Re: Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built

2004-04-17 Thread users
During the customisation of the kernel, under loadable module support, I have kernel module loader built in. Kernel Module Loader is described under help as : CONFIG_KMOD: Normally when you have selected some drivers and/or file systems to be created as loadable modules, you also have the respons

Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

2004-04-17 Thread Loren M. Lang
I'm curious about how many people are actually using Debian Unstable or Testing to Stable for normal desktop use or even a production server. I've being using Gentoo lately, and I love how nice the newer software is like KDE 3.2.1 or Gnome 2.4 and I don't want to go back to Gnome 1.x just because I

distcc & dpkg-buildpackage

2004-04-17 Thread ms419
Is anyone successfully using "distcc" with "dpkg-buildpackage"? I tried: --- MAKE="make -j4" CC=distcc DISTCC_HOSTS="localhost kas" dpkg-buildpackage --- but "distcc" wasn't used : ( Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

help with smtp-auth (exim4)

2004-04-17 Thread Brent Russell Langille
i have fetchmail set up to contact my isp and grab my emails and dump them to exim which then delivers them to a Maildir style directory. that works great. the problem is sending mail out through exim4 to my isp. my isp only supports LOGIN auth. i have exim4 setup with the "smarthost" option. i u

Re: udev, autofs & module loading

2004-04-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Graham wrote: Does anyone use udev and autofs? If so how did you get it to work? I have the following in /etc/auto.misc cdrom-fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc udfcdrom -fstype=udf,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc floppy -fstype=vfat,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/fd0 u

Re: /dev/nvidia* device files missing

2004-04-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The patch to create these devices in udev is included in debian's non-free > source. Perhaps you were missing the appropriate udev rules to actually > create the device files. > > Put the following in a file (whose name ends in .rules) in > /etc/udev/rules.

Re: dri, permissions and creation

2004-04-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Yup, that did it. Thanks... -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SSL certs

2004-04-17 Thread Linux Nick
Does anyone know of an easy way to create SSL certs and keys in debian? Im having a time with it.      

Re: Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

2004-04-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Reid Priedhorsky: > > Reid Priedhorsky writes: > > > > I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. > > I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going > > At the risk of being a doofus, a little more tinkering and I discov

apt-get update with many errors

2004-04-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
For the last few weeks, whenever I issue an apt-get update on one of my machines, I get lots of Failed to fetch [...]Packages.gz Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) Error reading from server Remote end closed connection Sometimes also 'wrong format' (it says it is no .

get the cheapest Rx you ever seen(middlesex)

2004-04-17 Thread Brooks Isaac
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Re: Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

2004-04-17 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Reid Priedhorsky writes: > > Hello all, > > I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. > I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going At the risk of being a doofus, a little more tinkering and I discover that NoPPosition and MinOver

Re: Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)

2004-04-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) writes: > 'Your server 8.155-136-217.adsl.skynet.be [217.136.155.8] is liste > d by the blacklist dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net. Please contact your > Dial-Up/DSL/Network ISP Provider. > (http://www.dnsbl.us.sorbs.net/DUL-FAQ > .html)'

Re: My system display UTC time....how to correct?

2004-04-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:14:33PM +, Lorenzo Rossi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with the time on my computer. > It displays the UTC time, but I have setup the right time zone. > > The file "localtime", in /etc is a link to the correct time zone: > > localtime -> /us

adding spamassassin tests -- howto?

2004-04-17 Thread Will Trillich
we're looking for the approved "how-to-add-a-custom-test to spamassassin" method... okay, we've got spamassassin running, and Mail::SpamAssassin perl paraphernalia is available as well. # /etc/apt/sources.list -- running woody, with backports: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-n

Re: Before going with debian questions.

2004-04-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:26:53AM -0700, Robin Lynn Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > We've been using Mandrake Linux for a number of years and have come accross > problems with the way its library packages are set up. (We encounter > proble

how can newbies find commands like "invoke-rc.d"

2004-04-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:13:54PM -, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-04-17, Will Trillich penned: > > other distros have a nice hunk of syntactic sugar (so simple it could > > be a shell function -- a separate script file seems like overkill) > > called > > > > service > > > > which r

Netscape

2004-04-17 Thread smith8597
How do I know which version of Netscape Instant Messenger to use? I operate two computers. Windows xp, and windows 95.  Sharon Smith   

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread W Paul Mills
Tom wrote: > Hey, > > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. > kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I > really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration > files that just may have something to do with this topic are

Why fonts available with X and not with KDE/GNOME ?

2004-04-17 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Hi, I have a trouble with fonts ... I can see some fonts under X ... with xfontsel for example ... or with this command : $ xlsfonts | grep -i adobe | grep 'iso8859-15' -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-book-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 -adobe-itc avant garde gothic-book-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-i

Re: Apache and SSI

2004-04-17 Thread Dana Laude
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:50:13PM -0700 or thereabouts, Maximuminternet wrote: > I'm really confused with how to get Apache to work with SSI, saw your forum and > where it said you had it fixed but I couldn't see how. > > Naming a file .shtml alone clearly isn't enough. > > What is a directive

amavisd-new stable backport - installation failure

2004-04-17 Thread Ian McCall
Hello. I'm trying to installed amavisd-new on a Woody-based server from the source: deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS woody-amavisd-new main However, installation always fails. Here's my output: brickwall:/home/ADMIN/admin# apt-get install !$ apt-get install amavisd-new Reading Pa

Re: Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built-in?

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When configuring the kernel (via make xconfig), what is the general > guideline as to what should be kept as modules, and what should be > built-in? Support for your IDE/SCSI chipset(s) should be built-in, as well as support for whatever filesystems you are using. Anyth

Apache and SSI

2004-04-17 Thread Maximuminternet
I'm really confused with how to get Apache to work with SSI, saw your forum and where it said you had it fixed but I couldn't see how. Naming a file .shtml alone clearly isn't enough. What is a directive anyway? Maximuminternet _

Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

2004-04-17 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hello all, I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going on for a while, but suddenly it is driving me crazy. :/ Here is the problem: if there is not room for a window to be placed without

Re: eth0 dissappeared after install

2004-04-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 17 Apr 2004 01:58:11PM -0700, Sarah Trefethen insinuated: > I installed a base image (testing, kernel 2.4.25-1) on a dell > Latitude D500 (laptop with centrino package) with no problem. > Essential hardware was all detected nicely and I was able to use my > ethernet device to connect to my

Re: exim4 and adsl connection

2004-04-17 Thread Benedict Verheyen
H. S. wrote: > How can I setup exim4 so that if I send email to outside world (non > home.pvt domains), the Sender field contains my sympatico domain, and > if I send mail to a local user on my home network, Sender has > "home.pvt". I have a file called email-addresses inside /etc which contains

Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

2004-04-17 Thread Steven Yap
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 06:52, Adam Funk wrote: > > > See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 for the complete list of > > available options. > > I had a look at that but it doesn't really explain what the options do. Oops! Sorry. Please look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst which co

Re: Msttcorefonts Pkg:Error processing Msttcorefonts --configure

2004-04-17 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:47:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Any advice on resolving the error, please? Did you check the Debian Bug Tracking System? It should always be your first stop when you run into problems like this. I looked there, and it looks like there's a bug filed against msttcor

Msttcorefonts Pkg:Error processing Msttcorefonts --configure

2004-04-17 Thread users
apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done msttcorefonts is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional dis

exim4 and adsl connection

2004-04-17 Thread H. S.
Hi, Till recently I have been using Mozilla to read news from my ISP's (Bell Sympatico) pop server. Today I thought of configuring exim4. I have a Debian Sarge system that is acting as a router and doing nat and masquarading. I am new to all this email setup and config thing. Today I started d

Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

2004-04-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:52:26PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > How could I get my right alt key (which as far as I can tell does > nothing at present) to imitate the left alt key? I have ~/.Xmodmap containing: keycode 0x40 = Alt_L keycode 0x71 = Alt_L However this doesn't seem to be a complete sol

Re: Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built-in?

2004-04-17 Thread dircha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When configuring the kernel (via make xconfig), what is the general guideline as to what should be kept as modules, and what should be built-in? It depends upon what you are compiling the kernel for. But generally if you are compiling a kernel for a single system, you can

Re: eth0 dissappeared after install

2004-04-17 Thread dircha
Sarah Trefethen wrote: I installed a base image (testing, kernel 2.4.25-1) on a dell Latitude D500 (laptop with centrino package) with no problem. Essential hardware was all detected nicely and I was able to use my ethernet device to connect to my friendly local DHCP server and download additional

Modular Kernel:Wat should be modules,wat should be built-in?

2004-04-17 Thread users
When configuring the kernel (via make xconfig), what is the general guideline as to what should be kept as modules, and what should be built-in? Thanks ! Message posted via www.linuxforums.org . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

lm-sensors

2004-04-17 Thread Alex Lorca
hi all i'm trying to install lm-sensors in a debian woody 2.4.25 i made: - apt-get lm-sensors-source i2c-source - unpack and make-kpkg modules-image - install the .debs - run sensors-detect and detected the following: # 2C adapter drivers # modprobe unknown adapter Philips Parallel port adapter

eth0 dissappeared after install

2004-04-17 Thread Sarah Trefethen
I installed a base image (testing, kernel 2.4.25-1) on a dell Latitude D500 (laptop with centrino package) with no problem. Essential hardware was all detected nicely and I was able to use my ethernet device to connect to my friendly local DHCP server and download additional packages and perform

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:31:20 +0200 Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ snip ] > > I'm seriously interested in getting to know whether I need to readjust > my code of conduct. As near as I can tell you did fine. When I saw the original post, my immediate reaction w

Re: won't shut down: "acpi_power_off called"

2004-04-17 Thread David Baron
I had a non-shutdown problem as well. I could tap the power switch and get some "suspend" messages and then a real shutdown, but not automatic. The thing used to work. Somewhere along the line I commented out the following line in /etc/modules: apm power_off=1 Restoring that line, the computer

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread dircha
Matt Price wrote: anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). do a screen grab out of gimp maybe ? unfortunately on

Re: Is it Possible?

2004-04-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:15:51AM -0700, Umar Draz wrote: > hi dear members! > > Now plz help me how i can convert this machine type language again in PHP? > >i home some body help . is there any software that convert this lange to > orignal PHP code > > thanks > Hi Umar, you

PCMCIA Networking -- who controls?

2004-04-17 Thread Jesse Hein
I succesfully installed wlan-ng and have the card working, kinda. When first put in, or at bootup, I get an error message about turning it on. If I type: ifdown wlan0 ifup wlan0 It then comes back up okay. My guess is that something else is getting to the card first and trying to start it u

Re: dhcp

2004-04-17 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 04-04-17 02:13 +0100, Tom Simnett wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 01:45, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > > On 04-04-17 01:41 +0100, Tom Simnett wrote: > > > This of course depends on your modem/router - I have a broadband > > > modem/router from Netgear, and none of their router products support

X locking up when closed

2004-04-17 Thread Jesse Hein
When I close xwindows on my laptop, it locks up (in a funny state obviously as the screen goes crazy). The only way I've found out of it is to reboot. So, where can I look for causes? I've fiddled with the config file doing everything I can think of, but no go. Could something in the kernel ca

Re: RocketRaid og Linux

2004-04-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ooops, meant to send this to a Norwegian linux site. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apache-ssl problems

2004-04-17 Thread Linux Nick
I just apt-got apache-ssl and it installed along side regular apache 1.3.26 I copied over the things that squirrelmail put into the original httpd.conf file, uncommented the php references just like in the original file but I cant get my squirrelmail page to come up for anything. I really d

Re: Mail server for small business

2004-04-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:35:24 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > fetchmail+(exim|postfix)+(cyrus|courier-imapd|courier-popd|teapop) can > do all that you have mentioned. Have you given these packages a look? > > You may have some trouble fetching mail from yahoo, hotmail, et al, > unless they provide p

udev, autofs & module loading

2004-04-17 Thread Michael Graham
Does anyone use udev and autofs? If so how did you get it to work? I have the following in /etc/auto.misc cdrom-fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc udfcdrom -fstype=udf,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc floppy -fstype=vfat,sync,nodev,nosuid :/dev/fd0 usbpen -fstype=vfat,s

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread Michael Graham
Matt wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > > Matt Price wrote: > > > > >anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display > > >of > > >the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have > > >an > > >annotated copy (what modules

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread Philip Pinkerton
I am afraid I cannot articulate as well as I would like. I'll leave the advice to the experts. My comments are honest my opinions are my own. "One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions" You can quote me on that one. It is too short to censor. Philip On Sat, 2004-04-17 at

SOLVED (but not understood) was Re: Sarge system now refusing all login attempts

2004-04-17 Thread Carl Fink
This is weird. It was still locked up this morning, so I started closing programs, preparatory to the necessary "non-clean" reboot. Except something in one of the programs I was closing must have been wedging things, because abruptly the hard drives went into overdrive and load quickly climbed to

kdbg problem (libthread_db)

2004-04-17 Thread strawks
Hi all, I'm using debian unstable and kdbg 1.2.9 with gdb 6.1. When I load an executable, kdbg says : Sorry - KDbg gdb: Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1". However, the command line interface of gdb works : GNU gdb 6.1-debian Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of > >the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have an > >annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines fo

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello list! On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:07:33PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Philip Pinkerton: > > FYI It is fixed. > Good for you. [...] And if it should be good for anyone who might ever browse the list searching for the solution to this problem, one should rather post how exac

Is it Possible?

2004-04-17 Thread Umar Draz
hi dear members!     may be you all can't like my message but i really want.     now my question is. i have a cable internet and i have (Redhat 7.3) now for my cable internet i have create a software from a Software House. The software use PHP/mysql/apache for build my software. and they use a Fuck

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Philip Pinkerton: > > On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:00, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Florian Ernst: > > > > > > escalating back to the list. Please tell me whether my behavior is > > > aggravating the situation and whether I'm screwing around with his > > > head. So far I consider

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread Philip Pinkerton
FYI It is fixed. No thanks to Flo. No offense taken. Just wanted a real non-BS solution. Philip On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:00, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Florian Ernst: > > > > escalating back to the list. Please tell me whether my behavior is > > aggravating the situation and wheth

Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

2004-04-17 Thread ms419
I just spent a painful couple of days trying to figure out why Kerberos authentication was broken. DNS checked out, but it turns out "hostname -f" was only returning the short hostname, due to the following entry in "/etc/hosts": --- 127.0.0.1 kas localhost --- This realized, it was a quick fix:

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread stephen parkinson
Matt Price wrote: anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Florian Ernst: > > escalating back to the list. Please tell me whether my behavior is > aggravating the situation and whether I'm screwing around with his > head. So far I considered myself not to be overly friendly but still > polite, and I thought my suggestions would have helped t

Touchpad mouse problem - help me!

2004-04-17 Thread Jansen Sena
Hi all, I have a Debian sarge (kernel 2.4.25) installed in my HP Pavilion ze4500 laptop. Everything wak working fine. But, yesterday my touchpad mouse stopped running. When I boot my system the mouse doesn't work. Then, I try to run the follow command: cat /proc/interrupts and my mouse isn't s

Re: Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)

2004-04-17 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-17, Alain penned: > I have a Debian server at home running Exim as mailer program. I am > connected via an ADSL line and do not have a permanent IP address. > > I am using my server and mailer to send result from forms submission > to several external addresses. Recently several ISP ha

Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?

2004-04-17 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-04-17, Will Trillich penned: > other distros have a nice hunk of syntactic sugar (so simple it could > be a shell function -- a separate script file seems like overkill) > called > > service > > which runs /etc/init.d/* scripts. how come woody doesn't have such a > thing by default?

Re: gnome hicolor-icon-theme_0.5-1_all.deb upgrade problem

2004-04-17 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello debian-user, escalating back to the list. Please tell me whether my behavior is aggravating the situation and whether I'm screwing around with his head. So far I considered myself not to be overly friendly but still polite, and I thought my suggestions would have helped this user. As this i

Re: Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)

2004-04-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 07:36:01 -0700, Alain wrote: > I have a Debian server at home running Exim as mailer program. I am > connected via an ADSL line and do not have a permanent IP address. > 'Your server 8.155-136-217.adsl.skynet.be [217.136.155.8] is listed by the > blacklist dul.dnsbl.sorbs.n

Re: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-17 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-04-17T14:34:36+, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Did you actually try snapshots with either lvm1 or lvm2? No, but when I followed lvm1 development closer it was routinely discussed certainty. Thanks for keeping me honest. /Allan -- Allan Wind P.O. Box 2022 Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA sig

Re: ALSA configure problem

2004-04-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Hans wrote: > This problem has been mentioned before, but after lots of googling I > still can't find the solution. > > I have a (minimal) running Sid system now, with kernel 2.6.5. I want to > compile ALSA 1.0.4 from source (don't ask me why), so I got all the > tar.bz2

Re: won't shut down: "acpi_power_off called"

2004-04-17 Thread Luke Reeves
My system periodically does this too; it's a Sony PCG-TR2 with ACPI and no APM bios. Every one out of ten shutdowns, the system halts and just sits there with that message. I'm pretty sure it's a kernel bug since ACPI is still flaky. The kernel I'm using is 2.6.5. You might want to check out

Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?

2004-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > ...because it's just as easy to type "/etc/init.d/foo restart"? Easy to do but hard for new users to know. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 17 April 2004 15:20, Tom wrote: > I don't have a directory called /etc/dm... In that case take everything I said with a grain of salt, as I'm not familiar with KDM. It's just that your problem sounds a lot like the one I had with GDM recently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?

2004-04-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:27:53AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > other distros have a nice hunk of syntactic sugar (so simple it > could be a shell function -- a separate script file seems like > overkill) called > > service > > which runs /etc/init.d/* scripts. how come woody doesn't hav

ALSA configure problem

2004-04-17 Thread Hans
This problem has been mentioned before, but after lots of googling I still can't find the solution. I have a (minimal) running Sid system now, with kernel 2.6.5. I want to compile ALSA 1.0.4 from source (don't ask me why), so I got all the tar.bz2 files. The libs compile flawlessly, the drivers

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:09:41AM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Set BOOTLOGD_ENABLE to yes in /etc/default/bootlogd ...you'll need version 2.85-9 of sysvinit / initscripts. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp00

Re: sysvinit bootlogd

2004-04-17 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > So, based on another email "logging all output at boot" > I decided to update sysvinit and it's dependencies so > that I could view the output in boot.log. I just upgraded > sysvinit from Unstable this morning. > > I installed and

Exim on Debian via ADSL line (no permanent IP address)

2004-04-17 Thread Alain
I have a Debian server at home running Exim as mailer program. I am connected via an ADSL line and do not have a permanent IP address. I am using my server and mailer to send result from forms submission to several external addresses. Recently several ISP have started to reject my email messages.

Re: reportbug locale complaints

2004-04-17 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Chris Metzler wrote: >> Recently, I've been getting warnings about my locale when I start >> reportbug: >> *** Warning: unsupported locale setting >> [the preceding appears at the very top. Somewhat later I see..] >> *** The following debconf settings were detected: >> perl: warning: Setting local

Re: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-17 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Allan Wind wrote: > LVM and EVMS support snapshots which is an interesting (partial) > backups solution. Did you actually try snapshots with either lvm1 or lvm2? With lvm2 it won't work because current devicemapper code (both 2.6 and 2.4 patches) dont support them, and for lvm1 I could not mount s

IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

2004-04-17 Thread Sandile Mthombeni
Hi DebiansI'm new to Debian(Woody) kernel 2.4.18 and I'm trying to use Globetrotter GPRS PC card(modem) to connect to Internet.It has been a never ending struggle.I created suitable chatscript and optionfile  using pppconfig 2.0.10and the first time I pon my provider I get the following messa

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are > >> scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning > >> about some module

Re: qmail - SMTP AUTH

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Aube
Daniel Guido wrote: > I downloaded the qmail-src package from unstable and want to know how to > get SMTP AUTH and TLS to work. I don't know how to make it work with the Debian package, but if you download the vanilla qmail sources (or even better - netqmail) from www.qmail.org, there is also a l

Re: dri, permissions and creation

2004-04-17 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:39:00PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Does anyone know when and how /dev/dri/card0 is created? And where the > permissions are set? I tried searching on google, but couldn't find > anything. > > The problem is that the dri/card0 is created with permissions root.ro

Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?

2004-04-17 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:27:53AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > other distros have a nice hunk of syntactic sugar (so simple it > could be a shell function -- a separate script file seems like > overkill) called > > service Why not type simply /etc/init.d/ ? > > which runs /etc/init.d/

Re: Nero

2004-04-17 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:12:32PM +1000, Jac van Oosterom wrote: > My system is windows 2000 Bad thing! Get Debian and use cdrecord. >and my Liteon cd burner will only operate with the Nero installation disk that came >with the unit. > I prefer to use Roxio.Is this possible and how can I do th

Re: upgrade debian kernal

2004-04-17 Thread S.D.A.
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:42:01AM -0500 or thereabouts, Kent West wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 07:21:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kent West wrote: > >Apologies if this has been done before, but if it has, I surely can't > > > I've never had to do anything extra _except_ add

Re: Your recent message to Topica.com

2004-04-17 Thread ACMACK211
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Re: Adding Xfce4 to the GDM sessions menu

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 12 April 2004 11:40, Simon Huggins wrote: >> While sorting this problem out, I noticed that >> /etc/gdm/Sessions/Xfce4 contains the following: > >> #!/bin/sh >> exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/xfce4-session > >> What's the practical difference between running >> /usr/bin/xfce4-session

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Tom
* [Saturday 17 April 2004 15:29] Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager > > (i.e. kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window > > managers? > My guess would be that it's display manager dependent. I believe the > location

Re: What happened to the Compose Key?

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 05:20, Steven Yap wrote: > In your case, using "compose:rwin" will put Compose on the Right > Windows key. Excellent! I've been trying to figure out how to do that for a while. > See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 for the complete list of > available options.

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Tom
* [Saturday 17 April 2004 15:08] Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager > > (i.e. kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window > > managers? I really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the > > configuration files tha

Output from aide's daily cron job has changed.

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
Following a recent apt-get upgrade, the morning e-mail from aide's cron job is a lot shorter (and less useful that it used to be): * This is an automated report generated by the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment on garcia at 2004-04-17 06:25. AIDE produced no errors. Output of the dail

Re: Using a Proxy (Squid) will slow down download speed?

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Aube
Joachim Förster wrote: > I would like to add: Depends on a parameter (sorry, forgot the name) > that determines the max size of a (cacheable) file. If the file is > larger, it won't be cached. True, there is a squid.conf parameter that will limit the size of cached files, but it defaults to no li

mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi list, I have built mutt-1.5.6i and xv with an pdf-plugin for testing/unstable. You need the following entries in /etc/apt/sources: deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-i386/ deb-src http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv sources/ and for ppc-users: deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-powerpc

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Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Kent West
Tom wrote: Hey, I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration files that just may have something to do with this topic are happily

Re: Display manager

2004-04-17 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:20, Tom wrote: > I'm sorry, but I'm no longer sure: where does my display manager (i.e. > kdm, at the moment) collect its list of available window managers? I > really tried to come up with an answer myself, but the configuration > files that just may have something to

Re: Is there a complete log to the bootup messages?

2004-04-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Geoff Thurman wrote: On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before hitting the display manager, the bootup messages are scrolling off the screen too fast. I saw some lines mentioning about some modules not found. One of them is microcode module (couldn't catch the rest). To

Debian source dvd

2004-04-17 Thread Riccardo Vestrini
I was not able to find debian dvd with source packages (unstable distibution) on the net, do anyone knows where I can download an .iso image or a jigdo file? I found only binary dvd at ftp.fsn.hu following links on official webpages thank you in advance -- Riccardo

Re: why no "service" to run /etc/init.d/* scripts?

2004-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Perhaps I'll add something like this to sysvconfig. File a wishlist bug so I won't forget. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .gnomerc

2004-04-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Keith O'Connell wrote in linux.debian.user: > Now that I have Gnome 2.4, the .gnomerc file appears to be ignored. Should it be > being ingnored? If so, what now provides the function that .gnomerc privided in > earlier versions? You can add scripts to be executed at login in Desktop Preference

Re: Distribution Upgrade

2004-04-17 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Curtis Vaughan wrote: When doing a distribution upgrade I got a message telling me to issue the following command: readlink /boot/boot.b | cut -f2 -d- | cut -f1 -d in order to find out the parameter for "install =" in /etc/lilo.conf By issuing the command: readlink /boot/boot.b | cut -f2 -d- | cu

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