Re: Why can't I scp inside my own router??

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Smith
Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: I have a new install of 4.0 on my laptop and want to scp the configuration for Alpine from my main machine to it. I tried an scp -r from the laptop; failed on a refusal by the laptop. Tried it from the main machine. Same result. Finally tried going into the lapto

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Bill Smith
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:22:21 +0100 "Mirco Piccin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all. I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [ Who created this file? What does it do? Thanks fo

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-06 Thread Bill Smith
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu December 6 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: The installer acts as a weed-eater: it weeds out users who don't read the docs. If you don't read, the partioner will kill you. At least it doesn't require a pocket calculator anymore. When I first installed it yo

Re: Preferred Backup Method?

2007-12-05 Thread Bill Smith
andy wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm trying to write a shell script to use tar for backups, but I want to know; Which directories are nessecary to backup with tar and which aren't? Obviously /bin, /usr, /home, /boot, /lib, /srv (Where I kee

Re: server login with SSH

2007-12-01 Thread Bill Smith
Jochen Schulz wrote: phillinux: I set-up a plain vanilla, samba (intranet) server for a computer lab in my school. I've done this before with SuSE and have switched to Debian Net install. If you have started with a minimal installation, you probably don't have openssh-server installed

Re: Icedove+Gmail IMAP: crashing when reading message

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Smith
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Has anybody tried gmail's IMAP interface in icedove? In my case, icedove is able to retrieve the message headers, but crashes as soon as I attempt to read a message. I am using icedove 2.0.0.6-1 on sid. Try run

Re: Internet Problem

2007-11-20 Thread Bill Smith
Henrique Rennó wrote: I have a Windows XP machine connected to the Internet and an additional network card with a fixed IP configured (192.168.0.5). I connected a crossover network cable to my laptop in which I installed Debian Sarge 3.1. I configured the network in /etc/network/interfaces passin

Re: plextor px-230a Err in debian installation

2007-04-25 Thread Bill Smith
MH CA wrote: Hi I have a plextor CD Writer on my PC , after booting from CD writer and running setup checks , debian throws an error that says can not find the CD ROM device while it`s booting from this device ! what` s the problem? thanks I have had similar problems with a Plextor DVD writ

Re: Re: Debian 4

2007-02-26 Thread BILL SMITH
shad up eh On 2/26/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:20:44PM +, Doofus wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 18:58 +, Doofus wrote: > > > >>When? > >> > >>For the past seven months we've had under the "news" section at > >>deb

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Bill Smith
Mirko Scurk wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 19:31, Mike McCarty wrote: Mirko Scurk wrote: [snip] Add some RAM, getting at least 32MB and preferable 64MB. I have successfully run Knoppix (Debian based) on a machine with 32MB, but it isn't ni

Re: xorg & xfree86

2007-01-18 Thread Bill Smith
John L Fjellstad wrote: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: xfree86 changed its licence to something not very free, so what happened is that xorg foundation took the last remaining freely-licenced xfree86 code and renamed it xorg, then started working on that. Loads of other dist

Re: Spamassassin configurations priority

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Smith
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: Hi. Where can I find documentations about spamassassin file configuration priority? I want share DB with bayes records between my users but if usr have .spamassassin directory and user_pref into it, those config. are ignored, and system wide file is used. If usr do not hav

Re: Mounting FreeBSD Partition on Linux

2006-11-27 Thread Bill Smith
Amit Joshi wrote: On Monday 27 November 2006 19:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: looking at /boot/config-2.6.8-3-686, it's allowed in debian kernels: CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y Then, you need UFS filesystem support. Luckily, UFS write support is dangerous for some versions of UFS, but it's saf

Re: CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Bill Smith
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two weeks ago, the memory card from my camera was stuck into a USB card reader attached to a Win2K machine. The Windows box couldn't open the card, and Linux reported: - --- SCSI device sdc: 943047310 512-byte

Re: Fim Scanner Device - Scsi - Minolta Dimage Dual Scan

2006-10-22 Thread Bill Smith
ableape wrote: Using DEBIAN 3.1 I am having trouble figuring out how to add a film scanner. Using deb/linux 3.1, I am installing SANE but it fails to find the scanner device. This is being connected through an Adaptec scsi AHA2940UW which is listed as compatible by Minolta. This device is

Re: Dymo 320 USB - no writeable port?

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Smith
Andrew Perrin wrote: I've been playing around with a Dymo label printer, model 320, which is a USB printer. My system recognizes it fine and attaches the usblp driver, but the appropriate port (/dev/usb/lp1) is unwriteable. Yes, I'm sure it's lp1 because lp0 is the regular laser printer on this

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Smith
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 They may be due to a failing disk, MB, or cable problems but they can stop the system in its tracks. If the disk be mounted or otherwize being

Re: Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Smith
Carl Fink wrote: I just purchased the above laptop. It works fine with the preinstalled Windows XP (Media Center edition), but installing Debian isn't going well. First of all, Windows Disk Defragmenter find immovable files right in the middle of the NTFS partition, making it hard to create a s

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
Peter Thomassen wrote: Bill Smith schrieb am Montag, 18. September 2006 18:09: worth replacing the card, preferably with a 3com or intel based one. That's not that easy as it's a notebook ... Can you turn it off in the bios and try a slot in one? -- Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives

Re: eth0 (Realtek 8139) suddenly not working

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
steef wrote: Peter Thomassen wrote: Hi, I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script does several tries after different intervals and

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-07 Thread Bill Smith
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet card (3c509), but modprobing it results in insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_fin

Re: Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

2006-07-01 Thread Bill Smith
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: JB MORLA wrote: Hi, I have installed sshd on Debian and PuTTY on XP. PuTTY only connects via SSH when the line: telnetd is in inetd.conf not commented. Are you sure putty is connecting via SSH? I have sometimes seen putty come up with telnet as the default proto

Re: LAN

2006-06-01 Thread Bill Smith
Francesco Pietra wrote: My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user. Both are connected ADSL through to a common 4-por

Re: Squirrelmail

2006-06-01 Thread Bill Smith
Michele Della Marina wrote: Hello!! I've some problems after installing squirrelmail, the error is: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX" Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox. and ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SUBSCRIBE "INBOX.Sent" I know that prob

Re: a postfix problem

2006-05-15 Thread Bill Smith
Danny wrote: On May 15 06, bill thought of the following : I am just trying to set up postfix on a newly installed sarge machine. I have edited the main.cf, I am well accustomed to using postfix, but have not so much experience with debian. When I do a postfix reload after editing I get the