Re: logging all output at boot?

2004-03-03 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:03:20PM -0500, John covici wrote: > /var/log/bootlog is only there if you enable the bootlog daemon, > which (at least after the last upgrade) was disabled by default. > There is a file in /etc/default for this purpose. ...but as the OP appears to be using Woody

Re: chroot ssh logins

2004-03-03 Thread Danie Roux
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:16:45AM -0500, Christopher Davis wrote: > Hello! > > I have found a few how-to's on the net for creating user jails with > ftp so users cannot browse outside of their home directories. That's > what I am looking to do, but with ssh when the user logs in. > > Can someon

Re: I messed up apt-get -- help!

2004-03-03 Thread dmu2201
This is propably due to a large amount of unresolved dependencies. I've tried similar when trying to install and "old" package in a "new" system. The old package want'ed to downgrade a lot of other packages and all of h*ll broke loose... I've solved the dependencies problem by calling apt-get -f

Authentiacating an unknown user

2004-03-03 Thread Praveen Narayanan
I am trying to create an authentication module for the 'login' application.In the module,user name and password, accepted in the local machine is send to a server program running in another machine and these are verified with the entries in the 'password' or 'shadow' files of that machine.Bu

php4 eats up...

2004-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi group/list, on my 'Sid' box which runs mostly apache/rrdtool/cacti, some php4 process is eating up cpu cycles - top shows me: top - 07:48:50 up 2 days, 15:13, 1 user, load average: 2.16, 2.39, 2.39 Tasks: 157 total, 4 running, 153 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 88.3% user, 11.

Re: Newbies! please check this out -> http://www.aboutdebian.com/

2004-03-03 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:16:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > Today I found an amazing web site! why this is not listed anywhere on the debian.org > web page I can not say but this has more information than I could ever have wished > for! > I urge all newbies to check it out!! A pecadillo: Why Not

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:02:15PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > >Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP > >software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the > >NTPv4 protocol). The "-simple" part just mean

Re: Installing nvu:"the html editor for L--dows"

2004-03-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Dan Hunt wrote: I'm eager to try out nvu, without finding a spare box / partition to install lindows upon. Yes they are giving l--dows away again. http://nvu.com/download.html How would I ensure that my debian unstable system would have the right packages required? Do I install this nvu-0.1.tar.gz

emms

2004-03-03 Thread Nano Nano
This is just plain wrong: Description: The Emacs MultiMedia System EMMS is the Emacs Multi-Media System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

XF86 4.3.0-3 uninstallable

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Not only is it not installable, but I'm entirely stumped about how to proceed, so I'll let the transcript speak for itself and see if anybody else can make heads or tails of what's going on... -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `-

I messed up apt-get -- help!

2004-03-03 Thread test524
Hello all, I've managed to badly screw up apt-get by going from KDE 2.2 in woody to a KDE 3.2 woody backport. Shame on me, but now I've uninstalled the 3.2 backport and reset my sources.list to have the following (uncommented) lines: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http

Re: Newbies! please check this out -> http://www.aboutdebian.com/

2004-03-03 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, the site seems very informative. Thanks for the link. Another link is www. debianuniverse.com. This site needs some work. I found some of the information useful though. Regards, Sanjay xucaen wrote: > Today I found an amazing web site! why this is not listed anywhere on the debian.org >

Installing nvu:"the html editor for L--dows"

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Hunt
I'm eager to try out nvu, without finding a spare box / partition to install lindows upon. Yes they are giving l--dows away again. http://nvu.com/download.html How would I ensure that my debian unstable system would have the right packages required? Do I install this nvu-0.1.tar.gz by moving it f

Re: kernel 2.6.3, emu10k1, no sound

2004-03-03 Thread Walt Nelson
I had problems with 2.6.2 and .3 if you goto 2.6.4-rc1-mm2 or1 they go away. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc1/2.6.4-rc1-mm2/ bzip2 -dc /path/patch | patch -p1 Walt On Wednesday 03 March 2004 07:54 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:

Re: WMaker crash and logging

2004-03-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > >Hello, > > > >WMaker will no longer startup as an X manager. > >I can use ice or just about any other manager > >but no WMaker. This has been my default for a > >number of years so I would like to continue > >using it. > > > >Any idea where a log file might be stored t

Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Rati
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 20:37, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > CONFIG_ISAPNP is enabled in the Debian kernel, so is there a way to tell > > if the kernel found any isapnp cards? I've looked all through /proc, > > including /proc/bus/pnp, but I haven't been able to s

Re: kernel 2.6.3, emu10k1, no sound

2004-03-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:49:54PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Can anyone shed some light here? I compiled alsa in the kernel (y, not > as m), with emu10k1 (I have a sound blaster). Now I get the following: > > Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer > (from the gnome applett) > and from

kernel 2.6.3, emu10k1, no sound

2004-03-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can anyone shed some light here? I compiled alsa in the kernel (y, not as m), with emu10k1 (I have a sound blaster). Now I get the following: Couldn't open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer (from the gnome applett) and from the volume control: Unable to open audio device '/dev/mixer'. Please check tha

Re: External DVD-burner

2004-03-03 Thread Warren Dodge
On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:45:19AM -0500, Hamid wrote: Hi I have an external DVD burner which is connected to ieee1394 port. I guess that I need to load ieee1394.o and raw1394.o modules as the first step. But I don't know how to create somet

What is "Kernel OOPs"?

2004-03-03 Thread Abdul Latip
Apology, I am not a native English speaker. It is still not so clear what exactly "Kernel OOPs" refers to. I tried to google with no luck. How is kernel oops related to: - kernel crash? - dmesg? - someone/something is probing/tempering the kernel? - just an ordinary "whoops"... - other? thank yo

Re: which shell I'm using?

2004-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Ruben Porras wrote: > so, echo $SHELL seems not to be reliable, how could I now which shell I > am using? (Imagine you need to know in a script)? You should never need to know this in a script, because (correct) scripts should always have #! lines at the t

Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

2004-03-03 Thread Kent West
stan wrote: Now if I cna just figure out wjat's causing X started by gdm to crash, as oposed to whne it's started by startx. Geuss I better start trackng through the gdm startup scripts. Perhaps it calls X with some arguments taht startx dose not ? I think the first thing I'd try is: #apt-get

Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-03-03 Thread Vineet Kumar
Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CONFIG_ISAPNP is enabled in the Debian kernel, so is there a way to tell > if the kernel found any isapnp cards? I've looked all through /proc, > including /proc/bus/pnp, but I haven't been able to see anything. The > old /proc/pci doesn't exist and I can

Re: EOF on net-drivers.img

2004-03-03 Thread Joseph
Thanks Joey for reply. That is the message the screen prints when I run a comparison on the files I copied to a disk, for example: cmp -l /dev/fd0 net-drivers.img What command should I run to get more information. When I copy the first two files: root and boot and run the cmp to compare the fil

Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-03-03 Thread Robert Rati
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:07, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:47:44PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > > > > I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA >

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-03 Thread Maarten J H van den Berg
Hi Chris. Just a few points and musings... may be helpful, may be not... On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:54, Chris Evans wrote: > I thought I'd got this all cracked in the early hours of this > morning. I _think_ I'd been putting boot=/dev/hda1 when I tried to > write the revised lilo config to

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-03-03 Thread David_Schein
Oh, Man, what an annoying problem. But there appears to be a trivial workaround if you're not picky. Just switch to a virtual terminal and back to X. So, typically, you could Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Alt-F7 back to you GUI. Then it works fine, at least on this machine. Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: logging all output at boot?

2004-03-03 Thread John covici
/var/log/bootlog is only there if you enable the bootlog daemon, which (at least after the last upgrade) was disabled by default. There is a file in /etc/default for this purpose. on Wednesday 03/03/2004 Nate Duehr([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Or /var/log/boot.log > > Some of it (usually the mos

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Get a real NTP client? chrony didn't screw up... Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the NTPv4 protocol). The "-

Re: logging all output at boot?

2004-03-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Or /var/log/boot.log Some of it (usually the most interesting parts) are usually still in the kernel ringbuffer accessible via "dmesg" also. On Mar 3, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Walt Nelson wrote: It is already contained in /var/log/syslog On Wednesday 03 March 2004 03:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hel

Re: Newbies! please check this out -> http://www.aboutdebian.com/

2004-03-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
xucaen wrote: Today I found an amazing web site! why this is not listed anywhere on the debian.org web page I can not say but this has more information than I could ever have wished for! I urge all newbies to check it out!! Amazingly, the site has existed for nearly 2 years. $ whois aboutdebian.c

Re: presentation app

2004-03-03 Thread Andreas Goesele
"Eduardo Gargiulo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all > > I'm looking for some debianized application for making > presentations, using slides, images, etc, that could run on an AMD > K6II with 160Mb of RAM with woody 3.0_r1. I settled for prosper, a LaTeX class which produces beautiful present

Re: WMaker crash and logging

2004-03-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello, WMaker will no longer startup as an X manager. I can use ice or just about any other manager but no WMaker. This has been my default for a number of years so I would like to continue using it. Any idea where a log file might be stored that would tell me why WMaker

Re: EOF on net-drivers.img

2004-03-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph wrote: > However, the cd-drivers.img & net-drivers.img are giving me an error: > EOF on net-drivers.img etc. Tell us the real error message, not a paraphrased fragment. I have my suspecions, but I will not speculate without a real error message, sorry. -- see shy jo signature.asc Descri

Re: udev: managing /dev at boot? Debian package?

2004-03-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:21:40AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: | udev is now said to be "mature", which I interpret to mean it should be | complete enough to use. | Is anyone working on a Debian package for udev, that will include the | necessary startup magic? You spoke too soon. :-) http:

Re: chroot ssh logins

2004-03-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Christopher Davis wrote: I'm not sure how that vould work with chroot. But, setting up a user-mode-linux install would provide similar functionality, with the added bonus that it appears a totally seperate host to the outside world. You can then either have ports 20 and 21 forwarded from your real

Newbies! please check this out -> http://www.aboutdebian.com/

2004-03-03 Thread xucaen
Today I found an amazing web site! why this is not listed anywhere on the debian.org web page I can not say but this has more information than I could ever have wished for! I urge all newbies to check it out!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

EOF on net-drivers.img

2004-03-03 Thread Joseph
I'm trying to install Debian on an older system: 4GB drive; 32MB of Ram. The system has a network card and a floppy, so the most sensible way to install it would be to use network (Internet) install. I've downloaded four floppy 1.44 images from unstable branch: boot.img cd-drivers.img net-drivers

Re: konsole: Home and End keys don't work!

2004-03-03 Thread Toshiro
> > When I'm using konsole, the and keys don't work in bash. > > The keys work fine in bash in xterm and console. Also, they work using vi > > in konsole. > > My guess is that 'TERM' is set either (a) wrongly, or (b) to something > that is not meant to be able to understand HOME and END. > TERM

Re: Re: mounting LVM volume by label

2004-03-03 Thread Rob French
system is sid/unstable e2fsprogs v. 1.35-2 kernel v. 2.6.3-1-686 lvm v. 2.00.08-4 Thanks. -Rob -- * Rob French - SDG * http://www.fulcrum99.net/ * http://fulcrum99.livejournal.com/ * GPG fingerprint = 9296 627F 9D12 0C38 1946 C94F A7E9 C6C8 2B3C 7FE3 signature.asc Description: This is a digita

Re: Where does lpd start at?

2004-03-03 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:24:59PM -0800, Ben Yau wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Brad Stockdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:20 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Where does lpd start at? > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm trying

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Get a real NTP client? chrony didn't screw up... Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the NTPv4 protocol). The "-simple" part just means it doesn't include

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-03 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:47:23PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > -- > Your mouse has moved. >You must restart Windows for your changes to take effect. ROFL. I hadn't seen this one before. Haven't had such a good laugh all week. Thanks! > > www: htt

Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

2004-03-03 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:34:20PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > stan wrote: > > >I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new > >kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in > >through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough

Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

2004-03-03 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:34:20PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > stan wrote: > > >I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new > >kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in > >through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough

Re: logging all output at boot?

2004-03-03 Thread Walt Nelson
It is already contained in /var/log/syslog On Wednesday 03 March 2004 03:27 pm, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have noticed that I see output when I boot that > is not in dmesg or messages. > > How can I log everything that comes to the screen during > boot into a file? > > Lance -- To U

Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

2004-03-03 Thread charlie derr
stan wrote: I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough startx does not (scratches head). IBut start starts a KDE session. Ho

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:18:07PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:18:56AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | > On 2004-03-03, Rick Pasotto penned: | > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: | > >> I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: | On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: | > I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed that some | > messages have stoped getting through. Looking in /var/log/exim/mailog, I | > see lot's of entries abo

Re: How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

2004-03-03 Thread Kent West
stan wrote: I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough startx does not (scratches head). IBut start starts a KDE session.

WMaker crash and logging

2004-03-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, WMaker will no longer startup as an X manager. I can use ice or just about any other manager but no WMaker. This has been my default for a number of years so I would like to continue using it. Any idea where a log file might be stored that would tell me why WMaker is crashing? What cou

logging all output at boot?

2004-03-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Hello, I have noticed that I see output when I boot that is not in dmesg or messages. How can I log everything that comes to the screen during boot into a file? Lance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How can I make startx start Gnome, instead of KDE?

2004-03-03 Thread stan
I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough startx does not (scratches head). IBut start starts a KDE session. How can I make

re: Msi motherboard G11-cb00056 - quick question

2004-03-03 Thread MS Jones
Hi, I have a motherboard like yours - G11-cb00056, but I don't know how to find the specs on MSI's website. http://www.msi.com.tw. Do you know what kind of RAM it uses? Thanks for your time. -Monique (Sorry to bug you, I looked up G11-cb00056 on the web and you were about the only hit.)

re-post: broken dependencies, surgery on package database

2004-03-03 Thread Richard Weil
I posted this same question on Monday, but got no suggestions. So, giving it another shot ... I seem to have really broken a couple of packages and I now I can't do anything with dselect/aptitude. None of the dpkg commands, even using --force, is helping me fix the problem packages. So, I'm lookin

Re: installation

2004-03-03 Thread Kent West
Maxime BrouBrou wrote: here the problem's - I use windows xp - My debian iso file are on the NTFS partition - I got just one partition(i know i need to create another one but in ext2, ext3 or swap(using partition magic 8) - I want to install Debian with hard drive booting So...how do i install

RE: creating swap partition

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Yau
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:49:34PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be > relative to the size of the drive? > > Your RAM size matters, not the HDD. > > First of all, you don't want to swap _at all_: buy yourself more RAM, > it's cheap nowada

Re: installation

2004-03-03 Thread Katipo
Maxime BrouBrou wrote: Ok...i dont want that debian delete some files in partitionning...so what can i do...backup?? Someone said that just the first CD was important...and that i will be able after the installation to find program on the net to install?? Always backup. Yes, you can just employ

RE: best practice for crontabs

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Yau
> > Hi, > > I have just figured out that there are 4 separate (types of) crontabs in > debian > > /etc/crontab > /etc/cron.d/... > /etc/cron.daily, monthly, weekly > /var/spool/crontabs/... > > but I'm none the wiser about why there are so many ways to do > such a simple > thing. C

Re: problem with proxy server settings

2004-03-03 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > I have Installed my Debian system on my Pentium 2 400 MHZ. But > unfortunately I want to connect through a proxy server but during > installation I have filled in the incorrect values. Now I cannot connect > to the internet with m

RE: Where does lpd start at?

2004-03-03 Thread Ben Yau
> -Original Message- > From: Brad Stockdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 1:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Where does lpd start at? > > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to figure out where lpd is being started from on > my system. > I've removed t

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-03 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed that some > messages have stoped getting through. Looking in /var/log/exim/mailog, I > see lot's of entries about messages being "frozen". What does this mean? > > And how can I fu

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:27:50PM +0100, Henrik Enberg wrote: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: > > > >> Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or > >> with gconftool-2 like so: > >> > >> $ gconftool-2 --type=in

Re: Debian Drivers -- Dell 2350

2004-03-03 Thread Kent West
Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: I plan on moving my Debian installation from my 600MHz machine to my Dell 2.1GHz box. Drivers exist for graphics (Intel 82845G) and networking (Broadcom 4401) at the site http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/0/16b775253fa0d477ca256d07001cd06c?OpenDocument. The last driver

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-03 Thread Chris Evans
On 3 Mar 2004 at 11:09, Justin Guerin wrote: > > So I'm left thinking there's something, perhaps idiosyncratic to > > some BIOS or HDs or whatever, that means some of us have real > > problems writing LILO boot instructions to the two drives in a RAID1 > > boot array. > > > One question on your ke

Re: installation

2004-03-03 Thread Katipo
Maxime BrouBrou wrote: I know every single part of my computer...and it is debian for x86. But i read some part in the installation manual...and i dont really know more about how to install from the hard drive. I am going to assume that you mean 'install onto the hard drive'. Which floppy You

ieee1394 question (card compatibility)

2004-03-03 Thread H. S.
Hi, Has anyone tried running the "Dv Clip" (by Pinnacle Systems) video FireWire card in Debian? I am going to install a FireWire card and wanted to know if there are any reasons I shouldn't install this particular one. thanks, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Lost isa card with Kernel 2.6

2004-03-03 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:47:44PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > > > I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA > > > PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play mod

Re: Shared IMAP folders in Mutt

2004-03-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 15:17, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:44:37PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've set up my Bayesian filter to scan two shared IMAP folders for ham > > and spam. Using evolution, when I get spam, I can just Move it to the > > shared spam folder and that's tha

Re: which shell I'm using?

2004-03-03 Thread Danijel Tasov
Ruben Porras wrote: > so, echo $SHELL seems not to be reliable, how could I now which shell I > am using? (Imagine you need to know in a script)? I'm doing: ps -p $$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where does lpd start at?

2004-03-03 Thread Brad Stockdale
Hello all, I'm trying to figure out where lpd is being started from on my system. I've removed the symlinks from all the rcX.d directories, and it still insists on starting when I boot up... Where else would it be starting up from? Thanks in advance, Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Shared IMAP folders in Mutt

2004-03-03 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:44:37PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've set up my Bayesian filter to scan two shared IMAP folders for ham > and spam. Using evolution, when I get spam, I can just Move it to the > shared spam folder and that's that. However, in mutt, I can't seem to > access shared I

Re: installation

2004-03-03 Thread Katipo
Maxime BrouBrou wrote: here the problem's - I use windows xp - My debian iso file are on the NTFS partition - I got just one partition(i know i need to create another one but in ext2, ext3 or swap(using partition magic 8) - I want to install Debian with hard drive booting So...how do i install D

Re: installation

2004-03-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Maxime BrouBrou: > > - I use windows xp My condolences. > - My debian iso file are on the NTFS partition > - I got just one partition(i know i need to create another one but in ext2, > ext3 or swap(using partition magic 8) > - I want to install Debian with hard drive booting > >

Re: which shell I'm using?

2004-03-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ruben Porras: > docs I've read says echo $SHELL, while you remain in the system with the > original login shell > echo $SHELL > gives the correct answer, but not in case you have executed another > shell, for example: > > $ echo $SHELL > /bin/bash > $ csh > % echo $SHELL > /bin/bash

Re: installation

2004-03-03 Thread Moritz Armingeon
Browse to http://www.debian.org/doc/ this will answer a lot of Questions, else there is google.com ;-) You don't need to format a partition, just create one. You will be able to format with the Debian installer, also you may want to have a swap partition. Moritz On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:05:17 -050

Shared IMAP folders in Mutt

2004-03-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've set up my Bayesian filter to scan two shared IMAP folders for ham and spam. Using evolution, when I get spam, I can just Move it to the shared spam folder and that's that. However, in mutt, I can't seem to access shared IMAP folders. So what can I do to move spam in there? I know that people u

Re: External DVD-burner

2004-03-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:45:19AM -0500, Hamid wrote: > Hi > > I have an external DVD burner which is connected to ieee1394 port. > > I guess that I need to load ieee1394.o and raw1394.o modules as the first > step. > But I don't know how to create something like /dev/hdc in order to mount > i

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

2004-03-03 Thread MJ Inabnit
Thank you all for the great information on 'startx' command. I will check the install and see if it somehow omitted the xclient! Also, the 'dlocate' command is a new one on me! I just installed it in my desktop and it is a *must have* applicatoin. I love Gnu! Thanks again. Wishing you well.

sarge installer terminated while extracting downloaded files

2004-03-03 Thread Steffen Michalek
Hello! I just today tried to install sarge testing: Downloaded 3 floppy images, proofed them, I booted, loaded net driver, processed the installation procedure... but suddenly, after loading things from ftp2.de.debian...(??) , while "extracting" shortly befor the red bar was really a

installation

2004-03-03 Thread Maxime BrouBrou
here the problem's - I use windows xp - My debian iso file are on the NTFS partition - I got just one partition(i know i need to create another one but in ext2, ext3 or swap(using partition magic 8) - I want to install Debian with hard drive booting So...how do i install Debian? I need some expl

Re: problem with proxy server settings

2004-03-03 Thread Moritz Armingeon
You can simply run apt-setup and enter the correct settings. Maybe man apt.conf helps too. Moritz On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 19:56:47 +0100 Paul Akkermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Installed my Debian system on my Pentium 2 400 MHZ. But > unfortunately I want to connect through a proxy serv

which shell I'm using?

2004-03-03 Thread Ruben Porras
docs I've read says echo $SHELL, while you remain in the system with the original login shell echo $SHELL gives the correct answer, but not in case you have executed another shell, for example: $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ csh % echo $SHELL /bin/bash % exit $ tcsh nahoo:~> echo $SHELL /bin/bash so,

Re: A Newbie LVM Question

2004-03-03 Thread stan
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Content-Description: message body text > > Hi, > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've played with LVM on HP-UX, but only just enough to get a firm > > handle on the fact that I don't understand the complexities of it, > > and

Re: chroot ssh logins

2004-03-03 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday March 3 at 12:53pm Christopher Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running a server with multiple websites, now I am > opening it up to a few external clients. I want them to be > able to modify their site w/o being able to move above their > home directory so they are not able

keyboard (console-data?) problem

2004-03-03 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I'm trying to upgrade to testing on an old (1996) laptop (Fujitsu FMV-5120 NA2/W). Hand-rolled 2.4.22 kernel. On this machine, I want a "standard Japanese" keyboard layout ("jp106") because otherwise lots of keys are in the wrong place. This worked in Woody. Tried dpkg-reconfigure console-da

file server slow to respond

2004-03-03 Thread Pat Mahoney
(please cc: replies) I have a file server (hppa, scsi disk) that spends most of its time idle. Logging in (ssh) takes several seconds. For any command, the first time it is run requires several seconds, and subsequent executions of the command occur quickly and normally. Here's the output of fr

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-03 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:18:56AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-03-03, Rick Pasotto penned: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: > >> I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed that > >> some messages have stoped getting through. Looking in > >> /

debootstrap hangs?

2004-03-03 Thread Joel Kaasinen
Hello, I'm installing debian form a slackware system (you might have read my earlier post). I ran debootstrap --arch i386 woody /mnt/debinst http://ftp.fi.debian.org and all went well up to: (...) Setting up syslinux (1.66-1) ... Setting up console-tools (0.2.3-2

Re: errors during make xconfig

2004-03-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Gregory Seidman wrote: Looks to me like you have a Qt library installed which is incompatible with the C++ compiler you are using for your kernel compile. For example, if you have libqt3 installed rather than libqt3c102 (check with dpkg -l libqt\* and note that you may have to make your screen wid

problem with proxy server settings

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Akkermans
I have Installed my Debian system on my Pentium 2 400 MHZ. But unfortunately I want to connect through a proxy server but during installation I have filled in the incorrect values. Now I cannot connect to the internet with my Debian system. Can anybody tell me how I can solve this without havin

Debian Drivers -- Dell 2350

2004-03-03 Thread
I plan on moving my Debian installation from my 600MHz machine to my Dell 2.1GHz box. Drivers exist for graphics (Intel 82845G) and networking (Broadcom 4401) at the site http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/0/16b775253fa0d477ca256d07001cd06c?OpenDocument. The last driver sought is for the ADP so

RE: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Kahle
Oops... sends message in sucky outlook... sorry. See below for the rest of my message... -Original Message- From: Michael Kahle Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:27 AM To: Debian User List Subject: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.? Hello. I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel for

Re: knoppix/debian

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Mackinney
David Baron declaimed: > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hello, > > an anyone tell me if is possible to use apt to upgrade to sarge from > > knoppix? > > Thanks. > > Gavin. > > I am running 2.6.3-2 kernel, unstable. I started with a Knoppix HD-install. > Knoppix st

Re: errors during make xconfig

2004-03-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:16:17PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: } Hi all }I am trying to compile a kernel 2.6.3 and whenever I do make } xconfig, I am getting the following error. I am running debian testing. } could you please tell me what I should do? If I do make menuconfig, then } e

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: > I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed that some > messages have stoped getting through. Looking in /var/log/exim/mailog, I > see lot's of entries about messages being "froze

Re: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes!

2004-03-03 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:54, Chris Evans wrote: > I thought I'd got this all cracked in the early hours of this > morning. I _think_ I'd been putting boot=/dev/hda1 when I tried to > write the revised lilo config to the MBR and perhaps that messed up > hdb. I don't know, anyway, I started ag

boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello. I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel for my debian/unstable machine. I am using the unstable kernel-source package. When booting my computer now I get a strange error: cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: debconf MemoryError

2004-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:12:33PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (03/03/04 13:57), Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:45:17AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Upgrading yesterday, aptitude reported critical bug(s) in dpkg - it > > > seems to have cleared now and the latest upgra

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-03-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure w

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