Re: Need help with VPN connection

2004-09-23 Thread John Summerfield
Roberto Sanchez wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I have managed to set up a VPN connection to the MS VPN server at school. The problem is this. When I add a route for the school's net block, a huge flood of packets starts. None of them actually make it out of my ma

Re: mousewheels in 2.4.26 vs 2.6.7

2004-09-22 Thread John Summerfield
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I use the same X Debian package + XF86Config-4 in the 2 kernel versions and the same Sarge release. But... in 2.6.7 my 2 mousewheel A4Tech optical mouse has only the upper wheel active and in 2.4.26 both. So since the only difference is the kernel version, that

Re: Need help with VPN connection

2004-09-22 Thread John Summerfield
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I have managed to set up a VPN connection to the MS VPN server at school. The problem is this. When I add a route for the school's net block, a huge flood of packets starts. None of them actually make it out of my machine, though. The "TX Packets" count seen in ifconfig g

Re: Locked out! How to circumvent password urgently?

2004-09-18 Thread John Summerfield
Anthony Campbell wrote: Anthony Sorry for this follow-up, but I've now discovered what the original problem with the passwords was. The console keymap has somehow gone wrong and is not generating the correct UK symbols for # ~ @ . This may have happened in today's update from Sid - I'm not sur

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

2004-09-15 Thread John Summerfield
Patrick Wiseman wrote: Have those posting their invites acutally READ http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/index.en.html#ads ? Cheap shot. I'm not pushing gmail, but the people who are offering gmail invites do not remotely fall within that policy. Whether gmail sends them itself, it's still

Re: Trouble with HDD > 137GB Using Sarge

2004-09-14 Thread John Summerfield
It's pretty bad form to xpost everywhere. Having one's email address in Debian is bad enough;-(( Chrissie wrote: On 2004-09-12, Kurt Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: figure out exactly what I need to do. I just installed Sarge (netinst) on a new 200GB drive from Seagate (ATA/100). During t

Re: change hostname

2004-09-13 Thread John Summerfield
Afsin Taskiran wrote: Hi; # hostname or # vi /etc/hosts /etc/hosts does not control the host name. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: change hostname

2004-09-13 Thread John Summerfield
Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: On 13-09-2004, at 08h 01'54", Víctor A. Ramos wrote about "change hostname" Hi, I have a Debian GNU/Linux installed on my compute, and I want to change the hostname of this machine. Can someone tell me how can this be done? Thanks a lot With the hostname command

Re: GRUB issues

2004-09-13 Thread John Summerfield
c0ldfusi0n wrote: Hey all. I recently made an update of apt followed by an upgrade and rebooted. GRUB then gave me this error: GRUB loading stage1.5... GRUB loading please wait... Error 15 Now as far as i know, the error code 15 stands for "File not found". I tried booting with the grub bootdisk

Re: test (sorry)

2004-09-12 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Mudama wrote: I can't seem to get any emails through with my normal email account at bounceswoosh.org ... let's see if this works. Thought you'd left. Don't forget to fix your reply-to address:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeog

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-12 Thread John Summerfield
matt okeson-harlow wrote: it also comes down to this... if you are going to have people adding users, they should be people that have SOME level of trust. if you don't trust them to not INTENTIONALLY screw things up, don't give them access. write your wrapper to the best of your ability to take c

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gebhardt Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: it is possible to delegate the adding and removing of users to a non-root account without getting too much security hassle? (no alteration of system accoun

Re: FC2 kernel 2.6.8

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola,. el fin de semana hice un upgrade a 3 maquinas que prestan serivios de I wish you chaps would talk in English:-( -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: solution: rescuing /home on a failed attempt to ugprade to sarge (and new question)

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
matthew bradley wrote: What I ended up doing was taking a Gentoo LiveCD I had laying around, booting off of that, setting hda3 to a mount point under the gentoo system, configuring sshd (with some help from others) to allow root login, and then tarring up home, ftping it to a windows box with g

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Janne Blomqvist wrote: cheapest available card listed in ethernet howto, 3c905, costs 29 euro I had the same problem a year ago. I needed a couple of network cards. I didn't want the rt8139 or similar crappy ones nor did I want to pay for the 3c905 or Intel e100. I found this page quite inf

Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote: Hi! John Summerfield wrote: Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote: The two events are unrelated. The spurious interrupts have been going on for years. Not that I can locate one just now, but a little googling should clear that point up. Thanks for your answer.I've googled sear

Re: IDE Bus rescan

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:25:07PM +0200, pir aa wrote: Is there a way to rescan the IDE Bus under Linux. (Not looking at the need of HW). The only thing I want to know, is if I can rescan the Bus after power on. I heard about hdparm -U and hdparm -R, but does it really mak

Re: howto delegate user administration to non-root account?

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Gebhardt Thomas wrote: Hi, it is possible to delegate the adding and removing of users to a non-root account without getting too much security hassle? (no alteration of system accounts possible, ...) If so, is there an easy established/preferred/canonical way to do this? Let me create accounts,

Re: spurious interrupt error causes a kernel panic during Debian install

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Lorenzo Cuciniello wrote: Hi everybody! Here is the nth newbie having problems with this error. I searched over the Net (uncle Google rules... ) but not encountered the solution to my puzzling dilemma. I ever read about poeople who experience this error during the normal computing activity (solvi

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-09 Thread John Summerfield
Joey Hess wrote: $ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux. lsb_release -d Kookaburra:/boot# lsb_release -d -bash: lsb_release: command not found Ko

Re: Switch MDK -> Debian, probably

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Zachary Rizer wrote: You don't have any of these silly collision issues with Debian. Occasionally, something like this might happen, but probably only with sid, the unstable branch. Apt handles dependancies far better than any other package manager. Bar none. I wouldn't be so sure of that. It

Re: How Best to Email Documents?

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas H. George wrote: Open Office File>Send does not automatically attach the document to an email message though it opens a Mozilla send window. In any case recipients have good reason to be suspicious of attachments. Some attachments. If I were a teacher and told my students to send homework

Re: FreeBSD or DEBIAN for remotely administered internet server

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Peter Gutbrod wrote: Sorry for the tripple posting :-( Send it first through usenet and it didn't show up there. I was thinking that with the trouble you're having with mail an all, best you don't do remote admin at all:-) Lotsa folk will tell you that the best admin tool is vi (or emacs); I

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Jason Rennie wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:21:12PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Often, too, you can use the TAB key to advance over problematic characters, a "?" to represent one of them and "*" to represent any number of them. So rm ?rtsp-stream-over-tcp rm *ov

Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: At this time I'd be installing Sarge. I would not be seeking to do an upgrade any time soon. Except that until sarge is released, it doesn't get priority security updates. Does Debian have more than one grade of security update? I assumed when Sarge started getting securit

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Tim Connors wrote: And if you get a filename with non-printable garbage in it, then you can say rm -i ?rtsp-str??m-over-t?? Use rm -i though, otherwise the first time you try this, you will make a mistake :) To see what it might do: echo rm ?rtsp-str??m-over-t?? If you like what you see echo rm

Re: HD Patch for badsectors?

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Louie Miranda wrote: I have a really big problem. I have a remote server, and some sectors on that drive is not functioning well. it has badsectors.. end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 7372776 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (h

Re: rm difficult filename

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Antonio Rodriguez said... When capturing a file from an url with the command mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile archive.rm -playlist url and other variants, by misplacing the option -rtsp-stream-over-tcp a file was created with this name, i.e., -rtsp-stream-o

Re: firewall/router configuration

2004-09-08 Thread John Summerfield
James LeClair wrote: My router is a dual-homed P1 box that runs Woody. I would like to do a clean install in the near future. After it is all set up, and before I take it online for the first time, what steps are involved to slimming it down and securing it? Maybe a few tips or linkage to good d

Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: Hi folks, (I'm trying this with a different subject in the hope that it makes it clearer than the previous one...) I have a server i'm planning to bring online ASAP. My priorities in order are security, features, and performance. My service requirements are fairly standard: - SMT

Re: finance/business

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Alejandro Matos wrote: Hi there!! My University is trying to change to Linux, but the teacher told me they might don't do it because the lack of "finance/business" programs. I told him that that is quite imposible. But after making some search i think he is right. That's pretty vague. Spreadheet

Re: looking for: mail list AND bulletin board in one

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Vadik wrote: I am looking for package with capabilities similar to yahoogroups (i.e. mail list AND bulletin board). Most of the packages I've seen are either maillists or bulletin board. If this would be a part of larger content management system (or can be integrated in to one) it would be

Re: "dd" block size question

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Gururajan Ramachandran wrote: Hello, If I want to clone a hard disk drive using "dd", can I just use an arbitrarily large block size to speed up the process? For example, dd if=/dev/hda bs=32768k of=/dev/hdc or is the block size dependent on something and has to be carefully chosen? I choose a l

Re: Addusers and domains ?

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Lijftogt wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Mark Lijftogt wrote: Well.. any imap service is not related to domains. Mail for qut.nl and theregister.co.uk could be hosted on the same physical host with one IP address. by using virtual domains. I don't know whether Courier supports thi

Re: is it possible to know the SERIAL # of my harddisk thru terminal?

2004-09-07 Thread John Summerfield
Louie Miranda wrote: I have a remote server which i bought a month ago. I was curious to know the serial# of my harddisk, can it be viewed by a terminal login only? remotely? i know i can always ask, but i dont trust the technical team who do it. so my best way if it can be possible to view it via

Re: Securing php: ezpublish

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Why, you might ask, did I not simply drop it below /var/www as everybody else? Because my job as package maintainer is not only to "throw something into the system", but also maintain package upgrades. What ever I "throw in", I must also maintain. So what I did was to only p

Re: Addusers and domains ?

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Lijftogt wrote: Well.. any imap service is not related to domains. Mail for qut.nl and theregister.co.uk could be hosted on the same physical host with one IP address. by using virtual domains. I don't know whether Courier supports this, by Cyrus does. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PR

Re: about installer (anaconda from local CD)

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi jeff, me again, since you have created a booter with anaconda ( for sarge at least the 3 or 4 first Cd) from local CD, You 'll probably help us if you put it on site for downloading???!!! Instead of hassling Jeff, why not check his website? -- Cheers John -- spa

Re: Usability Questions

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
Ed Sutherland wrote: Is there a way to shutdown my computer within Gnome or KDE without having to first log-out, then picking 'shutdown'? (I know *nix systems are designed for 24/7, but many desktop computer users prefer shutting down overnight.) Did you know your system is most likely to fail w

Re: Load shoots very high with disk activity

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
Danie Roux wrote: Using XFS, and kernel 2.6.8. In the past two weeks I noticed that my PC load shoots up on anything that needs disk activity. The CPU's are quiet during all this: I/O contributes to load average. Nothing startling there. top - 17:04:09 up 6:07, 3 users, load average: 2.25, 1.

Re: Addusers and domains ?

2004-09-06 Thread John Summerfield
Grant wrote: Hey, Anyone know how i can add domains and users to Courier-imap ??? I have a webmail interface (ISMail) but i dont know how to addusers... I have searched the internet but i havnt found anything useful... So could someone give me a quick idea on how to do it... I've not used Courier-

Re: Linux Installation with SCSI Drive

2004-09-05 Thread John Summerfield
Ronald wrote: I often try out (installing) Linux distributions, so this is an I/O intensive operation (writing to the drive). Would using SCSI drive significantly improve the installing time? (halve it?) FYI currently I use Seagate 7200.7 80 GB and to get full 3 GB install takes around ~10 to 20 mi

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

2004-09-05 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: As far as I know the PS/2 hardware normally is not hotpluggable, and the mainboard /can/ be damaged if you do it anyway. Are you sure it works on your hardware without damaging it? Although PS/2 is not technically designed for hot plug, i've found very few pieces of modern har

Re: Howto Observe My DSL Router Traffice Load...?

2004-09-01 Thread John Summerfield
Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All, I am connected to a DSL Router in my office who's IP is 192.168.1.1 and i wana check its traffice load and Bandwidth consumption...how can I as my machine IP is 192.168.1.252 TIA, thanks apt-cache show mrtg -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR

Re: need iptables port forwarding help!

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Tom Vier wrote: i've tried several times, using multiple different rules i've found from different sites, and i still can't get port forwarding working. does anyone have working rules they could send me? i'm trying to forward packets from my isp to port to an internal ip (i use nat) and port 2

Re: Longhorn versus Whatever's after sarge

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: No, I don't mean that. Bill has enough problems already. What, with Longhorn slipping and fragmenting and all. Which will happen

Securing php: ezpublish

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
I'm setting up some CMS software I found at ez.no. There's a Debian package, but it's old and non-trivial to set up, so I've downloaded the tarball from ez.no. The instructions say to configure php with safe_mode off. That doesn't excite me very much: I know little about PHP, but it sounds to m

Re: tasksel problem with Sarge netinstall RC1

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Joey Hess wrote: meta-kde has been removed from testing; the desktop task won't be available until it goes in again. When does the freeze start? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSC

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Roger Creasy wrote: :01:00.0 VGA Compatible controller:Silicone Integrated Systems[SIS] 86C3265598/6326 (rev 0b) A bug! A bug! A Bleedy Big Bug! I see a bug* :00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90) Should be Silicon, not Silicon

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Madhusudan Singh wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: alt.os.linux.debian Please help in propagating this newsgroup to your favorite news server by requesting them to carry it. Le

Re: ADSL/pppoe configuration problem

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
easf cdscvs wrote: Hello, I just recently installed debian, and I can't configure my ADSL connection. When I run the configuration in the menu, it says it found the ethernet device, but the next step fails, something about "access concentrator not found" and hinting that another proccess may be usi

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
Roger Creasy wrote: I have struggled for 2 months to get ndiswrapper to work on my box. I am throwing up the white flag. Can anyone suggest an 802.11g card that has a linux driver? Alternately, I have a dLink DWL-G510. Does anyone know of a driver? dlink has a web page listing where to get driv

Re: How to find in which CD is a package ?

2004-08-31 Thread John Summerfield
belahcene wrote: Thank Andreas, But the question is general one !!! Is there a possibility to find the number of the CD which contains a given Package! that 's all!! Generally speakng, apt-get will ask for the right CD. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics

Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

2004-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
Kudret Güler wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:20:15 +0300, Ruairi Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was a recent discussion on lkml about memory leaks and other issues with the ATAPI driver in 2.6.8. Revert to 2.6.7 and see if that helps. If so, then you can move to 2.6.9 later. This i

Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

2004-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 06:29:45PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Help! Running Debian Sid on Dell Inspiron 8200. Moved to Kernel 2.6.8 and started having failures. ... Cdwriting fails on ISOs greater then 150MB. ... I think there are "a lot o

Re: USB harddrives and device associations

2004-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
Darryl Clarke wrote: Hi, This may be a simple question, or complicated. I have a lot of USB drives that I deal with and I'm getting quite annoyed that whenever I switch drives the /dev/sdX association changes too. I started on /dev/sda and now I'm currently on /dev/sdp and I have to edit my fstab

Re: advice on ipsec implementations

2004-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
Dave Harrison wrote: Hi all, I'm interested in using NAT-T for a VPN connection on Debian. However the FreeSWan packages appear to be broken currently, and since that would mean I'd have to compile FreeSWan by hand with a NAT-T patch, it has inclined me towards looking at active developments such

Re: Repeated forced fsck--Bug?

2004-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
David Baron wrote: After the requesite number of mounts, fsck ran. The auto-run failed so I typed in fsck -f. This proceded to uneventfully check all the file systems. Fine. At next boot up, the non-root file systems were rechecked. The message said that they had not been checked for 4970 days o

Re: automating sa-learn via cyrus mailbox?

2004-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
Will Trillich wrote: i've been thinking again, so to avoid doing something dangerous i thought i run it past y'all'uns-- :) we're running cyrus21 and exim4 for email services, and would like to automate the "sa-learn" feature system-wide. so why not create a "user.spam" cyrus mailbox, BOUNCE any sp

Re: how to create a bootable cd?

2004-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi every body, I want to create a bootable CD from a package. In fact a want to create an anaconda Cd from anaconda_10.0-2_i386.deb to replace the sarge installer for my own use. Is it possible? thanks a lot . best regards bela You can do this, and mailing lists to

Re: -- OFFLINE -- Re: Working backup solution?

2004-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
What's this OFFLINE about? Didn't you mean to send it to the list? Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mate On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:17:00PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: .. I'm trying to find a decent backup solution for our 5 Debian systems – all on Dell hardhardware. Been look

Re: Working backup solution?

2004-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:33:53AM +0200, Didde Brockman wrote: I'm trying to find a decent backup solution for our 5 Debian systems – all on Dell hardhardware. Been looking at the Dell PowerVault 122 as it seems to fit our needs quite good in terms of capacity (640Gb ma

Re: automating sa-learn via cyrus mailbox?

2004-08-29 Thread John Summerfield
Alex Nordstrom wrote: On Sunday, 29 Aug 2004 12:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so why not create a "user.spam" cyrus mailbox, BOUNCE any spams there and have cron do some sort of automated "sa-learn --spam" on the results, and then delete them? I've thought about it, but not done any acti

Re: automating sa-learn via cyrus mailbox?

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
Will Trillich wrote: i've been thinking again, so to avoid doing something dangerous i thought i run it past y'all'uns-- :) we're running cyrus21 and exim4 for email services, and would like to automate the "sa-learn" feature system-wide. so why not create a "user.spam" cyrus mailbox, BOUNCE any sp

Re: Which kernel do i need

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
Johnny wrote: Hi I have installed Debian-3.0r2-i386, I have installed ax25-tools, ax25-apps, libax25 packages. And turn around and installed ax25-config-03.3 package. Now i have been told that I need to compile the kernel for Packet radio work right. I have been googlen and reading how to comp

Re: Modems for Linux?

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
csj wrote: On 27. August 2004 at 10:13AM +0800, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: My existing dialup modem does not have linux drivers (its one of those winmodems), and so am planning on buying a new modem for my machine. I checked around the net

Re: firewire (IEEE1394) harddrive: how to use?

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
Ryo Furue wrote: # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt didn't work. (The error message was to the effect of wrong filesystem.) I tried "ext2" in place of "vfat" unsuccesfully. Finally, I looked into the disk by fdisk and found that the partitioning didn't make sense to me. The partition boundaries di

Re: I don't care

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
David P James wrote: On Thursday August 26 2004 21:56, John Summerfield wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Now all you have to do John if get them to fix the To: & Cc: problem. From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:38:35 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: OT: Gmail invitations

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 09:49, John Summerfield wrote: Here is the official guide: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ When using the Debian mailing lists, please follow these rules: Do not send spam; see the advertising policy below. Yes, yes, I've read that

Re: Serial console installs?

2004-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
Brian Nelson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:50:24PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Brian Nelson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:08:43AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Sarge over the net (booting netinstall via px

Re: OT: Gmail invitations

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 05:54, John Summerfield wrote: This is not the place for advertising. We might just as well have people here flogging Windows software, sex aids and intoxicants. I'd have to disagree. Gmail invitations are kind of coveted right now, a

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
Kent West wrote: 2) If you're really running a 386, that kernel is acceptable, but if you've got a Pentium-class machine, you might want to upgrade to a -586, or -686, or -K7, etc kernel, which is optimized for these other CPUs. Just do an "apt-get search kernel-image | more" to see what kernel

Re: Computers doesn't power off

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Piers Kittel wrote: Upgraded to the 2.4.27 kernels on both my work and home computers but now I find that they both don't power the computer off automatically, I have to push the power button manually when the computers has shut down - how to make it

Re: anti-freeze

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
n the middle of Test#5, without having reported any errors. If I understand right, this probably means that there is a problem with the CPU and/or the motherboard. Sigh seems like it's time for the axe that Silvan and John Summerfield recommended, Don't forget the switch. We don't wa

Re: OT: Gmail invitations

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
c0ldfusi0n wrote: I know *someone* who didn't click in time. This is not the place for advertising. We might just as well have people here flogging Windows software, sex aids and intoxicants. This is a forum for discussing and especially helping people with Debian Linux, FreeBSD etc, and is ent

Re: Serial console installs?

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
Brian Nelson wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:08:43AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Sarge over the net (booting netinstall via pxe). I can only connect to it via serial console.. When it boots up into serial console, it seems to try se

Re: ide-scsi emulation deprecated

2004-08-27 Thread John Summerfield
Roel Schroeven wrote: Joerg Schilling, the cdrecord author, argues that cdrecord uses SCSI commands to do its work, so everything should work according to the SCSI standard. That means, amongst others, addressing devices by bus,target,lun. The kernel developers argue that in Linux, as in Unix,

Re: Serial console installs?

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, d-i? Debian Installer What you're (probably) using to install Sarge On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Sarge over the net (booting netinstall via pxe). I can only connect to it via seri

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John L Fjellstad wrote: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dnsdomainname is in /etc/resolv.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search demo.room nameserver 192.168.9.4 nameserver

Re: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Phil Thomson wrote: Hi all, Working on a network install of Debian, but I'm having trouble getting the network to come up. My NIC is a D-Link DFE-530TX, the driver for which is rtl8139. When I run dhclient, I get "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable". The list archives suggest that it

Re: Modems for Linux?

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, My existing dialup modem does not have linux drivers (its one of those winmodems), and so am planning on buying a new modem for my machine. I checked around the net for a list of modems that are known to work with linux (hardware modems preferred, if not winmodems that

Re: installing error

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:39:21PM -0400, Abdool wrote: hi, While installing the "base system" in Debian, I get the error message, file:/instmnt/pool/main/a/apt/apt_0.5.4_1386.deb was corrupt. Couldn't download apt. Please tell me what is to be done. I want to use dual boot

Re: Serial console installs?

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Sarge over the net (booting netinstall via pxe). I can only connect to it via serial console.. When it boots up into serial console, it seems to try sending VGA data to the serial port. Is there a way to get around this? Best to direct Qs about d-i

Re: GCC/G++ will not compile i686 binaries when asked.

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That may indeed be it. Is there any known way short of looking a the asm dump of a binary for telling what CPU instructions are used? When asked I was directed to readelf and file and they work great for SPARC based development, I wouldn't bet on that either:-) Seems t

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Pigeon wrote: It's either equivalent to "question" or "problem". I seem to have a vague memory of someone asking a question in a non-English language, being told this is an English list, and coming back with a translation, which confirmed this. I might be remembering wrong though. I doubt you ar

I don't care

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Wayne Topa wrote: Now all you have to do John if get them to fix the To: & Cc: problem. From: John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:38:35 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Borked e-mail threading [Was Re: HylaFax receives rubbish

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Jeremy Brown wrote: John Summerfield wrote: X stuff exceptions are xterms and imitations which can be configured to run login shells. I assume you get a login shell when you log in via GDM though, right? I don't use GDM, but I think you don't (you didn't used to with KDE, but si

Re: ide-scsi emulation deprecated

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Rob Benton wrote: OK I may be slow, but I just noticed in my boot messages the other day that in the 2.6 kernels ide-scsi emulation is deprecated. Unfortunately the version of cdrecord I have (from testing) doesn't agree. Has anybody had any success getting cdrecord to work with an IDE target

Re: Transferring install to another HD

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Adam wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:46:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of restoring the directory. He's chrooting into a Debian install. Enough said. It works. Sometimes. -- Cheers John --

Re: Transferring install to another HD

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Stephen Tait wrote: At 15:46 26/08/2004, you wrote: Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of restoring the directory. Why doesn't someone read the man page for cp? It tells you how not copy /proc. man cp Personally, I prefer tar ... | tar which seems to work far be

Re: Borked e-mail threading [Was Re: HylaFax receives rubbish]

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
S.D.A. wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:01:00PM -0700 or thereabouts, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Not according to Sylpheed. Both times he started new threads That's one of the reasons why I dropped Sylpheed early on! If one has an e-mail client that does real threading, which uses the message-

Re: Mailing-list recommendation

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: My Company is looking for a mailing-list system that have these features: - Bounce detection. - Easy to translate. What do you mean, "translate?" - Secure. - Fast. What would you recommend? mailman. Almost everyone uses it becausethey like it. -- Cheers John -- spambait [E

Re: Transferring install to another HD

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Adam wrote: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:33:53PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote: Gak! I've just thought. What do I do with all of the weird stuff in /proc and /dev? Will cp handle these things seamlessly, or will I have to create /proc and /dev are virtual. What you should therefore do is

Re: kernel 2.4.27 doesn't set dma

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Eric wrote: Others may disagree, but I am of the opinion that all ide chipset and hard disc related drivers should be compiled directly into the kernel instead of getting loaded as a module. When you load the piix module the kernel is being asked to make some major changes to an IDE subsystem that

Re: fine-tuning du -h ?

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Josef Oswald wrote: Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:33:06PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: Is there a way to let du -h only print the size of a directory? Sorry I was not clear here, I want to check more then _one_ directory, at once: like /home/oswald

Re: X Config and Knoppix

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Adam Spencer wrote: Secondly, Knoppix is a branch of Debian right? X config is a nightmare with Debian (I have spent many hours swearing at it) but Knoppix just gets on with it and you can tweak later. Is it possible to do this on an established Debian installation? If not why not? Knoppix is m

Re: Getting better screen refresh rate in X?

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: CW Harris wrote: ... Typo... Thomas meant 'xvidtune' I'm sure. Yes - it's been a long time since i've had to use that! ;-) One other thought I had, is there any difference in the xserver you are using? Same one? Same version? I'm pretty sure they're the same maj

Re: kernel panic

2004-08-26 Thread John Summerfield
geekboy wrote: Martin Dickopp wrote: freeing initrd memory: 3956k freed FAT: bogus logical sectro size 0 kernel panic: VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:05 So the initrd.img is working. remembered to run lilo after upgrade. does the 03:05 mean the fat partition on hda3 is screwed? No, 03:05

Re: GCC/G++ will not compile i686 binaries when asked.

2004-08-25 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the past few weeks I have been co-working on a private project. I have done allot of work on it and I would hate to have to start over. The makefile I created for this project explicitly tells the compiler (g++) to compile the binary using i686 (-march=pentiumpro) as

Re: ensuring usb devices visibility

2004-08-25 Thread John Summerfield
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:24:20AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Two days ago I made an update-upgrade to my sid machine (kernel 2.6.7). For a while I hadn't been able to make my memory stick work, since i had moved to 2.6.7 with udev. Now, after this up*, without chan

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