Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

2004-07-28 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:44:12PM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > I gather that you are running unstable as I am. Just wait a day or two and a > new fixed cron package will magically appear. Running unstable will have the > odd bump in the road. If it really has to be fixed right now I would su

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: Hello, I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access other than by setting up encryption (side question: anyone know o

Re: [OT] pci, 2d video card, with Free driver Xinerama support

2004-07-28 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, dircha wrote: > I've tried to create a little list of what I am aiming for. If anyone > has had success along these lines, I would really appreciate any advice > or recommendations: > - Can drive 1792x1344 at a non-seizure inducing refresh rate > - Reasonable 2d quality for de

Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

2004-07-28 Thread Roy Pluschke
On July 28, 2004 20:19, Aaron B wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from > apt-get. It seemed to be a problem with not being able to > find /usr/bin/crontab while upgrading - so I removed cron, and then > attemp

[OT] pci, 2d video card, with Free driver Xinerama support

2004-07-28 Thread dircha
It has been a while since I've used or put together any new computer other than pre-configured laptops. I've tried to create a little list of what I am aiming for. If anyone has had success along these lines, I would really appreciate any advice or recommendations: - Can drive 1792x1344 at a no

Re: Getting photos from USB compactFlash into linux

2004-07-28 Thread J F
I've always wanted automounter to work. I thought of it as mounting an NFS disk on another computer, but it would be cool if it works for flash. It's still not working, and I wonder if the compactflash reader hardware is burned out or if the flash card is not formated: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# mo

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:18:59AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access other

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:18:59AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > >I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use > >encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some > >freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access > >other than by

Re: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:15:37PM -0400, Jason G Skala wrote: > I have a Intell LX440GX+ Motherboard with Dual PIII 500's running software > raid currently, I have found some great articles on getting the Software > Raid portion to work with debian so I think I am ok on that. My real concern > is

Re: Warning: Possible Bug in BIOS DELL Latitude D400_A06 !

2004-07-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:50:07 +0200, Kent West wrote: > After several attempts to convince Dell the problem was with their > hardware (firmware), and not with me running unsupported OSes, they sent > me a beta version of a BIOS which fixed my problem. > > Now I read this posting of yours, and I

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-28 Thread Ryo Furue
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 07:54:12PM -0700, Ryo Furue wrote: > > ... I haven't used the GNU Fortran 95, but I'm 98% sure that it's almost > > unusable at this stage. Since I've had *enough* unpleasantness with new > > c

Re: Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

2004-07-28 Thread dircha
Aaron B wrote: Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from apt-get. It seemed to be a problem with not being able to find /usr/bin/crontab while upgrading - so I removed cron, and then attempted to install it. Here is the output: Perhaps the most effective action you can

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > The hardware detection in RHL is done by Kudzu thought (claus)knoppix also modified kudzu to knoppix to detect its hw and he's got soem good fancy color bootup screen .. :-) which probably also helps in its appeal to some folks c ya alvin -- T

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: The hardware detection in RHL is done by Kudzu thought (claus)knoppix also modified kudzu to knoppix to detect its hw I'm sure Klaus Knopper made some changes, but for sure he didn't do it from scratch. If you care enough, h

Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Mario Flores wrote: Hi: Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the /var/log/messages: Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- and they repeat every single hour at the exact same intervals. Does anyone know what they mean

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: Thanks M. Ooh! I like that. Can I be "M" from the James Bond movies? Except, you know, younger. You can be any M you like:-) 'cept, probably M & M. [snip] Off hand, I can't think of any impediment to running a RH ker

Help Installing / Upgrading Cron

2004-07-28 Thread Aaron B
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I've recently had problems installing / upgrading cron from apt-get. It seemed to be a problem with not being able to find /usr/bin/crontab while upgrading - so I removed cron, and then attempted to install it. Here is the output: [EMAIL PR

Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Mario Flores
I really did not know what they are and thought something was going wrong. That is why I asked 'how to stop them'. But now I know, it's OK to have them :) and how to use them (just in case) Thank you for your answers, Mario. Travis Crump wrote: Mario Flores wrote: Hi: Since day 1 I installed deb

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: Somehow I thought the Red Hat tools were working spectacularly well in Knoppix which most see as a debian derivitive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Knoppix supports nearly the number of architectures that Debian d

Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Travis Crump
Mario Flores wrote: Hi: Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the /var/log/messages: Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- and they repeat every single hour at the exact same intervals. Does anyone know what they mean

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: > > Somehow I thought the Red Hat tools were working spectacularly well in > Knoppix which most see as a debian derivitive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Knoppix supports nearly the number of architectures that Debian does. -- monique Ask sma

Re: How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread David P James
On Wed 28 July 2004 19:55, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please tell me how to set the correct time for my computer, I live > > in Opelousas, La. Thank You very much > > look at the clock ... adjust for your time zone > > > if it's 16:53 ( 4:53pm ) use: > >

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Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 22:11, Mario Flores wrote: > Hi: > > Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the > /var/log/messages: > > Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- > Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- > Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- > > and they repeat every single hour at the exac

RE: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Jones
It means your log gets time stamped, personally I like it. Makes it a bit more difficult for someone to chop out parts of the log to hide things and shows the daemon is running, its not unknown for syslog to stop working. regards S -Original Message- From: Mario Flores [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:11, Mario Flores wrote: > Hi: > > Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the > /var/log/messages: > > Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- > Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- > Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- > > and they repeat every single hour at the exac

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: > > Thanks M. Ooh! I like that. Can I be "M" from the James Bond movies? Except, you know, younger. [snip] > Off hand, I can't think of any impediment to running a RH kernel on > Debian, unless the NPTL causes problems, and the quickest way to find > th

repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Mario Flores
Hi: Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the /var/log/messages: Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- and they repeat every single hour at the exact same intervals. Does anyone know what they mean and how can I stop t

Re: How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Alvin Oga: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > root# hwclock --systohc > > > > > > reboot and test that time is set correctly .. > > > > Forgot part two: > > > > apt-get install chrony > > nah .. i figured if one couldn't figure out/find "date" ... Speaking of d

Re: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jason G Skala: > This weekend I am getting ready to switch my server over to Debian Woody > from Red Hat 9.0. And have a few questions before I go and do this about SMP > Kernels. > > I have a Intell LX440GX+ Motherboard with Dual PIII 500's running software > raid currently, I have

Re: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 13:15, Jason G Skala wrote: > This weekend I am getting ready to switch my server over to Debian > Woody from Red Hat 9.0. And have a few questions before I go and do > this about SMP Kernels. > > I have a Intell LX440GX+ Motherboard with Dual PIII 500's running > software ra

Re: Swap on software RAID1 - swap

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Alec Berryman wrote: > I know that raid1 swap will not be faster than two swap partitions of > equal priority; however, I'm more worried about reliability. any disk that crashed that had used swap space will hang the system any unused swap space is not an issue and will no

Re: How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > > root# hwclock --systohc > > > > reboot and test that time is set correctly .. > > Forgot part two: > > apt-get install chrony nah .. i figured if one couldn't figure out/find "date" ... let it ride for a bit before chrony/ntp comes

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Johnson wrote: Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a version for Debian. I think you missed April Fools Day by a few months. I can't see anything that YaST can do that $EDITOR and discover doesn't do be

RE: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Jones
I run a very similar machine, a BX chipset with dual p3-500's, that adaptec aicXXX chipset, it just works, since 2.0.34 when the kernel first supported it. ditto e100 Ive been using the onboard set, should be fine.   :)   My motherboard in question is a Tyan DULAN 1836L, stating your board

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

2004-07-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ralph Katz: > On 07/28/04 18:10, s. keeling wrote: > > >Try /etc/inetd.conf > >.^ > > and > > On 07/28/04 16:50, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > This should be /etc/inetd.conf > > Since I removed the services, apt-get remove uw-imapd qpopper, I wasn't > surprised to

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for example. Of course, on a broadband connection with lots of websites bei

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: Hello, I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access other than by setting up encryption (side question: anyone know o

Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread Jason G Skala
This weekend I am getting ready to switch my server over to Debian Woody from Red Hat 9.0. And have a few questions before I go and do this about SMP Kernels. I have a Intell LX440GX+ Motherboard with Dual PIII 500's running software raid currently, I have found some great articles on gett

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-07-28, Jonathan Melhuish penned: On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm pretty sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels (those with enterprise in their names as some have smp) suppo

Re: Fetchmail through proxy

2004-07-28 Thread John Summerfield
Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: OK. When I am at home (no proxy) I can fetchmail to my local laptop and use mutt to read the email. I've been assigned to a project overseas, so I am working these days on a company that uses a proxy to access the web. Here, fetchmail is not working. My bet is

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

2004-07-28 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/28/04 18:10, s. keeling wrote: Try /etc/inetd.conf .^ and On 07/28/04 16:50, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > This should be /etc/inetd.conf Since I removed the services, apt-get remove uw-imapd qpopper, I wasn't surprised to see /etc/inetd.conf had no entries for them: ~$ grep imap

Re: Swap on software RAID1

2004-07-28 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Alvin Oga on 2004-07-28 15:41:22 -0700: > > I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about > > swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO > > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's > > apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtue

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-28, Jonathan Melhuish penned: > On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: >> Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm >> pretty sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels  (those with enterprise >>  in their names as some have smp) support more than 4 Gbytes

Re: Getting photos from USB compactFlash into linux

2004-07-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:42:38PM -0400, J F wrote: > > I would like to get Debian to recognize my pictures on > from my camera which uses compact flash. > > >From a posting by dances with crows: > >USB Mass Storage devices are seen as SCSI disks. Unless you have any > >real SCSI disks or any

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-26, csj penned: > On 26. July 2004 at 12:10AM -0400, Travis Crump > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > > Knoppix is "popular enough" that there are more than enough speedy > (for dialup users) ftp and http mirrors to download

Re: How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Please tell me how to set the correct time for my computer, I live in >> Opelousas, La. Thank You very much > > look at the clock ... adjust for your time zone > > > if it's 16:53 ( 4:53pm ) use: > >

Re: How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please tell me how to set the correct time for my computer, I live in > Opelousas, La. Thank You very much look at the clock ... adjust for your time zone if it's 16:53 ( 4:53pm ) use: root# date 07281653 to update the bios

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-28 Thread Silvan
> / xhost method, or you can use »sux« (su with x) of the package sux (not > sure, if it is in stable) instead, or you can cheat and use ssh -x > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you might need to allow your ssh server X11 forwarding). Hrm. It kinda sux that I didn't discover that sooner. -- Michael McIntyr

Re: Do I *have* to have xauth (and all that it brings in?)

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin Buhr
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But, I have a case where I need to first ssh to a machine on a public > IP and then from there ssh into the machine on the local LAN where I > want to run the application. If you don't mind the overhead of double-encrypting, you can tunnel SSH over SSH.

svg support under Linux

2004-07-28 Thread John Taber
1) do any of the browsers support SVG or support the Adobe plug-in ? 2) do either gtk or Qt have a canvas that will display SVG ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swap on software RAID1

2004-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Alec Berryman wrote: > I've been setting up software RAID1 and am wondering what to do about > swap. According to the Software-RAID-HOWTO > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html), there's > apparently an 'ongoing debate' on the virtues of using software RAID1

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 06:14 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Though to be honest I use > > Gentoo live CD because of > > its EVMS package to carve up scsi arrays before > > installs. > > http://www.funroll-loops.org/ > Gentoo considered hella-stoopid. Oh - m

Re: cd record and woody

2004-07-28 Thread john miller
Last week I asked: > 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 unknown You answered > can by the way also switch to another 2.2.20 kernel: > apt-get install kernel-image-2.

Re: 6G memory

2004-07-28 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
On Sunday 25 July 2004 17:57, John Summerfield wrote: > Check out Red Hat's download areas for its latest 2.4 kernel. I'm pretty > sure the Red Hat Enterprise kernels  (those with enterprise  in their > names as some have smp) support more than 4 Gbytes. Huh, I thought I was on the debian-user lis

ClamAV

2004-07-28 Thread John Fleming
Somewhat OT [maybe], but I have a logging problem related to ClamAV, and I haven't received a single response to my post on that list. Anyone know what's wrong with this (below)? Using Debian Unstable, ClamAV 0.74 from unstable dist. I seem to remember that when I first started using ClamAV, the

How to set time

2004-07-28 Thread Sherylm400
Please tell me how to set the correct time for my computer, I live in Opelousas, La. Thank You very much

Re: system installation

2004-07-28 Thread Silvan
> One method is to clone the existing system to the > fresh disk, boot it up, edit /etc/apt/sources.list > to change every "stable" to "testing" and run dselect. > There should be a more direct and efficient method. > > Haven't found this topic in the Installation Manual. I don't quite know how t

Re: Strange 'oe' character on plain console

2004-07-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-07-28 17:12:23 +0200, Grischa Stegemann wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote at Wednesday 28 July 2004 15:16: > > Yes, the console is configured with TERM=linux, and the linux > > terminfo do not support the ACS ("tput enacs" fails). This is > > probably a bug, since the font contains these chara

Re: LVM - recover from lvresize w/o shrinking file system

2004-07-28 Thread Achim Löbbert
I wrote: > Any recommendation to recover the logical volume would be appreciated. The problem was solved by just rebooting the machine. From the following syslog entries I assume that the LVM data structures within the kernel got out of sync: ReiserFS: dm-3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with sta

Do I *have* to have xauth (and all that it brings in?)

2004-07-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I want to use X11 Forwarding. Normally I can ssh -X to a machine and it works fine. But, I have a case where I need to first ssh to a machine on a public IP and then from there ssh into the machine on the local LAN where I want to run the application. The problem is the machine in the middle is

Re: [Silvan] Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

2004-07-28 Thread Chrissie
On 2004-07-16, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 16 July 2004 01:25 am, Chris wrote: [several posts about switching console fonts on bootup] I had the same problem. And i figured it out! Was a hard one, but finally i succeeded! It also happened on a dist-upgrade... Debian executes

Xsane Segfaults, xscanimage not.

2004-07-28 Thread Chrissie
Hi! I own the Scanner arctec e+48u, and Scanned using xsane. Everything was fine, until i switched to kernel 2.6. (Currently using 2.6.7-ck5) The usb scanner module was removed from the kernel, the scanner now gets acessed via libusb. This was also possible in kernel 2.4, but i used to use scanne

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently > don't use encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and > I've noticed some freeloaders and the router doesn't provide > any way to restrict access other than by setting up > encryption Can

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Jason Rennie wrote: Hello, I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access other than by setting up encryption (side question: anyone know o

RE: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Jones
I am pretty sure freshmeat.net has a tool that uses iptables and puts it into a mysql database...try looking under "monitor" or "uptime" its there somewhere. regards S -Original Message- From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-28 Thread Jon
Yes iptables can do this. I know iptables can log to syslog, and believe there are ways to make it log to SQL, but I am unfamiliar with those. With syslog logging, you will also probably want to look into a syslog replacement such as syslog-ng where you can separate log data to multiple files mu

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 10:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a > > version for Debian. > > I think you missed April Fools Day by a few months. > > I can't see anything that YaST ca

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Though to be honest I use Gentoo live CD > because of its EVMS package to carve up scsi arrays before installs. http://www.funroll-loops.org/ Gentoo considered hella-stoopid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Scott Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know if there are any official or third party plans to develop a > version for Debian. I think you missed April Fools Day by a few months. I can't see anything that YaST can do that $EDITOR and discover doesn't do better. Besides, we've

Re: Small fonts

2004-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Tim Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have small fonts in programs like XMMS, Audacity, Amule and more. I > think its because the system font, or am I wrong ? Nope! > How do I fix this ? Try clicking around the Fonts section of the preferences in each program. pgp4hn4Fe9o5I.pgp Descriptio

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

2004-07-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ralph Katz: > On 07/27/04 21:30, Uli Paul wrote: > > > >what does your /etc/inet.conf file look like? Are the entries for imapd > >and the others commented out (# sign at the beginning of the line)? Did > >you run any mail client at that time? > > > >PS Please CC to me, as I do NOT

Re: On the verge of suicide:tar & gunzip problems

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > vic:/# tar -xvzf /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz > home/ > home/victor/ > home/victor/.R/ > home/victor/.R/help.db > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > vic:/# gunzip /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz > gunzip: /mnt/backup-c

Re: Getting photos from USB compactFlash into linux

2004-07-28 Thread Jason Rennie
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:42:38PM -0400, J F wrote: > So I typed: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/apt# mount -r -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/auto/sda > mount: mount point /mnt/auto/sda does not exist It doesn't matter where you mount the sucker. Do this: mkdir /usb mount -r -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usb I mount w

Getting Apache and Slash to play nice with home directories

2004-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Using apache and slash from sid, has anybody managed to make slash play nice with /~user/ directories? Preferred solution would be to make Slash not think it can make it's own /~slashuser/ virtual directories for user journals, instead using the /journal.pl?op=display&uid=whatever URLs instead.

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-28 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-28, Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --uXeYlJRvy4f2YhXS > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello! > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:44:49AM -0500, Scott Thompson wrote: >> Does anyone know

Re: Small fonts

2004-07-28 Thread Alejandro Matos
You have to install some fonst, as soon i go home, i will send you the names :) Saludos Alejandro Matos > I have small fonts in programs like XMMS, Audacity, Amule and more. I > think its because the system font, or am I wrong ? > > How do I fix this ? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-28 Thread David
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:32:50PM -0400, Wanda Round wrote: > > I have 2 different machines. I want hdb4 on one machine > cloned to hdb3 on the other machine. The machines are > about 20 miles apart (home and work). > > The suggestions will come in very handy when I need to > clone on the same d

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

2004-07-28 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-28, Ralph Katz penned: > On 07/27/04 21:30, Uli Paul wrote: >> Hi Ralph, >> >> what does your /etc/inet.conf file look like? Are the entries for >> imapd and the others commented out (# sign at the beginning of the >> line)? Did you run any mail client at that time? >> >> Uli >

Getting photos from USB compactFlash into linux

2004-07-28 Thread J F
I would like to get Debian to recognize my pictures on from my camera which uses compact flash. >From a posting by dances with crows: >USB Mass Storage devices are seen as SCSI disks. Unless you have any >real SCSI disks or any other USB storage devices, your CF reader will be >seen as /dev/sda

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Ryo Furue wrote: Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... [. . .] it's [1]. debian has very slow release cycles, but unstable is much better quality than you'd expect from name. In general I see unstable being equal to latest releases of other distros (both f

Re: Fetchmail through proxy

2004-07-28 Thread Rainer Bendig
Hi Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar, *, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote on Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 01:53:15PM -0600: > I've been assigned to a project overseas, so I am working these days on > a company that uses a proxy to access the web. > > Here, fetchmail is not working. My bet is that it is be

Small fonts

2004-07-28 Thread Tim Raats
I have small fonts in programs like XMMS, Audacity, Amule and more. I think its because the system font, or am I wrong ? How do I fix this ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fetchmail through proxy

2004-07-28 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
OK. When I am at home (no proxy) I can fetchmail to my local laptop and use mutt to read the email. I've been assigned to a project overseas, so I am working these days on a company that uses a proxy to access the web. Here, fetchmail is not working. My bet is that it is because of the proxy. I

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread Peter O
> Hello, > > I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use > encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some > freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access > other than by setting up encryption (side question: anyone know of a > wi

Re: Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread Rainer Bendig
Jason Rennie wrote on Wed Jul 28, 2004 at 03:16:51PM -0400: > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.conf on my laptop. No dice. Anyone know what > the appropriate entry would look like? I am running my wLAN card as a normal interface, you can see my lines in /etc/network/interfaces... maybe they help you -- snip

Encrypted wireless

2004-07-28 Thread Jason Rennie
Hello, I have a wireless DSL router set up at home. I currently don't use encryption, so it's essentially a free-for-all and I've noticed some freeloaders and the router doesn't provide any way to restrict access other than by setting up encryption (side question: anyone know of a wireless router

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-28 Thread listcomm
> It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really > depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours > worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for > example. > > Of course, on a broadband connection with lots of websites being > visite

Re: esd and alsa

2004-07-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 the mental interface of Harald Staub told: > Back from a holiday, I saw this question about sound hangs with > esd running: > > > > says that the eso

discover ignores skip line?

2004-07-28 Thread Stefaan Himpe
Hi, I am using discover to do hw detection at boot time. I use the default configuration as devised by the sarge beta 4 installer, but added a line skip rivafb to /etc/discover.conf The problem is rivafb gets loaded at boot time despite the skip line. rivafb.ko prevents nvidia.ko from loading prope

Dial on demand not working when ipmasq installed

2004-07-28 Thread Christian Riedel
Hello all, I am trying to set up dial on demand for dsl on a box that is meant to run as router for a masqueraded home-network. I am using debian/sid wich is up to date. I set up the dsl connection with pppoeconf, which worked fine. In /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider I uncommented "demand" and "idl

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LVM - recover from lvresize w/o shrinking file system

2004-07-28 Thread Achim Löbbert
I am using LVM2 on kernel 2.6.7 from Debian Sid. When shrinking a logical volume containing a Reiser filesystem from 48G to 40G using # lvresize -L 40G /dev/vg00/pub2 stupid me forgot to shrink the filesystem first using: # resize_reiserfs -s 40G /dev/vg00/pub2 Immediately after the lvresiz

Re: Upgrade Sarge to Sid failed ?

2004-07-28 Thread Kent West
Tim Raats wrote: Hello today ive upgraded Sarge to Sid. But know I have a few problems. The first problem is, when GDM doesnt show up you get a warning in terminal. But I cant read is because its full of weird symbols. We'll need more detail on this one. The second problem is when I do apt-get i

Re: bochs die on startup

2004-07-28 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:39:16PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I am also trying out bochs. After creating a bximage (flat file) and > copying the line indicated by bximage to /etc/bochs-init/bochsrc the > following happened when I tried bochs: [...] > Please choose one: [2] 5 > 000i[

system installation

2004-07-28 Thread petereasthope
In the past I've always begun the installation of a system with the rescue diskette and then installed from a remote server as soon as the network was accessible. Now that Woody is running I want to install a fresh disk and install the "testing" system on it. Hardware configuration and installati

Re: Strange 'oe' character on plain console

2004-07-28 Thread Grischa Stegemann
Vincent Lefevre wrote at Wednesday 28 July 2004 15:16: > On 2004-07-28 11:43:08 +0200, Grischa Stegemann wrote: >> Whenever I use a program which draws an user interface by ascii line >> characters (e.g. aptitude) instead of all the border lines this >> strange combined 'oe' character is printed

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

2004-07-28 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/27/04 21:30, Uli Paul wrote: Hi Ralph, what does your /etc/inet.conf file look like? Are the entries for imapd and the others commented out (# sign at the beginning of the line)? Did you run any mail client at that time? Uli PS Please CC to me, as I do NOT regulary read the list. Thanks Ul

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