Re: debian sarge and new installer

2004-02-13 Thread Kristian Niemi
Personally I also noticed some errors after I upgraded my kernel to 2.6; errors that only showed up in boot, and *didn't* show up in dmesg (or any other log file in /var/log/). I still don't undersrtand why they (the error-messages) didn't show up in a log; they should, as far as I understand?

Re: ..OT: todo list, was: Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp.

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..on my todo list. First I need to get this list off mail and on nntp, > then I need to ease back on the time I spend on http://groklaw.net/. Not hard if you're using spamassassin. If

Re: Newbie

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:44:56PM -0500, vin vin wrote: > I've set some time to learn about Linux this semester though I have no > experience at this point. Most of that gathered that from the rather uninformative subject line. Taking some pointers

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Re: Troubles to install debian in a Machintosh

2004-02-13 Thread Nate Duehr
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Ext3 journaling errors

2004-02-13 Thread Nathan
My system's hard drive is partitioned into three ext3 drives. Recently, these drives haven't been mounting correctly as system boot, and they don't save any data once the system shuts down. The kernel message is a whole bunch of lines similar to these: Feb 14 00:23:12 herby kernel: attempt t

Re: Multihead

2004-02-13 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 04:17, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:53:57 +0100, > John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > does anyone have any recomendations for a (couple of) > > videocard(s) with PCI interface to be used for a 4

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-13 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:24:28AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I came in a bit late here. Have a look on my site - > http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml. This has the > Promise driver module built against 2.4.18-bf24. I have a 376 on my motherboard, but its disabled [1].

Re: Debian does not have NIC driver

2004-02-13 Thread Anil Gupte
How do I compile a kernel if I have not yet installed the base system? Also, will any *nix driver work? Intel's site only lists Unix drivers (and I think Red Hat). Anil Gupte - Original Message - From: "Joseph Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 1

Kernel 2.6.2 and Prism-based PCMCIA WLAN cards

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, I have installed the 2.6.2 kernel binary package (kernel-image) that recently entered Debian unstable. However, I haven't been able to get my IEEE 802.11b PCMCIA card to work. It is a Symbol Spectrum24 card, which is based on the Prism 1 chip and works well in 2.4. When I insert the card runn

..OT: todo list, was: Your eMail to Gibson Research Corp.

2004-02-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:23:13 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:37:49AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..bayesan poison spam that makes it thru to this list, does the list

Re: Multihead

2004-02-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:53:57 +0100, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi All, > > does anyone have any recomendations for a (couple of) > videocard(s) with PCI interface to be used for a 4 headed sid > or sarge box with 4 1600x1200 DVI LCD screens com

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-13 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:32:12 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:12 PM 2/13/2004, Jacob S. wrote: > > >I thought for sure you had said it was a Netgear card... > > 'Tis... fa310tx to be exact. Apparently it works with the tulip driver > just fine, got 'top' running on an ssh s

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-13 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:12 PM 2/13/2004, Jacob S. wrote: I thought for sure you had said it was a Netgear card... 'Tis... fa310tx to be exact. Apparently it works with the tulip driver just fine, got 'top' running on an ssh session as I write this -- watching my new debian box do essentially nothing at the moment

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:43:34PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Is it a bug that > > dpkg -p kernel-source-2.6.2 > > shows information about kernel-source-2.6.2 while > > dpkg -l kernel-source-2.6.2 > > claims the Version is and the Description is (no description > available)? It

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

2004-02-13 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:04:03AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:38:03AM +0100, Danny wrote: > > Hi Nano Nano, > > > > to supply a floppy during setup is no problem. There in the Debian 3 > > installer is an option "Preload modules from disk". And that is all I ask > > for,

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040211 16:38]: > Along with the whole Disney funkitude this morning[1], I discovered > Comcast gave me an IPv6 address. Which begs the question: Now that > large ISPs now support IPv6, when will Debian beyond the kernel? Nice. I'm not on comcast, but that mak

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-13 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:10:14 -0500 Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:44 PM 2/12/2004, Jacob S. wrote: > > >Older 3coms are probably the easiest to recognize and install, of all > >the network cards I've known. > > Ironic; with MS products I'm finding just the opposite i.e. older >

Re: data recovery / ext3 partition

2004-02-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:02:47PM +0200, ville virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, Hi. Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. While many mail clients will accomodate unwrapped text: - Some don't. Be considerate. -

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:10:11PM -0500, Al Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > You've also left off a recovery partition. ?I keep a 256 MiB - 512 > > MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept. > > I would go fa

Re: Troubles to install debian in a Machintosh

2004-02-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/02/04 16:44), Nate Duehr wrote: > To: Debian-User users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:44:20 -0700 > Subject: Re: Troubles to install debian in a Machintosh > > > On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Fernando R. Fernandes wrote: > > >Hello,

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:31:50PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > > ... Disney got rid of > > it's animation department > > > > Disney didn't. I have friends that used to work in Disney Animation (they got transferred to Disney World to be Imagine

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:21:16PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Heh, of course my comments were a joke from the movie Office Space. I not only realized that, but was expanding on it. Securitas *really is* like that, except instead of a cubicle farm,

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>M.Kirchhoff wrote: > I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12. > Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply: > > /dev/hda1 => / > /dev/hda2 => swap > > I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to > partition it more effectively,

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-13, Andreas Janssen penned: > > I think pico belongs to pine (although it seems there are also no > installable pine packes in stable). Nano is a pico clone (at least the > package description says it is, I never used pico). Nano is part of > the base system and probably is already insta

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-13 Thread Marty Landman
At 06:10 PM 2/13/2004, Marty Landman wrote: What else do you recommend and where can I d/l it from? Nevermind, I found the doc page :) Will post back with any details I can't figure out. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 This Month's New Quiz --- Past Superbowl Winners Make a Web

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Nate Duehr
On Feb 13, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:15:34PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:59:25AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: 7) are security patch mechanisms convenient for

Re: Troubles to install debian in a Machintosh

2004-02-13 Thread Nate Duehr
On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Fernando R. Fernandes wrote: Hello, I have a problem about Debian installation in a macintosh performa 6360. I have installed the system to run in text mode, but I can’t install graphic model that are into Debian CD. While basic installation, I couldn’t obtain acces

Gimp-Print 4.3 on debian SID: unable to compile

2004-02-13 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, Has anyone been able to compile any of the 4.3 series of gimp-print on debian SID using the "debian way"?: fakeroot debian/rules binary I always get failures (with 4.3.20 to 4.3.25)... It seems that the packaging is quite ugly. Tried also from CVS, no chance :( Thanks, -- Dominique Del

Re: debian sarge and new installer

2004-02-13 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:40, jim woodward wrote: > I have installed sarge using the installer cd. I am using a cheap mb with a > via 650 mhz cpu in the mb, and I have 128 meg ram. I compiled the 2.6.2 > kernel and all seems to be running ok, but when I boot the system, I notice > that it tries to d

Re: installing Maple 7 under Woody

2004-02-13 Thread duck
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 05:20:06 +0100, Brad Camroux wrote: ... > I'm new to this list, and relatively new to Debian. I'm still exploring > and finding new and exciting things in the distro. MUCH better than > anything I've seen from Red Hat. > > Anyway... I need to install Waterloo Maple 7(TM) on m

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Darin Strait wrote: > I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the > tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac. > > I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I want to move

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Al Davis
On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > You've also left off a recovery partition.  I keep a 256 MiB - 512 > MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept. I would go farther than that. My preferred setup is to have enough space to completely install twi

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Darin Strait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end > node in the tree has a number of files whose names end either in > .mp3 or in .flac. > > I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I > want to move files that end in .

Re: newbie network config

2004-02-13 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:44 PM 2/12/2004, Jacob S. wrote: Older 3coms are probably the easiest to recognize and install, of all the network cards I've known. Ironic; with MS products I'm finding just the opposite i.e. older stuff is deprecated. This very same nic model is installed on my wife's w98 workstation an

Re: Imap && imap-ssl && pop3-ssl

2004-02-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:16:26PM -0600, Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: > Jonathan Matthews wrote: [...] > >I need to offer imap, imapssl and pop3ssl services. FWIW, imap would be > >localhost only, but -ssl services would be publically accessible. > > > >My reading thus far leads me towards Courier-

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Sam Halliday said on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:57:42PM +: > > must have installed debian a loong time ago when it still had to use > > wrappers for dhclient2 and dhclient3... now its just > > /etc/dhclient-script, and i really DO NOT want to edit debian > > scripts; i would

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Sam Halliday said on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:57:42PM +: > must have installed debian a loong time ago when it still had to use > wrappers for dhclient2 and dhclient3... now its just > /etc/dhclient-script, and i really DO NOT want to edit debian scripts; i > would do it in a local script iff i

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:58:38 +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Op vr 13-02-2004, om 00:09 schreef Manoj Srivastava: >> 5) Are upgrades easy for the BSD OS's? > >They're both not really difficult, but they're certainly not as >convenient. On Debian, it's just a matter of "apt{-get,

Re: Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-13 Thread Jan Suchy
Shaul Karl wrote: Is it a bug that dpkg -p kernel-source-2.6.2 shows information about kernel-source-2.6.2 while dpkg -l kernel-source-2.6.2 claims the Version is and the Description is (no description available)? It looks like dpkg -l refers only to packages that are installed

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Sam Halliday: > > i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a > > hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring > > instead to use the hostname "debian" which it set up during the > > initial install. > Something you could try (it's

Re: Newbie

2004-02-13 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:44:56PM -0500, vin vin wrote: > Greetings > I've set some time to learn about Linux this semester though I have no > experience at this point. > > I've used Unix (platform for C & COBOL) in the past and now I'm taking an > OpSys class. > > I was wondering if I could g

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +, Sam Halliday wrote: > hi there, > > ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed) > applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it > in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if > someone

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Harland Christofferson wrote: [snip] > you know, you can change the hostname of the machine locally : > /etc/hostname > also, will nees to change localhost stuff: > /etc/hosts thanks, but thats not really what i mean... if the DHCP server tells the client what its hostname is (as the rest of the w

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Brendan Strejcek
Mark wrote: > Can you mix lvm and RAID? > Does it make sense? > Would it be just too much complexity? At my place of employ, we have someone working on building a linux box with the functionality of a netapp. The underlying device is a software raid 5 array of several disks which is presented t

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:08:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > In my machine (sid) if you start dwww from terminal, or from gnome > > menu, it will take you straight to > > http://home.nyc.gov/html/hpd/home.html > > If you're resolving a different site, you likely have a DNS or Apache > m

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Sam Halliday said on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +: > ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed) > applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it > in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if > someone could help: > >

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Darin Strait on Friday, 2004-02-13 at 13:15:37 -0500: > Hello. > > I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the > tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac. > > I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I wan

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Friday, 13 February 2004, Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Sam Halliday wrote: >[snip] >> i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a >> hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring >> instead to use the hostname "debian" which it set up duri

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +, Sam Halliday wrote: > > "correct debian way" and also, i would be very interested to hear why > setting the host/domainname from the DHCP server is not the default. Personally, I don't like the names of hosts to change. I use the names to identify the ma

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:31:47AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:10:13PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > With the peculiarity that if you are using dwww (at least in sid) you > > > will find that all documentation is located in the NY Police

Intel 536ep

2004-02-13 Thread Johan Dewaele

Does dpkg -l refer only to installed, as opposed to available, packages?

2004-02-13 Thread Shaul Karl
Is it a bug that dpkg -p kernel-source-2.6.2 shows information about kernel-source-2.6.2 while dpkg -l kernel-source-2.6.2 claims the Version is and the Description is (no description available)? It looks like dpkg -l refers only to packages that are installed, which is not th

Multihead

2004-02-13 Thread John Smith
Hi All, does anyone have any recomendations for a (couple of) videocard(s) with PCI interface to be used for a 4 headed sid or sarge box with 4 1600x1200 DVI LCD screens combined with xinerama? Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

xscreensaver and pam-smbpass

2004-02-13 Thread CW Harris
I have been having trouble with xscreensaver not unlocking when I use smb password auth. I have tried it with pam_smbpass.so and pam_smb_auth.so, and neither works (although both work fine with a regular login). I haven't been able to find anything on this. Any clues? Here are the specifics (so

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Darin Strait wrote: > Hello. > > I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the > tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac. > > I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I w

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: [snip] > i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a > hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring > instead to use the hostname "debian" which it set up during the > initial install. [snip] apologies all! /etc/dhcpc/config allo

Re: is debian right for me?

2004-02-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:37:46PM -0500, Mark Roach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:07, David T-G wrote: > > > I need to be able to build and install the system in slice hda3 while > > running from hda2 and then I'll do a test boot and eventually set hda3 as > > my default s

Re: phpbb2 woes

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: Hokay, this is frustrating. I've gotten phpbb2 to work before but for some reason I can't this time. Here's the setup. Resolved. Not sure how. I think it was because mod_info wasn't installed. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm

Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 13 February 2004 20:51, Sam Halliday wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > > > > [oh yes: It hadn't occured to me that > > people here speak english.] > > why people still get annoyed about this kind of thing is beyond me... I was more amused than annoyed. But

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Harland Christofferson wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: [snip] > >i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a > >hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname [snip] > can't you do this in /etc/dhcpd.conf? i think you have to assign > a fixed ip addres ... something lin

Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Richard Lyons wrote: > > > [oh yes: It hadn't occured to me that > people here speak english.] why people still get annoyed about this kind of thing is beyond me... echo 'ok_locales en' >> ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs probably just a simple mistake on the senders beha

Re: mozilla-tabextensions: coloured tabs by default

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Sam Halliday wrote: > did anyone else do a system upgrade yesterday to find out that > mozilla-tabextensions/testing has been updated... and now you get > really annoying coloured tabs when you open a new tab in mozilla? if > so, could they please let me know how they turned it off? as there > seem

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 05:54:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello > > M.Kirchhoff (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12. > > Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply: > > > > /dev/hda1

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Friday, 13 February 2004, Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hi there, > >ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed) >applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it >in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if >someon

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread David Z Maze
Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > U N T E S T E D : > - > > find olddir -type d | while read d; do mkdir "`echo \"$d\" | sed > s,^olddir,newdir,`"; done > find olddir -type f -name \*.mp3 | while read f; do mv "$f" "`echo \"$f\" | sed > s,^olddir,newdir,`"; done I thi

Re: [read: i don't know what I'm doing]

2004-02-13 Thread Richard Lyons
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Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:15:34PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:59:25AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > > 7) are security patch mechanisms convenient for the BSD's? > > > For Linux in gen

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:59:25AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > 7) are security patch mechanisms convenient for the BSD's? > > For Linux in general? For Debian? > > I believe their methods of distributing updates secur

mozilla-tabextensions: coloured tabs by default

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, did anyone else do a system upgrade yesterday to find out that mozilla-tabextensions/testing has been updated... and now you get really annoying coloured tabs when you open a new tab in mozilla? if so, could they please let me know how they turned it off? as there seems to be no option t

Re: Problem getting sound to work

2004-02-13 Thread Mark Healey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:34:16 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: >Hello > >Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 09:16:36 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >>> [...] >>> >> Well I managed to fix roots gnome. Is there another mixer that is >> installed by default that I might t

DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed) applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if someone could help: i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-13 Thread Nate Duehr
On Feb 13, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: You guys apparently didn't get the memo. ;-) I work for Securitas, therefor, I never get the memo. Even for things like opting out of their craptastic health insurance that isn't accepted by any local doctors. And because I missed that memo, I co

ALSA - Not working with 2.6 kernel

2004-02-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I had a working sound system with a 2.4 kernel using the alsa drivers package. Now I have upgraded to 2.6, it no longer works. Because 2.6 has the drivers in it I assume thats not necessary. Indeed lsmod shows that my emu10k1 sound card module is loaded (part listing from lsmod below) snd_em

Troubles to install debian in a Machintosh

2004-02-13 Thread Fernando R. Fernandes
Hello, I have a problem about Debian installation in a macintosh performa 6360. I have installed the system to run in text mode, but I can’t install graphic model that are into Debian CD. While basic installation, I couldn’t obtain access by CD too, then I had to make a copy of CDs in my hard d

Newbie

2004-02-13 Thread vin vin
Greetings I've set some time to learn about Linux this semester though I have no experience at this point. I've used Unix (platform for C & COBOL) in the past and now I'm taking an OpSys class. I was wondering if I could get some advice or perhaps in some way help the "cause" while pursuing my

Re: Project collaboration pkg.

2004-02-13 Thread Nate Duehr
On Feb 11, 2004, at 5:42 AM, Katipo wrote: Hello, I'm in the throes of developing an open source project collaboration site. I'm fairly certain of what else I require, but I have had no experience with collaboration software. You should look at GForge. It's packaged for Debian testing/unstable.

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:24:33PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > Consider using LVM, for all your Linux filesystems except the root > filesystem. Then you can adjust the size if you guess wrongly. > > I am running 2x40GB and 4x80GB drives. The 80GBs are split into 4G > physical partitions, which g

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:37:20 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... Disney got rid of > it's animation department > Disney didn't. -- paul It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer. -- Sun System & Network Admin manual

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Dickopp
Darin Strait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > > I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the > tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac. > > I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I want to move > files t

Re: Creating a hardware Firewall

2004-02-13 Thread David Clymer
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:49, Bojan Baros wrote: > Hello. > > I am looking into creating a firewall for my home network. So far I > have a simple Internet router (Netgear) that protects my win and deb > boxes, but I would like to replace it with something more substantial. > > My requirements are

Re: workspaces problem

2004-02-13 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 15:19, david merlin wrote: > Hello, > I am using Gnome 2.4, Kernel 2.4.24, libc-2.3.2.so; > I recently updated my debian system from stable to testing. > > When I insert a Workspace Switcher (version 2.4.1) in a Panel initially > only one workspace is shown; modifying the pr

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:23:42 +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: > I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12. Currently, > my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply: > > /dev/hda1 => / > /dev/hda2 => swap > > I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Stephen Touset
Use unison to copy the mp3s, then use find + rm to remove the originals. On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 13:15, Darin Strait wrote: > Hello. > > I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the > tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac. > > I wo

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-13 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:48:35PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > About jabberd: Would a FQDN accessed through redirection from the > parking site be a problem to run the server? Shouldn't be, the destination server name is specified in the XML data sent to the server. Provide the server is

What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Darin Strait
Hello. I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac. I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I want to move files that end in .mp3 to the new tree and leave the .flac fi

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 7) are security patch mechanisms convenient for the BSD's? > For Linux in general? For Debian? I believe their methods of distributing updates securely are significantly more convenient than ours at present. I believe you c

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:42PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: > Here's my proposed scheme, based on Karsten's guide--out-of-date, but useful > nonetheless: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html > > 20GB => WinXP (unless by some stroke of fortuity Half-Life2 is ported to Linux) >

Re: apt cache obese?

2004-02-13 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:51:43PM +, Mark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:32:25PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > > P.S. Mark, please fix your Mail-Followup-To to point to a valid address. > > > > Thanks! > > Jacob > > > > - > > Oops - sorry. > > I seemed to have an old /etc/mailname se

Re: Windows filename & dir renaming?

2004-02-13 Thread Mark
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:58:56AM -0800, Brian wrote: > Hi, > What is an easy way to rename a lot of files and > directories that were moved from Windows? They > have (, spaces, ^, $, etc in them. `ls |sed s/\ > //g` removes spaces, but then I don't how to take > each one and move the file/d

Re: Windows filename & dir renaming?

2004-02-13 Thread Brendan Strejcek
Brian wrote: > What is an easy way to rename a lot of files and directories that were > moved from Windows? They have (, spaces, ^, $, etc in them. `ls |sed > s/\ //g` removes spaces, but then I don't how to take each one and > move the file/dir correctly. Quick and dirty: for i in *; do echo mv

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:56:33AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > This should be easily done with the existing Debian packages for Jabber. > > > I also want to be able to store the transcripts of the talks. > > This may be a bit more difficult. I'm assuming that you mean you want > to log al

some jabber clients (was: Re: jabber server howto)

2004-02-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:20:23AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | The intention is for the users to run a | client in their own machines that would connect to my server for this | purpose. I remember seeing some clients for jabber for windows (gabber | was the name of one if I am not mistaken),

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Sony Lloyd (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > (1) Eventhough I have an old debian, can I pick latest releases of > apps like vi, emacs and install them right away on my old debian > system? Or they wont install since my system is too old? You need packages that were built for your system. In m

Windows filename & dir renaming?

2004-02-13 Thread Brian
Hi, What is an easy way to rename a lot of files and directories that were moved from Windows? They have (, spaces, ^, $, etc in them. `ls |sed s/\ //g` removes spaces, but then I don't how to take each one and move the file/dir correctly. Brian -- ContagiousDesign! web . design . software

CUPS won't print to DeskJet attached to SMC Barricade

2004-02-13 Thread Darin Strait
Hello. I can't get my printer working. I have a HP 660C and a SMC Barricade 7004 gateway with a build-in print spooler. The printer is plugged into the Barricade. This is a very old (8+ years?) and very creaky printer, but it is my only printer and works OK for printing off mapquest directions

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello M.Kirchhoff (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've been using GNU/Linux now for 18 months, and Debian for about 12. > Currently, my workstation hard drive is partitioned simply: > > /dev/hda1 => / > /dev/hda2 => swap > > I just purchased a new 120GB IDE drive, however, and would like to > pa

Re: jabber server howto

2004-02-13 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:20:23AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Hi Jamin, thanks for the reply. I am trying to set a jabber server > that would allow several users to interact with one another. This should be easily done with the existing Debian packages for Jabber. > I also want to be a

debian sarge and new installer

2004-02-13 Thread jim woodward
I have installed sarge using the installer cd. I am using a cheap mb with a via 650 mhz cpu in the mb, and I have 128 meg ram. I compiled the 2.6.2 kernel and all seems to be running ok, but when I boot the system, I notice that it tries to do something with appletalk and also pcmcia. I have compil

Re: questions around install and upgrade apps on an old debian 1.3.1

2004-02-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:19:08AM -0800, Sony Lloyd wrote: > (1) Eventhough I have an old debian, can I pick latest releases of apps > like vi, emacs and install them right away on my old debian system? > Or they wont install since my system is too old? You may be able to build them from source (

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