Re: Kernel 2.6 options

kernel with the > module compiled in already, or do I need to modify something at kernel > compile time? Have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt You can indeed add parameters to drivers which are compiled into the kernel. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.h

Shuttle WLAN Dongle

m#w_lanpn11 (german) TIA & HAND PS: The PCI x AGP ports shall remain unused for now. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian SID. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSC

Re: problem while unmounting a disk

e the command 'umount /dev/md1' > But system shows that /home is busy. i have no idea where home is > used. i am in / directory and have not opened any file under /home. lsof | grep "/home" should show you all processes accessing /home. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne /

Re: What do I need in Kernel for DSL

eed new > Module-Init-Tools. But I don't know, what I need for a DSL-connection. > Any hints? Under "Device Drivers / Networking Support": PPP PPP over Ethernet PPP .* compression And of course a driver for your NIC. That should do the trick. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Colog

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the "i" flag?

at it ought to be? The easiest way is to install an IDS *before* the breach. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian SID. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Experiment, partial positive results: 2.6.2

o any problems. > Similar initrds made for my 2.4.22-xfs are not accepted as valid ram images. 2.6 changed quiet a bit of things. Reading Documentation/Changes is a must. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No fil

Re: hi QUESTION

> Gee's this is bad! Then to tell me or any user to read 4,000 PAGES AND > COME BACK! Because it's Linux. No Clicky-Clicky installation here. You'll have to use you brain. If you are to lazy that's you fault. > Really now! Apparently you don't want it to suc

Re: whew

However, Debian is not meant to be installed by beginners. And your friend should damn well know that. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choic

Re: Sid et DHCP

Am Di, den 10.02.2004 schrieb Sam Halliday um 12:48: > Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Di, den 10.02.2004 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 10:49: > > > Bonjour tout le monde, > > > je viens de faire un dist-upgrade sur ma woody (noyau 2.6.1) pour passer en > > >

Re: Sid et DHCP

dhcp)! alors qu'avant > cela ne posait pas de problème. Est-ce une erreur courante? J'ai absolument > besoin d'aide, c'est très important pour moi de résoudre ce problème le plus > rapidement possible [...] You do realize that the majority on this plane

Re: shell script question

ext one. one file at a time to prevent using too much > of their bandwidth. > >From my questions you can safely assume I have never written a shell > script. > any suggestions for this issue? There's no need for a script. Just use wget -> man wget. HTH -- Matthias Hentges

Re: Kernel 2.6.*: unwanted messages in terminal / console SOLVED

Hello all, i managed to resolve this issue by upgrading module-init-tools from 0.9.10 to 0.9.14. Should have tried that first heh. Am Son, 2004-01-18 um 18.52 schrieb Matthias Hentges: > Hello all, > > i'm running kernel 2.6.1-mm4 on my laptop and i'm *very* pleased with &g

Re: Need help with onboard LAN on mobo K8V deluxe

# compile the driver - make install # install the driver - depmod -a# update the module database - modprobe 3c2000 # load the driver On LKML were reports that gcc 3.* will fail to build the driver. Use 2.9* instead. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -&

Kernel 2.6.*: unwanted messages in terminal / console

ff alias sound-slot-2 off I'm really at a loss here. I believe it has something to do w/ the new modutils package required for 2.6 module loading. Any advise on how to resolve this issue or pointers in the right direction are greatly appreciated. TIA -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany

Re: disable ping

run nmap from an external box (ie scan your box from the internet) HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Making rescue floppy using third party kernelmodule.

ase your installation is FUBAR you may want to consider Knoppix. It ships with tons of drivers. You'll need a CDROM for Knoppix though. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: D

Re: ping hostnames problem

an > only ping to IPs. How can it be solved, and why is that happening? Looks like the DHCP-configured DNS is wrong? -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nat

Re: iptables blocking rules

there. Just make sure that you include the device you want to filter (ie. -i eth0 for cable or -i ppp0 for dialup/DSL). This will make sure that legitimate connections from your LAN (and of course lo) will be allowed. You can test your firewall on these sites: https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0

Re: Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

use of the SCSI subsystem in Linux. A simple cablemod won't work. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck [SOLVED]

kernels, it adds two lines only... If you want, I > can check where I put that fix only as a patch. Well that 2-liner would sure be nice to have :) [...] -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

s.net/howtos/p4p800_deluxe.html [...] HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warning at booting

Am Sam, 2003-12-27 um 00.44 schrieb Kent West: > Matthias Hentges wrote: [...] > >http://www.google.com/search?q=block-major-114 > > > >Takes about 20 seconds to find an answer... > > > > > > > Even with Paul's hint, it took me considerably longe

Re: Warning at booting

block-major-114 > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-114 > . > . > > > Kindly advise what does it indicate and how to fix it. http://www.google.com/search?q=block-major-114 Takes about 20 seconds to find an answer... -- Matthias Hentge

Re: Finding I/O For ISA NIC Card?

27;t determine what the I/O is? lspci -vvv doesn't give it > to me, nor does /proc/pci. > > How do I determine the I/O? Either the i/o and IRQ settings are "jumpered" on the card or you need the vendors' DOS app to view / configure the settings. HTH -- Matthias

Re: A SOFTWARE

Am Die, 2003-12-23 um 21.09 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I start wondering what those mails are about. Is that just a bored troll or a spammer harvesting reply addresses? -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No fil

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

Am Son, 2003-12-21 um 14.45 schrieb GCS: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > > Since upgrading to 2.4.23 would be a lot of work due to all t

Re: Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

Hello Rob, thanks for your reply. Am Son, 2003-12-21 um 09.41 schrieb Rob Weir: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges said > > Hello list! > > > > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > > Since upgrading

Re: problems recognising gpg public keys

dfn.de Replace blackhole.pca.dfn.de with any server you wish. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Kernel 2.6.0-final oopsing when using e2fsck

ers in the right direction are greatly appreciated. TIA -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice Dec 19 18:55:44 mhcln01 modprobe: FATAL: Module bi

Asus P4P800 Deluxe + Enhanced SATA/P-ATA finally working

and good luck -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: ldconfig and hosing my system

ache there but > the kernel still paniced upon reboot. I don't know if the > kernel paniced the same way or not. > Boot up Knoppix, mount your old root partition and chroot into it. Then just run ldconfig again (it's a static binary, so it should work). HTH and good luck --

Re: Dell Latitude

Am Fre, 2003-10-24 um 19.08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I cannot get my modem to work properly, can you help? Yes. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Na

Re: X Window System will not start.

start but dont know > how. Posting your X-Free logfile would be a good start. > If it matters pppd also does not start PPP. Its excuse is that the > password in chaps-secret is bat however the entry looks correct to > me.*. Please advise. You may want to try replaci

Re: How to recover system,

h a correct CPU setting and support for you mainboard chipset. Edit lilo.conf to use the new kernel and run /sbin/lilo. The new system should now boot with the old drives and a new kernel. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97

Re: m3u copy shell script. (need help :)

FS includes SPACE, TAB, NEWLINE and maybe more. In your case you want IFS to be set to NEWLINE (and *only* to NEWLINE). You can do it like this: IFS=" " Maybe there is a more elegant solution to set IFS to NEWLINE. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] ->

Re: Dependency trouble after installing backport

Am Fre, 2003-10-10 um 05.31 schrieb Pigeon: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:47:49PM +0200, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Hello Ron, > > > > Am Don, 2003-10-09 um 12.24 schrieb Ron Rademaker: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've installed a backport of

Re: Dependency trouble after installing backport

ages which depend on exim and replace the exim depency with exim4 (if the packages don't have problems with the newer exim4 when compiling, that is). It's also trivial to generate a fake .deb of exim. I 've attached one to this mail. The whole .deb consists of a Readme in /usr/share/

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

;t been able to include proper network configuration when > recompiling the kernel. Check PCMCIA support and the driver of your NIC. [...] > 3. I miss xdm, gdm and kdm. Which one should I choose? I personally prefer GDM, but KDM is nice,too. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

have a working X with a xterm running now, there is probably a problem with your windowmanager (KDE, Gnome?) or Displaymanager (GDM, XDM, KDM etc.) HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's

Re: kernel 2.4.22 documentation

anic. Huh? Either you have a hardware problem, or there is a serious bug in a driver module. The kernel must not Oops when loading the wrong driver) HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL&#

Re: .procmailrc

n-user.* debian Works For Me (TM). -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: Gibraltar firewall

Also the system defaults to German keyboard, and I have to > type "loadkeys uk" at the start of each fresh boot. I added > this to the end of /etc/bash.bashrc, but it did not work > either. IIRC dpkg-reconfigure console-data will help HTH and welcome to L

ICH5 in enhanced mode -> Kernel hangs on boot

bata (Jeff Garzik) and he thinks the best way would be to disable IDE support in the kernel and use libata instead but libata doesn't speak ATAPI so the burners would still be non functioning. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? My hardware: Asus P4P800 Deluxe mainboard Pentium 4

Re: Login Procedure

Am Die, 2003-09-02 um 06.11 schrieb Vaibhav Agrawal: > HI! > I wanted to what is the sequence of files or scripts being executed when > a user logs in. Reading man login and man bash (if bash is your login shell) will answer all your questions. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne

Re: Unfortunate Dummy.

ry now and then. Oh well i guess gzipping a 1,2GB mail archive (daily backup) takes its toll hehe. Moral of the story: Even with lots of RAM, swap is always nice to have. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -&g

Re: Spam Assassin 2.5x

2 and - of course - SA 2.55. You can get it here: http://www.hentges.net/tmp/spamassassin_2.55-4_i386.deb HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by C

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

S is there a more ellagent way to do a counted loop as well as a way > that works ? I *personally* would do it like this (tested): n=0 while test "$n" -ne 9 do let n=$n+1 echo "$n" done HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges

Re: emu10k1 WILL NOT load!

then download the new driver from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1 You'll need the tools, too BTW. Build and install, then run depmod -a and modprobe emu10k1. Or just upgrade to kernel 2.4.21 and see if it works. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net

Re: Debian package from other orig.tar.gz

on how to build a .deb have a look at this URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Cho

Re: WLAN PCMCIA card

ready to rock. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 19.44 schrieb Hall Stevenson: > > > Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks > > > Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? :-) man procmailrc *SCNR* -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP we

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

m. And the mozilla.org version doesn't have AA-fonts support compiled in. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: no audio cds

udio CD you wont see anything in /cdrom since /cdrom is just a simple directory. Try adding the device file to your xmms playlist (ie /dev/hdc or whatever your cdrom is). This will allow xmms raw access to the cdrom if permissions permit it. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentg

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

on't think linux does, > > does it? > > In fact, linux forces you to confront problems; this shocks many users > who are used to being told "oh no, everything's ok" as fires rage in > the engine room. Right! Linux will even tell you when your "Printer is on fi

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

. Note: No PCMCIA, no network on most laptops *sigh* [...] -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: my helvetica looks ugly

talled and available, but i can't find any hints. If > someone has the same problem (maybe after an apt-get upgrade) and found > a solution, give me a hint. I had the same problem after some apt-get upgrade'ing. A reboot fixed it for me. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [w

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

artitions). That *may* help if your partition table is faulty. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies

Re: Help: postfix confusion

L PROTECTED] > > How can I get postfix to set "from" correctly? > Did you try a "dpkg-reconfigure postfix" already? HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's

Re: installing new kernel

ing to > boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-686". And "vmlinuz.old links to > boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20-idepci". > > My lilo.conf is: > > boot=/dev/hda2 > root=/dev/hda3 > compact > install=/boot.boot.b > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/vmlinuz > l

Re: programm to controll runlevel and services

im and fast program - > grafically or not. Maybe ksysv is what you are looking for. Depends on KDE. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signat

Re: mc colour scheme

may have something to do with your $TERM variable. Is it identical on both machines? Is the terminfo database identical? I had that happen to me when i installed mc-german on my Sharp Zaurus. Anyways, just start the program with "mc -b" which disables color and you are set. HTH -- Mat

Re: Comments on security, Re: recover lost root password

maining security risks it is a Good Thing to remove all unnecessary software from the system (compiler, tcpdump etc). A healthy setup doesn't even need a packetfilter since there are no open ports on that machine anyways. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP wel

Re: Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

Am Sam, 2003-03-08 um 05.49 schrieb Bill Marcum: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:56:20PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton: > > > Please help- > > > > > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP O

Re: problems with xfree86 4.2 under woody

rking X system), what can I do? What further > diagnostics could I usefully send to the list to help solve my problem? If the method above doesn't work, try to remove all xfree packages and reinstall. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML t

Re: Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

try the orinoco driver. A 20 second google search would have told you that,too. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 18.40 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:08, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Die, 2003-03-04 um 02.08 schrieb Carla Schroder: > > > On Monday 03 March 2003 04:26 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > [snip] > > All previous encounters with KDE we

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

er Celeron with a mere 256MB of RAM with WindowMaker and *lots* of open programs on display 0. No more sluggishness of Konqueror. This thing responds faster than Windows (which in the case of KDE never has been the case before). I've heard of KDE 3.1 being now more responsive but i would n

Re: Problem

em. Looks like your kernel doesn't support IPv6... Time for a good old menuconig i'd say. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Ch

Re: Excluding internal ipaddresses periodically from internet.

u want to block from the internet in it and then insert a call to that chain into input or forward. This was just an example. You'll need a rule that checks for destination address != $local_address_range or you'll drop *any* access to your gateway. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne

Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

> Or if someone of you know links/howtos etc. with information about > building debian packages, let me know, too. Read the "The New-Maintainer's Debian Packaging Howto": http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/index.en.html It should answer all your questions. -

Re: encrypted filesystems with debian packages?

ng it part of > the debian packages management system. AFAIK the mount and losetup tools in Debian are already patched. At least in Woody they are. > Is there a "Debian way" of encrypting filesystems? Dunno, but the method from the Encryption-HOWTO works fine. -- Matthias Hentges

Re: not work,

y to you anything??! > www:/home/fsshl# Get /file HTTP/1.0 > bash: Get: command not found > www:/home/fsshl# telnet localhost 80 Get /file HTTP/1.0 > Usage: telnet [-4] [-6] [-8] [-E] [-L] [-a] [-d] [-e char] [-l user] > [-n tracefile] [-r] [host-name [port]] No comment..... [...

Re: Help setting up NetSaint on Debian 3.0

ds to be done to get NetSaint running. > During installation, the package states that this should be working (at > a very base level) out of the box. Well reading the documentation would help for a start. Last time i checked it was very well written and easy to follow. -- Matthias Hentges Co

Re: Help needed...

password and remove the gdm/kdm/xdm startup-script from /etc/init.d/rc2.d. After that reboot and you should get a text login from where you can fix your X11 configuration. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 ->

Re: Ntfs Problems

support. > > I don't know why won't work... Pleas help me a little bit. Here comes the little bit: man mount, look for ntfs mount options uid/gid and umask (man umask) -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97

Re: Groups

tent of the file /etc/group ? > root:x:0: > daemon:x:1: Looks ok to me. Please post the content of your /etc/nsswitch.conf. [...] -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian

Re: Locale problem

g locales... >en_US.ISO-8859-1... done >en_US.UTF-8... done > > And left the language as "C" Edit your /etc/environment and set LANG to "en_US" or to "C" (C works for me). Then log out and log back in and you should be fine. Altern

Re: Up to date sources list

Am Don, 2002-12-19 um 16.57 schrieb Steve: > On 12/19/2002 6:12 AM, Geordie Birch pounded the keyboard with stubby > fingers to type: > > said Matthias Hentges (on 2002-12-19), > > > > > >> apt-spy will build you an up-to-date sources.list > > >

Re: Up to date sources list

Am Don, 2002-12-19 um 04.04 schrieb Steve: > I can't find a sources list on the Debian web site. Google seems to return lists > for packages other than the official Debian stuff. Is their an url that I could > go to? apt-spy will build you an up-to-date sources.list -- Ma

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

. If you delete it in your reply, you make it very hard for others to see "who wrote what" if they didn't follow the entire thread. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Li

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

nel. I didn't have any problems getting it to work. You should consider subscribing to the Linux Kernel Mailinglist. Follow the threads and you will learn a lot. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to stop spamassassin from scanning some messages?

mail which matches the white-listing. So if you want to tell SA to *never* filter white-listed mail, change the score to -100. > how do i make spamassassin bypass > some messages altogether? i will prefer to do it as a normal user than > as root. Have a look at your exim configuration, o

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

ies that you should bring with you when you start > playing with experimental (but essential!) software. ACK Don't mess around with experimental stuff (Linux XP?) without knowing what you are doing. To find out what you need for your kernel check its documentation. Its that simple. -- M

Re: can't mount or su

Am Die, 2002-12-17 um 04.02 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:14:10AM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Mon, 2002-12-16 um 19.46 schrieb Vikki Roemer: > > > > > > As for not being allowed to su to root, that's odd, too. What > > > hap

Re: no sound

module will be loaded automagically upon boot. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (newbie) hostname, workgroup

ow can i set the workgroup it has to be in? There is no such thing in Linux. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: can't mount or su

nting the > floppy or su'ing. Does anybody have any idea what the problem might > be? > You may want to try a strace of su: $ strace su Most of the times you will find your answer with strace. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26

Re: apache2-common (testing)

ache2 /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/apache2-mpm-prefork /usr/share/doc/apache2-mpm-prefork/copyright /usr/share/doc/apache2-mpm-prefork/changelog.Debian.gz /etc /etc/init.d /etc/init.d/apache2 ^^^ There it is. Note: apt-s is an alias to "apt-cache sear

Re: www.uk.debian.org

Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 11.02 schrieb Rus Foster: > Hi, > Can anyone else reach www.uk.debian.org or is it just demon being crud? The server seems to be down. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Wo

Re: security update script?

Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 10.25 schrieb Erno Kuusela: > hello, > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: > | > i mean one that you can feed a DSA mail to, and it would check the > | > pgp signature and download the updated packages and verify the md5sums. > | >

Re: cryptoloop as user?

entges/.safe Available keysizes (bits): 128 192 256 Keysize: 256 Passwort: +mhentges@mhcln01:/etc/ssh > And then it's mounted. All you need is the crypto-enabled mount, and losetup tools. +mhentges@mhcln01:/etc/ssh >mount [...] /home/mhentges/.safe on /home/mhentges/Data/Safe type re

Re: security update script?

t does not exist. Just be sure to run apt-get update;apt-get -s upgrade with cron each few hours, and mail root if there are any updates. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by C

RE: FYI: Linksys router vulnerability

eset the password/login, please drop me a note. The model is called A*A*M*6*3*1*0 (without "*"). -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: cryptoloop as user?

he moment, Yes there is. Edit your fstab and you are done. /home/$USER/crypto0 /some/dir reiserfs \ defaults,noauto,loop,encryption=twofish,user0 0 [...] -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin installation help

ge "razor". > is spamassasin getting to be a default mail processing package? Nope, just the default SPAM-processing package ;) -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux b

Re: switching between two network configurations

are there other (better) solutions for doing this task? Yes: cardctl, see above (but only if you use PCMCIA). -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

t's their problem not mine :) > and detouring the incompetant cracker > that wouldn't get in anyway. Correct. Skilled hackers will own your box in any case. You can only try to make it harder for them to do so (ie: it takes longer). -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP

Re: proftpd in log.

when starting. Nothing to worry about if you don't use SSL. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.net] -> PGP + HTML are welcome ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URLs My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wm choose

features like shortcuts, customizable bars, WM supports shortcuts IIRC, and you can at least customize the color of the bars. > random backgrounds, man wmsetbg; man bash > several desktops with key-based switching Of course WM can do that, too. -- Matthias Hentges [www.hentges.ne

Re: Error: inetd[597]: auth/tcp: bind: Address already in use

Am Mon, 2002-12-02 um 21.38 schrieb Matthias Hentges: > Am Mon, 2002-12-02 um 20.44 schrieb Michelle Storm: > > I keep getting this error repeated. Anyone tell me what is causing it so > > I can look into fixing it? > > > > > > System Events > > =-=-=-=-=-=

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