run program in vfat partition

/dos is a vfat file system, i mount it, write a C program /dos/hello.c , and compile it into a.out, but i can't run it, the shell say permission denied, ext2 file system does not has this problem. Can you help me? _ 免费下载 MSN Explore

Re: changing email address for list

Eric Gaumer wrote: Does anybody know the easiest way to change the email address I subscribed to the list with? Over the winter break, the engineering and computer science department is downing the mail server to perform maintenance. It will be down for nearly 30 days and all mail will be bounced.

changing email address for list

Does anybody know the easiest way to change the email address I subscribed to the list with? Over the winter break, the engineering and computer science department is downing the mail server to perform maintenance. It will be down for nearly 30 days and all mail will be bounced. They don't seem to

urxvt cannot scroll when using with 'screen'

Anyone else faces this problem ? the scroll button or the scroller doesn't work when run screen. TIA = ThanhVu H. Nguyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev question

Kudret Güler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > udev creates /dev/hdc(burner) with permissions 640 and with owner > root.hal. Therefore hal group members cannot burn. And any change is > reversed on reboot. How can I tell udev to create it with permissions > 660? Or should I just put it in a script to

pnp_dock_thread "error" in endless loop

Upon installing sarge using kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 Version 2.6.7-2, I get the following message constantly scrolling up the screen at 2 second interfals: PnPBIOS: pnp_dock_thread: invalid function number passed I discover this is associated with ACPI and the kpnpbiosd thread (pnp_dock_thread())

Re: eth0: card reports no resources

but i have this kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 and i compiled it as a module while installing debian if i change the card and insert another intel would it solve the problem Alvin Oga wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Vijaya S wrote: > > > hi all > > i have installed debian sarge yest on a machine and i get the

Re: eth0: card reports no resources

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Vijaya S wrote: > hi all > i have installed debian sarge yest on a machine and i get the following > in dmesg > is it the problem with the card or anyother issue? > guidance pls > > eth0: card reports no resources thos problems used to occur in the days of the 2.2 kernels w

Re: Debian 3.3 and AHA2940UW?

I have Debian 3.1 so my guess would be that the installer for 3.3 is at least as capable. When you boot up from the installation CD and see the : prompt, hit F1, F2, F3 for help and extra options. There should be an option to use 2.6 kernel while installing, it will autodetect this card. HTH, Alex

eth0: card reports no resources

hi all i have installed debian sarge yest on a machine and i get the following in dmesg is it the problem with the card or anyother issue? guidance pls eth0: card reports no resources regards vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

installing sound onboard audio

Hi all, I have a machine with the following lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2) :00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2) :00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:15:23AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > That's a good question. > > Did you know that prior Debian "stable" releases have had books > written about them? > > http://www.linux.org/perl-bin/search_db?qid=4&spp=20&q=debian > > I expect that when Sarge is finally released, t

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:50:22PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > > When I was becoming more intereted in Debian, I printed the install > > manaul and the debian refernce. I did it at Kinko's by giing them a PDF > >

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

At Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:57:17 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:20:06PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >>Something I missed. echo 4 >/proc/acpi/sleep indeed does so. Then > >>what? > >>You power down? With the button? I reboot with re

Re: howto rescue an install with an USB keyboard??

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:22:28 +0100 Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > sometimes the reboot doesn't go well and the IPL gets stopped at the > stage where some disk needs attending... > > and there i am blocked > its now the 4th time i reinstalled the base system, since the

Re: visual c++ equivalent

Micha Feigin wrote: At Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:17:17 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:51:19PM +0800, ms linux wrote: is there a free visual c++ equivalent in linux ? searching so far I only found IBM XLC, but of course, it's not free. thanks, --m

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 09 December 2004 5:44 pm, you wrote: > > > i'd throw in slackware/redhat/fedora into that same pot, and remove > > lindows in our supported "pot-o-linux" > > The idea is to gain happy users, not scare them off from Linux > permanently with

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thursday 09 December 2004 5:40 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 12/08/2004 08:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Looking for new customers? Looking to convert customers to Linux? > Looking for new h/w and systems integration revenue? Support > contracts? > Trying to reduce support costs to existing

Re: LPGETSTATUS returned a port status of 18... --- Can anyone decipher this?

> CUPS appears to be successfully configured, but there is _no_ > output. [snip] > The printer is a brand-new Samsung SCX-4100 laser-based multifunction Since this was the only message I found about Samsung SCX-4100 and I happen to figure out how to make mine work I've decided to pay Usenet back

Re: Ending a thread [SOLVED]

Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:05:01 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would add [SOLVED] to the subject somewhere and post a summary of what fixed it. Basically, think about what you would like to find when you search Google for mailing list archives for the answer... T

Re: hostname for sqwebmail

Marek, I have the same difficulty with the local host name following the @. I have observed the mail does arrive at the destination with the fqdn following the @ yet I'd like the banner to read exactly that. Did you have any success and if so how. It had been working properly for me b

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thursday 09 December 2004 5:44 pm, you wrote: > i'd throw in slackware/redhat/fedora into that same pot, and remove > lindows in our supported "pot-o-linux" The idea is to gain happy users, not scare them off from Linux permanently with RPM hell. > to me... linux distro cd's should be free,

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > The problem with sending out more than one distro is that 1) We've now > tried selling Lindows, SuSE, Knoppix and Debian and Debian's the only > one that sells, and 2) company policy dictates that we support what we > sell. Lindows doesn't sell, SuSE

Re: Debian retail kit?

On 12/08/2004 08:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on what people would expect in a retail kit for Debian, as I've been put in charge of pushing Debian in the shop I work at. Right now, since we're concerned only with i386, I'm thinking a Sarge CD set and a printed copy of

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thursday 09 December 2004 4:51 am, Kevin Mark wrote: > When I was becoming more intereted in Debian, I printed the install > manaul and the debian refernce. I did it at Kinko's by giing them a > PDF which they easily printed and spiral bound. (B/W -- as color is a > bit beyond my means) Wel

Re: groupware to go with kontact?

On Thursday 09 December 2004 4:18 pm, Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Thursday 09 Dec 2004 22:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm having difficulty finding a groupware suite that will work with > > kontact. Has anybody set something like this up before? What are the > > hangups? > > this page might help:

Re: groupware to go with kontact?

On Thursday 09 Dec 2004 22:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm having difficulty finding a groupware suite that will work with > kontact. Has anybody set something like this up before? What are the > hangups? this page might help: http://kontact.org/groupwareservers.php Peter Nuttall -- To UNSUBS

Re: how to track down dns SERVFAIL?

--On Friday, December 10, 2004 10:34 +1030 David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hmm - so if it returns No nameservers found for sydneyanglicans.net then I can probably assume that its not my fault right? No that usually means something is pretty wrong..I poked around in that zone,

Re: how to track down dns SERVFAIL?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:54:06PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > A good visuial/web based tool for this sort of thing is DNS Bajaj -- > > > > hmm - so if it returns No nameservers found for sydneyanglicans.net then I can probably assume that its not my

dpkg uninstalled packages, problem solved

a simple "dselect update" made information for most uninstalled packages available. There are still some packages with no description, but I guess these are packages which are indeed not available. Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/

Re: how to track down dns SERVFAIL?

A good visuial/web based tool for this sort of thing is DNS Bajaj -- --On Friday, December 10, 2004 10:15 +1030 David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble looking up a certain domain (not hostsed by my dns server) and I'm not sure if it is a pr

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Paul, > > When I was becoming more intereted in Debian, I printed the install > manaul and the debian refernce. I did it at Kinko's by giing them a PDF > which they easily printed and spiral bound. (B/W -- as color is a bit > beyond

Re: Learning GTK+ proramming under Debian

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:42:45PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: > What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming > and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've > messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+ >

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:57:24PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm looking for suggestions on what people would expect in a retail kit > for Debian, as I've been put in charge of pushing Debian in the shop I > work at. > > Right now, since we're concerned only with i386, I'm thinking a Sarge CD

how to track down dns SERVFAIL?

Hi, I'm having trouble looking up a certain domain (not hostsed by my dns server) and I'm not sure if it is a problem with my server or the dns server who is authoritative for this domain. Let me explain: www.sydneyanglicans.net is the host I am after. Here's is a series of dig commands and the

Re: Debian retail kit?

On Thursday 09 December 2004 5:26 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Just bought Sarge for $19.99, 14 CD's: > http://linuxcdrs.com/ > Very fast order: took just 3 days. But they haven't gotten to where I > am at (Mexico), will advise on their status. > > He responds very well to email, has Woody and S

Re: Sending all processes the TERM signal

Hi,     I tried your suggestions to no avail, the /usr filesystem wasn't even mounted. I am running with a RAID-5 hardware array if this matters at all. Any other suggestions?   FYI - reboot, shutdown, and init commands all hang with the msg:   "Sending all processes the TERM signal".   Thanks,   H

howto rescue an install with an USB keyboard??

Hello sometimes the reboot doesn't go well and the IPL gets stopped at the stage where some disk needs attending... and there i am blocked its now the 4th time i reinstalled the base system, since there seem no way to tell the rescue disk to load the scsi adapter module... and since the bios

how to tell the rrescue kernel to load the aic7xxx module?

Hello! i am still stuck with no functioning rescue disc my system uses only scsi disks and that case isn't thought of with sarge's rescue discs, and i get a kernel panic when i set the root argument i read through and go the bootoptions howto, and they explain how to set options for the s

Conexant Accessrunner

Hi again Is there any chance I might get some answers to this? If not, any suggestions as to how I might get some help? John Hi I have managed to install Woody 3.0r3, and otherwise I am new to Linux. I am trying to install a driver for my Conexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL modem. The (18 page!) inst

Debian 3.3 and AHA2940UW?

I'm installing Debian 3.3 on a SCSI system with an Adaptec AHA2940UW. When I boot to the Debian disk, it can't find the HD and asks for a floppy with the drivers. What do I do with that? Thanks, John -- John Conover, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.johncon.com/ -- To UNSU

groupware to go with kontact?

I'm having difficulty finding a groupware suite that will work with kontact. Has anybody set something like this up before? What are the hangups? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/ pgpVTVGv0GXsH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is there a "rescue floppy" for Sarge?

Thanks to everybody who responded! I don't need the "rescue floppy" now--I re-installed, but I will be better prepared the next time, which will come eventually, I don't hope. Sincerely - Mr. Jan Hearthstone. = Please take part in my survey on "Peace": http://www.modelearth.org/sur

Re: dpkg uninstalled packages

Alexander Pohl wrote: I'm using a freshly installed and up to date version of Debian Sarge. In Woody uninstalled packages had a description for installed as well as uninstalled packages by default. I would like to get the descriptions back as it is really bad when you don't see the description of a

Selective TCP listening with X

I'm interested in configuring X to listen for TCP connections on localhost but no other interfaces so that I can use xmove via SSH without opening X up to remote TCP-based attacks. Is there any X configuration option to do so? I know I could add this to a firewall, but I'd much prefer to do it wit

Re: dpkg uninstalled packages

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:40:04PM +, Alexander Pohl wrote: > hello, > > the dpkg package manager doesn't give a package description for > uninstalled packages. A sample output of dpkg -l '*mysql*' is given below: > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-f

Why has package X been removed? (was: cvsup in sid?)

Hello Jason, hello list! On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:32:34PM +, Jason Lunz wrote: > according to packages.debian.org, there are cvsup packages in woody, but > not in sarge or sid. How can I find out why it was dropped? Package removals from the archive? links to

Re: raid1 and filesystem type identifier FD

At Thursday, 09 December 2004, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >All, > >I have a few machines running raid1. On all but one machine, the >file system types on the mirror (/dev/hdc) are ext2. On the one machine >in question, I set the file system type to FD -- raid file sys

dpkg uninstalled packages

hello, the dpkg package manager doesn't give a package description for uninstalled packages. A sample output of dpkg -l '*mysql*' is given below: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X

cvsup in sid?

according to packages.debian.org, there are cvsup packages in woody, but not in sarge or sid. How can I find out why it was dropped? Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Solved, for now]: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) >> >case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning >> >HT off hel

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:02:41PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > ... which is annoying since this means that some new machines are > not supported by the official Debian release. I've already posted my "Debian should release far more often" rant here, probably too many times. -- Carl Fink

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:20:06PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Something I missed. echo 4 >/proc/acpi/sleep indeed does so. Then what? You power down? With the button? I reboot with resume=/dev/hda13 in the boot cmdline and linux complains about not being shutdown ri

Re: Nightstand Terminal

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 06:54:16AM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Does anybody have experience with the following? [...] > 3) Since an old laptop is a possible solution based on it's size, > any reccommended sources for purchasing used laptops that are > known to be able to run Woody?! The te

problem with dynamic linking against libc6 - errno missing?

I am trying to use the symbolic math toolbox through matlab which uses maple, and I am getting the following error which I can't make out, anyone has any ideas? Unable to load mex file: /usr/local/matlabR14/toolbox/symbolic/maplemex.mexglx. /usr/local/matlabR14/bin/glnx86/libmaple.so: symbol errno

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

Steve Block wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made i

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

Steve Block wrote: Chris Lale wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 15:44, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:13:50AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Last I checked, v2.8 is not in Sarge, yet. Besides, I run Sid, > so don't care that much about Sarge. > I think about 4 days back it made i

Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

Hi There, I have just completed install of debian testing on my new SMP server (xeon nocona processors) and went to install a new SMP-aware kernel and got this message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp_2.6.8-5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre

Re: echo server?

> Does Debian offer an echo server? I can't seem to find one in the > package list. Thanks, A. Well I just found one, provided internally by xinetd. I'm already running xinetd, so I'll just use that one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: echo server?

Hello Andrew Schulman (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Does Debian offer an echo server? I can't seem to find one in the > package list. Thanks, A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -e echo /etc/inetd.conf #echo stream tcp nowait rootinternal #echo dgram udp waitr

Re: echo server?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Does Debian offer an echo server? I can't seem to find one in the > package list. Thanks, A. I think you just have to enable echo in /etc/inetd.conf, and restart inetd Frank > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: echo server?

Andrew Schulman wrote: > Does Debian offer an echo server? There's one built into inetd, part of the netkit-inetd package. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to back up from "sid" to "testing"?

Rob Bochan escribió: On Friday 19 November 2004 02:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: Won't this be problematic? Sarge has different package names in it than Sid, and you may select something you really don't want to select or may miss something key. It seems like something you really need to eyeba

Re: /dev broken on upgrade to 2.6.9

Matthew Kay wrote: Hi all! Have got a nasty error on upgrading my kernel, using make-kpkg, to 2.6.9. I didn't change very much, just wanted to take advantage of the updated ACPI code. Specifically, the problem is that /dev is completely broken. It shows up but I can't cd into it (Not a Directory).

Error apt-getting new kernel image

Hi There, I have just completed install of debian testing on my new SMP server (xeon nocona processors) and went to install a new SMP-aware kernel and got this message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp_2.6.8-5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

When I first started using aptitude I got the impression that it was an almost all encompassing front-end to the command-line apt. I like it better than the gui front-ends because you can use it remotely over ssh. Using aptitude makes it a bit hard sometimes though, it seems a lot of people on th

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:20:06PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Something I missed. echo 4 >/proc/acpi/sleep indeed does so. Then > what? > You power down? With the button? I reboot with resume=/dev/hda13 in > the > boot cmdline and linux complains about not being shutdown right, > and he

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

On Wednesday 08 December 2004 22:55, Maurits van Rees wrote: ... > man apt-cache: > > DESCRIPTION > > apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package > cache. apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does > provide operations to search and generate interesting o

Re: [Error]dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ,dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } with eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x6 length 0 status 00000600!

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 04:45, Adomelf wrote: > Hi, > I meet some errors occasionally ,such as > dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } You don't say what version of Linux you are running. I had this problem on an old mother

echo server?

Does Debian offer an echo server? I can't seem to find one in the package list. Thanks, A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libsdl

Can anyone help me with libsdl please? I have it set up but it uses aalib as the default. I try using: export SDL_VIDEODRIVER='svgalib' or export SDL_VIDEODRIVER='svgalib' but when I try to run a program that will use libsdl I get the message: Could not initialise SDL [No available vi

Re: IP masquerading

Many thanks for all these replies. I've now got it working now so that another Debian box and a Mac can both connect through the Debian gateway. The thing I was doing wrong was in setting the gateway on the other network machines. Like not doing it on the Debian one [doh!] and mixing up proxy

Re: Question about debian with HP/Compaq ML350G4

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:57 -0800, HXD wrote: > Hi, > I am using a HP DL380 with SmartArray Raid 5. After upgrading to > kernel 2.6.x, startup is hanging with msg "Kernel panic: Attempted to > kill init!". Did you run into any similar issues? Did you have to make > any special configs for booti

Re: Question about debian with HP/Compaq ML350G4

Hi,     I am using a HP DL380 with SmartArray Raid 5. After upgrading to kernel 2.6.x, startup is hanging with msg "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!". Did you run into any similar issues? Did you have to make any special configs for booting with SmartArray Raid?   Thanks,   HungPete <[EMAIL PR

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:16:49AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up > in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml -- To UNSUB

Re: udev question

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 08:48:04 -0500, Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root.cdrom. What version of udev do you have? Have you modified any files > under /etc/udev? I hadn't modified any files then. udev version is 0.046-6 Maintainer informed me that it was a bug resolved in the next version.

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:10:58AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the machine to sleep. Its default was apm -s which of course never worked

Re: Persistent port forwarding without ssh

At Thursday, 09 December 2004, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:49:47 +1100, >Robert S wrote: >> >> I am wanting to set up a VPN using ssh between my office and my home Windows >> PCs, using a debian box at the remote end. The setup is as follows: >> >> HOME (wi

HD install broken?

What is the correct way to install full Debian on the PC without CD-ROM or network connection? I downloaded the 7 CD iso files and put them into root dir on ext2 partition on my portable USB harddisk. I booted from DOS using loadllin and vmlinuz / initrd.gz (downloaded from the /hd-install/ directo

Re: verification after cd burn

At Wed, 8 Dec 2004 17:47:53 -0500, Kudret Güler wrote: > > Hi, > > I use nautilus-cd-burner to backup some important stuff(binary as > well) on CD-Roms. How can I verify that the files on the cd and the > files on the hard drive are exactly the same. > > I use diff on directories with -r switch.

Re: how can I put an acpi laptop to sleep?

At Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:10:58 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > H. S. wrote: > > Apparently, _John Covici_, on 08/12/04 15:56,typed: > > > >> Hi. I have an IBM thinkpad and I installed Debian on it and got a > >> daemon called sleepd -- however it wants a command to actually put the > >> machine

Re: Persistent port forwarding without ssh

At Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:49:47 +1100, Robert S wrote: > > I am wanting to set up a VPN using ssh between my office and my home Windows > PCs, using a debian box at the remote end. The setup is as follows: > > HOME (winxp)- - - -- - - - DEBIAN SERVER > (win2K) > > I have managed to connec

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

At Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:16:49 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I heard a lot about X.org en thatin some distro's X.org wil replace Xfree. > > > > Is X.org better than Xfree ?? > > Does someone has X.org getting on work

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:16, Jon Dowland wrote: I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) In a nutshell, X.org was created because the XFree86 people wouldn't accept

Re: colors in the Debian console /services

On Thursday 09 December 2004 7:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using Sarge and just added an unstable reference to my > sources.list which upgraded all my packages recently. So maybe I > should considere I'm running a Sid (?). I just turned to Debian after > a Redhat / Mandrake short init

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:22:55AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:16, Jon Dowland wrote: > > I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up > > in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) > > So, if you're comple

raid1 and filesystem type identifier FD

All, I have a few machines running raid1. On all but one machine, the file system types on the mirror (/dev/hdc) are ext2. On the one machine in question, I set the file system type to FD -- raid file system (I read this somewhere but forget where now). On the machines which I used ext2 prior

Rotating mail.log

Hi all, My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed.) Antony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: colors in the Debian console /services

Adam writes: > However, you can also install the sysvconfig package, which will give you > the 'service' command that RedHat uses. It will give you the 'service' command, but Debian scripts do not support all the actions that Red Hat ones do. '--status-all' is a no-op in my 'service' script becau

Re: visual c++ equivalent

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:54:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > And if you are interested even Microsoft themselves don't use visual. The > whole > tool chain for windows is command line (I think it is proprietary though). I worked there. They use the Microsoft C++ compiler, a whole bunch of pe

dmesg message Possible Bad disk?

Please CC me as I'm not on the list. When I run dmesg I get: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'sh', page c19a29c8) flags:0x4114 mapping: mapped:1 count:0 Backtrace: Call Trace: [] bad_page+0x70/0xa0 [] free_hot_cold_page+0

Re: visual c++ equivalent

At Wed, 8 Dec 2004 10:53:45 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > i'd like to see an IDE that allows me to use my makefiles to build my > applications and let me see the file tree pane... aswell as integrated > debugging > is there any way to do this with the linux ides? > -- Fred > emac

Re: visual c++ equivalent

At Wed, 08 Dec 2004 07:17:17 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:51:19PM +0800, ms linux wrote: > > > >>is there a free visual c++ equivalent in linux ? > >>searching so far I only found IBM XLC, but of course, > >>it's not free. > >> > >>thanks, > >

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

On Thursday 09 December 2004 05:16, Jon Dowland wrote: > I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up > in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) In a nutshell, X.org was created because the XFree86 people wouldn't accept patches from out

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 16:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) > >case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning > >HT off helped --

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

On 2004-12-09 04:55:56 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:42:34PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Xorg will wait until Sarge+1 (namely, Etch). You don't need it anyway. > > Based on precedent, someone will in fact package Xorg for Sarge, but it > won't be part of the official r

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) >case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning >HT off helped -- when it was on then for -np 2 there was no speed up >(top implied the

Re: colors in the Debian console /services

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another question: how do "services" and, well, basically daemons, work > under Debian ? You know, I was used to those sweet "service dhcpd > restart", "service --status-all" from the Redhat family and it seems to be > slightly different there. By default you run the scr

Re: pop3 server????

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 07:29 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: > Debian: Testing > Exim: 4.38 > > Hello everyone, > > I have exim configured and working, the question is: > > exim can be used as a pop3 server? > > if not, which pop3 server is the best, I will > appreciate any feedback. > > I

Re: Upgrading from another debian machine

On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:35:24 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have woody on one machine and would like to upgrade to sarge. > > I have another machine [laptop, PCMCIA modem] that I upgraded from woody to > sarge. I did not delete the .deb files. > > Can I us the deb files

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