Mountpoints - not taken from fstab !?

2004-05-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
I'm quite surprised to find this problem; if I remember well, I did this a few times before with success: On a quadruple-boot, I copied all partitions (copy&paste from 'mount') /dev/hda12 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda11 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda13 on /usr type ext3 (rw)

No access but root

2004-05-06 Thread Pritpal Dhaliwal
I recently installed Debian 3.0r2 on 586 system.. recently, I don't know why.. only root can login through ssh.. I am using proftpd, for ftp but that means i can't login as root with ftp.. or any other account.. I am also using webmin.. and created a user using webmin.. using virtualmin 1.4.0

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:03:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: > > Unfortunately, blacklisting is a much more realistic solution than > > wholesale user education, so yes, blacklisting such providers is > > probably the only workable solution. > > Unfortuna

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:52:31PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It reports spam to the usual suspects. Starting with postmaster/abuse > > addresses, if known. Then IP / domain WHOIS contacts, abuse.net > > contacts, and the

Getting apt-get to accept defaults automatically

2004-05-06 Thread Bruce
Generally speaking, if I do an apt-get upgrade, I want apt-get to just accept the defaults for any prompts (the equivalent of just pressing ). I have mostly just hit myselfmanually, but it seems there must be a way to tell apt-get not to bother prompting me (because I wouldn't know what to choose

Re: Formatting a partition for Windows XP

2004-05-06 Thread John L Fjellstad
Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question is how? "mkfs -t hpfs" or "mkfs -t smb"? > If I use hpfs, will it format correctly? Will samba be able to export it? > Will it be writable by a Windows client connected to the samba server? It really doesn't matter what filesystem you make on

Re: HP all in one?

2004-05-06 Thread Joost De Cock
On Thursday 06 May 2004 16:11, Robert L. Harris shoved this in my mailbox: > Anyone know if one of these will work decently as a printer or scanner > for Linux? (HP 1210 All in one) Check out linuxprinting.org: http://linuxprinting.org/ for this kind of information. They have a searchable databas

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Joost De Cock
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:55, Daniel F Garcia shoved this in my mailbox: [...] > Things are not looking good. > > I ran up KNOPPIX > I unlinked my vmlinuz and initrd.img files and re-linked then to the old > kernel 2.4.25-1-686 > > Rebooted > Still get the same problem > > RAMDISK: Couldn't find val

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Re: Can't see Raid 1 Device

2004-05-06 Thread mike
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Re: Limewire and Java runtime

2004-05-06 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-05-05, Thomas G penned: > > Well I really miss having music since i have recently formatted my 180 > gig HD ext3. Does anyone know a way go get the limewire package > working without the java runtime packages that have been broken in > unstable for some time now. With the way RIAA has bee

Re: bootlog question

2004-05-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday 06 May 2004 07:31 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 06 May 2004 07:22 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:46 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > debian testing

Re: xserver-xfree86 fiasco!

2004-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:54:53PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >Hi list, > >after a recent dist-upgrade, there was some kind of installation error > >which I tried to fix. After various attempts, I made things worse and > >now I can not install xserver-xfree86. > >This is the i

Re: kernel upgrading basically ok now

2004-05-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- jack kinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI > 1. The ttyS0 error is still around. The full error msg is: > > Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... > modprobe: FATAL: error running install command for serial /dev/ttyS0: no > such device. Ensure that you have 8250 serial support in

Re: mozilla-firefox & extensions

2004-05-06 Thread Alexander Nordström
On Friday, 7 May 2004 03:16, Matt Price wrote: > anyonee lse having trouble installing extensions with mozilla-firefox > 0.8-8 on Sid? I keep trying to install mozex and it doesn't seem to > actually install. I have two other extensions working (Bookmarks > Synchronizer and Session Saver) but th

kernel upgrading basically ok now

2004-05-06 Thread jack kinnon
HI   The X server  and the syslog problems are fixed by setting "Unix domain socket' in the config menu. This is found by searching Yahoo. The debian search is pretty useless, always 'no match'.   The sytem can boot and come up with kde. A couple of doubts to clear.   1. The ttyS0 error is still ar

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2004-05-06 Thread antispam
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Re: Dual Boot Windows Permissions For User

2004-05-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:22 am, D Hoyem wrote: > Hi All, > I have a dual boot system (Windows Millennium/Testing) on my HP > laptop. I would like the user (me) to have access to the Windows > folder. During setup I mounted it as /Win_c. When I do a ls -l it > shows the owner as root and the

Can't see Raid 1 Device

2004-05-06 Thread mike
Hi, I have a P4P800 Asus board with the Via onboard Raid controller. I have 2 IDE ATA100 (120 G)drives plugged in. Both are masters on seperate channels. I configured the RAID bios to a RAID 1 setup. (mirroring) The raid array is setup. Now I'm kinda lost after this part. I'm running a woody serv

Re: xserver-xfree86 fiasco!

2004-05-06 Thread Kent West
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi list, after a recent dist-upgrade, there was some kind of installation error which I tried to fix. After various attempts, I made things worse and now I can not install xserver-xfree86. This is the installation messages: -- apt-get install x

Re: bootlog question

2004-05-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday 06 May 2004 07:22 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:46 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > debian testing with self-compiled kernel-2.6.5, would like to know >

Re: bootlog question

2004-05-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:46 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > debian testing with self-compiled kernel-2.6.5, would like to know how to > > > resolve/eliminate some messages when booting. > >

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Re: traceroute Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-06 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:17:35PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > you're probably trying to go thru a slow firewall or heavily loaded > network where simultaneous different browsers work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:18:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Spammer... > > > > *plonk* > > And once again you show the maturity of a spoiled six year old on an > internationally distributed m

Re: Mutt's internal pager and accented characters

2004-05-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I find it simplest by far to run mutt in a UTF-8 locale, at which point > > it can deal with accented characters from a wide range of languages > > without me having

Re: Laptop strategy: RH7 -> Woody

2004-05-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/05/04 10:19), Mark Gillingham wrote: > I like the way my old RH7.3 disc is able to identify SUB and NIC on AST > Ascentia M Series laptops that I have in our dust bin. Of course I want > the ease of Debian's package management too. Is it a good strategy to > install a base system using my

Re: traceroute Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/05/04 18:17), Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > On Fri, 7 May 2004, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > Nope, sid still gives "Bad Request". > > > > However, debian.org works fine .. curious because > > http://www.google.com definitely won't work on my sid box. One of > > life's little myst

traceroute Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 7 May 2004, Clive Menzies wrote: > Nope, sid still gives "Bad Request". > > However, debian.org works fine .. curious because > http://www.google.com definitely won't work on my sid box. One of > life's little mysteries ;) what is the results of traceroute and its res

Re: bootlog question

2004-05-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday 06 May 2004 08:46 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > Michael([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > debian testing with self-compiled kernel-2.6.5, would like to know how to > > resolve/eliminate some messages when booting. > > Will mention that the machine works fine; the eleven FATAL m

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-06 Thread Marty Landman
At 07:02 PM 5/6/2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Since I don't mind the thread, the purpose of this comment is very simple: Please remember in the future, if some go OT, do not bitch at them. Be courteous. Antonio, isn't your comment o/t? :) I ain't being discourteous, am I? Web Installed Formmai

Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-06 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:10:14AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (06/05/04 11:14), William Ballard wrote: > > It could also be explained by the fact that you are getting different > > servers from the two different boxes. Try "www.google.com" from the > > broken box and see if that works -- i

Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/05/04 11:14), William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:57:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (06/05/04 09:23), William Ballard wrote: > > > Has anybody tried 'lynx google.com' lately? > > > > > > You get HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request. It only started happening about 2 > > > wee

Re: Debian as a router.

2004-05-06 Thread Mal Beaton
No worries. I now will review it and update. I have been slack. I will post the url tonight or tomorrow morning. messmate wrote: On Thu, 06 May 2004 20:14:05 +1000 Mal Beaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a good howto for this if you are interested. I can post it here However Mine is for

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Adam Aube
Steve Lamb wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >> Unfortunately, blacklisting is a much more realistic solution than >> wholesale user education, so yes, blacklisting such providers is probably >> the only workable solution. > > Unfortunately the reality is unless the blacklisted each other it > wouldn't w

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:49:56AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:18:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Whilst generally I wouldn't resort to flamage, your statement above > >> > is of such grea

Re: sid or sarge where I am

2004-05-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:36:13PM +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > Hello > > This is an elementary question and I am sorry I did not find it in the > documentation: > > I started with Knoppix 3.3 (woody) and made various time > apt-get upgrade > (including once apt-get -t unstable install xemacs) >

Re: Mplayer reinstall????

2004-05-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I'm trying to reinstall mplayer but the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, input.conf > and menu.conf will not install? After I do reinstall with kpackage I look at did you remove them manually? removal of conffiles are preserv

Mplayer reinstall????

2004-05-06 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, I'm trying to reinstall mplayer but the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf, input.conf and menu.conf will not install? After I do reinstall with kpackage I look at the "file list" and these three files have a red X in front of them? The files get skiped during the reinstall?? How do I get these

What's creating X-X-Sender header?

2004-05-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
My emails from a 'testing' machine include the following header: X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm 'pwiseman'; my machine's _local_ name is 'mycroft', but no-one in the outside world needs to know that. So what's telling them? Exim? How do I stop it? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

RE: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Daniel F Garcia
> >I had something similar once, (not really, since I screwed up my lilo manually ;) ). > >Here's what I did, get Knoppix (knoppix.org) if you don't already have it. >Boot from the knoppix disk, mount your root filesystem. Chroot into it. Edit your lilo configuration. Get out of the chroot jail, >

Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-06 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:28:54PM +1000, Daniel F Garcia wrote: > Last night I did an apt-get upgrade apache2 and that upgraded a bunch of > things including the kernel. Now when I try and boot up I get the error > message: > > kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2) >

nfslock

2004-05-06 Thread Sarah Trefethen
Hopefully a quick question! I'm still learning my way around debian, I have a process that's trying to put a lock on a file shared over an nfs mount, and not having any luck. since there isn't a majic scrip called nfslock in my init.d I don't know what to do! Any hints? Thanks, Sarah -- To U

Re: OT: manpage fun facts, or how much documentation *is* there anyway?

2004-05-06 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Karsten M. Self wrote: Background: so I'm explaining to dear old Mom, I mean, dear Mom, how there's tons of documentation available on GNU/Linux systems, that it's typeset for the user on the fly through the man system, and how in fact one of the first uses of UNIX[tm] by AT&T was as a document ed

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:38:46PM -0400, David P James wrote: > But that's not a replacement for won't - it's a replacement of "am not", > as in "I am not going to do that". I can't think of a case where ain't > can replace won't/will not/shan't/shall not. Which was my point since "I'm not goin

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu 6 May 2004 15:41, William Ballard wrote: >> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:20:21PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: >> > >> > One way to avoid the confusion is by using the ISO format: >> > /mm/dd. Also m