Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:21:05AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:06, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:43:51PM -0400, Dan Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [big snippage] > > Few if any of these are self-propogating. Code Red is on

Re: Re: faxing over the internet

Lev, Please help me with efax.  I bought this service but I have so much difficulty storing the received faxes.  Sometimes I receive multiple documents in one fax that I would like to separate the pages of…I can’t do this.  I don’t know how to handle the .tif files.  For example, if a vendo

can't get off the ground

I am in dire need of help...again. I have dl the netinst image from debian (the official for test). I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to recognize my pcmcia ethernet card. I have specified boot in the boot parameters, but pcmcia has not been turned on. I would really, really appr

Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

Hej, I have a small girl at home (1 year old) who is fascinating with a Pippi Longstocking game (with loads of various sound and visual effects) which she loves, but it is for Windows. The highlight in this program is the room with people playing music and dancing. I am wondering if there is s

Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

Charles Forelle wrote: Michael, Thanks. I ran xf86config as you suggested, selecting the generic video card option since I didn't see mine (Intel chipset 82810E) in the list. (I checked XF86Config file, and it just put vga in for the driver. I tried startx 'which twm' This is what I got back: /us

"modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22" when booting - what to fix?

If modprobe is complaining: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-22 that means that the kernel doesn't know which module handles major device number 22, right? That means that whichever module is supposed to handle major device number 22 hasn't been loaded and hasn't "told" t

Re: Creating Custom CDs

Perhaps I should have explained things a bit better. While Jigdo can handle getting all the files and so on, my chief interest is not trying to handle all the dependencies by hand, or generating the .jigdo files by hand. Is this doable? On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 16:21, Todd Pytel wrote: > On Sun, 05 O

Re: Mplayer eating all CPU

you could use the nice command which alters priority of programs your run. do a man nice to find out more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to kill X?

Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for any reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in the command line. Very handy, since Linux is ~ 10^6 times more stable than X ;) However, since I got more sophisticated hardware with an ATX power s

REPOST: 2.6.0-test4, ALSA and Ensoniq 1371 sound card

when Gnome 2.2 cranks up after I log in, I get an error message saying "Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer". perusing /dev, I see a /dev/sound directory, but no /dev/sound/mixer I compiled all the sound modules into my kernel and diddled about with the /etc/devs/conf.d/alsa adding entries

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

skippi wrote: I will not mention how I stupidly fdisked the drive with all my personal/important data on it. Good thing I learned about making backups on a regular basis. Checkout parted. It will recover deleted partitions (assuming you have not already repartitioned and put new data on ther

Mplayer eating all CPU

I'm running sid and mplayer built from mplayer cvs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer --version MPlayer dev-CVS-030918-05:37-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team I also have the plugin in mozilla mplayerplug-in v0.80. Anyone else experienced mplayer eating all CPU for streaming sources? For example, try

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

Hey Mike, Sounds like you are looking for some weight for your argument that debian is the best. For some apps yes! But in a situation with these macs you may be better off getting a mix of OSX servers and some debian boxes for the PCs. I have worked with OS X server version 10.1.4 and it was uns

Re: apt damaged need help to fix, Solved!

You might wanna try apt-get autoclean and apt-get clean for next time! Naitik. On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 02:03:10 -0600 Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Dan Hunt wrote: > > > > > Early this morning I purposely deleted the .deb files in > > > /var/cache/apt/archives . Proble

Re: ppp daemon 0dns-up fails!

Purging configuration files for isdnutils ... Removing ipppd ... Stopping ipppd: ipppd. Purging configuration files for ipppd ... deblnx:/home/john# Following file from plog after removing addition exit 0 from usepeerdns: Oct 4 23:17:33 deblnx pppd[1070]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1

Re: exim/fetchmail config

Jeff Elkins declaimed: > I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email > and routes it to a local address, wherespamassassin analyzes it. Thus far, > it's been working great, except for one caveat... > > Certain family members are Windows/Outlook Express users and

RE: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

Thank all of you for the responses. I think I see what I'm doing wrong, and I'm going to go about trying to fix it. I will naturally let the list know how it turns out. Again, thank you all for helping me with my frustration. I mean I was seriously ticked off today I will not mention how

Re: Creating Custom CDs

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 16:22:12 +1300 Edward Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to > assemble a CD, but so far I've either come up with building the > Packages.gz by hand, or just dumping the .deb files into one big > directory on the CD. Surely there is a better way? Yes, you wan

Creating Custom CDs

Hi, I'm currently burning a bunch of CD's of Debian for a guy out in the wops. One of the things he's requested is a bunch of the more up to date packages like GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, xine, and so on. Since he's on 28.8k due to line quality issues, updating everything with apt-get/unstable sources

exim/fetchmail config

I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email and routes it to a local address, wherespamassassin analyzes it. Thus far, it's been working great, except for one caveat... Certain family members are Windows/Outlook Express users and when they attempt to reply to a

Re: Ruby and Emacs support problem

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:09:47PM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote: > > I just tried doing a find-file (C-x, C-f) on a .rb file both in xemacs > and emacs (bother version 21) and they both put me into ruby-mode as I > would have hoped. I've not done anything in my .emacs to enable this, > it just worked

Re: Root path question

I had a similar problem with switching to the root user and not getting all of root's path variables added to my environment. my instructor said to use this command: su - root And it worked like a charm. Apparently it loads you into a new shell exactly like you just logged in as the user. All you

Re: apt damaged need help to fix, Solved!

> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Dan Hunt wrote: > > > Early this morning I purposely deleted the .deb files in > > /var/cache/apt/archives . Problem was I deleted the everything > > up to /var/cache/apt/ > > > > When I run: > > dhunt:/home/dan# apt-get update > > E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archive

Re: mailing list

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:47:08PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? > > Yesterday I found I was not receiving any messages. Today I discovered I > was not subscribed, even though I had not unsubscribed myself. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var

Why? (was: Re: apt broken )

> # apt-cache policy apache > apache: >   Installed: (none) >   Candidate: (none) >   Package Pin: (not found) >   Version Table: >      1.3.27.1-3 989 >         500 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org sid/main Packages > # -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Ruby and Emacs support problem

W. Crowshaw wrote: > Sadly, it didn't work. Whenever I do load a ruby > file I do get the message: > "Loading inf-ruby...done". > > But I get no syntax highlighting. I can't debug the > program through xemacs either. Syntax highlighting is different yet again. For that you need to turn on font

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 07:10:29 -0700 (PDT), Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hello everybody, > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting and auto indenting on C > files... But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. How can I turn > it off for one session - or even better,

Postgres

Hello! I'm wondering if anyone has had any problems setting up phpbb2 (http://phpbb2.com) with PostgreSQL on a woody box. I am consistently getting error messages along the lines of Warning: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "dan" in /var/www

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:40:09 +0200, Daniel B. wrote: > > > What exactly do I need to do to build locally for woody a Debian kernel > > package based on a kernel version from testing or unstable? > > (1) ... > ... > (6) ...install your shiny new *.debs. > > Phew, I h

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:30:02PM -0600, skippi wrote: > When I execute dpkg-buildpackage I get a list of unmet build dependancies. I > can like with that, so I write down all the names and start using apt-get to > install the needing packages. That takes care of many of them. However, I > s

Re: apt damaged need help to fix.

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Dan Hunt wrote: > Ever do something careless and not know how to fix it? > > Early this morning I purposely deleted the .deb files in > /var/cache/apt/archives . Problem was I deleted the everything > up to /var/cache/apt/ > ( Why? The old .deb files are not being deleted >

Re: freedom of debian

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: > Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing > with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't > it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this > next question... > > Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more > freedom regar

Kernel 2.6: Using an USB mouse and an touchpad at the same time

Hi I have kernel version 2.6-test6 installed on my Dell Inspiron 5150. I can access my USB mouse via /dev/input/mice and my touchpad via the event device and a special Xfree86 driver for the touchpad. I'm wondering if some of u guys have managed to get the touchpad and the USB mouse working at

apt damaged need help to fix.

Ever do something careless and not know how to fix it? Early this morning I purposely deleted the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives . Problem was I deleted the everything up to /var/cache/apt/ ( Why? The old .deb files are not being deleted automatically so I was cleaning up, when I should

Re: Unstable in the house

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 21:01:09 -0700, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:19:08AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. You obviously haven't read the metacity > > manpage. > > Except, of course, that I have... especially the bit that describes > th

Re: installing unstable package in woody

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Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

skippi wrote: = Original Message From Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install it,

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:29:31 -0400 Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must say that I'm beginning to like sylpheed. (There must be > something wrong > with me ;-) ) > I would only like to change the fonts used to display the received > mail subjects > but I can't find this option in th

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:40:46 -0300 > klaus imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 04 October 2003 15:58, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me > > that > > > don't have access to the mail server I s

RE: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

>= Original Message From Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >skippi wrote: >> Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just >> joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to >> build it, also the deb files to install it, but

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:15:15:21-0700] scribed: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:25:57PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > > OK, this section is what I need -- thank you: > > > > > > > > Correct me if I am wrong; but, t

Re: SED problem

Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:16:32:37-0500] scribed: > Dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:19:25:32+0100] scribed: > > I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from > > all of them. > > I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:25:57PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > OK, this section is what I need -- thank you: > > > > Correct me if I am wrong; but, this is the process? > > [1] One (1) Certificate per client/browser authenticates *b

Re: SED problem

Dave selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:19:25:32+0100] scribed: > I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from > all of them. > I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with > the sed code. > > I need to delete all the code between > >

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

hi ya rudy On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > > - it's a good test you're doing to disconnect sda > > to see if its boots .. also repeat with a disconnected sdb > > - and verify that written data to one disks > > is sync'd to the other disk when its "reconnected" > > It boo

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:58, Joris Huizer wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:10, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting > > and > > > auto indenting on C files... > > > But I don't like

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:22:25:54+0200] scribed: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > As I responded to Aaron's message, we are looking for some kind of > > passive authentication, like an SSL Certificate. > > > > We do not want to have to

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:21, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:46:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > A! > > > > I don't care if Linux has 90% desktop share, there's no way that an > > auto-running (or double-click-needing) email virus is going to aff- > > ect me, unless the p

Re: Network attached storage and backup

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 13:55, Aaron wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > > [snip] > > > > Specifics. We need much more. > > > > How much performance do you need? I.e., how many users will be > > hitting it at the same time, what kind of apps run on the box, etc? > > Just me. Maybe

Broken Woody

Help! I had a working install of Woody on my P4. Then (probably showing my ignorance) I tried to install a recent version of Abiword by adding a line specifying /unstable/main to my /etc/apt/sources.list, and (from a characer mode screen) doing an apt-get install abiword. This resulted in the

Re: SED problem

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Dave selby wrote: > I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from > all of them. > I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with > the sed code. > > > I need to delete all the code between > > > >

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

On Saturday 04 October 2003 17:29, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:40:46 -0300 > klaus imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 04 October 2003 15:58, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me > > that > > > don

Re: how to use two HDDs in one external IEEE1394 case

hi funky, On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:35:34 +0200 funky soul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just bought an external harddisk case from Roline > which is designed for two HDDs. after playing around with the modules, hotplug > and rescan-scs-bus.sh i'm able to access one HDD but i cannot detect/access >

A note of thanks

About a week ago, I sent a number of postings to this site about my difficulties in installing woody. Thanks to a number of helpful respondents, I now have a working debian woody, including a usb printer. I am impressed by the quality of this distribution and believe that a good installation guide

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > As I responded to Aaron's message, we are looking for some kind of > passive authentication, like an SSL Certificate. > > We do not want to have to rely on humans remembering another > username/password, especially since the web

Incomplete manpage in pkg "ifupdown" on Woody

Hello Users of Debian, I spent several weeks visiting and revisiting the issue of how to configure my laptop's network setup and have noticed that something always seemed to be missing. What I discovered finally was that indeed something has been: on stable (Woody) the manpage for the base pack

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:56:14PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > What am I missing? > > I have read this: > > > > As I responded to Aaron's message, we are looking for some kind of > passive authentication, like an SSL Certificate. The mod_

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 16:40:46 -0300 klaus imgrund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2003 15:58, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me > that > > don't have access to the mail server I saw the sylpheed-claws mail client

Re: Wrong /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Stefan Karrmann wrote: Hi, everytime after updating some packages I have to update /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. Why does this happen? I use: Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-2 Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0 After running: # apt-get install alsa-source mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 [...] I check

re re re xwindows_problem

you 're welcome, steef ...for your help with X-Window problem. It's working now. I did need to use apt-get to install as steef suggested. It seems that critical part wasn't installed. (Though a lot of other X-Window stuff was.) But all is well now. Thanks, Charles. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Wrong /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Hi, everytime after updating some packages I have to update /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1. Why does this happen? I use: Package: gcc-3.3 Version: 1:3.3-2 Package: libgcc1 Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0 After running: # apt-get install alsa-source mplayer-k7 mencoder-k7 [...] I check it again, but: # apt

Re: Thank you Jan, Michael C. and steef...

In linux.debian.user, Charles Forelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...for your help with X-Window problem. It's working now. I did need to use > apt-get to install as steef suggested. It seems that critical part wasn't > installed. (Though a lot of other X-Window stuff was.) What package(s)

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:12:31:02-0700] scribed: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:50:39PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > > secure transactions. > > > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we ha

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

skippi wrote: Thank you in advance for any and all assitance. Oh, and for those of you just joining in, I'm trying to build, or install, XFree v4.3. I have the files to build it, also the deb files to install it, but I can't upgrade as the packages are kept back. I would surmise they require

freedom of debian

Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this next question... Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding the software installed...specifically, I mean that my ex

Re: 802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:13, Ed Lawson wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > >Thanks very much for the heads up about the madwifi project. I just went > >out and picked up a Linksys 802.11A+G PCMCIA card for my laptop, and > >after a bit of fiddling, got it up and running. It's working great! >

Re: A novice having trouble with X window on install

In linux.debian.user, Charles Forelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > Thanks. I ran xf86config as you suggested, selecting the generic video card > option since I didn't see mine (Intel chipset 82810E) in the list. (I > checked XF86Config file, and it just put vga in for the driver.

Re: antispam, sylpheed?

On Saturday 04 October 2003 15:58, Alfredo Valles wrote: > Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me that > don't have access to the mail server I saw the sylpheed-claws mail client > that have a plug-in for spamassassin and other to use one antivirus. > Have someo

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:04:15:02:38-0400] scribed: > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > > secure transactions. > > > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have > > username/password authen

Re: Limiting access to website ???

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 12:50:39PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > secure transactions. > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have > username/password authentication; but, we are also considering > host-based

frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

>= Original Message From Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > >Building Debian packages is relatively straightforward. Just 'apt-get >install dpkg-dev' > >This will give you all the necessary package building tools. I did that. So far, so good. >Then, as I said before, just untar the

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:46:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > A! > > I don't care if Linux has 90% desktop share, there's no way that an > auto-running (or double-click-needing) email virus is going to aff- > ect me, unless the people who write the MUA that I happen to be using > at the time

Re: system reboots before booting

On Wednesday 13 August 2003 21:28, David Fokkema wrote: > Hmmm... this looks good as far as I can see... What I don't understand > is that lilo complained that the map file and the boot sector were on > different drives. I _never_ got that error. However, it might mean > nothing... It means nothin

Re: making a disk image

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 11:08:31AM -0700, Marshal Wong wrote: > > I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img Thanks, that worked! :) -- Vikki

Re: Limiting access to website ???

Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to > secure transactions. > > We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have > username/password authentication; but, we are also considering > host-based limits. > > Can this

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > Hello everybody, > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting and > auto indenting on C files... > But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. How > can I turn it off for one session - or even better, > for all html files ? > > Thanks for y

antispam, sylpheed?

Looking for the easiest solution for the spam problem for people like me that don't have access to the mail server I saw the sylpheed-claws mail client that have a plug-in for spamassassin and other to use one antivirus. Have someone tried it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Network attached storage and backup

Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, > > [snip] > > Specifics. We need much more. > > How much performance do you need? I.e., how many users will be > hitting it at the same time, what kind of apps run on the box, etc? Just me. Maybe myself and one other user. I don't need a lot of performanc

Re: high load but no cpu usage

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:44, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. > > This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? Thats what I thought but thi

Re: USB mouse under X not working

No, i finally figured it out, and i thought i'd post the reasons so others running into this can find a solution without being at for days like me. First i thought i messed something up with a dist-upgrade so i decided to do a completely fresh install, sigh, and of course it turned out that wasn't

Re: high load but no cpu usage

> Hi, > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? > What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously > - nothing h

high load but no cpu usage

Hi, I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously - nothing has changed. I have already tried to see if there are any processes blocking usi

Thank you Jan, Michael C. and steef...

...for your help with X-Window problem. It's working now. I did need to use apt-get to install as steef suggested. It seems that critical part wasn't installed. (Though a lot of other X-Window stuff was.)   But all is well now.   Thanks,   Charles.

Re: Ruby and Emacs support problem

Sadly, it didn't work. Whenever I do load a ruby file I do get the message: "Loading inf-ruby...done". But I get no syntax highlighting. I can't debug the program through xemacs either. How did you get your mode to work that wasn't working before? On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:51:12PM -0400, Bij

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

Vineet Kumar declaimed: > * Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 16:00]: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > > > D

Re: Holy Spam!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read this "list" via Newsguy.com. I subscribed, to get > posting rights, but the address forwards to /dev/null. You don't need to subscribe to be able to post. > I tried reading this mailing list with an email client. > Had to unsubscribe after a few hours. Apart

SED problem

I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with the sed code. I need to delete all the code between and Including the above comments. I have tried, played with N, d substitution to

Re: dangling symlink?

On 04 Oct 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:17:46 +0100 > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know why this should have happened but occasionally it does. > > It's probably a fairly rarely-occurring bug in the packaging system > > whose effects are so trivial and harm

Re: making a disk image

> I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img > or cat /dev/fd0 > filename.img will work just as nicely Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just V

Re: making a disk image

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 10:46, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up > my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that? > I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more information. Yo

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:06:31PM +, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, re

Re: pppd daemon

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:35:03PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Yeah I knew I left ping on too long..I wasn't sure if it exited on its > own. I'm wondering if the exit status isn't the result of my finally > doing ctrl-c ? Nono, what you do with ping won't affect the exit status of /etc/ppp/ip-up. > Anyw

Re: ppp daemon ip-up.d perm +

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:06:57PM -0800, J Y wrote: > Hi, Permissions of ip-up.d: > deblnx:/home/john# ls -l /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > total 28 > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1306 Apr 25 2002 00-ipppd > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 962 Apr 2 2002 000usepeerdns > -rwxr-xr-x1

Re: Howto turn vi auto indenting off for html files

--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:10, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I like using VIM as it gives syntax highlighting > and > > auto indenting on C files... > > But I don't like the auto indenting of html files. > How > > can I turn it off for

Limiting access to website ???

We are working on a web-based application. It will use mod_ssl to secure transactions. We want to limit access to the application. Yes, we have username/password authentication; but, we are also considering host-based limits. Can this be done with [mod_]ssl? Can access to a website require a c

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] Tommorrow someone else will be assigned those same IPs and you'll be blocking them even if they were never vulnerable to begin with. If it's a problem, they email me, and I pull the IP. So you're just keeping a list of problem IP's and accepting additional traf

making a disk image

Hi, I'm working on putting together a floppy-based distro, and I want to back up my floppies as disk images. What's the quickest and easiest way to do that? TIA. -- Vikki RoemerHomepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ 1 + 1 = 10

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

Rich Johnson wrote: On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Everytime I think about this thread or any boast about uptime one question comes into my mind: Are these machines on trusted networks with trusted users, or do people really get lucky and pick or compile a ker

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:35:17PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > I have always pulled the files back off of my linux server to a Mac, > created an ISO of the files and then burned from wherever. You may find > that it is easiest if you burned or at least mastered all the files from > a Mac.

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

Paul Mackinney lied: > Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu Well that was a rather sloppy reply, wasn't it? Steeped in humiliation, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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