Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-26 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:16:52PM -0800, Tim Moss wrote: > You need XFree 4.2.0 for Radeon 7500 support but I don't think 4.2.0 is > available as Debian packages yet. All very true. Before you bug the maintainer (like I did...) Check his webpage for updates: http://people.debian.org/~branden/

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-13 Thread Aaron Brashears
Thanks for the info - you're spot on. The maintainer says he's working on 4.2 right now. On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:01:17AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > You need 4.2 for 7500.. 7500 is basically identical to "regular" Radeon > just different ID that's why it's not detected. > > I would file a bug a

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Timothy Burt wrote: > 1) Have you compiled support for agpgart in the kernel? And are you >using the kernel-supplied radeon driver? Following your suggestion, I installed the radeon driver in the kernel. This caused a temporary disruption in display,

ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
I just went out and got an ATI Radeon to replace my dusty old video card. However, X doesn't seem to like my configuration for it, and won't start as a result. Can anyone supply a copy of their working XF86Config-4 they use with the ATI Radeon? Here's a few choice lines from my configuration - can

mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro kernel. On bootup, I get the following message: Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:0

Re: Can't startx due t fixed fonts

2002-01-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
I didn't see the original post, but I just ran into this 2 days ago on a system upgrade. I suspect something is broken in the package dependencies, but I'm not sure where. I did many searches on google and the debian lists and found some solutions. None of them worked for me, but most of them all f

S/Key Password prompt using ssh

2002-01-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently upgraded my workstation to the latest unstable. Then, I attempted to ssh into a freebsd server I do some work on, but got the following unusual message: otp-md5 128 fl6641 ext S/Key Password: I'm not exactly sure what it's asking for, and using my password doesn't work. Using the ver

evolution and conduits

2001-11-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
First, thank you so much for making the pre-release of evolution available! It looks pretty darn good. However, one piece that I've been looking for is the pilot-evolution conduit. The gnome control center I have (1.4.0.1-13) allows me to set gnome-pilot-conduits (0.7-1) which include EAddres, ECa

Re: Debugger DDD with gdb

2001-10-31 Thread Aaron Brashears
As has been pointed out, your problem description isn't very clear. There could be a lot of reasons for 'failure.' To answer your other question - I like both insight and ddd. I don't know if insight will work with the debian stable distribution. On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:37:05PM -0500, [EMAIL P

Re: logging Firewall traffic

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
I use ippl to track network traffic. I've never configured it to track things like NAT usage, or anything complex. However, by combining some carefully chosen ipchains with the -l option with ippl, you should be able to log most anything. http://pltplp.net/ippl/ http://packages.debian.org/stable/n

Re: customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
Though the question has been answered, I think you'll find this resource valuable when dealing with emacs customization: http://www.dotfiles.com/ On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:23:06PM +0300, Tuomas Pellonpera wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer "bsd" style,

Re: free proxy server

2001-10-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=free+proxy+server&n=25 http://www.google.com/search?q=free+proxy+server Try search engines. They still work. On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote: > Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet?

exim and aliases

2001-09-21 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have a computer with multiple domains which point to it. One of the domains is dedicated to a group of friends that will use it for email, web stuff, etc. I offered to give everyone on the box aliases through /etc/aliases but I get an error in testing. In aliases - localemail: [EMAIL PROTEC

using convert to batch convert

2001-07-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have many, many images that I want to scale down using imagemagick's convert utility. The convert utility doesn't seem to work correctly unless you give it an output name per input filename, but the man page doesn't make it clear how to do this, and I'm stumped as to how to generate a new name fo

Re: [OT] Harassment of open source developer !

2001-07-07 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:52:48PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > they should rename KIllustrator to: Adobe Illustrator Replacement > > that should be covered by fair use (it only refers to adobe > illustrator which is allowed) How about one better: Free Adobe Illustrator Replacement aka: FAIR

uudecode files with multiple encoded files

2001-07-04 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have a few files that contain multiple uuencoded files inside of them. As it stands uudecode will only decode the first one in the file, so I load up the file in an editor and delete the first encoded file, and uudecode the larger file again to extract the next uuencoded file. This is a pain. I

making an 'Eterm' terminfo entry

2001-06-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently put together a new debian box based on unstable. When I connect to my local server running debian stable using ssh in Eterm, the server complains when I run ncurses based applications such as emacs that there is no 'Eterm' TERM type. I hacked a solution quickly enough by creating a symli

Re: libpcap0 question

2001-06-01 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:03:08AM -0600, Curtis Hogg wrote: > My question then, is this? How/where did the .so file come from? When I > compiled libpcap 0.6.2 from source from www.tcpdump.org, all i got was a > libpcap.a file. I'm also working on a project using libpcap and libpcap dev, and I no

Re: logcheck

2001-04-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have logcheck installed on a few systems. i cleared out most > of the things generating the reports but..it still emails me > every hour and the only contents of the email are the log entries > of it sending the previous email(m

Re: ip masquerade : which one?

2001-04-17 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:13:34AM +1000, Kevin Easton wrote: > ipmasq is the go. ipmasq is cool. ipmasq rocks your world. > > Just setup your internet access on the gateway machine, then when it's all > working, apt-get install ipmasq - and you'll have ipmasquerading for all > your local networ

What is rnews - why is it logging in my system?

2001-04-12 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm getting a strange log entry in my system, that happens every 14 minutes past the hour. I checked my chrontab and chron.d to make sure there's no unknown service running - but all I have is exim, postgresql, and logcheck and the standard daily, weekly, monthly scripts. Here's what a sample line

Re: Woody nukes Gnome

2001-04-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:48:45PM -0700, David Steinberg wrote: > Is there a simple way to remove the Ximian packages and replace them with > the Woody ones? I was forced to pretty much purge everything that showed up with 'dpkg -l | grep ximian', and then reinstall x/gnome/enlightenment from the

Re: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:36:00AM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > In my workstation, I've currently got a Matrox G200 card. I recently came > across a TNT2 card that I'd like to use instead, since it's a better card > overall. > > Looking a /usr/share/doc/xserver-svga/README.NVIDIA is metions that o

Re: K guys here's a new one for me....

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:59:25AM -0500, C Mead wrote: > The box did not have X on it and Lynx was becoming a bit of a pain, so I > unplugged the ethernet and put it into one of those new powerbooks (very > nice), so i could track down a solution for the error on the web. Found the > solution plug

Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:55:43AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > what's the incantation? The only consistent cross-application method of copy and paste I'm aware of is to select text with the mouse, activate the window you want to paste into, and press the middle mouse button, or both simul

Re: Setting ippl mail frequency

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:00:22PM +0200, Alson van der Meulen wrote: > > Does anyone know how to set the ippl mail frequency? > ippl doesn't mail afaik, maybe you're running some logcheck like tool, > that periodically sumarizes the logs, and mails odd things to you That's possible. I do have log

Setting ippl mail frequency

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Brashears
I've searched through ippl.conf(5), google, cron.d, and the included documentation, but I just can't figure out how to set the frequency of reports from ippl. It's a really handy tool, and I like the fact that it logs all kinds of activity, and that I can selectively tell it not to log certain kin

Yahoo messenger works

2001-03-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
Simply FYI: I just downloaded yahoo's messenger rpm 0.93.0, converted it with alien to a deb, inspected it's contents, and installed the deb file. The distribution only contains a copyright and a /usr/local/bin/ymessenger binary file. After installation, the program works, and provides a nice alte

Re: start-stop-daemon, postgresql, and options

2001-03-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings. > > Running a locally-compiled postgresql 7.0.3, I'm still trying to get it > to start up automatically at boot time. The trick is, of course, to get > it to start as user postgres instead of root. > > I've got it mostly

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:27:27PM -0600, Zac Epkes wrote: > NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels > Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] I'm another user running 2.4.1, with NVidia driver, GLX, and quake3 running just fine. :) (oh, and tux racer works good to - and is a great game)

Re: NVdriver problems

2001-03-15 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:39:21AM -0500, Kyle Girard wrote: > Alright I've been trying to get this kernal module to work for a couple > of days off and on without any success I have tried many different > ways with many different kernels and I get natta, zip, zilch. Any help > would be apprie

Re: enlightenment question

2001-03-12 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:52:05PM -0700, Mike Millner wrote: > The colors show up but not the whole thing. I'm only getting colors and the > menus change but not the background the way the sample pictures show. Not all themes actually come with the background shown in the snapshot at e.themes.or

Re: can't install new kernel

2001-03-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 07:51:28PM +0100, Arkaitz wrote: > I used kernel-package to build a new 2.4.2 kernel package for my woody > machine, and installed it ok. The problem is that if I do "uname -r", it > still says that the kernel version is 2.2.17. > I think everything is configured ok, in lilo

Re: X 4.0 Upgrade /etc/X11/X ?

2001-03-02 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > $ X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1 > X: Cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), > aborting > Indeed, there is no /etc/X11/X, but I don't know what > should be there. Is it a symlink? If so, to what? This file should be a symlink t

Re: What's up with Mozilla

2001-02-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Greg Gilbert wrote: > What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, > and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade > to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or > something? As was said in

Re: apt-get..

2001-02-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:00:45AM -0500, Dale Kosan wrote: > Would this be the correct line to add for upgrading to testing: > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/ main contrib non-free ? > Then I would just do an apt-get update followed by a apt-get dist > upgrade? Thanks for your help

Re: openacs configuration

2001-02-26 Thread Aaron Brashears
Just to bring a little closure on this... It ends up that I didn't have the aolserver postgress driver installed. That was a big pain because of conflicting package dependencies which made it impossible to simply apt-get what I needed. Eventually, I compiled the driver from source (and submitted a

Re: postgresql startup script

2001-02-25 Thread Aaron Brashears
Does the source distribution come with the file bin/postresql-startup in the PGHOME directory? In the debian distribution, this script is called by /etc/init.d/postgresql and handles startup based on the configuration file. On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 08:52:02PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Could so

aolserver/openacs package dependency problem

2001-02-25 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there. I'm having a problem installing openacs on my sid system. The problem arises because of bug #84041 with aolserver 3.2-4 which fails during install. To circumvent this problem, I installed aolserver 3.0rc2-4 available in potato. I then attempted to install openacs, which correctly installs

openacs configuration

2001-02-23 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm comparing openacs, phpgroupware, and zope for use as a groupware system for a group I'm volunteering with. I attempted to set up openacs first, but quickly ran into a problem with configuration. Everything is set up (with an earlier version of aolserver, since the testing/unstable deb is badly

Re: Sawfish

2001-02-23 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:11:24PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I added Ximian Gnome to my testing box yesterday, but when I try to use > Sawfish as my window manager it justs sits there. It shows the "standard" > X background, but nothing else. There are no errors on the screen and > sawfis

Re: Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 2.4.1, too, but I didn't get alsa to build. I used the > male-dpkg modules_image method. alsa-source from woody didn't compile, > the package from sid had a problem that looked like I needed some newer > package m

Correction: [2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?]

2001-02-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
Just one tiny correction. After figuring out what modconf actually does, I've easily managed to manually install all kernel modules I need with insmod. I guess that the gui hasn't been updated to understand 2.4.1 directories, but the other utilities work fine. No big deal really...

2.4.1 install successful - what's up with modconf?

2001-02-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
Thank you to all who let me know some more information about kernel 2.4.1. It installed flawlessly, runs smoothly so far, and if anything seems lightning quick. I'm looking forward to reformatting some of the partitions as reiser and play around with it for a while. However, I'm really confused by

Any gotchas with kernel 2.4.x and Debian?

2001-02-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'd like to try out kernel 2.4.1 from unstable, but I wanted to know if there's anything I should be wary of. A quick search through the archives of debain-user revealed there's *something* with modconf, but I'm not sure what the problem is. Is there anything I should be aware of before attempting

Re: jre problem

2001-02-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:54:10PM +0800, wujf wrote: > Today I tried to install oracle8i on my Potato box with glibc > upgraded and jdk1.1 from unstable. The installer program > failed to invoke the 'dbassist', when i run it from command > line, jre said: > > Unable to initialize threads: cannot

Re: apt-get and dpkg woes

2001-02-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, skip any response to this you have. I seem to have killed most of the system. I can still use the console, but X has died, as have several other programs. ssh still works though ;). On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 07:43:00PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I recently decided to upgrade my sys

apt-get and dpkg woes

2001-02-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently decided to upgrade my system at home since it's been a while. I ran into a lot of problems, and the upgrade was VERY rough. However, after all of my playing around with the system, it seems to be left in a partially broken state. When I try to do an apt-get uprage, here's what happens:

Re: EGCS?

2001-02-04 Thread Aaron Brashears
egcs is part of gcc 2.95. http://gcc.gnu.org/ http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline > I'm trying toi compile something and it seems to require egcs. I can't > find that package in the unstable dist. I did a search on "egcs" in > the debian packages also. No go. > > Thoughts? > > Robert

Re: Xemacs won't run

2000-12-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:18:01PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > For some reason Xemacs won't run. It used to, but for some (unkown) reason > it has stopped. When I try to run the mule binary (or any other binary for > that matter), it runs my hard-drive for a second, and then nothing happen

Re: postgresql + JDBC

2000-12-21 Thread Aaron Brashears
The driver in libpgjava has worked reliably for me for a while. Sadly, it doesn't support stored procedures. Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:44:30PM +0100, Pascal THIVENT wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a high performance JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. > Does someone have already tested some ? > What are y

Re: JDE install problem on Linux

2000-12-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 09:46:07AM -0700, Glenn Murray wrote: > 1. Via the Debian package. I can't find any documentation >on what to add to my .emacs, the usual things (load >path and require) don't seem to work. JDE was orphaned a while ago, so I'm not sure if everything has been kep

Which X is running?

2000-12-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my system. Sadly, this completely broke X. To fix things, I manually installed task-x-window-system-core since apt-get was holding it back. I configured the system during the set up script and X still wouldn't start claiming that the configuration files were wro

Re: Backspace key

2000-12-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:01:11PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, thus spake Glyn Millington: > > > > I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng > > went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now > >

Re: Recipe for installng Tomcat on (Debian) Linux?

2000-12-07 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:10:02PM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > There is one at: > http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat > > But it is 3.1, and I have had trouble getting it to run. > It had a dependency on IBM Java, but is incompatible with IBM JVM. > > I may re-try it from a clean instal

Re: Java Debian Package

2000-12-01 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:52:30AM +0100, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: > Well, back to the question: How do I create a simple package that contains > the files and does VERY SIMPLE tasks in preinst/postinst/prerm? No postrm > required. > > If someone has written a similar thing, could you send it to

Re: CD to MP3 Util

2000-11-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
To give you yet another option, I use grip with cdparanoia and lame. On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:20:22PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi , > > Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux? > TIA!

Re: usb port question

2000-11-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:39:20PM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm using a handspring visor, which I have set up using a serial docking > cradle. I've also got a usb cradle and I would like to try and configure > my system to use it. My serial port cradle is /dev/ttyS0 which is > symlinked to /dev/

New ricochet works fine

2000-11-25 Thread Aaron Brashears
I asked this question a while ago, and I've seen it appear twice since. So, to set answer that question, it works fine with my debian woody installation. First, with my particular laptop, I had to enable the serial port in the bios. I intend to eventually apply the usb back port, but I have too m

Re: is possible mp3?

2000-11-17 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:05:28AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Is it possible to add content to an exsisting mp3? I would > like to take a particular track and add an voice identifier > to it.. If so, what utility would I use to edit/create mp3's? It sure is possible to add content. mp3 f

Re: java 1.2?

2000-11-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 07:00:33PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hey people. While I'm not the biggest Java fan at the moment, I was > curious about Java 1.2. I realize I can grab it from blackdown, but I noticed > that it's not available as a deb package. It is simply too unstable for > i

Re: jdk 1.2?

2000-11-01 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:15:51PM -0500, Joey Tsai wrote: > > > Hi, is there a debian package for JDK 1.2? >^^ > > > > http://www.blackdown.org/ > The more appropriate part to highlight would have been the 1.2 part, not the debian package part. With a simple sear

Re: jdk 1.2?

2000-11-01 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:38:41PM -0500, Joey Tsai wrote: > Hi, is there a debian package for JDK 1.2? http://www.blackdown.org/

Re: Real problem with sshd - hosts.deny

2000-10-31 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, I guess the answer is that home.net was messed up or something. It started working again this morning. On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 01:19:56PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > I go to work. I ssh to my home server to check email. No problem. A > few hours later, I try to ssh again, but it

Real problem with sshd - hosts.deny

2000-10-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
My last message was in error. The problem report I sent was after spending a while trying to figure out what was wrong, and in the process changed the system configuration. While trying to figure out the problem, I seemed to have figured out what's failing. Here's the observed problem: I go to wor

ssh is refusing connections

2000-10-30 Thread Aaron Brashears
I've been running my server for 89 days now, on potato for the whole time. It's been quite stable and happy for a while now. However, without an update to either the server or my portable machine, ssh began refusing connections all of a sudden. 'Garrison' is the machine's local name, as listed in m

Re: deb package documentation

2000-10-24 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:26:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 11:42:05AM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > > I'm actually looking for the installation and > > configuration documentation in the package ipmasq.deb. > > I want to have it read and noted before I even try to > > in

Console new mail notification

2000-10-23 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. Is there any way to configure bash to check i

Re: firewall & masquerade script availability - 'potato'

2000-10-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:44:37PM -0700, Stephen nyc wrote: > Can someone point me in the right direction to find a > good basic script with documentation that works with > debian? Unfortunately, I don't have as much time as I > would like to dig into the internals on ip-chains at > this time. Som

Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?

2000-10-20 Thread Aaron Brashears
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:26:47PM -0400, David Teague wrote: > What is the "native-RTF editor for Linux"? > Is there a Debian package for it? apt-get install abiword

Re: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
Ok, I guess the uninstall of portmap didn't kill the process. After killing it, and doing another portscan, all is better. I am running bind, so I guess I want 'domain' running on 53. Thanks :) Marc Wilson wrote: > > Port 111 is the portmapper (for NFS and other RPC services) and port 53 is > BI

sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm making some efforts to tighten up security on my home server. I've been closing some services that I don't need, and after thinking I'd cleared everything out, I did an nmap scan of the box. Everything was as it should be except for sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53. I couldn't find any

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
> I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out > the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of > Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP > mail). I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires

Re: Java JSP Tomcat

2000-10-18 Thread Aaron Brashears
Well, I've noticed that Tomcat is not listed in the work-needing and prospective packages ( http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ) - so if you'd like to pick it up, I'd be happy to see that. :) I'm trying to figure out how to build debs right now, because I develop using jde (which needs a maintainer

Ricochet unix compatability

2000-10-17 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have been thinking about getting a ricochet wireless modem for my laptop. A friend of mine told me he had no problem configuring his old (28kbps) modem with a linux box. However, after reading the marketing material which doesn't even claim NT compatability, much less *nix - I'm unsure if I'll be

Re: Kde2 crashing and debugging

2000-10-16 Thread Aaron Brashears
You could do an apt-get source ... and then do a dpkg-buildpackage to build your own binary debs with debugging info. I've never done it myself, so I can't give you any pointers, but it should be possible. Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > Could we please build the kde2 .debs with debugging enabled so > tha

Re: Debian pre-installed system

2000-10-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
Kevin Krafthefer wrote: > Does anyone know a computer manufacture that sells machines with Debian > installed on them? I think that http://emperorlinux.com/ will do that for you.

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
Andy Bastien wrote: > You might not even need to use NTLM to access the server, as Exchange > servers accept plaintext authentication by default. If your NT account > is the primary account for the mailbox, try just using your username > and password or domain/username and password. IMAP is more

Re: Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Try running fetchmail in verbose mode, log the output, redact your > password, and post to list. > Here's the edited output fetchmail: 5.5.0 querying exchange.corp.myplay.com (protocol IMAP) at Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:35:08 -0700 (PDT) fetchmail: IMAP< * OK Microsoft Ex

Fetchmail and NTLM configuration

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there. I am running woody, and have the sad requirement that I must use the company's exchange server. I've been using netscape for a while, and it works fine using the format 'domain/ntusername/mailboxname' for access the imap gateway on the server. I've also tested mutt, and it's imap support

Re: bash shell

2000-10-05 Thread Aaron Brashears
Bash is the default shell. XEN O wrote: > > I am currently running a red hat derivative linux and an looking to change to > debian (as reports speak highly of it). However, it seems from looking at > the list of shells packaged with debian it does not come with the bash shell > - it this righ

Re: strange errors on leaving Enlightenment

2000-10-03 Thread Aaron Brashears
Those are libraries used by xmms. You can do apt-get install libmikmod2 to get the first. I'm not certain about this, but I think that libGL.so.1 is supposed to be a sym link to your open gl library - such as mesa. William Jensen wrote: > > When I exit E, I notice this: > > libmikmod.so.2 <-- no

Re: Off Topic : c++ function for rounding

2000-10-02 Thread Aaron Brashears
round(x) = floor( x + 0.5f); William Jensen wrote: > I know this isn't the right list, but how would I even find the 'right list' > for a c++ question? I know about ceil and floor but those aren't what I'm > after. I'm looking for a function that will take 1.4 and make it 1, but 1.5 > or higher

Re: Sound only for root

2000-09-28 Thread Aaron Brashears
I'm using alsa for sound, and I had to chmod ugo+rw /dev/dsp to get sound to work. John Anderson wrote: > > I thought that there was no sound available, but when I log in as root I > have sound. I have tried adding my normal account into the audio group, > but still I have no sound. Any sugges

micro-howto: shutdown and reboot from gdm

2000-09-26 Thread Aaron Brashears
This came up recently, and I saw a couple of vague responses. So if this is still relevant to anyone, here's how you can make it possible to call shutdown from gdm. * Grab root via your favorite method (su or sudo) and open /etc/gdm/gdm.conf in your favorite editor. For me, this looks like this:

Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

2000-09-21 Thread Aaron Brashears
I've been using tulip/fa310tx combos for over a year now with great success. The key is that there are 2 different fa310tx cards out there. Rev 1 doesn't play nice with linux, whereas Rev 2 works great. There is a subtle difference in the serial number scheme which is detailed on the netgear websit

Kernel questions

2000-09-15 Thread Aaron Brashears
I have a few basic questions about building the kernel from source for debian. I've read the documentation, but there are a few things that are unclear to me. Why is the kernel-image-* package compiled with APM turned off? Almost any computer bios made in the last couple of years supports apm fea

Re: Problems with the modules

2000-09-15 Thread Aaron Brashears
My machine developed the same problem after a kernel recompilation. I was never able to figure it out, and eventually *gasp* re-installed the entire system, which fixed everything. At least these days it's reinstall rather than reformat, reinstall... Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: > > Hello! >

Re: cvs over ssh

2000-09-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > cvs -t -d :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project > > is the proper command with options. > First, your suggestion: $ cvs -t -d :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot co project cvs checkout: unknown method in CVSroot: :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot cvs [checkout aborted]: Bad C

cvs over ssh

2000-09-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there. Before I file a formal bug report I want to see if anyone else is experiencing my problem. I'm trying to connect to a cvs server here in the office using ssh. However, it seems that cvs isn't willing to launch ssh even tough it's installed and correctly configured to work. Here's a sample

Re: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang

2000-08-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
What's the output of: $ ls -l /lib/libslang.so.1 And make sure that the file being pointed to is intact. Krzys Majewski wrote: > > debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog > > I get this when apt-get installing stuff. 'Sup yall? I've got slang1:

Re: A few misc. problems

2000-08-11 Thread Aaron Brashears
Wow, I had over 100 new mail messages in my inbox this morning. I didn't notice an answer to your questions, so I'll try. > 3. How do I start postgres on startup? I'm confused with all the different > /etc/rc*.d directories. This is how I think it is supposed to go: > > 'su -c postgres postmast

Re: boot tries to load all modules

2000-08-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
Here are the (innocuous looking) contents of /etc/modules: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignor

boot tries to load all modules

2000-08-10 Thread Aaron Brashears
I recently upgraded my system to woody. It's a laptop, so I also downloaded the kernel source, pcmcia source, and alsa source to build the system with apm, pcmcia, and sound support. At first, I thought I was experiencing a sound configuration problem because /etc/init.d/alsa was always failing to

Re: newbie alert!!!

2000-08-09 Thread Aaron Brashears
It sounds like you haven't configured X yet or it isn't starting correctly. Though debian documentation suggest running xf86config to get X running, I like to use XF86Setup since I've found it's interactive nature makes it easier to find your mouse. Check if an xserver is installed by typing: $ d

Re: Shell connections refused SOLVED

2000-04-27 Thread Aaron Brashears
td or portmap? (BTW: Sorry about some confusion in the original post. My search-replace skills obviously need work...) > Aaron Brashears wrote: > > > > D1 (10.20.0.1), and D2 (10.20.0.2) are both synched to potato on > > debian.org. Both machines have telnetd, telnet, ssh, and ssh

Shell connections refused

2000-04-26 Thread Aaron Brashears
Hi there everyone. I don't know if this is a debian specific issue, or a network issue, but I'm experiencing a strange problem connecting from one machine to another. Here's what happens: D1 (10.20.0.1), and D2 (10.20.0.2) are both synched to potato on debian.org. Both machines have telnetd, teln