kernel panic

2002-06-16 Thread Greg Fischer
Recently, I've been getting what I think are kernel panics on my server machine, running woody and kernel 2.4.18. The machine does not have a monitor hooked up to it. How do I go about finding out what is causing this problem? There's nothing in the log files. Thanks. --Greg -- To UNSUBS

2.2 and iptables-like functionality?

2002-02-02 Thread Greg Fischer
I just installed potato onto a new machine, but I am stuck with a 2.2 kernel. On the older machine, I was running Bunk's 2.4 kernels for potato, but this time, I'd like to stay as "standard" as possible. I really liked the connection state tracking features of iptables. Is there any way to repro

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-19 Thread Greg Fischer
OT is short for "off topic". On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 10:08, David Teague wrote: > > > Perhaps a stupid question, but -- What does "OT:" mean? > > > I have seen many postings that have OT: followed a topic.. on the > SUBJECT:: line. Recently, two messages had "semi-ot" as part of the > subject

semi-ot: learning python

2002-01-19 Thread Greg Fischer
I'd like to learn python. I know a bit of C++ as a result of taking a course. Once I get started programming, I generally enjoy it, but when I don't have any definite problem to solve, I have problems motivating myself. So... What should I do? Everything in free software-land seems too complic

x authority problems

2002-01-03 Thread Greg Fischer
Given root access on a remote machine, I'd like to be able to execute an x application on the remote machine's local desktop. For example, if I secure shelled into a remote machine as "user" and "user" happened to be logged onto X, I'd like to be able to execute "export DISPLAY=:0" from my secur

Re: strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-15 Thread Greg Fischer
OK, it's fixed now. I THINK it had something to do with libfam. There was an incorrect entry pertaining to fam in /etc/inetd.conf. I fixed it and rebooted and the problem in mozilla/galeon was gone. On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 03:47, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Greg Fischer <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Fischer
I think it's been happening ever since 0.9.6 in SID. On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 19:04, Carl Fink wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:43:44PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > > http://www.planetquake.com/beyondtheportals/tdc/ > > Works fine here. Mozilla 0.9.4. What version is giving you trouble

strange mozilla image problems

2001-12-14 Thread Greg Fischer
Is anyone else noticing massive mutilation of images with mozilla when there are several on one page? Go to this website with your mozilla browser (I'm using the one in SID): http://www.planetquake.com/beyondtheportals/tdc/ Scroll all the way down. Do you see stuff like this? http://magnesium.d

mozilla/galeon rendering hiccups

2001-12-05 Thread Greg Fischer
Has anyone else noticed strange rendering behavior in mozilla/galeon? I've downloaded nightlies and even they have the same problem: Occasionally, the text will not be alligned with itself, look: http://magnesium.dyndns.org:81/tmp/2001_12_01_180546_shot.jpg and, once you highlight the text, it

kdm problems

2001-11-26 Thread Greg Fischer
when I attempt to logon to my potato system (with kde debs from kde.debian.net. The system also uses NIS/NFS) with one particular user, logging on with KDM gives no error but simply exits back to the normal KDM logon screen, waiting for login and password again. This appears in .xsession-errors:

iptables port forwarding problem.

2001-11-25 Thread Greg Fischer
I've spent an embarrasingly long period of time trying to get this to work. I'm trying to port forward port 6699 from 192.168.0.1 (my firewall machine) to 192.168.0.112:6699 in order to allow others to access my mp3s via napster. Here is the relivant line, anyone know what I'm doing wrong? /sbin

Woody kernel?

2001-11-22 Thread Greg Fischer
when will Woody be frozen to the point that new kernels (2.4) can not come in? Is there an official freeze schedule anywhere? thanks. --Greg

removing all packages from a certain source

2001-11-21 Thread Greg Fischer
I installed some 3rd party packages onto my Sid system with apt-get, making the necessary entry into sources.list. I would like to remove all of them. Is there any simple way to do this, or do I have to remove them one by one? Thanks, Greg

NIS/NFS alternatives?

2001-10-05 Thread Greg Fischer
I'm administrating a network of Debian potato machines using NIS/NFS at a small high school right now. We're behind a pretty beefy firewall, but I still know it's not very secure. I couldn't get LDAP authentication working and I only had 2 days to do the whole thing. Probably at the end of the ye