Re: snmpd.conf not available...?

2004-09-01 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Hi Nayyar, Nayyar Ahmed said: > > but i cant find snmpd.conf in my system. > As MRTG Howto mentioned it to be configured. You will probably need to generate this yourself. I assume this SNMP package is Net-SNMP. There is a command, snmpconf, which can generate an snmpd.conf file for you - run it

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Alexei Chetroi said: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:55:16AM +0100, Ciaran Johnston wrote: >> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:55:16 +0100 (IST) >> From: Ciaran Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Johan Sch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: To use GUI as root >>

Re: To use GUI as root

2004-08-19 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Johan Sch said: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian. > > In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be > able to use GUI applications. > > Kindly please what would the same be in Debian. Set your display as root: export DISPLAY=:0.0 then allow localhost access to the display as

RE: SNMP and mibs?

2004-08-17 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Jan Johansson said: >> what happens if you use "-M /usr/share/snmp/mibs" or "-m >> /usr/share/snmp/mibs/printer.txt" with snmpwalk? If this works, there > is a >> configuration problem and the mibdir is not getting picked up. If it >> doesn't, it's likely you have the wrong mib, or netsnmp doesn't

Re: SNMP and mibs?

2004-08-17 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Jan Johansson said: > I have the following components on a debian system > > I have downloaded printer.mib from mibdepot. Renamed the file from > mib->txt, copied it to /usr/share/snmp/mibs, deleted the .index file. > > Yet, snmpwalk gives me (among others) > .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.43.7.

Re: X-UIDL question

2004-08-16 Thread Ciaran Johnston
John Fleming said: > I've switched from unstable (via Knoppix) to testing. I'm using Postifx > as > before. The last line in my mail headers is an X-UIDL header (see below) > that I hven't seen before. Any idea where this is coming from and how I > can > affect it? Thanks - John Google found t

Re: MySQL Server Setup Problems

2004-05-19 Thread Ciaran Johnston
James G. Stallings II said: > > This server needs to run various services. Web, ssh, smb/nfs/afs all > working; however I cant get a packet through port 3306 to the MySQL > server to save my a$$. MySQL is up and running, root account has > password reset, users created, the whole bit - but I cannot

Re: raid on bootup

2004-05-11 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Ciaran Johnston said: > Antony Gelberg said: >> Hi all, >> >> I've got a system booting off /dev/hdc. I've just created a RAID-1 >> with /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. But on reboot, the RAID array is not >> recognised. Partition types are fd. Any ideas

Re: raid on bootup

2004-05-11 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Antony Gelberg said: > Hi all, > > I've got a system booting off /dev/hdc. I've just created a RAID-1 with > /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. But on reboot, the RAID array is not > recognised. Partition types are fd. Any ideas? Are the partition types set to "Linux raid autodetect"? Check that the las

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Dragan Cvetkovic said: > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 13:50, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> Ciaran writes: Karsten probably answered the question you meant to ask, not the question you did ask >>> >>> And the pendantically correct answer is that Unix and

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Karsten M. Self said: > on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:20:30PM +1000, Nathan Stanley > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Someone recently told me there is a difference between Unix and Linux >> text file formats. Is this true? > > Yes, ours goes to 11. > > Wait. Wrong mockumentary. > > > CR vs. CR+LF > >

Re: Can't use GUI as root

2004-04-06 Thread Ciaran Johnston
On Mon 05 Apr 2004 11:07, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > > I can start x application if I login as myself and then do su -m, but if I > do a su - it says it cannot open the display. Any idea how I have to set > it up to get it working. My Debian box here doesn't have X, but does $ xhost + localhost as the

Re: Capturing output from ftp

2004-02-03 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Ian Melnick said: > Hello all, > > So I followed directions from a previous message, but I've run into a > different problem. > > I need to get the size of a given file with the ftp program, so I tried > something like this: > > ftp server < size filename > quit > END > > The problem is, when it re

Re: ftp get to stdout

2004-01-23 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Ryan Mackay said: > Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Is there any way to use the 'standard' ftp in this sort of way? >> >> ncftpget -c [options] remote-host remote-file > stdout >> >> I want to be able to pipe a download thru dd, but I do

Re: .config how to change

2004-01-23 Thread Ciaran Johnston
Privat said: > > Hi i have a question about the following config > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.4.22# grep PDC .config > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD=y > # CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST is not set > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y > CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_