init scripts

1) In /etc/inittab run level is 2. In etc/rc2.d/ there is no discover/hotplug link. But discover and hotplug are run. How is it possible? 2) I get in boot as below Mon Oct 10 10:34:04 2005: Starting Hardware abstraction layer: 10:34:04.535 [W] hald.c:302: Your kernel does not support capabilities;

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > the answer is all ups will work if you have the magic wand ( skills ) > > > > This is incomplete. You also need magic powder (time and other resources), > > which are often not of trivial cost. So this answer is at best useless. > > like all things ..

Re: hibernate/sleep howto

Ganeshram Iyer wrote: hello experts, I have debian sarge on a dell inspiron 5000. i was looking at using either a sleep or hibernate function on it. but whatever info i am able to find online requires me to path and compile my own kernel. i have a very slow PC and limited space on my had (about

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

Roy Pluschke wrote: Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system and having to add windows. Unfortunately the program I need won'

Re: 2.6.13 breaks vga= support?

On 10/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using 2.6.11 with Splashy, passing "vga=791" with GRUB.  Iupgraded to 2.6.13, and now if I pass "vga=791", it boots blind, so tospeak: nothing is displayed on the screen at all, but from watchinghard disk activity I can tell it's b

Re: fonts are smaller when using xvncviewer

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> $vncserver -h >> usage: vncserver [:] [-name ] [-depth ] >> [-geometry x] >> [-pixelformat rgbNNN|bgrNNN] >> ... >> vncserver [-clean] -kill : > vnserver -dpi 100 solved the problem. I

Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system and having to add windows. Unfortunately the program I need won't play nicely with wine

Re: [dual monitor] Second video card (Cirrus Logic 5446) doesn't work

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Kent West wrote: > Andrea Ballatore wrote: > > > I've tried to read some HOWTOs and google stuff which ones .. you need to change /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/X11/XF86Config - you need to add the stuff for the 2nd card - you need to add the stuff for the 2nd

RE: Basic routing problem

Brett, Thanks for the suggestion. Would you be able to share details on how you configured your systems? Tx, Peter > -Original Message- > From: Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 5:41 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Basic routing prob

Re: [dual monitor] Second video card (Cirrus Logic 5446) doesn't work

Andrea Ballatore wrote: > I want to set up dual monitor with 2 video cards on my linux box. > Here's the hardware list: > > * AGP card: nvidia ti4200 (128 MB) > * PCI card: cirrus logic (2 MB) (don't laugh) > * monitor philips brilliance 19'' > * cheap monitor markless 17'' > * Athlon XP+ 2400, mo

Re: ratio - Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > even at smartUPS 1000 or higher, its still pieces of junk > > That would give a infinite for a SmartUPS XL right now on my account > (0 units replaced) ;-) :-) and we on the other hand have replaced say 20 out of 20 smart ups1000,

Re: shared Debian hosting

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Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

hi ya hmh On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > and whether you agree or not is irrelevant to the original > > question of which one is debianize .. > > Parse error. segfault :-) > > the answer is all ups will work if you have the

Re: ratio - Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > or number of units *you* bought vs the dead ones *you* replaced ... That would work, I suppose. > even at smartUPS 1000 or higher, its still pieces of junk That would give a infinite for a SmartUPS XL right now on my account (0 units replaced) ;-) -

Re: Basic routing problem

Hendrik Sattler wrote: Peter Coppens wrote: I assume you missed to add a route on R for the net of A pointing to B. Yes...that is probably what is wrong. Problem is I don't have enough privileges on the router to do that. Seems I am stuck, sigh. You can do NAT for A on B or install a prox

ratio - Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Colin wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Actually, I suggest trying MGE UPSes, they are DFSG-friendly to the point of mge's ( pulsar el4 ) works good ... outlasted the dead apc's by orders of magnitude > You probably haven't many complaints about them becaus

Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

* Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 09 21:27 -0500]: > There's a 2.6 APM kernel option called "RTC stores time in GMT" > (APM_RTC_IS_GMT) you might want to check. It looks like that might be useful for APM suspend/resume, but it's probably not what I'm looking for since I disable APM and enab

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Re: Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

Nate Bargmann wrote: I use a laptop that multiboots with XP and I just set up a second hard disk for it with Sid installed. As a result, the hardware clock is set to local time and I can't seem to change Sid's mind on this. Per the Debian GNU/Linux Administrator's Manual, the UTC variable in /e

Re: Failed Installation

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:36:28PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > Okay, why is this particular system being such a bitch to get Debian > > installed on. I'm using the etch net install CD ... > > That might answer your question. Etch is current

hibernate/sleep howto

hello experts, I have debian sarge on a dell inspiron 5000. i was looking at using either a sleep or hibernate function on it. but whatever info i am able to find online requires me to path and compile my own kernel. i have a very slow PC and limited space on my had (about 1gb) so do not want to in

Re: Failed Installation

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:36:28PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > Okay, why is this particular system being such a bitch to get Debian > installed on. I'm using the etch net install CD ... That might answer your question. Etch is currently in the middle of some major changes, and at least some deve

RE: shared Debian hosting

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Failed Installation

Okay, why is this particular system being such a bitch to get Debian installed on. I'm using the etch net install CD, and get as far as "Install Base System". However, that step ultimately fails. Here's a "screenshot" of the error (no way in hell am I going to write all that crappe down) http:/

Re: Using xfig

On Oct 09 2005, Maximillian Murphy wrote: > I don't know whether it's possible to start from a pre-existing > postscript or encapsulated postscript file and modify it using xfig? I think that that is the purpose of pstoedit, neatly packaged in Debian. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito

Re: Bitstream Vera on ATerm

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 01:50:01PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Yes, as documented, aterm only uses core fonts. You'll need to make Vera > (blech) available as one. Sorry for my ignorance, but how do I make Vera available as a core font? I couldn't find many pointers for this on the 'net... Kumar

Laptop clock is localtime, system time is off

I use a laptop that multiboots with XP and I just set up a second hard disk for it with Sid installed. As a result, the hardware clock is set to local time and I can't seem to change Sid's mind on this. Per the Debian GNU/Linux Administrator's Manual, the UTC variable in /etc/default/rcS controls

Re: Should users have to manually modprobe to use standard peripherals?

> I think hotplug detects new hardware ... Yeah, but according to other traffic on this list, hotplug no longer works with udev as of 2.6.12, which is what I'm using. Sorry, false alarm. > It might be interesting > 1. what messages you get when plugging the device in Printer: Oct 9 20:58:56 l

Re: CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK not working in Debian !

> # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -s -j MARK --set-mark 5 I guess you should use the conntrack module. I'm not sure, but I think you're marking only the first packet of the connection. I have something like this to mark them (different scenario... a load balancer with 2 uplink providers): ip

CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK not working in Debian !

hello, I tried to post the topic on many groups.. with no answer. I would like to use "ip rule add fwmark" and I think it's just not working in debian. system debian testing from 2005-10-07 kernel 2.6.12-1-386 iproute2 from apt-get, ss041019 iptables from apt-get, 1.3.3 problem I have

Re: sound, and floppies

Hendrik Sattler wrote: Did you install arts? If yes, manually set to to alsa output in kcontrol. The sound driver autodetection in arts _never_ worked for me. Arts is installed.  I tried switching kcontrol to alsa, and it did not work.  Then esd, then oss, finally back to autodetect, a

Re: A fresher sk98lin anyone (LG LW20 NIC)?

On 23:46 Sun 09 Oct , Didde Brockman wrote: > Hey - again. > > As stated earlier I could not get Debian-stable to detect a NIC or > drive(s) on my brand spanking new LG LW20 laptop running on Intel's 915 > chipset. Finally I gave up and tried testing ("etch") where I could > partition the d

Re: sound, and floppies

Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I work in a shelter, and we obtained a donated computer which I > set up. The computer is a Pentium II, 350 MHz, with 192 mb ram. It has > the default install, with kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 (and headers), > alsa-modules-2.4.27-2.386, and the default gnome desktop. S

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

Louis Woods wrote: > I don't know if this will solve your problem, but it worked for me: > After "alsactl store" didn't help (actually it maybe did, but I didn't > notice - see below) I started playing around with the sound plugins of > XMMS. Sidenote: all the time I was only testing sound with the

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

Joe Smith writes: > I cannot imagine that that bios needs a mouse for its cmos setup program. It doesn't. Nonetheless, it halts with a "No Pointing Device" error (or similar). It's an Aptiva A40. I just let it have its mousie. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

A fresher sk98lin anyone (LG LW20 NIC)?

Hey - again. As stated earlier I could not get Debian-stable to detect a NIC or drive(s) on my brand spanking new LG LW20 laptop running on Intel's 915 chipset. Finally I gave up and tried testing ("etch") where I could partition the drive, but the NIC still failed to detect. As it turns out

[dual monitor] Second video card (Cirrus Logic 5446) doesn't work

Hi, I want to set up dual monitor with 2 video cards on my linux box. Here's the hardware list: * AGP card: nvidia ti4200 (128 MB) * PCI card: cirrus logic (2 MB) (don't laugh) * monitor philips brilliance 19'' * cheap monitor markless 17'' * Athlon XP+ 2400, motherboard ASUS A7V8X I've tried to

[dual monitor] Second video card (Cirrus Logic 5446) doesn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to set up dual monitor with 2 video cards on my linux box. Here's the hardware list: * AGP card: nvidia ti4200 (128 MB) * PCI card: cirrus logic (2 MB) (don't laugh) * monitor philips brilliance 19'' * cheap monitor markless 17'' * Athlon

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > >> Did you try pressing F8 again? >> >> >> > Please bottom post to messages. > > I tried F8 again in the full screen session and nothing happens. The > pop up menu does not appear when I am in the full screen mode. > I just tried F8 here (als

problem when trying to install new packages

Hello, I am using Debian testing. I am not a developper and not really skilled for installation processes (I usually follow the instructions to the letter and it works). I tried to install several things using "apt-get install" command (see list below) and I always get an error message saying

RE: shared Debian hosting

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Re: Novice : how to stretch wireless network?

My setup is as follows: > Wide world. connected to > Router A with settings including: DNS server= various dns servers belonging to my telecommunications company connected to: LAN (big pool of switches, wireless gear and cables) with each machine on the LAN configured thus: Gateway= Router A

Re: Hotplug, udev, hal, etc.

On Sunday 09 October 2005 08:19 am, jjluza wrote: > I never said it works everywhere but you tell him it works nowhere : that's > wrong. > Anyway, Sid is not intend to work perfectly everywhere. it is intend to > test and stabilize new things. For people who want to have a stable system, > they sho

sound, and floppies

Hello. I work in a shelter, and we obtained a donated computer which I set up. The computer is a Pentium II, 350 MHz, with 192 mb ram. It has the default install, with kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 (and headers), alsa-modules-2.4.27-2.386, and the default gnome desktop. Shisen-sho, mahjongg, and su

Re: Bitstream Vera on ATerm

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:15:38PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I was wondering whether it would be possible to use the Bitstream Vera > Sans Mono font on ATerm. I use them on XTerm without any problem, but > ATerm does not seem to accept any font which is not present in the output > of xlsfonts.

Re: Hotplug, udev, hal, etc.

jjluza wrote: > Anyway, Sid is not intend to work perfectly everywhere. it is intend to > test and stabilize new things. For people who want to have a stable > system, they should use Sarge. Me waits for the day that this major change gets to testing. Then it's not at unstable anymore. As I said

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: Did you try pressing F8 again? Please bottom post to messages. I tried F8 again in the full screen session and nothing happens. The pop up menu does not appear when I am in the full screen mode. thanks raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: No Swap

Whether or not it is used, the output of "top" or "free" should show how much swap is available. Hear hear. Did the incantation work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Louis Woods wrote: Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to rerun alsaconf everytime I reboot. Any solutions to how this can be fixed would be grand. Well, why should anyone here gu

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith writes: Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. Nothing to do with the OS: it's the BIOS (too old to be writeable). I know that it would be the BIOS. But this is idiotic as no reasonable operati

Re: About Apache

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:16:53AM -0700, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > Not: in the httpd.conf file doesnot conteins any deny or allowed ip A static list of allowed hosts/IPs is probably defined in a .htaccess file, in your case it is most likely /www/mysites/secure/absx/.htaccess or /www/mysites/se

Re: iptables newbie

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:12:23PM -0700, James Gibbon wrote: > Sorry, I figured out my problem. iptables was working fine I actually needed > to use the following command to make my rule stick: > # iptables -I INPUT -s 123.45.67.89 -j DROP

Re: Basic routing problem

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:48:00AM -0400, Peter Coppens wrote: > > Or maybe you can make B act like a bridge instead of a router > > and put A > > on 192.168.1.0/24. > > I have attempted to use brctl on B to bridge eth0 and wlan0 and > something seems to work...something meaning when I do dhclie

How come idle time > uptime

Hi, When I ran "w" command, I was so surprised to find that the idle time is 3 times bigger as the uptime. How come? $ w 15:11:10 up 61 days, 1:20, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT root tty1 -

Re: Using xfig

cum LaTeX Yes, although I've found that writing straight postscript isn't hard either. Wrote an entire slide show complete with pictures in raw postscript in under an hour a couple of months ago. Not bad! But where raw postscript excels is in making mathematical diagrams - that's how I was

Re: iptables newbie

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:12:23PM -0700, James Gibbon wrote: > On 10/8/05, James Gibbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if I try to block the aforementioned SOB's ip address on the filter table > > (when -t isn't specified it is supposed to go to the filter table): > > # iptables -A INPUT -s 123

Re: Should users have to manually modprobe to use standard peripherals?

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 12:39:31AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Twice this week, I've had to become superuser and install kernel modules > manually to make standard peripherals work. This seems broken to me. > > (...) > > So: what package does one report "the proper modules didn't load > automatica

Re: Mozilla-mail message-list pane not updating

I take it you are referring to Thunderbird, the Mozilla mail client? I get such lags as well, in a number of things and sometimes, especially if I have a large (>1000) number of messages in a directory it can all but freeze up. I use it on an apple, by the way, it's not a debian issue. I imagin

Re: kernel 2.6.13

Consultazione wrote: when will be available kernel 2.6.13 in debian unstable? Running 2.6.13-ck7 from http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ with Debian Sarge. Runs great. Not using the SWAP PREFETCHING FEATURE. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

Joe Smith wrote: > > "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Andy Anderson writes: >> >>> Any ideas? >> >> Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard. >> >> I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must >> have >> a mouse. > > N

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

I wrote: > I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have > a mouse. Joe Smith writes: > Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. Nothing to do with the OS: it's the BIOS (too old to be writeable). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Louis Woods wrote: Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to rerun alsaconf everytime I reboot. Any solutions to how this can be fixed would be grand. Well, why should anyone here gu

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

"John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Anderson writes: Any ideas? Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard. I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have a mouse. Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. T

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Colin wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >Actually, I suggest trying MGE UPSes, they are DFSG-friendly to the point > >of > >supporting the development of DFSG UPS-monitor software (nut), and I could > >not find a single complaint against their hardware through goog

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Rackspace, Ltd.: I am looking for shared Debian hosting. It looks like Rackspace, Ltd. owns the "debianhosting.com" domain name. Looking at http://www.rackspace.com/solutions/managed_linux.php, I see Red Hat hosting but not Debian. Does Rackspace offer shared Debian hosting? If not, is Rackspa

Re: testing CD nowhere in debian site ???

belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi, I checked it more and more there is only the oficial sarge ( june 7th) see the link http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/ in the past, before sarge was released it was a dircory nmed weekly which conatined the testing version, why not

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Actually, I suggest trying MGE UPSes, they are DFSG-friendly to the point of supporting the development of DFSG UPS-monitor software (nut), and I could not find a single complaint against their hardware through google... You probably haven't many complaints a

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Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thanks, Henrique. I was thinking of getting an APC BP500UC. The mobo I > just bought and am running with has only 1 serial port, which has my > external modem, so I need an UPS with USB connection. Not may UPSes are well supported through USB. In par

Install on Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad R50e

Subject says most of it :) Machine has: 1.4GHz Celeron 256M of memory 40G hard disk Intel extreme graphics Intel Pro network card Intel 2200 WiFi I see a couple of reports of semi-success with Debian on this machine and one with Ubuntu. Planning to run testing/unstable rather than stable. E

Compiling binutils -- can you spot the error?

Dear All, Compiling binutils: ~zen> ./configure ~zen> make .. lots of waffle, then: Making all in po make[3]: Entering directory `/home/lfs/toolset/sandbox/binutils-2.16.1/opcodes/po' file=../.././opcodes/po/`echo pt_BR | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH no -o $file

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: The UPS is undergoing a full cycle now (AKA I pulled the main power), so that I can time the power-offline uptime of the unit again. I will report back if it is significantly less than what it used to ma

Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

George J. (Andy) Anderson, > Does anyone know it there is a (simple) way to "emulate" a keyboard? What does it do if you plug a mouse in the keyboard port? -- regards, Christopher Pharo Glæserud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Test

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Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

Andy Anderson writes: > Any ideas? Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard. I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have a mouse. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Digest are coming

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Re: Should users have to manually modprobe to use standard peripherals?

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:53:42AM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:40:07 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > > Twice this week, I've had to become superuser and install kernel modules > > manually to make standard peripherals work. This seems broken to me. > > If you always want t

2.6.12 and ALSA

This just gets worse and worse. First, mpu401 no longer loaded. Now, usb-audio comes up with many undefined constants. I have removed 2.6.12. 2.6.11 runs fine (and I know the little trick to get a few modules I compiled with gcc4 to work with it). Hope 2.6.13 turns out better :-) -- To UNSU

The mess on Sid -- dist upgrade controlling KDE removals?

What I would like to do is: 1. Temporarily pin a few packages that simply are not getting fixed such as iptables and mime support. 2. Run a dist-upgrade BUT decide what gets removed and what gets kept--the renamed packages would obviously go. Stuff like kplayer, etc., would stay. The fact is tha

Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...

I have an old PC (600 MHz P3 with 384Mb RAM, 160Gb IDE, and DVD+-R/RW) running Sarge. It works great as a backup server, and I'm planning to add Samba so that it can share some disk space with some WinXP PCs. I'd like to use it headless - no monitor, keyboard or mouse. However, it won't boot wi

Re: how to find distribution name

For kernel version you might also like to look at the names of the entries in /boot/. All the same I'm certain I've encountered a command that tells you this - straight from the mouth of the kernel so to speak- but I can't remember what it is. Perhaps I'm remembering a configure.guess file or s

Re: gui network scan

Rodney Richison wrote: > What gui program might be good for scanning a network to take an > inventory of machines and ip address's etc on a network? ntop might be useful. Set it up with "ntop -A" and then look at http://localhost:3000 for stats, charts and other info. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Printer

On 10 Oct 2005, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:16:02AM -0700, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > > > > Also, did you see Charles de Miramon's > > email? He said: > > > I had the same problem than Malcolm. Upgrading my kernel to > > > linux-image-2.6.12 > > > broke printing on the para

Re: Hotplug, udev, hal, etc.

Le Dimanche 9 Octobre 2005 14:32, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > > > jjluza wrote: > > Udev without hotplug works well here with kernel 2.6.13. > > Read again! 2.6.13 is greater than 2.6.12, so you completely missed the > point! > You talked about 2.6.14, so don't be so annoying. 2.6.13 exists and wo

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > and whether you agree or not is irrelevant to the original > question of which one is debianize .. Parse error. > the answer is all ups will work if you have the magic wand ( skills ) This is incomplete. You also need magic powder (time and other resource

Re: Printer

On 22:55 Sat 08 Oct , Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > > Check if you have /dev/lp0 and look at lpr.log > I do have /dev/lp0, and the file /var/log/lpr.log is empty. :-( > Any other suggestions? > I'm beginning to seriously think this is a bug in the Debian kernel > 2.6.12. I haven't submitted a bug re

About Apache

Hello in our company, apache web server running on linux system. in the httpd.conf file document directory is /www/mysite/sxstore. All php files are in /www/mysite/sxstore. and there is a control panel for boss to check the reports of company. This contol panel's php files are in   /www/mysites/sec

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > So what's your recommendation for Debian compatible UPS? > > > alll UPS is debian compatible as long as: > > > - your box has rs232 > > > - the ups ha

Re: Hotplug, udev, hal, etc.

jjluza wrote: > Udev without hotplug works well here with kernel 2.6.13. Read again! 2.6.13 is greater than 2.6.12, so you completely missed the point! > All things keep on working very well : sound, nvidia, tv, cpufreq, usbkey > and others ... So, what the problem is ? Before hitting the main

Bitstream Vera on ATerm

Dear list, I was wondering whether it would be possible to use the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font on ATerm. I use them on XTerm without any problem, but ATerm does not seem to accept any font which is not present in the output of xlsfonts. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indi

Re: gui network scan

Quoting Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What gui program might be good for scanning a network to take an inventory of machines and ip address's etc on a network? Why must it be a gui tool? Why not just look for the best tool, gui or not, for the job? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez

Re: how to exit from fullscreen vncviewer

On 10/8/05, *kamaraju kusumanchi* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am using vncviewer on Debian Unstable. In the vnc session, If I > press F8 then there is a pop up menu and I can choose to go to "full > screen mode". But how do I exit from the full screen mode? Any ideas? I'm n

Re: treo 600 as a modem

Wiadomość Oryginalna Od: Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do: debian-user@lists.debian.org Data: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:06:42 -0700 Temat: Re: treo 600 as a modem > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > How to use treo 600 as a modem.(gprs) > > Now it's working good with KPilot,I've got modules

Re: Hotplug, udev, hal, etc.

Udev without hotplug works well here with kernel 2.6.13. All things keep on working very well : sound, nvidia, tv, cpufreq, usbkey and others ... So, what the problem is ? Before hitting the maintainer, you should give it a try first, shouldn't you ? Le Dimanche 9 Octobre 2005 12:36, Hendrik Sat

gui network scan

What gui program might be good for scanning a network to take an inventory of machines and ip address's etc on a network? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 918-358- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

RE: Basic routing problem

> Or maybe you can make B act like a bridge instead of a router > and put A > on 192.168.1.0/24. I have attempted to use brctl on B to bridge eth0 and wlan0 and something seems to work...something meaning when I do dhclient on A it gets an address from R. After that I can however still not ping

Re: Help for damaged package management

Mankuthimma wrote: Now if I ask upgrading this package, the system wants to REMOVE approximately 130 packages Most probably, you are missing a couple of gnome dependencies, try doing this # aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment OMG Mankuthimna !!!

Re: Basic routing problem

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:16:35AM -0400, Peter Coppens wrote: > >Debian (network) fans, > > > >I am strugging with a basic routing problem > > > >I have two machines and a router which is connected to the internet. [..] >Anybody any suggestions what is going on, or any id

Re: Printer

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:16:02AM -0700, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > > Also, did you see Charles de Miramon's > email? He said: > > I had the same problem than Malcolm. Upgrading my kernel to > > linux-image-2.6.12 > > broke printing on the parallel port on my computer. It seems that something > >

Re: AGRICULTURE - TECHNICAL TRANSLATION

Javier Redoano wrote: TECHNICAL TRANSLATION English/Spanish - Spanish/English - Crops - Cattle Raising - Swine - Poultry - Farm Machinery - Agricultural Inputs - Veterinary Medicine - Farm Management - Agricultural Economics - Commodity Commercialization - Rural Policy - Natural Resources For f

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