Re: best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Nate Amsden wrote: > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration. > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a. > probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration.

Re: best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Robert Voigt wrote: > What chipset does the promise controller have and how did you install on the > RAID? I have a Promise RAID controller onboard and I couldn't install Debain > probably because the installation kernel does not have a driver for this > controller. generic ata100, not the raid e

best kernel config for athlon(2.2)

2001-06-10 Thread Nate Amsden
hi. i just installed an amd thunderbird 1.33ghz along with an Asus A7A266. I also upgraded to a 450watt power supply so i hope its just as stable :) Currently I am running the same kernel(suprised it worked actually) that i was using on the previous P3-800 on an Asus P3V4X. Linux 2.2.18 + ide pa

Re: [OT] Minimum CPU speed for playing DIVX avis?

2001-06-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I got mplayer (http://mplayer.sourceforge.net) working very nicely, only > that CPU utilization is constantly at 100% (~ 92% user, 8% system) and > sound is very broken after 10 seconds playing. The video is fine > though. > > I have a 333MHz Celeron wi

Re: Is this video card i810 supported?

2001-06-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Steve Kieu wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > Yes, I mean in unstable ; in potato uses 3.3.6 and it > is not supported AFAIK; I need this information before > going to install. This is Intel i810, and there is > driver from intel to work with 3.3.6 but I know for > XFree 4.0x, it is supported. At least

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Nate Amsden
"Jordi S. Bunster" wrote: > We JUST installed the server. I mean, there's nothing hand > compiled, except for Amavis. But it doesn't eat that much CPU amavis is VERY cpu intensive i run it on many systems. is there a lot of mail going through the system? is there a lot of big attachments? one of

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-01 Thread Nate Amsden
> jennyw wrote: > I'd like to hear how Debian old-timers work with this. we deal with it. i run cyrus imap 1.5.x and many other "old" packages from stable. they are in stable for a reason..they are stable :) its a small price to pay to have a rock solid system that i don't have to worry about up

Re: Trying for X 4.0 on potato - again

2001-05-31 Thread Nate Amsden
MRZ wrote: > > Wow, seems like I'm alone in the problems I'm having with this- hopefully > someone might recognize an answer to one of these.. > > To rehash the problem, I'm running potato, and want to update X from 3.3 to > 4.0.: deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/ deb h

Re: Anyone has P3V4X + Promise ATA100 card?

2001-05-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have P3V4X + Promise ATA100 card and wish to get a ATA100 harddisk. > Right now I have Maxtor ATA66 on the Promise card but often have the "hde: > timeout waiting for DMA" error. I am not sure if this is the problem of the > harddisk or kernel (I t

Re: Driver help

2001-05-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Forrest Cameranesi wrote: > > 1) Does Debian come with any drivers for my computer? depends on the computer and what kind of hardware it runs > 2) Do I have the drivers on the Debian install disk? some of them are, some of them are not..depends on the hardware > 3) From whom or where do I req

Re: 12 box network in small school

2001-05-18 Thread Nate Amsden
joe golden wrote: > > Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with > pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor > 128 MB Ram > one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive > ethernet card > Sony RW drive > Can I use this as a *server* for a

Re: PCI Card *wishlist*

2001-05-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Hamma Scott wrote: > > I was installing 2.2r0 and my PCI video card was not > found. I'm staying away from X for right now, but > wonder if the Nvidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 is supported > in r3 of Debian. should be supported in r0 of debian as well, just because it isn't detected doesn't mean it's n

Re: ypbind grabs port designated for another service

2001-05-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > just had to handle a problem where CUPS (IPP printing subsystem) > didn't work any more after a reboot. > > While checking the log files I noticed that cupsd could not bind > to its (static) port 631 because ypbind was listening on that > port already. > > Is

Re: can't connect to portmapper from remote host

2001-05-07 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello again debian-user! > > As I was trying to set up NFS on a debian-potato-box at work ("agda" at > 130.241.119.140) I found out that the remote host, that was to be the NFS > client 194.236.111.14, could not connect to the portmapper on the server. The > error

Re: trouble booting 2.4.4

2001-05-06 Thread Nate Amsden
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > Hi there. I just installed kernel-image-2.4.4-686 on my P-III. > Unfortunately, it panics during the boot, saying that it can't find the root > partition. I have the root option set to /dev/hda4 in my lilo.conf, and I possible the kernel doesnt support the ide

Re: Run dos command on NT4 from debian box?

2001-05-04 Thread Nate Amsden
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > I'd like to put files in a directory on an NT4 box, run a dos command (a > CAD processor batch command) and then bring the files back to the Debian > box using cron, samba and perl. > > I don't know anything about samba or performing commands on NT4 from > Linux. An

Re: max concurrent processes can't be > 257?

2001-05-04 Thread Nate Amsden
Brett wrote: > > I'm running qmail and am trying to set up linux to allow for hundreds of > outgoing connections at once (no, I'm not a spammer but the new admin of > some very large, dynamic mailing lists). I'm using Debian Linux 2.2.18pre21 > and from what I read, it should be quite possible to

Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files

2001-05-04 Thread Nate Amsden
asdfasf asfasf wrote: > > This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many > hours over many days now to save realplayer broadcasts > to files on my disk and have been completely unable to > do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer software > has been _designed_ so that you can't save cont

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > > I've put to work portforwarding with a 2.2 kernel and it works > wonderfull. However I want to push it a bit farther and was wondering if > this can be done: > > Using plain port forwarding what you get is calls to port Pa on host A > get forwarded to port Pb on hos

Re: Fasttrak IDE Raid + Quotas

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Daniel Sand wrote: > > Hi Debian Folks, > > I have some problem with a new Fileserver on my work. > > Specs: > > PIII 800 > 256 MB Ram > FastTrak IDE Raid Controller ( 3 HD ( 75 GB IBM ) = STRIPE ) with a while i can't answer your question directly its best not to use the fast trak ide raid co

Re: Supermount patch for 2.2.18pe21 - anyone?!

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Viktor Lakics wrote: > Does anyone outhere run a patched debian kernel 2.2.18? i do, however i don't use the supermount patch. i run patches like: eepro patch ipsec patch openwall patch ide patch lm_sensors patch i2c patch not all patches on all systems of course:) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Akop Pogosian wrote: > > Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning > the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff" > commands. I used to rely on this feature for shutting down my own and > other machines remotely. I used to compile my own kernels

Re: ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > I noticed today that openssh released version 2.9 Monday. Can someone > tell me why debian is using 1.2.3-9.3. Is it that debian is only > supporting ssh1, or is the version numbering just different? Thank you > for your time. simple really. when openssh2

Re: Million Dollar Oracle Prize

2001-05-01 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > They just ran an ad "We'll make your web site run three times faster, or > we'll give you a million dollars." > > I guess they were thinking I was just standing around waiting for someone > to blow smoke up my ass. those are some of my favorite commercials..its amazi

Re: flush route table?

2001-04-26 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to flush the route table in debian with the route cmd? I > know its possible in freeBSD. If not what might be some other > options? Thank you in advance for your time. only way i know how to do it is to restart networking /etc/init.d/netw

Re: dpkg -S inadequacies

2001-04-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Alan Shutko wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]$ rpm -q -f mkfontdir > > file mkfontdir: No such file or directory > > [09:29:02] hubert:~ $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin > [09:29:10] hubert:/usr/X11R6/bin $ rpm -qf mkfontdir > XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-20 > > Was there a mkfontdir

Re: installing latest version of Lyx...

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Hannu Virtanen wrote: > Now, is there anybody who knows if Potato can be upgreded to: > > libc6 (>= 2.2.1-2), libforms0.89, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, xlibs (>= > 4.0.1-11) no. if you were to upgrade to that version of libc6 you'd no longer be running potato, but rather woody or unstable. a workar

Re: X log files and xscreensaver

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > These lines just accumulate, more and more until the /var partition is > full. I wouldn't worry about it if the logs could be rotated often > enough to prevent this from becoming a problem, but it only takes a > day or two for my 250M /var partition to fill up. A

Re: gnu-pop3d log messages

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > i /thought/ that my hosts.allow was set up correctly, but apparently not. > here it is: > > # cat /etc/hosts.allow > ALL: LOCAL, 192.168.2.6, 192.168.2.2, 209.42.193. > gnu-pop3d: ALL looks fine to me. the errors are normal, looks like the hostnames you gave the ma

Re: problem with making system bootable during installation

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Arto wrote: > > Hi, > > I have problems in installing Debian Woody. Everything goes fine until > "Make System Bootable", which failed. Also "Make a Boot Floppy" failed, > even floppy is not write protected and I have only one floppy drive. [..] > I use compact boot floppies from > http://ftp.fi.d

Re: configuring two outgoing gateways

2001-04-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Erik Reuter wrote: > > I have two DSL lines which each have a different gateway and use a > different static IP address. I have both lines multiplexed onto the same > wire using a switch and cross-over cables, but I only connect to one DSL > line at a time on the ethernet card in my Debian box. So

Re: OT: palms vs hp49

2001-04-24 Thread Nate Amsden
"Sergio E. Schvezov" wrote: > Well right now i'm going to have the oportunity to buy a palm or sci calc > i saw the vr3 wich runs on a modified linux wich i kind of liked. not sure what you mean by palm..wether its a palmOS system or a palm branded system. i highly reccomend the visor because of

Re: WinTV card not working

2001-04-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Brad Cramer wrote: > the tuner. I know it has a ntsc Philips tuner but no luck. Anyone have any > ideas? > Thanks > Brad works great here. course i don't change channels, my cable box(and now tivo) handles that ! my wintv sits in 640x480 16bit in full screen with no window manager 24/7. r

Re: perfect debian computer

2001-04-24 Thread Nate Amsden
> Lend27 wrote: > > I have setup a few linux debian boxes in the past year, but I am by no means > an expert. > Based upon my trials, tribulations,failures and ultimate successes, I > recommend the following: > > 1. Soundblaster Live sound card > 2. NVidia Geforce 2 MX 32 meg video card. ( Inexp

Re: creating a password file other than /etc/passwd

2001-04-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Kelly Corbin wrote: > > I'm working on some custom PAM authentication routines and need to > create a password file similar to /etc/passwd. Anybody know of any > utilities to do this? Every one I've looked at only uses /etc/passwd. > I simply need another file in the same username:encrypted_pass

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-22 Thread Nate Amsden
Yang Shouxun wrote: > I found Debian's package management strategy often frustrated me. i haven't. > Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. that can be a problem. im not sure what kind of proxy wingate is. > Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /e

Re: linux-books

2001-04-21 Thread Nate Amsden
john smith wrote: > > While we are on the topic on linux books... Can anybody recommend a good > newbie (non-programmer) book on perl? I've looked at learning perl but I > wasn't impressed. it's not written for beginners like me. I am looking for > a good starter book on that subject. learning

Re: apt-get upgrading packages of same version

2001-04-19 Thread Nate Amsden
CaT wrote: > > Because I have mysql dealing with a db whose files are >2gig I've > apt-get -b source libc6 > dpkg --install libc6_2.1.3-18_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.1.3-18_i386.deb > locales_2.1.3-18_i386.deb > dpkg --install glibc-doc_2.1.3-18_all.deb [..] > It still wants to download and install em

Re: sound ?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"V.Suresh" wrote: > > After a long struggle for a month, I finally managed to get X up > under Debian. I have a i810 m/b. Now a problem: Sound isn't working. > mpg123, gmp3 say mixer can't be opened. But 'lsmod' shows all required > modules neatly loaded. Help please. try it as root to be sure th

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA-047-1] multiple kernel problems

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Does anyone know: > > - If these problems effected other 2.2.x kernels? > - If they effected user-compiled kernels? from what ive read, the answer is yes to both questions, unless user compiled kernels are 2.2.19 :) 2.2.18 is immune to a couple of those bugs provid

Re: bad minute?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote: > > When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and try to save my changes, I get the > following messages: > > "crontab.16288" 54L, 1391C written > crontab: installing new crontab > "/tmp/crontab.16288":1: bad minute > errors in crontab file, can't install. > Do you want to

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > The other consideration, of course, is IDE vs. SCSI. For a > general-purpose single-user system, IDE is probably sufficient. > However, if you're looking at a multi-user environment, heavy > data I/O, or lots of multiprocessing (development, data processing, > server),

Re: offtopic (completely): linux games

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > sorry, but people like me who refuse to run a dual-boot computer (refuse to > fork over $$$ to the evil empire) rely on loki software for recreation. :) then you should pay full price and support loki. i bought quake 3 about a week after it came out. i played the hell

Re: Debian compatibility with MP3 devices

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote: > > Hey all. I am considering purchasing some kind of small portable mp3 > player, but I don't want to get one that can only download its songs > from a Windows box. I know that there's kernel support for a USB link > to a Diamond Rio 500 (and later models?). But it s

Re: Harddisk sugguestion?

2001-04-15 Thread Nate Amsden
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk > is what I want bu

Re: scp trouble(potato)

2001-04-14 Thread Nate Amsden
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: > > > this only happens on 1 machine..(i run a couple dozen potato > > servers/workstations), when trying to scp to or from it i get this: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ s

scp trouble(potato)

2001-04-14 Thread Nate Amsden
this only happens on 1 machine..(i run a couple dozen potato servers/workstations), when trying to scp to or from it i get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/aphro/window.xwd . [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Linux xxx.xxx.xxx 2.2.18 #1 Fri Jan 26 15:45:53 PST 2001 i686 unknown

Re: Progeny Report: Don't try installing it in VMWare

2001-04-13 Thread Nate Amsden
"Brooks R. Robinson" wrote: > > At this point I _may_ have screwed up the install, but I'm going to > tell it > as I did it. There is a script that runs called 'discover' that does it's > hardware detection. The file is attached. Basically, it runs through > everything is /lib/modules

Re: syslog-ng

2001-04-12 Thread Nate Amsden
Andrew D Dixon wrote: > > Has anyone out there had much experience with syslog-ng (Next Generation > Syslog)? I'm looking at it for a project that I'm starting and I was > just trying to get a sense of how stable, reliable, etc . . . it is. i just started using it on one of my machines about a w

Re: Installing network card driver / packages

2001-04-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Adam Bender wrote: > > I just installed potato on my system. I can't find a driver for my network > card in modconf (it's a 3Com 3C905C-TX), and therefore I can't download any use the 3c59x module it should work.. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net

Re: Via + kernel 2.4.3 + maxtor = crash?

2001-04-10 Thread Nate Amsden
Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > this is strictly speaking not a debian problem. I am using maxtor > 9000 series harddisk with asus P3V4X via mother board using kernel 2.4.3. while i dont use 2.4.3 i do have a P3V4X and had problems with the IDE controller (or the IDE drive

Re: nis login problems

2001-04-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Andrew D Dixon wrote: > The problem is that when I try to login with the username andrew.dixon > on my Debian box the login fails. It does fail differently then if > I just give it a garbage login so I do believe that it is accessing the > maps in some way. did you follow the directions noted wh

Re: sendmail statistics(sendmail.st) not working ?

2001-04-09 Thread Nate Amsden
Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Debian, by default, doesn't include the file because keeping those > stats is a (minor, but unmeasured degradation). > > If you want the stats, simply touch the file as defined in sendmail.cf ok i'll try that! thanks > Offline, could you send me what kind of modiifica

Re: smart host using postfix?

2001-04-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Pann McCuaig wrote: > Here's what grep tells me: > > /etc/postfix/main.cf:relayhost = mail.blarg.net > > This is from my potato system (and main.cf was the only file I > modified). thanks! ill try it out nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL

Re: AGP & PCI

2001-04-08 Thread Nate Amsden
Jianbo Wang wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a i/o magic tnt2 32MB video card. It works under xfree 3.3 Is it > true that the same videocard but AGP (not PCI) will also be supported by > linux? How faster will AGP run than PCI? Thanks! you probably wont be able to tell the difference in speed between

Re: cd-burning problems

2001-04-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Andreas Goesele wrote: > > Hi, > > I tried to set up everything for burning cds under Linux. The basic > setup is working for root, but there remain a number of problems. grab a recent version of xcdrgtk (it comes with cdrecord and stuff) and it has detailed instructions on how to get it to run

Re: Help me setup ADSL please

2001-04-07 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Devin wrote: > > I can't seem to get it working. looks like you may be trying to use PPPoE, in which case you need the PPPoE software, pppd i don't think will do it(never used PPPoE myself). on all the DSL connections ive setup i just plug the ethernet line into the system and set the static

Re: MTA security

2001-04-06 Thread Nate Amsden
Dave Sherohman wrote: > > From a security standpoint, how does exim compare to sendmail? What about > postfix? > > It appears that exim is Debian's default MTA, which is why I've run it > before and it's what I'm most familiar with. Now I've inherited a network > with several sendmail installat

Re: qpopper weirdness

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
MaD dUCK wrote: > > also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:03:39PM -0500): > > I never had any major problems with cucipop. There are two caveats: > > well, for the sake of fixing this promptly, i went ahead and replaced > qpopper with cucipop. however, now there is a 20 second dela

Re: how to downgrade: woody -> potato ??

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
Rob Torop wrote: > > I upgraded from potato to woody (by changing sources.list and doing an > update then dist-upgrade). Now I want to go back! I replaced "testing" > with "stable" in sources.list, but I can't figure out what to do now to > get it to revert everything to potato. Can someone adv

Re: Help, looks like IMAP/PAM configuration

2001-04-04 Thread Nate Amsden
"Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > Hello list, > > After wasting most of the day I have to resort to asking for help. My > machine is a Debian Linux 2.2.14 > and I installed the prepackaged Cyrus Imap 1.5.19. I have also installed > prepackaged PAM modules. be sure you create the mailbox with the cyr

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

2001-04-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Joe Nahmias wrote: > > Hello All! > > I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade, > but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound > card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on. > > So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Nate Amsden
Roberto Diaz wrote: > > I am sending this here because according to mail-abuse.org I and the whole > dynamic dns users are spammers just because we are using dynamic ip's. > I want all the debian mail relay's administrators be very aware about > this. can't win it all. the amount of spam blocked

Re: 2.4.3 + X 4.0.2 + star office = dead box

2001-04-03 Thread Nate Amsden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > not quite sure who to blame on this one, x? kernel? star office? > > whenever I start up star office installer, machine bombs. make sure the binary your running is a valid binary, id say copy it to another machine and try to run it and see if it works ok. if the bina

Re: Unable to open various sites.

2001-04-03 Thread Nate Amsden
"Scott E. Graves" wrote: > This problem only occurs when the 2.4.2-k7 kernel is installed. > 2.2.18pre21-ide works perfectly fine. Any suggestions? yes there is an option in 2.4.x to disable i believe that should fix this. i forget what the option is called but search the archives its been mentio

Re: VMware

2001-04-03 Thread Nate Amsden
> Elfert wrote: > "The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.0) does not match your running > kernel (version 2.2.18) Consequently even if the compilation of the module > was successful, the module would load into the running kernel." be sure you have the source packages installed for the ker

Re: problems opening web sites in Netscape

2001-04-02 Thread Nate Amsden
Dale Miller wrote: > > I don't know what is happening. I try to go to site like www.inprise.com, > www.rational.com and numerous others and they time out. I am using Netscape > 4.76. I have noticed this for the last 2-3 months and more and more sites > seem to be failing. I can ping the sites, but

Re: apt-get source failure?

2001-04-02 Thread Nate Amsden
Forrest English wrote: > > i'm trying to get a current version of gkrellm on my potato server so i > can view it remotely over an ssh login. [..] > make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' > msgfmt -f -v -o de.mo de.po > make[2]: msgfmt: Command not found http://packages.debian.or

Re: Errors with scsi DLT tape drives?

2001-04-02 Thread Nate Amsden
"Dean A. Roman" wrote: > > Hello everybody, > >Anybody ever use DLT8000 tape drives with Debian before? yes both DLT4000 and 8000. the backup program i use is bru(commercial). Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: Quantum Model: DLT4000 Rev: D782 Type: Sequential-A

Re: newbie Qs about Debian 'Potato'

2001-04-01 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark A Hill wrote: > > Hello, > I'm currently using slackware 7.1 and want to try out 'Potato'. > > What kernel comes on the offical debian Potato release? I know it doesn't > matter that much, bit I would like to know. :-) a couple of em i think. the default last i saw was something like 2.2.18

Re: Cable for home network?

2001-03-31 Thread Nate Amsden
Abner Gershon wrote: > > I am planning a home ethernet with one Windows and one > Linux Potatoe computer with a hub. My installed > ethernet cards are 10/100 and I would like to use the > higher 100 speed system. My cable options are 100 kHz > or Cat 5e in either: "PVC solid cable" or "Plenum > so

kernel-package/menuconfig problems

2001-03-31 Thread Nate Amsden
i haven't until recently been attempting to share kernel source trees accross systems (e.g. tar/gzip the source tree, scp it over and uncompress it or make kernel packages via the kernel-package package). but it never seems to work right. trying to run menuconfig fails on the copied source tree

Re: Installing Debian on servers

2001-03-30 Thread Nate Amsden
"Mark H. Wood" wrote: > > Am I the only one running Debian on a server-class box? Putting potato > onto a box having *only* a Compaq SMART 2/P RAID controller was a > nightmare, until I threw in the towel, used a desktop box to compile up a > customized kernel, and replaced the kernel image in th

Re: webmin?

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > I could have sworn that I saw a Debian package of webmin before, but now > it doesn't show up in my database with apt-cache search, nor does it > appear in a search of the Debian packages on www.debian.org. > > Did I imagine this? If it went away, is there any interest

Re: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Nate, > What mcaffe product do you use? > Does it work in Debian? > We want to implement some AV in a debian mail potato server. > Thanks, PH I use mcafee virusscan for linux. the only downside is it

Re: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > Sorry 'bout all that commercial spam people (i'll try to cut on sendin' > hyperlinks) > > ?? never heard/read anything about mcafee linux soft > AVP is Fsecure is AVP (from what i understand they're cross licensing) > never heard of sophos but in an article mcafee for

Re: kernel 2.4.2 and high load = machine freezes?

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Erik Steffl wrote: > any ideas on what's going on? login on an xterm from another machine and run top while you try that. recently i upgraded my firewall from a k6-3 400 to a p3-800 and doubled the memory to 512MB. but it was still much slower!! turns out the VIA ide chipset on the p3 board(asu

Re: How hard get high res working?

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Jonathan Gift wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running 1152x864 on a 17 inch right now but am playing around with > getting and running a 21 inch. I would probably like 1600x1200 on that > but heard XFree has limits around 1200 lines? Is that true and how does > one get around it? > > I'm on a strict pota

Re: OT : Anti Virus Software for Linux

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > To those concerned www.fsecure.com has a Linux anti-virus solution > > so does sophos, AVP, mcaffee and probably quite a few others . (i use mcafee at my company) nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL

Re: Installing shadow/md5 passwords after the fact?

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Ross Smith wrote: > But I can't find any mention of turning on shadow passwords. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. its even easier then that! check the manpage on pwconv. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: turning off /sbin/portmap

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
Debian User wrote: > > A daemon called /sbin/portmap starts when I boot my Debian Linux 2.2 > system. > > I have searched for the script that starts /sbin/portamp when my system > boots. However, I can't find it. It doesn't seem to be in rc2.d. > > Does anyone know how to make it not start upo

Re: "activating" changes to /etc/group

2001-03-29 Thread Nate Amsden
DvB wrote: > > I decided to take the more elegant approach to getting sound working > than making /dev/dsp world writeable so I added my user to the audio > group. This however didn't seem to work. > I decided to worry about it later and recompiled my kernel with scsi > support so I could use my C

Re: Login-Problems

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Marcel Frehner wrote: > > Since I accidentally switched off my computer simly using the power-button > instead of "shutdown -h now", I can't log in anymore as user to fvwm2. It > still works if I log in as root. I tried to add a new user but I had the same > problem with logging in again. The prob

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-28 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Devin wrote: > What about "testing"? Is that reasonably stable enough in your opinion, or > would I be just playing with fire? Especially given that I have significantly > less experience than you. it should probably be ok, but once if it was my system and i had upgraded to testing(i haven

Re: sources.list - reasonably stable

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Mark Devin wrote: > How safe would it be to always run with "unstable" - continually > updating?. Am I likely to get a broken system which cannot be fixed > without expert skills? its amazing how many people want to run unstable.. you are likely to get a broken system at one point or another. it

Re: Sendmail on Potato Upgrade

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Is there something that should be done with this or is it just > informational? safe to ignore. if you want to get rid of it check the sendmail docs, i think that falls under the privacyoptions directive. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org

Re: Time

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
stephen wrote: > > I'm having a heck of a time getting my system time set correctly. > /etc/localtime is a symlink to the proper time zone. I've looked in > /etc/default/rcS and switched UTC from yes to no and back again. > And, I've read the man page for hwclock a few times. Still, > my system

Re: debian package "run" vs. inittab entry

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Stuart Marshall wrote: > Has anyone ever done something like this? i do that with a BASH script for my unreal tournament server. my script is: #!/bin/sh while true do export UT_DATA_PATH=/usr/local/games/ut/System cd /home/aphro/.loki/ut/System date >> server1-restart.log ucc server DM-BedroomSe?

Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
john wrote: > > Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box > had done a kernel oops. > Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c02d5d98) > > Can anyone shed loight on this, or point to a URL that would help me? looks like the disk may have some bad sector

Re: Promise Raid Card

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Bill Lumsden wrote: > > I am trying to set up a Debian box and want to use a Promise Raid Card > (mirrored) can anyone tell me what needs to be done for Debian to recognise > it. ide raid is not supported on the promise card(honestly i don't even think its a raid card just a normal card with a mo

Re: ld and php4pl1 - what is my problem?

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Sven Hoexter wrote: > What's the problem??? > I compiled Apache + php a several times on diverent *nix and it worked. > > This box is a Debian 2.2 System (Intel based) clearly you don't have the gd library installed. i suggest installing it and the development side of it for compilation. or disa

Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Erik Steffl wrote: > looks like this one uses glide2, why do I have glide3 then? what's the > deal? simple. 3dfx cards support GLIDE v3 under Xfree86 4.x 3dfx cards support GLIDE v2 under Xfree86 3.x 3dfx cards support OPENGL under Xfree86 4.x virtually all games/apps that use glide use glide

Re: sendmail 8.9.3-23 woes

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
Robert Waldner wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a stable box running sendmail 8.9.3-23 as a mailhub. Cleaning > all masquerade-options off the .mc-file and re-running sendmailconfig > still leaves DMdomain.net in the .cf. > > ka:/etc/mail# egrep domain sendmail.mc > #Cwdomain.net > #MASQUERADE_DOMAIN(k

Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread Nate Amsden
Gregor Kaleta wrote: > > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > the first election RedHat Linux? the vast majority of my company's servers(especially at the office im at) are linux. they started

Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?

2001-03-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Pentium CPU's generally come with fans, so it's clearly not a price > issue.. I would have thought that at least one advantage of not > having a cpu fan is obvious, but if not, then feel free to view this > as a strictly theoretical problem.. if you underclock i

Re: Vibra128 probs.

2001-03-25 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Good wrote: > > Ok, here we go. I have 2 machines here, one is a Celeron 700, the other > a Duron 800, both with VIA chipsets. Both running kernel 2.4.2. Both > have a Vibra128 PCI in them, the 700's sound card works perfectly, > detects on boot (I have it compiled into the kernel, not as a

Re: i810 problems

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Victor wrote: > Where is that glx module, I couldn't find it!! > Is there anybody out there able to explain in a straightforward way (step by > step) how I can set the i810 graphic card? if your just looking to get 2D working then thats not too hard, to get 3D working i don't have personal ex

Re: fbtv won't run for anyone but root

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Stan Brown wrote: > > I finally figured out how to ge framebuffer working, but now I can't get fbtv > to > work for anyone but root. I have added the appropriate users to the vidoe > group, > and they can use xawtv. /dev/fb0 is owned by roo, group video and is rw--w--- > mode, > which looks wro

Re: openssh incompatibility with ssh.com's ssh

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > woody uses openssh 2.2.0 which is incompatible with ssh.com's ssh [1]. > > i NEED the most current version of openssh, which i think is 2.2.3. > > is there any way of getting it short of uninstalling my ssh deb package and > installing a tarball from o

Re: List

2001-03-24 Thread Nate Amsden
Jay wrote: > > If i was to create my own cd that had everything on it that you put on > yours, what would i need. Is there anything that is on a mirror site thats > not on your cd? you talking about a debian cd? if so see http://cdimage.debian.org and follow the directions to make a cd. i think

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