On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:14:32PM -0400, Eugene Tyurin wrote:
> I found this in my syslog:
>
> Jul 29 13:50:39 daBox rpc.statd[25571]: my_svc_run() - select: Bad file
> descriptor
>
> I don't have any NFS services running, nor do I mount any NFS
> filesystems. Any ideas and/or suggestions?
>
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:32:53PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote:
> > When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages.
> > Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local
> > pa
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:25:46PM +0800, Tao Liu wrote:
> When I type dselect, and select, it shows some Obsolete/local packages.
> Does that mean all these packages can be removed, if I have no local packages?
It means that these packages are listed in the dpkg status database,
but not in the a
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:09:47PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> I think he's making a joke at the expense of all the people who have
> experienced the sircam worm.
Woa! You made me grab for my Hendrix mp3's...
"Have you ever been experienced?"
I think the sircam victims had a pretty bad tr
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Could you translate that into English please?
Do you want fries with that, sir?
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:44:27AM +, hzi wrote:
> > Just a remark: I'm not entirely sure if it wise to use any other than
> > the default locale settings in the root account.
>
> What do you mean? All the bahavior here was set automatically by dselect.
> I haven't specified an installation d
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:25:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I downloaded a copy of the Linux 2.4.7 sources as a tar-gz file, and I
> suppose I need to install them into /usr/src. However, the tar-gz's contents
> are not at all indicative of that, and doing a make config just gives me a
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:16:50PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> ...so, arguably, at worst a mail client should display the body of the
> message but treat the signature as an attachment.
HA HA HA
People want to use their mail, not understand it. It should be *easy*
to attach your personal do
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:54:52PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> | Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | [cc'ed according to mail-followup-to request]
> | >On 28 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> | >>
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:09:20PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> > elm:# dpkg --configure libc6
> > Setting up libc6 (2.2.3-7) ...
> > date: invalid date `Mon Jul 23 07:32:48 WST 2001'
> > dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
> > subprocess post-i
(please press enter after +/-70 characters.)
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:33:49PM -0700, Brad Pillatsch wrote:
> Here's the problem I am having. This occurs on all the flavors of
> the latest stable release root disks. Basically when the root disk
> loads up into the install menus, specifically th
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:02:49AM +0800, Eric Boo wrote:
> Question: How are these ip address stored, if they are (under pump
> espcially), and how do I force pump to get another different ip if
> needed?
>
> Also, I can't seem to use pump on the command line after releasing it
> with pump -r. pu
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:09:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How do I set priveleges for files/programs/commands for users? I'd like for
> my username to have close to root priveleges, so I can change system options,
> etc. I find that the "NEVER BE ROOT! NEVER BE ROT!!" philosoph
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:07:13AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> Thank you for the reply. I forgot to mention one complication, I am
> setting this machine up for someone who will not have root access (I
> will retain that). I am doing this so that they cannot "mess up" their
> own machine...
>
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:39:32PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> You think this is bad? I'm getting a message every 2 days or so with a
> 200K+ attachment in base 64 (which I can't read). It says something
> like:
>
> "Hi. How are you? I'm sending this file for your comments.
> Than
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:07AM -0500, d wrote:
> HEY, people what is this CARP?
It's called "spam".
> I have received some stuff like this before
> and just thought it was an ERROR.
Hmmm, I wish it was. Welcome to the internet.
>
(please type a return after +/- 70 characters.)
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:44:44PM -, padmaja godbole wrote:
> I have a online site using jsp and I am sending mail from a jsp
> page .But There was error message saying-- error sending the mail.
> IO ERROR IN SENDING EMAIL:554 : Recipient addr
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:28:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm installing from a Debian CD-ROM I got from ISO Image 1 [ver. 2.2r3]. I
> partition my hard disk, install the OS and Modules, then the drivers, and
> usually that goes fine [drivers sometimes fails], and then I choose to
> i
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:27:43PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> I was hoping someone could help me out. I'm running kernel 2.4.7 on a an
> Ali MB w/ a P III chip. The BIOS boot messages tell me that this board
> uses ACPI as it's protocol, so I enabled that in the kernel, but it doesn'
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 01:24:16PM -0300, Henry Lebowzki wrote:
> I'm sorry if I sound hysterical, but I have reasons for concern. In
> fact, I'm truly desperate: it has been over a three months that I try to
> tackle this problem whenever I have some time.
> I was never able to use TeX on my pot
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:55:38PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote:
> I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected
> a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original
> package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try
> and
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:41:42PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref.
> Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the
> conflict without it selected for install.
You can tell dselect not to bot
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:00:45PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >The reason? My incoming mail goes through an MS-Exchange server,
> >and it strips out the signature part and makes a mess of the mail
> >header. There's no
> >
> >* ^X-Mailing-List:
> >o
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 03:43:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> every now and then (i REALLY dont know at what specific actions)
> netscape freezes up my machine. i cannot do anything but switch off and
> let fsck do its magic. has anyone of you experienced this also? i
> have smp activated i
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:25:19PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> cat /proc/interrupts
> 11: 5986 XT-PIC sym53c8xx, eth0
> append="ether=9,0,0,0,eth0"
>
> Then I *ran lilo*, rebooted, but the result was the same: the card still
> loads on IRQ 11.
>
> The card *used* to work fin
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:01:15PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Before to install the OS on my TP365XD, I would like to know if it's possible
> and if I need to take care of special issues.
> Thank you in advance for you response.
Did you try searching the web for "debian thinkpad 365" on go
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:34:01PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> was missing man-db, however, on trying to install, it shows the
> following error message
>
> trying to overwrite directory '/usr/share/locale/de' in package
> texinfo with nondirectory
>
> any ideas ?
Can you give more error o
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 03:13:25PM -0400, Ken Januski wrote:
> What I'm trying to find out is if root.root is a good idea? I assume it
> is or it wouldn't be the default. It just seems odd to me to have to
> become root in order to write either a html or cgi page.
You can setup the ownership of th
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:58:24PM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> Lance Peterson wrote:
> > I'm trying to use Webmin to administer a Debian router/firewall, but
> > I was hoping not to install X-windows in order to use a GUI browser.
> >
> > Is there a non-X GUI based web browser available for D
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:55:43PM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> wonder if someone can help me. was playing around with dselect trying
> to fix a package dependency issue, removed 2 many packages and now it
> says that 'man' can no longer be found. error message as in subject
>
> what needs to
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:11:19AM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> Security, Security, Security
> SSH Daemon
> NAT (Masq)
> Port Forwarding
> Graphical (web based ?) Network Analysis
> PPPoE support
> VPN support
> Convenient Method of Configuration (Web based, GUI based ?)
[snip]
> What is the best
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:54:14AM -0400, Stefanus Du Toit wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:19:24PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > > find /dev/cdrom -type f -exec cat {} \> /dev/null \;
>
> doing it on the device file won't get you anywhere :)
Who said it has
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:21:07AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> Yep. Nothing about it, that I could see. Am I just stupid?
Not for asking questions. Maybe it is a bug in alsa-driver-0.5,
if the other modules built fine. Try to dig up more details and
file a bug if you think there is one.
Cheers,
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:32:47PM +0100, Richard Gaywood wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:42:56AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> > I'd also recommend getting rid of Ximain and installing Gnome from
> > the Debian .debs. It really does eliminate a lot of headaches.
>
> Know of any rough instru
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:38:13PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:31:43PM -0600, John Galt uttered:
> > Let me guess: you're running X as root. Shame shame shame!
> >
> I'll give you shame. X is setuid root.
Well, shame on you too then, he meant the xsession, not the xs
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:39:06AM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> First, a simple question: What is the correct command-line way of
> copying a CD to an image file on the hard drive? Is a simple "dd
> if=/dev/cdrom of=cd.img" command sufficient? Or do I need to run
Use cat if you like.
c
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 12:51:31PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I posted a message about my ESS 1888 on my Dell Laptop card last week,
> and am grateful for the most useful replies I got.
>
> Aagain, According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive (although
> according to Dell it is a ESS 188
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:31:42PM -0500, Jeremy wrote:
> output of dmesg:
>
> Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI
> ISAPNP enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Redundant entry in serial pci_table. P
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 08:07:37PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> By not paying enough attention to the depedncies that dselect picke, I
> would up with a broken install of aolserver. I don't need this package at
> all, but dpkg --remove aolserver fails.
>
> How can I remove all traces of this package
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:59:15PM -0400, dman wrote:
> I've just spent some time on kernel.org and elsewhere, but I can't
> find any FMs to R regarding the procedure to upgrade from kernel
> 2.2.19 to 2.4.x. Is an apt-get install enough (and point grub at the
> new image of course)? Where can I
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:00:39AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> ---
> Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-18 (using .../libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb) ...
> cp: invalid option -- L
> Try 'cp --help' for more information.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.3-7_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
>
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:21:39AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> Does anybody have any idea about what to do? If it's a bug in
> make-kpkg, is it known or fixed anywhere?
Did you look yet on http://bugs.debian.org/kernel-package ?
Cheers,
Joost
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:08:00PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> Is there a package that will give me some "high resolution" fonts, or at
> least allow my existing fonts to scale better?
>
> For example, I would like to design a simple logo for my website using the
> gimp. If I use my text tool
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:48:57PM -0400, Jameson C . Burt wrote:
> My email lines get split after about 76 characters.
> How could I change this to something longer,
> or should email lines be split at 76 characters?
Please do keep sending your regular email with line breaks at +/-
70 characters.
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:25:23PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Can anyone out there reproduce this?
>
> Package: pppconfig
> Version: 2.0.8
> Severity: grave
>
> If I add a new connection pppconfig will allways select "Number" of all
> menu items. Quit doesn't work either. Only thing w
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:06:21AM +0900, Marshal Wong wrote:
> Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I can't help you with your lprng question, but a firewall actually
> > makes sense even on a stand-alone workstation or laptop. You can
> > filter in the input chain just like you'd do on
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Sorry to butt in in this thread, but my question seems to belong here as
> well. I noticed yesterday that installing kernel-package on i386 does not
> install bin86, which is necessary to build the boot code. Now I know Joost
> is
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 11:30:13AM +0200, Chuan Guo wrote:
> a silly question:
> Are there some simple method, not "dselect", to uninstall sth. in a group,
> i.e. Gnome, i'd like use only Blackbox in my small Notebook.
Package dependency sets are a complicated beast. Dselect in fact makes
it easi
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Gary Jones wrote:
> Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote:
> > > ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall
> > > bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory
> [snip]
> > > What
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:31:20AM -0700, Fallen Lord wrote:
> 1.)i just upgraded (force-overwrite) libc6-2.1.3 and
> libdb2 that comes with the debian 2.2r3 with the
> testing packages of libc6-2.2.3 and libdb2-2.7.
Be very careful with any of the --force options to dpkg, they're not
supposed to
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:46:55PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I've been trying to burn a CD using gcombust.
>
> For some reason the burn got stuck halfway through (the output of
> cdrecord, which gcombust calls, said that all of a sudden one of the
> SCSI commands couldn't be understood. It's
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:31:01PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> What is the recommended way to keep your responses to the
> kernel configuration options when using the debian kernel
> package tools?
Use kernel-package to build your kernels. It saves your .config
in /boot/config- so you always knw
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:22:35AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:15:55PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> > > What's happened to the task- packages?
> > >
> &g
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:36:06PM -0400, Manoj Jose wrote:
> Can we update a driver at the time of dabian installation?..
> If yes how we can create driver update disk from source files..
> Any idea?..
Try asking that question on debian-boot@lists.debian.org, where
the people who know about th
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:17:27PM +0100, Graham Ward wrote:
> I just tried to upgrade my system from potato to woody. I believe
> these are the correct steps:
>
> (1) replace "potato" with "woody" everywhere in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> (2) apt-get update
>
> (3) apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Gary Jones wrote:
> ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./firewall
> bash: ./firewall: No such file or directory
> ash-ock:/etc/init.d# ./hostname.sh
> ash-ock:/etc/init.d# more ./firewall
> #! /bin/sh
> # Script to control packet filtering.
> [snip]
>
> What's going on?
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:14:31AM -0500, John Foster wrote:
> I have been having problems getting a new kernel compiled. I have
> already posted a query about whether dpkg or make-kpkg is broke in
> testing with no response. I downloaded a raw linux-2.4.6.tar.gz from
> kernel.org, put it in /usr/s
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 04:34:23PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> I thought I would consult here as to the motherboard that will give the
> least compatibility problems with the various chip sets available and
> for on-board sound.
I've yet to hear any bad stories about motherboards for athlon
cp
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 05:07:23PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 03:53:58PM +0200):
> > You read the wrong rfc, the above characters are all allowed in http.
> > Try it again, using spaces, '%', '#' and some co
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:31:58PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> > > my $BEGINREGEX = "sprintf(\"^\$\")";
> >
> &g
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:14:25AM -0400, alex wrote:
> Can someone tell me what they consider to be a good up to date Debian
> book for a beginner, one that doesn't assume that the reader has a
> background in Unix or DOS? Is there such a book?
Most of the interesting literature is available onl
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:22:41PM +0900, Outa wrote:
> I need drives to install the graphical mode but so hard to find this driver
> ..
> I don't know where? the video card is trident cyber blade i1
> .. comes together compaq presario 1600 xl 258...
> I'll hope for one solution
Yo
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:43:38PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> in fact, this doesn't seem to work at all:
>
> fishbowl:~> echo '$1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13.' | \
> perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"'
> $1$19496519$xnqy/01WTA6pfhLBqZT13.
>
> what am i doing wron
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:11:06PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sat, 21 Jul 2001 01:56:26PM +0200):
> > perl -MURI::Escape -ne 'chomp; print uri_escape($_), "\n"'
> >
> > A little scriptlet to do the same:
> >
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:10:23AM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> What's happened to the task- packages?
>
> Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages
> are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have these been replaced by
> something new?
The task-* packages in their curr
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:28:01PM +0200, Bj?rn Fischer wrote:
Please fix the clock in your windows settings. It is screwing up
the mailbox sorting of many debian-user subscribers.
> Maybe as a Hint for other - still - Windows users: Don't rely on what Win
> tells you. I mean
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:22:19PM +, Victor wrote:
> perl -MCPAN -eshell
>
> *The bottom line*
> So, now I have that strange, confusing mixture of a perl 5.005 coming
> from a deb package and a perl 5.6.1 compiled from tarballs in CPAN
> under the same /usr/bin and /usr/lib. Obviously t
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:37:26PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hi,
> assuming that i have a string of the form "123%%%blabla*($(" available
> in the shell script, how can i convert that into an escaped version
> for use with the HTTP protocol? i am not a perl wizard, or else i
> wouldn't ask.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 01:04:40PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> I have a problem with some perl code. I know this is off-topic, but
> there are numerous knowledgeable people on deb-usr, so forgive me for
> posting this.
>
> Now to my problem.
>
> Given the following variable,
>
> my $BEGINREGEX
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:45:36AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> The real question is: To whom is the message encrypted? Anybody on the
> Internet can access it, but probably only one person can read it. I
> suppose that's one way of keeping the spooks in the dark about who
> your covert contacts ar
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:11:22PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On potato, I had to re-compile my kernel to get IP aliasing support. I
> used the newbiedocs over at sourceforge, and one of the instructions was
> to do the following:
>
> echo "kernel-image-2.2.19 hold" | dpkg --set-selections
The
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:26:21PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
>I don't know of a reference book that would be specifically about NFS
> but you can have a look at "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD
> Operating System" by McKusik, Bostic, Karels and Quarterman. Chapter 9
> (about 25
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I have, in the last few weeks, compiled a lot of kernels (with
> make-kpkg)
> Well, I have installed these kernel-image-blah.deb's, but without
> removing the old ones. dpkg -l shows
>
> ii kernel-image-2. # <-- dpk -l does not show
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> > "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 badbloc
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote:
> Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying
> to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system.
> Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect
> now wants to remove f
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:59:30PM -0700, Carl Fenley wrote:
> However, both the cdm640.c and the cmd646.c source files came with the the
> current version of my kernel-source (2.2.12).
^^^
That is not a current version at all. I recommend you
to get a m
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:09:32PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> Can someone please explain how/where savelog operates from?
grep -r savelog /etc/cron*
Cheers,
Joost
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:57:53PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote:
> I am having great problems with configuring my Dell Laptop's sound
> card.
Perhaps it needs plug-n-play to assign resources to it.
> According to Windows95 it is an ESS 1688 Audiodrive
> I/O Range 0240 - 024F
> 0388-038B
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:26:36AM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote:
> Paul Huygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 4) I have installed lpr and magicfilter and that runs fine. However, I
> >understand that CUPS is a modern alternative for the two (am I right?)
>
> I as understand it yes, it also offers
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:29:37PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> Try "netstat -at | grep xdm" on the pc running xdm. If xdm is not
Correction: as root do "netstat -tap | grep xdm"
Cheers,
Joost
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
> For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
> display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
> possibly, the changes to gdm...)
>
> I have tried many different things. Typical is something
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:36:25AM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
> Hi Cajus,
> thanks for your hints - but it did not work - what did I do wrong?
You are leaving all of the post you are replying to at the bottom of
your message, without there being an apparent need for any of it.
Please read
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:48:03PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Peter Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I would like to know where I can get free software as function
> >
> > http://remindme.arsdigita.com/
>
> Maybe http://www.arsdigita.com/acs-repository/?
Perhaps http://www.openacs.org/
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 03:05:25AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> i need to get a semi-exact idea of the traffic through one of our
> servers, in and out. i understand that netstat -s gives me interface
> statistics, but there are two problems with it:
>
> (a) it lists packets only. as i underst
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:17:51AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (if one exists), you want the first line to
> > say:
> > allowed_users=console
> >
> What should one do if it doesn't exists?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:28:54AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been having prblems with fetchmail, getting a "SMTP connect failed"
> message.
> Since I read in the fetchmail FAQ that the problem could be that my SMTP
> port listener is down or inaccessible.
Try:
telnet 127.0.0.1 25
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 10:02:19AM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
> My data:
> * hostname: boneless
> * local mailaddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> * command: fetchmail -v -S boneless
> * error message after "... reading message 1 of 2 (25915 octets)":
> - SMTP connect to boneless failed
> - This mess
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:56:50PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> is it possible to configure apache to log the total amount of traffic
> (in Mb) that is generated by a virtual host? how would i set that up?
Install the lire package.
Cheers,
Joost
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:27:09PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> router:~# locate \* | wc -l
> 68558
> router:~# updatedb
> router:~# locate \* | wc -l
> 91395
>
> Every night, updatedb runs, and updates, removing something like 21000
> files from the locatedb. Looking through the cron.daily, i se
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:28:52PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> This should be easy, but I can't get it:
>
> My keyboard is on /dev/psaux. Where will my ps2 mouse be?
On the keyboard connector? ;-)
Cheers,
Joost
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:09:20PM +, Victor wrote:
> Joost Kooij [debian-user] <17/07/01 21:55 +0200>:
> >Just create a valid user with your id, grant priviledges
> > to create new databases and then after that you can do most or all things
> > as regular user.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:23:49AM -0700, Harvey Werner wrote:
> Did you ever solve this problem?
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-9905/msg00160.html
>
> Or, did you have to reinstall your Linux system?
If only the symlink is nuked, just boot with a rescue floppy, get
a shell, mount the
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any security and safety
> consious Debian users would use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e.
> move, copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better practice to use CLI
> w/ suid t
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:53:50PM -0400, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> What would be a nice command to remove a dirtory that had files in it?
> Even better what would be a nice command to delete all files
> in one directory... (leaving the directory intact)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use File::Path;
rmtre
Thanks, Josip.
- Forwarded message from Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
> - Forwarded message from Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
> From: Frank Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: apt-get package list problem
>
> Sebastiaa
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:33:49PM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> I have an old 486 DX33Mhz PC. I'd like to set it up as a router. It has a
> Ethernetcard, 250MB HDD and no CDROM.
> What is importatnt to look at? Should i use a 1 floppy Linux? If yes wichone?
> Should i use debian? Is it impo
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:30:57PM +, Victor wrote:
> I'm now having a go at using postgresql, the version included in debian
> 2.2r3.
>
> Now, while I've been able to create my first db and tables using psql
> under postgres user,
No need for that. Just create a valid user with your id,
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:42:24AM -0500, Saul Fabian wrote:
> I have a problem, ?How I can format my hard disk ?
>
> I want to change my redhat 6.2's linux to debian, but
> I can?t install debian. When I boot the debian
> installation disk, my system gives my this message:
>
> loading linux ...
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:02:54AM -0500, Case, Benjamin wrote:
> > I just got an ENCORE PCMCIA Netowrk Card. From their website I d/l the
> > "linux drivers". This consisted of these files:
> >
> > 8390.c, gen1, gen2, and PCNET_CS.c. as well as a readme with the following
> > instructions:
> >
>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:53:01PM -0700, Dan Cox wrote:
> How do I install hardware? More specifically I have a Hayes Accura v90
> modem. I understand that this is a winmodem??? maybe. I looked at
> linmodem.org and after some searching I found this site
> http://www.sfu.ca/~cth/ltmodem/ which I t
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