Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-23 Thread J F
Konqueror prints fine, but netscape prints in postscript and I see just the text which composes the postscript being printed, not the rasterized image. I did find some documentation: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php Also found a tutorial. I'll post if I figure it out. Thanks. --- On Fri

Epson Perfection 1670 Photo and SANE

2004-07-23 Thread debian . list
My new Epson Perfection 1670 Photo was purchased last night, as the http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-EPSON listed this as "good means the device is usable for day-to-day work. Some rather exotic features may be missing". So to get this unit going I did this: dhunt:/home/dan# apt-get

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news: [...] I'm using the Intel Fortran Compiler (IFC). Its version 7 runs on Debian without any problem whatsoever, although Intel doesn't support Debian. But, last year Intel released a total rewrite of the compiler, version 8,

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Kent West wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Kent West wrote: The result is that the vendor chooses not to go down that path, and Linux remains a niche product rather let's see another example. so there you go, windows will remain a niche product blah blah blah... Calling a product that has 3% of th

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
On Friday 23 July 2004 04:55 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > [1] RPM considered catastrophically harmful. Until RPM actually > *standardizes* with standard package names, standard filesystem, real > dependency resolution, and permanent removal of file dependencies, rpm > will always be the proof-of-con

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
On Friday 23 July 2004 03:59 am, Ryo Furue wrote: > machine, the company makes the costomer buy one. (The sofwares so > expensive that the cost of a lowly Windows machine is nothing.) > > Unfortunately, uniformity and community efforts don't come together. That *is* true. Linux is hell as a tar

Re: Building 2.6.x kernel

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
> I have now built a 2.6.6 and a 2.6.7 using make_kpkg. Both have > apparently installed OK but panicked because they couldn't mount my > root partition. > > Said partition is an ext3 created during a stock sarge install. The > original 2.4.25 and an installed 2.6.6-1.k7 kernel have no problems.

Re: sarge gnome does not show anything after login on fresh installs

2004-07-23 Thread Katipo
John Smith wrote: To all those other s*ckers, like me, who install, like me, sarge as from today from scratch with gdm version 2.4.4.7-3. Symptoms: gnome does not display anything after logging in through gdm-login except for a blue screen and a mouse pointer. This is a hint about what is wrong

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Ryo Furue
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news: [...] > > I'm using the Intel Fortran Compiler (IFC). Its version 7 runs on Debian > > without any problem whatsoever, although Intel doesn't support Debian. But, > > last year Intel released a total rewrite of the compiler, version 8, with

Re: [OT]Ghostscript Lists?

2004-07-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:17:03PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: } I've looked at the archives for AFPL and GNU Ghostscript, and it doesn't } seem like very many people are there, except for a couple here and there } exchanging patches on the AFPL list, and complete spam on the GNU list. } } I'm lookin

[OT]Ghostscript Lists?

2004-07-23 Thread Mike Fedyk
I've looked at the archives for AFPL and GNU Ghostscript, and it doesn't seem like very many people are there, except for a couple here and there exchanging patches on the AFPL list, and complete spam on the GNU list. I'm looking at using GhostScript to convert PostScript to PCL for an Oce PS372 pr

Re: What's this mounted temporary drectory? /tmp/autoKVio9R

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
On Friday 23 July 2004 04:11 am, Ryo Furue wrote: > drwx--0 root root0 Jul 17 20:21 autoKVio9R/ > it is. Is it something dangerous? like a symptom of being cracked? I use > Debian 3.0r2. I have no idea, but if I ever found something mounted I didn't mount and didn't k

Re: Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
> By that same token, someone using the Fedora name for a modified Fedora > distribution could POTENTIALLY make RH look even worse than it already > does. Umm... I mean... "could make RH look bad". :) I played with Ruddy Headware once. Installing Debian made it all go away. :) -- Michael McIn

Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-23 Thread csj
On 22. July 2004 at 4:12PM -0400, "J F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Printing from Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of > Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer. But there are free software postscript emulators that will let you print as though you have a postscript printer, e.g.

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > Calling a product that has 3% of the market a "niche product" seems to > make sense to me. Calling a product that has 90% of the market a "niche > product" doesn't make sense to me. Irony is lost on you, isn't it? > What this indicates to me is that vendors could write for

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Kent West
Erik Steffl wrote: Kent West wrote: The result is that the vendor chooses not to go down that path, and Linux remains a niche product rather let's see another example. so there you go, windows will remain a niche product blah blah blah... Calling a product that has 3% of the market a "niche

Re: Future of proprietary software [was: Is Linux Unix?]

2004-07-23 Thread dircha
Paul E Condon wrote: Or look at the situation another way. In the Open/Free software community there are a lot of true believers in a social mission for software. They seem to produce and maintain software for non-monetary reasons. In the business world there are a lot of people committed to paying

Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer

2004-07-23 Thread Eric Brown
- Original Message - From: "J F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 1:12 PM Subject: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer > > Printing from Netscape seems to default to > Postscript(tm of Adobe

Re: Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 16:47, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/page5.html While I agree with the sentiment ("Don't use Fedora.") I don't agree with the reasoning behind it. I choose to not use Fedora because it is not well suited to what I do. The fact tha

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Hi, Since Kent West has kindly clarified what I wanted to say, I'm not going to repeat my main point. Only the following: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...] about particular software (nptl thread library) not being available for w

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Carl Johnson-- > > Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Have you tried the '-as' option of esd? I use 'esd -as 2' to require > > > esd to release /dev/dsp 2 seconds after it finishes, so other devices > > > can use it. That allows

Crypt::Random and Woody

2004-07-23 Thread Carlos Hanson
Greetings, I am trying to install Net::SSH::Perl from CPAN on Woody. A few of the dependencies are failing. One is Crypt::Random. The following is the make test results. I appreciate any explanations or suggestions to solve this. Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -

Re: libtiff3g problems

2004-07-23 Thread Wim De Smet
On 24 Jul 2004 00:27:50 +0200, Dominique Deleris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody have an idea on when the libtiff3g bugs will be > corrected? I work with TIFF images, and I hate having to switch > back to Windows to make a slide show of my pictures... > > Is there a workaroun

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Have you tried the '-as' option of esd? I use 'esd -as 2' to require > > esd to release /dev/dsp 2 seconds after it finishes, so other devices > > can use it. That allows me to use programs with both esd and /dev/dsp > > output, but not at the same ti

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:59:18AM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote: > "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > Working in a MS, Solaris, Linux, Tru64 shop, I find that for the vast > > majority of our servers the usability of Linux is as good as Unix if not > > b

Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:29:38AM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > begin quotation of Stefaan Himpe: > > > In case of a static ip address, don't use dhcp. > > Dhcp is for dynamic ip addresses only. > > It's also possible his ISP has assigned him a static IP through DHCP; > this does make configura

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
csj wrote: > Short of reinstalling, is there a package that will create the > LSB directories and fstab entries for me? I don't know of one. It would be nice if we could just add a deb from the code in the installer that does this, but that code uses devfs for device enumeration. Figuring out how

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Ron Farrer
Paul Johnson said: > Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Not really a problem...HURD will be ready for production right around >> that >> time. ;) > > I guess that means we should be expecting a GNU/Hurd port of Duke Nukem > Forever, eh? Right after those flying pigs make their existance

libtiff3g problems

2004-07-23 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, Does anybody have an idea on when the libtiff3g bugs will be corrected? I work with TIFF images, and I hate having to switch back to Windows to make a slide show of my pictures... Is there a workaround to make libtiff3g work (in gthumb, nautilus, etc...)? I use SID. Thanks, -- Dominique

Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom

2004-07-23 Thread csj
On 22. July 2004 at 11:32AM -0600, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > I don't have a /media, and my laptop, which I just installed > > Debian on, also doesn't have a /media. ??? > > Then you didn't install sarge using a current version of the > installer. > > > I be

Help with samba 3

2004-07-23 Thread Aaron B
Hi everyone. I'm trying to set up samba 3 to be a client on a Windows NT network. I have smbd running and my hostname ( foo ) configured- not much else. My box appears in the Network Neighborhood on the Windows machines just fine. Also, my workstation has been "allowed" on the network. What ba

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:50:45 -0700 > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> An interesting question is "What happens when Linux becomes Evil?" >> Gates and Balmer will leave MS within 10-15 years. Linus will be an old >> >> man. The natur

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Ryo Furue
Hi, Since Kent West has kindly clarified what I wanted to say, I'm not going to repeat my main point. Only the following: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [...] >about particular software (nptl thread library) not being available > for woody: why

Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Karl Hegbloom
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/page5.html -- Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get wants to remove orpie

2004-07-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Does anyone know why I get the following? greux:/home/lefevre# apt-get dist-upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libnums-ocaml orpie The following packages have been kept back: hwinfo ocaml

I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE/please call me immediately,

2004-07-23 Thread gerald kouame
From:Gerald Kouame. Tel:(+228 9113876) Lome-Togo Africa I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE Dearest, I wish to use this medium to get intouch with you my name is Gerald Kouame,The first son of late MR LAMBOS KOUAME. My father was a very wealthy GOLD and DIAMOND merchant who based in A

Re: broken exim4-config

2004-07-23 Thread J. Nopr
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:36:24 -0600 CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:08:41AM -0700, J. Nopr wrote: > > Hi all. I am trying to set up exim4 to send mail out through my dsl > > provider's smarthost. > > > [...] > [text wrapped - *please* wrap your lines.] > > > No

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 10:40:10AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:03:54AM -1000, Ryo Furue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Paul, > > > > Thanks for your comments. > > > > I suspect you miss my point. Perhaps, I wan't clear enough. Although > > Unix is everywhere, i

Re: [Csnd] Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-23 Thread RickTaylor
> This probably isn't proper form, kosher or even cool... but... It's a quick way > around the problem. Sorry about that... I didn't realize this was crossposted to csound. {Why is this crossposted to sound?} ... This message has been brought to you in part by a grant from Columba. -- To U

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-23 Thread RickTaylor
This probably isn't proper form, kosher or even cool... but... It's a quick way around the problem. Hit control-c at the screen, run dselect with ftp as the method {set it in the first dselect screen} and update the system. Alternately, restart the machine, hope it comes back up and do the upg

laptop istall fails

2004-07-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I've picked up an IBM 770x, and am attempting to get the latest sarge netinstall working. The pcmcia adapter is a 3Com EtherLink III Series Ethercards 3c562, which is supposed to be supported by the 3c589_cs module. Yet, when I get to the [Detect network hardware] screen, and I select the 3c589_

Re: nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there a special "nfs locking daemon" for NFS-clients? > >I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a >"lockd" process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has >nfs-mounted

Re: Maximum number of logical partitions

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
> Seems to be (mostly) correct. Take a look at the minor numbers of > thedevice files: Indeed ... hadn't thought of that. Seems strange that SCSI can only have upto 15 partitions tho' - it's a bit of a PITA really as I wanted to split the large RAID 0 volume up into small partitions to distribute

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:50:45 -0700 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An interesting question is "What happens when Linux becomes Evil?" > Gates and Balmer will leave MS within 10-15 years. Linus will be an old > > man. The nature of things is to run downhill. > > Eventually, Lin

RE: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-23 Thread RickTaylor
> we are now going to roll out these changes to all our machines in this complex (30+) > and another 15-20 machines in two satellite offices. > > thanks all, > Preston There are a large number of utility programs just in case you're unaware of them. Stuff to let you do ongoing package managemen

sarge gnome does not show anything after login on fresh installs

2004-07-23 Thread John Smith
To all those other s*ckers, like me, who install, like me, sarge as from today from scratch with gdm version 2.4.4.7-3. Symptoms: gnome does not display anything after logging in through gdm-login except for a blue screen and a mouse pointer. This is a hint about what is wrong: http://bugs.deb

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:27:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > And if commercial developers want to pretend that Unix is an audience > they can ignore just to avoid some inconveinence, that's totally fine by > me and I encourage them to do it. An interesting question is "What happens when Linux b

Re: flash and mozilla (and firefox and epiphany)

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Yeatman
> Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I now am convinced that the problem resides with the appearance that > > Flash accesses /dev/dsp directly creating a conflict anytime another > > application has already locked the dsp device first, such as esd. The > > Mozilla wrapper that seems t

Re: why wxwindows applications doesn't use gtk2?

2004-07-23 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:37:59 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 11:17, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> Hi >> >> Someone wanted me to install FreeBSD for him, so I played a little with >> it, and found that when I compile application that use wxwindows it uses >> gtk2 instead of gtk1. unt

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Ryo Furue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At least, Intel supports RedHat 9.0 (or whatever version Intel > mentions. I don't remember correctly.). As long as you use that > version of RH, Intel will support you. (If you replace the kernel, > libc, or other "critial" part of the OS, your support is

Re: which package owns system busy icon

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Johnson
"J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I would like to know which package owns the icon which is displayed >>>when system is busy. >> Not exactly giving us much to work with. What software are you >> specifically talking

Re: Samba in ADS Domain

2004-07-23 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Edwards, Thomas W. said on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:21:15AM -0500: > Has anyone gotten samba 2.2 to join an ADS domain structure, is Kerberos > required for this to work? I believe it is required to be installed but > does it have to actually be configured to work. I believe that samba 3.x has the

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Kent West wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Ryo Furue wrote: I think one of the biggest problems for developers of commercial software for Linux is that there's no such thing as "the" Linux OS. There are simply too many combinations of the kernel version, libc version, pthreads version, etc. to support al

ProFTPD Setup

2004-07-23 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i just want to know if there is any utility that can configure ProFTPD for multiple users with defaults roots and quotas ? Or any detailled tutorial or howto for beginners ? I really need to make ProFTPD work like that. Thanks, Tomy - e6e9fe46b17fa16d9a250d4189e8f0cd fingerprint Qua

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Ryo Furue wrote: > Some open source software like GNU emacs runs on most Unixes. > I bet a LOT of resources went into it. Some? Some!? slrn, apache, mysql, screen, joe, bind, X, vim, kde, openoffice, perl, python, php, ruby, just to name a few off the top of my head. Some of those are writt

Re: some kind kiosk system

2004-07-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:15:36AM -0400, Steve Glines ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:13:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Justinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > >>> There is an computer game club with 49

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:03:54AM -1000, Ryo Furue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Paul, > > Thanks for your comments. > > > > I'm using the Intel Fortran Compiler (IFC). Its version 7 runs on > > > Debian without any problem whatsoever, although Intel doesn't support > > > Debian. But, last year

Re: Exim "From " header

2004-07-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Master_PE: > > I have a problem with exim. When I get a message exim add's header at > the first line. Now is the problem that some pop3 client just like > pullmail fail on this header. How can i solve this one? > > Regards, > Master_PE > > > Example message: > > > >From [EMAIL

debian/unstable gworkspace not working?

2004-07-23 Thread JMS
Hi Does anyone else (with debian/unstable) find that gworkspace exits on startup with a popup that says "Critical Error"? In the xterm I started the program from it says gpbs killed by signal 17. On clicking "abort" in the dialogue the xterm then says: /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Applications/GWor

Re: Exim "From " header

2004-07-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-23 18:46:39 +0200, Master_PE wrote: > I have a problem with exim. When I get a message exim add's header at > the first line. Now is the problem that some pop3 client just like > pullmail fail on this header. How can i solve this one? This is not a header, but the separator for the mbox

Re: Maximum number of logical partitions

2004-07-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Pete Clarke (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Does anyone know the maximum number of partitions that can be created > on a SCSI disc? > I have Googled and come up with the following: > > Primary - 4. > > SCSI - 15 logical; > IDE - 63 logical. > > Seems a bit odd? Seems to be (mos

Re: which package owns system busy icon

2004-07-23 Thread Ricky Clarkson
> For grins and giggles install "galternatives" > > The run it, look for x-cursor-theme. Change as needed. Not many grins and giggles for me. The following packages have unmet dependencies: galternatives: Depends: python-glade2 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages Guess I'll

Re: Detaching and reattaching a process to different terminals?

2004-07-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:17, John Hasler wrote: > Stephen Touset writes: > > I executed it on an xterm (and it's been running for a few days now, so I > > don't want to stop it mid-calculation), but today is a workday. At work, > > I use two screens on my laptop. The only way to accomplish this is

Re: which package owns system busy icon

2004-07-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 05:58, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I would like to know which package owns the icon which is displayed > >>when system is busy. > > > > > > Not exactly giving us much to work with. What software are yo

Exim "From " header

2004-07-23 Thread Master_PE
Hi to all, I have a problem with exim. When I get a message exim add's header at the first line. Now is the problem that some pop3 client just like pullmail fail on this header. How can i solve this one? Regards, Master_PE Example message: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 23 18:36:10 2004 Retu

ECS 741GX-M main board problems...

2004-07-23 Thread Matthew T. Smith
I'm unable to get any PCI device to work with a ECS 741GX-M main board using debian 3.0r2. As I can tell, the is a driver not working/missing preventing any PCI device from even being probed. I'm not sure how to show the proper output here as most of the relavent things scroll by very fast and 'dme

Re: why wxwindows applications doesn't use gtk2?

2004-07-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 11:17, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > Someone wanted me to install FreeBSD for him, so I played a little with > it, and found that when I compile application that use wxwindows it uses > gtk2 instead of gtk1. until now I was sure that that's what wxwindows uses > (gtk1.x). I

Re: broken exim4-config

2004-07-23 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:08:41AM -0700, J. Nopr wrote: > Hi all. I am trying to set up exim4 to send mail out through my dsl > provider's smarthost. > [...] [text wrapped - *please* wrap your lines.] > Now When I insatll exim4*, I immediatly get an error, starting at > exim4-config. > > [EMA

Maximum number of logical partitions

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, Does anyone know the maximum number of partitions that can be created on a SCSI disc? I have Googled and come up with the following: Primary - 4. SCSI - 15 logical; IDE - 63 logical. Seems a bit odd? I am using Kernel-2.4.18-1-686-smp on Woody. Cheers, Pete. -- To UNSU

Samba in ADS Domain

2004-07-23 Thread Edwards, Thomas W.
Has anyone gotten samba 2.2 to join an ADS domain structure, is Kerberos required for this to work?  I believe it is required to be installed but does it have to actually be configured to work.   Thanks.

Re: ZIP drive question.

2004-07-23 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:58:15 -0500 "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:27:38 -0500 > "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This zip disk is formatted, isn't it? > > Try one more mount command - "mount -t msdos /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip". > > HTH, > Jacob > --

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 22 July 2004 17:42, Paul Stolp wrote: > See what a weak password will get ya? No. I do, however, see what allowing password logins to an SSH server will get you. I could set my password to "foo" and you still aren't getting in without my RSA key (or Kerberos ticket). Oh, and disa

why wxwindows applications doesn't use gtk2?

2004-07-23 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi Someone wanted me to install FreeBSD for him, so I played a little with it, and found that when I compile application that use wxwindows it uses gtk2 instead of gtk1. until now I was sure that that's what wxwindows uses (gtk1.x). I have on my 'unstable' libwxgtk2.4 but when I compile an applica

Re: Advanced Routing

2004-07-23 Thread Jon
Doh, that URL is not the one I meant to paste. http://www.linuxguruz.com/iptables/howto/2.4routing-4.html The above URL has the example I meant to point out. On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:27:13 -0400, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you will need is to use source routing with iproute2. > You will

Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Stefaan Himpe: > In case of a static ip address, don't use dhcp. > Dhcp is for dynamic ip addresses only. It's also possible his ISP has assigned him a static IP through DHCP; this does make configuration easier for most folks as you don't need to specify any information. si

Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of David Purton: > This is finally driven me nuts enough to try and fix it. > > I use dhcp to get an ip address from my dlink dsl 300+ modem. > > The problem is, that it wants to renew it every 5 seconds and syslog > *fills* up with this sort of log message: > > Jul 23 22:41:29

Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread Stefaan Himpe
I have a static ip address, so it doesn't need to renew frequently at all. If you have a static ip address then don't use dhcp. Dhcp is only used to get a dynamic ip address. Think of your modem as an extension of your computer. If the modem has a static ip address, then your computer has the same

Re: Advanced Routing

2004-07-23 Thread Jon
What you will need is to use source routing with iproute2. You will need to set up multiple (2) routing tables, each table having the default gateway for the chosen interface, and a route for the other public IP and the 10.0.0.0 block. Then you use rules that determine which routing table to use (a

Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread Stefaan Himpe
I have a static ip address, so it doesn't need to renew frequently at all. In case of a static ip address, don't use dhcp. Dhcp is for dynamic ip addresses only. Think of your modem as an extension of your computer. If the modem has a static ip address and your computer is connected directly to the

Re: ZIP drive question.

2004-07-23 Thread Forinash, Kyle
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 06:27:38 -0500 "Forinash, Kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >/home/kyle# /bin/mount /dev/hdd /mnt/zip > >mount: you must specify the filesystem type > >/home/kyle# /bin/mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/zip > >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd, > > o

Re: dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread Stefaan Himpe
> I have a static ip address, so it doesn't need to renew frequently at all. If you have a static ip address, you shouldn't use dhcp at all. Just configure it in your /etc/networks/interfaces file. at a terminal type: info interfaces to find out more -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: mkinitrd: RAID support requires raidtools2

2004-07-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 22 July 2004 15:57, Alec Berryman wrote: > I'm trying to do software raid on a fresh install of Woody with a > 2.4.26 kernel. In order to load the software raid I need to make an > initrd image, so I installed initrd-tools. However, when I run > mkinitrd, I get the following message:

Advanced Routing

2004-07-23 Thread Mariano Wahlmann
I need some help to solve a routing problem.. I have a firewall, using NAT , and it have 2 internet conections, i has only one NIC, with several virtual ips, the list is: eth0: 168.96.1.35 (Internet 1) eth0:1 157.92.1.35 (Internet 2) eth0:2 10.0.0.1 (local net) default gateway 168.96.1.1 I want to

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-23 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: It didnt work Kent. But it has to be mounted before i see it right No; you don't need to mount your Mandrake partitions in order to change the /etc/lilo.conf file on your Debian side. Since Debian is the last OS installed, I'm assuming that your current lilo is from Debian, not

RE: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > Is there any particular reason that you don't want to use aptitude or > dselect to interactively change the installed packages? > > -- > monique sorry, there was more to the story than i guess i led you to believe. here's a bit more information. the existing debia

Re: nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Awais Ahmad
Yes, lockd. You need to run it on the clients. Awais On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:22, Christian Schwarz wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a special "nfs locking daemon" for NFS-clients? > > I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a > "lockd" process. If I try to log into G

Re: LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:37, Pete Clarke wrote: > I am basically looking for the solution that provides the best balance > between performance (speed is really an issue) and flexibility. One point to make which others might point out as well is the risk of going to raid0. if one disk dies, you wil

nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi! Is there a special "nfs locking daemon" for NFS-clients? I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a "lockd" process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has nfs-mounted home directories), GNOME complains about "a problem with your operating syst

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Ryo Furue wrote: This is not a Linux-vs-Unix issue, but I've recently been experiencing a downside of Linux. I think one of the biggest problems for developers of commercial software for Linux is that there's no such thing as "the" Linux OS. There are simply too many combinat

Re: Re: LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
> Are you using hardware RAID or software RAID? It sounds like you intend > to use software RAID. It doesn't really change much, though. The Fileserver has 3 hardware RAID cards with onboard cache. All discs are SCSI. > If you don't actually want RAID functionality, you can use LVM to glue > all

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Kent West
Erik Steffl wrote: Ryo Furue wrote: I think one of the biggest problems for developers of commercial software for Linux is that there's no such thing as "the" Linux OS. There are simply too many combinations of the kernel version, libc version, pthreads version, etc. to support all. The consequen

Re: Building 2.6.x kernel

2004-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:32:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe my last message went astray. > > Has anyone had any success using a 2.6.[67] kernel built themselves? > Yes, several of them (2.6.8-rc2 currently). All using make-kpkg --revision kernel-image Note though that for some re

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:15:42PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > Try modprobe sd-mod (scsi disk support). > > Yep! That solves the problem. > > It mounts vfat with only a Recycled directory and in that directory > some odd loo

dhclient renews lease every 5 secs

2004-07-23 Thread David Purton
This is finally driven me nuts enough to try and fix it. I use dhcp to get an ip address from my dlink dsl 300+ modem. The problem is, that it wants to renew it every 5 seconds and syslog *fills* up with this sort of log message: Jul 23 22:41:29 vetinari dhclient-2.2.x: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 20

Re: LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya pete On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Pete Clarke wrote: > Just treat each drive as a seperate device (i.e JBOD) and create a PV for > each disc and use software striping where necessary, or define each array as > one big RAID 0 (backup is taken care of) and create lots of little > partitions to use a

Re: LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:37:16PM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: } Hi gurus... } } I have a question regarding LVM and RAID. } } I have a 324gb and 350gb RAID enclosure, the 324gb consists of 9 x 36gb } discs, and the other is 7 x 50gb discs. } This space is destined for a file server, and usually I

LVM over RAID

2004-07-23 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi gurus... I have a question regarding LVM and RAID. I have a 324gb and 350gb RAID enclosure, the 324gb consists of 9 x 36gb discs, and the other is 7 x 50gb discs. This space is destined for a file server, and usually I would just use appropriate RAID level to define the volumes etc. However, a

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-23 Thread Awais Ahmad
Hi, I haven't caught the start of this thread, but how can you be sure your core utilities have not been altered? Do have a record of how they looked before the crack (a backup, MD5 sums etc, AIDE,Tripwire database)?. IMO, you would really need to examine those binaries on another box against a k

Re: some kind kiosk system

2004-07-23 Thread Steve Glines
Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:13:53AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>Justinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> There is an computer game club with 49 computers running >>>linux. I would be glad to hear any suggestions how to build entirely >>>sys

Re: See what a weak password will get ya?

2004-07-23 Thread Paul Stolp
* Monique Y. Mudama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-23 00:04]: > I'd add the suggestion to not use obvious usernames like "guest" ... agree -- I will prob. replace this account name > > Btw, are you 100% sure they never managed to root you and replace some > of your files? I wasn't 100% sure I w

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