Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On 2004-06-21, Kent West penned: > Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >>On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> >> >>>If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run >>>stable and live with the age of the packages

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On 2004-06-22, Jules Dubois penned: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:38:51 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > >> On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >>> If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run >>> stable and live with the age of the packages. >> >> Not exac

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

Once upon a time Simon Kitching said... > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:01, Jules Dubois wrote: > > > > I installed kernel-image-2.6.6-2-k7. I get lots of error during boot; > > they go by quickly, I don't seem to be able to stop them, and they're not > > recorded in any log file. If I interpret the

Re: network working one way only?

On Monday 21 June 2004 20:12, John Summerfield wrote: [...] > I perfer the host command for most things: dig's report takes me a > week to decifer! [...] Now I`ve tried it, I am inclined to agree. Somehow, I had remained ignorant of it until just now. [...] > Remember that one way to breach a fir

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On 2004-06-21, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run >> stable and live with the age of the packages. > > Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? Especially in a Linux world > wh

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:01, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Jules Dubois wrote: > > > >>There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image package > >>(and, in my case, updating initrd-tools)? > >> > > If you're not already running

Re: network working one way only?

On Monday 21 June 2004 13:16, David Fokkema wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:30:05AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: > > I must be in an exceptionally dim mood today. I just noticed that [...] > Ah, dig! Why not do a `apt-file search dig' to find out. Since that > has a huge output, use grep. Somet

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0200, Francisco Borges wrote: > ? On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:15:11AM +, Adam Funk wrote: > > > On Friday 18 June 2004 15:40, Francisco Borges wrote: > > > > > THE QUESTION: > > > > > > We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, > > > > W

Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 01:39:16 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Jules Dubois wrote: > >>There's really nothing more to it than installing a kernel-image package >>(and, in my case, updating initrd-tools)? >> > If you're not already running an initrd kernel, you may have to add one > line to /etc/lilo.co

Re: HELP! Where is 'smbprint'? Running 'woody'?

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:00:17 +0200, Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday 21 June 2004 06:32 am, the softrat wrote: >> Thanks for your help! >You're welcome. > >There are several versions: > - >lprngtool - /usr/share/lprngtool/smbprint >samba-doc - /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

On Tue, Jun 22 at 08:41AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > >TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. > >SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) > >PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... > > > >we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain user > >(cy

Unable to access a IDE HDD sitting of an Silicon Image ATA PCI controller card

Hello, I have a PC with a Silicon Image Chipset based IDE controller card. I cannot access the drive thats plugged into it. eg. first some info: sol:~# uname -a Linux sol 2.4.26 #1 Tue Jun 22 11:58:18 WST 2004 i686 unknown sol:~# ls -alF /proc/ide/ total 0 dr-xr-xr-x3 root root

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

On Tue, Jun 22 at 12:55PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 22 at 08:41AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > >>Why would you not use sudo? > > > >you mean, have apache use sudo to change a user's email (sasl) > >password? the purpose of this gizmo is to have the web

Re: need simple imap server to serve up some maildirs

On Mon, Jun 21 at 03:31PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: > I have found courier-imap to be easy to set up and use. I am > using squirrelmail as an imap client, with imapproxy added > into the mix to speed up things. any chance you have the plugin "chg_sasl_passwd" working? it allows webmail users to c

startled by what SCREEN can do [was Re: 3 gigs enough?]

On Tue, Jun 22 at 08:51AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > screen is good too. Here's what you need to get started; > screen > ^ac create another virtual terminal > ^a[0-9] switch to terminal [0-9] > ^d detach > screen -r # reconnect > screen -ls # list terminal sessions (copies of termina)

IBM xSeries 335 and XFree86

Hi There, can someone please help me... Im going MAD. Im trying to install Oracle on an IBM xSeries 335. Todo so the Oracle installer needs X to run. I have run apt-get xserver etc etc etc and run thru the config It just wont run. Here is the XFree86-4 file: This is a pre-release version of

Re: querying install times on packages

On Mon, Jun 21 at 12:09PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had > made an update of several packages and something went wrong. > What I need is a way to query all installed packages by their > install date. I couldn't find any existing tools like >

Re: Gnumeric broken in sarge ?

> "J" == J H M Dassen (Ray) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyone have any suggestions ? > If you can do without printing via CUPS, > "rm /usr/lib/libgnomeprint/2.4.2/modules/libgnomeprintcups.so", > else > - wait for the cupsys transition to happen in sarge (see > http://bjorn.haxx.

Re: Sound system

Kent West wrote: MillTek wrote: Rthoreau wrote: MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 21 13:39:18 localhost kernel: i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x and 0x, IRQ 20 Are you part of the Audio group, is the permission set right? You mentioned permissions whe

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

Will Trillich wrote: On Tue, Jun 22 at 08:41AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Will Trillich wrote: TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

On Mon, Jun 21 at 06:01PM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 09:23, Will Trillich wrote: > > TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. > > SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) > > PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... > > Sounds obvious, but make sure user www-data

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

On Tue, Jun 22 at 08:41AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > > >TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. > >SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) > >PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... > > > >we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain user > >

Security under testing/unstable

Hi All, I'm certain this question has been asked over and over again here. My apologies if I'm asking something blatantly obvious. I really like stable. It's old, but it's secure. Unfortunately, stable is showing its age lately, and many packages I need are just not there. This forces me to move

Debian Mailing Lists (Was: Re: firewire, iPod and Linux)

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:25:44 -0400 Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emma > PS Is there any way to have my second email account list-friendly > without having to receive all of the messages twice? I know that on > some systems it's possible to set an email account to "nomail" so that >

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

> This is almost certainly a kernel problem. However, it is quite likely > that different distros have their kernels configured differently. I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18. Actually, I lost an entire hard-drive because I partitioned and created the fs under knoppix (

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

Dan Korostelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem (for two weeks) with Mozilla browsers on my unstable > box. > > I have three mozilla-based browsers installed: Mozilla itself, Firefox > and Epiphany (my main browser), and each of them crash on some sites. > For example on http://incom

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: ... smeagol:/mnt 21:28:04 $ mount ipod2 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2, or too many mounted file systems what about sda3? This is what works for me (that's without relying on /etc/fstab): mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda3 /mnt/ipod what

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

Jules Dubois wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:38:51 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run stable and live with the age of the packages. Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? She i

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

This just sounds weird to me. Managing disks and filesystems is done in the kernel; there is very little a *distribution* can do to screw up access at this level. This is almost certainly a kernel problem. However, it is quite likely that different distros have their kernels configured differentl

Re: Sound system

MillTek wrote: Rthoreau wrote: MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 21 13:39:18 localhost kernel: i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x and 0x, IRQ 20 Are you part of the Audio group, is the permission set right? You mentioned permissions when asking about gr

Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

Don Jackson (AE5K) wrote: On 21 Jun 2004 at 18:27, Kent West wrote: Either leave the BusID setting blank (for an X86 machine with only one video controller), or make sure it matches the output of lspci (converting the hex to decimal). Thanks Kent for the reply... there was no BusID given

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:45, Greg Madden wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 03:21 pm, Ryan Nielsen wrote: > > I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup > > data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), > > to use as a backup server. I am having difficult

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

John Summerfield wrote: Ryan Nielsen wrote: I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. I tried two Maxtors previous and have swappe

Re: sudo lock-up

Simon Kitching wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:56, Tom Allison wrote: "mynamehere" is not allowed to run sudo on localhost. This incident will be reported I used the wrong password too many times. How do I "clear" this? This is new to me; I am not aware of any feature of either "sudo" or "pam"

Re: Sound system

Rthoreau wrote: MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Before I got this e-mail from Tam, I had been investigating my system deeper and deeper. I found teh following entries in my /var/log/syslog; snip un 21 13:39:18 localhost kernel: i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x00

Re: sudo lock-up

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:56, Tom Allison wrote: > "mynamehere" is not allowed to run sudo on localhost. This incident > will be reported > > > I used the wrong password too many times. > How do I "clear" this? > This is new to me; I am not aware of any feature of either "sudo" or "pam" that a

sudo lock-up

"mynamehere" is not allowed to run sudo on localhost. This incident will be reported I used the wrong password too many times. How do I "clear" this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter, ports access

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:13:38 +0800, Thomas Beresford wrote: > The thing is, whenever I connect to the internet, I receive a lot, but > really lots of attempts to access on port 445, microsoft-ds and some > port 135, loc-srv. Is it normal? Absolutely. These requests are from misconfigured Windows

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:58:43PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm recompiling again with as much as possible as modules instead of > compiled directly into the kernel. I'm sure that I'm running the right > kernel; the iPod is brand new. I can only assume that it is fine. It > definitely turns

Re: 3 gigs enough?

Tom Badran wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:58 -0500, Cecil wrote: Ok. I just have never gone without an ide. I'm a student and have never done much programming. I haven't even gotten into programs that require more than one file to build. If you dont mind which language you use, python would be

Re: Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

On 21 Jun 2004 at 18:27, Kent West wrote: > Either leave the BusID setting blank (for an X86 machine with only one > video controller), or make sure it matches the output of lspci > (converting the hex to decimal). Thanks Kent for the reply... there was no BusID given in the XF86Config-4 file

Re: Firestarter, ports access

s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Thomas Beresford: I'm running a woody debian system and firestarter 0.9.3 and have a 56k USR modem for the internet. The thing is, whenever I connect to the internet, I receive a lot, but really lots of attempts to access on port 445, microsoft-ds and some port 13

Re: Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

On 21 Jun 2004 at 16:34, Rthoreau wrote: > Did you turn off frame buffering, I have an old Nvidia card that everytime I > use frame buffering it will crash with a similar message, even if the device > section is correct. Also look at the obvious Device section see if your > BusID is correct.

multimedia

I'm sure this has got to be somewhere, but I'm having a lot of trouble finding debian packages for support for dvd-rw hardware, mpeg formats, avi, and other multimedia libraries. When I set up SuSE, someone mentioned packman. Is there anything similar for Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

Ryan Nielsen wrote: I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. I tried two Maxtors previous and have swapped them out thinking it wa

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:38:51 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run >> stable and live with the age of the packages. > > Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? She is. Debi

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

On Monday 21 June 2004 09:23, Will Trillich wrote: > TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. > SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) > PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... Sounds obvious, but make sure user www-data is in the list of users in the /etc/group file for group www-da

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:18:04PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > that's weird, I'd check: I'm recompiling again with as much as possible as modules instead of compiled directly into the kernel. I'm sure that I'm running the right kernel; the iPod is brand new. I can only assume that it is fine. It

Re: 3 gigs enough?

Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:36, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Cecil wrote: | Ok... Is there a lighter ide? UNIX /is/ the IDE. vim, ctags, make/ant, ls, find, grep, gcc/g++/python/jikes/java etc., etc. And along with vim, I recomme

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:34:29PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > OK, Thanks for that. I have downloaded a copy of lame, unless I am wrong > this is a command line utility to convert wav to mp3. > > I plan to write a script to take a batch of selected ogg tracks, use sox > to convert ogg to wav,

Re: /.journal, /root-n

* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040621 11:26]: > I have a file in the root directory, /.journal, big, but it hasn't > been written or accessed in years. I suppose this must be an early > ext3 artifact and today's ext3's journal is hidden. I suppose I'll > rem

Re: /.journal, /root-n

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:26:43AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I have a file in the root directory, /.journal, big, but it hasn't > been written or accessed in years. I suppose this must be an early > ext3 artifact and today's ext3's journal is hidden. I suppose I'll > remove it. My other ext3 pa

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

On Monday 21 June 2004 03:21 pm, Ryan Nielsen wrote: > I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup > data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), > to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. > I tried two Maxtors previous and

Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving

Will Trillich wrote: TASK: allow USER1 to run a program AS USER2. SOLUTION: setuid bit (in theory, right?) PROBLEM: theory not matching execution... we've got a little C program that must be RUN AS a certain user (cyrus) BY another user (www-data) so we figured turning on the SETUID bit would

Re: Gnome font trouble

Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded my unstable distro recently (I'm not sure exactly when this started > as I've been running the same session for a week or two) and now all the > applications using Gnome fonts are using a large, bold font. For example, > the font used in menus

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:20:45AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: are you sure you didn't do any other changes? it looks like you don't have support for PC partitions. I just checked, the partition support cannot be compiled as a module (I use 2.6.5), here's what I have in tha

Re: network working one way only?

richard lyons wrote: You could (as root) try running /etc/init.d/iptables. I believe that you then see some possible parameters, one of which is clear. If I'm right, run /etc/init.d/iptables clear, and see if that helps. Assuming that iptables is being set up on boot by /etc/init.d/iptables, it s

Re: Debian menu on gnome 2.6

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:05:10PM +0800, Thomas Beresford wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know how to generate the debian menu on gnome 2.6? I've installed Gnome > 2.6 in my woody debian system through apt-get -t unstable, but the debian menu is > blank. Is there a way to generate the menu?

Re: network working one way only?

richard lyons wrote: On Monday 21 June 2004 11:42, John Summerfield wrote: richard lyons wrote: I must be in an exceptionally dim mood today. I just noticed that my laptop, on which I am writing this, is not accessible from other boxes on the network. Ping, nfs, cups are all failing to co

Re: SA going downhill

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:31, Tony Godshall wrote: > According to S.D.A., > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:18:53AM -0700 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > S.D.A. wrote: > > > > I agree. I switched from SA several months ago, and am quite happy with the > > > > speed, accuracy of Spamprobe over S

RE: StartX fails

Note: forwarded message attached. = BoxBattle.com - Semper Absurda--- Begin Message --- By the proper driver, do you mean that you installed the nvidia module with nVidia's self-installer? If you did and startx is still failing with "no screens found" then you may simply need to load the nvid

Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:32:24PM -0500, Steve Kleiser wrote: > So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? > They are (or should be, if they are not its a bug). You need to burn them in burn image mode. The notes were mostly in case you want to make changes on the CD. > - O

Re: 3 gigs enough?

Cecil schrieb: I bought a nice little laptop off ebay... Its got a 3 gig hd. All I want to do is have developement packages on, X windows, probably run Eclipse(where do i get that from anyway??? ), surf web, get email, listen to winamp radio and write scripts. 366mhz is the speed of the process

~/.Xdefaults

Why doesn't X read ~/.Xdefaults? It reads ~/.Xdefaults-miallen where miallen is my username but why is the username necessary when it's already specific to me through my home directory? It's just odd. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

Don Jackson (AE5K) wrote: Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB memory. Motherboard is FIC 503VA+, CPU is K6-2. It appears it should be using the s3_drv.o driver which is present at /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.o Here are the last few lines of that log: (WW) s3

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 June 2004 12:03, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: If you're trying to avoid any downtime or difficulty whatsoever, run stable and live with the age of the packages. Not exactly promoting Debian, are we? Especially

Re: Help: Installing Gnome on Testing / Unstable

Em Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:40:08 +0200, benjim escreveu: > I've been using the same process to upgrade & install Gnome on a > Debian Woody install for ages, but I'm starting to have problems. Consider using the sarge installer, it will be nearer to what you want. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria

Hard Drive Limitations

I would like to use a couple of 250GB Western Digitals to backup data. I set up a Debian machine (I have 4 others for other purposes), to use as a backup server. I am having difficulties with the drives. I tried two Maxtors previous and have swapped them out thinking it was a bad set of driv

Re: StartX fails

Brad Nelson wrote: Ok, I am starting to pick this up. Obviously I am totally new to Linux. I further read the info prior to the failure and it isn't detecting my primary device. I ran lspci and found my video card "00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corp.: Unknown device 0322 (rev a1)". Wh

Re: 3 gigs enough?

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:36, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > | Ok... Is there a lighter ide? > > UNIX /is/ the IDE. > vim, ctags, make/ant, ls, find, grep, gcc/g++/python/jikes/java etc., etc. And along with vim, I recommend a good console -

Re: [other] Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

Steve Kleiser wrote: So does that mean the official CD images are not bootable? No; they are bootable. But you have to burn them as an "image", not as files. How to do that will depend on the burner software you're using. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: intellimouse is crazy

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... I am geeting some troubles with a Intellimouse Ps2 in Debian Sarge 2.6.6. Its completely crazy in graphical interface. I know i have to modify /etc/XF86Config-4 (and I did it), but it doesnt work. Any suggestion. From now, thanks all. Are you running gpm? If s

Re: USB memory stick?

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:03, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:22:17 +1200, Simon Kitching > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure this is not necessary, at least for basic functionality, > > with recent systems. Maybe someone read Jon's notes and built it in ;-). > > > > I'm

Re: Re: bash profile not working

John Taber said: > So I gather from Michael that my best bet is to: > in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start > remove exec $STARTUP and paste > exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" > > will this now default to bash? Or how do I specify bash? $SHELL evaluates to your default shell which is specifi

Re: bash profile not working

Marc Wilson said: > Forget I said anything at all. Shouldn't be a problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:20:45AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > are you sure you didn't do any other changes? it looks like you don't > have support for PC partitions. I just checked, the partition support > cannot be compiled as a module (I use 2.6.5), here's what I have in that > section: Ah

Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card

> "Don Jackson (AE5K)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote: > I used the Debian Installer TC1 ... it installs, but gdm fails. I > looked at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, cannot determine what my problem > is. > > Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB > memory. Motherboard is FIC 503

Re: intellimouse is crazy

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all... > > I am geeting some troubles with a Intellimouse Ps2 in Debian Sarge 2.6.6. > Its completely crazy in graphical interface. I know i have to modify > /etc/XF86Config-4 (and I did it), but it doesnt work. > Any suggestion. > From now, thanks all. You might

Re: How to replicate debian system on Local Network?

Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:19:38PM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote: I have a Debian system set up on one PC and would like to replicate it onto another (to eventually replace my Redhat 9.0 system.). What would be the easist way to accomplish this? 1. use an NFS mount of

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 June 2004 15:44, Chris Metcalf wrote: > If I remember correctly, "unstable" is called "unstable" because the > packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually have > to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in

Re: Firestarter, ports access

Incoming from Thomas Beresford: > > I'm running a woody debian system and firestarter 0.9.3 and have a > 56k USR modem for the internet. The thing is, whenever I connect to > the internet, I receive a lot, but really lots of attempts to access > on port 445, microsoft-ds and some port 135, loc-srv

Re: Re: bash profile not working

Thks for responses. Please accept that I don't know too much about logins and shells - I just run my knoppix on hd system and login on whatever Knoppix sets up (I assume it's using kdm since it's KDE based, though I've added gnome)So I gather from Michael that my best bet is to: in /etc/X11

Re: Sound system

> MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:Before I got this e-mail from Tam, I had been investigating my system > deeper and deeper. I found teh following entries in my /var/log/syslog; >snip > un 21 13:39:18 localhost kernel: i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO > 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x an

Re: Random kernel freeze on sid.

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 19:54, Joost De Cock wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 11:10, Pål Dahle hurled the following on the wire: > > Hi. > > > > I have a Dell D600 laptop which is running up-to-date sid under various > > 2.6.X kernels. Since June 5th my machine has started to freeze: > > I have a Del

Re: Xfce4 dies instead of prompting when I click the logout button on the panel.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:13:47PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Monday 14 June 2004 16:00, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:40:57PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > >> On Friday 11 June 2004 20:50, Hamilton Coutinho wrote: > >> > I'm not sure but I bet on the GTK upgrade from a week

Fwd: Re: Going wireless

Hi guys, I've been trying to install my wireless card to no avail. I have followed the suggestion by David, but still cannot make it work. iwlist wlan0 scan returns wlan0 No scan results Can anyone of you please give me a hand on this? I would really appreciate any help on this matt

Re: bash profile not working

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:29:00PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: I'm sorry I broke my own rule. In my own defense, it's really hard to now ignore the cluebies when before I took great satisfaction in pointing them out. But I'm trying. There are so many ways you're screwed up that I'm not goi

Re: Adding debian-menu to xfce4 panel

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 06:30:32PM +0200, Matthias Kraus wrote: > Simon Huggins schrieb: > >On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:50:12PM +0200, Matthias Kraus wrote: > >>I want to add the debian-menu to the xfce4 panel, > >>but I had found no way to do this job. Can anyone > >>help, show me an howto, etc. ?

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players]

* Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040621 11:34]: > I plan to write a script to take a batch of selected ogg tracks, use sox > to convert ogg to wav, then pipe that into lame to convert the wav to mp3. > > Is this sensible plan or am I making too big a job out of this? I

Re: new X update screwing up xfce4

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:34:48PM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > I updated with some package the other day, and my icons on my xfce > taskbar are all chopped off on the edges. sreenshot: > http://www.geocities.com/emperorrob Upstream are doing a new release to fix it. It's caused by the gtk 2.4

Missing packages or modules for Sid 2.6.X kernels?

Hi, I use Debian Sid pre-packaged kernels on my Dell laptop. When a new binary kernel package comes out I do a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 kernel-headers-2.4.26-1-686 \ kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.26-1-686 lm-sensors-2.4.26-1-686 \ nvidia-kernel-2.4.26-1-686 and then edit my GRUB m

Re: intellimouse is crazy

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:53:42PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all... > > I am geeting some troubles with a Intellimouse Ps2 in Debian Sarge 2.6.6. > Its completely crazy in graphical interface. I know i have to modify > /etc/XF86Config-4 (and I did it), but it doesnt work. > Any suggesti

Re: /etc/hostname

* Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040620 19:41]: > My /etc/hostname file contains only the machine name and not the FQDN > of the machine. > > This is causing problems with procmail, squirrelmail and probably 50 > other things out there. > > How do I set this once and for all? > And should it be

Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:31:45AM -0500, Rthoreau wrote: > I subscribe to debian digest and about a week ago I stoped receiving the list, > this has happened a few times. I still got my other Debian mailing lists, > and thought it was a little weird. Then a day ago, I all of a sudden got a >

Re: HELP! Where is 'smbprint'? Running 'woody'?

On Monday 21 June 2004 06:32 am, the softrat wrote: > Thanks for your help! You're welcome. There are several versions: - lprngtool - /usr/share/lprngtool/smbprint samba-doc - /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/printing/smbprint printfilters-ppd - /usr/lib/printfilters/smbprint I found these wit

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

If I remember correctly, "unstable" is called "unstable" because the packages go through a large amount of turnover and you'll usually have to upgrade a few times per week to keep your system in sync. In my experience, "unstable" is actually very stable for my desktop uses. And its a whole lot eas

/.journal, /root-n

I have a file in the root directory, /.journal, big, but it hasn't been written or accessed in years. I suppose this must be an early ext3 artifact and today's ext3's journal is hidden. I suppose I'll remove it. My other ext3 partitions have no such file. While we're at it, there's an empty file,

mobile disk racks

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage as well. I'm wondering just when it's OK to pull in and out those mobile disk racks. (Where you can slide in and out one of your PC's IDE hard disks with "the ease of a floppy"). It see

[OT] Google Head Sys Admin prefers Debian

I found the following quite interesting, especially the tool called 'getupdates' which uses Debian's "apt-get tool". Here is the URL; -- Steve + Monday Jun 21 2004 04:26:01 PM ED

Re: bash profile not working

Marc Wilson said: > Debian's X doesn't source those files because it's NOT SUPPOSED TO. Why > would it? Those are files related to shells. Correct. X should not source shell profile files. Again, the correct fix is to start the session manager with: exec -l $SHELL -c "$STARTUP" This way the

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