Re: getting the initrd to load

2003-03-04 Thread Herbert Xu
Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Use the kernel-source from Debian if you don't. It contains the patch needed >> to make initrd accept cramfs. > > > Is there an alternative to cramfs that I can use that works without this patch? You can use romfs or even ext2/ext3. Check out the MKIMAG

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-04 Thread nate
Michael D. Schleif said: > This is in sources.list: > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > woody main non-free looks like whoever set that site up didn't do it right maybe? comparing. .. ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/

Re: sendmail security flaw & fix

2003-03-04 Thread nate
Mike M said: > I've been looking for the Debian response to the recently found sendmail > flaw and corresponding fix (http://www.sendmail.org). Can someone point > me to where I can find this information? curious that security.debian.org has not been updated. the advisory I recieved is archive

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On March 4, 2003 09:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm) > > implements a menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot. > > Hmm, doesn't the version in Woody have that cabability? GDM has > b

Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2003-03-04 Thread Jon
Hi all. Recently I got cable internet access. So I removed my serial-port 56k modem and decided to disable COM1 in the BIOS. My computer does not have a keyboard or mouse attached, never has. Now when I boot, I get the following lines that weren't there before: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. keyboar

Re: Trapped in kdm

2003-03-04 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:07:41PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: >/etc/init.d/gdm fails as gdm is not the default. That means that gdm is not set as default window display manager, see /etc/X11/default-display-manager > > best to back up to a simpler environment? > Sh

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach nate (Tue 04 Mar 02003 at 10:19:36PM -0800): > Michael D. Schleif said: > > Here's my situation: > > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > j2re1.4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-14.3 is to be installed > > j2sdk1.4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1) but 2

sawfish: removing it switches alternatives to auto mode???

2003-03-04 Thread Erik Steffl
I had set up fvwm2 as x-window-manager (using update-alternatives) but sawfish gets repeatedly set up as default window manager which is very annoying becuase it causes window manager to exit when I try to restart it. while testing the problem I have found out that when I apt-get remove sa

How to get PHP4 to work with Apache2

2003-03-04 Thread John Foster
I need any suggestions on how to get Php4 to install and work with Apache2; running mostly unstable with a lot of AMD optomized w/gcc3.2 apps. PHP4 from Debian will not install without installing apache-common (1.3) I think. Thanks -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-04 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:17:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > So, try this: > > rxvt*background:black > rxvt*foreground:white > > I don't know for sure what class name rxvt actually uses, > but a preusal of the documentation will tell you. > Most terminal emulator

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-04 Thread nate
Michael D. Schleif said: > Here's my situation: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > j2re1.4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-14.3 is to be installed > j2sdk1.4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1) but 2.2.5-14.3 is to be installed sounds like your trying to install test

Advice needed in package building process

2003-03-04 Thread Gary Ford
I am building my own MySQL .deb as I like to have everything in /usr/local/mysql. I've pretty much got it all down, but the one thing that I would really like to have happen is to run the this at the end of the install process: echo "/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql" >> /etc/ld.so.conf && ldconfig I

Re: User dialup access

2003-03-04 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote: > I'm trying to allow certain users to have dialup > priveledges from debian. I use wvdial to connect as root. > I've tried addgroup dialout USERNAME. The user can > successfully dialout with wvdial, but once pppd is started > it exits with error code

Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

2003-03-04 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Ian Melnick wrote: > Hello, all > > Every time my computer starts I need to use fbset to change the > resolution. Is there a way to set the default framebuffer mode? > I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf: # Specifies the VGA text mode at boot time. (normal, extended, ask, ) #

Re: nautilus - dont want home icon

2003-03-04 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 23:36, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hi there! > > sorry if this is a little off-topic... i just install nautilus, i like > some of the features -- well, primarily thumbnail views of images... > but, i do not want to have an icon for my home! i know with gmc the icon > is only a l

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 09:01 pm, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm) > > implements a menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot. > > Hmm, doesn't the version in Woody have that cabability? GDM has > be

Re: sendmail security flaw & fix

2003-03-04 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Mike M wrote: > I've been looking for the Debian response to the recently found > sendmail flaw and corresponding fix (http://www.sendmail.org). Can > someone point me to where I can find this information? http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00039.htm

Re: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-04 Thread Eduardo
---Brian Dockter wrote: > I'm trying to get Sarge up and running on my Vaio > laptop (GR390) and am having some problems. I'm using > the official netinst CD image (from 2/26/03). Also, > I'm behind a firewall and must go through an HTTP > proxy. > > My first (minor) problem is with select

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:17:39PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I believe the next version of Gnome's login screen (gdm) implements a > menu allowing you to shutdown/reboot. Hmm, doesn't the version in Woody have that cabability? GDM has been able to do that for quite some time (I think SystemMenu

j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Here's my situation: # sudo apt-get install j2re1.4 j2sdk1.4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages

nautilus - dont want home icon

2003-03-04 Thread Jason M. Harvey
hi there! sorry if this is a little off-topic... i just install nautilus, i like some of the features -- well, primarily thumbnail views of images... but, i do not want to have an icon for my home! i know with gmc the icon is only a link, easily deleted... but, i cannot find a way with nautilus to

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 07:51 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated: > > IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works to > > reboot the machine. > > so, say you're in charge of a server, and you or another sysadmin > has lost root, and y

sendmail security flaw & fix

2003-03-04 Thread Mike M
I've been looking for the Debian response to the recently found sendmail flaw and corresponding fix (http://www.sendmail.org). Can someone point me to where I can find this information? TIA, -- Mike M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 07:35 pm, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 18.40 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:08, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 02.08 schrieb Carla Schroder: > > > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > > [snip] > >

Re: Linux Ergonomics

2003-03-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 06:34, Subba Rao wrote: > I am searching for some software that will lockup my linux system(s) for > every X minutes. For Windows, I found some software called "Oostime" that does > exactly that and forces the user to take a break from the computer. Is there > anything like t

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 4, 2003 09:49 am, al davis wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 09:10 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > I would recommend the unstable sources.. As far as I can > > tell all of KDE is now in it. > > No. kmail and knode are still not there. I don't know what > else is missing. > > On my system, n

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:23:42PM -0800, Marc Wilson insinuated: > IMHO your box is broken somewhere if Ctrl-Alt-Del *ever* works to > reboot the machine. so, say you're in charge of a server, and you or another sysadmin has lost root, and you need to take it down in order to reboot into single-user

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 18.40 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:08, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 02.08 schrieb Carla Schroder: > > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > [snip] > > All previous encounters with KDE were less than acceptable for m

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:08:16PM -0500, Seneca insinuated: > You could CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, login there, and enter the > reboot command. you don't have to go to the console to do this, though -- is it "better" in some way? i shut down my machine all the time from X ... -- .~.

Re: Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Russell Shaw
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe binfmt###c; error=8". That's from memory, so I forget what th

Re: Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same > error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe > binfmt###c; error=8". Gee, turn off ELF, or something? > Did I set a configuration setting w

Re: Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 12:43am, Mark Schouten wrote: :On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:53PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: : :> Where are the configuration files to automate all this? It used to work, :> but I have recently been messing with the box - I updated everything :> updatable with aptitude, I

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I > can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. > > It seems like I must be missing something extraordinarily easy here. Certainly... go to another VT,

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Kent West
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME 1.4 running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it brings me to the GNOME login screen, with no 'reboot' item there, ei

Re: X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-04 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:45:11PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > /etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt contains the following two lines: > background:black > foreground:white > Yet rxvt is allways loaded with background white and foreground black. If that's all the line actually says, of course rxvt isn't goin

Re: Installing a New Boot Loader on a Software RAID

2003-03-04 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:13, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to change the boot loader on a software RAID system while > the system is running in multiuser mode? Currently the machine has LILO > installed, but I would like to switch it to grub. I believe that grub cannot boot soft

Re: Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:41:52PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first > time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same > error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe > binfmt###c;

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker insinuated: > Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, > and I can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME > 1.4 running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it > brings me to the GNOM

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:38:23PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I > can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME 1.4 > running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it brings me > to the GN

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Michael Naumann (Wed 05 Mar 02003 at 12:07:33AM +0100): > On Tuesday 04 March 2003 21:41, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > This has been bugging me for several years, and today -- hopefully -- > > some kind soul is going to enlighten me ;> > > > > Several years ago, running ksh on several

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 05:13:33PM -0500, Benjamin Rutt insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's question. > > he doesn't even want to run top, he wants to stick in a bunch of > > echo statements. > > In that case, place 'set

Kernel errors

2003-03-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I just compiled a fresh 2.2.20 kernel and rebooted into it for the first time. During the boot, the kernel went into an endless cycle of the same error message, something to the effect of "cannot modprobe binfmt###c; error=8". That's from memory, so I forget what the switches are, and 'modpr

Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

2003-03-04 Thread Ian Melnick
> Frame buffer resolutions are maintained using the utility `fbset'. It > can change the video mode properties of a frame buffer device. Its > main usage is to change the current video mode, e.g. during boot up in > one of your /etc/rc.* or /etc/init.d/* files. Okay, thanks, but when I pu

Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-04 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ok, so I'm stumped. I just did a nice new install of Debian Woody, and I can't figure out how I should reboot the thing. I have GNOME 1.4 running. There's no 'reboot' menu item, and when I log out, it brings me to the GNOME login screen, with no 'reboot' item there, either. CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't

Re: getting the initrd to load

2003-03-04 Thread Ian Melnick
> Use the kernel-source from Debian if you don't. It contains the patch needed > to make initrd accept cramfs. Is there an alternative to cramfs that I can use that works without this patch? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

2003-03-04 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Travis, Thanks for the reply, but no dice. 'xev' reports button11 and button12 events when I use the scroll wheel but the actual scrolling is broken. No change wrt the other buttons. -- Brad On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Travis Crump wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > >I've got myself a Kensington Expe

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:47:33PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030304 18:30]: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > Moving target or not, I think 200+ day uptimes ina 24x7 production > > > environment say something about teh

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:23:40PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Greg Madden wrote: > > > the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked > > > for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. > BTW, install dictd

Trapped in kdm

2003-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have come to suspect - perhaps wrongly - that many of the problems I am having with printets and printer sharing originated when I tried kde. In spite of kde's bells and whistles I usually start in icewm-gnome. So I thought it might be better to open my window with gdm. I tried the followin

Re: usb-kb

2003-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:25:16PM -0800, Mark Kalusha wrote: > 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 > fr

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Greg Madden wrote: > > the remote I am asked for an IP and port. Grrr. For the local I am asked > > for a FIFO. Please tell me what to do to dial. By the way, I am in Gnome. > > You might want to try wvdial or pppconfig. These two do all the configuring > for you. $ apt-cach

Updating packages while being able to use the old distribution CDs

2003-03-04 Thread syuval
When I run "apt-get update", Debian logs on to the updates ftp site (such as ftp.debian.org) and downloads an entirely new list of packages which overrides the older list. Thus if I install Debian from CDs and update, I will no longer be able to use them. Debian will insist on installing any pr

Re: How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

2003-03-04 Thread Travis Crump
Brad Sawatzky wrote: I've got myself a Kensington ExpertMouse USB trackball. The thing has 6 "special" buttons (ie. intended for exe launching, etc) 4 regular buttons 1 wheel This gives me three usable regular buttons (ie. right, left, middle), and a working wheel. In 'xev' the remaining

Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:51 PST]: > Hello, all > > Every time my computer starts I need to use fbset to change the > resolution. Is there a way to set the default framebuffer mode? I think it depends on your specific framebuffer driver. I get the followin

Re: Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:15:53 -0500 (EST) Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all: > > I'm not sure how I broke networking, but when I boot up, my ethernet > card is recognised, but it has no IP address and the box is not known > to my other lan boxes. Doing > > #ifconfig eth1 192.16

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 15:32 PST]: > Also, I have > trap 'history -a' EXIT > in my .profile. There is a cleaner way to do the above: shopt -s histappend good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "As we enjoy great advantages

Re: User dialup access

2003-03-04 Thread John Hasler
jackp writes: > What is missing here? What happens when you configure with pppconfig and have the users start ppp with pon? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

2003-03-04 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:31:54PM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: > Every time my computer starts I need to use fbset to change the > resolution. Is there a way to set the default framebuffer mode? An excerpt from $KERNEL_SOURCE/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt: 3. Frame Buffer Resolution Maintenanc

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > acn be used in production> For instance how old are the prel modules, and > devlopment environment in it? Ancinet by modern standards. Heh... I never can quite figu

Re: Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:53PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi, all: > > Doing > #ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.11 > corrects the problem, but now the external network is > unavailable. Doing > #route add default gw 192.168.1.1 > fixes that problem. > > Where are the configuration files

DVD player

2003-03-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
I have an USB HP DVD+RW which is working well so far. I have yet to be able to view any commercial DVDs with it yet. Tried xine from 3.0r0 with dvdnav, which I believed includes css abilities. I get the following errors: libdvdcss error: css error: ioctl_ReadCopyright failed, make sure DVD ioct

How to use many(>6) button mouse devices

2003-03-04 Thread Brad Sawatzky
I've got myself a Kensington ExpertMouse USB trackball. The thing has 6 "special" buttons (ie. intended for exe launching, etc) 4 regular buttons 1 wheel My current XFree86 (v 4.2.x) Config block is: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "TurboMouse" Driver "mou

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030304 18:30]: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:18:27PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > > Testing is almost always a moving target. Stable on the other hand is > > > not. Ideally, at some point s

Re: Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Mark Schouten
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:53PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Where are the configuration files to automate all this? It used to work, > but I have recently been messing with the box - I updated everything > updatable with aptitude, I've recompiled the kernel a few times, I finally > got sou

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:32:40PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > This is all consistent with what I've said. > sleep is a process, not a builtin, Yeah, I see, I had overlooked that 'built-in', that explains it. > and shows up in the process list. So, too, does the bash

Re: Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:53PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I'm not sure how I broke networking, but when I boot up, my ethernet > card is recognised, but it has no IP address and the box is not known > to my other lan boxes. Doing > > #ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.11 > > corrects the problem

User dialup access

2003-03-04 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'm trying to allow certain users to have dialup priveledges from debian. I use wvdial to connect as root. I've tried addgroup dialout USERNAME. The user can successfully dialout with wvdial, but once pppd is started it exits with error code #2. From man pppd this code corresponds to mutually e

Networking configuration?

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I'm not sure how I broke networking, but when I boot up, my ethernet card is recognised, but it has no IP address and the box is not known to my other lan boxes. Doing #ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.11 corrects the problem, but now the external network is unavailable. Doing #route add defa

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:53:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Well, then shouldn't it allow "stable" to be released often enough that it > > acn be used in production> For instance how old are the prel modules, and > > devlopment environme

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-04 Thread Michael Naumann
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 21:41, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > This has been bugging me for several years, and today -- hopefully -- > some kind soul is going to enlighten me ;> > > Several years ago, running ksh on several AIX and Solaris servers, and > many, many simultaneous xterm's open on many bo

Re: bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael D. Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:01 PST]: > Several years ago, running ksh on several AIX and Solaris servers, and > many, many simultaneous xterm's open on many boxen, commandline history > was _common_ across all of my sessions on a given box. z

Re: Problem with Mysql - Perl 5.8

2003-03-04 Thread Debian User
Joey, thanks for the input, I went ahead and restored from backup and everything is back to normal. I guess I jumped the gun installing that, oh well that's what we have backups for :). I guess I need to learn more about how to install Perl 5.8 in it's own directories, but at this point I am

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:18:27PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Testing is almost always a moving target. Stable on the other hand is > > not. Ideally, at some point security support for testing would be a > > good thing to have. H

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:11 PST]: > My point is that the testing release ahs proven to be stable in a > production environemnt (for me at least), and has, for example, much more > current perl modules, than stable. This is required for our software to > work.

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Martin Kacerovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 13:14 PST]: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:15:56PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 12:11 PST]: > > > hey, > > > > > > by default, a

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:05:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > Moving target or not, I think 200+ day uptimes ina 24x7 production > environment say something about teh :stability" of the testing release. > Therfore it appears to me to be the best choice for a production machine, > assumng that you need an

Re: getting the initrd to load

2003-03-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Ian Melnick wrote on Tue Mar 04, 2003 um 03:34:13PM: > I made an initial ram disk using mkinitrd. I put it in /boot. I > configured lilo to use it for the certain kernel image i want it used > for. Re-wrote mbr. Yet, it doesn't load it. Is there a good website that > goes through exactly

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Tue, 04 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:02AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade on some of my > > > >

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > okay, this is cool ... i'd just misunderstood a friend's question. he > doesn't even want to run top, he wants to stick in a bunch of echo > statements. In that case, place 'set -x' as the 2nd line of the shell script (the line after the #! business)

Re: Setting up a "reverse proxy"

2003-03-04 Thread Alan Shutko
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a number of services running on my LAN at home that are only > accessible to internal users. I'd like to have some way to make my > laptop be an "internal user" when I'm not at home. You probably want some sort of VPN for this. I use PPP over

Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend?

2003-03-04 Thread Eduardo Duenez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all your replies. I've installed ACPI and it indeed my BIOS seems to be new enough to support it ;-) Eduardo "Eduardo Duenez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if

Re: Setting up a "reverse proxy"

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:32:24PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I really doubt that "reverse proxy" is a correct term, but I don't know > what else to call this. I want to set up a way to have my laptop be at > home when I'm not there. I have a number of services running on my LAN > at home that

Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-04 Thread Brian Dockter
I'm trying to get Sarge up and running on my Vaio laptop (GR390) and am having some problems. I'm using the official netinst CD image (from 2/26/03). Also, I'm behind a firewall and must go through an HTTP proxy. My first (minor) problem is with selecting from a list of options (such as choosing a

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:30:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Not idael at all. As a matter of fact, it makes the whole concept of a > > > testing release pretty useless. > > > >

X doesn't seem to load app-defaults using gdm

2003-03-04 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, I'm currently using gdm and I'm a bit puzzled by what exactly happens (or doesn't happen) when starting X. I tried using a self-modified .xsession and X starts fine, but the app-defaults for xterm aren't loaded. Furthermore, when using one of the other Sessions, for instance fluxbox or gnome,

need scanner microcode eplus2k.usb ....

2003-03-04 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! just got an interesting offer for a lifetec LT 9385 scanner, but as it seems that damn thing needs some microcode to start up correctly finding a windows box has gotten really difficult nowaday... so if someone has a charitable soul and that file, please send me that stuff ! -- cia

Setting up a "reverse proxy"

2003-03-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
I really doubt that "reverse proxy" is a correct term, but I don't know what else to call this. I want to set up a way to have my laptop be at home when I'm not there. I have a number of services running on my LAN at home that are only accessible to internal users. I'd like to have some way to make

getting the initrd to load

2003-03-04 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all I made an initial ram disk using mkinitrd. I put it in /boot. I configured lilo to use it for the certain kernel image i want it used for. Re-wrote mbr. Yet, it doesn't load it. Is there a good website that goes through exactly what needs to be done? What am I leaving out? Thanks --

Setting Default Framebuffer Mode

2003-03-04 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, all Every time my computer starts I need to use fbset to change the resolution. Is there a way to set the default framebuffer mode? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Realtek ALC650 sound

2003-03-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have the same chip working on my machine (a Gateway 7VAX motherboard with the same chipset). You will need kernel-source-2.4.20 and kernel-headers-2.4.20 installed to do the compilation, not just kernel-package. If you do have these, make sure your driver download is pointing at the right kernel

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Someone else running testing in a production environment. And my choices are? As I see them. 2. Run stable and have 1970's versions of software/ woody has the exact same versions[except with security updates] of softw

Working with WAV files

2003-03-04 Thread David Turetsky
  I’ve just downloaded a long recording of a talk from a small Olympus recorder. The sound is muffled and I’d like to see if I can make it clearer. The underlying recording is digital, and I suspect it may be of reasonably good quality   I’m running Woody (v3r1)   What packages are out

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:47, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > hey, > > by default, a shell script just appears as the script name in a list > of processes (ps; top), right? how can i make it show each command > called within the script as it's being executed? Maybe you are talking about this: #!/bin/ba

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 09:20:27PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky insinuated: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:47:49PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > by default, a shell script just appears as the script name in a > > list of processes (ps; top), right? how can i make it show each > > command called within th

Re: What he heck is FIFO?

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:21 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Sorry, I am just getting tired that for dialing my ISP everything seems > to frustrate me. > > I suppose a way to dial is with Diald. Now, there are no options to dial, > but to connect. There are two kinds of connection: remote and local.

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:30:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. > > > Anyway, if you run testing you

Re: commands within shell script

2003-03-04 Thread Martin Kacerovsky
Hi, On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:15:56PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030304 12:11 PST]: > > hey, > > > > by default, a shell script just appears as the script name in a list > > of processes (ps; top), right? how can i mak

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:25:38PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 02:04 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, stan wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:32:34AM -0500, stan wrote: > >> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:02AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: >

Re: Patched sendmail? testing?

2003-03-04 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:18:27PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:04:48PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:02:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > That's a hopeless exaggeration; I run stable happily on my home server. > > > Anyway, if you run tes

bash: common history across multiple sessios ???

2003-03-04 Thread Michael D. Schleif
This has been bugging me for several years, and today -- hopefully -- some kind soul is going to enlighten me ;> Several years ago, running ksh on several AIX and Solaris servers, and many, many simultaneous xterm's open on many boxen, commandline history was _common_ across all of my sessions on

  1   2   3   >