Re: installing mouse

2003-06-24 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:00:45PM -0400, Leonard Stevens wrote: > Thanks for the info but I am so new I don't know what to do next. I started > mdetect(I think) it seemed to run but no messages, just back to the root > prompt. > How do you install a driver? Maybe I could install a mouse driver if

Help with Berkeley DB upgrade

2003-06-24 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm running testing with Berkeley DB version 4.0 (libdb4.0). Trying to run db4.0_upgrade I get an error: $ db4.0_upgrade authorizations db_upgrade: authorizations: DB->upgrade only supported on native byte-order systems db_upgrade: DB->upgrade: authorizations: Invalid argument $ file authorizat

iptables patch-o-matic

2003-06-24 Thread K S Sreeram
[debian sarge] Hi I have a need to apply a netfilter patch to the kernel and a corresponding patch to the userspace tools- iptables. This is the IMQ (Intermediate Queueing Device) patch available at: http://trash.net/~kaber/imq/ This patch uses netfilter 'patch-o-matic' to do the job. Before a

Re: mpeg/mov-->jpg converter

2003-06-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:59:45PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > I use it to take frames out of MPEGs which I later turn into thumbnails > (Google for 'vcdautomenu'). Ok, that should have been: "I use it to take frames out of MPEGs which I later turn into thumbnails for VCD menus (Google for 'vcdau

Re: rescue floppies and initrd

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On 24 Jun 2003 15:59:01 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that to make a self-contained rescue floppy I need to include > the initrd image as well as the kernel (with an initrd kernel, which I > understand all the recent ones are). > > My initrd image is considerably bigger t

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:03 am, Paul Wright wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been attempting to estimate how many Linux users there are and I've > come accross too many differing statistics. Look at this site: http://counter.li.org/index.php 135 683 registered users 119 403 registered machines ht

Re: Going Unstable

2003-06-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 04:28 am, Bill Morgan wrote: > Is this a good time to move to unstable, or is there breakage right now? > > Should I watch the mailing lists for 12-18 hours after the mirrors update > to see if there are problems? (And what time is that, again?) > > Or am I just being pa

CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-06-24 Thread Anand Atreya
Hi,       I have just recently begun using Debian and am in the process of migrating a FreeBSD 4.4 server over to it.  This server had many different users and allowed them to execute CGI and PHP scripts in their public_html folder (or any folder under it) as their own user, not as the user

Re: mpeg/mov-->jpg converter

2003-06-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:43:51AM +0100, Tim wrote: > Could someone recommend any software that can create .jpg format still > picture from frame of .mpeg or .mov video file? You need dumpmpeg. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dumpmpeg I use it to take frames out of MPEGs which I later turn int

mboxen

2003-06-24 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to acess the mailboxes that reside in ~/Mail from Evolution. But I don't think I could find how under the Tools menu. Evolution can access /var/spool/mail/ mbox, but why doesn't it have an option to add some other ones? TIA, Oki

Re: how to use rpm in debian

2003-06-24 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:03, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > I have this myself, and the installation scripts use 'rpm' to attempt > > > the installation, which on Debian just won't work, period. > > Not even with "The Gross Hack" of creating an rpmdb? The Intel

Re: .Xclients, .xinitrc, .xsessions not read by sys what to use?

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Price
> > Both KDM and GDM offer the concept of "sessions"; you want to make > sure that you're using the "Debian" session, not one that goes > straight into GNOME or KDE without reading other dotfiles. sorry, how does this work? I've been wondering about similar questions myself. m > > -- > Dav

Re: nfs through dsl router

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Price
> > jeez, guys, it was only up for about 5 minutes -- I'm not THAT stupid (though > > I can be pretty dumb if left to my own devices) > Sometimes that's all it takes. ok, point taken. > > rpcinfo uses portmap. portmap is a daemon to help handle a bunch of rpc > (remote procedure calls) in glibc.

Going Unstable

2003-06-24 Thread Bill Morgan
A few days ago, Colin Watson referred to "...perlmagick, which is still at a perl 5.6 version in testing. This was temporarily necessary because getting perl 5.8 was more important than waiting for all of perlmagick's dependencies, which remain very messy and complicated; my notes say that imagema

Re: install error

2003-06-24 Thread calyth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't know how much of a help is this, but do you know how stable that machine may be? I don't recall getting a dbootstrap error myself, but I got one strange experience with an OpenBSD install. Part of the hard drive was beyond help even when it's

Re: Extremely annoying ext3

2003-06-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ext 3 is the most safe file system, you can ever recover deleted files if > things gets ugly. No, not really. Folks on the ext3 list constantly advise that no, you usually can't undelete files on ext3. Unless, maybe, you immediately cut power to the

Re: Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 18:38, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:04, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not > > googling the right keywords. > > > > Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them

Re: Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:04:53PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not > googling the right keywords. > > Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them > as the IDE/ATAPI drives that they are? ATAPI is

Re: How many users?

2003-06-24 Thread ptwright
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 00:31:46 +0100, Hugh wrote: >you can say number of users >= 31880 unless people subscribe to >debian-announce twice. > >not sure how you would calculate the actual number of unique subscribed >addresses unless you were a listmaster. > thanks. I'm sort of hoping the listmas

install error

2003-06-24 Thread Marty
hi , i have been trying to install Debian Linux (Woody Official CDs) and when it gets to the base system install it gets part way through and then exits with this error: [Base Installation Error] "dbootstrap exited with an error (return value 1)" whatever shall i do? if you can help email me ba

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:31:46AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright wrote: > > I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known > > users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have > > suscribed

RAID question

2003-06-24 Thread Jochen Rosenbauer
Hi all, I am running woody on a machine with 2 identical SCSI drives. / got mounted on /dev/sda1, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home on mirrors /dev/md1-4, respectively. Unfortunately "some" boot-script insists on initializing the RAIDs starting at /dev/md0, although I never even created this RAID-devic

How to shutup syslog

2003-06-24 Thread Ross Boylan
What do I need to do to stop syslog from sending messages to the virtual consoles? I am operating in a new Debain testing (aka sarge?) system with a 2.4.18 stock kernel. It's non-graphical, so I'm using different virtual terminals (ctl-alt-F1, etc). Messages for syslog kept ending up on my termi

getmail double-downloading

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I've recently acquired a problem with getmail. Most of the time it works fine -- it downloads my messages, leves them on the server for two days, and then delet them. But every so often -- once every ouple of days -- it will re-download the whole mailbox (which uually has about 1500 m

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 18:03, Paul Wright wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been attempting to estimate how many Linux users there are and I've > come accross too many differing statistics. By "users", do you mean people (timesharing, etc) or computers (client/server, beowulf, etc)? -- +

Re: Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:04:53PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not > googling the right keywords. > > Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them > as the IDE/ATAPI drives that they are? http://w

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:12:09PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope that the Blizzard's threats that caused the end of FreeCiv You mean FreeCraft. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:51:05PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > There's a free warcraft game. Freecraft I think. It has it's own > artwork, but can use the warcraft 2 artwork. It's even a Debian > package I think. For those of us who haven't been p

Re: Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Maurizio Colucci
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:04, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not > googling the right keywords. > > Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them > as the IDE/ATAPI drives that they are? Actually, I can use

mpeg/mov-->jpg converter

2003-06-24 Thread Tim
Could someone recommend any software that can create .jpg format still picture from frame of .mpeg or .mov video file? Thank you. Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright wrote: > I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known > users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have > suscribed to the lists hosted here. from http://lists.debian.org/stats/ you can

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright wrote: > I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known > users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have > suscribed to the lists hosted here. http://lists.debian.org/stats/ Cheers,

Re: Where's modversions.h ?

2003-06-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:30:21PM +, John Little wrote: > I tried compiling a driver for my Tekram dc315 SCSI card in 3.0r0 using > 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. > Compilation failed when make couldn't find modversions.h header file. I > spent a couple of > hours searching the kernel source but could

Re: need help with NFS setup SOLVED

2003-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
Thanks to all. It turned out that I had done all the nfs stuff correctly, but I had selected the wrong driver for my rtl8139 card. I learned this when I thought to try to ping the new server from my test box. I should write myself an Avoid Dumb Mistakes HOWTO. The Debian install program said that

How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Paul Wright
Hi All, I've been attempting to estimate how many Linux users there are and I've come accross too many differing statistics. I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have suscribed to the lis

Why is ide-scsi necessary?

2003-06-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
This sounds like a FAQ, but I can't find the answer... maybe I'm not googling the right keywords. Why is SCSI emulation necessary for cd-r/w drives? Why can't I use them as the IDE/ATAPI drives that they are? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] Phone [662-518-1636] E-mail[EMA

rescue floppies and initrd

2003-06-24 Thread Ross Boylan
I think that to make a self-contained rescue floppy I need to include the initrd image as well as the kernel (with an initrd kernel, which I understand all the recent ones are). My initrd image is considerably bigger than a floppy, so I don't think that will work. What should I do? I can think o

Re: Management of users using webmin?

2003-06-24 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Monday 23 June 2003 23:42, jennyw wrote: > Just wondering how to setup Webmin to manage users? I've inherited a > Debian box and it was setup so that there was an icon there that allowed > it to manage users. We added a webmin module and then it messed up > webmin so we had to remove and reinst

Re: automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:36:18PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in > 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. > Is there some way for the .bashrc to recognize whether he su'd to root > or I did and se

Configuring debconf not to ask for input during upgrades?

2003-06-24 Thread Maria Rodriguez
Hi guys, I've recently discovered cron-apt and even better, secpack (from http://sdn.vlsm.org/share/Debian-Doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch9.en.html ) and under section "9.1.7 Automatic updates in a Debian GNU/Linux system", they talk about configuring cron so debconf won't ask for input du

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 12:51, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030623 08:32]: > > We're a bit peeved because of his intolerant "I hate software that > > I can't copy and modify" attitude. Should I hate homosexuals because > > I am heterosexual? > > There has got to be a cor

Re: compromised box. please advice

2003-06-24 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 21:36, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Shri writes: > > > The program was called bd.c and was created on June the 6, so all > > the logs I have are too new to be able to do any real kind of > > tracking down. > > Does the code in: > > http://kaizo.org/mirrors/phrack/phrack58/p58-

Re: Where's modversions.h ?

2003-06-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Little ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030624 13:51]: > I tried compiling a driver for my Tekram dc315 SCSI card in 3.0r0 using > 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. > Compilation failed when make couldn't find modversions.h header file. I > spent a couple of > hours searching the kernel source but couldn't find it

Re: font in debian logo

2003-06-24 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 17.26 schrieb Tobias Lohner: > does anyone know where to get the font which is used in the official debian > logo? Don't know, but have you tried http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ ? Bye, Ratti -- -o)fontlinge | Font management for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung

Re: Where's modversions.h ?

2003-06-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake John Little: > I tried compiling a driver for my Tekram dc315 SCSI card in 3.0r0 using > 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. > Compilation failed when make couldn't find modversions.h header file. I > spent a couple of > hours searching the kernel source but couldn't find it . > I had to revert to my

Re: Where's modversions.h ?

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:30:21 + "John Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried searching the web and found that a few others have had the same > > trouble compiling > drivers against this kernel, but couldn't find an answer. Anyone know > where modversions.h is? I believe modversions.h

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:05:24 -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your files are in /boot/boot/grub, and they should be in /boot/grub. > > > > To solve your problem, do "cp -a /boot/boot/grub /boot". > > That's not going to help if /boot is a separate partition. You need > to separa

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Jeff Ali
"Hate is an expression best not expressed" jBeatnik Cerca Today -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kensington expert mouse pro

2003-06-24 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Greg, I screwed around with this for quite a while (and looked into writing some XInput code). Eventually I took the lazy man's approach and did the following: 1) Patched the kernel mousedev.c driver to forward "unknown" buttons as keyboard events (with high value keycodes) (see attached pa

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 21:51, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of > > >> non-free games available. > > > > > >Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. > > > > Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many peopl

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 23:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people > >> don't like FPS's that much, and would like to play *Crafts > >> natively, or Vice City, or The > > > >There's a free warcraft game. Freecraft I think. It has it's own

Re: compromised box. please advice

2003-06-24 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Shri writes: > The program was called bd.c and was created on June the 6, so all > the logs I have are too new to be able to do any real kind of > tracking down. Does the code in: http://kaizo.org/mirrors/phrack/phrack58/p58-0x07 look familiar? One of the source files is named bd.c ("backdoor")

Where's modversions.h ?

2003-06-24 Thread John Little
I tried compiling a driver for my Tekram dc315 SCSI card in 3.0r0 using 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. Compilation failed when make couldn't find modversions.h header file. I spent a couple of hours searching the kernel source but couldn't find it . I had to revert to my RedHat 8.0 setup, on which it compi

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:04, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > >> They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free > > > >> games available. > > > > > > > >Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. > > > > > > Spec

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread breno . moiana
>> Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people >> don't like FPS's that much, and would like to play *Crafts natively, >> or Vice City, or The > >There's a free warcraft game. Freecraft I think. It has it's own >artwork, but can use the warcraft 2 artwork. It's even a Debia

RE: installing mouse

2003-06-24 Thread Leonard Stevens
Thanks for the info but I am so new I don't know what to do next. I started mdetect(I think) it seemed to run but no messages, just back to the root prompt. How do you install a driver? Maybe I could install a mouse driver if I knew how. Sorry to be so stupid but my experience is all on Unisys A ma

Re: cdrom creation

2003-06-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:22:21 +1000 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:09:08PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > In the past month, I've grabbed updates to sarge, and have them > > "archived" onto cdrom. > > > > Now that I've re-installed woody, and upgraded back to s

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Cam Ellison
* Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >> They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free > > >> games available. > > > > > >Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. > > > > Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people > >

Re: htmlview hanging in mutt

2003-06-24 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:00:24 +0200, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i can't read the email of two of my new co-workers. it appears to be > just normal html-formatted email (does anyone have a procmail script > to neatly delete those attachments of html-formatted messages, btw?), > and i can view the messa

xauth au "su -" issue

2003-06-24 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, I am trying to allow access to my X server to anyone connected locally on my machine. I know that I can "xhost +" to allow unlimited connections, but I've read about the file /etc/X0.hosts which may contain the list of allowed hosts to access display :0 So I've created a /etc/X0.hosts file

Re: My Scsi Drive Disappeared...

2003-06-24 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 June 2003 08:27 pm, Jake Johnson wrote: > Has anyone seen a SCSI device disappear? I was copying a disk with > cdrdao and my device disappeared and I had to reboot (figure that)? Any > info would be helpful. > > Thanks in Advance, > Jake

Re: automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-24 Thread ZHAO Wei
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 01:58, nori heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:36:18PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > > On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in > > 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. > > Is there some way for the .b

compromised box. please advice

2003-06-24 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hi all, I was just trying to find out why I was having trouble with nfs when I spotted a program being run from /tmp and on investigation, it seemed like someone had managed to get apache to download a c program, compile and run it. This program opened port 5000 and the https port (maybe a couple

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free > >> games available. > > > >Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. > > Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people > don't like FPS's that much, and would like to play *Crafts nat

Re: Debian-user, PASSIVE MONEY GENERATOR!!!

2003-06-24 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:02:45AM +, Staver wrote: [snip] > JUST GO TO http://www.euroinvclub.com AND DEPOSIT NOW!!! [snip] $ wget http://www.euroinvclub.com 2>/dev/null >/dev/null $ grep "as" index.html This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as

Re: Want to update the kernel

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:23:50 +0200 Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You said "go get the kernel source and patch it" like you HAVE TO patch > it... you meant patch with some security patch... if so, were do you get > them. > > I ask because I recently compiled my first kernel, a 2.4.

Re: automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030624 10:56]: > On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in > 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. > Is there some way for the .bashrc to recognize whether he su'd to root > or I did and set the editi

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> setup (hd0) >> Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no >> Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no >> Error 15: File not found >> >> /boot/boot/grub/Stage1 does exist, thou

Re: automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Derrick 'dman' Hudson said on Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:36:18PM -0400: > On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in > 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. > Is there some way for the .bashrc to recognize whether he su'd to root > or I did and set

Re: automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-24 Thread nori heikkinen
on Tue, 24 Jun 2003 01:36:18PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in > 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. > Is there some way for the .bashrc to recognize whether he su'd to > root or I did and s

Re: kensington expert mouse pro

2003-06-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:51:39PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } I have a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro (it's a trackball), which has six } non-mouse buttons. These are a lot like the multimedia buttons on some } keyboards. I'd kind of like them to do something, but the USB driver } doesn't seem to

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030623 08:32]: > We're a bit peeved because of his intolerant "I hate software that > I can't copy and modify" attitude. Should I hate homosexuals because > I am heterosexual? There has got to be a corollary to Godwin that applies here! good times, Vineet -- h

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 06:28, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Dear all, --snip-- > So, it seems if I have the whole boot sequence, it first tries to boot > from floppy, decides it is nothing in there (though it is), then tries to > boot from CD, decides it is nothing in there (though a perfectly fine > Kno

automatic root shell initialization

2003-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however. Is there some way for the .bashrc to recognize whether he su'd to root or I did and set the editing mode appropriately? -D -- A Microsoft Certified System Enginee

dselect issue

2003-06-24 Thread Howell Evans
Hi all first time to post here so hope this doesnt come off completly wrong. I have been using debian for about 3 years now and love, and have installed it on a ton of differnt machines without issues, but this is a problem that i have no idea how to beat. When i try and do an upgrade i get the

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread breno . moiana
>> They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free >> games available. > >Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people don't like FPS's that much, and would like to play *Crafts natively, or Vice City, or The Sims... well

Re: Found something, but...

2003-06-24 Thread Guldo K
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:30:13 +0200 Juergen Stuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally this is the behaviour if you have too few buttons > configured, but your configuration looks good to me. Thank you very much for your answer. Just to make me sure I understood, here's what I did: 1) editing

gpg randomly losing keys [was: Re: signature and missing key]

2003-06-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:58:49PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:15:09PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:32:14PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > | With a dialup, it would be rather useful to be able to do this from the MTA > > | rather than the MUA. >

Re: gpmconfig

2003-06-24 Thread nori heikkinen
mouse still not working. i tried the suggestions: on Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:00:09PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:26:00PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > | on Wed, 18 Jun 2003 05:32:58PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > | > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:

No keyboard input on boot

2003-06-24 Thread dhobner
I am sending this out again with some updates. Hopefully someone can help me. I built and installed a new kernel (2.4.21) on a Dell Dimension 8250. After a reboot the kernel allows no input from the keyboard. I can rlogin. This kernel runs fine on a Dell Precision laptop. I verified that "Chara

Re: Evolution

2003-06-24 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:49, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > Why doesn't Evolution do message "join" for a message that gets split? > Recently I tried "metasend" to send out an email; indeed, the mail got > split into 3 parts. Tried to read it using Evolution, the mail still > being split. It sounds li

Re: restrict x server access with xhost

2003-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can enable other users to log into my x server with xhost +, I need > to do this because I want ro run a program via user web crontab which > uses xmessage. Uh, there's no better solution at all? With the default Debian settings, the X server doesn't l

Re: .Xclients, .xinitrc, .xsessions not read by sys what to use?

2003-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I run fluxbox and KDE. where can I put setup files ie xhost setup, > > Most google searches suggest .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessions, ITYM .xsession (singular). > On debian, when booting via a graphical login manager (I use KDM) > these do not appear to

Re: exim4

2003-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 01:56:30AM +, Robin Gerard wrote: | On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 02:24:56PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > 1) Stop using SMTP with fetchmail. fetchmail, like all non-MTAs, | > does not have a complete SMTP implementation and as such I | >

Re: passing environment variables back to shell

2003-06-24 Thread David Z Maze
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anyone know if it's possible to pass the value of variables assigned > within a bash script back out to the executing shell? No, unless you run the child script using the '.' builtin. > I've written a tiny script to figure out the IP address of my > (dyna

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Pigeon wrote: > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > TMK, imwheelrc hasn't been needed for some time now. XFree86 v4.x > > versions support the wheel mice directly AFAIK. > > They're supposed to, but it's often easier to set up with imwheel. One > advantage is you can edit imwheelrc and then restart imwhe

Re: Want to update the kernel

2003-06-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 23 June 2003 03:08 pm, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 04:28:44PM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > > Im using the default 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. > > I want to add some more modules, w/c I usually does at compiling from > > source Its actually a kernel patch, how can I do that

Re: dma fails with kernel 2.4.21

2003-06-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 23 June 2003 09:30 am, Kristian Peters wrote: > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r > > 2.4.21 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc > > > > /dev/hdc: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > using_dma= 1 (on) > > Have you tried to

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-24 Thread stan
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:30:47PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 14:24, stan wrote: > > I don't. Nor do I like applications that feel free to cluter my desktop > > with icons for _every_ file in my home directory :-) > > $HOME as desktop isn't the default, so you won't see this

Re: Management of users using webmin?

2003-06-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
yOn Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2003 23:42, jennyw wrote: > > Just wondering how to setup Webmin to manage users? I've inherited a > > Debian box and it was setup so that there was an icon there that allowed > > it to manage users. We added a webmin module and then

Re: Mail lists lots of headers but mozilla does not see any imap mail (solved)

2003-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:53:34PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Thanks Derrick, your directions were a great help. | | The weirdest thing is that Netscape seems to tell IMAP daemon | where folders are, I think. Yes, that's the way the IMAP protocol is defined. | I only entered the IMAP dire

Re: how to use rpm in debian

2003-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Joey Hess wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I install it [Intel compiler] by picking it apart and reassembling > > because I am a purist. I end up with a clean installation. (If > > the license allowed it I could make the .debs available. But it > > does not and so I can't.) > > Would you be inter

Re: / is ext3 mounted as ext2

2003-06-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Monday 23 June 2003 08:43 pm, Wolfgang Pauli wrote: > Hi group, > > I installed a new kernel (2.4.21) with ext3 included (using make install as > last step). But when i reboot the rootfs is mounted as ext2. The other > partitions are mounted as ext3. > i tried: > append="rootflags data=journal"

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:43:05AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free > games available. Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Crypto - Encrypting file systems ??

2003-06-24 Thread Paul
Right now im running 2.4.20 kernel. Was curious if anyone has been able to successfully patch the kernel with the crypto updates to allow encrypted filesystems. I started to go through this "http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/Encryption-HOWTO.html"; And it doesnt really clearly state which

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. Shortly after they released the Windows version, the Army said > something to the effect of, "OK, yeah, we didn't expect this ahead of > time, but some people had a good idea: Linux and Macintosh versions. > We're going to get right on that, expect

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-24 Thread Kent West
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Dear all, I think I'm in deep trouble. Possibly, it has nothing to do with Debian, it's a hardware problem, but possibly it has, and besides, it is here that all the nicest folks are, so I'm asking you :-) Your description "feels" like a hardware problem. Odd that i

Re: Can't boot anything....

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:28:13 +0200 (MET DST) Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, it seems if I have the whole boot sequence, it first tries to boot > from floppy, decides it is nothing in there (though it is), then tries to > boot from CD, decides it is nothing in there (though a perf

Re: memory leaks

2003-06-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 10:10:40 -0400 (EDT) "Arthur H. Johnson II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its called atop. It records top info in a binary database every 5 minutes > or so and lets you page through it at your liesure. Nope. Took a look at atop and it is completely different than the one I

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:21:20 +1200 cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > Checking if "/grub/Stage1" exists ... no > Error 15: File not found > > /boot/boot/grub/Stage1 do

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