Conflict in network connections.

2004-11-29 Thread Scott Robinson
I'm having a problem with ifupdown and /etc/network/interfaces. (the default networking core for Debian?) Specifically, I cannot have two Internet routed interfaces working properly at the same time. Whichever is the last connection to be brought up is the one that works, while the first connectio

Re: Xfdesktop error....need help!

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:14 +0530, Priya Mallya wrote: > Hi! > > When I try to set any of the .jpg files as background, it gives me the > following error... > > xfdesktop error: loading backdrop image: Couldn't recognize the image > file format for file '/path/to/jpeg/file.jpg' Are you sure th

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 00:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > function savevars() > { >     for var in "$@" ; do >         eval "echo $var=\\\"\$$var\\\"" >     done > } > > > Just call it like: > savevars VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 >file > > then load the vars with: > source ./file Worth a try. Maybe only s

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Re: Linux Gaming (Was: Full replacement of MS)

2004-11-29 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
If you have nVidia. ATI, you're left in the cold. I bought a Transgaming subscription when they announced support for City of Heroes. It's not 3 months later and I've not played one second of City of Heroes. In fact I've not even made it to the login screen. I've complained about it sever

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Do any of those do any syncing with the banks like Quicken does? I > finally weened myself from Quicken when I got pissed off at Wells Fargo for > the final time. It was nice, though, to have Quicken sync with them > whenever I

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-29 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:21:55PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I've always found them hard to use. I use GTK2 apps with Fluxbox. I like Gaim. When I need to use it a lot I just give it its own virtual desktop, let it clutter windows all over, and wait for it to go beep. Then I context switch.

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 23:37 -0600, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I'm sure that his teachers wouldn't be impressed that he knows what ... "bash", etc mean. Ah, but does he know what "tcsh" means? I'm sure that would impress his teachers :-) Then again, *I* would look at

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:21 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: The only other things I really care about working under Linux are: - Quicken, which sufficiently well under Wine that I have no complaints, and There are a few different alternatives in Linux. Personally, I use gnuca

Linux Gaming (Was: Full replacement of MS)

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 5:31 pm, you wrote: I agree I got fed up with WinXP and wiped it 3 months ago. There is very little you cant do on linux. the only thing that I miss is graphic-intensive gaming.. Same here. That's the only reason my game machine is Win2k as th

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: I don't find them the least bit strange. Perfectly intutive. Enter connection parameters, connect, talk. Goes beep beep, window pops up with conversation, talk. I've always found them hard to use. Right now, for example, I am trying to use Kopete after getting used

iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-29 Thread Mike
I use my ipod frequently. What program would you guys recommend I use in a linux world. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Sorry... Im getting confused. I should be running this kernel. *right*? kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T SMP systems Simon Buchanan wrote: Yep.. But the server i have is a dual xeon. Which is *NOT* 64bit - right? Are you saying that the AMD6

Re: memory usage

2004-11-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:44:13PM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > I'm looking for a GUI tool which shows the current memory usage for each > running process of my debian box. > > I know there's top but I need these information as graphics. how about lavaps ;) it will REALLY give you the in

2.6.7 kernel panic

2004-11-29 Thread machoamerica
i compiled the 2.6.7 kernel from source using make-kpkg. when i boot i get this: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,4) /dev/hda4 is the root partition and has /boot on it as well. it's an ext3 partition. i have no UDF partitions to m

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Sorry... Im getting confused... So i should be running this kernel *right*? kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on Intel EM64T SMP systems ?? Simon Buchanan wrote: Yep.. But the server i have is a dual xeon. Which is *NOT* 64bit - right? Are you saying that t

Xfdesktop error....need help!

2004-11-29 Thread Priya Mallya
Hi! When I try to set any of the .jpg files as background, it gives me the following error... xfdesktop error: loading backdrop image: Couldn't recognize the image file format for file '/path/to/jpeg/file.jpg' Please help. Regards, Priya Confidentiality Notice The information contained in t

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 November 2004 9:39 pm, you wrote: > where would i find flightgear? Debian package flightgear, of course -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/ pgpGlCYLxAaYF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Yep.. But the server i have is a dual xeon. Which is *NOT* 64bit - right? Are you saying that the AMD64 is faster as an alternative for the xeon? Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:00 +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: Is there a benifit to running in 64bit mode? This is a mail server runnin

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 23:37 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >My 6.75o > >son likes xnethack, though. It and wanting to be a spy was what > >interested him in really learning to read. > > > >I'm sure that his teachers wouldn't be impressed that he knows > >what ... "bash", etc mea

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:47:41PM +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage > and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following > files: > > boot.img > cd-drivers.img > net-drivers.img > root.img > > How can i create a

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: My 6.75o son likes xnethack, though. It and wanting to be a spy was what interested him in really learning to read. I'm sure that his teachers wouldn't be impressed that he knows what ... "bash", etc mean. Ah, but does he know what "tcsh" means? I'm sure that would impress hi

Multiple NICs + GW's

2004-11-29 Thread Michael Bellears
I have a test webserver with two NICs: Eth0: xxx.xxx.ba.3/24 Eth1: xxx.xxx.bb.115/28 Route Table: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface xxx.xxx.bb.112 xxx.xxx.bb.113 255.255.255.240 UG0 00 eth1 xxx.xxx.bb.112 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:01:44PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. > we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps > are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). > > we googled for things l

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:02:15PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 15:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Create a seperate rc file (.scriptrc ?) and have FOO=BAR in that, then > > source the file in your script > > > > eg.. > > > > [ .scriptrc ] > > > > FOO=BAR > > > > > > >

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:49 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 21:03 -0600]: > > > Unfortunately, many specialized apps (voice recognition and child- > > rens popular edutainment games come immediately to mind) don't > > have adequate (or *any*) native co

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 November 2004 6:28 pm, you wrote: > Thanks!!! Know if there are any equivelants to MS Flight > Simulator 2004??? Yup, flightgear sounds like what you're looking for. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/ pgpkUbNeEjpnC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:00 +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Is there a benifit to running in 64bit mode? This is a mail server > running postfix and DBmail. AMD64 is faster at most all CPU-bound operations. SpamAssassin tends to be CPU- and RAM-intensive, so maybe there would be some benefit. (I

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:21 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: --snip-- > The only other things I really care about working under Linux are: > - Quicken, which sufficiently well under Wine that I have no complaints, and There are a few different alternatives in Linux. Personally, I use gnucash and I l

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 21:03 -0600]: > Unfortunately, many specialized apps (voice recognition and child- > rens popular edutainment games come immediately to mind) don't > have adequate (or *any*) native corollaries. > > Broderbund-type home software (Calendar Creator, G

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Convey
I can at least say that the Blue Clues games from Humungous Entertainment do just fine well under Wine for me; as good or about as good as when I run them on Windows. The only other things I really care about working under Linux are: - Quicken, which sufficiently well under Wine that I have no comp

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-29 Thread Eddy Jacob
I don't know whats the question as I've never seen this thread in the list, but if I understand the subject line correctly, I would say Psi is better than kopete in some ways. I've tried to find a messenger client in linux that I like best, but found none, until I found Psi is included in debian pa

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Woops... Should have said the smp version. But that has answered my question as well. Thanks. Jacob S wrote: That will only use one of your CPUs. To take advantage of both processors (and HyperThreading) you will want kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:14 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: [snip] > These days there is almost little technical reason to wonder if Linux > can function on the desktop. With the availability of some finely > crafted live CDs (many based on Debian), trying the Linux desktop is a > snap. Gone are the

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Is there a benifit to running in 64bit mode? This is a mail server running postfix and DBmail. Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:38:43 +1300, Simon Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi There, I am just about to install sarge onto a dual xeon (Nocona 800MHz FSB) server... and ju

Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:38:43 +1300 Simon Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I am just about to install sarge onto a dual xeon (Nocona 800MHz FSB) > server... and just checking the kernel with 'atp-cache search > kernel-image'. Im wanting to use the 2.6 kernel... so would this b

Openoffice Setup Fails after Upgrade on Sid

2004-11-29 Thread Carl Brown
I'm seeing a setup failure after an apt-get upgrade. OOo was previously working fine. After the upgrade failed, I apt-get remove(d) openoffice.org and apt-get (re)install(ed), yet the problem persists apparently unchanged. The setup output is as follows: ~# openoffice OpenOffice.org for Debian

Re: Floppy mount & unmount clarification please

2004-11-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 29 2004, Jim Hall wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > >I guess that the now-recommended mount point for floppies is under the > >/media directory, as in /media/floppy, /media/cdrom etc. > > /media/foodrive is correct. The mount point isn't the problem. As you can see from my reply, I wasn't ta

Dual Xeon Kernel?

2004-11-29 Thread Simon Buchanan
Hi There, I am just about to install sarge onto a dual xeon (Nocona 800MHz FSB) server... and just checking the kernel with 'atp-cache search kernel-image'. Im wanting to use the 2.6 kernel... so would this be the correct kernel-image?: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:52:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > Not sure about that, actually, but integration with my favorite editor > (vim) would be nice. CVS, Subversion, and the venerable RCS/SCCS itelf all have available vim integration tools. I don't know if Arch does... I haven't been able

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
On these old machines it was often necessary to use a scheme called Logical Block Addressing (LBA) to allow MS-DOS access to the entire drive. Many later 486 machines incorporated LBA into the BIOS and once activated is rather seemless. If the BIOS did not support LBA the drive manufacturer often

Re: mdadm raid1

2004-11-29 Thread Harland Christofferson
I think I figured it out but am still looking for suggestions: mdadm --stop /dev/md0 mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc and it looks like the kern.log reflects that the array is being resynchronized. Is this correct? At Monday, 29 November 2004, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
I started to play with Slackware '96 back in September of 1996. I dual booted with DOS and Win 3.11. Although I'd boot back and forth it wasn't ideal as I wouldn't commit to doing many useful things on the Linux side. I went to Win95 in August of 1997 and it never really had any problems. Howeve

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 November 2004 5:31 pm, you wrote: >> I just got fed up, wiped my system and threw away my copy of Win95 in >> 1997. Your mileage may vary, but I strongly recommend total >> immersion like the way I did it. > > I agree I got fed up with WinXP and wiped it 3 months ago. There is

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a > "GRUB Hard Disk Error" message grub is "unreasonably" finicky you have several choices.. 1) boot into dos a:> fdisk /mbr -- wipe it out and try grub-install again

"Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi. Just wondering if someone has a clue on how to solve this: I installed an old machine (p200 classic, 32Mb RAM, 3.5Gb HD + realtek 8193 NIC) using sarge installer from floppies (boot+root+net drivers) After partitioning, installing the base system and grub loader, the installer says it will r

mdadm raid1

2004-11-29 Thread Harland Christofferson
I had a problem w/ my system crashing and I noticed there was an I/O error to /dev/hda. In a fit of panic, I swapped the IDE cable of /dev/hda and /dev/hdc and reboot. Come to find out, my CPU fan was dying causing the CPU not to work. Anyway ... Upon putting the drives back where they belong,

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Miquel van Smoorenburg said... > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and > >from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? > > Okay so everybody's trying to outdo each

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and >from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? Okay so everybody's trying to outdo eachother trying to write sed scripts that do proper quoting. I'

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
ken keanon wrote: I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? Anyone has done a complete and successful

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread CW Harris
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 05:04:20PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > Mike M wrote: > >>Also, there should be a firewall on the box before it's > >>ever connected to the net. > > > > > > Chicken/egg dilemma here? Any suggestions? > This isn't a chicken/egg dilemma (almost nothing is), all you need

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Cameron Hutchison said... > > function savevars() > { > for var in "$@" ; do > eval echo $var='$(echo $'$var' | sed -e "s/'\''/'\'''\'\''/g" -e > "s/^/'\''/" -e "s/$/'\''/" )' > done > } That doesn't work properly either. Newlines in a variable are not handle

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:48:33 -0800 From: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SNIP SNIP] > I just got fed up, wiped my system and threw away my copy of Win95 in > 1997. Your mileage may vary, but I strongly recommend total immersion Like Paul, I was converted to Linux by Win95's recalcitrance

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:25:26PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > --snip-- > > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > > > thing I current

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:04:51 -0500, Shawn D'Alimonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have the same system so I can't give many more hints. On my > system for example the line-in only works if "line-in as surround" is > turned off since otherwise it is a speaker output. That's exactly what t

Re: Floppy mount & unmount clarification please

2004-11-29 Thread CW Harris
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:36:45PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > I'm looking for clarification of what I see the floppy mount/unmount > process doing on Sarge. > > 1) A native Linux disc will mount/unmount without asking for a fs type. > > 2) A DOS/Windoze disc asks for a fs type. > > 3) I believe t

Re: usb camera / filesystem question

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:52 -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> I'm curious about the way a USB camera gets set up when plugged into > |> a Sarge / 2.6.9 system. I'm also using 'udev'. Anyone know the > |> following? > |> > |> When I plug in the camera

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Jim Hall
ken keanon wrote: Hi, I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, emails, images, audios and videos? Anyone has done a complete and succe

Re: Floppy mount & unmount clarification please

2004-11-29 Thread Jim Hall
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 28 2004, s. keeling wrote: Change the fs type in /etc/fstab to "auto": # /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 I guess that the now-recommended mount point for floppies is under the /media directory,

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/29/2004 06:30 PM, Tom Allison wrote: This may be true, but how do you get this to work if you have a policy of expiring passwords and have nothing but client systems in place? Pushing the "joe user" to running a CLI + startx isn't going to be very successful when you are trying to get acce

Re: RCS (Revision Control System)

2004-11-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:28:17 +0100, Richard Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which is the best RCS ? I'm a little lost between CVS, SCCS, Arch, > Subversion ... > > Thanks for your experiences Set aside some time to test them all. It isn't easy to test them, you have to try a number of thing whi

Re: Thanks to Kent West et al

2004-11-29 Thread Brian Pack
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 17:44 +, Brian wrote: > My last remaining big headache was that my USB mouse wasn't working > properly. However, the mouse came with a PS/2 adaptor, so I plugged it in > as a PS/2 mouse, and now it worketh fine! That's odd. When I first compiled a new kernel, I had exac

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I consider this to be a very bad thing. Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this. This may be true, but how do you get this to work if yo

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I consider this to be a very bad thing. Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this. Alternative Display Managers (not KDM or GDM please,

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I consider this to be a very bad thing. Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this. > Alternative Display Managers (not KDM or GDM please, I use neither)?

Re: usb camera / filesystem question

2004-11-29 Thread Jim McCloskey
Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> I'm curious about the way a USB camera gets set up when plugged into |> a Sarge / 2.6.9 system. I'm also using 'udev'. Anyone know the |> following? |> |> When I plug in the camera, I assume there are three devices that must |> be created in the /dev

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Chad Davis wrote: I have been using gnome-alsamixer. I however did go ahead an get gamix. Seems as if everything is all the way up, still no volume from the line in on the back. :/ It did come with a internal cable, however I have lost it. I will have to purchase a new one. What switches in alsa

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Cameron Hutchison said... > > I was working on a proper solution, but put it aside when I got to nine > consecutive backslashes in a sed expression. Replying to my own posts - a sign of madness. A further sign is that I think I've got a function that will do it properly. I didn'

Re: CUPS Server Error

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:09:12AM -0500, Noah Durell wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: > >Noah Durell wrote: > >>Adam Aube wrote: > >>>Noah Durell wrote: [...] > Also when I try to access the CUPS web interface on > http://localhost:631 it says: > > Forbidden > You don't have permi

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread David P James
On Mon 29 November 2004 14:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 05:36 -0800, ken keanon wrote: > > Or should I carry out a > > MS Backup of all these data to a CD-RW and use it for the > > conversion under LInux? Would like to hear from you. > > Well, one problem is that the MS Backup for

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Aube
rogerwphx wrote: > I did burn the images to cdrom and when I down,oaded it it was in iso > format. I chose downloading by ftp since I had a decent broadband access > and saw no problem until I tried to get past the first cd. > Would it be easier to just download it as a collection of small files

Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
I've been doing some testing with expiring passwords (30 day limit, 5 day warning, 3 days expires) on my server and noticed a very nasty problem. WDM does not notify me of a pending expiration. This means that there is no way for a "typical" user to know that their password is about to expire.

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Nate Bargmann said... > * Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 15:15 -0600]: > > Ok. I got bored and spend a minute writing this: > > > > function savevars() > > { > > for var in "$@" ; do > > eval "echo $var=\\\"\$$var\\\"" > > done > > } > > > > >

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread David Mandelberg
Mike M wrote: >>Also, there should be a firewall on the box before it's >>ever connected to the net. > > > Chicken/egg dilemma here? Any suggestions? This isn't a chicken/egg dilemma (almost nothing is), all you need to do is install it from a cd or something, if you can't do that then just inst

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Top posting universally considered harmful. Please read http://ursine.dyndns.org/Top_Posting On Monday 29 November 2004 1:43 pm, Steven Jones wrote: > You can mount the iso's as file systems That doesn't particularly answer the question of why you're trying to upgrade the hard way... -- Paul

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 November 2004 1:04 pm, Mike M wrote: > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > 4) using ssh, install iptables and configure iptables on Deb box That'll work, but you might want to install ipmasq and get your D

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread Mike M
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:29:34PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > Mike M wrote: > > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > > 4) using ssh, install iptables and configure iptables on Deb box > That would work, but one

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Nov 29 15:15 -0600]: > Ok. I got bored and spend a minute writing this: > > function savevars() > { > for var in "$@" ; do > eval "echo $var=\\\"\$$var\\\"" > done > } > > > Just call it like: > savevars VAR1 VAR2 VAR3 >file > > then

Re: simple problem

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 November 2004 5:45 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: > I am trying to find a specific function/procedure in the kernel 2.6.7 > kernel source. But the problem is that there are so many files I have > to search through that it could take hours to find this procedure. > Isn't there an easier

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 November 2004 5:36 am, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use > all the data that I had created under Windows, those documents, > emails, images, audios

RE: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Steven Jones
You can mount the iso's as file systems regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2004 10:45 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cdrom upgrade On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, rogerwphx wrote: > I install

Re: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, rogerwphx wrote: > I installed debian and it boots up in bash ok, but the cdrom images > are .iso images. How do you upgrade the installation from bash with > iso's. What's wrong with using apt-get over the network? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: using mail

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:31:56AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sam Watkins wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:48:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >>When I use: mail it sends mail to that address with the > >>options that I have set via dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > >> > >>But it

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
Okay, this seems to be resolved. I had a extra line when using gaumix that didnt appear in gnome-volume-control. All seems to be well now :) Thanks guys! On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:11:30 -0500, David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 29 November 2004 03:59 pm, Chad Davis wrote:

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread David Mandelberg
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > But since RP10 is not yet DFSG free, I use my daughter's Windows box in the Windows isn't DFSG free either. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>$L$*-- P+>++$ L+++()$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time David Baron said... > On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote: > > If you want to see what variables are set, type: > > > >   set > > > > this shows shell functions too. > > > > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file: > > > >   set > myvariables

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:25:26PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > --snip-- > > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > > thing I currently use MS Windows for is listening to the BBC, which uses > > Real Pla

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread David Baron
On Monday 29 November 2004 16:04, Sam Watkins wrote: > If you want to see what variables are set, type: > >   set > > this shows shell functions too. > > you can save these variables (and possibly functions) in a file: > >   set > myvariables > > and restore them again: > >   source ./myvariables >

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
Okay, I seem to have gotten it to work through the mic line. Should I let this be? Is Mic really the same as another line in? On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:44:48 -0600, Chad Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using gnome-alsamixer. I however did go ahead an get > gamix. Seems as if every

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Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Chad Davis
I have been using gnome-alsamixer. I however did go ahead an get gamix. Seems as if everything is all the way up, still no volume from the line in on the back. :/ It did come with a internal cable, however I have lost it. I will have to purchase a new one. What switches in alsa do I need and how

Re: rescue disk

2004-11-29 Thread George Iordanou
I've actually managed to create a boot disk using dd command. I cannot mount my / filesystem though Partition table: /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 /home /dev/hda3 / boot: linux rescue root=/dev/hda3 Isn't this the right command to mount the / system using the CD/floppy's kernel? Cheers, George On

Error with libapache-mod-perl

2004-11-29 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
When I try to install libapache-mod-perl (debian, unstable) I get the error: mod_macro.so does not have a corresponding .info file. How does one correfct this? Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada, Ohio 45810 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread David Mandelberg
Mike M wrote: > 1) connect Deb box to cable modem > 2) ssh to Deb box to test access > 3) have father install 2nd NIC on Deb box > 4) using ssh, install iptables and configure iptables on Deb box That would work, but one problem is that when testing firewall rulesets (especially if you've never don

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: --snip-- > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > thing I currently use MS Windows for is listening to the BBC, which uses > Real Player output. Have you tried RealPlayer 10 yet? The few media formats that m

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:08 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > > > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: [snip] > I've used Linux virtually exclusively for ten years. About the only > thing I currently use MS Windo

Re: apache being hit

2004-11-29 Thread Roberto Winter
Hello, On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:57:03 +0100, Mathias Tauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > well... you were right!! They are receiving 404's... At least that is > > what access.log is reporting. However, when I tried what Mathias > > Tauber said, I got the source code for the root "index.ht

Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues

2004-11-29 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Chad Davis wrote: How do I get the line out jack to work on the back of this pc? Have you tried playing with the mixer? Try aumix for OSS/Free drivers or gamix for ALSA. The AC97 codecs on VIA sound chips often have a bunch more channels than you would think. There may also be some option swi

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:38:12PM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > > ken keanon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the folowing: > > Hi, > > I'm still toying with the idea of fully replacing Windows w Debian > GNU/Linux. > The doubt I am still having is this: will I be able to use all the data > tha

remote build of Debian router

2004-11-29 Thread Mike M
Hi, Yesterday I built a Debian stable file server for my father assuming he had a router/switch with a DHCP server on it. Today I learned that he does not have a router - only a switch. I want to try making the Debian box into a router remotely. Would this work? 1) connect Deb box to cable mode

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