NVidia latest update - do they solve performance problems?

2003-04-01 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
I am using the 1.0.4191 version and they put my system to crawl. 1.0.2880 were working fine. I was about to downgrade when I saw that NVidia drivers had an update. Do these updates fix the problem that makes my system so slow and memory consuming? Running Debian unstable on an Dell Inspiron 8100

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Will Yardley
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. > I'd like (have to) to take over t

Re: file splitting

2003-04-01 Thread Joey Hess
Karl Hasselstrom wrote: > 1. Split an X byte file into n pieces of X/k bytes each (n >= k), such >that any k pieces suffice to reconstruct the file. ras can do this, though you'll have to do your own splitting of the original file first. > 2. Split an X byte file into n pieces of X bytes each

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-01 Thread David Fokkema
> > Hi, > > > > I recompiled cdrdao for stable and installed it on my server and I want to > > be able to use it as a regular user. Now, > > > > cdrdao scanbus > > > > should list all devices. As root, everything is ok, two IDE devices show > > up as normal, everything works fine. The problem is th

Re: Mozilla idealab link

2003-04-01 Thread Travis Crump
Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:45:11PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, bef

Re: Helvetica Fonts gone

2003-04-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 5:28 am, Robert Rati wrote: > I'm running Unstable, and a while ago the Helvetica fonts disappeared > from my available fonts list. I've searched the Debian archives as well > as on Google, but I haven't found anything that wi

Re: sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:12AM +0100, Warwick Brown wrote: > ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter what > distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily basis, im using a > Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any resolve, ive used splack,

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:18 am, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day all, > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much

Re: Mozilla idealab link

2003-04-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:45:11PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > >I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I > >start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my > >favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, before I do any

Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??

2003-04-01 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote: > > > > Check out the mtools package. > > > > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related > things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw > a command prompt, and isn't about to start now > >

Re: [OT] Designing a Website

2003-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 05:48, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:48:33AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 09:33, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > I am a freshman student, in Computer Studies. A project has recently been > > > assigned to us in one of our courses (intro to c

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Noah Meyerhans wrote: > ls -l `which rsh` /etc/alternatives/rsh > should answer your question. That shows the details. But this seems more in the spirit of things. update-alternatives --display rsh Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gnome 2.2 post-install: icon theme doesn't load, theme-manager segfaults

2003-04-01 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. Thanks for the quick reply. On 01 Apr 2003 23:39:34 -0500 James D Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:35, Chris Metzler wrote: > >> When this occurred, I decided to try and fix it manually by setting >> the icon theme through gnome-theme-manager . . .which bring

Re: install XFree86 4.3 on Woody?

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 02:30:07 +0200, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > Im running woody with some packages installed from unofficial sources > found in apt-get.org, and i was wondering if it's a good idea to switch > to XFree86 4.3, everything is working so well now, that i wouldn't like >

Re: Help getting squierrelmail going

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 02:30:12 +0200, stan wrote: > I'm trying to set up a small mail server. > > I've got exim configured, and qpoper working just fine. I would like to > also offer web based mail to these users, and I'm trying to get > squierrelmail, or sqwebmaol going. I've got sqwebmail allowin

Re: install XFree86 4.3 on Woody?

2003-04-01 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:02, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > Im running woody with some packages installed from unofficial sources found > in apt-get.org, and i was wondering if it's a good idea to switch to XFree86 > 4.3, everything is working so well now, that i wouldn't like to reinsta

RE: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Sharninder
> I wish I had your skill set, perhaps I could understand a little of hey ... that's the freedom u get with GNU .. use postfix if it suits you .. all the best. i don't have much knowledge about that but someone else on the list would definitely be able to help you out . Sharninder Singh National

Smartd frequent attribute change

2003-04-01 Thread Andre Marenke
Hi, I am using the package smartsuite to monitor my server harddisks. Unfortunately, a Seagate Barracuda on /dev/hda keeps filling up my syslog with messages like the one attached below(1). Attribute 1 and 195 keep changing by 1/-1 almost every time smartd runs the check. When I run smartctl -

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Sharninder
> which is the *easiest* MTA? I would have liked to use the debian > default Exim but the docs for fools like me are rather thin, the > one I use will need to have plenty of simple and clear > documentation, remembering I know very little about administering Use exim only .. hop over to exim.org

Re: gnome 2.2 post-install: icon theme doesn't load,theme-manager segfaults

2003-04-01 Thread James D Strandboge
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:35, Chris Metzler wrote: > When this occurred, I decided to try and fix it manually by setting the > icon theme through gnome-theme-manager . . .which brings up the second > problem. However I try to start it, gnome-theme-manager immediately segfaults. > I have an strace

Helvetica Fonts gone

2003-04-01 Thread Robert Rati
I'm running Unstable, and a while ago the Helvetica fonts disappeared from my available fonts list. I've searched the Debian archives as well as on Google, but I haven't found anything that will tell me how to fix this problem. A message posted last year on the Debian list mentioned that the Helv

Re: gstream-properties

2003-04-01 Thread Andy Hurt
Francois Chenais wrote: Hello, I had an error while installing gstream-* package. The same error occurs when I launch gstream-properties Francois : gstreamer-properties INFO (25923: 0) Initializing GStreamer Core Library version 0.6.0 INFO (25923: 0) CPU features: () MMX

Re: network

2003-04-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:46:11PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > That did it - pretty much. It took killall cardmrg to get pcmcia to > stop. Restart said it was busy. There's only one PCMCIA card in this > machine. I don't know what it was busy doing... i think cardmgr manages the pcmcia controller

Re: sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:12AM +0100, Warwick Brown wrote: > heya peeps, > > ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter > what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily > basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any > resolve,

Re: kernel recompile - eth0 problems

2003-04-01 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:11:31 +0800 Brian Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Searching through documentation I realized there was no module > compiled - recompiled but could not find the needed axnet_cs driver in > the choices revealed by make xconfig, and in > /lib/modules/2.4.20/pcmcia not a tra

Re: kernel recompile - eth0 problems

2003-04-01 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:11:31AM +0800, Brian Walker wrote: > Searching through documentation I realized there was no module compiled > - recompiled but could not find the needed axnet_cs driver in the > choices revealed by make xconfig, and in /lib/modules/2.4.20/pcmcia not > a trace of a dri

Re: network

2003-04-01 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In /etc/network/interfaces, if you have "auto eth0" comment it out. > > Then restart networking: > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > Then try restarting PCMCIA: > > /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart > > The idea is that pcmcia should bring u

Re: sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 20:30, Warwick Brown wrote: > p.s. what uptimes do fellow sparc'ers get? Was running Potato. The dist-upgrade failed so I reloaded with Woody. I just started using the box as a network file system (NFS and Samba). Putting a CVS repository on it today. Lightly loaded

Re: Galeon 1.3.3 and URL completion

2003-04-01 Thread Scott Henson
check the debian-gtk-gnome archives. This was discused maybe a week ago. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:12AM +0100, Warwick Brown wrote: > ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter > what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily > basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any > resolve, ive used splack,

kernel recompile - eth0 problems

2003-04-01 Thread Brian Walker
Greetings all, after 2 years of Linux I finally gathered my courage to do my first kernel recompile - and upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.20. The excellent help from http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html made it almost easy. Rebooting after sorting out LILO, I could not connect to

Re: naive question: gcc-{2.95,3.2}

2003-04-01 Thread David Z Maze
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it adventurous to build a package-dev with the gcc-3.2 compiler > when you still plan to use mainly the gcc-2.95 compiler ? Most packages are maintained under Debian unstable, which uses gcc-3.2, as does the current testing distribution. Practically

Re: Kernel Rebuild

2003-04-01 Thread David Z Maze
"Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seem to be having a problem rebuilding my kernel with PCMCIA. The only > source I could find for PCMCIA were PCMCIA-cs_3.1.33-6_i386.deb ...which is the userspace code; you need this, but on it's own it's not enough... > and kernel-PCMCIA-modules-2.4.18-58

gnome 2.2 post-install: icon theme doesn't load, theme-manager segfaults

2003-04-01 Thread Chris Metzler
Hi. Earlier today, I installed gnome 2.2 out of unstable. I'm basically running sarge, with gnome 2.2 + whatever dependencies are necessary out of unstable. I ran into some difficulties during the install that required manual intervention with dpkg, but I think that had to do with the fact that

Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??

2003-04-01 Thread Bruce
> > Check out the mtools package. > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw a command prompt, and isn't about to start now I was really just using the box of floppies as an example.

sparc stability

2003-04-01 Thread Warwick Brown
heya peeps, ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any resolve, ive used splack, suse, debian, aurora, with no joy, and kernels from 2.4

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > G'day all, > > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > > thing so I can't justify spending that much fo

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Mike M
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 18:09, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no > > shell or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am > > still able to rsh in from a Deb

RE: Script question again

2003-04-01 Thread Reaz Baksh
I got a lot of responses that I will experiment with. I tried 'echo -e' and that worked well. Thanks for all the responses Reaz -Original Message- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Script question ag

Re: debian question

2003-04-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Hans" == Hans Ad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> I am a beginning Debian user, I',m installing it now. A Hans> friend of mine wants to help me. He lives in a different Hans> city. He asked me to make a SSH server on my linux machine Hans> and forward a port of my switch, so

Re: network

2003-04-01 Thread ronin2
On 01 Apr 2003 16:57:01 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid I've bent my networking, and I can't figure out how to fix > it. It used to work. > > Sarge, Dell Latitude, 512 MB RAM, PCMCIA Orinoco wireless. In /etc/network/interfaces, if you have "auto eth0" comment it out

Re: /etc/network/interfaces problem

2003-04-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 07:20:35PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > On bootup ifconfig shows only the loopback interface while ifconfig -a > shows the above values but wla0 is not up. The command ifup wlan0 > produces a reponse that wlan0 is already configured. If I then enter > the followi

Re: network

2003-04-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:57:01PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > (Another problem: I can't find the boot log. > Where is it on Debian?) dmesg > The networking isn't set at all - eth0 doesn't > exist (ifconfig and webmin both say so, and the ready LED on the Orinoco > card is off) and there's no de

Re: Kernel Rebuild

2003-04-01 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:42:51 -0800 "Kris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > both of these are dep files. I am following these steps listed at > http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-kernel.en.html for rebuilding a > kernel Try using these directions instead: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/ker

/etc/network/interfaces problem

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have two boxes, one Woody with a 2.4.18 kernel and one Testing with a 2.4.20 kernel. The /etc/network/interfaces are identical except for the static addresses. The Testing box signs on to the network at bootup, the Woody box does not. Specifically, the interfaces file for the Woody box is

Re: urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > G'day all, > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. > I'd like (have to) to take over

Execute permissions and mod_perl

2003-04-01 Thread Galbraith, Paul
I've installed apache and mod_perl on woody, and I'm trying to execute a script with Apache::Registry, but keep getting this returned: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /webgui/env.pl on this server. Httpd.conf defines user and group as www-data, and the script and is

Galeon 1.3.3 and URL completion

2003-04-01 Thread Gary Hennigan
I'm running galeon-snapshot in sid which is version 1.3.3. One of the things about Galeon that I really like(d) is that while you manually type in a URL it would progressively find the best match for what you were typing as you typed. If you satisfied the uniqueness you could just hit enter without

Help getting squierrelmail going

2003-04-01 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up a small mail server. I've got exim configured, and qpoper working just fine. I would like to also offer web based mail to these users, and I'm trying to get squierrelmail, or sqwebmaol going. I've got sqwebmail allowing me to log in as a tes user, but it can't see the users ma

install XFree86 4.3 on Woody?

2003-04-01 Thread Santiago Hirschfeld
Hi all, Im running woody with some packages installed from unofficial sources found in apt-get.org, and i was wondering if it's a good idea to switch to XFree86 4.3, everything is working so well now, that i wouldn't like to reinstall everything (again). I pretty new to debian, but i'm begining to

network

2003-04-01 Thread Glenn English
I'm afraid I've bent my networking, and I can't figure out how to fix it. It used to work. Sarge, Dell Latitude, 512 MB RAM, PCMCIA Orinoco wireless. During boot, init goes to bring up the interfaces, gets lo with no problems, then tries for eth0 and puts out an error message containing SCIOFADD

Kernel Rebuild

2003-04-01 Thread Kris
I seem to be having a problem rebuilding my kernel with PCMCIA. The only source I could find for PCMCIA were PCMCIA-cs_3.1.33-6_i386.deb and kernel-PCMCIA-modules-2.4.18-586tsc_2.4.18-5_all.deb both of these are dep files. I am following these steps listed at http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ch-

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote: [snipped description of magic rsh talking to sshd] Well, at my sid system here, rsh is a symlink to ssh via the alternatives system. 01:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which rsh /usr/bin/rsh 01:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file /usr/bin/rsh /usr/bin/rsh:

[OT] iptables -m owner target problem

2003-04-01 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there I've just upgraded to 2.4.20 using iptables v1.2.6a With 2.4.19 I used to be able to do a: iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -m owner --uid-owner 501 -o ppp0 -j SNAT - --to-source xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx just fine. With the 2.4.20 I get: iptables:

Problems during 3.0 r0 "Woody" install...

2003-04-01 Thread tito_c
I downloaded an ISO image off a mirror listed in www.linuxiso.org then after checking the MD5 sig, I burnt it to a CD. Everything goes OK during the installation up to the part where I´m supposed to Install kernel and driver modules where it asks me how I want to do it.I choose CDROM and then it s

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Craig Dickson
Mike M wrote: > On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell > or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still > able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection > refused when I try to rsh to the Debian 3 sparc

urgent Mail Server

2003-04-01 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day all, This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. I'd like (have to) to take over the administration myself. I'd like a HowTo (for dummi

Re: upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:44PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the > 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts > on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If > there's

RE: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-04-01 Thread Joyce, Matthew
You could use Imagemagik, a very useful bunch of routines. # apt-cache show imagemagick Package: imagemagick Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 3436 Maintainer: Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 4:5.4.4.5-1 Replaces: imagemagick-doc, geomview (<= 1.8

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell > or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still > able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection > refuse

Re: Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell > or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still > able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection > refuse

Mozilla 1.0.2 failing to start (solution to script problem)

2003-04-01 Thread b-gomer
I'm not sure where to report this problem, but I had it and here's the solution. Mozilla was upgraded from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 in the proposed-updates directories. However, dselect failed to modify the bash script that starts Mozilla (or I messed up the installation). Thus, nothing happened when I t

Re: How long is linux going to be free ?

2003-04-01 Thread csj
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:05:08 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:59:40AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:57:15PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Were they the authors of that codebase, or did the authors > > > of that codebase pass copyright to them

Network trouble shooting - HP Netserver LH Pro 6/200

2003-04-01 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've just acquired one (of two) LH Pro 6/200's - it had been running NT4 and I'm trying to install woody via the net. I've managed to configure the 3Com 905 TX NIC (one of two - I removed the other) but whilst my DHCP server (on my router) sees the machine and assigns it an IP address, the

Re: new kernel problems with pcmcia and initrd

2003-04-01 Thread Kris
I have already read this document. Sorry for the confusion. I am trying to mount my partition completely read only so that I can one day burn it to a cd. I was under the impression I had to use initrd to have the root filesystem boot onto a ram drive. If there is a another way to make a system

Why does rsh still work?

2003-04-01 Thread Mike M
On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection refused when I try to rsh to the Debian 3 sparc machine. On the Rh6

Ache seu velho amigo de escola na internet!!!

2003-04-01 Thread Suporte
http://www.oldfriends.com.br Vamos cadastrar e ajudar a colocar o maior banco de dados de pessoas da net A cada dia que passa o nosso banco está cada vez mais completo !!! Porfavor cadastre-se, é GRATUITO, RÁPIDO E EFICIENTE, vc não vai demorar nem 1 minuto!!! Em breve teremos grandes

upgrading to unstable KDE

2003-04-01 Thread Levi Waldron
I'm running Woody right now, but am tempted to dselect-upgrade KDE to the 3.10 in unstable (because of the improvements to kmail). Any thoughts on the potential pain/painlessness of this upgrade, before I try it? If there's a fair chance of having to spend a lot of time fixing a broken system

Re: Ksoftirq running wild .. What is it?

2003-04-01 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi Nicolas, > > a process called ksoftirqd_CPU0 is eating up my cpu ... I recently > > returned from apm suspend and now this process eats 95% of my cpu. Oddly > > enough I am not able to kill it with kill -9 pid. > It's not odd at all. See below. As to the high CPU usage, it would > appear tha

Re: [OT] Designing a Website

2003-04-01 Thread ad18
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 03:48 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > Building personal web pages as Computer Science?? Gak! > I think I'd flee, at the 1st possible moment, to a different > school. That's right! At some they do that. Here, it is a "300" (junior) level course, and that is what they do.

Re: debian question

2003-04-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 7:48 pm, Hans Ad wrote: > I am a beginning Debian user, I',m installing it now. A friend of mine > wants to help me. He lives in a different city. He asked me to make a SSH > server on my linux machine and forward a port of my sw

Re: file splitting

2003-04-01 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "KH" == Karl Hasselstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KH> I'm looking for one or more programs that can do the following: KH> 1. Split an X byte file into n pieces of X/k bytes each (n >= k), such KH>that any k pieces suffice to reconstruct the file. I think .rar archives, wh

Re: pptp client behind firewall

2003-04-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
Greg MATTHEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a linux server setup with pptpd which appears to be working ok (port > 1723 is definitely open) but i'm having trouble connecting to it from behind > my firewall - a debian pentium running stable using iptables. You have my sympathies. > doe

Re: [OT] Designing a Website

2003-04-01 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 14:48, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 04:48:33AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 09:33, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > I am a freshman student, in Computer Studies. A project has > > > recently been assigned to us in one of our courses (intro to

Re: new kernel problems with pcmcia and initrd

2003-04-01 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:05:11 -0800 "Kris P.- Mother Lode Internet Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recompiled my kernel and the PCMCIA does not appear to be > loading. It is important that I use initrd for the root file system > and that PCMCIA be built into the kernel instead of m

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap? (SOLVED)

2003-04-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 7:50 pm, Michael West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:24:49AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: .. > > But after doing that, should chronyd bring the time as seen by date in > > synchonism with the server? Even after leaving it al

Re: Log rotation

2003-04-01 Thread Rich Puhek
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: It can. Just be sure to anchor the glob. For example, using "/var/log/samba/smb*" is really bad because the first rotated file (smb_foo.1) will match as well. The above anchor with "*.log" prevents

Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??

2003-04-01 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:33:49 -0500 Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out the mtools package. "Mom tools"? (Sorry, I couldn't resist) Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X screen shifts right !!.

2003-04-01 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Dave Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having an irritating problem with Debian 3.0 on Intel. I'm using > olvwm on top of XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1. (it is over 12 months old). > Hardware is on board Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (re

kernel configuration

2003-04-01 Thread Torquil Macdonald
Greetings, debian-user I am trying to configure a 2.5.66 kernel, but the CONFIG_VT and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE options are missing. From 'make xconfig' I can see that they are greyed out, presumably because they depend on something else that is not enabled. Does anybody know what CONFIG_VT and CONFIG_

Re: Ksoftirq running wild .. What is it?

2003-04-01 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:38:13PM +0200, Mariano Kamp wrote: > a process called ksoftirqd_CPU0 is eating up my cpu ... I recently > returned from apm suspend and now this process eats 95% of my cpu. Oddly > enough I am not able to kill it with kill -9 pid. It's not odd at all. See below. As to

new kernel problems with pcmcia and initrd

2003-04-01 Thread Kris
I just recompiled my kernel and the PCMCIA does not appear to be loading. It is important that I use initrd for the root file system and that PCMCIA be built into the kernel instead of module since it is a laptop and the nic is not onboard. Where have I missed my PCMCIA step and how do I set it up

Re: how to install Gnome?? xfree 4.??

2003-04-01 Thread adit y
Hi, A word of caution( i might be wrong but that's my experience), i am very new to linux/gnome i tried installing 2.2 on woody 3.0r1/xfree86 4.3.0, it got into eternal unresolvable conflicts with the versions i.e some package is expecting > and other expecting < of the same package. i think someth

Re: setting time via internet ?

2003-04-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 7:31 am, dave selby wrote: > On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:54, dave selby wrote: > > Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC > > via the internet every time I log on? > > > > Any ideas > > Dave > > A

Re: debian question

2003-04-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:48:57PM +0200, Hans Ad wrote: > How do I make a SSH server, and forward that port? apt-get install sshd but it should be installed by default. switch configuration depends on the type of switch you have. > please answer in dutch that is forbid by the mailing list rules.

Re: Log rotation

2003-04-01 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:44:24PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > It can. Just be sure to anchor the glob. For example, using > "/var/log/samba/smb*" is really bad because the first rotated file > (smb_foo.1) will match as well. The above anchor with "*.log" > prevents "<...>log.1" from m

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-04-01 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Consider yourself lucky. I have problems just trying to download > the image. Just two days ago I managed to get past the 150 MB > mark, when the mirror I was using decided to put up a newer ISO > image. Just yesterday, using another mirror, I

Re: cdrdao / ide-scsi problem

2003-04-01 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 03:07, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi, > > I recompiled cdrdao for stable and installed it on my server and I want to > be able to use it as a regular user. Now, > > cdrdao scanbus > > should list all devices. As root, everything is ok, two IDE devices show > up as normal, everything

Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??

2003-04-01 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, I know I will have trouble convincing her when it comes > to removeable media. > > For example, "Mom" has been using a computer for a long time and has boxes > and boxes of floppies. And she needs to find that letter to Aunt Edith > written o

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

2003-04-01 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:24:49AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 31 Mar 2003 12:32 am, John Hasler wrote: > > Eric G. Miller writes: > > > To set the time explicitly, see the settime command of chronyc (info > > > chrony). > > > > Setti

new kernel problems with pcmcia and initrd

2003-04-01 Thread Kris P.- Mother Lode Internet Tech Support
I just recompiled my kernel and the PCMCIA does not appear to be loading. It is important that I use initrd for the root file system and that PCMCIA be built into the kernel instead of module since it is a laptop and the nic is not onboard. Where have I missed my PCMCIA step and how do I set it up

Re: Help understanding Debians default Apache2 config

2003-04-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:30:50PM -0500, stan wrote: | I've used Apache a good bit, and even have Apache 2 runing on an HP-UX | system. I just installed Apache 2 on a Debian system, and I'm very | confused. I'm looking for the dfaul DocumentRoot directery, and I can't | seem to find it! Look all

debian question

2003-04-01 Thread Hans Ad
I am a beginning Debian user, I',m installing it now. A friend of mine wants to help me. He lives in a different city. He asked me to make a SSH server on my linux machine and forward a port of my switch, so he can configure my machine from his PC (over the internet). now my question is.  

Re: Log rotation

2003-04-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:06:27PM -0500, Mike M wrote: | On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:43, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | > I currently have a daemon logging each day's worth of activity into a | > separate daily log with the daemon-month.date.year format. | > Unfortunately, I cannot change the option

Re: echo $MAIL

2003-04-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 06:48:17AM -0800, debian_newbie wrote: | Hello, | | I'm trying to learn Mutt. Sounds like a plan. It's a good MUA. | On the My First Mutt web site | "http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/storage/"it says that Mutt by default | looks in the mailspool for mail. It then says to fin

sqwebmail

2003-04-01 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up a machine that will allow uers the option of POPs mail or getting using ebmail. I've got qpoper up and running, and can access test mail in my test users /var/spool/mail/{user} direcotry. I'm using exim as the MTA. I;ve got sqwebmail set up, and I cna connect to it and login,

Re: Log rotation

2003-04-01 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:06:27PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > I guess the last resort would be to create some sort of shell script > > that would run in cron once a day and delete the oldest file in the log > > directory. > > Sounds like a good solution if you have log files that always get a unique

Ksoftirq running wild .. What is it?

2003-04-01 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, a process called ksoftirqd_CPU0 is eating up my cpu ... I recently returned from apm suspend and now this process eats 95% of my cpu. Oddly enough I am not able to kill it with kill -9 pid. Any idea what this process does? Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

xlibs-dev package unresolvable conflict

2003-04-01 Thread Stephan Sauerburger
Hi, I have the "xlibs" version 4.2.1-6 package installed, and am trying to install "xlibs-dev" to resolve other dependencies. However, upon hitting enter at the selection screen, it complains with a "Dependency Conflict/Resolution" screen and says "xlibs-dev depends on xlibs (= 4.1.0-16)". The xlib

file splitting

2003-04-01 Thread Karl Hasselstrom
I'm looking for one or more programs that can do the following: 1. Split an X byte file into n pieces of X/k bytes each (n >= k), such that any k pieces suffice to reconstruct the file. 2. Split an X byte file into n pieces of X bytes each, such that any k pieces suffice to reconstruct the

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