internal SMTP Relay with EXIM

> Hi, > > I'm trying to set up an internal SMTP relay/gateway for all > email on our > network (example.com - for example). Any Internet email should pass > through our firewall and be forwarded to this box. After processing > (using exim, spamassassin, sophos), it should then be relayed to

Re: Debian and SquirrelMail

"Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've setup cyrus-imapd and squirrelmail however i can't login to the > webmail. > > ERROR : Could not complete request. > Query:CREATE "INBOX.Sent" > Reason Given: Permission denied > Looks like squirrelmail is trying to create a

Re: proftpd can't determine IP adress

short answer, you don't have a dns entry for that name. you need to have it in /etc/hosts or resolveable from the /etc/resolv.conf file so it can find its ip address try pinging hugo.paed.uni-muenchen.de and seeing if it can find itsself On Monday 03 March 2003 11:38, Sven Garbade wrote: > Hi

Fonts in XFree86/fvwm changed during update on sid

Dear all, last Friday, I run an update of debian sid. Since then, the "graphical" fonts like used in mozilla or jpilot and xclock changed. Is there any easy way to select/specify the fonts to be used there? I make use of latest XFree86 with fvwm as available on sid. Thanks for any hints! wbr,

networking problem and philosophy

Hi, I'm trying to get Debian going on my Thinkpad T21, and synchronize with my Sony Clie PDA. I installed Woody using packages via ftp, so it's up to date. During the install, one of the choices is to use 'netenv' to configure the network. I don't know any better - I'm new to Debian - so I let

Re: Xfs problem

Oh sorry i though i jointed it to the mail.   (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)(**) |   |-->Monitor "Iiyama Vision Master 404"(**) |   |-->Device "Matrox G400"(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"(**)

Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine

Hi, I'm trying to install a KZPSA (Scsi) on an iintel machine (Pentium II 400) with debian. The card is recognized by the machine, but when I boot whit 2.4 kernel it's shows a panic and stops. Whith 2.2.20-idepci kernel it boots, but doesn't recognize the card an de disks cabinets. lspci shows

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