> "john" == john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
john> There are a number of 'annoying' things with Smoothwall despite
john> a lot of write ups. A ppp profile was partly configured in the
john> setup and my moden was identified as being on 'COM1'. No changes
john> can be made to a profile
> "Brian" == Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> Hello, I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs
Brian> partition. It worked fine, and df is reporting the device size
Brian> that I expected. However, fdisk still reports the old size. How
Brian> can I shrink the partition i
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
martin> i don't think this makes sense and would like to change it. do
martin> you have suggestions on how to go about preventing mgetty from
martin> freezing the machine in case of a disconnected modem?
Most likely a hardware problem
> "Robert" == Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> installed, and mysql-server, but when I try to install
Robert> bugzilla I get: Setting up bugzilla (2.14.2-0woody1) ...
DBI-> connect(;localhost;3306) failed: Access denied for user:
Robert> 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)
> "Deryk" == Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Deryk> The reason it's partition 4 is apparently to do with Mac
Deryk> compatibility.
IIRC, it's Windows compatibility. When Windows starts up, it scans all
devices and assigns drive letters. (WinNT and Win9x have a slightly
different alg
> "Anders" == Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anders> I mean when a fresh install of Debian is made on a, say
Anders> previously empty, box, there seem to be no package that owns
Anders> the first kernel,
This is correct, and it's been a pet peeve of mine for a long time.
You
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joerg> ahead and set the priority in /etc/fstab with pri=PRIORITY, but
Joerg> wait... the man page tells me that swap priority can have any
Joerg> non-negative value, but the above kern.log tells me both
Joerg> partitions have a negative
> "Patrick" == Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> hi i've been running kernel 2.4.17 for a week now and things
Patrick> are great even sound is working as a module. what i want to
Patrick> do now is to have reiserfs as a module. is it possible to
Patrick> just build the desir
> "R" == R Pac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R> which options in the 2.4.17 kernel configuration should I
R> check to get sound with the sound card integated on the MSI
R> maincard K7T266 Pro2.
You will need ALSA. The driver you need is called `snd-card-via8233'.
I just bought the same mo
> "Alexander" == Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexander> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot
Alexander> access parent directories: No such file or directory
This either means your current directory has been deleted, or you
don't have permissions to rea
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
martin> can't say when this started, but what the heck are directories
martin> like 2.4.17+time_3573 and 2.2.20-compact_2169 doing in
martin> /lib/modules??? 2.2.20-compact isn't even install (2.4.17+time
martin> *is* my kernel image),
> "Paul" == Paul A Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> 1: I've booted from disk (CD) 1 and 2: both state they are
Paul> recovery disk/boots... but then allow you to go into the
Paul> installation applet.
The Debian installation disks/CDs also double as recovery CDs. You can
use it to ins
> "Greg" == Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> Does Debian put the 'kbd' file in /etc/X11? Is it even needed
Greg> under Debian or is some other mechanism used to do keyboard
Greg> mapping? If it turns out that I need the file, what package
Greg> contains it?
AFAIK, X11 doesn't use
> "Stephen" == Stephen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> How do I use archives?
It looks lik a Smartlist archive. The `latest' directory contains only
(surprise!) the latest messages sent to the list. How many is a
parameter set by the administrator.
In your example, it seems that a
> "Petre" == Petre Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Petre> much free time on yourself..i don't. I was thinking at a script
Petre> run either from root's crontab that would check all processes
Petre> and if the users that started them are not logged in (here i'm
Petre> stucked)
Maybe it's no
I'm a 29-year old `kid', living in Belgium. I have a degree in
engineering, but I'm now employed as an IT consultant. (Meaning: I
write programs for use by large corporations.)
I've been into computing since 1983, when my uncle bought me a ZX
Spectrum. Later, I switched to an Atari ST, and finally
> "Neilen" == Neilen Marais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Neilen> The permissions on /var/lock are:
Neilen> drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 1024 Dec 21 17:18 /var/lock/
Neilen> so, users should not be allowed to write. I assume its this
Neilen> way for a reason.
On my system, I have this:
[EMAIL PROTE
> "Joel" == Joel Franco Guzmán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joel> Hi guys, plz, i have troubles with the hosts file. it says:
Joel> 127.0.0.1 thor localhost
You can always remove your hostname from the localhost line, and add
another one with your real IP address. (Or if you have DNS set up,
> "J" == J A Serralheiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> Hi! Its been a while I'm having a small problem. Every time I mount
J> a floppy using my usual username account, the floopy directory uid
J> is set to a diferent uid. In this case, my sister's uid. The
J> problem is that I cant mout/unmou
> "Davi" == Davi Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Davi> Is it dangerous?
Either your filesystem is corrupt, or your hard disk has errors on it.
Try running badblocks (use -n for a non-destructive write test).
If that doesn't find anything, run e2fsck on the partition. Make sure
the partitio
> "Alberto" == Alberto Cabello Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alberto> I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked
Alberto> fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me.
I suspect a hardware problem. Try running `badblocks /dev/hda'
--
G. ``Iggy'' Geens - IC
> "benfoley" == benfoley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
benfoley> under what conditions is it advisable, or not, to run
benfoley> apt-localepurge? i've checked the man page but still don't
benfoley> get why i should or shouldn't use it.
I use apt-localepurge on a couple of systems with small ha
> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> On 22-Nov-2001 Daniel Toffetti wrote:
Daniel> Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and
Daniel> python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody
Daniel> give me a clue ??
Put the python-base p
> "Antti" == Antti Tolamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Antti> Anywaa around it? I'm trying to do a tarball as a backup for my
Antti> system but after 2 GB process stops to an error. And yes, I do
Antti> have over 4 GB free space where I'm trying to make tarball.
XFS should be able to handle la
> "Jason" == Jason Currey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> I noticed some previous emails about creating a lilo splash
Jason> screen. My question is what version of lilo do you need to be
Jason> running to add the splash screen?
The current version in testing has support for splash screens
> "list" == list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
list> lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a lvm --
list> lvm_blk_ioctl: unknown command 21264
list> Any ideas on what might be causing this ?
The stock 2.4 kernel doesn't work with lvm-10. The -ac versions work
though.
Otherwise, downlo
> "Steve" == Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> I just saw a lot of files inside, it takes 15Mb hard disk. My
Steve> question is, is there a automatically mechanisim to manage
Steve> those files (like logrorate for all log files)?
All files in that directory older than two days are
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> But when I (as joe-user) do: cd ~/myproject cvs import -m "Import
Tom> Source" myproject fatco1 rel0 I'm pummelled with "Permission
Tom> Denied"...
You should set the CVSUMASK variable. It doesn't matter as long as
you're the only one wo
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[CVS client/server using ssh]
Tom> I'm not very clear on how to set this up on the client side. Is
Tom> there anything I need to do here?
Just set CVSROOT to an appropriate value, e.g.:
export CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs
And set
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes:
Eric> $ uname -a Linux calico 2.4.14 #1 Sat Nov 10 16:29:17 PST 2001
Eric> i686 unknown
Eric> Won't compile at all? Perhaps something breaks, that I'm not
Eric> using...? I don't have a DVD drive...
Loopback device is broken. Otherwise it compiles fine. (Ke
> "Justin" == Justin R Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Justin> What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based
Justin> apps while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? I've tried
Justin> xhost +localhost and that does not seem to do the trick.
Have a look at sux:
http://f
> "bobrye" == bobrye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bobrye> hi. after recompiling 2.4.10, my boot process is fine until
bobrye> the end where i get an error: "/dev/hdd2 was not cleanly
bobrye> unmounted, check forced" and fsck goes and does its business
bobrye> for a couple of minutes. i find th
> "Felix" == Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Felix> hi, is there a way to completely remove task-packages (task-kde
Felix> for example) including dependencies ?
AFAIK, there is no easy way.
If you have woody or sid, try debfoster or deborphan to help cleaning
up unused packages.
--
> "Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes:
Karsten> How do you make it ***stay*** changed.
Do dpkg-reconfigure console-common, and select the keymap you want. (Or
select NONE to keep the upgrades from touching it.)
--
G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ: #64109250
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> "Andrew" == Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> Hi, I'm trying to configure a Windoze 98 PC on my home network
Andrew> to use user level share permissions instead of share level
Andrew> permissions, and when I go to add users to a particular share,
Andrew> Windows barfs:
Do y
> "Tao" == Tao Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tao> Now I can give arguments to kernel when boot. I tried : LILO
Tao> Linux init=/bin/sh
Tao> but my / (reiserfs) is mounted readonly. I can't change my
Tao> /etc/shadow
After you boot, use `mount -o remount,rw /' to change it.
BTW: there is n
> "ace22b" == ace22b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch wrote:
Eduard> Put "umask=000" to the other options in /etc/fstab. "man
Eduard> mount" will tell you more about needed options, eg. gid or
Eduard> uid.
ace22b> I know it's '000', but why ?
ace22b> Why not 666?
> "bedlam" == bedlam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bedlam> Thanks everyone for the help, Adrian's page helped quite a
bedlam> bit, now I'm starting to boot, but after about two screens of
bedlam> stuff I get a repeated message: kmod: failed to exec
bedlam> /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c, errn
> "Chris" == Chris Ruvolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> Thanks for the info and your suggestion, but it doesn't seem to
Chris> change things. I have noticed under 2.4.8 that in-use swap
Chris> space doesn't grow as rapidly as 2.4.7, but the problem
Chris> persists. Perhaps I should take t
> "Greg" == Greg Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Greg> Is the kernel configuration file used for the build
Greg> also stored somewhere on my machine?
It's in /boot/Config-
Greg> 2) Are the modules listed in /etc/modules distinguished somehow
Greg> between different kernel images?
/etc/mod
> "Eamon" == Eamon Roque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eamon> Hi! After I upgraded to unstable, I've been getting strange
Eamon> default settings on my /dev/floppy. No matter what I enter, a.e
Eamon> -o rw,user etc., the mount options on the device are always the
Eamon> same: /dev/fd0 on /floppy
> "F" == F Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Peter" == Peter Bartosch wrote:
>> > I've never heard why they come with slice 4 as the active
>> partition.
Peter> that is/was because of compatiblity-reasons to mac's
No, there are special Mac formatted ZIP disks. I assume they hold
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> and just sits there forever. /sbin/getty is never executed,
Martin> and i can't get into the system. then, every now and then,
Martin> init complains about both getty's restarting to quickly and
Martin> disabled them for 5 addit
> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> And with the NOPASSWD setting, you could avoid exposing your
Brian> root password.
Sudo never asks for the root password, only the user's own password.
The NOPASSWD will allow people to execute the command without typing
any passwor
> "Joerg" == Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joerg> Hi List Where does apt store the packages.gz files it
Joerg> downloaded when doing apt-get update? My idea is to copy them
Joerg> to another computer (which has no internet access) for doing a
Joerg> dist-upgrade.
Take a look at a
> "Carl" == Carl Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carl> Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp?
Carl> send host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";
Carl> lease {
Carl> interface "eth0";
Carl> option host-name "peregrine.cox-internet.com";
Carl> }
You can set your hostname the sam
> "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> I'm still reading every fine manual I can but can you tell me
Paul> how I identify the kernel? Are you talking about executable or
Paul> source? I actually D/L'd the entired source last night but I'm
Paul> not sure if I installed it corr
> "Ali" == Ali Ender Yalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ali> can someone help me with this tape ? i m trying since 3 days to
Ali> access this tape 4 a backup but meanwhile i have no more ideas to
Ali> get it running. its connected at the first ide-channel and
Ali> running in slave mode. have l
> "Paul" == Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato
Paul> 2.2.19pre17 #1 I have downloaded what seem to be the files I
Paul> need. Running the install script appropriate for Debian I get
Paul> this which I believe is the relevant part
> "Wayne" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wayne> On Potato it does. On Woody 'atd' isn't starting, no
Wayne> var/run/atd.pid file. So forget 'at' on Woody presently.
There must be something wrong with your installation: it works fine on
my system.
The .deb is still the same as in p
> "Allen" == Allen Wayne Best <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Allen> hello: i am curious if anyone else is seeing an attempt by a
Allen> user anonymous with a password of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ftp into
Allen> their system. i found the following snippits in the message log
Allen> this morning. it se
> "Patrick" == Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> apt-get dist-upgrade asks questions about ip addresses to
Patrick> set-up ip spoofing. I only entered 10.1.0.1 and hit return.
Patrick> My concern is that if the machine is rebooted 23 angry users
Patrick> will call me.
If you h
> "Robert" == Robert L Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> Ok, I'll learn to read one day. Right now I'm trying to figure
Robert> out why high IO locks this machine up dead tight (which
Robert> requires a FSCK of a dirty disk, thus the thought of vxfs)...
It's probably a hardware issue
> "Walter" == Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Walter> as far as i can see the initial login passes the passwd in
Walter> cleartext? obviously once I'm logged in I can use ssh to login
Walter> into other hosts with relative security,but what about the
Walter> initial login on an x-term
> "Michele" == Michele Dalla Silvestra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michele> But is correct that an application change /etc/resolv.conf
Michele> even if the administrator write it entirely by hand?
Both pppd and dhclient can receive information about available DNS
servers, and they will try to
> "Mike" == Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> I've migrated to a newer HDD, which I installed with potato, and
Mike> upgraded to testing. Now I have most of my stuff on this drive,
Mike> and I've noticed that the home and end keys no longer work on
Mike> the command line in xterms
> "Bill" == Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> I determined what my problem was. I was using vinson.home as my
Bill> domain as I don't own a real one. When I switched it to
Bill> vinson.com it started working. It seems pump requires a real dns
Bill> name.
Probably a pump issue. I u
> "Robert" == Robert Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> What would be the steps to go about setting linux up for
Robert> wake-on-lan access?
Disclaimer: I never used wake-on-lan, but I can make a few educated
guesses about how it might work. YMMV.
To get the machine to suspend, you sho
> "Tao" == Tao Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tao> Hi, I use kernel 2.4.7 , when I turn on my computer, I can see
Tao> ... VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) Waiting for 5 seconds,
Tao> press Enter to obtain a shell
The system first loads an initial ramdisk (initrd), before
initializing t
> "Steve" == Steve Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> connect to UNIX socket /var/run/esound/socket". I checked to
Steve> make sure it wasn't something silly, like the directory not
Steve> existing, but sure enough, the directory is there. It's owned
Steve> by root, but I assume that's as
> "Bill" == Bill Vinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> I am having problems with dhcpd and pump. I run dhcpd on another
Bill> system to manage my home net's IPs, but I can't get the
Bill> domainsearch list to be populated in /etc/resolv.conf. When I
Bill> obtain a lease with pump, it change
> "Herbert" == Herbert Pirke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Herbert> As far as I know, some block device names changed with the
Herbert> 2.4 kernel, so I wonder if that changes a lot. Maybe some
Herbert> changed/added simlinks fix the problem.
Normally, you shouldn't need to change anything. The
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> however, i am thinking that there has to be a tool out there,
Martin> because there is a UNIX tool for everything, and the problem i
Martin> am experiencing is surely shared by hundreds of admins...
Take a look at rdist:
[EMAIL
> "J" == J F Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
J> Stan, Awhile back (last november) I tried to install Oracle 8.1.6.2
J> on Debian 'potato' and it's true, it just won't work. Worst of it,
J> you won't get any error messages. Oracle will link its binaries
J> without a hitch, but whenever you'
> "Hall" == Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hall> How are the permissions of an NFS mount determined ?? I've got
Hall> two directories I'm mounting via NFS and they're "acting" the
Hall> same.
Hall> When they're not mounted, they're both owned by hall.users. When
Hall> they're moun
> "Gary" == Gary Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> What's going on? The script file is definitely there, I can
Gary> 'more' it, 'jed' it, whatever I like except run it. I'm sure I'm
Gary> missing something real simple here...
Either /bin/sh doesn't exist, or your root filesystem is moun
> "Paul" == Paul Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[mv of directory across file systems]
Paul> Sorry GuyMike's way worked fine first time
Turns out it does work, and looking at the changelog, it has been
working for a long time.
Must be some other system I worked on where it was not s
> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Paul" == Paul Campbell wrote:
Paul> hard drive partitions
Paul> hda1 root 50meg
Paul> hda2 swap 100meg
Paul> hda3 usr 2 gig
Paul> hda5 home 2 gig
Paul> hda6 fat32 storage for transferred win docs etc
Mike> Do this, but make sure you
> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0
Martin> "process swapper." however, memtest86 reports no errors for
Martin> the RAM chip, and badblocks, run with the destructive write
Martin> option, reports no bad blo
> "listmgr" == listmgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
listmgr> I have tracked this down to the point that I know it is an
listmgr> alias for the real time clock, and that it only occurs soon
listmgr> after switching to run-level 6 and run-level 0. I also know
listmgr> that the alias exists in tw
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> Perhaps it uses the standard bios interfaces only when in "safe
Joost> mode". IIRC the standard vga bios interface is limited to a
Joost> 640x480 resolution.
Standard VGA resolution, minimal device drivers loaded, no networking,
no s
> "Joern" == Joern Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joern> I am new to Linux, and have just installed Debian/GNU Linux on
Joern> a Dell Dimension XPS R400. The only problem I am facing, is -
Joern> how to get an Iomega 100MB USB zip drive to work with Debian
Joern> 2.2r3? I have installed th
> "R1nso" == R1nso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R1nso> the disk created with mkboot does work to boot the system.
R1nso> however, i have made boot disks using basically the method you
R1nso> described (dd and rdev) and they don't work. the only
R1nso> difference between the two methods is that
> "R1nso" == R1nso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R1nso> When i simply type 'mformat' i get a similar error message.
R1nso> Should I worry about this? Even if it is not a problem, why am
R1nso> i getting this message?
It means you don't have the mformat command installed. You'll find it
in the
> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Norbert> Hi there, on quite a number of machines I've encountered the
Norbert> problem, that a normal user can mount filesystems
Norbert> ("user"-flag set in /etc/fstab) but when trying to unmount,
Norbert> the above error is given inste
> "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> I would guess, based on their respective legacy codebases, that
Dave> Win2k uses HLT and ME/XP don't, but I haven't heard anything
Dave> definite about them to date.
AFAIK, WinXP is based on the NT codebase, just like W2k. So I woul
> "Nico" == Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nico> Howdy, I'm setting up a number Linux servers in our lab. All
Nico> servers will be connected through the serial port to a console
Nico> master. Unfortunately it turns out the Debian installation
Nico> (testing) refuses root login on
> "Nelson" == Nelson Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nelson> I'm benchmarking a chat server and after a little over 100
Nelson> connections (each connection requires two Java threads) the
Nelson> program failed with the message:
A friend of mine recently did a similar test, and he ran into t
> "luther" == luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
luther> Since then, i changed the /etc/network/interfaces file to be
luther> the same as on the old install, and when runnning
luther> /etc/init.d/networking restart, ifconfig shows that the
luther> correct IP address is used.
luther> But afte
> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC.
Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used
Sunny> dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I
Try `modprobe 3c509' and restart the network with
`/etc/init.d/networking r
> "Sean" == Sean Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> Upgrading to 2.4.6 seemed to work rather well for me. There is
Sean> some documentation of vm issues in the kernel changelogs. My
Sean> machine has been up for 7 days as I write this and is only using
Sean> 10 out of 200 megs of swap.
> "csj" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Line from GRUB menu.lst]
csj> I don't think so. The line:
csj> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.5 root=/dev/hda3 single
csj> is an instruction for the OS kernel. By this time the kernel
csj> should have taken over. So yes, it makes a difference when you
csj> s
> "mannequin" == mannequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mannequin> I know this has probably been asked on here before, but I'm
mannequin> running Debian Stable on my i686 and I'm having problems
mannequin> with LILO. Basically, I have Debian installed on /dev/hda
mannequin> and Windoze on /dev
> "Hanasaki" == Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hanasaki> I have the following three rules in my logcheck.ignore file.
Hanasaki> PAM_unix.*: \(imap\) session [opened, closed] for .*
Change this to:
PAM_unix.*: \(imap\) session (opened|closed) for
This can replace both your other r
> "kiteless" == kiteless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kiteless> hello all i was just wondering if any of you have ever tried
kiteless> using a program / package called mason to build firewalls on
I tried mason once. It has an `auto-learn' mode where it will scan the
network and add filtering
I finally got it to work.
I re-read one of the patches I applied before, and I noticed something
at the top of the file. The text said I should add
`ramdisk_blocksize=4096' to the boot parameters. I did that, and the
system booted flawlessly. (Except for one typo in the initrd image,
which I could
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> I'll let you into my secret magic passage to knowledge: Try
Joost> typing "cramfs initrd patch" in google's search box. That's how
Joost> I found that link. ISTR that the topic has been brought up
Joost> several times on the linux-ker
> "infernal" == infernal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
infernal> I coudn't find the Unzip utility in my "potato".. but the
infernal> zip. where in debian.org can I find it ? I can't
Unzip and zip are packaged separately for historical reasons.
You can find them in the non-US section of th
>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ?
Guy> Looks like it will do the trick.
(Followup to my own p
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ?
Looks like it will do the trick.
Thanks!
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> "Regnat" == Regnat Nikolaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Regnat> There are differences between the bootsector and it's backup.
Regnat> Differences: (offset:original/backup) 28:3d/3f, 29:65/00,
Regnat> 30:9c/00, 71:44/00, 72:41/4f, 73:54/20, 74:45/4e, 75:4e/41,
Regnat> 76:20/4d, 77:20/45, 78:2
I just tried the following:
- build a kernel (2.4.5 with LVM patched to the latest beta version)
with CRAMFS support,
- create an initrd image using mkinitrd,
- boot the new kernel using GRUB.
The boot process proceeds until the kernel tries to mount the ramdisk
image. The last message shown is:
> "Andrew" == Andrew Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> I was wondering if anyone out there has an oppinion on devfs.
Andrew> I'm considering it for a system that I'm building and some
Andrew> real life experiences with it would be helpful.
Devfs is quite stable. I use it on two differ
> "lists" == lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lists> I'm using two different ISPs depending on time of day, and
lists> cost. Problem is that they will only accept their own
lists> nameserver under /etc/resolv.conf. Is there a way around this,
lists> or do I need a script which changes resolv
> "Christian" == Christian Kreibich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> I recently updated to testing and a self-compiled kernel
Christian> 2.4.3 and things work great, except for java. Basically any
Christian> java application segfaults on startup. I'm using (well, er,
Christian> was using
> "Daniel" == Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> What is the appropiate place to set system wide
Daniel> classpath? should I make an init script for it, or is there
Daniel> one I should use to include it?
Add it to /etc/environment. Make sure you have `.' (the current
dir
> "Alberto" == Alberto Bigazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alberto> Problems arise when I try to serve files by either uploading
Alberto> them directly via ssh or ftp towards some remote, or by
Alberto> connecting to a remote and try to retrieve files from my
Alberto> machine.
It seems that y
> "Bruno" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bruno> hello! i am using latest unstable, and esd stopped working
Bruno> i get the error message : Unable to connect to UNIX socket
Bruno> /var/run/esound/socket
Either do:
chgrp audio /usr/bin/esd
chmod g+s /usr/bin/esd
Or: add al
> "Harold" == Harold Bibik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harold> Using Netscape 4.77 on a Progeny-Debian (Newton)system with
Harold> Gnome 1.4, I get HUGE bold fonts in Java Applets.
I long time ago, I found a page with tips on how to make Netscape
fonts look better. I can't find it now, but th
> "Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Hey people. Currently, in terminal mode without X
Michael> running, the top half of all of my 'a' characters is missing.
Michael> I'm confused. What could cause this??
First guess: a broken font.
Try: `apt-get --reinst
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