Galeon/XChat fonts are zero-width

2002-06-17 Thread Paul Hampson
For some reason, Galeon on my PowerPC often has zero-width fonts. (I think the first time I run it in a new login session it's OK, but not neccessarily) And XChat does the same thing. As it happens, a friend of mine's i386 laptop is also doing the same thing. Both running Debian Unstable, althoug

Re: Static route config

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:01:40AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > How do I configure a static route into the startup scripts / files > so that the route is set at boot time? I dont think > /etc/network/interfaces will work for this because none of the interfaces > on the machine belong to th

Re: is openssh version (in potato) 1.2.3-9.4 vulnerable?

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:39:02AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul Hampson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -, Liam Ward wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2002 at 9:11, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > http://www.cert.org/incident_note

Re: is openssh version (in potato) 1.2.3-9.4 vulnerable?

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -, Liam Ward wrote: > On 22 Feb 2002 at 9:11, Walter Tautz wrote: > > http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-12.html > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-35.html > > which apparently refers to ssh1 crc-32 compensation attack detector > > and so

Re: mozilla and vnc

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:13:09PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > However, mozilla is a bit strange: it will load, and the window will > be created, but the content of the window is entirely black! xrefresh > doesn't do anything. The mouse will appear over the blackness. It > appears as though mozi

Re: bind9 stupidity

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:09:02PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Stopping domain name service: namedrndc: connection to remote host > closed > This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of > the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, > or the key is

Re: eth0

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:14:56PM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > How do you configure, in this case eth0 to be DHCP dependent: i.e., how do I > make it seek an IP during a boot? > Likewise, how do I configure it for a permanent static IP? You want /etc/network/interfaces The instructions are in

Re: custom kernel

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:47:45PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > I've compiled 2.4.17 kernel as kernel-image package on my woody machine and > installed it on a potato machine. I made a reboot with the new kernel and > after that it refused to load modules ("Can't locate module..."). > >

Re: dhcp client

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:00:25PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > What must i do to get a host configurated automatically? > Isn't it enough to place "iface eth0 inet dhcp" into the intefaces file and > havind dhcp-client installed? You must also have auto eth0 if you want it to configure on bo

Re: Moving to kernel 2.4.17 questions.

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:19:03PM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am currently running kernel 2.2.17 on a Woody box. I want to move to > kernel 2.4.17 (so that I can install a USB port) and I have a few > questions. > My second problem is with IP spoofing and firewalls. I have a very > simple 2

Re: Latest *stable* 2.4.x kernel ?

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:46:48AM -0500, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I apt-downloaded the 2.4.14 kernel and all seemed to go well for two > sessions > before it crashed and I cannot login beyond a low runlevel. Ker 2.2.x would > not > recognise the Promise controller on which my removable HD was m

Re: pppoe, pppd and dsl problem on Woody

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:47:03AM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I used pppoeconf to set up. It found eth0 and my Access Concentrator. > When I started with 'pon dsl-provider', I got the following error in > plog: > > Feb 18 10:07:57 myname pppd[495]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 > Feb 1

What is /etc/environment for?

2002-02-19 Thread Paul Hampson
What exactly is /etc/environment for, and how is it used. The only thing I'm aware of it being used in is for the locales package, and all that does is make perl give me warnings when it's run as a user on my i386, but not as root. And no warnings with either user or root on my PowerPC. I'm confuz

Re: PHP4 problem after dist-upgrade

2002-02-09 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:46:30PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:23:02AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: > | On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:31:50AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > | > in looking at the dependencies for PHP4, apache-common is > | > liste

Re: PHP4 problem after dist-upgrade

2002-02-08 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 07:31:50AM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > the problem seems to be related to the apache-common version. > > in looking at the dependencies for PHP4, apache-common is listed twice, once > with apache-common (>= 1.3.22) and the other apache-common (<< 1.3.22.1) > > my c

Re: Problem with ALSA

2002-02-08 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:56:32AM +, Albert Einstein wrote: > I've just compiled ALSA modules with a 2.4.17 kernel for a Intel 8x0 > soundcar. I've used alsaconf for configuring these modules, I've used > alsamixer for opening the sound channel and I've stored the configuration > with alsac

Re: Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering > asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this > will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a > Debianized way to d

Re: the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:59:06AM -0500, Bill Benedetto wrote: > >>> Rachel Andrew writes: > > Rachel> I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today > Rachel> and got the following message: > Rachel> > Rachel> The following packages have been kept back: > Rachel> base-config co

Re: ipmasqadm portfw

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:53:01AM +0100, Elm Gysel wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.2.14 and I have a problem with ipmasqadm portfw. > >From what I understand from searching mailing lists and so on I don't have > this aspect commpiled into my kernel. > This is the .config file : [snip] Have you set C

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >Hi, > >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted > >> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:57:08AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > > --- Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-f

Re: adding a line to sources.list

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:34:06AM -0800, Brandon N wrote: > I am trying to get apt to install the blackdown java files, the URL of > the Packages.gz file is: > > http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > What should the

Re: How to keep modules configs current

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 07:31:31PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a > different set of modules it can happen that there > are some error messages at boot time issued mostly > by modprobe saying something about devices/modules > or aliases not

Re: passwd <-> smbpasswd sync?

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:22:35AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is there a way to sync the system passwords to the smb passwords, or > better yet, get samba to look straight from the system passwords? Unix password sync should be in the samba.conf file, but set to false. If you set it to t

Re: A mutt question (new/different question)

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:43:40AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I am relatively new to Debian. I installed mutt in order to avoid the clutter > of html mail, but sometimes I need to read email from people who send only > html. > I think I should be able to do this using the 'v' key, but when I do

Re: A mutt question

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:04:32AM -0800, Michael Montagne wrote: > >On 05/02/02, from the brain of Andy Mott tumbled: > > > Yep - just add this line to your .muttrc: > > bind compose \n send-message > If you do that, how do you edit the message if you want to? Hit e. At least, on the defaul

Re: devfs and ide-scsi devices

2002-02-03 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Problem: devfs & devfsd do not create /dev/cdroms and /dev/tapes and > related symbolic links. > > woody box > devfsd 1.3.21-3 > stock kernel-image 2.4.17-386 > Modules loaded that pertain to scsi: sg, aic7xxx, ide-probe-mod, > ide-