Re: Trouble with USB

2003-08-14 Thread Siward
Hi Roberto, you wrote : > I have all the necessary options enabled in the kernel (as modules). did you also actually load these modules ? (try lsmod to see which ones are loaded, insmod loads modules into kernel, they have manpages) hope this helps, Siward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: from knoppix3.2 -> where?

2003-08-14 Thread Howell Evans
My knoppix knowledge is meger, but if its anything like the debian install you are running stable. You can confirm this by looking in (atleast i assume its here) /etc/apt/sources.list. The lines will have either stable, testing or unstaable near the end of the line. cheers -Howell Richard Lyons

Re: Curious GUI problem

2003-08-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello W (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just loaded version 3.0r0 on a secondary system so I can learn > how to setup and use Debian. I am more accustom to the Hat and > the Geco. The reason I want to use Debain is it is said to be the > most stable Linux distro. > > The install had the "vesa"

Re: ZOPE HELP

2003-08-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:45:23PM -0700, Kidest Mamo wrote: | I got same problem... "Starting Zope failed no INSTANCE_HOME found use zopectl create first" I start zope from /etc/init.d/zope start | | how can I fix this problem? | pls let me know Read what you wrote. It contains the answer.

Re: nfs versus reiser?

2003-08-14 Thread hashi
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:34:38AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:07:22PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:53:21PM -0400: > > > Serves me right for asking a negative question. I presume this meand Yes, a > > > reiserfs

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:36:26PM -0400, David Corbin wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 20:54, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > or install apt-listchanges > > It fails for me, with this: > > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Re: mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
works great for me. there's an article on the LJ website that may be helpful: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5449 On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 21:03, Andrea Tasso wrote: > hi all. I am struggling with mondo backup, I can do backups to cd, but restoring and > comparing both fail. Did > som

Re: cdrecord suddenly doesn't allow burning

2003-08-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try cdrecord as root. This should tell you if it is a permission problem. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:32, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got this problem, the cdrecord allways worked for > me but now suddenly there are permission problems > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrecord -v -eject

Use of Debian For Non-Profits

2003-08-14 Thread James M. Nugent
Hello, I work with a non-profit in N. Virginia (Computer CORE) that provides refurbished computers to low-income adults and other non-profits that use them for various applications. We're currently working with a church group that wants to distribute out old P-I systems to Liberia. Normally we wou

Re: Anyone run LInux with 16GB RAM?

2003-08-14 Thread Ladislav Bodnar
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 07:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > Have you tried, dare I say it, RH9, just to see if that works? Recent releases of Red Hat will refuse to install on anything with less than 64MB of RAM (in text mode) or 128MB of RAM (in graphical mode). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2003-08-14 Thread Howell Evans
It seems to me that your are missing the gnome-common libs. there are few gnome packages you MUST have if you wish to run gtk apps. i *think* if you apt-get install gnome-common your probs will go away, but i havnt thought about this in a very long time. cheers -howell ZekeVarg wrote: I'm runn

can lsb depend on rlpr?

2003-08-14 Thread andy
hello - as i was installing the lsb package, i noticed that it pulls in lpr, which is a little heavy for my purposes. it looks like the lsb project only requires the client side lpr command. my question is whether rlpr could be put in as an alternative to lpr, both in terms of dependencies and t

Re: versioning for custom packages

2003-08-14 Thread David Z Maze
"Dj Statik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wanting to build custom packages of various utilities that are already > in the Debian archive. > > Is there a recommended versioning system I should use while building these > packages? You should probably look in the Debian Policy Manual for detail

dhclient fails after kernel recompilation

2003-08-14 Thread Igor Pesando - Dep. Th. Phys. Turin University
Hi *, this is my problem: 1) if I use the kernel which comes with debian dhclient works perfectly 2) I recompile the kernel with dhcp support but dhclient fails. I used strace to understand why and I discovered that: setsockopt(8, SOL_SOCKET, 0x1a /* SO_??? */, [1074921483], 8) = -1 ENOPROTOOPT (

Re: mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-14 Thread Andrea Tasso
I decided to put mondo in stand-by, and give a try to dar. I need a boot cd also, I am going to set up an average debian box from scratch on that cd, with bootcd. On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:17:22PM -0700 or thereabouts, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > That Linux Journal article is a little old: refers

Re: squid problems with DNS resolution

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Norris
> I've recently setup squid for a small home network (2 boxes, not > counting the proxy server itself). Unfortunately, I instantly get the > error text below when I try to access a non-cached site. If I do a > shift-reload, the site will then load successfully, and I won't have > any further trou

Re: Install X windows

2003-08-14 Thread Kent West
Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello all, I have installed a test system with potato debian and want to have the KDE installed onto the system. The problem that I am facing is I do not have a text browser to search for packages and install them. Which packages would I need to install in order to

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:12:39PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Colin Watson (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 02:24:39AM +0100): > > In your place, I would go for either stable plus backported bits and > > pieces or unstable, depending on the application. I think running mixed > > systems is

RE: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jefferson Cowart
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 front of the drive. == /etc

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

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 6 08:41:46 2003 > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:57:21PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:55:11AM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > > Agreed. Although the 'very high' depends on the

Re: cdrecord suddenly doesn't allow burning

2003-08-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joris Huizer (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've got this problem, the cdrecord allways worked for > me but now suddenly there are permission problems > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrecord -v -eject -force > blank=all speed=1 dev=0,0,0 cd_image > /usr/bin/cdrecord: /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permissio

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:50:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:39:27 -0700 > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In fact he perports that C-R is a better defense than PGP. > > > No. I didn't ever say anything like that. > > Alan, there's one thing I absolutel

Re: Clipboard is bent

2003-08-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:16:29PM +1200, cr wrote: > (Next instalment in the fixing-my-desktop saga) > Not sure if I should be asking on this list or a Gnome list, > but can anyone tell me where to start investigating my clipboard? > (I'm running Woody, and Gnome 1.4.) I was really annoyed by th

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:23:24AM -0700, Jefferson Cowart wrote: > I've installed a new server (woody 3.0r1 + proposed updates + security > updates) on a system that is running with root on sda3. Lilo seems to be > having problems as on boot it output

Re: debian mutt questions

2003-08-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
thanks chris; you're right about the symlinks; pretty nifty! as for fetchmail, I do use it and it works fine; I just like to explore all my options. Cheryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Connor
Refinement: If the domain isn't one of the major isps, then run whois on it and grep out the name of the hosting ISP. Send the complaint to THAT abuse dept. Easy. Alan -- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd for

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Right. A properly designed CR requires the recipient of the CR to hit Reply > and paste a string on the subject line. ONCE. Only one time EVER. Wrong. I want to communicate with lots of people. I have to do that for every CR system use

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

2003-08-14 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 06:00:11 +0200, MJM wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 21:40, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: >> > // change the way it is accessed to prove a point int * p_b = (int >> >*)  p_a; >> >> Ouch. > > Try this in /usr/src/linux/kernel > > $ grep *\) *.c This is unfair. First, it's kernel-l

Re: Auto-retrieving unknown GPG keys on message arrival?

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:18:59AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:50:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I can see why Pigeon's approach might be preferable. I found > > auto-key-retrieve annoying and turned it off because it slowed things > > down *while I was reading mail

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:23:29PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > So, basically, *ALL* mail from those domains will pass -- UN-challenged > -- by your C-R system? And, _none_ of those emails can possibly contain > spam? Yeah. He's in for a wakeu

Re: Debian way to make lmsensors working with kernel 2.6 ?

2003-08-14 Thread ramzez
> > For the sys directory, mkdir /sys and then > mount -t sysfs none /sys > > you can also add the following line to /etc/fstab > none /syssysfs defaults0 0 > > this should give you the sys directory tree thanks but it's not the bigger problem ;) --

Re: Testing->Unstable question

2003-08-14 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:59:44 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a laptop I had only sources for stable and testing. > I had also just done apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. > > I then added unstable to sources.list and created apt.conf: > > laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Rel

Re: Firewall and Proxy

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:10, Mehmet AK wrote: > Hi > > I am using Linux Server in my Company. Personel usally using kazaa , > imesh and downloading mp3 files on the web. That so our internet is > down. > i want configure firewals against these programs and downloading. Can > you help me Don't

Re: finding upstream

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 00:40, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > > It is, in general, difficult to find the upstream developers of a > > given debian package. The package page does not include any > > mention of a web site or mailing list whe

Re: d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters

2003-08-14 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Alan Connor wrote: <...> > What other choice do they have? There arguments have been shown to be > utter nonsense or outright disinformation. As a reader who has been following the threads simply for the entertainment value (I don't do spam filtering or CR, or have an opinion o

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:10:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:39:06AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > There is usually a one-line description of a newsgroup which is > > displayed beside one's personal list of subscribed newsgroups. It > > gives a very short summary of

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

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
It seems that Mr. Connor never paid attention to Sesame St. when the Count was on. On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 08:54:03 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: = 1. First level of quoting. > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 6 08:41:46 2003 ^^^

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test2 and mii-tool

2003-08-14 Thread François Chenais
I have add #include on top of the mii.h file of net-tools package and rebuilt; all wokrs fine. François On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:00:24 +0200 Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Francois! > > On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:30, François Chenais wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Au

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:45, Steve Lamb wrote: [...] > So "Game, set, match" means "He won the game which won him the set > and as a result won the match." As long we are all clear _who_ won... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:48:17PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I do think the man file for cleanlinks should include a warning. Yeah, it probably should (I wrote it in a spare ten minutes or so some months back). File a bug against xutils. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-14 Thread David Corbin
On Monday 04 August 2003 20:54, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote: > > or install apt-listchanges It fails for me, with this: The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: apt-listcha

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 07 August 2003 14:01, Gregor Stößer wrote: > I'm having some trouble with my nfs-server. Performance is very bad, but > all ather protocols (ftp, http, scp) are quite fast. ftp, http et al. use TCP connections while NFS per default uses UDP packets. More recent kernels have experiment

Postfix issue

2003-08-14 Thread Guilherme Viebig
Hi all, I trying to configure postfix to listen as a remote smtp, my host name is plannercorretora.com.br but if I send an an message to a domain that´s not my host name, postfix say Relay Access Denied how can I setup my postfix to act as an mail gateway for internet thks! bye -- To UNSU

finding upstream

2003-08-14 Thread Bob McElrath
It is, in general, difficult to find the upstream developers of a given debian package. The package page does not include any mention of a web site or mailing list where actual development occurs. The .dsc files also do not generally list how to find upstream. I suggest that when there is an ups

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

2003-08-14 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:03 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hate to have to do this, but I own an apology to Paul Johnson. > > (Having received a mail from a list member with an example of a false > CR. Talk about FAST.) For all that you do in trying to fight the spam problem,

the patch does not apply cleanly to kernel-source-2.4.18-12

2003-08-14 Thread ODi
Package: kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurityVersion: 1.9.4-3   the patch gives a conflict when trying to apply to nesest kernel-source(2.4.18-12). The patch probably solves a bug that was solved in last updateof kernel-source.   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18# ./grsecurity_2_4Testin

Re: Mailserver suggestions?

2003-08-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
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-configure-and-maintain-all-in-on

How to monitor file changes?

2003-08-14 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi, Is there a way to (sys)log a filesystem? I.e, to log files that has been modified in a certain area such like a partition or directory. thank you, --dullatip. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:56PM -0700, Steve Lamb 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. > >

Re: Mounting windows share

2003-08-14 Thread Shri Shrikumar
> OK, additional info. Running smbclient -L mandor (mandor is the name of > the file server) from the Mandrake machine shows three file shares, one > of which is the one I'm trying to access. Running the same command from > the Debian machine shows Mandor as a server but doesn't show any of the >

Re: NVIDIA - shared memory identifier

2003-08-14 Thread Siward
Hi Alexandru, you wrote : > my debian box running kernel 2.4.21 with a NVIDIA GeForece2MX TwinView card > and XFree86 4.3.0 > won't start X after the installation of the nvidia driver 1) if you use proprietary driver from nvidia, complain to them. i think there is also a non-proprietar

Re: Source Builds

2003-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:04:59AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:44:10PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > Maybe I should ask a more primitive question. > > > > What is 'deb-src' for? > > > > I thought it was to provide the source code of a deb package and allow the > > end u

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

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:10:21PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > No offense intended, Lance, but you are just the sort of person that my > CR system is designed to filter out. Or you're just another person on the net wanting to ask an off-topic question

Hard Drive Mirroring

2003-08-14 Thread vinz
Hi I would like to mirror a hard drive and have no idea where else to get information from. I've tried google and the other stuff. but nothing... if anyone has any information or manuals please send for me [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:33:58 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, it generates less spam than signing up for Yahoo, even when > used over years. How can you be so sure? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:32:50 -0700 Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 11:30:45 2003 > > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But the widespread use of CR systems would eliminate spam from the face > > > of the earth. > > What do you do about spam th

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:21:52AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > What we NEED are "advertising servers" that check the legality and > trustworthiness of any advertising they offer. Licenses to advertise. Rght. Go read nntp://news.spamcop.net/spam

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:04:18 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:53:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:35:48PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > > Note that: > > > rm -rf /home/* won't get rid of those pesky dot files > > > rm -rf /home/.

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 01:08:51AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'd like to read this, if I could just figure out what the address is > _supposed_ to be . . .:-) Click the ENGLISH link... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: charset in debian mutt

2003-08-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:35:18AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I looked carefully at the appropriate debian readme; I made sure my > locales were set (used debconf-reconfigure locales), No, you would have used 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. What locales did you instruct it to build? Did you t

Re: Help needed with getting USB working on a new install

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 07:49, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > Hi all: > I have just completed a Knoppix install using the 3.2 version dated 2003-07-26 > EN. My hardware is a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 MBO with a AMD Athalon XP cpu. I booted > the Knoppix cd with only the lang=us 2 option set. From there I did a har

some zope relating questions/problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i try to use zope with fcgi. don't know exactly why, quite new to zope. but while installing it I ran into several problems: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/Zope doesn't exist and simply symlinking it to /var/lib/zope/cgi-bin/ gives 403 Forbidden. looking at the permissions there should be no problems. is

Re: Installing LVM

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Allison
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:42:35PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to install an LVM system under Debian. lvcreate -L3G /nusr vg0 invalidate: busy buffer (about 20 repeats) /dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such file or directory Is device-mapper driver missing fro

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

2003-08-14 Thread leroyljr
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:50:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Question: What is the 'sync' for? I haven't done this before and am > wondering what I've been missing. > sync forces the kernel to finish writing to disk. The man page says, "Force changed blocks to disk, update the super blo

Re: PCMCIA Modem, devfs

2003-08-14 Thread Siward
Hi Andreas, you wrote : > The problem I see, as far as I could get, is that > the card is initialized OK, but the /dev/ttySxx -link is not created. how do you know that ? what does dmesg say about it ? if it is as you think, then it is a bug in card driver, if that driver is in Debian,

Re: How to monitor file changes?

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:02:31AM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote: > Is there a way to (sys)log a filesystem? I.e, > to log files that has been modified in a certain > area such like a partition or directory. Sort of. integrit sounds like what you're look

Re: Challenge-response mail filter. Goodwin's Law...

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:32:20PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > I hereby invoke Goodwin's Law. It doesn't work that way. http://ursine.ca/jargon/html/G/Godwin's-Law.html - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin

RE: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Davis
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 window managers, and then none of it works because

e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-14 Thread nori heikkinen
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 manually e2fsck -y the thing so i don't have to sit there and babysit it. it finishes, so i reboot and take the knoppix CD out. but it ke

Re: Can't install or remove tetex packages - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and > tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed > and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. > > Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving these p

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Gregor Stößer wrote: Hi, I'm having some trouble with my nfs-server. Performance is very bad, but all ather protocols (ftp, http, scp) are quite fast. Using scp I can write around 7 MB per second on the nsf-disk, while with nfs it's just 300 kB. I checked the net, all switches and the ethernet ca

OT: Scripting a browser?

2003-08-14 Thread Matthias Wieser
I am looking for a browser, where I can say: from now on log all commands I give and save that to a file. I want to run the file later Does anyone know of a browser, that supports this besides lynx (I do need JavaScript) I looked in google but did not find the right searching terms ... Ciao, Mat

Re: NFS Question

2003-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:42:04PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 19:19, Nyc0n wrote: > > Im going to attempt to set up an NFS, I have done so in the past and > > failed, ive read all the howtos and everything, but I had one question, > > I already have the drives I want to make

Re: Mounting windows share

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Jones
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:27, Dan Jones wrote: > I have a file server running Samba with a public share, readable and > writable to anyone. I have two Windows machines and one Mandrake > machine successfully accessing the share. Viewing the connections under > Webmin shows the machines connected a

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

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:52:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > However, it generates less spam than signing up for Yahoo, even when > > used over years. > > How can you be so sure? It was one of the last straws that made me to start serving myse

RE: Newbie Modem Q

2003-08-14 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Newbie Modem Q > > I prefer internal modems because it limits my cable mess.  :)  I know > plenty of people who prefer external modems because they are easier to > debug. > another point is that most external modems have a power/reset switch that comes in handy when dealing with

Re: One Last Note

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 08:52, Alan Connor wrote: > You have 3 spammers on the list, that I have been able to identify for > sure. > > You can figure it out: They are the ones that spearheaded the opposition > against CR. > > "No!" you say, in shock, "It couldn't be HIM?!" > > Oh yes it could. And

Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

2003-08-14 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Ladies and Gentlemen, Please enjoy my new article, "Let's Put SCO Behind Bars", which you may find at: http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html Here's the introduction: --- While the lawsuits being defended by IBM and filed by Red Hat are likely to put an end to The SCO Group's m

Re: How to clean/align printer cartridges in Debian?

2003-08-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I haven't used a deskjet in years, but recently acquired one for my > Debian box. The black ink seems to be a problem, smearing, skipping, etc. > > I seem to remember from back in my Windows days there were some tools in > the "Toolbox" to do such

Things changing overnight

2003-08-14 Thread Ken Bloom
Sometime in the past few days, my modem /dev/ttyS4 changed its permissions from 660 to 640 without my intervention. My first question: is there any kind of security package on debian that might have done this as a cronjob? I don't use devfs. When asking on #debian, a user suggested that I check

Re: Debian Decade and Keysigning Party

2003-08-14 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-08-07T10:06:43Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [3] Like you... I think you're dereferencing a null pointer. Stop! Stop! You are reminding me of my CS classes. Its summer... have some pity on an overloaded student! :) -- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrica

Re: One Last Note

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:51:39 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What? The group's reputation preceeds it? Or you already know about > the resident kooks there? Or just the name alone? Furry + Something Positive a few weeks back about covers it. :) -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:23:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Well, I thought it worked. I get to what seems to be a german site; the > only things I see in English are things like links to go to the WebAlias > Main Page and "blank.gif"s. Here is a direct link to the english version: http://www.

Re: Question on ALSA

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Walter Segers
-- - Original Message - DATE: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:05:42 From: Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Why is it that ALSA announces >(via an entry in dmesg) that it is storing the mixer settings during shutdown, >but when I restart, all my vo

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:31:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the proper way to report spam? Essentially, trace headers back to the originator, forward copies of the spam including headers to the originating ISP and any webhosting provi

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

2003-08-14 Thread John Hasler
Carlos Sousa writes: > Do you also have an account at my service provider? Or is it that you're > just incapable of setting up your mail system to show the real origin of > your emails? Anyway, you're incurring in mail forgery. No he isn't. His "From:" line reads "From: alanc". As it contains no

Re: e2fsck trashed system; chroot now failing

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
Hi, if you find any way to boot or chroot your system, you can try to reinstall everything (apt-get --reinstall). You shouldn't run e2fsck -y because it will try to fix EVERYTHING without prompting. regards Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: linux cluster

2003-08-14 Thread Rus Foster
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Nyc0n wrote: > 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 m

Re: building an initrd

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:50:09 +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > some time ago i built my first kernel with initrd support. Now all i > know from initrd is that it is first loaded by the kernel in memory and > that i have to specify --initrd with the make-kpkg command. > > Can you specify

better on-screen keyboard

2003-08-14 Thread Jianan Huang
Hi folks, I have switched to yahoo mail. Is something wrong with the debian user mail site? I noticed that the latest mails are on 30th Jul. A couple of mail I sent in the fisrt few days of Aug have yet to appear.   I am currently using xvkdb. I am looking for something better with the at least the

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:22:47 +0100 "Craig Tinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I say "number" I don't mean as in integer, long etc.. I mean as in > a huge set of individual integers.. > Hope that all makes sense.. anyone any ideas on how this could be done? Erm, erm... that is what the .

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:36:58AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I don't know if I'm the only one, but has anyone thought that perhaps > the OP wanted to do this 'just because'? Personally, I think it would be > quite 'cool' to be able to convert a stream of audio into a stream of > integers corr

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:22, Craig Tinson wrote: > Guys... > > I've had an idea for a "play project" I can work on at home in my spare > time.. but before I start on it I need a few ideas.. > > Can anyone come up with a theory on how to "convert an mp3 into a > number"? I know that sounds weird s

Re: nfs is very slow

2003-08-14 Thread J.F.Gratton
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 03:26, Gregor Stößer wrote: > > Yes, of course. Even, I don't think it is possible to have NFS running > without the portmap daemon (?). And all my software is up to date, I'm > already using NFS version 3 and version 4 is still experimental and not > very stable at the momen

LDAP help

2003-08-14 Thread Paladin
Hi everyone, I've been trying for some time to change from NIS to LDAP. But, as the first step, I just wanted to use the database backend "PASSWD" to try everything out. After choosing that I needed to install and configure SASL so that I had encryption for the all process. At that time I had to c

CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
CD-ROM media is second only to diskettes as being prone to errors. I seemingly have a bad CD in my IDE CD drive. I have these entries in my log: Aug 10 09:45:56 nitpicking kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA Aug 10 09:45:56 nitpicking kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeo

Re: Lilo Problems

2003-08-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030806 02:48]: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:23:24AM -0700, Jefferson Cowart wrote: > > Please CC me on any responses as I'm not subscribed to this list. > > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/mail-responses.html > Either set Mail-Followup-To: yourself or don'

Re: crash on shutdown

2003-08-14 Thread Siward
Hi Jacque, you wrote : > My freshly installed debian often crashes on shutdown > when calling the umountfs script > and my /usr partition is not unmounted. > I use kernel-image-2.4.18-686 with ext2 on woody. that sounds kinda serious. if you are convinced that this happens on a clean sys

Re: Lockup

2003-08-14 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 12:55:46 +0100 Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 06:46:06AM -0300, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:34:03 +0100 > > Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > When in X, we're getting random lockups. I can't eve

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-08-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Cemoli (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Im using vi and I switch to vim, I was wondering what r the syntax to > active the color codes? Its just black n white. Im coding and I wasn > hoping I can activate the colors. Systemwide: edit /etc/vim/vimrc, line 33. Change ;syntax on to syntax on o

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