Re: how to run a single X program?

On Saturday 17 July 2004 01:23 pm, Shot wrote: > I think there's a way of starting (startx-ing?) X with only one > application, and after some googling I found "The Basic X Window It doesn't look like anyone has mentioned this alternative. If you want to go totally bare bones, you can use

Re: Problems with mounting RAID5 array at boot

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Matt Perry wrote: > Any ideas on how to fix this? I found a fix. Turns out that the raid2 script needed to be run before the checkfs script at startup, but they both were set to S30 in /etc/rcS. I renamed S30raid2 to S29raid2 so it would start before S30checkfs and every

Re: xfree4.3.0 with cirrus GD5436 video card

Chris Bannister wrote: startx from console. I'm not running a session manager. I get the the gray screen with the cursor in the middle then nothing. I have to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get out. That means that X is starting just fine; you just don't have any X clients running, particularly a window

Re: Software RAID 1 reiserfs fails to boot because of fsck

Ary you using stock kernel 2.6.6? If so, compile a customised one with built-in reiserfs and raid support. Jimmy Liang wrote: Hi All, I must be missing something here, but I just set up a software RAID 1 on Sarge, using raidtools2. I was able to use /etc/init.d/raid2 script to start and stop t

Re: help setting up sound

Michael B. Levy wrote: Folks, I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure my sound card (I'm running Sarge), due to the fact that I can't quite understand the specs of my motherboard. My computer's specs seem to indicate a sound module twice: • VIA KT600 + VT8237 Chipset • Integrated C-Media C

Re: XML::Parser perl module is required ...

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:42:30 +1200 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, where do I go to download a 'Parser perl module' ? > Any tips on process ? Well, there's always cpan.org, but I assume you're looking for the "Debian Way". 'apt-cache search perl | grep xml' turned up quite a few

Problems with mounting RAID5 array at boot

Hi everyone. I have a new debian system that I just installed and then upgraded from Woody to testing. Now that it's up and running I wanted to mount a RAID5 array on four drives with some existing data. This RAID array was originally set up under RedHat. I installed the raidtools2 package, cop

XML::Parser perl module is required ...

Hi, where do I go to download a 'Parser perl module' ? Any tips on process ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tux:/home/adam/epiphany-extensions-0.8.2# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no c

Software RAID 1 reiserfs fails to boot because of fsck

Hi All, I must be missing something here, but I just set up a software RAID 1 on Sarge, using raidtools2. I was able to use /etc/init.d/raid2 script to start and stop the raid, and am able to mount the /dev/md0 drive. The problem comes when i put the mount into fstab. If I use "/dev/md0/b

tty1 vs tty2-6 and locales

Hi, When I had the default locale set to en_US.UTF-8, tasksel came up an ugly screen in tty2-6 but ok in tty1. I had to prefix man commands with LANG=C so they would display correctly in all ttys. The keyboard CAPS-LOCK key didn't recognise the e or c keys, I thought I had a keyboard problem! Wh

Re: LILO wierd ......

Robert William Hutton wrote: cep welly wrote: wookie:~#lilo -v Skipping /kernel2.4 Ok, so what's your lilo.conf look like for /kernel2.4? Ooopss...sorry everyone. I forgot ( damn). I thought /kernel2.4 is symlink to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 which I choosed when I was installing debian for

Re: recommendation for digital camera

Monique Y. Mudama wrote: I have a Kodak CX4230 digital camera. I use have been using the EasyShare Doc to download and erase pictures from it for about 6 months. Er, I kind of mistyped. What I meant to say was, the picture format was weird. We could view and copy the files on the card; we j

Suppressing "Document Contains No Data" Errors

Quite some time ago, I made a whole bunch of entries in my hosts file to effectively block ad servers and other undesirable stuff, using the instructions found here: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ This has worked quite well, except I frequently get "Document Contains No Data" messages when o

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > By the way, I didn't have setxkblayout on my system, but using dpkg > -S to look for commands of similar name, I found setxkbmap. This > fixed my problem: > >$ setxkbmap us good to know. I have the same problem here and "fixed" it by making a

Re: packages in GNU but not in Debian

I have an unofficial package for gnubik (for which I'm the upstream maintainer) at http://darrington.wattle.id.au/deb . It's a couple of versions behind right now. I'm not a Debian developer and don't have the time to commit to being one. However if some kind soul wants to import gnubik into

Re: recommendation for digital camera

I own a Olympus C 5050-zoom which is GREAT. It can take Compact Flash, SD and XD which is very useful. You can also have CF and SD or XD loaded at once, so 2 cards in the one camera. This camera works very nicely on linux. You just mount it as a scsi device (mount /dev/sda /mnt/mountpoint) and

Re: xfree4.3.0 with cirrus GD5436 video card

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:17:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I'm having trouble getting X to work. > > > > > > In what way? Do you get the gray hatch screen, and then it dies? Or do > you get garbled colors? Or does the screen turn black and then return to

Re: Mutt and accents

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:24:35AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > If you can get the same representation of the accented characters your > friend, and your headers are corrent then your friend should be able to > understand what you say without getting the giggles:-) I don't understand what I'

Re: Installing a downloaded .deb ?

Thanks Rick. I solved it by downloading source but the link comes in very useful as my knowledge of dpkg so far has been very close to zero. Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+dpkg Hi, I'm familiar with apt-get install blahbl

Re: The making of the DVD "Sarge": Directed by Micheal Moore

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:08:13 -0500, C. Tresenriter wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:45:48 -0400 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:greg]$ apt-cache show dvdrtools Package: dvdrtools > ~*~*~*~*~*~*~snip*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ > > Unfortunately I'll be doing the burning un

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

Well, I went through the effort of compiling it. (a response to this message before). I use unstable... the connector is for a newer version... but since I use it for a project I am involved with, it works. If you trust me,I have put it up for public availability. You will have to "dpkg -i evoluti

Re: More info on hostname, domain name, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can anyone recommend a source (preferably online) of information about hostnames, domain names and other things related to networks and network configuration. I am having a heck of a time configuring the network

help setting up sound

Folks, I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure my sound card (I'm running Sarge), due to the fact that I can't quite understand the specs of my motherboard. My computer's specs seem to indicate a sound module twice: • VIA KT600 + VT8237 Chipset • Integrated C-Media CMI9739A 6-channel a

Re: Mutt and accents

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: So all of this is fine and lovely...but something's going wrong when I send out the email. My friend is getting Z with a ^ instead of accented characters when he tries to read my mail. I can read his mail with no problems though (i.e. my mail with my accents quoting his mail

Re: recommendation for digital camera

On 2004-07-17, Wayne Topa penned: > Monique Y. Mudama([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> On 2004-07-07, Chris Metzler penned: >> > >> > I don't own a digital camera, unfortunately; so take any advice I >> > may give with a block-o-salt. But I've seen several people here >> > who *do*

Re: Ximian Connector for Debian Sid

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:40, Andy Firman wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:35 -0400, Andy Firman wrote: Running Sid on my laptop with Evolution 1.4.6-3 and I would like to connect to an Exchange server. There are some packages here: http://

Re: Mutt and accents

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: So all of this is fine and lovely...but something's going wrong when I send out the email. My friend is getting Z with a ^ instead of accented characters when he tries to read my mail. I can read his mail with no problems though (i.e. my mail with my accents quoting his mail

Re: Mutt and accents

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: So all of this is fine and lovely...but something's going wrong when I send out the email. My friend is getting Z with a ^ instead of accented characters when he tries to read my mail. I can read his mail with no problems though (i.e. my mail with my accents quoting his mail

Re: Asking about RSH on Linux?

Hai Nguyen wrote: Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an alphaserver with 6 node in which I have installed Linux but I have a problem with "rsh" command. When I type: #rsh node5 it tell me that the conection refused... Mean while, "ping" command run ok #ping node5 - run OK #pi

Re: [solved] jre segfaults

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:16:55PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:03:36PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I just noticed that j2re 1.3 and 1.4 segfault on me. I'm not sure if > > its the recent upgrade to kernel 1.6 (don't think so since I had it > > running with a 2.6 kerne

Re: X Applications as Root User

Kenneth Jacker wrote: Though I know it is discouraged, I have a single-user 'sarge' system protected by 'iptables' on which I want to run X11 applications when logged in as 'root'. I can use 'sudo' (e.g., "% sudo xlogo"), but I'd rather directly access the apps as 'root' (e.g., "# xlogo"). I've

Re: Help compiling mozilla-firefox

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:10:07 +0200, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build mozilla-firefox 0.8-12 from testing. I'm following > the directions at > . On an > unmodified source tree (fetched with "apt-get source m

Re: gswitchit of X server problem?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:02:24PM +0900, Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes wrote: > Hi, I've just read your mail about gswitchit keyboard layouts regarding > Spanish input. I've seen that you have also an address from Japan, so > maybe you're trying to have both Japanese and Spanish keyboard layouts. >

"Warning" failure in chroot . . .

REPLY INLINE Mark Pictor wrote: Well I guess I'm gonna reply to two people at once... --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <>Not a very successful day!!! Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my network controller. Two occurrences of "Warning" Failure trying to run <>Warning

X Applications as Root User

Though I know it is discouraged, I have a single-user 'sarge' system protected by 'iptables' on which I want to run X11 applications when logged in as 'root'. I can use 'sudo' (e.g., "% sudo xlogo"), but I'd rather directly access the apps as 'root' (e.g., "# xlogo"). Though I've searched, I have

Dependencies in Dir w/ Many .deb Files

I have a slow Internet connection at home. :-( I can't yet use apt-zip since my home 'ppp' link still doesn't work (non-"8 bit clean" issues) thus prohibiting me from updating the apt database via the net. :-( So, in order to temporarily keep my home system current, I am doing the following:

cd record and woody

My old Debian system was unfortunately reduced to toast by a UPS failure. I had been using cdrecord and the ide-scsi module happily. My new Debian - still Woody - system does not seem to have the ide-scsi module anywhere. uname Linux cbw 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unk

Re: More info on hostname, domain name, etc.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone recommend a source (preferably online) of information about > hostnames, domain names and other things related to networks and network > configuration. I am having a heck of a time configuring the

Mutt and accents

Hello! I'm trying to learn how to write text in French so that I can send properly accented emails to a friend of mine. Unfortunately we're having a problem with the accents that I'm sending through. He's using KMail, and I'm using Mutt (not that it should matter)... I have the following set in .

More info on hostname, domain name, etc.

Hi all, Can anyone recommend a source (preferably online) of information about hostnames, domain names and other things related to networks and network configuration. I am having a heck of a time configuring the network on my new Debian installation, and a lot of my difficulty is due to the fact

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

On Sun 18 Jul 04, 12:56 AM, René Seindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >Dear all, > > > >My "c" and "e" keys stopped working in xterms (rxvt, etc) on X. They > >work correctly on the console, so it's not a hw issue. The only things > >of note that happened recently are:

Mysterious entries in daemon log, mail.log; should I worry?

While looking for something else, I stumbled over these log entries that I don't understand. No other users were connected at the time, and no user has ever used these services. This box should not run the identd, imapd, or in.qpopper services! I've removed them now just to be sure. How could

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

Yeah, thats what I did first and said it didn't work. From all the imput I think the following is a clear way to express it: /command/ 2>&1 | less where: - the "command" is the specific function or action to be performed - "2>" is the instruction to direct (the errors?) to stderr - "&1" is the

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and /dev/input/mice

*Brian Walker wrote:* * * *-f, --fix-broken This should fix it, but in my experience doesn't always apt-get -f install Your could also try apt-get -f install imhangul- Note the minus sign at the end of the package name. * * Many thanks for the advice - sadly, the apt-get -f option was one of the f

Re: When Will Postscript PPC FireFox Be Available?

Hi Ed On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:20, Ed Sutherland wrote: > Does anyone know when the correct Mozilla-Firefox be available for the > PPC? I have 9.0.1, but it still crashes when I choose Print Preview or > try to print. (I prefer the Linux version to the OSX, but need a working > printing functio

Re: Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Dear all, My "c" and "e" keys stopped working in xterms (rxvt, etc) on X. They work correctly on the console, so it's not a hw issue. The only things of note that happened recently are: Well, you're not alone. I've had the very same problem, but it went away, and I did

Re: Newbie problems galore

Well I guess I'm gonna reply to two people at once... --- "David A. Cobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a very successful day!!! > > Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my > network controller. > > Two occurrences of "Warning" Failure trying to run Warning *doesn't* mean failure.

Re: how to run a single X program?

William Ballard wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 07:23:41PM +0200, Shot wrote: starts my GNOME/Metacity as usual, while `startx xterm` (or `startx mozilla-firefox` for that matter) end up in dropping me back to the commandline and displaying /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: bad command line option "mozilla-

Re: wifi & kernel 2.6.* kernel

David Goodenough wrote: Rodney D. Myers wrote: I've been searching for my wifi modules, and they all seem to be geared towards the 2.4.* series of kernel's. doing an "apt-cache search wlan" shows wlan*2.4.* The card was "found' and identified in the net install, but I used the built-in lan c

Help: My 'e' and 'c' keys no longer work!

Dear all, My "c" and "e" keys stopped working in xterms (rxvt, etc) on X. They work correctly on the console, so it's not a hw issue. The only things of note that happened recently are: 1. My system froze this morning. Required a reboot and fsck. No "bad" error messages, just the usual "z

Re: how to run a single X program?

Hello. William Ballard: > use: > startx `which xterm` > startx `which mozilla-firefox` > > By default, no path is set up. Great, thanks! I'll inform the author of "Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide". Cheers, -- Shot (startx `which wesnoth` works as well, now I'm as good as gone) -- .---

Re: recommendation for digital camera

On Saturday 17 July 2004 09:40, Adam Funk wrote: > I have a digital camera and I agree with this. I've never bothered to > hook the camera up to try gphoto. I just put the cards in the card > reader and copy the jpg files to my hard drive. > > Anyway, I have an Olympus C750 (now discontinued, I

Mozilla and Website Icons in bookmark tabs

Hi all, how to set the website icons in the bookmark tabs? Firefox shows all if available but mozilla not. I've set "show website icons", but they only occur in the address field and the tab head (when using tabs). THX Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-) Friedr

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:39:36 +0200 Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 17 July 2004 16:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200 > > > > Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEG

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers

On a related matter, though ... I switched from Emacs RMAIL to Mutt a couple of months ago, and there is just one thing that I miss from RMAIL. The command rmail-output-body-to-file (bound by default to `w') saves only the body of the mail-message, eliminating all headers. I often want to do thi

Re: Newbie problems galore

Not a very successful day!!! Trying to go with the fact that TUN driver sees my network controller. Two occurrences of "Warning" Failure trying to run chroot /target dpkg --force-depends \ /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.0.2_i386.deb \ (same basepath)/base-passwd_3.4.1_i386.deb

Gnome panel auto-hide + always on top

Hi! I'm using sarge, and the current Gnome2 packages, with the Sawfish window manger. I have an auto-hiding panel, but when it un-hides, it is not on top of other applications. I have spent quite a bit of time in gconf, and with google trying to make this happen, but I can't find a solution. Tha

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:04:39PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > > > But what the display manager should do at some point is start a > > login shell (that is, start the user's selected shell, with the > > standard login flag for shel

Re: Mail client for downloading headers

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 the mental interface of bob parker told: > A while ago I thought I saw some reference to a package that could get the > headers from the mail server into a file. That file could then be edited to > remove the items to be kept and the remainder of the file used to instruct >

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:34:23 -0700 Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Essentially, what I am wanting to do is split our available bandwidth > (1.5/256) evenly, so that the router gets a dedicated 768/128 and my > workstation gets its own 768/128, with the ability for either to use

Re: The state of debian security

Please fix your character set, your apostrophies don't appear correctly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Quote from debian's security website: > > Debian takes security very seriously. Most security problems brought to > our attention are corrected within 48 hours. Key word is most. > Debian has y

Mail client for downloading headers

A while ago I thought I saw some reference to a package that could get the headers from the mail server into a file. That file could then be edited to remove the items to be kept and the remainder of the file used to instruct the server to delete the relevant emails without downloading them. I

Re: Help with Router

Hi, > I need to know how to configure Debian to connect to the router. I'm not sure how you disable your pppoe setup but just removing any ppp and/or pppoe packages should probably do the trick. To connect to the router, since it is dhcp all you need to do is install a dhcp client (dhcp-client u

Re: Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 20:34, Scarletdown wrote: > Hello, hello! I've been rather quiet for a while here due to being > busy with other projects. But now, I am needing some help with > traffic shaping, something that I have zero experience with thu

Re: conntrack_ftp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can i append at boot time module conntrack_ftp? With modprobe > conntrack_ftp - by hand it's Ok. My system is Woody with kernel > 2.4.18 echo ip_conntrack_ftp >>/etc/modules - -- Freder

Need a Traffic Shaping Crash Course Please

Hello, hello! I've been rather quiet for a while here due to being busy with other projects. But now, I am needing some help with traffic shaping, something that I have zero experience with thus far. Anyway, here is the situation: I share a cable Internet connection (1.5m dl / 256k ul) with

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 16:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200 > > Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannema

Re: The state of debian security

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quote from debian’s security website: Debian takes security very seriously. Most security problems brought to our attention are corrected within 48 hours. Debian has yet to release security patches for two major vulnerabilities in php. In fact they haven’t released an adv

Re: The state of debian security

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:05:37 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quote from debian's security website: > > Debian takes security very seriously. Most security problems brought to our > attention are corrected within 48 hours. > > Debian has yet to release security patches for t

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > It would be sensible if logging in via a display manager included > the same shell login initialization that logging in on a virtual > console performed. (Or via telnet, rlogin, ssh, etc.) I agree, that would be most sensible. > > Now

Re: how to run a single X program?

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 07:23:41PM +0200, Shot wrote: > starts my GNOME/Metacity as usual, while `startx xterm` (or > `startx mozilla-firefox` for that matter) end up in dropping > me back to the commandline and displaying > /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm: bad command line option "mozilla-firefox" > (plus x

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Daniel wrote: > Let's start with sensible behavior to the user (before considering > implementation): > > It would be sensible if logging in via a display manager included > the same shell login initialization that logging in on a virtual > console performed. (Or via telnet, rlogin, ssh, etc.) [

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Michael Graham wrote: > ... > But in this case you exec'ing the users own .xsession so sourcing > .profile isn't a problem, since the user should do it in the .xsession > (either manually or by making it a login session) so you just do That does not work. You seem to be assuming that .xsession i

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

Michael B Allen wrote: > > ... > > Look, conceptually what needs to be done is simple. The purpose of the > login option of a shell is to say "Hey, I'm logging in, initialize my > environment." Subsequent shells do not use the login option which is > to mean "Hey, I've already initialized my envi

how to run a single X program?

Hello. Most of the time I work in GNOME, but sometimes all I need to do can be done quicker in text environment, with, for example, only one graphical web-browser running on the default, seventh virtual console. This could be a real time- and battery-saver when I'm working on a laptop. I think th

Re: jre segfaults

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:03:36PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I just noticed that j2re 1.3 and 1.4 segfault on me. I'm not sure if > its the recent upgrade to kernel 1.6 (don't think so since I had it > running with a 2.6 kernel on another machine) or something in debian. > > Anyone else notice

jre segfaults

I just noticed that j2re 1.3 and 1.4 segfault on me. I'm not sure if its the recent upgrade to kernel 1.6 (don't think so since I had it running with a 2.6 kernel on another machine) or something in debian. Anyone else notice this also? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

[Note implementation question near end.] Michael Graham wrote: > > Michael wrote: > > ...about shell environment initialization. ... > > ... at no time is a login shell > > created which is necessary to trigger profile initialization. > > Although it's annoying that this is the way *dm work it i

Help with Router

I had originally had Debian setup to use pppoe to connect to verizon.net using DSL and it worked. I just setup a small home network using a Linksys DSL/Cable Router, on Windows it works fine, both computers connect shares work, both can use the internet. I need to know how to configure Debian

The state of debian security

Quote from debian’s security website: Debian takes security very seriously. Most security problems brought to our attention are corrected within 48 hours. Debian has yet to release security patches for two major vulnerabilities in php. In fact they haven’t released an advisory of any kind in ov

Re: Newbie problems galore

David A. Cobb wrote: Jacob S. wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:08:14 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David A. Cobb wrote: First woe: my hardware is by nVidia; the Official kernel on the CD is 2.4.18, nVidia provides a driver for 2.4.20/21 and the Debian archive has nVidia patches fo

Re: conntrack_ftp

modconf is an easy tool for doing this. Joost De Cock wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How can i append at boot time module conntrack_ftp? With modprobe conntrack_ftp - by hand it's Ok. My system is Woody with kernel 2.4.18 Add a line to the /etc/modules file with the name of the module: conntr

Re: X/GNOME starts just a bit, then dies; file permissions problem?

Hello. Shot: > After upgrading X to 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 yesterday on my workstation > (Radeon 7500) I can no longer get back to GNOME It seems something must've changed the ~/.ICEauthority ownership to root:root and GNOME couldn't read it. After chmodding the file back to shot:shot everything works o

Re: recommendation for digital camera

Here is an excellent resource for anyone looking to purchase a digital camera: http://www.imaging-resource.com/ There are in-depth impartial comparisons and reviews of a large number of cameras. Peace, Gail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

cron runs 1 hr not another

Can someone tell me why cron runs the 0500 job and not the 1700 job and/where to look for clues? Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# crontab -l # 7 * * * * sa-learn --mbox --spam /home/john/Spam 0 5,17 * * * perl /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-stats.pl -u -s 'yesterday' -e 'now' --logfile=/var/log/mail.log

Problem with /dev and /dev/cdrom

Hi I have a problem following an update today, I do not have access to my CDROM in nautilus as well as my burner in Eroaster I looked in /dev and I cannot see either my /dev/hdc (CDRW) and /dev/hdd (DVD) or /dev/cdrom is this a problem with the Kernel? What should I do? I see them at the startup

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:08:35 +0200 Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 15:46, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Wednesday 07 July 2004 05:40, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > >> I know this card is supported under Linux

kde3.2.2-1 no sound sarge

Hello, When I boot witk kernel-2.6.3-1 the sound in kde works. When I boot with kernel-2.6.6-1 the sound in kde does NOT work at all. I am using the kernel-image from Debian. (not compiled by me !) Any idea what it could be ? best regards carex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

diald.defaults diald.options in diald 0.99.4-5

Users of diald, System: Debian Woody Package: diald 0.99.4-5 The manual pages for diald and dialdexamples refer to the configuration file diald.options. Documentation files do not mention diald.defaults. Installation includes /etc/diald/diald.defaults but there is no diald.options. /etc/init.d

Sawfish kills gnome panel keybindings

Hi! I'm using sarge, with the current gnome2 packages. When I run sawfish, alt-f1 and alt-f2 stop working for popping up the gnome menu, and gome-run command. I do have a bunch of custom keybindings defined in sawfish, but none of them use alt-f1 or alt-f2. Deleting my .sawfish directory and start

Re: Thttpd and PHP

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:20:02PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:08:27 +0300 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:30:48AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > Jacob S. wrote: > > > > > > >I'm afraid I'm not familiar with thttpd, but here are

Re: Installing a downloaded .deb ?

When you do the dpkg -i whatever.deb you must of course do it as root. And you only use ./ if you are in the same directory to which it was downloaded. If you downloaded into /home/whateveryourusername[is as root you do dpkg -i /home/whateveryourusernameis/whatever.deb. If you see dependency err

Re: Installing a downloaded .deb ?

http://annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+dpkg > Hi, I'm familiar with > > apt-get install blahblah.deb > > but having downloaded 'blahblah.deb' > > how do I now install ? > > Adam Bogacki, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... This message has been brought to you in part by a grant from Columba. -

Re: firewire, iPod and Linux

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >Ok, this worked (yay!!) but it is read-only. I found a document which said > >the partition may need to be cleaned first on a Mac, but I tried this and > >it didn't help. > > I didn't have to clean anything

syslog-ng disappears for days?

Yesterday I noticed that no syslog-managed logs had been written to on my Sarge system for several days. "ps ax" didn't show any syslog daemon running. When I manually started syslog-ng, suddenly it wrote several hundred K of log entries. Since I've restarted it (and I've been running "tail -f /

Re: Identify which file uses a specific disk block

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:13:50AM -0300, Toshiro wrote: > Is it possible to identify which file uses a specific disk block? > > My hard disk has a defective block, I'm trying to use partimage to copy the > partition to a new disk, but the copy fails when it reaches the bad block. > I'd like to k

UDMA with 2.6.8-rc1 on a G4pb cdrom

Hi all, I am running sid on powerbookG4. How can I speedup the cdrom to UDMA? $ /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: Model=MATSHITACD-RW CW-8122, FwRev=BA21, SerialNo= Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic } RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0 BuffType=unknown,

Re: [Debian-User] Security Hole!??

On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 13:44, Didar Hussain wrote: > Hi, > > I just discovered that the permissions on /root and /home are > "+rx" to "world". Any user can `cd' and `ls' to /root and > /home/!!! > > Its NOT right! I'm using Stable. Should I complain to the > security team? On system installation

Re: recommendation for digital camera

Monique Y. Mudama([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 2004-07-07, Chris Metzler penned: > > > > I don't own a digital camera, unfortunately; so take any advice I may > > give with a block-o-salt. But I've seen several people here who *do* > > own digital cameras suggest the purchase

[Debian-User] Security Hole!??

Hi, I just discovered that the permissions on /root and /home are "+rx" to "world". Any user can `cd' and `ls' to /root and /home/!!! Its NOT right! I'm using Stable. Should I complain to the security team? Didar -- "Love may fail, but courtesy will previal." -- A Kurt Vonnegut fan

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