Re: dselect

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:15:03AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps the best solution is to remove the unstable sources after > installing the desired packages. Actually, even better is to use an apt-aware tool like aptitude instead of dselec

Re: Debian 2.1 Interface - GUI?

2003-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:47:35PM +1000, leslie munchenbotch wrote: > Looking into possible Linux distros for old machines (limited HD), does > Debian 2.1 have a GUI? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where possible. Yes. Look at the various windo

Debian 2.1 Interface - GUI?

2003-07-02 Thread leslie munchenbotch
Looking into possible Linux distros for old machines (limited HD), does Debian 2.1 have a GUI? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where possible. _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrac

Re: documentation was Re: Worked around (dirty...)

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:06:57PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Basically the submission process for the LDP goes like this: I forgot step zero: subscribe to the discuss mailing list. Which is where you present the idea you're thinking about writing and where you get your feedback from. Puttin

Re: OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

2003-07-02 Thread Todd Pytel
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:47:41 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> > > Ah, "nmblookup -S somePC" works just fine. Thanks! > > > > > Then again, apparently not. The fourth octet appears to be wrong, so I > > suspect the address I'm getting is of some other machine alo

Re: cdrecord warning message

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:37:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler > cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using > setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer > underruns. Simply that cdr

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:02:47AM -0400, Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA (essentially > run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could (probably) add something in > /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems dirty. Find out why the kernel isn't doing it by d

Re: OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

2003-07-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I determine the IP address of "somePC" ("smbclient -L" still finds the PC; it just doesn't report the IP address anymore). Todd Pytel wrote: nmblookup is built for just what you describe. It's part of the standard Samba packag

Re: firebird + character display

2003-07-02 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 20:13, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > Ugh. I must be missing a required package that isn't listed. I've gone > through and updated all "depends" packages and it hasn't made a > difference. The fact that it's happening to all mozilla variants (moz, > firebird and phoenix) but NOT

Re: OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

2003-07-02 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:15:39 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I determine the IP address of "somePC" ("smbclient -L" still finds the PC; it just doesn't report the IP address anymore). Todd Pytel wrote: nmblookup is built for just what you describe. It's part of t

RE: Enabling ssl on web?

2003-07-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
if you are using apache-ssl then there is a corresponding command # apache-sslctl usage: /usr/sbin/apache-sslctl (start|stop|restart|fullstatus|status|graceful|configtest|help) start - start httpsd stop - stop httpsd restart- restart httpsd if running by sending a SIGHUP or start

Re: Debian and S3 ProsavageDDR KM 266

2003-07-02 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:55:14 -0500 Julian Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:04:00PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > It 'should' work. My new motherboard has ProSavageDDR. I had to use > > Knoppix, to get it identified, but it's working like a champ. > > Hi! > > C

Re: Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R

2003-07-02 Thread Nick Lidakis
Dave Howorth wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of buying a machine based on the Intel 875P chipset, probably using either the Intel D875PBZ or MSI 87P NEO-FIS2R motherboard, and I'd appreciate any advice as to whether/how the hardware works with Debian (Woody with whatever changes are required would be

Re: OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

2003-07-02 Thread Todd Pytel
nmblookup is built for just what you describe. It's part of the standard Samba packages. --Todd On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:15:39 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I determine the IP address of "somePC" > ("smbclient -L" still finds the PC; it just doesn't report the IP > address

OT: How to get IP address via Samba name?

2003-07-02 Thread Kent West
I've got Samba set up to use our local WINS service, and I used to be able to use a command like "smbclient -L somePC" to see the shares available on "somePC", and to see the IP address of that computer. In this method I'd know the IP address to use when connecting via VNC or something similar.

Re: Recommended hardware

2003-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:11, DGLUser wrote: > > Hi all, I need to buy a new computer, w/o monitor my budget is about $1000 > usd, and I need to have a decent system. I cheked the ones being sold by > Walmart online (microtel), but I didn't see any dv

Re: X doesn't exit nicely

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:01:41AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > It sounds like you're using the framebuffer console, and that the X > video driver you're using doesn't reset everything nicely back the way > it was. Which framebuffer driver (vesafb, matroxfb, etc) are you using? > Which X video dri

Re: different versions of mozilla in parallel

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 00:26, Lukas Ruf wrote: > I would like to have two different versions of Mozilla installed on my > Laptop: the very latest with sid and v1.2. The reason for this: > unprofessional software like found in telebanking applications check > for the browser version; the latest mozi

Re: Enabling ssl on web?

2003-07-02 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 08:56, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: > Hello, how do I start apache w/ ssl support? On the command line. Run this one first: /usr/sbin/ssl-certificate and restart the web server. Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Help! Can't mount iso during sarge installation( busybox)

2003-07-02 Thread Paul C. Bryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zhao YouBing wrote: | I don't know whether the boot kernel has any loop device support, | Can anybody who successfully tried that or facing the same problem give | a note? It's worth trying: modprobe loop or insmod loop Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Help! Can't mount iso during sarge installation( busybox)

2003-07-02 Thread Zhao YouBing
From sarge, debian uses busybox to boot the initial installtion system. I want to use sarge iso to perform installation, however, I found that I can't use "mount -o loop .iso /cdrom" to mount an iso image, and before that I've used "mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0" , but the mount cmd always said tha

Re: firebird + character display

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:41:35PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > The page seems to display just fine here in Firebird. That is no garish > blocks or anything. I don't know japanese, but the characters displayed > seem to be Japanese or Chinese or something similar. Ugh. I must be missing a re

documentation Re: Worked around (dirty...)

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I really didn't think I said that. If I did, it was unintended and I > apologize. It's how I read it, cool if that wasn't your intent. Now back to the problem of licensing. :/ > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0305/msg00598.html

Re: Generating custom ssl certificate

2003-07-02 Thread Paul C. Bryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: | Yes, that's it thanks paul. I was hoping to erase the pass scheme | while starting apache do you happen to know the command to remove the | pass on the cert? I this this will do it: openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out privk

Re: transfer video from camcoder to computer

2003-07-02 Thread tjm3
Here is a link to most of the ieee1394 stuff and how to get it working. The site also has links to most of the available software for DV capture, among other things. http://www.linux1394.org/index.html suresh kumar sharma wrote: Hi, I have a sony laptop and a sony DCR-TRV330 Camcoder with IEEE

Re: Problems with ncurses in X

2003-07-02 Thread Paladin
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:27:29 -0700 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > > For some time now I've been having some problems with ncurses > > programs inside X. When running "make menuconfig", for example, > > inside xterm or Eterm all fr

RE: Generating custom ssl certificate

2003-07-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I followed these instructions a while back and they worked for me. http://www.apache-ssl.org/ Now I've got my server installed, how do I create a test certificate? Step one - create the key and request: openssl req -new > new.cert.csr Step two - remove the passphrase from the key (optional

Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-02 Thread Ryan Heise
It's hard to know what the true cause of this problem is because: 1. my root partition may be too big (13Gigs) for my BIOS (GIGABYTE GA-6VX7+) 2. I just tripped over my power cord. I've been running Linux on this box without a problem for about 3 years, and just recently repartitioned so that I

RE: Generating custom ssl certificate

2003-07-02 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Yes, that's it thanks paul. I was hoping to erase the pass scheme while starting apache do you happen to know the command to remove the pass on the cert? -- Thank you, Louie -Original Message- From: Paul C. Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:33 AM To: '[EMAI

Enabling ssl on web?

2003-07-02 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.1.2 Hello, how do I start apache w/ ssl support? On the command line. -- Thank you, Louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ext3 and Kernel 2.4.18

2003-07-02 Thread Paladin
On 02 Jul 2003 17:32:18 -0500 Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are mistaken about this (and it is a common misconception). > If you use an initrd image, like the Debian 2.4.x kernels do, you > can build ext3 as a module and boot a machine with an ext3 root > file system. > > T

Re: Trying Again

2003-07-02 Thread Kent West
Abrasive wrote: Thanks for all the replies I got. They were all great answers, and at the very least, helping me on my way to learning Debian. I found that booting with the 5th CD in the set was the easiest way to start out with the 2.4.x kernel. But now, out of sheer morbid curiosity, I still

Re: Generating custom ssl certificate

2003-07-02 Thread Paul C. Bryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: | Hi, does anyone remember how to generate custom ssl certificate using | openssl? If you mean self-signed certificate, try: # openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey.pem 2048 # openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacer

SPICE for Debian

2003-07-02 Thread Pigeon
The following link might be useful to anyone wanting to run the SPICE circuit simulator: http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/~mcp/spicedeb/ -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Generating custom ssl certificate

2003-07-02 Thread Miranda, Joel Louie M
Hi, does anyone remember how to generate custom ssl certificate using openssl? thanks -- Thank you, Louie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg fully recompiles kernel

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:45:58AM -0300, Ricardo BUG!Herrmann wrote: > Why does make-kpkg fully recompiles the kernel every time ? I wanted to > add some modules only and it seems a "clean" target was run first. Is > there a way to disable this ? Yep, put 'do_clean := NO' in the ~/.kernel-pkg.con

Re: installing saxon

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:08:28PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm trying to get the Saxon XSLT Processor installed on my system. > apt-cache search saxon > reveals: > docbook-xsl - Stylesheets for processing DocBook XML files to HTML and > FO. > arbortext-catalog - Cat

Re: How to change a symlink without breaking anything (problems with g++)

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Morten Eriksen wrote: > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The C++ transition has endlessly been debated and beaten to death in > > a variety of public fora... if you don't know about it, you're > > living under a rock [...] > > I have indeed live

Re: Worked around (dirty...) How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:51:47AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:33:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > However, I'll stop here and not say anything more unless there are > > specific questions; I think I've put forward my point as best I can and > > your licensing dec

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-02 Thread Ray a PowerWeb Tech
> > And what relation does my email address have to my telephone #? What > > are they checking in my email that has any relation to my telephone? > > (Yes, I use ppp to my ISP, but surely they can't query the ISP server > > to find out which telephone I'm using to call the ISP, and surely it > > s

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Hey folks, > > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. > All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by > Debian, slowly but surely. > > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA (essentiall

Re: error installing Display Drivers

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Abrasive wrote: > I'm trying to install the Intel 845G display adapter on my computer. > Using the script from > the Intel web site, I get an error: > Error: cannot find header matching kernel version 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > The error generated a dri.log file, here are the contents. Anyone have

Re: firebird + character display

2003-07-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:15:37PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm having problems displaying characters in Firebird that display fine in > Opera 7. They are Unicode and Shift-JIS encoded pages (i.e. having > problems with both). I have no problems with Cyrillic alphabets: > http://www.g

Re: different versions of mozilla in parallel

2003-07-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to have two different versions of Mozilla installed on my > Laptop: the very latest with sid and v1.2. The reason for this: > unprofessional software like found in telebanking applications check > for the browser version; the latest mozilla su

Re: make-kpkg fully recompiles kernel

2003-07-02 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 21:20:21 +0200, Ricardo BUG!Herrmann wrote: > I wanted to add support for some more modules in an already built kernel > tree. Then when I ran make_kpkg kernel_image a full recompile started > ... is there a way out ? It shouldn't do, unless you tell it to. How do you invoke m

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-02 Thread Thomas Richter
Hallo Paul > I'm currently working on my CCNA and I'm wondering if anybody's found > a good cisco ios simulator for unix. I'm sure I can't be the only > person going for their CCNA coming from unix, after all half the > commands are pretty close to their unix counterparts. have a look at zebra.

bash: a pipe bodge, is there a better way ?

2003-07-02 Thread David selby
I have a pipe of commands echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*} I want the output to go to $tempdir/websync/ ... Is there a more elegant way than my present solution of .. cd $tempdir/websync echo $scanhtml | csplit -f index -q - /lock/ {*} This seems a bit of a bodge and I am s

Logrotate postscript not able to find just-compressed log

2003-07-02 Thread Ian Stevens
I want to be able to copy a just-compressed logfile from one machine to another. Unfortunately, the following rule does not seem to work as /var/log/phantom.log.1.gz never seems to be present when the postrotate script is called. Is the just-rotated logfile not compressed until after postrotate i

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Dan Collis Puro
Thanks to all who pegged "hwtools" for me. I appreciate it! -DJCP On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:42, Mika Fischer wrote: > Hi, Dan! > > * Dan Collis Puro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-02 20:36]: > > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA (essentially > > run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda"

Help! Can mount iso image during sarge busybox installation

2003-07-02 Thread Zhao YouBing
I tried to install from harddisk with sarge iso images, but after I start the boot.bat I found I can't using "mount -o loop sarge-i386-1.iso /cdrom" in busybox, I've using "mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0" I'm wondering where the boot kernel has any loop device support?? Has anyone tried this?? Can u help

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm currently working on my CCNA and I'm wondering if anybody's found >a good cisco ios simulator for unix. I'm sure I can't be the only >person going for their CCNA coming from unix, after all half the >commands are pretty

documentation was Re: Worked around (dirty...)

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:18:07PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > a recent discussion on another list I am on mentioned frustrations at > the LDP for many of the same reasons: converting it to the 'not simple > for beginners format' Docbook - which they said the LDP did not provide > an 'example' to ge

Re: please help me to edit xconfig

2003-07-02 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:44:34PM +0700, Reza wrote: > >>oh ya, i almost forget, i have already add "(==)Using config file" in the > >> var/log/XFree86.0.log > > >Sorry? Did you edit XFree86.log? That makes no sense. This file is written > >for your information, and not read by anything (besides

Re: transfer video from camcoder to computer

2003-07-02 Thread TR
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 06:38:25 -0700 (PDT) suresh kumar sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a sony laptop and a sony DCR-TRV330 Camcoder > with IEEE 1394 connection , I want to be able to > connect to my camcoder through the 1394 port and > transfer video , Can anyone please suggest som

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:17:58AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Here's the parts I can answer right now : | I did succeed in registering by using the telephone and calling | 1-888-382-1222. | When I did this, the hardware of the telephone system was able to | verify that I was calling from the tel

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 July 2003 06:02 am, Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Hey folks, > > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. > All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by > Debian, slowly but surely. >

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-02 Thread Todd Pytel
I'd suspect Galeon - I had no problem registering with Mozilla-Firebird. --Todd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg fully recompiles kernel

2003-07-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:45:58AM -0300, Ricardo BUG!Herrmann wrote: > Why does make-kpkg fully recompiles the kernel every time ? I wanted to > add some modules only and it seems a "clean" target was run first. Is > there a way to disable this ? It depends on which targets you are building... If

Re: Worked around (dirty...) How to apply no-debianized kernelpatch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Mark
> > I wrote the documentation > for myself and have offered it to the open source community as a > "here you might find this useful" kind of document. I was then asked > by one debian user to contribute my documentation to The LDP. > The submission process involved doing a re-write of my origi

firebird + character display

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I'm having problems displaying characters in Firebird that display fine in Opera 7. They are Unicode and Shift-JIS encoded pages (i.e. having problems with both). I have no problems with Cyrillic alphabets: http://www.gov.ru/main/symbols/gsrf2_2.html but when I view Shift-JIS pages

Re: GTK font issues

2003-07-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:51:07AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:13:21 -0700 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:21:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Many of the dialogs have squares for the fonts. > > > Isn't this the same tired old issue w

Re: installing saxon

2003-07-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 10:08, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:32:14AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > I think this is $PATH issue. try first doing a 'whereis saxon'. Then try > > doing runing the command with the 'absolute' path. The fix would be to > > edit your PATH. I think '.ba

Re: bash: display running foreground command in xterm title

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael Heironimus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030702 15:05]: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:20:31AM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > and pushes the Enter key - how will I know? csh seems to have a precmd > > function which the user can define and which is executed before each > > command. The only thin

Re: GTK font issues

2003-07-02 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:13:21 -0700 Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:21:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Many of the dialogs have squares for the fonts. > Isn't this the same tired old issue with GTK as described in > /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz? > Yo

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Peter Pauly
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 10:02:47AM -0400, Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Hey folks, > > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. > All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by > Debian, slowly but surely. > > Anyway: What would be the most "Debi

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Dan! * Dan Collis Puro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-02 20:36]: > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA (essentially > run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could (probably) add something in > /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems dirty. apt-get install hwtools read /usr/share

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 16:02, Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Hey folks, > > Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a > lot. All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be > replaced by Debian, slowly but surely. > > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Dan" == Dan Collis Puro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA Dan> (essentially run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could Dan> (probably) add something in /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems Dan> dirty. The commonly accepted

Re: ext3 and Kernel 2.4.18

2003-07-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"paladin" == paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: paladin> Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:29:10 +0100 paladin> "Adam Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I want to run my main file system as ext3 and have already >> converted it to ext3 and update the fstab file, but whenever I

Re: How to install Debian 3.0 with an ServeRaid COntroller (ips)???

2003-07-02 Thread Duane Winner
Well, I'm not sure about your 'serveraid controller', so don't know if this will work for you. But just yesterday, I ran into the same thing with my Dell PowerEdge 1550 with a Perc3/DC RAID controller. I was booting with my Debian 3.0 Minimal Install CD (iso image woody-i386-1.iso) And it tells

Fwd: Re: Trying Again

2003-07-02 Thread qwerty
In order to boot the 2.4 kernel you will need the 5th cd from the woody set to boot with. The NIC is an Intel Pro 100 S Desktop Adapter. One of my previous emails was answered by someone that stated the 2.4.x kernel would recognize the NIC. and the display adapter which is an Intel 845G - At

Re: Documentation of logcheck

2003-07-02 Thread HdV
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Lukas Ruf wrote: > does anyone know about documentation of logcheck? I cannot find any > neither on the web nor in dselect (sid). Well there is not much to it. Everything you need is in /usr/share/doc/logcheck and /usr/share/doc/logcheck-database. The config file has some use

Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer?

2003-07-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:14:12PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Sorry for an OT question: Is it possible to FAX if you have a > broadband internet connection? I suspect one has to buy a modem just > for faxing. Depends on how you want to fax. There are internet accessible services that will fax

Re: Recommended hardware

2003-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:11, DGLUser wrote: > Hi all, I need to buy a new computer, w/o monitor my budget is about $1000 usd, and > I need to have a decent system. I cheked the ones being sold by Walmart online > (microtel), but I didn't see any dvd/cd burner/drive capability. I wasn't sure > ei

Re: new debian box reboots itself?

2003-07-02 Thread Jake Johnson
Maybe someone was playing a trick on your for leaving yourself logged in! (Not a very good practice) Regards, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Aud

Re: Debian lilo won't boot Redhat

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 00:24]: > Here's the lilo.conf for debian that doesn't work for the RH sections. How does it not work? Does lilo not run (i.e. refuses to install in /dev/sda)? Do you get a LILO prompt? Does the kernel begin to load and but fail to load the initrd? goo

Re: package madness upgrading stable pin

2003-07-02 Thread suresh kumar sharma
Hi, I have a sony laptop and a sony DCR-TRV330 Camcoder with IEEE 1394 connection , I want to be able to connect to my camcoder through the 1394 port and transfer video , Can anyone please suggest some good grabbing and encoding software to do that . and also may be suggest a link where I can get s

Re: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration(2) on libpam0g

2003-07-02 Thread gaspard
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Niall Mansfield wrote: > About a month ago I upgraded a server from Potato to Woody - all OK. > > Recently, on the same server, I added 'unstable' entries > to /etc/apt/souces.list, which now reads: > > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ woody main contrib non-free > de

Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
I use CUPS to print from my Sid system. When I go to print from Mozilla, I get to choose from: huffalump@:64 spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64 PostScript/default "huffalump" is the name of the laser printer on my FreeBSD box across the room, served via CUPS. My /etc/printcap is pretty barren:

Re: X doesn't exit nicely

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 21:44]: > >From the land of magical, mystical problems...when I first boot Debian I > have a lovely non-graphical environment. If I then startx (into fluxbox) I > have a lovely graphical environment. HOWEVER if I exit from fluxbox the > non-graphical e

Re: weird tcpdump dependency on libaviplaydha

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030628 23:18]: > also sprach Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.06.26.1908 +0200]: > > 0c558a84f5eba114dd31878fd4fd3e18 /usr/sbin/tcpdump > > this is identical. > > but: > > diamond:~# ldd /usr/sbin/tcpdump [307

Re: Sound card recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:56, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm building a little P5/200 box for my kids to play Reader Rabbit (which > unfortunately runs only under Windows - Wine can't handle it) and am trying > to decide whether to: > > 1) Buy a cheap sound card for it, or > 2) Give them my old ENS

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* cr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030629 19:28]: > Yes, I did that. It produced a floppy which, when booted off, just says > 'GRUB' and hangs. Does it hang, or is that a grub prompt you're seeing? It won't go to a menu. You'll have to type commands manually. From the looks of this thread, it seems li

cdrecord warning message

2003-07-02 Thread Rick Pasotto
I recently rebuilt my system. I didn't use to get this message: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. The cd burned just f

Re: command execution upon ssh

2003-07-02 Thread David Z Maze
nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i want to ssh to a remote machine (firewall), and then immediately > upon success, ssh to another remote machine. i don't want to put this > in my .login, because i don't want it to always happen -- i want to be > able to *just* ssh to the first box, t

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-02 Thread Abrasive
I went and bought myself a used cheap cisco router. Most of the tests center on 1500(or 2500) series I believe, it's been a while since I took the test. And they've gone to the 640-607 exam since then. In any event, I'd buy a cheap router from Ebay. There's nothing you can do to it that you c

Re: GRUB problem

2003-07-02 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030701 13:33]: > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:54:51 +1200 > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Errrm, *I* didn't produce that line > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci root=/dev/hda1 ro > > - grub-install did. > > > > In fact, if I read GRUB terminology aright,

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-02 Thread Steve
Paul E Condon wrote: I am using Galeon web browser and mutt MUA. Does gov require Windoze software on my computer? Has anyone succeeded in registering with a Debian machine? I'm running Libranet 2.8 (Debian based distro), and had no problem registering with Mozilla. Steve Kist -- To UNSUBS

Re: bash: display running foreground command in xterm title

2003-07-02 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:20:31AM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > and pushes the Enter key - how will I know? csh seems to have a precmd > function which the user can define and which is executed before each > command. The only thing that comes close in bash is PROMPT_COMMAND. But > that's obviou

Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer?

2003-07-02 Thread Haines Brown
> I bought a hp psc 2110 printer/scanner about 6 months ago and both the printer > and scanner work great. When I was looking to buy the fax functions of the > all-in-ones were unsupported under linux so I bought the cheaper model > without the fax and just use my modem for faxing after scanning

Re: How to make the debian system shut down with power off?

2003-07-02 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Nick Hastings wrote: >Hi, > >* James Ng Yuen Sum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030627 11:11]: >> I have installed the debian system several times. In the first time, >> after the installation, the computer can shut down automatically.(that >> means the computer can shut down with the po

Re: Automount

2003-07-02 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 00:52, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > I think you want supermount: > > http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ > > It's not integrated into Debian, AFAIK. Con Kolivas' patch set for 2.4.21 includes it http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ . I recommend the patch set genera

Re: kernel 2.5.xx and Qt

2003-07-02 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:05:09PM +1000, Paul Foote wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:24:04AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Because that's what the kernel developers WANTED to do. Why favor GTK over > > Qt? > > Namely linus, hes a KDE lover aparently :( > What surprises me is they didnt stick

Re: command execution upon ssh

2003-07-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:21:20PM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: [...] } so a little googling turned up the -t flag, and `ssh -t -n machine1 } ssh machine2` seems to do the job. } } however (here's the problem), i can't type in the resultant terminals. } oops. } } how can i fix this? it would be

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:34:36 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm currently working on my CCNA and I'm wondering if anybody's found > a good cisco ios simulator for unix. Zebra might be helpful, though opinions vary as to how similar its command language is to IOS; see e.g. http://honor.trusecure.

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:23:06PM -0400, Dan Collis Puro wrote: > Anyway: What would be the most "Debian" way to turn on DMA (essentially > run "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda") on boot? I could (probably) add something in > /etc/rc2.d, but that just seems dirty. > > Suggestions? Thanks! While hdparm ha

Problems with SCSI aic79xx driver in 2.4.21 kernel...., 'attempting to abort cmd xxxxx'

2003-07-02 Thread Walter Tautz
problem occursNote I am trying to install on a SuperMicro system server, model 6013P8.. I basically compiled a version of the 2.4.21 kernel and then copied onto the linux.bin of the rescue floppy... this worked however once the system boots after the first phase of the install it starts giving

Re: OT? www.donotcall.gov problem

2003-07-02 Thread Jamin W. Collins
This is WAY off topic. On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 05:17:58AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Yesterday, I attempted to use the new federal (USA) web site for > registering my telephone numbers in the 'do not call' database. I did > not succeed, and I am wondering what is wrong. Let me describe my > exp

Proftp notify

2003-07-02 Thread Pawel Slabiak
Hi All, i need some help for my proftp server.It works very well but i don't know when someone login in the system.I want to get E-Mail from root when somebody (FTP-User) is in my system. THNX -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Wrapping CGI and PHP Scripts

2003-07-02 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:41:47AM -0400, Anand Atreya wrote: > Does anybody have any recommendations on how to set up a virtual hosting > Apache server such that users can have CGI and PHP scripts execute as > themselves, without having to put #!/usr/bin/php at the top of php scripts, > and th

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