Which package should my bugreport concern?

2016-07-31 Thread Dimitri Chausson
e me a matching package name please, or tell me how to find it out ? Thanks a lot --- Dimitri

Re: Webcam users with debian

2006-09-19 Thread Dimitri Chausson
Hi, thanks for the suggestion, even though this is not really the same price class ;) Dimitri On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:52:37 +0100 George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dimitri Chausson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have bee

Re: Webcam users with debian

2006-09-19 Thread Dimitri Chausson
Thanks for the good pointer Dimitri On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:16:14 -0400 Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Dimitri Chausson wrote: > > > I want to use a Webcam with debian. Have been looking for documentation > > yesterday. I found the how

Webcam users with debian

2006-09-17 Thread Dimitri Chausson
. Moreover, it is difficult to see which chipset is used by which Webcam. I am looking for a model having a 640x480 sensor and able to transfer at 30 fr/s. Maybe some of you can report such models working correctly, I would greatly benefit from your experience, thanks for dropping me a line, Dimitri

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > > > > > > *Boggle* Which part of "USER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARK PARTS OF > > > > HIS SYSTEM AS ``MAINTAINERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCK WITH THIS > >

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > > *Boggle* Which part of "USER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARK PARTS OF > > HIS SYSTEM AS ``MAINTAINERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCK WITH THIS > > NO MATTER WHAT''" do yo

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:17:09PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: ... > It is already considered a serious bug for a package to overwrite a > configuration file without asking when the sysadmin has changed it, so > you can stop ranting

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Jeffrey, don't take it as a personal attack, but... Take a clean design: everything is a file, one tool does one thing only, every tool has a clear and concise manual page, etc. Let nice and well-meaning people embrace and extend it for about 25 years, and you end up with > Perhaps you need t

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:41:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: ... > > According to dpkg(8) those tools consider "unpacked" (but not > > configured) and "half-configured" as "package states". Th

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 16:17 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:04:30PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:05 pm, Joey Hess wrote: > > > I strobgly sugest you file a bug; debian packages should not behave in > > > thi

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:05 pm, Joey Hess wrote: > John Covici wrote: > > I have found that whenever ntp-simple is upgraded my ntp.conf server > > lines get erased -- I would like to tell debconf or whatever program > > is trying to be so helpful not to mess with my ntp.conf -- this is > > Linux

Re: Bug in xfree86-xserver setup?

2002-04-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > Just today when apt-get upgrade installed the new version of > xfree86-xserver in testing (4.1.0-16), I could not start X. It was > looking for Nvidia chipsets. This appeared strange and on checking I > found that the installation script r

Re: Nosy ftp users

2002-04-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:48, Mark Janssen wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:42, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > > > I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is > > > given to clients who need to get drivers, etc. > > > Just re

Re: Intermittent System Lockup (long)

2002-04-18 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:29 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > >yup, snipped it all< > > Greetings Jamin: > > I built a box for a young friend as a gift. It is back on my bench now.

Re: Why 2.2 kernel instead of 2.4

2002-04-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > > I notice that "woody" installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4 > > > kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision? > > >

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > In a contribution to the Samba alternative discussion: > > I have heard on beachmark tests, Samba, however, is much faster than > NFS. In fact, as I understand this person recommends using SAMBA over > NFS even in pure Linux environment for this reas

Re: The Direction of Debian

2002-04-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Somebody once told me that if you come to the table with complaints and > no ideas for solutions for your complaints then you're part of the > problem, not the solution. I heard it's "precipitate" rather than "problem". The problem is that t

Re: Fonts on an LCD Flat Panel

2002-04-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I assume you're talking about X and Gnome? Unless someone > > comes up with a better advice, ditch Gnome and install KDE. > > On my LCD I get ugly fonts in gtk app

Re: Fonts on an LCD Flat Panel

2002-04-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Rick Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I'm starting to get very frustrated. > > I acquired a new computer with a 17" Flat Panel Monitor (a Gateway > FPD1700). Installed Woody on it, and the fonts all looked quite > horrendous. I followed all of the font-deuglification tricks with th

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Matt Frazer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I must say as a long time debian user and advocate, it breaks my heart to > see this foolhardy "anything that is Microsoft should be banned" attitude > proposed and accepted on a list whose purpose is to provide help to debian > users. Seems to

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mattias Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally > fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable... > didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server... > > What the hell are you doing over there? Deb

Re: system hangs at boot after crash???

2002-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > My system hangs at bootup after a crash (my son pressed the reset > button). When I boot up the file check fails, and a message appears to > run fsck without the -a and -p arguments. As root, I issued the command > > fsck /dev/hdb8 > > and the sys

Re: Re[4]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:16:06 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > net-tools 1.60 > > ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13) > > AHH! Much better. I was running net-tools 1.54, so I upgraded that and > now I can see how many Mb I&

Re: scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > i compared the two config files. there is an additional usb entry in the > 2.2.20 config: > > config_hotplug=y > > everything else in usb is identical. ... > so does anyone have any suggestions? this is the first real thing i have > found

Re: Re[2]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:24:58 AM, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > >> And does it give Bytes transmitted/received, or just the sheer number > >> of packets? > > > Both. Do an ifconfig now and look at the output. > > Here's my output: > > eth0

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > It wasn't my choice and I have no say in the matter - if the means that I am > not welcome on this list then I will (reluctantly) unsubscribe. You can always read the list via usenet. Posting is a bit of a PITA if you do that, but I hear they are work

Re: scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > hi > > i posted a long-winded situation report on the sudden demise of my scanner > last night. > > i think the real symptom is that the epson 1650 works under potato's > 2.2.19 and not under 2.2.20 in woody. i had the same problem in r/h where

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:51:36 -0700 > Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The last paragraph is indicative of the masses: "I am not interested in > > telling web designers ~." Simply multiply that by your local census, > > and

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > if you are sitting on a machine called foo and ssh into westek > > > foo:/home/westk> xhost +westek > > westek[westk]:/home/westk> export DISPLAY=foo:0.0 > westek[westk]:/home/westk> gqview & > # > # should disply on the machine fo

Re: X Forwarding via SSH

2002-04-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
See if you have $DISPLAY set on EnJaeLove first, and on westek after you ssh to it. Also check $XAUTHORITY on westek. Dima -- Tlaloc: What was Elrond's second name? Gruber: Hubbard -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Samba as PDC

2002-04-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Here's three question about configuring Samba as a PDC. > > 1. Can the Samba server be configured to force users to periodically > change their passwords? Not according to smbpasswd(5). > 3. This question may be unrelated to Samba. We have a mixed en

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Save yourself the pain, set up winders in VMware and run Orrible > > there. > That won't work. We can't link to libraries under vmware. > > > > Here's a tip: don't. Tell management about this exciting new technology > > called Java and JDBC inst

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on > Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box. > Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a "d drive" I got > scared), and keeps having problem

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Hanspeter Roth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Apr 04 at 22:57, Hans Ekbrand spoke: > > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > > Can one get security updates for the testing distribution? > > > > No. There is no such thing. > > Can one switch back to sta

Re: Shell Nigeria Tender

2002-04-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
[snippage] ROTFL. I thought this was a call for armed response to 419 scams. Dima -- One distinguishing characteristic of BOFHen is attention deficit disorder. Put me in front of something boring and I can find a near-infinite number of really creative ways to bugger off.

Re: Disk rescue tools?

2002-04-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Bob Thibodeau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Sometime between midnight and 10am, > while powered off, the W98 box > at work lost its primary partition. While *powered off*??? That usually means a) peecee was hit by lightning and is fried, or b) disk is dead. By "lost its primary partit

Re: IPV6 things...

2002-04-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi! > > I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few > programs. > > Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will > use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4. > > Some programs

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Vincent Lefevre quotation: > > > In fact, you don't need parentheses for sumple expressions like the > > above one: > > > > 1+2*3= gives 7 > > 1+2=*3= gives 9 > > Fair enough. So perhaps the distinction is whether or not the calculator >

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Remember, we are working with hand entered calculations that go into the app > > in a certain order, and *that* is the order that it should be calculated... > > There should probably be a preference opt

Re: Alsa and debian

2002-03-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi! I am using woody and kernel 2.4.17. I am trying to get alsa running for my > soundblaster live card. > I am not using the debian packages; I am using the source from > alsa-project.org > for 0.9.0beta; I have all packages, drivers, libs and u

Re: 2 nics, 1 network, puzzle?

2002-03-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Shawn Yarbrough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > What everybody seems to be telling me is that because IP is routable, > > > ARP replies are also routable, and the kernel is free to mix and match > > > IP addresses with Ethernet interfaces however it likes according to > > > it's IP routin

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil > unrest in Nigeria and the plot of smuggling funds into the United > States, but the recipient failed to respond. They probably added your e-mail address to one of those "2

Re: Re[2]: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Monday, March 25, 2002, 1:00:38 PM, John Cichy wrote: > > > Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out > > on the cd player to a digital in on a computer and ... > > I was just thinking the same thing.. why not use a hom

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II

2002-03-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:57:13AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > Curiosity just bit me in the butt. Where does the .in-addr.arpa come > > > from? > > > > From the way bind works. See e.g. O'Reilly

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II

2002-03-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:29:39 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > >* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:12:56 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > >> >Didn't you read Sven&

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II

2002-03-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:12:56 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > >* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > >> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:46:00 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > >> > >> >On Sat, Mar 23, 200

Re: ssh and paswordless login between 2 woody machines

2002-03-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I have two woody machines, that I want to be able to use ssh to login from > one to the other without having to enter my password every time. > > I added the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub on the machien I am loging in > FROM to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on

Re: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host PART II

2002-03-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:46:00 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > >On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:09:37PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > >> My question now is this: do I need to make these hosts_allow entries into > >> each of my linux computers?

Re: ISDN Crypto Router problem

2002-03-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* David Gardi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi to all, > I am in posession of this small router device that has 1 ethernet and 1 > ISDN plug. By sticking this device onto my network it can perform > various services such as NAT, dialout(ISDN) and some routing. It is > configurable by telne

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-24 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Noah Sombrero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:32:37 -0600, you wrote: > > >[ Note: I read the list. I don't need nor do I want copies of mail > >sent to the list. In this case you sent a copy to me with a different > >message id than what went to the list; something

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Noah Sombrero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:29:59 -0600, you wrote: > > >Apt installs there because that's where the FHS > >(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says things should go. > > Was not disputing that there might be authority behind how > it is done. > > >Rath

Re: Installation notes - Debian 2.2

2002-03-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Angus D Madden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Peter Whysall, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:33:35PM +: ... > > Networking configuration. Or the complete and utter absence thereof. For > > a distro that wants to install off the internet, not detecting, > > configuring and using an absolutely bo

Re: dosemu: com ports: /var/lock

2002-03-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and > /etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used "chmod a+rw /var/lock". That > worked. The output of "ls -dl lock" is now > drwxrw-rw- 2 root root" etc. > I relogged in. >

Re: Windows/Linux network

2002-03-20 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I would like to ask people what they think is the best solution for > networking a windows/linux network. > > Keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is to develop a linux only > network (but that that will not be accomplished anytime soon), I see 2 >

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Gustavo Noronha Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:10 -0600 > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > Why do you want to advocate running a beta OS on production systems? > > You want your sysadmin to hate you? > what be

Re: High powered Debian advocacy?

2002-03-19 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux > systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a > bunch of the machines and I very much want to figure out a way to > present Debian to them as an op

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Friday 15 March 2002 22:55, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > [ argument snipped ] > > > > You know Manoj, I've come to believe that "moral majority"

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Adam Majer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:17:28PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > > Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from > > > stable -> testing, ssh'ing in takes massively long

Re: OT: BIG drives in old P90 ??

2002-03-16 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 22:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only > > notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in > > it, but am wondering about th

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-15 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: [ argument snipped ] You know Manoj, I've come to believe that "moral majority" people, even if they look decent and clueful otherwise, are simply incapable of understanding this kind of argument. Or any other kind, for that matter. Must be som

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:46:40PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: ... > > You wouldn't be suggesting that opposing opinions should be expressed, > > would > > you? Errm, 'scuse my poor English but... what's that in plain language? "Are you

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Duncan Findlay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Mr. Long, > I don't know how old your daughter is, but I'm 100% sure that she will be > exposed to more content that you deem inappropriate than you could > possibly control. Perhaps instead of trying to protect your daughter from > the inapp

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Do not feed the troll. -- Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz "Fornicate Off And Decease". -- Rik Steenwinkel

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > One thing I wondered about, though. You are using the technique of taring up > the entire directory tree and then untaring it into the target partition. Why > not just use cp -a instead? Tradition, portability. "cp -a" is a GNUism, there w

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* François Chenais ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during > the tar ? You may end up with a slightly b0rked system (but you knew that already). If your /var was on the root drive, you'll have to delete its contents before mou

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-12 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > >Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. > > > > You're lucky with 'none of the above'. It could be... Luck has nothi

Re: CVS Server on SSL?

2002-03-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Ben Collins quotation: > > > I strongly suggest using CVS over SSH. It's easy to setup. Just make > > sure the server that your CVS repo is on has sshd installed. Then on the > > client do: > > > > export CVS_RSH=ssh > > > > cvs -d :ext

Re: Printing: CUPS, foomatic, hpoj and HP OfficeJet G85

2002-03-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Question 2: How can I configure CUPS to use this driver? > > > > Drop the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/your_printer_name.ppd > > I like that place be

Re: Printing: CUPS, foomatic, hpoj and HP OfficeJet G85

2002-03-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I also see cdj970 in the output of "gs -h." So, the driver is > available, but there isn't any ppd file for it, which CUPS seems to > need. > > Question 2: How can I configure CUPS to use this driver? Drop the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/yo

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Charles Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because > it won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and > things will likely break. This is usually the case with DeadRat, but

Re: NFS problem

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Axel Boyrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I am using Woody. I mount NFS directory from Solaris 2.8 where files are owed > by nobody.nobody > > once NFS mounted on Woody, with the kernel 2.2.20 files appear as own by > nobody.nogroup > > But with kernel 2.4.17 files appear with

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Anyway, it was interesting. this was not "my document" but quite > thought provoking for me Good. Then my ranting was not entirely in vain. Dima -- We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. > > > > 1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector<> or equivalent) > > Of course, the behavior of vector::opera

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > > Does anyone know about a school that teaches people to use > > vector<>, auto_ptr<>, basic_string and references? > > I have no idea what they teach in school these d

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > ... > > > I fail to understand why you came up with the example above. No one > > > have suggest

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote: ... > > I fail to understand why you came up with the example above. No one > > have suggested or commented any such thing. > > I wasn't subscribed when the first post came in so Im exempt. Bu

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* a ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > (sorry! if you know any other mailing list i should send, pls tell me) > why the program below is wrong? Because you and your teachers should seriously consider a career in lawnmoving. using namespace std; > class t > {public : string p; > }; Does any

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * Paul DeHerrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors, > > 16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays? > > If so, what is the latest release (kerne

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Paul DeHerrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors, > 16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays? > If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)? Errm. Not that I know the answer, but... Is there something wrong wi

Re: chkconfig is to redhat as ___ is to debian?

2002-03-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote: > > I've poked around dselect and can't find chkconfig. Is this included in > > some larger package of handy admin utils? If no chkconfig, is there a > > package that does something similar? > > >

Re: ALSA modules not loading

2002-03-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Richard Weil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Yet another ALSA question ... > > Problems are with a maestro-2 (es1968) soundcard > running on 2.4.18-ac3, ALSA compiled from source on an > up-to-date Woody system.[Same problems occurred with > other kernels, but I never fixed them.] > > In a

Re: problem with modem connection

2002-03-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Ulf Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi Debianicans. > > Thanx to all! > > It still doesn't work, > but the message is a different one now. > See the very end of this mail. > > > > Finally I made it to this distribution. > > > > Great. > > > Although there is more to do to set up D

Re: NEWBIE TIP #110 [was Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]]

2002-03-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:36:15AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > : > > Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the > > c

Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]

2002-03-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the > client, do this: > client# export DISPLAY=client:0.0 > client# ssh

Re: Setting up a linux network

2002-03-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:22, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Camilo Olea wrote: > >> > >>>Hello! > >>> > >>>I want to know, what can i do to have a linux network equivalent to > >>>a windows one? This meaning, here at my college, the c

Re: SSH and apt-get problem

2002-03-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Matthew H. Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've run > into problems running apt-get with SSH. While trying to install > packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting apt-get > problems, so I tried it with just ssh on

Re: Re-building kernel with make-kpkg (was: cdrecord + ide cdrw)

2002-03-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > At 11:23 AM 03/03/02 +1100, Davor Balder wrote: > > > >make-kpkg clean > >make-kpkg --revision= kernel_image > >dpkg -i > > This was nice as it moved my existing kernel to .old, but that made me wonder: > > Say I rebuild my kernel after it's ins

Re: Xf864 config, and LCD flat panel dispalys?

2002-03-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:29:29AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Just bit the bullet and ordered a nice flat panel LCD display for my wifes > > > new Debian "testing"

Re: Xf864 config, and LCD flat panel dispalys?

2002-03-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Just bit the bullet and ordered a nice flat panel LCD display for my wifes > new Debian "testing" workstation. > > I presently have that machine set up in my lab area, thru a kvm switch to a > 19" monitor. > > How can I configure X to work with the new d

Re: Linux server for work but don't know how?

2002-03-01 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan & Kerry Shrimpton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > At work we have one file server with NT4 I think as the OS. One mail server > firewall running Linux. (Hence why I am playing around with it at home). > We have 3 other computers connected to the network running Windows98. The

Re: Problem with kernel

2002-02-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Daniel Pecos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello! > > Time ago I compiled the 2.4.16 kernel version without any > problem, but some days ago I had to modify the configuration > and tried to recompile it. This is the output: > > (linking the kernel)... >

Re: The Custom Kernel that Wouldn't Boot.

2002-02-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi Dima, > > Of course, if it refuses to boot without fb, the problem is > > somewhere else. > > It seems to refuse to boot even without fb. :-( As with the last kernel, I > get the following in kern.log: > > --- > Feb 28 11:

Re: The Custom Kernel that Wouldn't Boot.

2002-02-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi everyone, > I've been trying to compile a custom kernel to use the Linux Progress Patch > Gordon Fraser was nice to provide me with, and also to optimize the kernel > for my Pentium II processor. > > However, I seem to have a kerne

Re: mouse problems after switching to Woody

2002-02-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* sam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Rather than go into a lot of detail on my problems, I would prefer to get > a reliable reference to a comprehensive discussion about the installation > and trouble shooting of mice. I am currently using Woody (Debian 3.0), a > ps/2 modem, AMD 500 Mhz cp

Re: Setting up a linux network

2002-02-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Em Seg, 2002-02-25 às 18:11, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu: > > > > Note that NIS security is an oxymoron, you may not want to use NIS > > at a college lab. > > It is not worth than the Windows network he was speaking off. Yes, there's that. Dima

Re: Setting up a linux network

2002-02-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Kurc, Marcin A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > read about NFS, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html > or samba (if you also want to share files accross windows and linux) > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html (or visit samba.org) > > NIS is very commonly used for se

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > i haven't heard much on people using > linux to do bridged stuff, so i didn't > investigate it when i made the decision, > i knew a lot of folks who used free/open > bsd for bridged networking. Apparently it can be done on Linux, with appropriate kern

Re: Help with printing

2002-02-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I have been trying to get my Canon BJC-4000 running, with no success. CUPS > doesn't work, despite some assistance form this list. Printtool tells me > that I do not have parport compiled into the kernel, which is not the case > (yes, I verifie

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* timothy bauscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I am planning on building a firewall > here. There is a lot of hype about > Freebsd being great for firewalls, > and books regarding Linux firewalls. > > I love Linux, but I believe in > finding the best solution for a > problem. My question i

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Kurdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > does anyone know how to undelete some files? > > i did an rm -rf of my .C files of my programming project (it was coded > > in the Makefile, under the make clean option.. :) > > > > tnx Pauwel > > Th

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