Re: Kernel version confusion

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:43:09PM -0500, Tim McDaniel wrote: > Basically, I am using (or trying to use) the testing release. I > usually use dselect for installing new packages, when I need to do so > (which is rare for me). dselect says that kernel-source 2.4.18-11 is > installed. It also says

post-installation script errors

On a woody base install, I'm getting lots of post-installation script errors, like this: # dpkg -i sed_3.02-8_i386.deb (Reading database ... 6623 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sed 3.02-8 (using sed_3.02-8_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/sed.prerm: line 9: 65

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 05:03:57PM +0200, Jan Schulz wrote: > Just as a sidenote: I usually don't bother to read a mailaddress or > sigs, when I reply to a mail, but just hit 'reply'. And I usually try > only once to contact someone. So if a mail bounc

Re: Curious GUI problem

* Andreas Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030805 13:36]: > XFree will write a configuration file (/var/log/Xfree86.0.log), but as > your login screen works, I don't think you have a problem with your X > configuration. Just to clarify what is probably just a typo and not a lack of understanding: XFr

Re: nforce kernel modules

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 03:22:23PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:11:55PM -0400, gerard wrote: > > I am trying to get nvaudio to work on my machine. I compiled the module > > and I ran modconf to get it to start on startup. nvnet worked but I get > > these errors for nv

Re: booting 2.4 kernel on old PC

[ Crossposting thread started with http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg01562.html It has been suggested in private mail to me I should try on debian-boot.] Hi, > > + insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-568tsc/modules.dep >

RE: apt through proxy

I successfully use the: Add a line like this to your /etc/apt/apt.conf: acquire::http::proxy "http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port"; method. -Original Message- From: Moroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apt through proxy

Re: nfs mount takes a really long time

nori heikkinen said on Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:58:54PM -0400: > > If not, then I am guessing I need more info. > > what more info can i provide that would help? > > thanks, Have you checked your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? portmap uses them, as does rpc.statd/mountd. M pgp0.pgp

hot boxes and power consumption

This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8'). It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house. I think I'll be moving most of them back out of that room. But it brought me to another question

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:50:54PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote: > BTW: Is it normal that XFree86 uses 280 megs of ram? Maybe. That figure probably also contains your video RAM. How much RAM does your video card have ? Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Good Debian-based distro

> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:30:49 -0400 (EDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) >> > Because Debian is available for nearly ever hardware out there. >> > http://www.debian.org/ports >> > >> > Redhat supports significantly less platforms. >> > http://gd.tuwien.a

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:05:10 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > USENET was designed as a replacement to listservs. Given the origin, > lost functionality, and it's about as effective as C-R for reducing > spam, munging is considered harmful. No functionality is lost, I get protect

Re: CD-Writer on Debian Woody

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:05:38PM +0200, vinz wrote: | I've tried everything from a tonn of manuals... I still can't get my aopen | cd-writer to work. | and anyone help me please What sort of writer is it? SCSI? ATAPI? (IDE?) What have you tried that didn't work? I got a writer recently,

VIA Soundcard Driver - skipping, failing

Problem: I am having trouble setting up my VIA soundcard. Whenever I attempt to play a sound file, I either get massive skipping, skipping at the end of the file, or no sound at all. I think this has something to do with the sound card's buffer - perhaps it's not getting flushed properly, but

Re: how NOT to work with debian

Yes, it seems kde is not installed. startkde should work. Perhaps you should rerun apt-get and see if you can install kde? apt-get install kdebase Perhaps there is a problem with the installation? Maybe even run: apt-get install kdebase --reinstall Otherwise, you could (if desper

Re: USB Intellimouse problem

JASITD (Just a stab in the dark): What sort of surface are you you using the Intellimouse on? I have had similar problems to what you're describing when using the optical sensor on printed sheets (newspaper), pattered wood desks, and even ornamental mousepads (with pictures on em). If this might be

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:01:05 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Correctly configuring your mail server can go a long ways to reducing > the spam that you recieve. I'm sure that's true. The problem is there are three kinds of people: experts, people who more or less know what they're doing, an

Re: nforce kernel modules

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:54:32AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi?: > > > > Are your channels muted? They are by default. > > Why is this, and how do you change it? I've noticed that the mixer > settings on my machine never persist after a reboot

Re: Unusual idea..

On Friday 08 August 2003 13:43, Pigeon wrote: > read a book on DSP. Recommendations? -- Mike Mueller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I want separate MUA/MTA/MDA

On Monday 11 August 2003 13:22, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson said on Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:58:52PM -0400: > > I heard (about a year ago) that RedHat now ships postfix instead of > > sendmail. I haven't checked it out for myself, though. > > It's an option, but I don't know if it'

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

Sorry for the resend... forgot a link. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:20, nori heikkinen wrote: > [cc'ing the list for posterity :)] > Interesting. Trying again, it's working fine -- but a little > experimentation reveals that if i edit a file inside the chrooted > heirarchy from outside of it, i get

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

on Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:55:23PM -0700, Alvin Oga insinuated: > > hi ya > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > > > i booted up my laptop to check my email this evening, and e2fsck > > declares it's been 22 mounts or more and starts chugging away. it > > dies, so i knoppix-boot and manual

Re: Yet another HDIO_SET_DMA failed problem

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:05:42 -0500 (CDT) Timothy McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I don't see a way to put on a References: line in pine. I'm sorry > for screwing the threading.) In email threading is achieved by In-Reply-To which Pine does support. Reference is more of a news thing wh

Re: hot boxes and power consumption

Pigeon wrote: trip all the circuit breakers except the one feeding the computer to make sure; watch your electricity meter, and time how long it takes to use one kWh. If it takes 5 hours, your computer's taking 200W, etc. This will probably read high, ie. safe, and also tells you how much it costs

Re: linux cluster

I do a lot of heavy file transfers between all of them, one is a fileserver with about 500 gigs of space and one box is my ftp/apache/whatever server and the other is my test server, that I test out various things before putting them on my ftp/apache server, would it help at all on the file

Re: Wierd apt-get error?

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:08:39 +0200 "j2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running a unstable/stable system and i got the below and would apreciate any > hints? Did you C&P the entire error string into Google before posting here? :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your sh

Re: Re : problems with using dpkg on new installation

Hello, Siward, I finally installed a different version of debootstrap, and everything started to work. Maybe the first version I tried installing (twice) did not install all that was necessary to get the base system installed. I got hung up on installing the kernel, however, but I found out tha

Re: What this error mean?

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:05:59 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > kernel-image versus kernel-source. Yes, and it is well known and well documented that when you install Linux with a prebuilt kernel that two things are going to be true. 1: The kernel is going to be far larger than needed as

ftp to webserver - not as rot

This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in /var/www. There's a firewall on it and it is set so that we can send and receive mail, acc

Re: Good Debian-based distro

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > You may want to have a look at knoppix, they have a live CD so that >> folks >> > can experiment with it. It can then bee installed to HD if folks wish >> to >> > do so. Best of all it's Debian based... I hav

nforce kernel modules

I am trying to get nvaudio to work on my machine. I compiled the module and I ran modconf to get it to start on startup. nvnet worked but I get these errors for nvaudio. /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/drivers/sound/nvaudio.o: unresolved symbol ac97_set_adc_rate_R895c54b6 /lib/modules/2.4.21/kernel/d

Re: Wierd apt-get error?

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:08:39 +0200 "j2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Running a unstable/stable system and i got the below and would apreciate > any hints? > > cookiemonster:~# apt-get update [ hits snipped ] > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Dynamic

Re: Good Debian-based distro

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quickie search shows that Knoppix uses Kudzu which is originally > supplied by RedHat and is now available as a Debian package. > > So... > > If Knoppix has better hardware detection than base Debian > And Knoppix uses Kudzu >

Re: Alsa-utils make error

Daniel Reginald Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having a problem installing the alsa-utils package: > > dhunt:/usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-0.9.6# ./configure;make;make install By way of style, 'configure' and 'make' can and should generally be run as a mortal user: alsa-utile-0.9.6$ ./conf

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:39:23AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > The problem has been fixed since yesterday, which makes this post of yours > libelous. Which is the greater crime? An inadvertantly misconfigured MUA > or libel? Woohoo! A cartooney! Ei

Yet another HDIO_SET_DMA failed problem

hdparm -d 1 -k 1 /dev/hda HDIO_SET_DMA failed: operation not permitted I went to Google and did some searching, finding what looks like a fair amount of false information, like the person who said that you just can't do it with a 2.4.21 kernel. Several people suggested a command that I fo

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 at 14:02:44, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:50:54PM +0200, J. Zidar wrote: > > BTW: Is it normal that XFree86 uses 280 megs of ram? > > Maybe. That figure probably also contains your video RAM. How much RAM > does your video card have ? > > Frank > > > -

Re: Eroaster as user?.

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:17:43 +0200 ZekeVarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are not links, they are character devices: > /dev/sg0 root:disk rwxrwxr-- > /dev/sg1 root:disk rwxrwxr-- > > and my devices are block devices: > /dev/scd0 root:cdrom rw-rw >

Re: Exim configuration

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:35:03 +0100 "Antony Gelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Engosh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to configure a mail server at home. I'm using exim, > > fetchmail and procmail. By now I can send mails to my box from local, > > but I don't know what I have to do to be able

RE: Mailserver suggestions?

Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:01:36PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I want to setup a mailserver, so I was messing around with sendmail >> and fetchmail, but I can't get it working and documentations isn't >> very clear. Is there a easy-to- >> setup-confi

Re: Good Debian-based distro

on Mon, Aug 11, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is there a buzzword to reference? Yes. Portability. The same Debian Installer runs on 11 different architectures. Knoppix doesn't. If a decision was made to break the installer on platforms such as hppa and sparc in favour o

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

J. Zidar wrote: > Hello. I have a very peculiar problem with my Debian install. > > It seems to me that Debian is not using my ram at all, because I can > hear and see a lot of disk activity happening, which could only mean > that the system is using the swap partition (size 2GB). Or it could mean

Re: Harassment

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 19:12:24 2003 > > > Alan Connor wrote: > > >First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then > >why did you respond to it? > > > > > Ah yes... the ol' "Ad Hominem" argument falacy > > "Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you p

Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

Hi guys, I was playing around with locales and locale related stuff. I used dpkg-reconfigure localeconf to set everything to C as a default. I've verified as the /etc/environment file contains LANG=C. However whenever I call Bash through the fluxbox menu, it opens up an x-term-emulator with t

Re: how do I get the "you have new mail"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 7, 2003 00:20, Jake Johnson wrote: > How do I get the message to say you have new mail at the shell prompt? Is > someting looking for a specific directory or file? The pam_mail.so module will also do it at login time. According to the docs

gdm lock on boot

When I boot a Woody system I just installed gnome2.2 on, gdm shows up, but it does not respond to keyboard input.  The keyboard DOES work in the console.  Although it apears to be locked, the cursor at the login prompt blinks and I believe the screen turned black after a while.  On the same

where to change WM manually

Where does debian and or linux select the window manager at boot? I installed enlightenment and would like to use that instead of the default WM and would like to change it manually   TIA

Re: Lilo Problems

In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Sorry I mis-typed the rescue line. My root is /dev/sda3 and I type > "rescure root=/dev/sda3". Below is my lilo.conf file with comments > removed. In addition I've included my /etc/fstab file and the output of > df -h to show my /boot partition is small and at the

Re: Helping the newbie

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003, Jeremy Davis wrote: > I think linux servers are less complicated than linux desktops. At least > they are to me. The only headaches I've had with linux were on the desktop. > The desktop needs more software that I "don't understand" if that makes any > sense. XFree86, then

Re: rcS directory

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:04:22AM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:01:39 +0200 > Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that when my server gets rebooted the /etc/init.d/ntpdate > > script doesn't get run. > > > > Even though there is a symlink t

Re: hdparm startup

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 23:28:53 -0400 Nyc0n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once you get hdparm working the way you want it to with your drives > what is the best way to make it start up at boot? Put something in the > /etc/rc.S file and make it executable? Can someone post a script they > have written

Lvm - converting EXT2 block to LV extent

Title: Message Need a reality check here.  Based on what I see here I am assuming that the bad logical extent would be:   14712839/(4096*1024/512)   which breaks down to BadBlock/BlocksPerExtent   here is some system information. Aug 10 06:30:04 sevenfountains kernel: hdd: dma_intr: status=

Re: removing traces of exim

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Try > dpkg --purge exim > instead. Thanx. That seems to have done the trick. t-irvine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Debian-based distro

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > You may want to have a look at knoppix, they have a live CD so that >> folks >> > can experiment with it. It can then bee installed to HD if folks wish >> to >> > do so. Best of all it's Debian based... I hav

Re: HP printer saga

J. Zidar wrote: After realizing that I must enable loopback device, I configured Cups to use my HP 656c printer. From www.linuxprinting.org I have downloaded the ppd file and copied it to the /usr/share/cups/model/. The configuration went without any problems. I set up KDE to use Cups but when

Re: How to configure the realplayer so that it can see the .rm files?

Hi, Paul Johnson, The file is downloaded by BitTorrent in windows, and in the windows RealOne player is the player to play the file, it works ok in RealOne in Windows XP, perhaps i am missing some plugins, or have a wrong configuration that i do not know. Regards, James Ng Paul Johnson wrote:

Re: configuring xwindows?

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Jake Johnson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I have seen that redhat does a great job with configuring the xserver > > and > > I was hoping that Debian has something comparable. Please let me know > > so I don't have to try and play wit

Re: What this error mean?

> What this error mean? > > * hdc: dma_intr: status = 0x51 {driveready seekcomplete > error} hdc: dma_intr : error = 0x84 {drive statuserror > badcrc} I've been staring at this error for months now and it sucks. It may be a flakey drive. It may be a dirtly CD-ROM. In my case it was shitty EIDE

Re: Strange net problem (MAC-adress?)

* Antony Gelberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 08:16:38PM +0200, ZekeVarg wrote: > > When I log out from X to install nvidia-driver I get a very strange > > problem,this lines keep appering over and over again: > > > > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC="my ipnumber" DST="my ipnumber" LE

Re: Exim configuration

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:57:25 +0200 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 03:51:14AM +0100, Engosh wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:35:03 +0100 > > "Antony Gelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Engosh wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm trying to configure

Re: Lockup

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:28:46PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:34:03AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > When in X, we're getting random lockups. I can't even Ctrl-Alt-F1 to > > get to a console and see what's hanging. Any ideas about how I could > > debug this? The o

linux cluster

What is a linux cluster and what does it do? I have 3 linux servers that I could cluster together, but what is the benefit? What would I actually gain by clustering?  I mean technically speaking they are in a cluster right now, they are clustered all over my room..lol  

Re: removing traces of exim

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:37:24AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > there are few things that reside on your system when you install > something: > a) the deb package (use rm to delete) > b) the cache (where the package is unpacked) > c) the binary files (use apt-get remove pkgname) > d) the config file

Anyone installed sarge?

Hi,   anyone out there who installed sarge from the unofficial isos dated 2003/07/27? If so: Are there any problems?   Thanks and kind regards   Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rcS directory

Hi, I noticed that when my server gets rebooted the /etc/init.d/ntpdate script doesn't get run. Even though there is a symlink to it in the rcS.d directory. Where can I see that the rcS.d directory gets called? So I am sure all the scripts in there get run. (I'm actually nearly sure some don't

hdparm startup

Once you get hdparm working the way you want it to with your drives what is the best way to make it start up at boot? Put something in the /etc/rc.S file and make it executable? Can someone post a script they have written so I can see what it looks like etc?   TIA   nick

Re: Set eth0 speed/duplex at boot?

> > I've been searching for this, and seem to find the answer. I have a > > box > > with a realtek controller. The network is working, but some of our > > clients with this box need to force the speed and duplex to make > > their > > switches happy. Can somebody give me some pointers on setting

Reliably transferring a large amount of data from one machine toanother over DSL

Hi, I have two machines connected to the internet using DSL. What I would like to do is backup one machine to the other. The files are compressed and encrypted and then transferred usinc SCP. Atleast, thats what its supposed to do. It does the first two steps fine but the transfer is regularly uns

Re: Re : Order ide drivers are loaded?

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 03:22:48 +0200 Siward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Joan, > > you wrote : > > ... linux won't boot any more > > because for example /dev/hde has been moved to /dev/hdf > > perhaps try an argument to kernel , like 'root=/dev/hdf' , >in your lilo.config or on comm

unsubscibe

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Re: how NOT to work with debian

On Monday 11 August 2003 1:43 am, Howell Evans wrote: > what is in your .xinitrc? > > all you have to have in it is "startkde". i think its startkde anyways. > if it isnt that its kdestart. No ~/.xinitrc at all. I wrote one for a user and did 'startx' - got same thing, ut after a cuple of second

Re: is exim attempting to relay ???

Also sprach Malcolm Ferguson (Fri 08 Aug 02003 at 11:48:36AM -0400): > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > >Recently, I am getting emails bounced back to me from my mail gateway. > >Strangely, the attempted outgoing From: is > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!?! > > > >The entire bounce is here: > > > >

Re: hdparm startup

"Nyc0n" == nyc0njunkmail writes: Nyc0n> :o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" Nyc0n> xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" Nyc0n> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> Nyc0n> Once you get hdparm working the way you want it to with Nyc0n> your drives

Who owns /dev/dsp?

I can't get sound; KDE, for example, complains that /dev/dsp can't be opened because the device or resource is busy. I've tried lsof, but no one seems to be using it. How do I find what has grabbed /dev/dsp (symlink to /dev/dsp0)? Or is something else entirely the problem? lsmod seems to show my

Activating vim color?

Im using vi and I switch to vim, I was wondering what r the syntax to activethe color codes? Its just black n white. Im coding and I wasn hoping I canactivate the colors. Cemoli

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:00:13 +0200, Pigeon wrote: >> No. You have to delete the original pointer (with the original type). >> Everything else is undefined behaviour, i.e. it could work, it could >> leak memory (completely or partly), it could crash, or even print "42". >> It might even work someti