RAID 0+1 with ADAPTEC 1200A on Debian Woody

2003-07-27 Thread Alexis de BRUYN
Hi Everyboby,   I want to setup a files server under Debian Woody 3.0R1. I built an hardware Raid 0+1 array with my Adaptec 1200A RAID controller thanks to the BIOS utility. I have 4 80 Go Western Digital hard disk drives and one 20Go HDD where I install my Woody.   When i install the bf2.4 f

Re: abcde is failing me. SOLVED

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Cormier
On July 26, 2003 09:57 am, Antonio Rodr wrote: > Solution: > > 1. chown g+rw /dev/sg* > 2. chgrp cdrom /dev/sg* > > These two steps have been enogh to make abcde work as user (user that > belongs to cdrom group). I was having similar problems with Grip and your post lead to the solution however

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-07-27 Thread cr
On Sunday 27 July 2003 17:05, Rthoreau wrote: > ThinKer softly asked, > > > So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is > > asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of > > > > /dev/hda > > /dev/hdc > > and > > /dev/hdd. > > Debian can be confusing if you really

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-27 Thread cr
On Saturday 26 July 2003 23:06, Colin Watson wrote: (snippage for bandwidth) > > I think they have the vision of a flatworm, but that's the way they > > are. So they may buy Red Hat, they would certainly buy IBM, but > > they're extremely unlikely to touch Debian unless somebody *sells* it > >

Re: Advanced routing question

2003-07-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sunday 27 July 2003 20:10, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On July 27, 2003 09:10 am, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > > I'm trying to combine 2 linux firewalls/routers together. the final host > > should have the following ports: > > > > 1. eth0 - 256kbps frame relay. > > 2. ppp0 (via eth1) - pppoe ads

squid acl and attachments blocking

2003-07-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi all. So i got tired of all viruses, antivirus on my email helps, but not much , cause there are lot of webmail sites. So i want to block some attachments from them. I have read the squid documentation and got this far : acl badURL url_regex -i testsite.*\.vbs$ testsite.*\com$ testsite.*\scr$ te

Re: Intel Hyper Threading on Linux..

2003-07-27 Thread Louie Miranda
thanks a lot, i'll post more if i get any troubles with HT. If ever.. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Intel Hyper Threading

WM theme install probs.

2003-07-27 Thread Adam Bogacki
Rodney D. Myers wrote: After genmenu runs, you cannot edit it manually, it has to be done through wmakerconf. BTW, why are you running as root? Not a good idea, too many bad things can happen, If you run as a "normal' user, the worse that can happen, is just screwing up one account, your way is to

Re: Intel Hyper Threading on Linux..

2003-07-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Louie Miranda wrote: > Does Debian/Kernel? Support HT? Works fine for me. One of the systems here is a dual processor with hyperthreading enabled. It was an accident that HT was enabled but we decided to leave it that way and run some benchmarks on it. It is a dual cpu and so it shows up as fou

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Touset
David selby wrote: Hello, I have started to get the following message e-mailed to me at night. Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -x /etc/init.d/anacron && /etc/init.d/anacron start +2>/dev/null X-Cro

Re: kernel compilation question

2003-07-27 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Marino Fernandez wrote: On Sunday 27 July 2003 9:47 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start tinkering with kernel compilation. I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my choice? But it are there any other package(s) I'd need to do

Re: Intel Hyper Threading on Linux..

2003-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:47, Louie Miranda wrote: > Does Debian/Kernel? Support HT? Found this article on intel's website. and i > just bought a new D865Perl Board. Just curious.. And how come redhat and > suse are always on ads, well commercialzed linux. I am not sure exactly Why you would want it

Re: Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: <---SNIP---> > # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > 1 > > When /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn had the value "1", I couldn't get > to thatpetplace either. However, I could, after I did this, and > then restarted Mozilla: > # echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/

kde installation problem in debian

2003-07-27 Thread Vinay Adella
I installed sid. I have 8 cd's updated till July 16th, there is no package like ksmserver and kdesktop without which kde refuses to start. so i downloaded the packages separately and installed them. The problem is i am not able to burn the images on a cd because i need the other files again. Is i

Intel Hyper Threading on Linux..

2003-07-27 Thread Louie Miranda
Does Debian/Kernel? Support HT? Found this article on intel's website. and i just bought a new D865Perl Board. Just curious.. And how come redhat and suse are always on ads, well commercialzed linux. --- - Linux* Operating System Desktop Based PCs The following Linux operating

Re: kernel compilation question

2003-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 22:47, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start > tinkering with kernel compilation. > > I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my choice? But it > are there any other package(s) I'd need to download to get sta

Re: Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 22:59, Kent West wrote: > ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > >I use Debian Woody, with cable modem connected to the computer via eth0 > >, it get the ip via dhcp during bootup. The problem I have is that I > >cannot connect to the site www.thatpetplace.com , it just timed out. > >I'

Re: Printer Toolbox

2003-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns. On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:31:09AM -0700, S Yuval wrote: > So if there's no real "toolbox"-like control-panel, is there at > least some way to control the print quality? Yeah. Make multiple print queues

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:16, Travis Crump wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: [snip] > > Seven reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get. > > > > 1. aptitude can look just like apt-get > > > >If you run 'aptitude update' or 'aptitude upgrade' or 'aptitude > >install', it looks and

Re: what non-free packages do I have installed?

2003-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 01:32:05PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > What is the command to see how much non-free software I have > installed? I.e. those with Section: non-free... in Packages.gz vrms? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:46:37AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > 3) Demand dialing works. I have to do a 'pon' manually or through an > exising command script file. You can further automate this by doing this: mv /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot /etc/ppp/ppp_

Re: Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-27 Thread Kent West
ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: I use Debian Woody, with cable modem connected to the computer via eth0 , it get the ip via dhcp during bootup. The problem I have is that I cannot connect to the site www.thatpetplace.com , it just timed out. I've tried it on various browsers and same result. wget returns

Cannot Connect to some website on linux

2003-07-27 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
I use Debian Woody, with cable modem connected to the computer via eth0 , it get the ip via dhcp during bootup. The problem I have is that I cannot connect to the site www.thatpetplace.com , it just timed out. I've tried it on various browsers and same result. wget returns this wget www.thatpet

Kernel 2.6.0-test2 minor issues. Works well!!!

2003-07-27 Thread Marino Fernandez
I've just compiled this kernel, and I am running with it. Some issues I had before with test1 are gone (for example I was unable to unmount my ethernet card upon reboot). I have to say that everything seem to be working well, that ACPI seem to work (although no thermal monitoring in my machine)

Re: kernel compilation question

2003-07-27 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030728 11:48]: > Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start > tinkering with kernel compilation. > > I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my choice? "Need" is not strictly true since you could just get the sour

RE: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 03:10:06 +0200, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I was going to run > > nmap -sP x.x.x.* > arp -a | grep ether |awk '{print $4}' > > This give me a nice list. > > but as for scanning this list for entries not included in another list I am > a bit stuck... > > ...arpwatch reads like

Re: kernel compilation question

2003-07-27 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Sunday 27 July 2003 9:47 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start > tinkering with kernel compilation. > > I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my choice? But it > are there any other package(s) I'd need to download to get s

Re: Samba Problem

2003-07-27 Thread Danthevb6man
No, change the share type to USER and make sure that your passdb backend has all the user accounts and passwords for the users you want to authenticate.  I haven't worked with Samba 3.0 yet, but from reading about it I know you don't need machine accounts unless you are trying to use Samba as a PDC

DRM kernel errors

2003-07-27 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is starting to get really annoying. Whenever a window pops up in front of flightgear, my machine freezes and I get this little tidbit in my logs: Jul 27 19:43:43 ursine kernel: [drm:radeon_lock_take] *ERROR* 4 holds heavyweight lock I'm running

Re: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-07-28T01:00:10Z, "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but as for scanning this list for entries not included in another list I > am a bit stuck... 'diff' is your friend. > ...arpwatch reads like it will do this very well. Don't forget about the OUI database that gives you the

kernel compilation question

2003-07-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Now that I'm fully moved over to Debian :-), I'm looking at start tinkering with kernel compilation. I would "assume" I'd need the kernel-source package of my choice? But it are there any other package(s) I'd need to download to get started? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reg

Re: Audacity sound problems

2003-07-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- "Brian P.D. Smyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I can play sound files in XMMS, noatun mplayer, etc. but Audacity 1.0.1 > won't let me select /dev/dsp as the playback device. The preference > dialog gives me an error message "Invalid playback device". > > I have seen threads on this pro

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 00:23 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > > `mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a,b] /mnt/flash/` gives: > > mount: /dev/sd[a,b] is not a valid block device > > > > [...] > > > > I bought the reader because I was having similar problems with my > > camera. It's an Olympus D-510. I didn't

Re: sqwebmail vs. squirrelmail

2003-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Johnny wrote: > I've been looking at sqwebmail and squirrelmail as possible candidates for > setting up our webmail interface on top of qmail. Does anyone have a > recommendation one way or the other? (preferably with some reasons why) I went with sqwebmail because I did not want to have to babysi

Another oops in sound

2003-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
I posted about one before, and now another kernel oops locking sound modules on my Testing system, using kernel-image-2.4.20-3-k7. I still don't know whether to report this as a bug in the image or OSS. The oops was directly caused by sox, if that means anything. Log entry is: Jul 27 20:51

mozilla-1.4-2 menuAccessKeyFocuses won't

2003-07-27 Thread ghwb
I'm using unstable/testing, with mozilla-1.4. I'm trying to set the Alt-key to access the menu, instead of the F10 key. I have set this preference in the about:config list: user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses", true); However, the F10 key still does the focus and Alt does not. Any sugges

RE: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:16, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac > > addresses being used on a lan ? I'm trying to discover if foreign > > devices are being connected over the weekend. > > > > Ideally I'd like to be able to compare one lis

Re: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:41:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:16, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac addresses > > being used on a lan ? > > I'm trying to discover if foreign devices are being connected over the > > wee

Re: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Bassem Youssef
* Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-27 17:41]: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:16, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac addresses > > being used on a lan ? > > I'm trying to discover if foreign devices are being connected over the > > weekend. >

two video cards

2003-07-27 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi all. I have a strange problem with my machine. I have an old 4megs agp card and a pci voodoo 3dfx. I can set X to boot on my pci with no problem at all, by specifying in XFConfig-4 Section "Device" Identifier "Voodoo3" VendorName "3dfx" Driver "tdfx"

Re: mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 20:16, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac addresses > being used on a lan ? > I'm trying to discover if foreign devices are being connected over the > weekend. > > Ideally I'd like to be able to compare one list with another

mac addresses

2003-07-27 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Dear Debian Users, Does anyone know of a tool or util which can list all the mac addresses being used on a lan ? I'm trying to discover if foreign devices are being connected over the weekend. Ideally I'd like to be able to compare one list with another and see the difference. Thanks Matt --

Re: Problem with Files Sharing in One System

2003-07-27 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
Yup... Thanks guys. That does the trick. -- Yuhanes Tjandra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Travis Crump
Joey Hess wrote: (This question is appropriate for the debian-user mailing list, redirecting.) Dan Jacobson wrote: there seems no mechanism at present to warn the user that he shouldn't install it, even if he has done apt-get update from the mirrors. In bug 202919 you will see I was just lucky so

Re: Installing XFree86 v3.3.6 instead of v4.0

2003-07-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Barnaby Waters wrote: > I installed debian-30r1 on a fairly old PC with a S3Trio64V2/GX video > chip. > > X applications wil not run. I think that XFree86 version v4.0 no longer > not support the S£Trio64V2/GX chip and I need to install XFree86 v3.3.6. That is correct for XFree 4.0 and 4.

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Michael! At Sunday 27 July 2003 22:50 Michael Waters wrote: > I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i > don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the > web suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage device > and there are repor

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-27 Thread Debian User
bios still sees both drives ... i think the hardware is still working. i re-lilo-ed without success. I still have to boot from the floopy. what is IIRC? At 26 July 2003, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 19:13, Debian User wrote: >> after bios, i think lilo is not e

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-27 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ian! At Sunday 27 July 2003 19:00 Ian Melnick wrote: > [...] > Samba layout? Well, problem started after I made it an NT PDC so > that I could use it with Win2k. Win2k always warns me when password > has expired, but Win95 doesn't; so stuff just stops working in Win95 > when the password 'e

Installing XFree86 v3.3.6 instead of v4.0

2003-07-27 Thread Barnaby Waters
I installed debian-30r1 on a fairly old PC with a S3Trio64V2/GX video chip. X applications wil not run. I think that XFree86 version v4.0 no longer not support the S£Trio64V2/GX chip and I need to install XFree86 v3.3.6. Can I install XFree86 v3.3.6 during the initial installaion process? If no

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-27 Thread Alban Browaeys
I think i need to go > into some file and either delete or modify the entry for mozilla but I'm > not able to figure out which file it is. > those files you are seeking are in /var/lib/dpkg backup this dir, then play with availables, updates/ should be empty , though it may contains what miss f

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working system. Marc Shapiro I

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Waters
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 18:03 -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 16:38, Michael Waters wrote: > > I think the problem may be that sg is not mapping the reader slots to > > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. When I do `sg_map`, I get: (scd0 is a cdrw) > > > > /dev/sg0 /dev/scd0 > > /dev/sg1 >

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
(This question is appropriate for the debian-user mailing list, redirecting.) Dan Jacobson wrote: > there seems no mechanism at present to warn the user that he shouldn't > install it, even if he has done apt-get update from the mirrors. In > bug 202919 you will see I was just lucky something sto

Apache Problems (please help)!

2003-07-27 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello: Any help that anyone can give me or if you can at least point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. I installed libapache-mod-ssl last week and I haven't been able to get it to work. I got to the section in the readme file (from the libapache-mod-ssl documentation) that sa

Re: No space left on device - Solved!

2003-07-27 Thread Salman Haq
Hi again! I finally fixed the problem by creating two new partitions, one for /home (~26.5 Gb) and one for /var (~512 Mb). Here are the steps I followed (suggested by David Bree): 0. Reboot the computer using parted boot floppy. 1. Invoke parted and resize hda5 by shrinking it down to 10

RE: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-27 Thread Rus Hughes
> Nick wrote: > Sorry for chiming in late... > > With standard 2.4.x kernel drivers, AGP 8x isn't supported for that > chipset, > so 4x is strictly necessary, but I couldn't change it from the BIOS. > However, > there's a way around this. On the Rage3D (www.rage3d.com) board, someone > posted a pa

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Neal Lippman
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 16:38, Michael Waters wrote: > Hi list, > > I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i > don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the web > suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage device and > there are reports

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 10:39, Alan Connor wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running > NOTHING! > > Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel > > > 08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05 > 18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombi

Re: Some shell's problem

2003-07-27 Thread Johannes Zarl
> Last, last thought. When I tried to setup some variables in > ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc KDE seemed not to look at them. I have been > told, though never tried it, that (assuming you are using KDM) as a > graphical loggin manager, the "default" option will read these files ! Sorry, when I wrote

Re: gdbm question...

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:28:09PM -0500, James Myers wrote: > What package do I need to install to get gdbm on woody? libgdbmg1 for the runtime, libgdbmg1-dev for development. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > After I added unstable to my sources.list and did an update, I then did > apt-get -u install gnome-core. This gave me errors about KDE requiring > kdebase-audiolibs (why are KDE dependancies being mentioned when I only > asked to i

Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Waters
Hi list, I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the web suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage device and there are reports that it works in linux. I've followed the suggestions here: ht

Re: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-27 Thread Nicos Gollan
Sorry for chiming in late... On Sunday 27 July 2003 21:41, Rus Hughes wrote: > Nick wrote: > > I get the same error when it comes to the board being third party, but > > everything still works fine. I also recently upgraded to the July 22 > > driver, and it works fine too. Seems they fixed Xx supp

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread stan
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:46:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> > >>>You probably want bits of GNOME from unstable. > >> > > > > >Install gnome-core and its dependencies from unstable, probably? Just > >guessing, as I don't actua

RE: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-27 Thread Rus Hughes
Nick wrote: > I get the same error when it comes to the board being third party, but > everything still works fine. I also recently upgraded to the July 22 > driver, and it works fine too. Seems they fixed Xx support. > > I don't know why you are getting that error. Did you compile agpgart > inot

Re: Install Debian with floppies

2003-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Tom [Sun, Jul 27 2003, 08:56:33PM]: > Hello everybody, > > I've got a problem that was already reported on the net but i didn't find > the answer. > I want to install a debian through network with floppies. I've got a > DFE-530TX network card and i know that the module is via-rhine.

gdbm question...

2003-07-27 Thread James Myers
What package do I need to install to get gdbm on woody?   Thanks  

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:46:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: You probably want bits of GNOME from unstable. > Install gnome-core and its dependencies from unstable, probably? Just guessing, as I don't actually run testing at the moment ... This does not work (on my system, at least) -- After I

Install Debian with floppies

2003-07-27 Thread Tom
Hello everybody, I've got a problem that was already reported on the net but i didn't find the answer. I want to install a debian through network with floppies. I've got a DFE-530TX network card and i know that the module is via-rhine. Whatever the floppy set i use : idepci, bf2.4 or simple set

Post dist-upgrade wierdness

2003-07-27 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: A recent apt-get update and apt-get -s upgrade showed about 94 packages to be upgraded on my testing box. Since it was so many packages, and dist-upgrade is reputed to be more gentle that upgrdae, I did an apt-get dist-upgrade all went well, except: 1. I lost everything but tcsh from m

Re: Compaq Evo N410C saound?

2003-07-27 Thread Andrew McGuinness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stan wrote: | How can I kake sound work on my Compaq Evo N410C? | | Google produced this: http://larve.net/people/hugo/2002/12/evo410 "This page describes my attempt at installing Debian on a Compaq Evo N410c." - -- Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

mounting a label segfaults?

2003-07-27 Thread Darin Strait
Running 2.4.21-2-686 and tracking unstable. Every few months, I try re-arranging my USB2/Firewire drives. I wind up trying to get mount -L label to work, only to fail and give up. FWIW, "335" are the last three digits from the serial number on the case of the drive. kiyone:/etc# grep 335 /etc/

Re: Spamd error

2003-07-27 Thread Wilfried Essig
Am Son, 2003-07-27 um 11.09 schrieb J. Zidar: > When I try to daemonize spamd I get the folowing error: > Cannot assign requested address at /usr/sbin/spamd line 156. > > The relative line from the spamd script is: > bind(Server, sockaddr_in($port, $addr)) || die "bind: $!"; > Sin

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-27 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 27 09:56:22 2003 > > > Quoting Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running > > NOTHING! > > > > Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel > > > > > > 08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, loa

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 07:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 01:19:00PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > I know Libranet sells a debian-based distro and has paid support. I dont > > know anything about them. Does anyone else have a opin

Printing with EPSON C80 stopped working

2003-07-27 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Running a debian sarge configuration - I have a epsom stylus c80 colour printer connected to the parallel port. Until recently this printer has been working perfectly under cups - but recently a test page showed missing cyan ink. I assume some ink

Re: Toolchain to run 2.6 kernel? [SOLVED]

2003-07-27 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, module-init-tools solved the problem. Thanks to Nathan and Eamon for your quick help. Ciao, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Advanced routing question

2003-07-27 Thread Fraser Campbell
On July 27, 2003 09:10 am, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > I'm trying to combine 2 linux firewalls/routers together. the final host > should have the following ports: > > 1. eth0 - 256kbps frame relay. > 2. ppp0 (via eth1) - pppoe adsl with dhcp. > 3. eth2-3 - 2 DMZ's. > 4. eth4 -

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-27 Thread Ian Melnick
> Hm, can you please quote what > chage -l $expiring_sambauser > says on your server, and share some info concerning your samba layout? Samba layout? Well, problem started after I made it an NT PDC so that I could use it with Win2k. Win2k always warns me when password has expired, but Win95 doesn'

Printer Toolbox

2003-07-27 Thread S Yuval
Hello,     I own an HP DeskJet 612C print and I'm looking for something equivalent to HP's Printer Toolbox.  The tool box allows controlling all aspects of the printing process: paper size, print quality, full-duplex printing, ink cartridge cleaning, cartridge alignment, etc.  Thus, I find m

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 12:27:36PM -0400, stan wrote: [Please don't send me private copies of list mail. Thanks.] > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:46:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > You probably want bits of GNOME from unstable. > > So, the tarnsition to Gnome 2 is not complete in "testing"? I s

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread stan
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:46:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:35:58AM -0400, stan wrote: > > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my laptop today. It's runnig > > "testing" > > > > Now when I try to login to a Gnome session it imediatly logs me back > > out. > > You proba

Compaq Evo N410C saound?

2003-07-27 Thread stan
How can I kake sound work on my Compaq Evo N410C? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-27 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running > NOTHING! > > Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel > > > 08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05 > 18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:35:58AM -0400, stan wrote: > I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my laptop today. It's runnig > "testing" > > Now when I try to login to a Gnome session it imediatly logs me back > out. You probably want bits of GNOME from unstable. -- Colin Watson

Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-27 Thread Alan Connor
I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running NOTHING! Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel 08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05 18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.2% system, 0.0% ni

Debian and Jagged Alliance 2 (ja2): Segmentation fault

2003-07-27 Thread Moritz Moeller-Herrmann
Hi, I have a big problem getting my copy of ja2 to run under Debian unstable. Installation works without problems, but after start I get a segfault: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/games/ja2$ ./ja2 Jagged Alliance 2 (c) 1999 by Sir-tech Canada Ltd. All rights reserved.

apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-27 Thread stan
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my laptop today. It's runnig "testing" Now when I try to login to a Gnome session it imediatly logs me back out. I remove all . files/directories in my hme directory, thinking that the nexessary ones would get recreated, but now I'm worse off than before :-( How

~/.Xdefaults misbehaviour ?!?!

2003-07-27 Thread Michael D. Schleif
# cat ~/.Xdefaults *charClass:33:48,37:48,45-47:48,64:48 xterm*font:9x15 *background: white *foreground: black *scrollKey:true *scrollTtyOutput: false Scrollbar.JumpCursor: true *vis

Printing in Mozilla unstable

2003-07-27 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Are any "unstable" users on this list able to print (or even to "print preview") from Mozilla? Any special tricks to make this work? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: on-screen keyboard

2003-07-27 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, Thanks for the link to 'xvkbd' package. I looked for it under 'k' and 'v' and forgot about the 'x'. I had downloaded and tried it out. After starting it with the command 'xvkdb' from the xterm window, the keyboard appears and after focussing, the displayable characters corresponding to

Re: Re. WindowMaker 'applications' menu inoperative

2003-07-27 Thread Geir Torstein Kristiansen
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 14:30, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Sorry, I'm not trying to be difficult but I've run 'genmenu' but > my WM 'applications' program still does not work. All it does > is show an 'x' in the right corner when I left or center click it, allowing > me to close it. > > When I ran 'genme

Re: Re. WindowMaker 'applications' menu inoperative

2003-07-27 Thread Geir Torstein Kristiansen
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 14:30, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Sorry, I'm not trying to be difficult but I've run 'genmenu' but > my WM 'applications' program still does not work. All it does > is show an 'x' in the right corner when I left or center click it, allowing > me to close it. > > When I ran 'genme

Messages from Cron Daemon

2003-07-27 Thread J. Zidar
How can one lower the frequency of messages (mails) from Cron Daemon? The text of the mail: fetchmail: background fetchmail at 11547 awakened. I have fetchmail running as a daemon but as I am not connected to the internet all the time, that's why cron complains. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: unsubscribe

2003-07-27 Thread Gregory Guthrie
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Re: WindowMaker 'applications menu' not working.

2003-07-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 21:29:17 +1000 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Rodney. > > I tried running 'genmenu' as root but Tux replied > 'no such program'. I tried apt-installing it (Debian unstable) but > received the message 'cannot find program'. > > Where does one source 'genmenu'

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Advanced routing question

2003-07-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I'm trying to combine 2 linux firewalls/routers together. the final host should have the following ports: 1. eth0 - 256kbps frame relay. 2. ppp0 (via eth1) - pppoe adsl with dhcp. 3. eth2-3 - 2 DMZ's. 4. eth4 - localnet. The default route is ppp0. Here's the

Re: DISK BOOT FAILURE

2003-07-27 Thread Debian User
i'll give lilo another shot. this all happened after a power failure .. my ups didn't do it's job by keeping the line voltage up. both disks were working fine until the power failure. of course, this problem could have been there for some time as it was 180 some odd days since i last reboot thi

Re: Re. WindowMaker 'applications' menu inoperative

2003-07-27 Thread TR
chat:~$ whatis wmakerconf wmakerconf (1) - configure the Window Maker X window manager I would suggest to take the following steps: apt-get install wmakerconf then run the little program, it has a nice graphical interface, it allows you to manipulate the menus. If this doesn't help, check t

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