Re: Mount behaving oddly under sarge

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:20:37AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2005-05-05, Roberto C. Sanchez penned: > > > > Yes. The more correct solution is make sure that the vfat, fat and msdos > > (since floppies are actually msdos, not vfat) modules are loaded into your > > kernel on boot (this ca

Re: Mount behaving oddly under sarge

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Matthew Roberts wrote: [...] > After a reboot, I can't mount a floppy as a normal user: > > $mount /media/floppy > mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified > > Even though I have this line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0

Re: bash, perl, C

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:18:33AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: [...] > > I think that my question was not very clear. > > timerest3.pl in fact is a subroutine in a little script Perl that I wrote > myself ( I am not a student who expect that others do his work :-)) > In that subroutine I wrote >

Re: Can a particular network card be permenantly bound to an eth'x' number?

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:21:46PM +, rich wrote: > I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, > loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my > interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan > being eth0, it's now eth1 & th

Re: Debian on an old PC

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:53:11PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >On Thursday 06 January 2005 01:44 pm, John Schmidt wrote: > > > > > > > >>Old pcs often can't boot from a CD even if they have one. You might > >>be able to flash the BIOS to upgrade it, but that assumes there

Re: locatedb is world readable

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:29:55AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > David Garamond wrote: > > >>Sorry, a followup question. I deleted /etc/cron.daily/find several > >>days ago. How do I get it back? Reinstalling the findutils package > >>(using synaptic) doesn't bring it back. > > > >>Do I have to purg

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

Putting this back to the list... On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:33:43PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:45:09PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ball

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > > > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > &g

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > > you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386) > > Do you mean k

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:30:15PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > > Paul Gear wrote: > [snip nested attributions, correctly I hope] > > > Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is > > > installed (on 2.6.8,

Re: Correct syntax for mkinitrd command?

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:43:10PM -0500, Paul Tsai wrote: > Andrew, > I believe if you compile the kernel "the debian way" as they like to > say on this list. your job is a lot easier. > > after configuring your kernel instead of make bzimage, do > make-kpg --initrd -rev 1 kernel_image Typo sh

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:12:35PM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:44:40 +, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > [...] > > > o Why were the dos/win filesystem supports removed from Sarge's > > > kernels? > > > > They aren't, as far as

Re: switching X resolution modes?

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:18:38PM +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > On 13-12-2004 23:39,Robert Storey wrote: > > Dear Michal, > > > > I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but here's my idea. If > > you are starting X with the "startx" command, there is a switch > > available for color

Re: paper size

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 06:14:30PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > In a sarge installation, I should have leter as paper size for my > system, but it seems more like a4. Checking config.ps I see a4 listed > before letter. A few years ago, it meant that ps docs produced locally > would be a4 by de

Re: lspci and /sys

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:22:41AM +0100, Petter Senften wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to > my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some > attention here :) > > My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from W

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 01:45:33PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Thanks so much, that added enough clarity that I now know what was wrong. > I'll read the manual. You are welcome. Also, please do not cc me. I read the lists. Please browse through the Debian Mailing lists introduction, note e

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:12:34PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Chris. > Thanks, I'll try your suggestion and report back on results. FYI, the url's > were copied verbatum from the Debian mirror list. If they are formatted > incorrectly, I'm not aware, and why would the Debian site misforma

Re: Woody and kernel 2.6

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Thomas Beresford (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Is it possible to install a 2.6 kernel on woody? > > Yes, if you install the necessary userspace utilities. This includes > module-init-tools, and newer versions of a

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:51:21AM -0600, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:55:39PM -0600, Steve Block wrote: > > Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > > > >You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

Re: remote build of Debian router

Ray you sent this to me privately... Fwd this one back to the list... CW Harris wrote on 2004-11-30 02:33: > You might google, or ask, over on debian-firewall... I seem to recall > someone mentioning a package or setup they used that allowed one to > restore the old ruleset after a def

Re: remote build of Debian router

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

Re: Floppy mount & unmount clarification please

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

Re: MBR problem

nstall grub to hda. This is probably where LILO *was* installed, hence it is still trying to boot LILO. HTH > > > --- CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > > > Thanks for the response. But

Re: MBR problem

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:00:38AM -0800, Punit Ahluwalia wrote: > Thanks for the response. But I did dpkg -P lilo. yet, nothing chnages. > This sounds like your BIOS is trying to boot the old LILO boot sector rather than your grub boot sector. Are you installing grub to the MBR or to a partition

Re: NFS permissions question

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:01:02PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > My understanding of NFS permissions is that for any file appearing on an > NFS share, the username/uid and groupname/gid mappings should (ideally) > be identical on both the NFS client and the NFS server. > > So consider my home

Re: root crash recovery

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:15:28PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote: > Hi all > > My root filesystem has crashed because of hardware failure. (Although, it > was ext3, and i wasn't supposed that may happens... Where's my fault?) > > But there are still alive usr and, more important, var. I plan to install

Re: Going from stable to testing

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:25:57AM +0100, Jacob Friis wrote: > >>Can I upgrade my system to be all testing just by adjusting > >>/etc/apt/sources.list? > >> > >yes, just put testing instead of stable and then run apt-get update > >apt-get dist-upgrade > > I noticed this: > http://www.debian.org/do

Re: Using more than one driver for a laser printer?

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:29:49PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 19:39 +, Adam Funk wrote: [...] > > > > Thanks for that info. As I said in another post in this thread, > > modifying /etc/printcap alone didn't seem to have any effect---does my > > lpr command (from the pa

Re: List of packages

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > on Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think > I need things like libs, just the package names. I need to compare two > systems. dpkg --get-selections Note this does not give installed versions. > > Jim >

Re: CUPS Printer Sharing Problem

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:43:50PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Haven't really done much with CUPS via ipp so I could be wrong here but: >hp HP DeskJet 930C - Foomatic/hpjis (recommended) >Description: DeskJet 940C >Location: Study >Printer State: Idle, Accepting Jobx >"Unab

Re: optimal printer configuration

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:08:31PM +0200, Carl Fûrstenberg wrote: > I have a HP deskjet 940c , have some problem to conigure it perfectly, > now even lpr doen't work, only lp. Have anyone a good setup to a Are you using CUPS? If so, did you install the CUPS compatible lpr in cupsys-bsd? > printe

Re: gtop

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:28:00PM -0500, Brandt Dusthimer wrote: > There is a gtop package in stable, but no package in testing or > unstable. Is there a reason why? Is it in another package? $ apt-cache show gnome-system-monitor Package: gnome-system-monitor Priority: optional Section: gnome [.

Re: removing wierd files

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >>[Snip] > >> > >>>rm \-*

Re: removing wierd files

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > [Snip] > > rm \-* > > or > > rm '-0.pnf' > > > > is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? > try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or "rm ./-0.pnf" works too. -- Chris

Re: printer won't stop

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:00:55PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Friday 15 October 2004 16:41, CW Harris wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > > > I have one box where cups won't let me change anything and I &g

Re: printer won't stop

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2004 20:10, Jacob S wrote: > [...] > > If I'm not mistaken, you can also delete jobs in the queue using cups' > > web interface (if not a command line tool, as well). > > > > In your web browser, go to http://

Re: Limiting CUPS "Completed Jobs" Listing

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:31:28PM +0700, I_MY_MLs_j wrote: > All - [...] > On the testing system, I have ~90 entries in the "Completed Jobs" page of the web > interface, dating from > June to today (September). It takes about 5 pages to list them all. I don't care > about any job that was >

Re: opera and java

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 05:02:45PM -0600, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: [...] > Also the opera web page has some troubleshooting info for java: > > http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?name=java&maxhits=15&

Re: opera and java

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, all, > > I was wondering how to use opera with java. When starting opera > with the -debugjava option, I get the following message: > > opera: [java] There seems to be a preloaded version of Xt. >There is a work

Re: Can only print one document

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:14:56AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I'm running Debian testing (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7) with CUPS (cupsys > and cupsys-bsd 1.1.20final) and I have an HP LaserJet 3330. > > I have had it working with earlier kernels and cups but now it only > prints one document and

Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:16:52PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:43:56PM -0700, Brian Nelson insinuated: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:34:25PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: [...] > > > > > > all appears to work now. my files are transferring over > > > slow-as-molassses US

Re: WEB-Browser with links in evolution ??

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:05:29PM +0200, Richard Palfalvi wrote: > Hi :-) > > I am using EVOLUTION as my standard-email-programm on Debian-Sarge. It > is working fine :-) > > I just would like if somebody could tell me where I can change the > standard-web-browser evolution uses evertime when I

Re: Time

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:30:49PM -0600, CW Harris wrote: > > I believe pool.ntp.org has been set aside for this use. > I should add "if you don't have a more local/appropriate source such as a timeserver at your ISP." See http:/www.pool.ntp.org/#use for more info.

Re: Time

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:35:13PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:12:34 +0200, Paul Akkermans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just a simple problem. During installation of my Debian system I did not > > set the correct time on my Debian system. Does anybody know how I

Re: Dual Boot Problem

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 02:41:34PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > >>CW Harris wrote: [...] > >>>Why not just boot from a rescue disk (I think most/all install disks can > >&

Re: Dual Boot Problem

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:28:14PM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > >>I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating > >> > >Sarge is not yet "stab

Re: Dual Boot Problem

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:18:45AM -0400, Patrick Moroney wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Sarge stable as a second operating Sarge is not yet "stable"---still "testing" > system on a 200 gig drive and not having a lot of success. The > installation goes fine; I install Lilo in the MBR, t

Re: Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:22:27AM +0200, Remon Vos wrote: > I already tried different security settings... none of them worked for me. > My log.[sn]mbd files do not show any errors. And testparm runs ok too. You may need to increase the "log level", I think you get 0 if nothing is specified. May

Re: Samba upgrade to 3.06 is causing problems

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:58:34PM +0200, Remon Vos wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my linux box using dselect. > Also samba 3.06 was installed in this process. > Since then i'm unable to reach files from my windows machine on my linux > server. > I'm still able to open directories, but not any of the

Re: Once a month I get this gibberish.

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:13:54PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Once a month, the cron daemon sends me all this gibberish. > Is there some point to it? > Should I be watchin gout for it? > What is it, anyway? > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:52:55AM -0400, Cron Daemon wrote: > > /etc/cron.monthly/sc

Re: Getting better screen refresh rate in X?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:48:33PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:42:33AM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > As you can see, the definitions are the same in terms of specs. I'm > > guessing there is a database of mode definitions somewhere and i need to > > copy the relevant defin

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ? - margins

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:47:57PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > [...] > - if "/var/cache/apt/archives" fits on one or 2 CD's ... i'm thinking > that's all the packages that is needed to clone that box ?? > - is the archives directory the same structure as the > main *.deb repository (

Re: Kernel compilation question

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:23:57PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:21:59AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Howcome? (Is it related to '.config support' being compiled into the > >> standard Debian kernels?

Where is libXp.so.6? [was: no subject]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:32:53AM +1000, Keith Davidson wrote: > Hi, > > > > Any ideas where I can find libXp.so.6 for debian. I have looked in > www.packages.debian.org , but can't > find it. The web site lets you seach for filenames in packages too. You d

Re: Packages needed for Cups Foomatic printer

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:51:33PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install my HP PSC 1210 usb printer. I was able to do it in > previous Debian installation, but this time, I am having difficulties > doing it... Have you checked out linuxprinting.org? (See for example, http://www.linu

Re: Keep jobs on queue

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:30:26PM -0200, gilbertonunes wrote: > Hi for all... > >Some body knows how can I hold all jobs in a print queue, using cups? >Thanks. You mean like "Stop printer" from the web administration page? You can also use the disable/enable commands. HTH -- Chris Ha

Re: version mess, help needed

Not an expert in apt management, so... On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:56:05AM -0300, Roberto Winter wrote: > Hi again, > doesn't the output from "apt-cache policy" guarantee that (see my > first message)? I think it will *still* not downgrade a package that is already installed. Its primary purpose

Re: Synchronizing between Windows and Linux: character encoding problem

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Debian Users wrote: > Hello there! > > I am trying to synchronize files between a laptop running either Windows > XP or Debian and a Debian file server. I have tried rsync and unison on > the Linux install of the laptop and rsync (under Cygwin) on the Wind

Re: I/O Errors

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:04:07AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I would suggest > the disk is stuffed. > I could be wrong, but isn't dev 0b:00 /dev/scd0 ? So it's having trouble reading a scsi cdrom? -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL

Re: DNS

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:05:28AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Thanks to all the folks who replied to my original posting. I really do > appreciate it. What I was looking for was the /etc/resolv.conf approach. > > Unfortunately, I just realized that's not what I needed. :-) > >

Re: Cups can't start with error 98

I believe I'm starting to know more about CUPS than I really want to. If the following solves your problem, we both need to RTFM better ;-) On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:09:56PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: [...] > Nothing interesting, but I did notice one more line of output that I > didn't before: >

Re: Cups can't start with error 98

I don't see any answers so I'll try (not really good with CUPS though): On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 05:52:29PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > I haven't used cups in a while, and tried to today. It fails at > startup, with error code 98: > E [24/Jul/2004:17:39:06 +1000] StartListening: Unable to bind sock

Re: DNS

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:54:28PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Hi guys, > > How can I specify the DNS server in debian/linux? > > Just to clarify, I don't want to set up a DNS Server (which is what the > DNS howto talks about). I just want to translate names to IPs. You probabl

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 09:10:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:42:37 -0600, "CW Harris" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > > > > Is this a typo? or are you using kernel 2.6.7 with an append-to-version > > of 1? I

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:15:29PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsæther wrote: > > Hi guys, and thanks for all your help so far! > > Observations: > > - I misspelled moudule-init-tools as modutils-init-tools. > Sorry! Did all file searches by correct name, though. > > - module-init-tools was installe

Re: broken exim4-config

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:08:41AM -0700, J. Nopr wrote: > Hi all. I am trying to set up exim4 to send mail out through my dsl > provider's smarthost. > [...] [text wrapped - *please* wrap your lines.] > Now When I insatll exim4*, I immediatly get an error, starting at > exim4-config. > > [EMA

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:41:31PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:17:40 -0600, CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:55:27PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Y

Re: modules not found after kernel recompile

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:55:27PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > You normally don't need a modprobe.conf, everything should be in > /etc/modprobe.d. modprobe.conf is just an empty file on my system. I'm Is this true? Mine (a most

Re: Problems with mounting RAID5 array at boot

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:50:10PM -0700, Matt Perry wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, CW Harris wrote: > > > > This seems like a bug in the raid setup. Maybe it should be set at a > > > lower number than checkfs by default so it starts sooner. > > >

Re: here is a LPI question,which is the answer?

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:26:28PM +0800, wrote: > What is a reasonable command to install a set of Debian packages stored in directory > temp? > > A. dpkg -l temp > > B. dpkg -iGRE temp > > C. dpkg -l temp/*.deb > > D. dpkg -iGRE temp/*.deb > > > > the answer is B > > but why not B

Re: Problems with mounting RAID5 array at boot

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:34:26PM -0700, Matt Perry wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Matt Perry wrote: > > > Any ideas on how to fix this? > > I found a fix. Turns out that the raid2 script needed to be run before > the checkfs script at startup, but they both were set to S30 in /etc/rcS. > I r

Re: /proc/bus/usb directory is empty

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:44:41PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Is the following in /etc/fstab? > > none/proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 I thought it was "usbfs"... Hmmm looking in a 2.4.23 Doc../usb/proc_usb_info.txt document: **NOTE**: If /proc/bus/usb app

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:02:05PM +0200, John van Spaandonk wrote: > On Wednesday 14 July 2004 11:39, John Summerfield wrote: > > John van Spaandonk wrote: > > >On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:29, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > >>Any last words before I > > >># apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > > >>on my

Re: Mirroring testing questions

On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 10:26:00AM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > Am seriously considering mirroring testing for myself (faster updates, > installs etc due to having several computers) but due to only having a > 512k download ADSL, can't share it out, and want to check if the > ban

Re: mounting floppy with fs auto doest recognize vfat

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:54:30PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:30:53PM +, Stephen Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:10:04 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > When I try to mount a floppy with file system marked as auto in fstab > > >

Re: Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in > multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text. > > Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily > displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML. > > However,

Re: iptables start on boot

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:14:52AM -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>I recently installed debian testing (sarge) on a clients machine and am > >>trying to > >>get the firewall to load on reboot. AFAIK there was a > >>/etc/init.d/iptables

Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:32:19AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:06, Damian Morris wrote: > > to do it manually, you need to use one of the special ssh escape > > codes. from my ssh man page: > > > >Escape Characters > > ~. Disconnect. > > The one you want

Re: xmllint & libxml2? Stable.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:34:58AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > I've been looking for xmllint which is supposed to be in libxml2. I > have libxml2 installed but no xmllint. Do I need a backport or am I > just not finding it? Seems to be in libxml2-utils not in stable[1]. libxml2-utils 2.6.9-2 in t

Re: Using the cp command.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:21:18AM -0400, alex wrote: > I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with: > cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/ > > Normally, the command works fine except when (partition b) already > contains a large number of directories and files th

Re: wvdial connects but no internet and KPPP dies

Okay, been a while since I used ppp, but I'll give it a try... On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:28:39AM -0700, Jason Kretzer wrote: > Here is the output from the commandline when I run > KPPP from a shell as root. > > ~# kppp > Opener: received SetSecret > Opener: received SetSecret > Opener: received

Re: running fsck out of a script; drive never shows being checked

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:51:51PM -0400, Silvan wrote: > I'm wondering if I'm missing the point of something somehow. > > I have a script that fscks hdb, then mounts it and makes a backup of hda. I > run this as a nightly cron job, and it mails me a report every morning. > > The associated bit

Re: Help! Printing is mostly non-working!

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I hope that someone can help me with this problem. About two weeks ago, > printing stopped working in Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice, and > almost every other program that I use. > > Kate (the editor) still prints, but a s

Re: ext3 and charsets

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:51:33PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: > Am Sonntag, 6. Juni 2004 21:08 schrieb Adam Aube: > > J. Preiss wrote: > > > I just "updated" from Suse 9.1 to debian testing, therefore I'm wondering > > > how to change the mount charset of ext3 devices. I tried to use the suse > > > fe

Re: /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h for 2.6.5 kernel?

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:47:59PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > 2004. j?nius 7. 20:13 d?tummal Ishwar Rattan ezt ?rta: > > I am running kernel-2.6.5 Debian testing system. I am trying to > > compile Mplayer-1.0pre4. The complilation stops with a complaint > > about linux/version.h include not being there.

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:16:08AM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi, > > I am in the course of writing a graphical runlevel editor, and I happen to > have the following questions: > > 2) If I remove all symlinks in all runlevels (basically "update-rc.d -f > proftpd remove"), create a startup

Re: make-kpkg --revision policy and glibc?

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:43:26AM +0200, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > Hello, Hi. I don't see any answers from people more knowledgeable about "policy", so I'll give it a try... > > after compiling 2.4.26 kernel I'm in trouble upgrading debian/unstable. > glibc complains about kernel subversion >

Re: Display Catch-22

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:09:51PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:57:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Thomas H. George wrote: > > > My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its > > > internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the s

Re: Samba and network printing

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:28:01AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya john > > On Thu, 20 May 2004, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> Now, the smb user is my guest user. I'm not sure why it tries to

Re: Samba and network printing

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:24:38PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Now, the smb user is my guest user. I'm not sure why it tries to log in > > > > You may be having your account mapped to you guest user. >

Re: Samba: assign domain group policy through Samba tools?

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:38:37AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm using Samba as a PDC on a domain with ten WinXP Pro clients, on > Debian testing/unstable. > > Basic shares work great. > > Getting the domain stuff set up was a bit trickier, but the OS News > article[1] and (once I realize

Re: Samba and network printing

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:37:01PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > cupsaddsmb -U root -a > > cupsaddsmb didn't get added until later, I think. At least, the cups > from Woody doesn't have it. I can't install the updated cups from > backpor

Re: mounting windows shares

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:23:41PM -0400, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Friday, 14 May 2004, CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0400, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> At Friday, 14 May 2004, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: mounting windows shares

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0400, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Friday, 14 May 2004, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> > >>mount chokes on the windblows directory "system products" . > >> > >>i assume this is b/c of the space in the director

Re: Lilo and friends

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:08:46PM -0400, Adam Aube wrote: > CW Harris wrote: > > > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:41:27AM +0200, Levente KOVACS wrote: > >> On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:21:50 -0500 > >> hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >&

Re: Lilo and friends

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:41:27AM +0200, Levente KOVACS wrote: > On Wed, 05 May 2004 11:21:50 -0500 > hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Get rid of XP and your problems are over ;-) > > Lilo only writes the bootrecord when YOU run "lilo"... > > Unfortunatelly I can not, becous

Re: Hosting virtual mail domains on Debian.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:34:56PM -0600, David Anselmi wrote: > David Anselmi wrote: > > >I'd really like to be able to host virtual mail domains on a Sarge server. > > [...] > > >Any advice? Is there anything I can do to fix 100646 or get a 2.2 > >cyrus package submitted? I'm happy to help

Re: printing

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:21:43PM +0200, Miguel Mazzorana wrote: > I have installed Debian Woody several times but I can not use my > printer HP Deskjet 720 C in any way. > I have try a lot of things! > I have read a lot of logs! > > but every time when I type: >

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:23:53AM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > Just a small update, since I'm sure someone will > someday search and find this thread ... > > I got it working. The grub configuration in menu.1st > was fine; windows had overwritten the MBR. I don't > know if it's possible, but I *m

Re: what bash dotfiles are read during interactive ssh?

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:27:06AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > What file can one put "unalias ls", or anything in fact, in for it to > get read on the remote system upon interactive ssh? .bashrc, > .bash_profile are apparently not read. On mine it executes .bash_profile (normal login shell). Ac

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