Re: kernel compilation on sid

2004-09-14 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:36, Frédéric Dreier wrote: Hi, I re-installed my laptop (dell inspiron 8100) with the new installer (kernel 2.6). Then I apt-get the newer kernel source and compile it (make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image; dpkg -i kernel-image...). but it hangs randomly

Re: Browser Based E-Mail

2004-09-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:28:43PM -0700, Roger Creasy wrote: > In yahoo mail, I can get to my account main page, but when I try to go to > my in box, Mozilla times-out. I do not have this problem with my inferior > in all other ways, windows box and IE6. Any suggestions? Yahoo mail under mozilla

Re: Defoma

2004-09-14 Thread John Lowell
Anssi Porttikivi wrote: Neither can anyone else. It's a mess. Hi Anssi, First, my apologies to you and the list for the blank message that I sent inadvertently just moments ago. Life's hard enough without things like that, eh? :-) So it's a mess? That's certainly not encouraging. Frankly, I'm a

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Ryan Waye > /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl/5.8', which is also in package > libquantum-entanglement-perl > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb [..] > Any suggesti

Re: Is it possible to access an iMac over LAN from Debian ?

2004-09-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:59:50PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:52:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I already know how to use netatalk to allow a Mac user to treat > > my Debian box as a file server. But I can see on the Mac that > > it is able to share files with ot

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Ryan Waye
Stefan O'Rear wrote: I was thinking of: dpkg --remove libquantum-superpositions-perl dpkg --remove libclass-multimethods-perl since apt is stuck. Remember - no apt = fix deps yourself. As you may of gathered, I am kinda new. The packages you said were removed, but apt-get -f install still return

Re: exim port

2004-09-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:33:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > I have a question regarding exim. Looks like my ISP blocked port 25. How to > I tell exim to listen on another port? Wrong question... how do you tell all other machines that might want to initiate an SMTP session with your

Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-14 Thread exim4
ok, I know this has been brought up on the list, but I just want to vent my frustration at this fine distribution picking such a horrible username for exim4! Sheesh! I mean, the maintainers do a fine job otherwise, but I can't believe that this package is going into sarge this way. blech...

Re: Trouble with HDD > 137GB Using Sarge

2004-09-14 Thread John Summerfield
It's pretty bad form to xpost everywhere. Having one's email address in Debian is bad enough;-(( Chrissie wrote: On 2004-09-12, Kurt Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: figure out exactly what I need to do. I just installed Sarge (netinst) on a new 200GB drive from Seagate (ATA/100). During t

Re: Is it possible to access an iMac over LAN from Debian ?

2004-09-14 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:52:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I already know how to use netatalk to allow a Mac user to treat > my Debian box as a file server. But I can see on the Mac that > it is able to share files with others Macs. So, how do I get > my Debian box to pretend to be a Mac? Or

Is it possible to access an iMac over LAN from Debian ?

2004-09-14 Thread Paul E Condon
I already know how to use netatalk to allow a Mac user to treat my Debian box as a file server. But I can see on the Mac that it is able to share files with others Macs. So, how do I get my Debian box to pretend to be a Mac? Or is there a better way to gain electronic/LAN access to files on Mac? T

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-14 Thread Andrew A. Raines
"Andrew A. Raines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Nothing but quoted text.] Sigh. I've put this off long enough. (defun aar-dont-send-yet-stupid () "Dang, C-c C-c is easy to hit." (interactive) (message "Type M-x message-send-and-exit...")) (define-key message-mode-map "\C-c\

Debian on A Cobalt RaQ4

2004-09-14 Thread Cole S. Ashcraft
I'd like to run Debian on my Cobalt RaQ4, but I can't exactly figure out what branch to use and how to do it. The RaQ4 is not a MIPS box. It has a K6 AMD processor. It doesn't have a CD or floppy drive, making the install process difficult. How should I do this? Cole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

installation of sarge on 486

2004-09-14 Thread petereasthope
At Tue, 24 Aug 2004 22:21:49 +0800 John Summerfield replied, "Testing isn't so silly." Seemed hopeful. The Sarge boot diskette goes OK. The root diskette starts OK but soon this message appears endlessly. "Entering low memory mode, please wait ... /build/buildd/ ... (frontend_new): Cannot load f

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:42:46PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote: > Stefan O'Rear wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote: > >>/var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.8.4-2.2_i386.deb (--unpack): > >>trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/perl/5.8', which is also in package > >>libclass-mul

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Ryan Waye
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote: I am using Sid 2.6.7 and I seem to be having some broken package problems. The funny thing is that this is a week old, and noone else seems to have submitted a bug report. This has completely handicapped apt, so I can

Re: Occasional kernel panic...

2004-09-14 Thread Russel Hill
Stefan O'Rear wrote: Size. The bad initrds are more than 2MB uncompressed. Try passing ramdisk_size=8192 to the kernel prompt. (Loop mounting won't detect this). Many thanks. - DISCLAIMER: This email is bound by the terms and conditions described at http://ww

Finished Re: System Monitor

2004-09-14 Thread John Fleming
> sar | mail -s "sar output" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ;-) > > -- > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to all that suggested system monitors. sar does what I want, but being the newbie that I am, it took awhile for me to figure out that sar is in the sysstat package. Tnx agn - John -- To UNSUB

Re: Occasional kernel panic...

2004-09-14 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:17:57AM -0700, Russel Hill wrote: > We routinely build ISO's and occasionally one fails to boot (with a > kernel panic). I've attached a screenshot of the kernel panic. > > The ISO's are all built using script files and they are always built the > same way. They may

Re: Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:52:13PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote: > I am using Sid 2.6.7 and I seem to be having some broken package > problems. The funny thing is that this is a week old, and noone else > seems to have submitted a bug report. This has completely handicapped > apt, so I can not use it r

Re: New sarge install trying to find modules

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 15:08, you wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 20:47, Justin Guerin wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:24, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > > > Hi All > > > I've just recently (about 2weeks ago) setup debian in replacement to > > > gentoo, on my main workstation. The installer

Apt Broken Package Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Ryan Waye
I am using Sid 2.6.7 and I seem to be having some broken package problems. The funny thing is that this is a week old, and noone else seems to have submitted a bug report. This has completely handicapped apt, so I can not use it right now. Below is the return of apt-get install -f Reading Packag

Accept() returns invalid socket descript and no error.

2004-09-14 Thread dking
I'm working on some socket code for a project I share with someone. The strange thing is that the accept() call returns '0' (zero) with no error. This of course is a invalid socket descriptor, every single time, so select complains. I have never known accept() to do this in my years of programm

Re: exim port

2004-09-14 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 14-09-2004, om 22:33 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi. > I have a question regarding exim. Looks like my ISP blocked port 25. How to > I tell exim to listen on another port? > > Thanks in advance. > Mike Much more interesting: how do you tell other servers to deliver mail to you on a port ot

Re: New sarge install trying to find modules

2004-09-14 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 20:47, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:24, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > > Hi All > > I've just recently (about 2weeks ago) setup debian in replacement to > > gentoo, on my main workstation. The installer was really smooth, so > > smooth i didn't realise it was

Re: saving web pages as text from mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:48:31PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >How do you force mozilla to save a web page as text? There used to be > >an option whether to save as html or as text but that doesn't exist > >anymore. I thought that perhaps mozilla paid attention to the f

Re: locale hell

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Allison
Fascinating. locales is not installed. However, when I did install it, there was no option to select 'C' as the default. Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:11:24 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to install/configure a notebook from the debian-installer and test

Re: Setting the environment before Gnome starts up

2004-09-14 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Andrei! On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Andrei Badea wrote: > Hello, > > On 14.9.2004 13:22 B. L. Jilek wrote: > > >Hi Andrei! > > > >On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Andrei Badea wrote: > > > > > >>Hello Debian fellows, > >> > >>I'm using GDM to login into my Gnome session. What is the proper way to > >>set some

exim port

2004-09-14 Thread michael . sherman
Hi. I have a question regarding exim. Looks like my ISP blocked port 25. How to I tell exim to listen on another port? Thanks in advance. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: saving web pages as text from mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you force mozilla to save a web page as text? There used to be an option whether to save as html or as text but that doesn't exist anymore. I thought that perhaps mozilla paid attention to the file extention but sometimes when I save 'filename.txt' it *still* saves t

Re: Multiple apt-get install...!

2004-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:17:26PM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to install different packges on same > time trough apt-get install command but > it give me error. > > debian:/home/neenix/Downloads# apt-get install gd > E: Coul

Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2

2004-09-14 Thread frank - ksh
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Re: New sarge install trying to find modules

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:24, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > Hi All > I've just recently (about 2weeks ago) setup debian in replacement to > gentoo, on my main workstation. The installer was really smooth, so > smooth i didn't realise it was done and now i have a fully configured > and setup system. E

Re: Confused about modules

2004-09-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:19:33AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Tools like hotplug and discover automatically load modules as necessary. > It's just that sometimes they miss a needed module, and that's why you > need to add them to /etc/modules to get them loaded. In addition, if modprobe loads a

New sarge install trying to find modules

2004-09-14 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
Hi All I've just recently (about 2weeks ago) setup debian in replacement to gentoo, on my main workstation. The installer was really smooth, so smooth i didn't realise it was done and now i have a fully configured and setup system. Everything working. But i've got a slight annoyance, it doesn't sto

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-14 Thread Andrew A. Raines
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 03:43:37 +0200, Alexander Schmehl > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * matt okeson-harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040912 21:42]: >> > for those bashing on google... have you actually READ the faq's re >> > privacy and security? >> >> Hav

Re: Squid + Dansguardian + freshclam

2004-09-14 Thread Sam Snow
Joao Serrachinha said: > I'm using Debian Sid full updated, kernel-2.4.27. > I'm using a transparent proxy on port 3128 and dansguardian in 8080. > Since i install dansguardian, i change my netfilter nat rules to > redirect http to 8080. > Everything works fine except freshclam. I don't have any

saving web pages as text from mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread bounce-debian-user=archive=jab . org
How do you force mozilla to save a web page as text? There used to be an option whether to save as html or as text but that doesn't exist anymore. I thought that perhaps mozilla paid attention to the file extention but sometimes when I save 'filename.txt' it *still* saves the html. Why is that? --

Squid + Dansguardian + freshclam

2004-09-14 Thread Joao Serrachinha
I'm using Debian Sid full updated, kernel-2.4.27. I'm using a transparent proxy on port 3128 and dansguardian in 8080. Since i install dansguardian, i change my netfilter nat rules to redirect http to 8080. Everything works fine except freshclam. I don't have any log in /var/log/dansguardian/acce

Re: review: complex fluids (Ed. Sackmann)

2004-09-14 Thread Matthews-Levine
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:58:23 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AR webeditor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is, for a few days, online as pdf (~3 MByte) at > > That's kind of sad that spammers know they're going to get shut down > but yet do their futile stupidity anyway... To b

Re: review: complex fluids (Ed. Sackmann)

2004-09-14 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AR webeditor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is, for a few days, online as pdf (~3 MByte) at That's kind of sad that spammers know they're going to get shut down but yet do their futile stupidity anyway... -BEGIN PGP

Re: USB Mass Storage - Kernel Bug?

2004-09-14 Thread Pascal Bonesh
Hi, I don't know if I had the same problem as you have: problems with copying large files on an external HD but I can't remember what dmesg said. The error always showed up as something like "control timeout on ep0in" in /var/log/messages. The solution was to disable the palm pilot daemon, that

Re: Redirect all http requests to a single page?

2004-09-14 Thread Jimmy Liang
Thank you so much, works like a charm! Thats exactly what I needed. -Jimmy > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:13, Jimmy Liang wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have a Sarge server running only Apache2 and not much else. All it >> does is serving 1 inde

Re: chrony and "official ustime" disagree

2004-09-14 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! I run Sarge with chrony. Chrony says that the rtc time is correct. But when I run: http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java I see that the time is 10 minutes off. Is there a way to find out who is right? Thanks! Hugo This is very dumb ;-) I had lokkit

review: complex fluids (Ed. Sackmann)

2004-09-14 Thread AR webeditor
Printed offprints are no more available, but the review SIMPLE MODELS FOR COMPLEX NONEQUILIBRIUM FLUIDS Physics Reports 390 (2004) 453-551 is, for a few days, online as pdf (~3 MByte) at http://www.polyphys.mat.ethz.ch/research/res_topics/complex_fluids/complexfluids.pdf Thanks for the request,

Re: tmpwatch on Debian?

2004-09-14 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used Mandrake and RedHat in the past. They both have a utility called > tmpwatch, which deletes old files in /tmp, /var/tmp and other arbitrary > locations [...] > Is such a

Re: Multiple apt-get install...!

2004-09-14 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to install different packges on same > time trough apt-get install command but > it give me error. > > debian:/home/neenix/Downloads# apt-get install gd > E: Could not

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down. > No privileges needed. C-M-DEL reboots, not shut down, by default. You'll need to grep for shutdown in /etc/inittab to change the behavior to actu

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pradeeper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to shutdown my Debian Sarge box without giving root > password (as a normal user)? If you have KDM installed, there's a shutdown button on the login menu by default

Occasional kernel panic...

2004-09-14 Thread Russel Hill
We routinely build ISO's and occasionally one fails to boot (with a kernel panic). I've attached a screenshot of the kernel panic. The ISO's are all built using script files and they are always built the same way. They may include new packages but the boot image is built the same way each tim

Re: How to fix sound?

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 09:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded to KDE 3.3 recently and now the sound on my Thinkpad X31 no > longer works... I get a /dev/dsp can't be opened error on most of the > sound utilities, and looking at the Sound entry in InfoCenter in KDE, it Most of the sound

can't get WEP working

2004-09-14 Thread martin f krafft
I have an ancient Orinoco PCMCIA wireless card and an ancient Addtron AP. Both support 104/128 bit encryption. Both work happily together without encryption. What I want to do is turn on WEP (mainly to rudimentarily protect against wardrivers), but I am not succeeding. Since I use PCMCIA, I added

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Re: Sarge install hangs on ide-cd detection?

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 13 September 2004 16:12, Olav wrote: > Has anyone experienced any problems with the installation of Sarge, > kernel 2.6? I have used a "businesscard" iso version of Sarge to try. > I've never used the businesscard version, but I've used the regular version and net install, both with no p

Re: raid barfs at startup with 2.6 kernel

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 07:21, Blake Swadling wrote: > OK, firstly i will say i know bugger all about the way raid works. > however i have managed to set up, both running software raid (raid0). > one uses 2 SATA drives and the other has 2 ATA drives > > When I upgrade to kernel 2.6.* the raid

Re: Redirect all http requests to a single page?

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 07:06, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:13, Jimmy Liang wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a Sarge server running only Apache2 and not much else. All it > > does is serving 1 index.html, with a few

Re: kernel compilation on sid

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:36, Frédéric Dreier wrote: > Hi, > > I re-installed my laptop (dell inspiron 8100) with the new installer > (kernel 2.6). > > Then I apt-get the newer kernel source and compile it (make-kpkg > --initrd kernel_image; dpkg -i kernel-image...). but it hangs randomly > dur

How to fix sound?

2004-09-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I upgraded to KDE 3.3 recently and now the sound on my Thinkpad X31 no longer works... I get a /dev/dsp can't be opened error on most of the sound utilities, and looking at the Sound entry in InfoCenter in KDE, it notes that: Sound Driver

Re: Multiple apt-get install...!

2004-09-14 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to install different packges on same > time trough apt-get install command but > it give me error. > > debian:/home/neenix/Downloads# apt-get install gd > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource > temporarily unavailable) > E

Re: Multiple apt-get install...!

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 08:47, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to install different packges on same > time trough apt-get install command but > it give me error. > > debian:/home/neenix/Downloads# apt-get install gd > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource > t

Re: kernel compilation on sid

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 00:36, Frédéric Dreier wrote: > Hi, > > I re-installed my laptop (dell inspiron 8100) with the new installer > (kernel 2.6). > > Then I apt-get the newer kernel source and compile it (make-kpkg > --initrd kernel_image; dpkg -i kernel-image...). but it hangs randomly > d

Re: Installations problem

2004-09-14 Thread J. Hannemann
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asim Jamshed wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I just installed Debian Linux on my PC. This is my > first experience > >with Linux. Understandably, I faced a lot of > problems :). I had > >downloaded the debian v3 release 2 which comes on 7 > CDs(Woody). On > >

Re: "modconf" sees no modules at all in recompiled kernel

2004-09-14 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 06:35, Eric Dickner wrote: > -- > Incidentally, if you didn't build your kernel the > Debian way, did you > specifically make the modules? If you didn't, you > won't have modules > to > load, even if you specified them in the config. > > Justin Guer

Re: kernel compilation on sid

2004-09-14 Thread Frédéric Dreier
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:36:39 +0200, Frédéric Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I re-installed my laptop (dell inspiron 8100) with the new installer (kernel 2.6). Then I apt-get the newer kernel source and compile it (make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image; dpkg -i kernel

USB Mass Storage - Kernel Bug?

2004-09-14 Thread Damien Solley
Greetings, I am having trouble using an external USB 2.0 to IDE converter box with recent 2.6 kernels. The box houses a 200GB IDE drive. When I try to perform large transfers (eg 500MB files) to the box it aborts after a variable proportion of the file/s have been transferred. The dmesg output ca

Re: Confused about modules

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 00:19, Kent West wrote: > Robert Parker wrote: > >That's dealt with the actual problem, but I notice that lsmod gives me 27 > >lines of modules, there are just 2 modules in my /etc/modules. > > Where/when/how do the other 25 modules get installed? Only 1 of the first

Multiple apt-get install...!

2004-09-14 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All, I want to install different packges on same time trough apt-get install command but it give me error. debian:/home/neenix/Downloads# apt-get install gd E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Vijaya > i need this for my mail server If you need it for your mail server, the default MTA Exim on Debian can handle 'rewriting' via /etc/email-addresses. Inside /etc/email-addresses, map john --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hth. -- ragOO VU2RGU Help keep the Radio Spectrum FREE Help keep Co

Re: Confused about modules

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
Robert Parker wrote: That's dealt with the actual problem, but I notice that lsmod gives me 27 lines of modules, there are just 2 modules in my /etc/modules. Where/when/how do the other 25 modules get installed? Only 1 of the first 5 appears in /etc/modules.conf. Tools like hotplug and disco

Re: Campus Monitoring System...!

2004-09-14 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Nayyar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any open NMS availabel for this purpose. > to maintan campus network We're using Nagios to monitor over 400 different systems, including routers, linux, solaris, and windows systems. We've been using in for over 2 years now with great success.

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Sam Snow
Vijaya S said: > Hi all, > I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe > > But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser > so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in > /etc/passwd file > But when i cd /home/john.doe > it says no such file or direc

openoffice sound plugin

2004-09-14 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, anyone know where I can set the sound plugin for openoffice? I tried adding an mp3 file to an impress presentation, and OOo hangs while trying to load mozplugger to play it. I can't find a setting anywhere that would let me tweak this -- butm aybe I'm missing it in my panic. Anyway,

Re: Redirect all http requests to a single page?

2004-09-14 Thread Frederik Dannemare
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:13, Jimmy Liang wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a Sarge server running only Apache2 and not much else. All it > does is serving 1 index.html, with a few images and css. Its my > maintanience page for when the actual web serv

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 20:38, Pradeeper wrote: > Hi All > > Is there a way to shutdown my Debian Sarge box without giving root > password (as a normal user)? > > Thanks! > > Pradeeper If in a GUI, Ctrl-Alt-F1 takes you to terminal. No need to log in Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down. No privileges n

Re: Confused about modules

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:08, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:16:53AM +1000, Robert Parker wrote: > > As root > > On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel. > > > > modprobe apm > > the module installs and is in the lsmod list but does not persist through > > a boot. > > > > insmod apm >

Re: Copying a CD

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:05, Marvin Aguero wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have little experience burning CDs with Linux, but I have managed to burn > some data and audio CDs with no problems at all. > > I now face a new challenge: I'd like to duplicate a CD. The CD I am trying > to duplicate is boo

Re: Confused about modules

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 10:17, Steven Jones wrote: > try typing modconf and pic the module to install it. > > regards > > Steven I did try modconf and did not find 'apm', however echo apm >> /etc/modules as shown in another post has done the trick. Thanks Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in /etc/passwd file But when i cd /home/john.doe it says no such file or directory and i cant

Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
James Foster wrote: I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked completely once or twice. You can "apt-get install memtest" to test your RAM. (It'll install a stanza in /etc/lilo.conf, and then you just boot into memte

raid barfs at startup with 2.6 kernel

2004-09-14 Thread Blake Swadling
OK, firstly i will say i know bugger all about the way raid works. however i have managed to set up, both running software raid (raid0). one uses 2 SATA drives and the other has 2 ATA drives When I upgrade to kernel 2.6.* the raid barfs on both machines with the following errors md: md driver

Re: Copying a CD

2004-09-14 Thread Michael Marsh
Marvin Aguero wrote: > I now face a new challenge: I'd like to duplicate a CD. The CD I am trying to > duplicate is > bootable, so, I'd like to make an exact copy of it, not just copy the files. I've used readcd to do this. It behaves similarly to cdrecord, though obviously in the other direct

Re: Installations problem

2004-09-14 Thread Kent West
Asim Jamshed wrote: Hello, I just installed Debian Linux on my PC. This is my first experience with Linux. Understandably, I faced a lot of problems :). I had downloaded the debian v3 release 2 which comes on 7 CDs(Woody). On installation, by default, the kernel installed was version 2.2. I tried t

Re: A couple issues with Sarge; requesting assistance.

2004-09-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:43:01PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > You probably forgot either CONFIG_FILTER or CONFIG_SOCKET. I have CONFIG_FILTER set. I don't see a CONFIG_SOCKET anywhere... Where does it live, and where might I find it in "make xconfig"? > > 5. With a default Debian 2.4.26-1-i386 k

RE: Re: "modconf" sees no modules at all in recompiled kernel

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Dickner
-- Incidentally, if you didn't build your kernel the Debian way, did you specifically make the modules? If you didn't, you won't have modules to load, even if you specified them in the config. Justin Guerin No, I didn't. I just followed th

Re: DLT7000 block size

2004-09-14 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 07:59, Gabor Melis wrote: > After heavy googling I tried passing tar the block size explicitly with -b > (for both invocations). It is not until '-b 216' that tar finally manages > to read back the archive. I can find no documentation for the Quantum > DLT7000 that ment

[Dave Thayer] Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-14 Thread Chris Searle
BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="JUMPDRIVE", NAME="%k", symlink="jumpdrive" Some progress :-) 1) remove all devfs/compat links from rules.d and replace with a udev link in rules (so - from devfs style naming to udev style naming) :-) 2) Create the following to local.rules: BUS="scsi", SYSFS{mo

Re: Setting the environment before Gnome starts up

2004-09-14 Thread Andrei Badea
Hello, On 14.9.2004 13:22 B. L. Jilek wrote: Hi Andrei! On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Andrei Badea wrote: Hello Debian fellows, I'm using GDM to login into my Gnome session. What is the proper way to set some environment variables after I authenticate through GDM, but before gnome-session runs? I need th

Re: rekall doesn't work properly on debian

2004-09-14 Thread Daniel M.
At risk of being shot at at sunrise, I had rekall working without any problems in Gentoo a few days back. Does the following help you at all? I don't think it is going to help - all the required dependencies are seemed to be fully met, but nontheless the problem still exists. Maybe gdb backtrace

chrony and "official ustime" disagree

2004-09-14 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi list! I run Sarge with chrony. Chrony says that the rtc time is correct. But when I run: http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Central/d/-6/java I see that the time is 10 minutes off. Is there a way to find out who is right? Thanks! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: tmpwatch on Debian?

2004-09-14 Thread Petrov M.I.
Hi. > Is such a utility available for Debian? I have only able to locate .srpm > files on the net. See tmpreaper. Description: Cleans up files in directories based on their age -- "Change your thoughts and you change your world." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

urgetn adduser with .dot

2004-09-14 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in /etc/passwd file But when i cd /home/john.doe it says no such file or directory and i cant see any direct

Re: Setting the environment before Gnome starts up

2004-09-14 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Andrei! On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Andrei Badea wrote: > Hello Debian fellows, > > I'm using GDM to login into my Gnome session. What is the proper way to > set some environment variables after I authenticate through GDM, but > before gnome-session runs? I need this environment during my Gnome >

Re: locale hell

2004-09-14 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:11:24 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install/configure a notebook from the debian-installer and > testing/unstable branches. > > I've not selected 'tasksel' in the installation process. > > Now, every time that I attempt to run apt-get or

locale hell

2004-09-14 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to install/configure a notebook from the debian-installer and testing/unstable branches. I've not selected 'tasksel' in the installation process. Now, every time that I attempt to run apt-get or many other things I get hammered with these errors: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/09/04 16:38), Pradeeper wrote: > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sidath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Pradeeper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:38:44 +0600 > Subject: How to Shutdown as a normal user? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi All > > Is there a way to shutdow

Re: How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 13:38, Pradeeper wrote: > Hi All > > Is there a way to shutdown my Debian Sarge box without giving root > password (as a normal user)? #apt-get install sudo ...and then edit /etc/sudoers to something similar: (this gives user "alex" shutdown/reboot privileges) # Cmn

How to Shutdown as a normal user?

2004-09-14 Thread Pradeeper
Hi All Is there a way to shutdown my Debian Sarge box without giving root password (as a normal user)? Thanks! Pradeeper -- Debian GNU/Linux Sarge kernel 2.4.22-openmosix-1 Your depth of comprehension may tend to make you lax in worldly ways. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: How to I?

2004-09-14 Thread Robert Parker
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 10:29, Marcos Carneiro da Rocha wrote: > Try partition magic - it's not free. you might also get hold of disc 1 of Mandrake 10. I'm not that impressed with mdk but it's partitioning tools are excellent. Boot of it and set up your partitions then abort the install at t

Re: Upgrading the Debian/unstable system makes mplayer run without video output

2004-09-14 Thread JSS
JSS wrote: Just now I upgraded my Debian/unstable ( 2.4.26-1-686) system and when I started mplayer (MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3.4 ) I found the there is no video ouput. The sound ouput it ok. I compiled and installed the mplayer again without any errors but the problem still exists (no video). Any bod

tmpwatch on Debian?

2004-09-14 Thread Robert S
I have recently installed debian 3.0 on a new server at work. So far very good. I've used Mandrake and RedHat in the past. They both have a utility called tmpwatch, which deletes old files in /tmp, /var/tmp and other arbitrary locations. I think it deletes files if the atime is a certain time i

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