Re: Wifi compatibility

Ricardo Cardante writes: > Hi there. I have a Toshiba Satellite S50-B-131. Is my wifi driver supported? > Thanks in advance. I don't have one but some looking online suggests that it has the Intel AC 3160 which should work if you install firmware-iwlwifi from non-free, and a newer kernel like je

Re: Environment variables affecting postscript files?

Rodolfo Medina writes: > I'm having troubles with ps files generated by Emacs ps-print package - > footers > are partially cut off. Is it possibile that some environment variable causes > the weird? And how can I know (and work it out)? I've never used that package, but the first thing I'd ch

Anti-spam recommendations

I'm moving a Debian mail server installation over to a different machine environment and I figure that I may as well take the opportunity for a fresh install and rethink. I've been using greylistd to good effect, but I'd be surprised if it keeps working so well long-term. I have long lists of alias

Re: An experiment in backup

"Kevin O'Gorman" writes: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt wrote: (snip) >> I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended >> to be root when you startx. >> >> > > I'm trying to learn here, so it w

Re: can't install skype 4.3 on jessie

Hans writes: > Am Sonntag, 11. Januar 2015, 17:01:18 schrieb David Zelinsky: (snip) >> 1. The extracted skype-4.3 binary does run, but the sound does not work >> since the audio dependencies weren't installed. > > Yes, just because you need pulseaudio. As many people got problems with > pulseaud

Re: can't install skype 4.3 on jessie

David Zelinsky writes: > Since Skype 4.2 stopped working, I've been trying unsuccessfully to > install 4.3 on my amd64 laptop running jessie. The problem seems to be > a dependency on libmp3lame0:i386, which has some issue with conflicting > versions numbers between the :amd64 and :i386 architec

Re: no microphone in skype

Ralph Katz writes: > On 12/05/2014 11:13 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: (snip) >> If someone got Skype working can you please share your configuration details? (snip) > While I have no specific suggestions for you, I can confirm that Skype > works with my debian wheezy ver. 7.7 and xfce desktop o

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" writes: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:24:13 +0100 > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >> Let's attempt an analogy: if several members of a literature club >> started to use the literature club room to (lively) discuss their common >> interests in motorbikes, ice creams or ponytai

Re: Problems with greylistd and exim and gmail

Virgo Pärna writes: > Can anyone suggest how to whitelist gmail servers for greylisting, when > I'm using exim + greylistd. > I seem to be having problem with /etc/greylistd/whitelist-hosts file: > however I describe a server in it, messages are still greylisted. I have tried > 209.85.

Re: Good news on claws-mail

Peter Nieman writes: > As mentioned already in another posting, I think the best, if not the > only solution for Debian would be to split the whole thing in two, one > for desktop environment users and one for users who do not want a > desktop environment. Packages that only work in a desktop

Re: Openbox systemd-free

Steve Litt writes: (snip) > I'll also try to find a systemd-free alternative to LibreOffice, and to > Gnumeric (Gnumeric will be tough, it's actually a good program). (snip) LibreOffice is enormously useful for Microsoft Office compatibility. Why on Earth does it require systemd? Can it not be co

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Martin Read writes: (snip) > * The set of people hostile to systemd seems to include a lot of people > who don't see much need for the likes of ConsoleKit either. (snip) This is actually a rather good point. The machines I am most conservative about, and wanting to make sure that they boot well

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Miles Fidelman writes: > Joey Hess wrote: (snip) >> A reasonably proactive admin would probably want to try out systemd (on >> eg, a test server) and if it causes problems for their deployment, they >> then have at least the year or two from when Debian jessie is released >> until the *next* rele

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 10/13/2014 8:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: (snip) >> That's an error and completely idiot : big service provider use >> different MTAs for inbound (with MX records pointing to them) and >> outbound email. > > Which ones? Specific names, please. For instance, legitimate ma

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 04 oct 14, 16:44:17, Mark Carroll wrote: (snip) > The only time one could say stable is "catching up to testing" is the > moment of a stable release, but even then, it's not quite accurate since > the current testing *becomes* stable,

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 23 aug 14, 13:43:50, Mark Carroll wrote: >> >> In my /etc/apt/preferences.d/preferences I have, >> >> Package: * >> Pin: release a=stable >> Pin-Priority: 600 > > You are increasing priority of stable, from 500 to 60

Afatech AF9013 -- MSI Digivox Duo DVB-T Stick

I am running wheezy and having curious trouble getting a DVB-T USB stick working well. The kernel log has encouraging messages, like, usb 4-4: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci usb 4-4: Product: DVB-T 2 usb 4-4: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'MSI DIGIVOX Duo' in cold state usb 4-4: firmware

Re: How to install qt5 on Wheezy, and is that even a good idea?

Steve Litt writes: > Unfortunately, one program that might be mission critical to my > business, Sigil, now requires qt5 to compile, and of course Wheezy > doesn't have a qt5 package. > > What would be the best way I could install qt5 on my Wheezy without > borking everything else that depends on

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

Bret Busby writes: > On 03/08/2014, Andrew McGlashan > wrote: >> On 3/08/2014 4:39 AM, Brian wrote: >>> On Sun 03 Aug 2014 at 01:29:57 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >>> There is no substitute for Skype (either the software or the service) >>> whether it be open or closed source, >> >> What about Goo

Re: no display manager for 3 days

Brian writes: > On Thu 24 Jul 2014 at 10:37:34 +, Alan Simpson-Vlach wrote: > >> Ever since a dist-upgrade that installed systemd and removed >> sysvinit-core, I have been unable to get a display manager. > > The dist-upgrade would have more than this. You are using testing? Perhaps coincide

Re: iptables firewall

Mike McClain writes: > I've run into a difficulty with iptables in that both GRC.com and > PCFlank.com's firewall scans show ports 137-139 and 445 as blocked but > not stealthed in spite of the fact that I have these statements in my > firewall script: (snip) > Suggestions? Use iptables --list-r

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 27 iul 14, 12:34:17, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 7/26/14, Brian wrote: >> >> > With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly >> > past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by >> > agetty. >> >> I've thought for y

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

Curt writes: > On 2014-07-25, Brian wrote: >> >> With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly >> past at a bewildering speed and then for the screen to be cleared by >> agetty. Nobody particularily complains about this behaviour. Unless >> you have an excellent visual m

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

Brian writes: > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 11:47:37 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote: (snip) >> No problem, I am interested to learn how others do it! (-: My main >> concern thus remains: does this change with systemd, can I still leave >> background processes running after logging out

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > Le 10.07.2014 19:42, Steve Litt a écrit : (snip) >> The plot thickens. How did you exit the terminal? Did you File->Close >> or type exit at the command prompt, or did you use a window manager >> "close window" command (usually Alt+F4)? It makes a difference

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : >> Martin Read writes: >> >>> On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: >>> [regarding double fork] >>>> In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? >>

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

Martin Read writes: > On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: > [regarding double fork] >> In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? > > Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, > your launcher program's design will run into problems in a systemd world. > >

Re: Getting snd_cs46xx working with wheezy

rob writes: > On 29/06/14 08:30, Mark Carroll wrote: >> lspci lists my 1013:6003 sound card as, >> >> 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 >> [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) >> >> I tried following the

Getting snd_cs46xx working with wheezy

lspci lists my 1013:6003 sound card as, 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) I tried following the instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/snd-cs46xx but found that the link to cs46xx_image.h is broken. I instead

Re: Matrox G450 PCI DVI with modern xorg ?

Sven Hartge writes: (snip) > I am afraid to say this, but: G450 DVI with modern Xorg does not work > and will never work, because you need the closed source proprietary HAL > for this which has not been updated since a long long time. > > I tried to get this to work several years ago, trying every

Re: Matrox G450 PCI DVI with modern xorg ?

didier gaumet writes: > Le 15/04/2014 22:01, Mark Carroll a écrit : (snip) >> Rather than trying many more speculative adjustments, I am wondering: >> does anybody else actually have this hardware working with a modern >> xorg under Debian? (snip) Well, the silenc

Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...

> On 04/13/2014 02:26 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: >> Is there anyone who is using Skype with no problem at all on Debian >> Wheezy 64 bit? I missed the start of this thread, but I have Skype working just fine on Debian Wheezy 64 bit. I am using ALSA, not pulseaudio or anything, and I have Skype i

Matrox G450 PCI DVI with modern xorg ?

I have a Matrox G450 video card in a 5v 33MHz PCI slot in an old system. I hope to get DVI output from it, I don't care about using the other head. While the console is fine, I can't get xorg to work with it. I have tried various approaches. I've tried installing xorg from both wheezy and sid. I'v

Re: Installing Debian debian-live-7.4-amd64

Gilles Pelletier writes: > Here is the picture. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem very clear. > http://imgur.com/cgdbULj > It mentions missing firmware files. It does: one can get them from the non-free firmware-realtek package. The documentation on how to do all this is quite good. -- Mark --

Re: Installing Debian debian-live-7.4-amd64

Gilles Pelletier writes: > Do you have a suggestion of where I should post this picture so that > you can see it? (preferably sans spam) http://imagebin.org/ is useful for this kind of thing. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: DHCP quickie

Danny writes: > Is it possible to only give leases at a certain time of day for a certain IP > or > MAC? > > Say from 06:00 till 10:00 and then from 18:00 till 22:00? I guess you could probably have a couple of different dhcpd configuration files and set a cron job on that server to run a scrip

Re: Netflix on Sid, no wine.

Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > A few days ago Google News carried this: > http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-enable-silverlight-watch-netflix-linux/ > > I tried it and it works as advertized, an easy installation and Netflix > works. Thank you for the heads-up! I can confirm that this works fine in

Re: netcat usage.

"Peter Easthope" writes: > Can anyone offer a solution for this? > > [user@computer ~]$ nc -l 25 -e /usr/sbin/ssmtp > Ncat: bind to :::25: Permission denied. QUITTING. Maybe you need to be root? I doubt regular users can bind to ports below 1024. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: eps editor

lina writes: > I have a network pic, see attached. I manually drag the nodes position, > and it was produced by R tkplot, I am not smart to change the label > position, any suggestion about eps editor package (epstool is not for > this case) and how to beautiful this figure are welcome. I don't

Re: Best way to show HTML5/mp4 in D7 browser?

Ron Leach writes: (snip) > The Iceweasel announcement goes on to add > > "or install Flash Player." > > and provides a link to the Adobe site. (snip) > What do others on the list use to play similar video material on Wheezy? I installed the non-free package flashplugin-nonfree which exactly downl

Re: Losing '_b00jdlb8_default' from a files name?

David Guntner writes: > Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote: (snip) >> to replace __default.m4a with .mp4 Oops, spot the typo. (-: I should mention that lest it confuse. (snip) > Very cool, and slick, too. :-) Thanks! You're very welcome. -- Mark -- To UNSU

Re: Losing '_b00jdlb8_default' from a files name?

David Guntner writes: > Mark Carroll grabbed a keyboard and wrote: (snip) >> for i in *__default\.m?? >> do mv "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's/.\{17\}\(.\{4\}\)$/\1/'`" >> done > > Ooh, yea, that looks like it would do it, way better th

Re: Losing '_b00jdlb8_default' from a files name?

Sharon Kimble writes: (snip) > '15_Minute_Drama_-_AM_Homes_-_This_Book_Will_Save_Your_Life_Episode_5_b00jdlb8_default.m4a' > > How can I lose the '_b00jdlb8_default' section please? It is always > in this format but with different letters and numbers in the section > before 'default'. Per

Re: Recover old version of xfce4-session package?

Mark Carroll writes: > What's my best path forward here? I don't suppose there's some archive > somewhere that still has xfce4-session 4.8.3-4 or at least the build > dependencies for 4.8.3-3? Ha, no sooner do I post than a friend kindly reminds me of http://snapshot.d

Recover old version of xfce4-session package?

I look after somebody suffering from https://bugs.debian.org/706425 on amd64. They run xfce4-session 4.8.3-3 from wheezy and the bug report suggests that 4.8.3-4 provides a fix due to the patch at http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/commit/?id=ab391138 Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to o

Re: VIA system freezing since upgrade to wheezy

Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Samstag, 18. Mai 2013, 18:21:51 schrieb Mark Carroll: (snip) >> longhaul: APIC detected. Longhaul is currently broken in this >> configuration. (snip) > Yes, be careful: Blacklist longhoul. > > See posting by Ben Hutchings on P

VIA system freezing since upgrade to wheezy

I have a small low-power mini-ITX system that I use as our home router. It is VIA C7 based with VIA CN700, VT8237, etc. on the motherboard. Mainly it just sits there moving packets through iptables, via RTL-8139 and VT6102 (Rhine) ethernet cards. There's other hardware, of course, like the S3 UniCh

Toshiba Satellite compatibility?

I'm thinking of buying a Toshiba Satellite A15-S157, but does anyone have Debian working on it, including the optional internal 802.11b? Or, are incompatibility problems probably not Debian specific, anyway, because maybe it's all kernel support issues and Debian doesn't much custom-patch the kern

Re: XFree86

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > Does anybody khow, how can I configure the subj? xbase-clients has xf86cfg and xf86config xserver-common-v3 has xf86config-v3 They might be a good starting place. Also, be aware of http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XFree86-HOWTO/ -- Mark -- To UN

root changing NIS passwords

I've installed the Debian NIS stuff and it all works wonderfully for regular users. However, /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz says that, "Root" can - using the root password - change other people's passwords, finger info and shell. However, as root on my NIS master, I can't

RE: apache query

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Randy Orrison wrote: (snip) > Note that in /etc/apache/httpd.conf just after the /doc/ alias line is: > > order deny,allow > deny from all > allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews > (snip) Not in

RE: apache query

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Randy Orrison wrote: (snip) > Sorry for assuming. Those lines are there in the fresh install Woody No problem. > system at one of my jobs, and my Potato-upgraded-to-Woody systems at home > and at my other job. It seems odd that whatever upgrade put the Alias It may be that

Re: IRC

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, john gennard wrote: > I'd like to try using IRC. There seems a wide variety of programs > available and I wonder what is the one most commonly chosen > by list members. I'm running Woody. I'm using ircii, which is fairly basic, but will be quite familiar if you've used any s

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a > > matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs t

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

On 15 Oct 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm looking for some software to keep track of open projects, and the time > I've spent working on each. I need to be able to track multiple clients and > multiple projects per client, and easily search for projects that are not (snip) Me too. I especially

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, David wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: (snip) > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the > > Internet (unless you really know what you're

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: > > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to > > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the >

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, David wrote: (snip) > Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If > I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that > you cannot, but this is what I'm doing. You will find this info in the > file "filter.txt.gz" in /usr/share

Re: Linux: a gentle, growing approach

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.2200 +0200]: > > I must admit, I quite like dselect. I can browse very quickly through So do I. (snip) > you should try aptitude. TBH, part of the problem for me was with apt. It would try

Re: CD Writing [was: Re: The Real Problem With Debian]

On 14 Oct 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: (snip) > Two common reasons for going with modules: > > 1) Devices that need particular parameters to be configured wrt the > handler module. (snip) You can normally also use things like LILO's "append=..." to pass parameters to such modules when they've been

Re: OT: DNS servers

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 the mental interface of > Mark Carroll told: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > > Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box? > > > and then set your re

Re: OT: DNS servers

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Would it be unwise to install bind on your own box? > and then set your resolv.conf to > nameserver 127.0.0.1 ??? I do exactly that, then all my nameserver config is done in /etc/bind/ Seems to work okay. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: ext3 is insecure if file shredding/wiping?

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: (snip) > Just move all your data to encripted partitions and get done with it. I figured if I waited, it would be easy to just mkfs a strange fs, alter fstab, and then some of my partitions (incl. my swap) could be encrypted well. Did I wait

Re: ip alias

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > how can one create an ip alias on an interface that has already > another ip address? There's a kernel option in recent kernels to enable IP aliasing. Once you've done that, IIRC you can set the network settings with ifconfig for eth0:0, eth0:1, etc.

Re: Debian equivalent of .login file?

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Levi Waldron wrote: > What's the Debian equivalent of Unix's .login and .logout files? Any user > can place these files in their home directory and their commands will be run > at login/logout, without having to do anything as root? It's a shell issue - look at your shell's

Re: Athlon MP boards that work with woody

On Wed 09 Oct 2002 10:07:22 -0700 Derek Gladding wrote: > I'm running dual MP1800s on a Tyan Tiger MP S2460. Me too, but MP2000s. Works like a dream, and kernel config was easy too. The Tiger MP even came with a nice manual, though on the board itself some of the capacitors got in my way when I

Transparent access to DVD-RAM archives

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, nate wrote: (snip) > I think debsums is what you want(its a package). though last I heard > not every debian package came with md5sums on the files, so it may > not be 100%. (snip) Thanks very much, Nate - that's perfect. (-: I can now generate a good exclude list with a simpl

Finding files to back up

Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package selections and the files that I've added (e.g. in /home/) and modified (e.g. in /etc/) that wouldn't be recovered in a simple package reinstallation. I see that d

Re: list archives

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Kent West wrote: (snip) > It's been my experience that you need to ignore the notes that say > things like "If you don't choose a group, 'user' will be the default" > and "The last three months will be searched for by default". > Specifically set those two things, and see how y

RE:Conversion to ext3

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Andrew Agno wrote: (snip) > Yes to your last question. Just get a rescue disk/CD, boot from it, > make sure your device is unmounted, and run: > > % tune2fs -j /path/to/device (snip) Great, thanks! Everything has converted nicely, apparently. (-: (Well, at least 'mount' repor

Conversion to ext3

Quick question - how do I convert my root partition to ext3 without introducing lots of .journal files? Can I make a bootdisk or something that can convert what's normally my root partition? It looks like, if the FS is mounted, you get .journal files. I've not found this in a FAQ yet but if I just

Re: Need utility to search for duplicate files

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 03:18:47AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: (snip) > > Unfortunately, the files won't always have the same filename. Does > > anyone know of a utility that can go through and search for files with > > the same size and/or date and d

Re: OT: vm vs mutt (was Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt)

On 12 Apr 2002, Brian Nelson wrote: (snip) > featureful. I've never tried vm, but I'd assume gnus contains all the > functionality of vm plus a lot more. I know people who, by choice, use vm for some stuff but gnus for other stuff, so I'd assume that neither is a clear winner over the other for a

Re: list archives

On 12 Apr 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > Is there something wrong with the list archives? When I put in the > exact subject line of a thread I would like to see the beginning of, it > says no matches found. I know the thread is there, but it isnt coming > up with anything. (snip) I've wondered tha

Re: Dual Boot with Win2k

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:44:47AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: | Has anyone had any dual-boot experience with Windows 2000? I currently | have linux on one drive and 2K on another, and am looking for a viable | way of dual booting the two... (snip) Yes. With Linux on hda1, Windows 2k Pro on

Trouble with sound support in compiling 2.4.x kernel

In October 2001 I described to this list how I'd managed to get my WinBook XL's Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard going under Linux with kernel 2.4.9. Among other things, I included CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y, CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y and CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2=y in my kernel's .config file; at the time, these seemed

Re: Two-button mice and pasting in X

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:28:17AM -0500, Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button > > mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking th

Two-button mice and pasting in X

I want to be able to paste in X from its clipboard with my two-button mouse. However, I want to be able to do so just by clicking the right button, instead of both, leaving the buttons' functions unchanged for anything other than X's pasting. How do I do this? Thanks. -- Mark

Re: Slow Telnet

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, dman wrote: (snip) > What is the solution? Is it a good idea to open up 'ident' in the > firewall? I think so, yes. Alternatively, can you have your firewall at least send an ICMP reply to say that the packet was dropped? (like the difference between DENY and REJECT with ipch

Re: Slow Telnet

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote: (snip) > right away, but it takes almost a minute to continue to the login prompt. (snip) Do DNS lookups of uncached hostnames from that box happen slowly too? Could it have anything to do with it trying to do an ident check on the person connecting

Re: PATH variable--where is it?

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Gary Turner wrote: > I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored? > I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not > there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't (snip) >From the bash manpage,

Re: allowing root X apps

On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Mark writes: > > Security isn't always such an issue. > > Stability is. Think of the damage a crashing Gnome application could do > running as root. More important, though, is the bad habit this sort of Sure, but I don't use Gnome, and I don't touch fancy wi

Re: allowing root X apps

On 28 Oct 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Justin R. Miller wrote: > > What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps > > while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? > > Not at all. Such applications are not secure enough to be run as root. Security isn't always such an issue.

Re: allowing root X apps

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Justin R. Miller wrote: > What is the best, most secure way to allow root to run X-based apps > while I'm logged in as my non-privileged user? I've tried xhost > +localhost and that does not seem to do the trick. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] works for me. Avoid xhost like the plagu

Re: how to install aha1542 kernel module

Bizarre! I'm glad you got things working in the end, anyway, Darren. (-: I went for years without ever compiling a kernel, but now I've discovered it's not so bad after all I wouldn't do anything else, although it helps to first find out all the details of the hardware you have in your system. That

Re: something wrong with the RealPlayer

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > There is something weird happening with my RealPlayer. Everthing worked > fine in the past but when I started RealPlayer 7 today there are no > letters or numbers anymore. There are dotted rectangulars instead of > letters and numbers. (snip) This ha

Re: Telnet

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Richardson, Martin wrote: > I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security > reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to > disable telnetd? in inetd.conf? You could get rid of telnetd completely with something like dpkg --purge

Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk

Of course, Jeremiah Mahler's idea worked. I made the script, #!/bin/bash set -e mkfs -c /dev/fd0 mount /dev/fd0 /floppy/vmlinuz lilo -C ~/lilo-bootdisc.conf umount /dev/fd0 And lilo-bootdisc.conf was, compact boot=/dev/fd0

WinBook soundcard now works

I'd like to share how I got my WinBook XL's Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard going under Linux with kernel 2.4.9. I couldn't find specific and helpful enough documentation online, so hopefully this message might help the next guy. I included CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y, CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y and CONFIG_SOUND_OP

Re: exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I > have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probably a good start. Maybe you can talk your l

Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: (snip) > I dont know if my solution is what you are looking for but here it is > anyway. I made a boot disk for using on a diskless machine by > essentially doing the same thing as I do with a hard disk. > I created an ext2 filesystem on the floppy and c

Re: Aliasing a NIC

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote: > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I did it before on a Re

Kernel parameters on bootdisk

What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources, in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"? -- Mark

Main laptop problems solved!

I have a laptop where if I started gpm or xdm under kernel 2.4.9, the keyboard and mouse would stop working. Thanks to Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I found out that the kernel yenta stuff grabs IRQ 12 for the pcmcia cardbus controller where my mouse is. Adding append="pci=irqmask=0xafff" to

Re: X woes (testing)

Do you have a /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start with exec "$REALSTARTUP" in it? If so, remove the " -- Mark

Re: Keyboard loss

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Debian User Jean-Baptiste Note wrote: > I experienced the same problem with gpm on several boxes. > disable it. that's all i could do. It wouldn't be so bad if the same problem didn't occur with X! (-: -- Mark

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) > /proc/cpuinfo identifies AMD K6(tm) 3D processor. The kernel I'm using > is 2.4.9 compiled for i386. When I tried the stock 2.4.9-k6 kernel-image > package or compiled the kernel for k6 myself, I was never able to get > the kernels to boot. I'm ru

Re: Add a new module to kernel?

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Michael Fontenot wrote: (snip) > I suspect that during installation I failed to specify that I > wanted java support, so that binfmt_java isn't included > in my kernel. If so, is there any way to add it now, or (snip) Try 'modconf' as root. Good luck! -- Mark

Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

On 24 Oct 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: (snip) > dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt. Damn, that's annoying. ): I suppose that eventually I'll have to switch back to apt, then. Hopefully it'll work better for me by then. > Mark Carroll <[EMAIL P

Re: How do I find out what packages I have currently installed?

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Kai Sterker wrote: (snip) > Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure > that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually > selecting every single package. (snip) "dpkg --get-selections" and "dpkg --set-selections" are p

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