Re: localhost refuses logins from same machine

2003-04-06 Thread Sereciya Kurdistani
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:58:58PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:09:14PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > What could the reason be for this? > > Refuses logins in what way? What are you using to try to log in? What is > the error message? Have you recently edited t

Re: CVS

2003-04-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
A version control system useful to software developers. > why we need this ? If you don't know what it is you don't need it. (No flame intended) You could not be more wrong. I coded programs (mostly for school, sometimes as a hobby) for about 8 years before finding out about CVS. All I can

Re: localhost refuses logins from same machine

2003-04-06 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 17:09, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What could the reason be for this? try logging in from a different machine. If you provide more info, maybe, we could help you more. Shri -- Shri Shrikumar

Font anti-aliasing

2003-04-06 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi I have been struggeling with my fonts on Debian Unstable. I am running KDE 3.1 with nice AA fonts. I would like to have the same kind of quality for the fonts used in Opera, Linpopup, Realplayer. I have looked at gtk and searched google. Everywhere I find docs but non of theme I seem to find th

Re: CVS

2003-04-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Joydeep" == Joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joydeep> Hi all, during the debian installation, I have faced some Joydeep> question about CVS. what is this *CVS* & why we need Joydeep> this ? Concurrent Version System. Do 'dpkg -p cvs' for more information. If you don't

Re: localhost refuses logins from same machine

2003-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:09:14PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > What could the reason be for this? Refuses logins in what way? What are you using to try to log in? What is the error message? Give us something to work with here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EM

Re: USB camera mount

2003-04-06 Thread Tim
Thomas H. George wrote: I have a Sony with a memory stick which stores the images in jpeg format. I had no trouble in configuring a 2.4.18 kernel to support usb mass storage and adding /dev/sdb1 /sony vfat ro,users,noauto 0 0 to my fstab. I already had append="hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf under im

Re: USB camera mount

2003-04-06 Thread Tim
Craig Dickson wrote: Tim wrote: Is it the case that unless there is individual support for a model built into the kernel, it won't be recognised? From this do I deduce that I will be unable to mount my Nikon Coolpix E4300? And thus will need to buy a CF card reader? Well, a quick web searc

Re: what is the name of first time setup

2003-04-06 Thread alex
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 08:35:15 -0800 (PST) Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The thing is, I stopped the tasksel too soon per accident - and I don't remember the program to call for the first time set up Can anybody tell me the location of the prog? base-config Kevin

How to isolate bad blocks/sectors?

2003-04-06 Thread Rich Johnson
The following is _reliably_ reported to the syslog every time I run "parted /dev/hdg print" Apr 6 11:44:36 creaky kernel: hdg: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Apr 6 11:44:36 creaky kernel: hdg: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=16778

Re: external vs. mobo sound [was: Re: Motherboard Success]

2003-04-06 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 06 Apr 2003 07:21:48AM -0700, Paul Johnson insinuated: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:56:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > while we're on the topic, what's the recommended way for getting > > an external sound card to override the one t

localhost refuses logins from same machine

2003-04-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What could the reason be for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no more tv with xawtv??

2003-04-06 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! after the last update, xawtv only finds my webcam as a suitable source... the tv card isn't found anymore is this some sort of normal? is there now some other tv viewer around that works? -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:10:45PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi Reaz > > I've got the nameservers in resolv.conf and so resolving public IP's is > fine. It's the hosts on the local network that don't resolve. I tried > including the DHCP server's IP address as a name server but that gave

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 16:10:45 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got the nameservers in resolv.conf and so resolving public IP's is > fine. It's the hosts on the local network that don't resolve. I tried > including the DHCP server's IP address as a name server but that gave

Re: GRUB question - book2

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:32:53 -0500 Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub? I have *one* floppy disk with grub on it; I can use it to boot any Windows machine, any Linux machine, BSD machines, or OS/2 machines. You can't do that with l

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:09:47 -0500 "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read Security-Quickstart-HOWTO. > > I believe my home network has been compromised (my daughter received > returned emails she neversent) and plan to take drastic action. The > network consists of DSL

Java Packages

2003-04-06 Thread Radek Zajkowski
Hey guys, I have added a java source to my sources.list: Deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian woody non-free However although it does show the packages it tells me they're not all available, in particular j2re. 1. How is that possible (I have also seen that happen with other packages)? 2. Do y

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Paul Smith
%% "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: thg> I believe my home network has been compromised (my daughter received thg> returned emails she neversent) Note that this is a _very_ common spam technique these days. They disguise spam as rejected mail, because most mail filters, etc.

Re: test post. Please ignore

2003-04-06 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 13:10:06 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:27:23AM +0500, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: >> By the way, I am not using the mailing list for posting. >> I am using this as a newsgroup (linux.debian.user). So, >> I felt that my news post should appear instantly.

Re: Dmesg & Fdisk see only 30 out of 60 MB--SOLVED

2003-04-06 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 21:58:42 -0800 Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.4.20-Kernel, and make sure the CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE kernel parameter > > is set to yes. > Do you know the display title of this option in xconfig (meta-question: > is there a doc that maps the xconfig sections & di

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Reaz I've got the nameservers in resolv.conf and so resolving public IP's is fine. It's the hosts on the local network that don't resolve. I tried including the DHCP server's IP address as a name server but that gave some strange errors and didn't help. I've also got the nameservers refe

Re: GRUB question - book2

2003-04-06 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:32:53AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > "book2" so the other thread isn't hijacked. > > What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub? > > I have had great success with SystemCommander+PartitionCommander (not > free and not expensive). Tried using lilo the

Re: default run level

2003-04-06 Thread Michael Naumann
On Sunday 06 April 2003 04:20, Ramsay D. Seielstad, KC2GMW wrote: > Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X > installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended > up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got the X > log

Re: default run level

2003-04-06 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 07:20:12AM +0500, Ramsay D. Seielstad, KC2GMW wrote: > Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X > installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended > up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Neal Lippman
A few answers, but first a question: How do you know that your network has definitely been compromised? If the only evidence you have is that your daughter received returned emails she didn't send, how to you know that someone didn't generate those emails elsewhere, spoofing her email address and r

Re: Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:09:47AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I have read Security-Quickstart-HOWTO. > > I believe my home network has been compromised (my daughter received > returned emails she neversent) and plan to take drastic action. The > network consists of DSL modem, a wireles

Re: startx problem

2003-04-06 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 05:08:14PM +0300, yaron wrote: > Tran Tuan Anh wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I've just installed Debian, but cannot bring the window system up. > >When I run startx it gives "Fatal server error: no screens found". > > > >I am using Philips 107S monitor, > >Video adapter: GeF

GRUB question - book2

2003-04-06 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
"book2" so the other thread isn't hijacked. What are the pros/cons of usin Grub vs Lilo? Lilo vs Grub? I have had great success with SystemCommander+PartitionCommander (not free and not expensive). Tried using lilo the other day with no issues. Tried switching over to grub with apt-get inst

Re: USB camera mount

2003-04-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Tim wrote: > Tim wrote: > >Olivier wrote: > > > >>scsi1 means it's /dev/sdb1 ? > > > > > >mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device > > I have a Sony with a memory stick which stores the images in jpeg format. I had no trouble in configuring a 2.4.18 k

Re: default run level

2003-04-06 Thread Ramsay D. Seielstad, KC2GMW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got the X login screen. I was going to post ask

Re: external vs. mobo sound [was: Re: Motherboard Success]

2003-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 05:56:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > while we're on the topic, what's the recommended way for getting an > external sound card to override the one that's on the mobo? Disable on-board sound. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursi

Security Questions

2003-04-06 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have read Security-Quickstart-HOWTO. I believe my home network has been compromised (my daughter received returned emails she neversent) and plan to take drastic action. The network consists of DSL modem, a wireless router and four computers. I have no concerns about the family members and

Re: startx problem

2003-04-06 Thread yaron
Tran Tuan Anh wrote: Hi all, I've just installed Debian, but cannot bring the window system up. When I run startx it gives "Fatal server error: no screens found". I am using Philips 107S monitor, Video adapter: GeForce2 MX, 64 MB Could anyone tell me how to set this up? Thanks a lot! Tuan

Re: CVS

2003-04-06 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:57, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > Hi all, > during the debian installation, I have faced some question about CVS. > what is this *CVS* & why we need this ? http://www.cvshome.org/ http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html Cheers -- /* My name is Jehovah. I have a spec

Re: CVS

2003-04-06 Thread John Hasler
Joydeep Bakshi writes: > during the debian installation, I have faced some question about CVS. > what is this *CVS* A version control system useful to software developers. > why we need this ? If you don't know what it is you don't need it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

startx problem

2003-04-06 Thread Tran Tuan Anh
Hi all,   I've just installed Debian, but cannot bring the window system up. When I run startx it gives "Fatal server error: no screens found".   I am using Philips 107S monitor, Video adapter: GeForce2 MX, 64 MB   Could anyone tell me how to set this up?   Thanks a lot! Tuan Anh  

CVS

2003-04-06 Thread Joydeep Bakshi
Hi all, during the debian installation, I have faced some question about CVS. what is this *CVS* & why we need this ? please let me know thanks in advanced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What about some user analysis?

2003-04-06 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I still don't know if the idea of making a separate working group for usability issues has been well accepted; however, I see that there is interest in working with usability issues. While I see many practical proposals about Debian improvements, I rarely see them backed with an analysis i

RE: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Reaz Baksh
Hello I hope this helps. Modify your /etc/resolv.conf file to include the name servers. The same one the windows machines are using. The format that I have on my machine is: nameserver 24.153.23.66 nameserver 24.153.22.195 Reaz -Original Message- From: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: Multimedia Keyboard

2003-04-06 Thread LeVA
Hello! Is it possible to download more keyboard definition files from somewhere (.def files), because my keyboard isn't in hotkeys supported keyboard list. Thanks. Levai Daniel Scott Henson wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: Hi! Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-1

Re: Borland Kylix on Linux - Both Pascal and a C compiler

2003-04-06 Thread Tinus Kotzé
Hi It's nice of Borland to be so nice, but I must agree with Dale. Although both may be included in the package, I don't believe that you can mix languages. I know that Kylix/Delphi can do cross compiling between C and delphi(new name for pascal) for its object file, but the languages still uses d

Re: ALSA sound setup [SOLVED] [REVIVED]

2003-04-06 Thread Tinus Kotzé
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:49, ScruLoose wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:46:25PM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:53:42PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > > > > Woo-hoo! We have actual progress! I've re(re(re))named snd-emu10k1 to > > > snd-card-emu10k1, *commented out ALL the

Re: crecord and speed

2003-04-06 Thread Miroslaw Kwasniak
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Not enough, I really need to slow down the reading speed. ^^^ writing :) > On 5 Apr 2003, at 8:03, askronny wrote: > >> try: >> nice --18 cdrecord -v dev=

Nvidia Geforce 2MX is allways broken off

2003-04-06 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, Sorry about this reposting - I don't know what's going on but it looks like I saw no replies at all Maybe it's because I was talking about a testing thing - per accident I used a 'testing' driver (which didn't work) but the thing is, when I use stable, I get the same problems. I now compi

Re: OT: Use of variables in HTML

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 08:10 am, Burkhard Ritter wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Kent West wrote: Sorry for being so very Off-Topic, but you folks know _everything_ . . . . :-) Is there a way to use straight HTML or CSS (no perl, php, javascript, cgi) to create a web page that has variables i

Re: [Fwd: pb to access debian-gcc cvs as anonymous?]

2003-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 07:11:59PM +, Joel Soete wrote: > Original Message > Subject: pb to access debian-gcc cvs as anonymous? > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:45:01 + > From: Joel Soete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi Debian-ad

Re: test post. Please ignore

2003-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:27:23AM +0500, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:30:28 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 05:03:58PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > >> Why all that testing? > > > > People are stupid and don't realise that email isn't instant? > >

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 02:58 am, Mouammer H. Rayes wrote: kata Clive Menzies Hi I've just installed Debian on an HP Netserver LH Pro which was a challenge in itself ;). I am still very much a newbie and not very technical. I've managed to get Linux running on an old Mac and a G4 plus w

Re: mkisofs oddity

2003-04-06 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Jason Pepas wrote: > hello, > > perhaps I am using it incorrectly, but it seems mkisofs behaves oddly with > respect to directories. > > lets say I have a filesystem: > [...] > > is there no way to simply make an image of a directory without resorting to > graft-points? [

Re: fontconfig, xftconfig, xf86config... I'm lost :-(

2003-04-06 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 8:00 pm, Dominique Deleris wrote: > On 03 Apr 2003 23:48:34 +0200, Dominique Deleris > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dominique> Hello there, > Dominique> I've dist-upgraded my Sarge box today, and I see that > fontconfig Domin

Re: EMU10K1 OSS Driver problem

2003-04-06 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Terry Milnes wrote: > Here is my dilemma. I had the EMU10K1 driver working fine until I > upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 from Ralf Nolden's repository. Now I get a > aRtsMessage that states CPU overload. I have seen a post about normal > users not having access to the mixer device. How

Re: Run a premade script before init and inittab

2003-04-06 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Kris wrote: > I am trying to make a file system boot completely read-only on the hard > drive but have a ramdrive load the / to do this I have a custom scipt that > must execute before INIT is this possible and where can I place my custom > script to make sure this gets done.

Re: OT: Use of variables in HTML

2003-04-06 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Kent West wrote: > Sorry for being so very Off-Topic, but you folks know _everything_ . . . > . :-) > > Is there a way to use straight HTML or CSS (no perl, php, javascript, > cgi) to create a web page that has variables in it, like so: > > > Today's winner is

Re: GRUB question

2003-04-06 Thread Tim
Linux wrote: Greetings all. I've been with Linux for a few years, but trying Debian for the first time. I'm having a bit of a problem getting GRUB set up, and I know it's my fault Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst for me to take a look at? Thank you

Re: GRUB question

2003-04-06 Thread Roman Joost
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:55:13PM -0700, Linux wrote: > Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of > /boot/grub/menu.lst for me to take a look at? > Try the command: "update-grub", it generates a menu.lst for ya. Greetings, Roman -- www: http://www.romanofski.de email: [EMAIL P

I updated system and RMagic stopped to work

2003-04-06 Thread Mike Mimic
Hi! I updated system (dselect -> update -> install) and rmagic stopped to work. In its log file I get this: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.5 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12 gd-png: fatal libpng error: Incompatible libpng

Re: Multimedia Keyboard

2003-04-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:15:44PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's > > > multimedia keys? When I use > > >