Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-05 Thread George Karaolides
ared. It therefore seems to be unrelated to X. The machine became very sluggish. The clock lost time. Repeated backspace (key held down) wouldn't work on the keyboard. Issuing the "reboot" command evetually succeeded in rebooting the machine, but it took fifteen minutes or

Re: Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-04 Thread George Karaolides
If not, you know it's somehow related > to running X. > > Then I'd try a different window manager/environment. Good thinking, I'll do that and report. Thanks, George Karaolides -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge on IBM Thinkcentre A50 - instability

2005-01-04 Thread George Karaolides
replying please CC me as I am not subscribed to this list. -- Best regards, George Karaolides System Administrator OTEnet Telecom 20 Ayias Paraskevis St. CY-2002 Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus tel: +357 22 69 fax: +357 22 455686 www.otenet-telecom.com Confidentiality notice and disclaime

LVM on SW RAID for sarge - success

2004-07-14 Thread George Karaolides
loading the Debian package of the kernel source, and the Debian source package for lvm10. Anyone interested in snapshots drop me a line and I'll tell you how to do it. -- Best regards, George Karaolides System Administrator OTEnet Telecom 20 Ayias Paraskevis St. CY-2002 Strovolos, Nicosia,

networking problem

2004-04-15 Thread George Karaolides
command 000ca000. Apr 15 11:17:14 stephano kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Apr 15 11:17:14 stephano kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status f048 0c00 at 11611762/11611822 command 0001a000. Please cc. any replies to me. Thanks. -- Best regards, George Karaolides System

Scaling Debian - SSI Linux

2003-11-25 Thread George Karaolides
y other suggestions re. Debian scalability and availability? -- Best regards, | George KaraolidesOTEnet Telecommunications Ltd., | | System Administrator 2nd Floor, 20 Agias Paraskevis St., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Strovolos, Nicosi

Reiserfs quota patches - unresolved symbols

2002-09-17 Thread George Karaolides
gards, | George Karaolides Planitis Communications Ltd., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Office 102, 11 Florinis Street, | | web: www.planitis.net Nicosia CY 1065, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republic of C

Firebird and DBD::InterBase on woody

2002-09-03 Thread George Karaolides
installation. DBD::InterBase cannot build or run without InterBase. I tried adding /usr/lib/firebird/bin to the path, without result. Any ideas? Best regards, | George Karaolides Planitis Communications Ltd., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Office 102, 11

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-19 Thread George Karaolides
fine with the stock 2.4.18 kernel that comes with the bf2.4 floppies, so I intend to document that too in the HOWTO. I'd also like to draw your attention to a post of mine from yesterday re. woody on LVM which wasn't answered; I'd really appreciate some input: http://lists.de

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-19 Thread George Karaolides
down must be something to do with RAID: the array itself (likely), the way the system starts RAID (less likely) or the kernel RAID stuff. > > with no luck - any last hint before it finally works as expected? > > Balu > | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St.,

Re: Woody+initrd+raid1+boot = :-(

2002-06-18 Thread George Karaolides
lo. Done; you have a fully redundant disk system, down to the MBR's. You might want to look at my Unofficial Kernel 2.4 Root-on-RAID and Root-on-LVM-on-RAID HOWTO at: http://www.linustech.com.cy/linux/HOWTO/lvmraid/ or at http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ Best regards, | G

Woody lvm10

2002-06-17 Thread George Karaolides
#x27;t seem to work for the person who posted the bug. Suggestions, anyone? Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, | |

DNS resolution problem - SOLVED (not quite)

2002-06-05 Thread George Karaolides
resolver libraries (obviously) won't. I will be taking this up with the people (hominids?) who run this ISP. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROT

RE: DNS resolution problem

2002-06-05 Thread George Karaolides
nt of the message: a nameserver which will do er3cursive resolution for me when queried using dig will not do so when placed in /etc/resolv.conf. Sorry for the typo and best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68

DNS resolution problem

2002-06-05 Thread George Karaolides
rsive resolution for me when I query it directly refuse to do so when I put it resolv.conf? Any ideas? Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia

ipmasq logging

2002-05-10 Thread George Karaolides
nsole unusable. Any ideas as to how to make it log only to the screen? | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 89 87 28 31 Evagorou Avenue, Office 32, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Nicosia CY

Permission denied?

2002-05-10 Thread George Karaolides
n the top level of /lib back? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 89 87 28 31 Evagorou Avenue, Office 32, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Nicosia CY 1066, | | email: [

Woody net base install from local mirror

2002-05-09 Thread George Karaolides
Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 89 87 28 31 Evagorou Avenue, Office 32, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Nicosia CY 1066, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republic of C

Re: Woody install floppies - SOLVED

2002-05-09 Thread George Karaolides
ch's raid and LVM "extdisk": http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/ So now I have an installation of woody with the root fs on LVM. I'll try root-on-LVM-on-software-RAID next... Thanks again, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 2

Woody install floppies

2002-05-09 Thread George Karaolides
three configuration screens (configure keymap, enable md5 passwords, and enable shadow passworsd) no matter what answer is given in each screen. Has anyone else had this? Any pointers? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 89

Re: two ethernet cards without routing

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
t system startup. Read /etc/sysctl.conf and look for a line like: net/ipv4/ip_forward=1 If there is one, comment it out. Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | | web:

Re: kernel-2.4.17

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
o That should install an MBR on hdd2 which will be bootable when hdd2 is set as the first biit disk in the BIOS setup. Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | |

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-13 Thread George Karaolides
Needless to say, that had me running for the tar manpage in no time at all... ;) In my humble opinion, the choice of transfer method in a case as simple as that posed by Andrew must be down to personal taste/habit/familiarity/convenience rather than any technological consid

Re: Moving /var to another drive

2002-03-12 Thread George Karaolides
unmounting /usr and /var, and doing the following: rm -rvf /var rm -rvf /usr mkdir /var mkdir /usr Be VERY careful that /usr and /var are NOT mounted when you do this! Also note, a space or a slash in the wrong place in either of the above commands can wreck your system completely! Goo

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody - SOLVED

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
b" in the same directory. All "include" entries in the same file referring to "el" must also be changed to "el_CY". I then changed the XkbLayout entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config to el_CY. My keyboard map still needs a little debugging but I think I'm

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
yboards based on the UK keyboard layout (Shift-3 gives the pound sign instead of #). Windoze supports both tyoes of keyboard. What about X? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floo

Re: Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > George Karaolides wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? > > > > Best regards, > > > > there's an hellenic-howto on www.linuxdoc.org. >

Greek keyboard on Woody

2002-03-08 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Any pointers/suggestions on how to set up a Greek keyboard on woody? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Strovolos

Informix on Debian

2002-03-06 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, Anyone successfully installed Informix on Debian? I'm trying to install version 9.21.UC2-1 and not having too much success. Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd

Re: Sid packages in Woody

2002-03-06 Thread George Karaolides
will do the rest. > Does all this nice stuff work for potato as well, or only for woody? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | | web: www.linustech.com

Apache on Debian - high loads?

2002-03-04 Thread George Karaolides
Any pointers on what I have to look out for? Best regards, | George Karaolides Linustech Advanced Solutions, | | tel: +357 22 55 61 29 86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor, | | web: www.linustech.com.cy Strovolos, Nicosia CY 2003, | |

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-08 Thread George Karaolides
w kernel as default option Linux. So you can re-compile with just a make-kpkg command and install with just a dpkg command, with your running kernel as a backup lilo option. Two-command kernel recompilation and installation... Can't be bad, eh? Try it and see. Best regards, George Karaolides

Re: partition types

2002-02-07 Thread George Karaolides
and you've checked everything is there, the borrowed disk can be returned. I understand that hard disks don't generally lie around waiting for people to borrow them for copying systems over, but if you do happen to have access to an extra disk I'd be happy to talk you through the pr

Re: journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (was praise to the debian gods))

2002-02-06 Thread George Karaolides
u observed, this is important for database systems. However, many databases can use raw devices rather than file systems, and with LVM you have the flexibility to change the disk space allocated to a logical volume device without re-partitioning disks. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Cos

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-06 Thread George Karaolides
matic dial mode when both computers try to dial at the same time. Try setting the dialmode to manual on both computers: isdnctrl dialmode manual Then try dialling out on one computer: isdnctrl dial and post info. about what happens. | George Karaolides 8, Costak

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Vegh Karoly wrote: > Current setup of interface 'isdn0': > > EAZ/MSN:9905 Can't see anything wrong with these, at first glance at least. Send me the output of ifconfig on both machines. Best regards, | George Kara

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
what should be the next step? > Please do: isdnctrl list on both computers, and post the output. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-05 Thread George Karaolides
any number of rawip and syncppp interfaces. They may look a bit complex, but they're quite flexible. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, | | web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus |

Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-04 Thread George Karaolides
dd the partitions on the disk with the single-disk installation to the arrays with raidhotadd. - Run lilo and reboot to check that you can now boot from any of the disks. - Celebrate appropriately. Thanks again and best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | |

Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-03 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, > > /dev/md0 - /boot > /dev/md1 - swap > /dev/md2 - root > > ># Specifies the boot device. This is where Lilo installs its boot > ># block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which > ># case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR. > >#

Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-02 Thread George Karaolides
both ways, no joy... > i'd also remove the chs info from lilo.conf OK, will try that next. > - patches arent needed for raid0/raid1 for 2.2 or 2.4 kernels... > and probably required for raid5 on most 2.2 kernels I'm using 2.4.17 without any patches. Thanks, G

Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17

2002-02-02 Thread George Karaolides
v/sda1 or /dev/sdb1; life is easier # if they are both the same). start=32 # The MBR we will actually be installing to. We can change this # to /dev/sdb and rul lilo again so we can boot from either disk. boot=/dev/sda # The root device root=/dev/md2 Any ideas?

Re: Woody root on LVM on RAID

2002-02-01 Thread George Karaolides
ith potato and kernel 2.2.19. With woody and kernel 2.4.17, I have fond hopes of combining the redundancy achieved with Linux Software RAID with the flexibility of LVM to build a real enterprise-level server. Best regards, George Karaolides

Woody root on LVM on RAID

2002-01-31 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Has anyone out there attempted building a Debian woody system with root fs on LVM on software RAID? And while we're at it, has anyone done this with the root fs being one of the exotic new ones (reiserfs/XFS/JFS/ext3)? Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelid

Tape devices

2002-01-14 Thread George Karaolides
9, 96 Aug 3 10:11 /dev/st0a crw-rw1 root tape 9, 32 Aug 3 10:11 /dev/st0l crw-rw1 root tape 9, 64 Aug 3 10:11 /dev/st0m Thanks, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86

Re: DSL router and networking - Help!

2002-01-14 Thread George Karaolides
1.0, 192.168.2.0 etc. should be reserved in case the network 192.168.0.0/16 needs to be divided (subnetted) into smaller nets e.g. 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24 etc. Best regards, good luck and don't hesitate to come back with any more questions. | George Karaolides 8, Costakis

Re: DSL router and networking - Help!

2002-01-14 Thread George Karaolides
se the network 192.168.0.0/16 needs to be divided (subnetted) into smaller nets e.g. 192.168.0.0/24, 192.168.1.0/24 etc. Best regards, good luck and don't hesitate to come back with any more questions, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68

Re: RAID repartitioning - SOLVED

2002-01-11 Thread George Karaolides
ansfer all my data. Happiness and bliss. Thanks for the suggestions; I will definitely look into the software I was pointed to. Have a nice weekend, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | emai

RAID repartitioning

2002-01-11 Thread George Karaolides
for potential clues. So I can't make my new partitions into a RAID-5 array. I haven't found any clues in either /proc/mdstat or the log files. Any suggestions? | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos,

Re: Missing log file

2002-01-08 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi, > > * George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020108 09:09]: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone know what, if anything, besides foul play could cause one of > > the old, compressed log files t

Missing log file

2002-01-07 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, Does anyone know what, if anything, besides foul play could cause one of the old, compressed log files to disappear? I'm missing a whole day's /var/log/messages.n.gz from this past week. Best regards, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., |

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-04 Thread George Karaolides
ibraries > on the target system, as well as the entire gcc family, which might not > be needed otherwise... This too finds me in perfect agreement. I would love it if djb would GPL his software. > let's take this discussion somewhere else. As stated above, agreed.

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-04 Thread George Karaolides
ngs back in the bad old days. it sucked > then, and it still sucks now. Yes it does suck if you *have* to apply patches. But you only need them if you need features not included in the core djbdns distribution. I humbly submit that for the needs of the original poster, and for the majority of D

Re: Securing bind..

2002-01-02 Thread George Karaolides
u can distribute patches to it, there's no shortage of patches to get it to do what you want. Heppy new year, | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, | | web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus |

Re: Securing bind..

2001-12-31 Thread George Karaolides
nnominate.org/pub/pape/Debian potato unofficial innominate apt-get install djbdns woody or sid: There are official installer packages: apt-get install djbdns-installer If you do decide to try it out, then I am at your disposal to help with any setup queries you may have. Best regards and a happy new ye

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-20 Thread George Karaolides
s), electrostatic loudspeakers and the like. Best regards, | | | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86

Missing disk image file on ftp.debian.org

2001-12-14 Thread George Karaolides
-system disk image missing? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

2001-12-07 Thread George Karaolides
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote: > * George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 09:09]: > > > I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato. I'm using the Debian source > > package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1. > > You should consider using a rece

Re: Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recall recently someone on this list mentioning a software, maybe a > > Debian package, that manages installation of software under the /usr/local > > hierarchy. > &g

Manager for software in /usr/local

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
the appropriate places. Does anyone remember what this was? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote: > * George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 06. 2001 09:09]: > > > I'm trying to compile PHP4 on Debian potato. I'm using the Debian source > > package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1. > > You should consider using

Errors compiling PHP4 on potato

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
`/root/php/php4-4.0.3pl1/apache-build' make: *** [build-apache-stamp] Error 2 --- end errors --- George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
m logged in remotely and using the terminal (doesn't take over the terminal completely like 'watch -n1 time'), then OK. Otherwise just running 'watch -n1 time' does the job for me. Thanks, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a > > character-mode terminal? > > M-x display-time. You _are_ running everything in Emacs, right?

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-06 Thread George Karaolides
Yes, thanks David, 'watch -n1 date' worked fine for me. George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Da

Character-mode clock

2001-12-05 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St.

Re: Thoughts on RTFM

2001-11-30 Thread George Karaolides
always wanted to know but everyone assumed you knew already. Debian package of rute, anyone? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republi

Compiling PHP4 on potato

2001-11-28 Thread George Karaolides
tions (e.g. --with-sybase=/opt/sybase)? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: Fritz!PCI2

2001-11-26 Thread George Karaolides
gt; thx > Ilja Hi, Refer to http://www.isdn4linux.de, and read the latest mailing list archives. Look for Kai Germaschewski's kernel patches for the Fritz!PCI version 2. Better yet, subscribe to the mailing list; send a message with: subsribe isdn4linux in the message *body* to

Re: Fritz!Card PCI ISDN adapter and Woody..

2001-11-21 Thread George Karaolides
urse, but they work quite well for providing Internet access to about two dozen users and linking three sites in the WAN I administer for my employers, all on ISDN. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PR

Re: How to NOT start X-Windows @ Boot?

2001-11-14 Thread George Karaolides
ab,v 1.8 1998/05/10 10:37:50 miquels Exp $ # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: --- end excerpt from /etc/inittab --- Change to id:5:initdefault to boot into runlevel 5 instead of 2, and vice versa. This allows me to work in text-only or full graphical mode as required. Best regards,

Re: xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-12 Thread George Karaolides
int in having it exist. What's an x-session-manager? Do I need one? > > > Have you also tried making your .xsession: > > > xscreensaver & > > > exec icewm (or whatever the command is, I don't know) > > > > I'll try that next. Well that didn

Re: xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-09 Thread George Karaolides
On 8 Nov 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 11:41, George Karaolides wrote: > > > > On 7 Nov 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 16:15, George Karaolides wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, >

Re: xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-08 Thread George Karaolides
On 7 Nov 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 16:15, George Karaolides wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm running woody, using the icewm window manager. > > > > I can start xscreensaver from the command line, and I need to get it to >

Re: Weird File Permissions

2001-11-07 Thread George Karaolides
ect as setting the setgid bit, but there must be some subtle difference I'm not aware of. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republ

xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-07 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I'm running woody, using the icewm window manager. I can start xscreensaver from the command line, and I need to get it to start when I log in (from wdm). I've tried to put "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in my ~/.xsession file without success. Any ideas? George Kara

Console keymaps for woody

2001-11-06 Thread George Karaolides
itish keymap returns no errors, but I don't get the actual keymap. Any pointers? George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: copying/cloning root partition

2001-11-06 Thread George Karaolides
PROTECTED]:~# chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo Then take the machine out of the desktop machine, put it in the PC104 and try and see if it boots then. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY

Re: 2 partitions - same dir?

2001-11-05 Thread George Karaolides
c/passwd will then have to be changed for all users. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Rory O

woody console-tools

2001-11-05 Thread George Karaolides
console-tools /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: console-tools is not fully installed Any pointers? George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Sangoma S514 Frame Relay card

2001-11-02 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Has anyone on the list successfully used a Sangoma S514 Frame Relay card with Debian, potato to be more specific? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-11-01 Thread George Karaolides
On 31 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > I don't know about a card database, but you want the "nv" driver. Thanks, got that from xfree86.org. I seem to be on the right track now, thanks to everyone who helped. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., t

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-10-31 Thread George Karaolides
ation screens > > for XFree86-4 > > HTH > > Don > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, George Karaolides wrote: > Thanks, > > Have done as above. The configuration screens ask me to choose a driver. > Where can I find info on which driver to choose for my card? (Nvidia > TNT2 w

Re: XF86Setup for woody?

2001-10-31 Thread George Karaolides
gt; Don Thanks, Have done as above. The configuration screens ask me to choose a driver. Where can I find info on which driver to choose for my card? (Nvidia TNT2 w.32MB RAM). xf86config and xf86setup used to show a card database so you could choose, but not here. Best regards, George K

XF86Setup for woody?

2001-10-30 Thread George Karaolides
e and 13 not upgraded. I have had no joy so far from xf86config. Pointers, anyone? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: Microsoft bullies again

2001-10-29 Thread George Karaolides
ndards-compliant material and is available only for two families of proprietary operating systems; click on the link below to download." If only it could be done, the community that invented the standards Microsoft are perverting and abusing could give them a healthy taste of their own med

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-26 Thread George Karaolides
On 26 Oct 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 03:07, George Karaolides wrote: > > > Now to determine some more facts about the network geometry. I assume > > that machine R at your institution has one interface connected to the > > Internet, with a publi

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, On 26 Oct 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > > On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 01:04, George Karaolides wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I need a bit more info. to start thinking about your question. > > I'm still up, barely :-) > > > How do you connect from

Re: Some routing advice (connecting through SSH)

2001-10-25 Thread George Karaolides
s violating the service agreement they have with whoever they're hosting the server for (you?) and they do find out, you are in for trouble. The traffic won't be difficult to spot; servers are expected to be serving out a lot of stuff, not to have a lot of incoming traffic. Best regards,

Re: motd on potato

2001-10-22 Thread George Karaolides
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, George Karaolides wrote: > > > Is there a way to stop Debian potato from adding the output of `uname -r` > > to the beginning of /etc/motd? > > Go edit /etc/default/rcS and make sure i

motd on potato

2001-10-22 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, Is there a way to stop Debian potato from adding the output of `uname -r` to the beginning of /etc/motd? Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web

Re: Non-Debian kernel source

2001-10-17 Thread George Karaolides
01.10.16 /lib/modules/2.4.12-2001.10.17 whereas if you didn't, they'd be stored in /lib/modules/2.4.12 and today's modules would overwrite yesterday's. In case you want to do this using the source directly, then edit the Makefile in the top level of the ker

Re: ip_always_defrag

2001-10-17 Thread George Karaolides
her /proc/sys/net/ipv4 has been set because cat ... returns a varying integer like 76 or -25 instead of 1 or 0; the value changes every few seconds. That is my problem. This is different to all the other kernel settings. I need to know for sure whether this setting is enabled or not for security

ip_always_defrag

2001-10-16 Thread George Karaolides
to be unable to do so because of this. Any ideas, anyone? George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found - SOLVED

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
information. > > The host this is running on can resolve the domain names OK. > > Anyone know what could be wrong? > > Thanks and best regards, > George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Re: Blocking streaming audio and video

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
ux 2.2r3 (potato) on the gateway. > > I use the ipmasq Debian package to set up masquerading and firewall rules > between our internal nets and our ISDN dialup Internet connection. > > Thanks and best regards, > George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 7

/sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
ins -h' or '/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information. The host this is running on can resolve the domain names OK. Anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks and best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos,

Blocking streaming audio and video

2001-10-13 Thread George Karaolides
g and firewall rules between our internal nets and our ISDN dialup Internet connection. Thanks and best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolide

Re: how to download debian

2001-10-03 Thread George Karaolides
or. If you try this and need more help, post again in this thread and I'll do my best. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

Debian package security

2001-10-02 Thread George Karaolides
tools for this. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus

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