Re: strace conflicts php4 ?

2003-03-12 Thread Travis Crump
Xavier Barnabe-Theriault wrote: hi On testing, I get this for strace: And just to be sure it's not my fault for some corruption that might have happened, I tried to apt-get another package and it went peacefully. Any idea to get strace ?? Xavier The new libc6 conflicts with php4. If you want,

Re: how to apply diff file

2003-03-12 Thread nate
> Hello to everyone. > > I have downloaded the source file of an application (apt-get source appl). > Along with the .tar.gz file, I got and diff.gz file which I don't know how > to apply it to the .tar.gz file (after the extract of cource). last i checked apt-get source automatically extracted an

Re: Apache not serving up .shtml properly

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen Cormier
> # > # To use server-parsed HTML files > # > AddType text/html .shtml > AddHandler server-parsed .shtml > > The above is the only relevant bit from the Apache config I could find > regarding server-parsed html files. Did you uncomment the line: LoadModule includes_modu

Re: text mode virtual terminal auto lock

2003-03-12 Thread Kristof Goossens
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:48:58AM +, Aurelio Turco wrote: > I have looked around for a screen lock > for the text mode virtual terminal > that activates automatically after > a certain amount of idle time > but could not find even one. > > Does anyone know of any? vlock does the locking part

how to apply diff file

2003-03-12 Thread mtsouk
Hello to everyone. I have downloaded the source file of an application (apt-get source appl). Along with the .tar.gz file, I got and diff.gz file which I don't know how to apply it to the .tar.gz file (after the extract of cource). Can you please help me? TIA, Mihalis. - :wq -- To UNSUBS

Re: sendmail upgrade: SMTP_AUTH + version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL

2003-03-12 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote: > Marcus Schopen wrote: > After upgrading sendmail Debian's sendmail maintainer set pwcheck_method > to PAM in /etc/mail/sasl/Sendmail.conf instead of leaving my > "pwcheck_method: sasldb" configuration untouched. :-/ > > Marcus Uh ... ;-( -- ... don

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread arief_mulya
Dear, matt zagrabelny wrote: In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and failed at many many moons ago). Failed? Can you tell me why? I used to use P

strace conflicts php4 ?

2003-03-12 Thread Xavier Barnabe-Theriault
hi On testing, I get this for strace: [EMAIL PROTECTED](DB)# apt-get install strace Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libc6-dev locales The following packages will be REMOVED: php4 The following NEW packages w

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread matt zagrabelny
> In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that > allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The > GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and > failed at many many moons ago). > > So, is there a more modern way to "hotwire" two boxes without

RE: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Jim McCloskey
Thanks very much to all who responded and contributed to the discussion. I did the upgrade, and have experienced no problems at all so far. Nice, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-12 Thread Craig Dickson
John Hasler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh scripting, > > OpenOffice.org. > > Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it. I'm not sure it's required for installation. I don't have csh or tcsh installed, yet the openo

Re: X-over cables

2003-03-12 Thread Kent West
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 20:43, Alan Shutko wrote: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If i lived in the US ;-) Delivery would be a bit of a prob. im in the uk, so as suggested already i think this will be a diy proj Yes, because google can't search for plac

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:36, Pigeon wrote: > I don't think USB to USB is possible, as both PCs would want to be the > controller, which is not allowed. I think. USB to USB networking. Its in the kernel source, though I have never used it. Might be kinda cool to use sometime though. -- Scott He

Apache not serving up .shtml properly

2003-03-12 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
At http://stop-the-madness.homelinux.org/index.shtml there are two pieces of SSI, both of them rely on the date one is for "Today's date is" (Today is ) and the other is a "Document last modified on" (). As you can see at the above site, the page is being served up minus the numbers. #

Question about Eduard Bloch's XFS install

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Moseley
I use the XFS Installation iso from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/. 1) I thought I saw a 2.4.20 kernel xsf iso was available, but can't seem to find it now. Did I make that up? I do see there's a 2.4.20 deb available. 2) I have the 2.4.18 "without-basedebs" iso on CD, which I use t

Re: [DEB-USER] Mouse/X (XFConfig-4 is right)

2003-03-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:27:18AM +, Olivier wrote: > Hello, > > I have my mouse correctly configured (and it used to work). > However, from time to time, the pointer ( -|> on screen) is > displayed a little BESIDE the X Window think it actualy is. > This results in the fact I do not `clic

Error in php script, or may be in apache installation

2003-03-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am testing some php script in my home network, from my win98 machine keep getting Method Not Allowed The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /test/writing.php. I have `chown www-data test' and `chown www-data test/* ' to no avail the post method is simply from a form, here goes th

Re: apt-* notify for new packages ? (update)

2003-03-12 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:41:10 Shaun Crossley wrote: You might be interested in this script I came up with upon reading this thread. I called it apt-show-versions and placed it in /etc/cron.daily (and made it executable via chmod +x). [snip] #!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-new: email alerts wh

dpkg errors involving KDE3, libarts and kmail

2003-03-12 Thread Oleg
Hi I use Debian 3.0 + KDE3 + X4.2 + OCaml 3.0.6 (see sources.list below) When I do `apt-get update`, I get the following error: Unpacking replacement libarts1 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libarts1_1.1.0-0woody4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libqtmcop

Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, you wrote: > surely "serif" and "sans serif" are about the limit of what you want for > web-work? > > or are you talking about fonts for images? > > dave selby wrote: > > I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in > > /usr/X11/lib/fonts.

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:19:35PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Reid Mumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > > > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:12:51AM +0800, csj wrote: > In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that > allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The > GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and > failed at many many moons ago). > > So, is th

Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread John Griffiths
surely "serif" and "sans serif" are about the limit of what you want for web-work? or are you talking about fonts for images? dave selby wrote: I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any id

Re: creating a FAT file system

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:53:43PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my > cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win > FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it: > > piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1

Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time dave selby said... > > Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt > force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER > xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones till I do a complete > re-boot. Run the command "xset fp

Re: X-over cables

2003-03-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 20:43, Alan Shutko wrote: > Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If i lived in the US ;-) > > Delivery would be a bit of a prob. > > > > im in the uk, so as suggested already i think this will be a diy > > proj > > Yes, because google can't search for places in th

Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread dave selby
I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any idea where the correwsponding lib is in debian ? Second query. I will be doing some commercial work for a web page, I have been advised that I can

Re: Setting Static IP Address, done..now setup Apt-Get

2003-03-12 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:41:14PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > I had to create my resolv.conf from scratch, not a big > deal and I have apt-get lynx-ssl and vim...so I am on > my way...thanks for the help > > also, how do I apt-get X? apt-get install x-window-system-core > And, what other pac

Re: X-over cables [& googling]

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:43:54PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If i lived in the US ;-) > > Delivery would be a bit of a prob. > > > > im in the uk, so as suggested already i think this will be a diy > > proj > > Yes, because google can't search for

Re: failing to unsubscribe

2003-03-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:56:01AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million > people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. > i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i

ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-12 Thread dave selby
Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following installed xfstt copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload It counts the correct number of fonts, all ok so far modified the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file, adding FontPath "unix/:710

Re: X-over cables

2003-03-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If i lived in the US ;-) > Delivery would be a bit of a prob. > > im in the uk, so as suggested already i think this will be a diy > proj Yes, because google can't search for places in the UK http://www.solwise.co.uk/networking_sundries.htm -- Al

Re: Setting Static IP Address, done..now setup Apt-Get

2003-03-12 Thread CM Miller
I had to create my resolv.conf from scratch, not a big deal and I have apt-get lynx-ssl and vim...so I am on my way...thanks for the help also, how do I apt-get X? And, what other packages should I apt-get? thanks to all!!! -Chris = Winning an argument on the internet is lik

Re: clarification; was: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-12 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:42:37PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:28:48PM +0100, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:08:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 04:37, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > > > > > A server does not need X. > > > > > > Un

Re: apt sources.list problem

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Hurt
Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:30:02PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:53:55PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: Hi , I am using Debian Woody 3.0 r1 .My problem is below when i cat /etc/apt/sources.list it shows me following output # CDROMs are managed through the

Re: failing to unsubscribe

2003-03-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030312 20:20]: > i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million > people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. > i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i do: > >

Re: X-over cables

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:58:22PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Alan Shutko wrote: > > >Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >>im sure i have seen one of these somewhere, just cant remember where! > >> > >> > > > >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=crossover+adapter > > > >

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:50:16PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > Hey, that gives me an idea. How about a cable with two heads > > on one end, > > one being a crossover? Or would that introduce noise? > > > > It will work but it won't be "certified" for 100Mbit... :-) now thats an even better

Re: sendmail upgrade: SMTP_AUTH + version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL

2003-03-12 Thread Marcus Schopen
Marcus Schopen wrote: Hi, after upgrading sendmail because of the sendmail bug, some things with SMTP_AUTH and TLS go strange: I get a "self signed certificate" when sending a mail from my client-sendmail through the relay-sendmail. Before upgrading, everything worked fine with this configurati

failing to unsubscribe

2003-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
i never had problems with this before even though i noticed a million people complaining. i would like to unsubscribe from a debian-curiosa. i know for a fact that i am subscribed to debian-curiosa as [EMAIL PROTECTED] thus i do: /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] << EOM From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: X-over cables

2003-03-12 Thread Kent West
Alan Shutko wrote: Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: im sure i have seen one of these somewhere, just cant remember where! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=crossover+adapter Yep; just what you're looking for. http://4u-depot.com/catenrjcrosa.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 4:41 PM > To: Debian User > Subject: Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection] > > > > > > > Hey, that gives me an idea. How about a cable with two heads > on one end, > one being

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-12 Thread John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh scripting, > OpenOffice.org. Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Kent West
deFreese, Barry wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:50 PM To: Debian User Subject: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection] On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: So, is there a more modern

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Kent West
Hugh Saunders wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:29:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:34:02 + Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on the subject of crossover cables, do you know where you can get adapters that go on the end of normal patch cables to conver

Re: X-over cables

2003-03-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > im sure i have seen one of these somewhere, just cant remember where! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=crossover+adapter -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Looking for a developer in St. Louis? http://web.springies.com/~ats/ "Loo

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Hugh Saunders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on the subject of crossover cables, do you know where you can get > adapters that go on the end of normal patch cables to convert them > to crossover? > > The reason i ask is because i only want to carry one network cable in > laptop bag but would be

RE: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection] > > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:34:02 + > Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 06:29:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:34:02 + > Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on the subject of crossover cables, do you know where you can get > > adapters that go on the end of normal patch cables to convert them > > to c

Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem

2003-03-12 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:49:21PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: > > yeah, that's the error i was talking about. you can tell because of the > > typho (should be EEPROM, not EERPROM). do you still get that message? > > no good, maybe it's already fixed in upstream then... > I could try startin

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:59:23PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > It's somewhat pointless to have an adapter I would think since you are still > going to need the male RJ-45 end on both ends. If you going to carry and > adapter and a cable isn't just as easy to carry two cables? If you really >

Re: drive errors!

2003-03-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 17:29, Tom Allison wrote: > I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. > I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. > And this is the thanks I get > Any suggestions? It seems to work. > > Mar 12 12:

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-12 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:45:15AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not convinced. As the article itself points out, there are > workarounds for the perceived weaknesses of csh. And why pick on > the granddaddy, when the grandson is very much alive and kickin? > I've been using tcsh for both m

Re: Setting Static IP Adreess, done...now setup Apt-Get

2003-03-12 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:45:02 -0800 (PST) CM Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped me setup the static > ipaddress. I can now ping and do loopback. The only > problem is that now I ran /usr/sbin/apt-setup and it > cannot resolve any of the www addresses that I selec

Re: Setting Static IP Adreess, done...now setup Apt-Get

2003-03-12 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:45:02PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped me setup the static > ipaddress. I can now ping and do loopback. The only > problem is that now I ran /usr/sbin/apt-setup and it > cannot resolve any of the www addresses that I select. > > any ideas wh

Re: drive errors!

2003-03-12 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:05 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. > I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. > And this is the thanks I get > Any suggestions? It seems to work. > --

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:34:02 + Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on the subject of crossover cables, do you know where you can get > adapters that go on the end of normal patch cables to convert them > to crossover? > > The reason i ask is because i only want to carry one network ca

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 16:34, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > So, is there a more modern way to "hotwire" two boxes without the > > > use of routers or extra file systems? Is it possible to do a > > > straight USB to USB or NIC to NIC connec

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 13:09:50 -0500 (EST) Reid Mumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem that has brought my laptop down. > > Any ideas on how to save this system without having to reinstall? Your filesystem was corrupted and you've lost some files (or pieces of files). You may be a

Re: RPC: program not registered

2003-03-12 Thread Alfredo J. Cole
El Mié 12 Mar 2003 16:52, Paul Lewis escribió: > Hi, > > I am trying to mount a remote partition on my debian box, the > server is a rh box. As root whenever I enter mount /jaz I get the > following error, > > mount: RPC: program not registered. > > having had a brief look at man mount there

RE: Setting Static IP Adreess, done...now setup Apt-Get

2003-03-12 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: CM Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Setting Static IP Adreess, done...now setup Apt-Get > > > > Thanks to everyone who helped me setup the static > ipaddress. I can now ping and do

Re: Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, please help

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:07:22PM +0100, PeterG wrote: > "Jonathan Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im > Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > > > Hi, > > [snip rtl8139 problems] > > > > No idea if this is feasible here, but

Re: is there a debian hardware database?

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Ray wrote: > is there a website with information about what hardware has been known to > work with debian out of the box or with light tweaking? > > (light tweaking = manually adding a couple of lines to a text file) > There is not one for Debian specifically to my knowledge.

RE: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Hugh Saunders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 2:50 PM > To: Debian User > Subject: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection] > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > So, is there a more modern way

Re: considered harmful (was [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book)

2003-03-12 Thread csj
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:08:19 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > [1 ] > Hello, > > I think you've already gotten good answers about the book, and > how bash is derived from bourne, and what ksh and csh are. > > While you're learning about the shells, I think it's important > to keep this in mind: >

Re: apt sources.list problem

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:30:02PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:53:55PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: > > Hi , > > I am using Debian Woody 3.0 r1 .My problem is below > > when i cat /etc/apt/sources.list it shows me following output > > > > # CDROMs are managed through

Relocating an ext3 journal

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
I have an ext3 filesystem on /dev/sdb1. I want to reconfigure it to use a journal on /dev/sda1, as the SCSI drives in question are old ones which are slow to seek, and I think it should improve performance. So, I create an external journal on /dev/sda1 using mke2fs -O has_journal /dev/sda1 -J siz

Setting Static IP Adreess, done...now setup Apt-Get

2003-03-12 Thread CM Miller
Thanks to everyone who helped me setup the static ipaddress. I can now ping and do loopback. The only problem is that now I ran /usr/sbin/apt-setup and it cannot resolve any of the www addresses that I select. any ideas why? thanks -Chris >Very new to Debian and installed Woody last week

Re: acard driver

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:23:28PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:32:04 +0100 > "George Stolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a acard IDE controller card aec 6280 ant I have down load the > > driver from the site of the manufacturer but debian wont recon ice the > > d

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:09:44 -0500 Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config > files, automatically overwrite them, or prompt you before doing so. With > > either of the last two options, it will still create a backup of

Re: creating a FAT file system

2003-03-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
looks like you are trying to create a FAT, and not FAT32 filesystem. the maximum size for a FAT partition is 2G (2048). have you tryed to create a partition >2G? have you run fdisk first to create the partition? /ernst On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:53, martin f krafft wrote: > i have 13Gb of data a

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:09:44PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 07:47 PM 3/12/2003 +, Richard Kimber wrote: > >I've upgraded, and only noticed two things. > > > >1) My xinetd.conf file was overwritten without asking me, which I don't > >feel is right, and > > I *believe* you can configure

RPC: program not registered

2003-03-12 Thread Paul Lewis
Hi, I am trying to mount a remote partition on my debian box, the server is a rh box. As root whenever I enter mount /jaz I get the following error, mount: RPC: program not registered. having had a brief look at man mount there is something about des, the only thing I can think would need to

X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > So, is there a more modern way to "hotwire" two boxes without the > > use of routers or extra file systems? Is it possible to do a > > straight USB to USB or NIC to NIC connection? > > There's something called an ethernet crossover

Re: creating a FAT file system

2003-03-12 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time martin f krafft said... > i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my > cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win > FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it: > > piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1 > mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 F

drive errors!

2003-03-12 Thread Tom Allison
I've been runnign this PC for about a year now. I recently upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. And this is the thanks I get Any suggestions? It seems to work. Mar 12 12:14:21 gandolf kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatu

Re: your mail

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Schouten
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:31:53AM -0600, linux stuff wrote: > ssl question: i have a debian box w/apache, mysql, php, etc, running just > fine ... now a client requires secure sockets ... one place i read > (aboutdebian.com) made it sound impossibly difficult to set up ... is that > true? or is t

Re: creating a FAT file system

2003-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.12.2253 +0100]: > i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my > cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win > FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it: > > piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /

Re: Problem with perl & locale

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Schouten
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:21:03PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a debian 3.0 Alpha WS I had set up the American English language as > locale and it's worked fine until I've changed the gdm language > from English to Italian then back to English (C/Posix). > The error below occurs (under

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Schouten
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > linux root=/dev/hda2 > > this results in the following error messages on boot: > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonl

RE: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: csj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:55 PM > To: Debian User > Subject: Direct cable connection > > > In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that > allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, csj wrote: > In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that > allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The > GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and > failed at many many moons ago). > > So, is there a more modern way

creating a FAT file system

2003-03-12 Thread martin f krafft
i have 13Gb of data and a 15Gb harddrive that i need to pass to my cousin, who runs windoze. i made a 15Gb partition of type 0C (Win FAT32 (LBA)) and tried to call mkfs.vfat on it: piper:/home/madduck# mkfs.vfat /dev/hdc1 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too larg

Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem

2003-03-12 Thread Robert Epprecht
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:47:51PM +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote: >> with kernel 2.4.18 dmesg said: >> sis900.c: v1.08.02 11/30/2001 >> eth0: Error EERPOM read > yeah, that's the error i was talking about. you can tell because of the > typho (should

Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread csj
In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and failed at many many moons ago). So, is there a more modern way to "hotwire" two boxes without the use of r

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Johannes Rohr
Reid Mumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 f

Re: nvidia geforce4... help...

2003-03-12 Thread Jeremy Cheng
When I first built the drivers, I had an older 64mb nvidia agp in there and didn't have that problem. However, since the older one is starting to tweak out, I had to replace it with this newer one that's a 64mb Geforce 4 MX440SE-T. I redid the process starting at the /usr/src/linux. Would wiping

Re: Apache suExec

2003-03-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:31:17PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Is there anyway that I can disable suexec for a certain user or replace > it? I would rather try to avoid a recompile if poss AFAIK, suexec is all or nothing - either it applies to every user or to no users. If you want to disable it g

Re: SSL installation help.

2003-03-12 Thread ktb
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:02:00AM -0600, linux stuff wrote: > yes, thank you ... i realized i had omitted the subject and re-sent the > message > > as i understand it, it's not the actually install, which should work fine > the way you propose, but the configuration and getting a certificate

Apache suExec

2003-03-12 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Is there anyway that I can disable suexec for a certain user or replace it? I would rather try to avoid a recompile if poss Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux Hostin

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 19.57 schrieb Reid Mumford: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > > VFS: Mounted root

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Bob Paige
Warwick Brown wrote: tbh it looks like you have lost some vital system binaries, your best bet is to boot off the rescue disk, back up yer data files and reinstall, but make sure u bad block check the disks when u reformat them, coz lappies do get bounced around a fair bit, so disk damage shoul

Re: woody base system

2003-03-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:50:29PM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:06:54AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > that is the file i was looking for, thanks. The thing that confuses me > > is that if debootstrap is the officially way to install debian and that > > uses th

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 07:47 PM 3/12/2003 +, Richard Kimber wrote: I've upgraded, and only noticed two things. 1) My xinetd.conf file was overwritten without asking me, which I don't feel is right, and I *believe* you can configure debconf to NOT overwrite existing config files, automatically overwrite them,

Sendmail, TLS, and incorrect hostname

2003-03-12 Thread Rich Puhek
I recently added SASL and TLS support to my SMTP server. Looks to be working great, with one exception. My certificate was generated with the local hostname, instead of the proper FQDN (hostname was the common name of the machine, I need a cert for "smtp", since that's how my users connect). Re

Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

2003-03-12 Thread Jon Leonard
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:36:09PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think we're talking at cross purposes - I meant "I find it strange > > that the excuses cited should be taken as reasons for the mail to be > > less likely to be spam", not any ot

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:27:03 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:41:52AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > Jim McCloskey wrote: > > | I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with > > | testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14.

Re: config file for Kernel compile

2003-03-12 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:17:26 -0800 Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I loaded the previous config file while in menuconfig and it worked > great! > > So, that got some of the stuff working, but I still don't see the items > for ide (i.e., there is no ide tree in my > /lib/modules

Re: PPPOE Failure on Verizon DSL

2003-03-12 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:25:08 -0500 JP Glutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ethenet connection). Kmail was not running, and since I had never > figured out to get pppoe running without rebooting, I decided to try to > figure it out once and for all. The normal boot gets pptpd and > ppp_on_boot

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Reid Mumford
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:09:50PM -0500, Reid Mumford wrote: > > EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > change_root: old root has d

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