Re: domain name of debian

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 where does the domain name of a debain stored? is there anyway to change it? Try edit /etc/domainname or /etc/hostname depending on what you want to acheive Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330

Re: Debian Update

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Victory wrote: Can anyone tell me how to update all the packages and patches ? I installed Debian 3.0r1 and want to update up today patches. Regards Victor, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade That will do it Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.jvds.com -

Re: Installing mySQL..

tOn Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Justin Cassidy wrote: Hey, When I install mysql via apt-get I get this error: Selecting previously deselected package mysql-server. (Reading database ... 36754 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mysql-server (from .../mysql-server_3.23.49-8.6_i386.deb) ... S

Re: Testing + Reiserfs + quota support.

yOn Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Michael Bellears wrote: > Using Debian Installer Beta 4, it appears as though ReiserFS is not > supporting quotas? > > With the partition as Reiser: > Fstab entry: > /dev/nasvg/datalv /data reiserfs usrquota,grpquota 0 2 > # mount -a I've been through this t

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

> it doesn't fit in one screen. I am not working in an X environment so > there are no scroll bars so I'm trying to figure out how I can see the > output page by page. > > Thanks > > Elijah > Sound like STDOUT and STDERR Try command 2>&1 | less Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Duggan wrote: > I know that this is a really n00bish question, but I have to ask. What > is the command that limits output from a command to just a page at a > time, like the /p command in DOS? > > Thankyou > > Elijah > Try cmd | less Rgds rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Compaq Armada 1592DT Sound

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, John Muller wrote: > Hello, NG, > > i've installed over the inet/apt-get debian sarge (kernels 2.4.x and > 2.2.x). The system is up and running - the only problem i have is that > the sound card has not been detected ... Hi, The output of "lspci" might help a bit. Its intth

Re: Kernel Compile (being really stupid)

> > try libc6-dev .. that's where I'd expect to find atleast stdio.h and > string.h > > HTH, > Shaun Cheers knew it would be something stupid Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company www.cherryhost

Kernel Compile (being really stupid)

I'm having one of those stupid days.. I'm trying to compile the kernel and am getting scripts/basic/fixdep.c:97: sys/types.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:98: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/fixdep.c:99: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory scripts/basic/f

Xinerama across Network

Hi all, I'm looking for a way to see if its possible to have real Xinerama across the network some how. What I'm talking about is more than x2x or VNC in that if I say started something on 10.0.0.1:0.0 I could drag the entire window onto 192.168.0.1:1.0. Does anyone know if this is possible? Than

Crontab last days of the month..

Hi All, Couldn't find a decent answer to this in google but goes as follows If I have a cron job that is scheduled for the 31st of the month and the month we are in doesn't have 31 days would it be run on the last day of the month or not run at all? Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330

E-Mail -> NNTP

Hi, Can anyone recommened a debian package that allows an email list -> nntp server for local use? Pyg looks like it will do it but just want to be sure.. Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company -- To UNSUB

Re: pen-mouse, dual-view

> A couple of questions. > > 2. Does Debian GNU/Linux supports multi-view i.e. a system with two or >more screens? Google for xinerama but yes it will Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company -- To UNSUB

Loop mounting a Linux raid autodetect

Hi All, I've got a dd of 1/2 of a RAID-1 set which was definded on disk as a Linux raid autodetect. Can anyone give me some idea of how I can mount it. I've done losetup /dev/loop0 dd.img fdisk -l /dev/loop0 shows nothing Any ideas? Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com -

NFS performace on 2.6.1 -> 2.6.1

Hi All, I'm trying to get decent performance out of my NFS Client/Server goth on Woody. I'm running 2.6..1 on both and can't get any more than 8kb/s out of the NFS Client/Server. I've tried a number of things and ATM have got jaxx:/data /data nfs bg,wsize=16384,rsize=32768,sync,tcp

Re: server packages

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Koen Calliauw wrote: > Hi, > > soon I will start a hosting company and I'll use debian for all my > servers. I was wondering if anyone has had experiences with > some kind of control panel for debian. > Currently I haven't found a decent package, they're all a bit too much > d

Re: Versions

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Pedro Hernandez wrote: > Hello all! > > I am new to Debian and feel somewhat confused over the versions of some > packages. For example the package for courier-imap state version > 1.4.3-2.3 while the lates stable version of the software appeare to be > 2.2.1 which seems to be

Re: Ack. Help.

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Matthew Bardeen wrote: > After travelling with my laptop (safely in suspended mode), I turn it on only > to find the following error when it tries to fsck the drive.. > > fsck.ext3: Illegal block number while checking ext3 journal for /dev/hda2 > > an 'ls -al' of the journal fi

Re: Installing portage on Debian

> > Don't. Use apt-get instead. Agreed. If you want to compile from source try apt-get source --build Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Mozilla

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Michael W. Cole wrote: > I am using Debian/linux 2.4.23-1-686 on a Dell Inspiron 3200. I have > upgraded the Mozilla components to 1.5.3. I have noticed that the > application will open but I am not able to type anything into any box. > In fact the software seems to freeze an

strange galeon problem

Hi, I'm running galeon and its devloped a strange problem that if I start it up for no apparent reason its start opening lots of tabs, one after the other. There are no actual URLS present and not sure what is going on rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EM

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

> Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply > not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the > interface and not in the media? IMHO SCSI disks last longer so its worth paying extra there. Also the interface for SCSI is just better as the controlle

dpkg PATH

Hi, I'm trying out a debian based distro for someone and am getting the error init-2.05a# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 13 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/7078kB of archives. After unpacking 513k

Re: Broadcom 54g on Linux

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > > Hi, > > yesterday I installed Debian on my laptop (Compaq Presario 2100) and everything > went fine, except for the wireless card. It´s a Broadcom 54g PCI. Does anybody > know how to set up (if possible) the card on Linux? There is no Broadcom i

Re: Web Host Manager / Cpanel

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Gruessle wrote: > > > Web Host Manager / Cpanel kind of thing is there something out there > with GPL license? > I been looking in to typo3 but it is to complex for me and my needs. > > Try googling for "web://cp" Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | JVDS Virtual Servers e: [EM

RE: IP to www

> > That might be the problem how do I check that? > > (To Rus: Sorry for sending this at first direct to your email address > Rus) Just try putting http://192.168.254.254 in a browser Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $12.50/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Full Roo

Re: IP to www

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Gruessle wrote: > > Private IP: 192.168.254.225 > Private Port: 80 > Type: TCP > Public Port: 80 > That looks ok. Is the webserver actually listening on 192.168.254.225? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | JVDS Tech Channel: e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://tech.jvds.com t:

Re: black screen

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Prison Monkey wrote: > i want to install woody on my 7200/90. i've installed debian before on older > machines without troubles. > > when linux is booted (through BootX), you get the normal startup messages > and text flying at you. when it comes time for the installer to laun

Re: Local mails are not delivered

> > Does procmail need a system wide config. I had a look on my box there > is not file /etc/procmail. Maybe I should create one. You can create a ~/.procmailrc and setup LOGGING to keep an eye on what it is doing Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | JVDS Virtual Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|

Re: chmod

> > Anyway, i have been using chmod. I wanted to change all my files to 775 > in one folder. I used the -R addition. But it did not work. > > It gives me the message 'too few arguments'. > > What is going on? > > I did in the end, change them all one by one. Which did work. But it is > a pain. It

Re: Kazaa, iMesh.....proxy server

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Pedro Miguel Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote: > > Hi, > > i have a Debian linux box acting as a proxy server to access the internet, > for my Win2k clients, with squid, perdition and ntpcache as proxys for web, > msn messenger, icq, email and newsgroups access to the net. > I don't hav

clustering software

Hi, Does anyone know if there is any clustering software for 2.6? I know mosix but there doesn't seem to be 2.6 support Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slack

Limiting port speed

HI, Can anyone tell me what comamnd I can use to force an network card down the 10mbp 1/2 duplex Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-633

Re: shopping

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > > All I can think of:- > > 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies > Radio Times > 1 tin Crapso Olives > Peregrino Water > 1 box tonic Grab a pack of 12 guiness whilst there :) Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat Servers e:

Disk Dropping From Raid

Hi, Has anyone seen recently disk dropping out from Software RAID arrays? I've had 3 machines just drop a disk from the software RAID and after replacing the old disk has gone on with no problem. Its a bit of a coicidnece for me Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers f

Re: Official Apt sources

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Your Name wrote: > Hi there, > > I am fairly new to debian and i am trying to find the official apt > soures, i can find a million unoffical sources, but searching with > google and searching debian.org doesnt give it. > > I dont know who to suggest it to but maybe it could be

splitting mbox files

Hi, Is there a program on debian that would let me split an mbox file into a series of single files each containing an email? I've looked and found mboxgrep but not sure if there is something else that would be better thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat

Re: RAID Failure

Hi, > mdadm --set-faulty --set-faulty Thanks. Thats helped for now Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just Virtual Dedicated Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| banners: http://www.jvds.com/banners.php t: +44 7919 373537 | t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID Failure

Hi, > why ??? > > pull out hdc ... you have a definite dead drive > adn see if the system still works with your hda drive > sicne its supposed to be mirrored The reason I want to fail the disk is that the machine is 3000 miles away and I can't get anyone on site ATM Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jv

RAID Failure

Hi, Can peeps tell me why the following is happening. /etc/raittab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 64k persistent-superblock 1 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda3 raid-disk 0

Limiting amount of transfer for a user

Hi, I'm trying to work out a way of limiting say a user to 1 GB of transfer a day using iptables with all process running under the UID. Now I can see a mixture of iptables + uid-owner but could someone point me in the right drections. I'm basically trying to work out if I can iptables limit on tr

Progress meter on copying

Hi All, Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. I don't really want to start having to setup auth keys just for a progress meter Rus -- w: http://www.jv

[ot] Linux gender in French

Hi All, Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email:

Re: Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thomas H. George wrote: > I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work > without editing. The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could > not find /dev/dvd. There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV > doesn't know how to make one. The d

ssh command passing

Hi All, I'm sure this is something stupid but I'm running the following command and its not working base-2.05a$ ssh remotehost find /home -name .bash_history -exec grep foo {} \; find: missing argument to `-exec' I've tried quoting it, escaping it..What am I doing wrong? Rus -- w: http://www.j

Re: Upgrading kernel

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > The results from lspci are > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3116 > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] > 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3147 > 00:11.1 IDE

Re: Upgrading kernel

the 2.4.18-k7 kernel, and attempts to try 3x59x, ne2k-pci > fail miserably. > > Any ideas on how I get the network to function under 2.4? > > Simon > > Hi, Could you past lspci here for us to see please? Rgds Rus Foster -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicat

Re: apt-get ports

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > I have set up rules for iptables and have ended up blocking apt-get > from working, what ports does it use in and out and are they TCP or UDP? > apt-get will either use http or ftp depending on what you have setup in /etc/apt/sources.list Rgds

Ticker

Hi All, Does anyone know of any program that could scroll a messages across the root window or some sort of news ticker? Ideally works with sawfish Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Free Debian UNIX Shell Accounts e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.jvds.com/freeshells t: +44 7919 373537

Re: high load but no cpu usage

> Hi, > > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus. This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have? > What bothers me is that load average used to stay under 0.16 previously > - nothing h

Re: making a disk image

> I think 'dd' might work for that. Try man dd or info dd for more > information. You use it for writing disk images, so I guess it should > work backwards too. > > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=filename.img > or cat /dev/fd0 > filename.img will work just as nicely Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just V

Re: Statically linked bash

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to have bash that runs by itself; is there any such shell > somewhere in the Internet that I can download? > > Thanks in advance, > Oki Look at installing sash sash - Stand-alone shell. That is statically linked + has a few inbuilt commands

Re: Executing a Script every hour

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Christof Hurschler wrote: > Hi, > > I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do > daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. > > Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd > like to run the swendeleter.pl scrip

Re: harddisk too slow

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Rui Nóbrega wrote: > I've installed Debian Woody on my laptop, an Acer Aspire 1601. After some > configuring and player with boot parameters, all is working smoothly with > the exception of disk access. It takes a long time to copy large files from > diferent directories or pa

Filesystem Choice

Hi All, Is there any type of filesystem that can do inline backups such as NetApps WAFL or VMS's versioning system. Or is there something I can lay over the top. This is for backup purposes so it will be all media types Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Free Debian UNIX Shell Accounts e:

Re: Sudo file -confusion

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, amit_manna wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > > I have a doubt. > > > Suppose I want to give move and change owner permission for a particular > directories in a host. > Is it one particular directory all the time or any directory? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Virtual Dedicated

Locking pine to a folder

Hi All, Does anyone know a way in which it would be possible to lock pine to a certain folder. This isn't for security but more convience. Basically I want to do pine -f foldername and keep it open on that... Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAI

vmware without X

Hi All, Does anyone know if it is possible to start vmware without a X-Display. I've installed an image and would like it to boot up a the real machines host boot time. Any ideas? Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dedicated Servers

Re: KDE and VNCServer

Hi, > Hi all, > > I have just installed Debian Woody on a machine that was running > Mandrake 9.0, and hit a few snags. > > After installing, I editing my /etc/apt/sources.list to include the > KDE.ORG info to install KDE 3.1, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade > > Everything appeared great. > > I then r

Netwrok "raid"

Hi, Does anyone have any production expierence of a system that is good for network raid. I looked at intermezzo but reading some comments it doesn't look stable. I would like something more realtime the rsync every 30 minutes Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo

Re: video playback problems

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, David Sibai wrote: > Hello, > I am running a mixed testing/unstable debian system, and have the following > problem (never happened on woody): when I play a video file or a dvd, video > playback stops while the sound keeps going. Pressing <> restarts the > video. The problem ha

Stopping promiscous mode

Hi All, Beyond running ifconfig eth0 -promisc is there anyway to stop eth0 doing into promiscous mode? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t: +447919 373537 | Forums t: 1-888-327-6330

Re: keep files up-to-date (mirror?)

> > I am using Debian woody 3.0r1 with the standard kernel (2.4.17-32) > I have setup an LVS load balancing httpd (apache) with php...this LVS > can connect to a Db (mysql) for the use of the intranet web site... > > My problem is that, when I update the static content of the web site > on one of t

Re: mouse

yOn Tue, 2 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > help? my mouse stuck in one place and want move what can i > do to fixs this problemthanks mary jones Hi, It sounds like you want to edit /etc/X11/XF86config and set Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0"

Re: unprivileged user

> Dear All, > > Sometime back somebody told me there was a way to add a user account > where the user was very limited in what he could do. As I remember, the > user would not even be able to change directories. Try googling for "chroot user" Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + Free

Re: Webmin

> Ok.. > > This going to sound dumb... Bare with me... New to linux and all. > I installed webmin by doing: "apt-get install webmin" and it worked fine. > > Now how do I access webmin? something like: http://[debianhostname]:1000 ? Try http://127.0.0.1:1 Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com

Re: What service is using a port?

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, John M. Purser wrote: > I apologize. I know this was a thread a while back and I believe it was on > this mailing list but now I can't find it. I'm getting this error message > from samba: > [2003/08/17 12:15:26, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(789) > bind failed on port

Adding more loops

Hi All, I've done some googling and can see how I can add more loop devices by updating /etc/lilo.conf. However is there a way I can do it without rebooting? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t:

Re: linux cluster

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Nyc0n wrote: > What is a linux cluster and what does it do? I have 3 linux servers that > I could cluster together, but what is the benefit? What would I actually > gain by clustering? I mean technically speaking they are in a cluster > right now, they are clustered all over m

Re: debian version

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Shashank Bhide wrote: > Hello all, > I was wondering what is the actual output of uname -a ? Doesn't uname > give the kernel version? How do I know whether I have Debian potato / woody > installed on my system? > Thanks, > Shashank You can try "cat /etc/issue". Version 3

Making a file system image

Hi All, HIt a bit of a quandry. Trying to work out how to do the following. I'm basically wanting to create a file, format it then loop back mount it. Now for the life of me I can work out how to format a file. Any ideas? Cheers Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/m

Ethernet Alias

Hi All, Looking over interfaces(5) I can't see how I could define an alias for an interface. Could someone push me in the right direction? Thanks Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t: 07919 373537

Film Editting

Hi All, Can anyone recommed some software which will allow me to edit an AVI file? Cheers Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | forums: http://forums.jvds.com 10% donation to

Re: strange port 2664 listening

> > tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:26640.0.0.0:* LISTEN > > The only thing i can find is that it is realted to COmmand MQ, but i cant find > anything on command MQ? Try fuser 2664/tcp then grep for the pid Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15

Re: Graphic boot...

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Vittorio wrote: > I've tailored my 2.4.20 kernel quitting the boxed 2.4.18-bf24. Now at > boot time I don't have that nice graphical penguin and a graphical > display any longer as with the previous kernel. > Have you got the framebuffer enabled in your kernel config? Rus --

Shell Question..

Hi All, No strictly on topic but can anyone think of a better way to print out line x of a file in Shell Script. Best I have so far is (in pseudo code) cat /tmp/file | head -$x | tail -$x+1 Anything better or a perl one liner? Cheers Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $1

XDM init file

Hi All, I've just started using xdm rather than loggin strigh in on the console. One thing I have found is that instead of calling ~/.xinitrc and starting sawfish its called something else and started wmaker. Can any one tell me what file its called as I can't find anything with grep wmaker ~/.* C

Re: what plugins i needed?

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > What plugins i need to download when i viewed a web sites with mozilla > with the following error message? > > "This page contains information of a type (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin) > that can only be viewed with teh appropriate Plug-in." You will

Re: cd player sound

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Peter Ross wrote: > For some reason my cd players (kde, gnome and xmms)on a woody machine look as if > they are > playing the cd but are not outputing to the sound card. I know the sound is > working because the kde intro works and my 3d games have sound. Does > anyone know wh

Re: New line with xmessage?

yOn Thu, 19 Jun 2003, David selby wrote: > Having quite a bit of success with bash, got first script to work, auto > archives a backup every day and delete the oldest backup files if > partition is >95% full ... > try xmessage -file - this is a test ^D HTH Rgds rus -- www: http://www.65535.n

Burning DVD onto CD

Hi All, I've just created an MPG of my wedding and would like to burn it onto a CD but for it to be a DVD (i.e. work on a DVD player). I've googled but can't find a howto. Anyway know the best way about going round this? Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > $PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb > $PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" > $PDB='~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb' > > ls $PDB > > give me error. is there

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view them full screen scaled to the screen size and idealy > flick through them. > > I have tried various apps xzgv,gphoto, konqueror etc but I need an app > that can se

Re: Netsaint or Nagios?

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am in the process of building a dedicated Netsaint/Nagios box to host > a slew of client/server stats. > > What exactly should I use? I have no problems running unstable if I have > to, but what do I need to install? Netsaint or Nagios? For a num

Re: Script question again

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hello > > I saw a script question posted so I hope someone can help me on this > simple, I believe, question. > Hi, How about something like #!/bin/sh read -p "Enter number " Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | "More bits for your byte" communi

Re: sshd: Did not receive identification string

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, mike wrote: > Hello > > What does this log entry mean? > > Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from > 218.53.214.11 > Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from > 218.53.214.11 This is basically someone conne

Remote Monitoring

Hi All, Can anyone recommened a a monitoring package that isn't to hard to setup. I've got nagios working but the config is a pain and I need to setup a load more machines and don't fancy speding all my time typing out configs Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL

Re: cron sh ?

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Hello, > > I have a cron script and a line: > > ... wget ... -O ~/Base$(data +%H%M).gif Do you mean date here -^ rather than data Also you might need to back tick that so do something like wget -O ~/Base`date +%H%M`.gif Rgds Rus -- http://www

Re: [OT] exim with multiple interfaces

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, cirrus wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm trying to make exim listen on multiple interfaces. > I am running exim as a daemon and I want it to listen on two of my 5 > interfaces. > I tried: > local_interfaces = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy" > l

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun Mar 16, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +, the boisterous > Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote to me: > > I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && > > apt-get

Auto apt-get upgrade

Hi all, I'm just debating about scheduling a cron job to do apt-get update && apt-get update. Is this reasonable or am I going to be asking for trouble down the line? Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Li

Official Exim 4 package

Hi All, I'm trying to find an exim 4 package for woody. Googling turned up http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/exim4-debian.html but the exim packages haven't been updated in 9 months. If there an offical exim4 pkg? I've tried pulling the source for sid but that still looks like 3.* Cheers Rus --

Print postscript to cups.

I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq ? -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux Hosting and S

Apache suExec

Hi All, Is there anyway that I can disable suexec for a certain user or replace it? I would rather try to avoid a recompile if poss Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux Hostin

Re: fsck on a mounted disk?

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a machine that apparently has a bad spot on the disk. I'd like to > run fsck on it, but the problem is the machine is headless and is only > accessed remotely (ssh). Without pulling it out, hooking up a montior & > keyboard, is there a w

SNMP stats

Hi All, Quick Q: If I'm collecting SNMP stats using mrtg and have the following setup eth0: 192.168.1.1 eth0:1 192.168.1.2 Does linux keep stats for the interface and aliases and just the combined total on the interface? Cheers Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAI

PHP cookies

Hi All, I've just installed php but am finding that its not sending cookies to the browser. Is there something I've got to turn on in php.ini? Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "More bits for your bite" Lifetime FreeBSD + Linux

Re: must.. surpress ... murderous rage.... (simple boot floppyqveshtion)

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Victor Stan wrote: > Ok, so 2 days of RTFM and nothing. > > First let me make sure we have it set straight - LILO and GRUB are NOT an > OPTION! > > Why, doesn't matter (cuz I'm fancy like that), what I want is a simple > kernel on a floppy that I stick in and boots my Linux mac

RE: Nvidia driver

> > HTH, > > Willem-Jan > Could you email me your XF86Config-4 and I will have a look for you Rgds Rus Foster -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Friendly Tech Support "More bits for your bite" Email - Web Space - Custom Solutions - S

Re: Nvidia driver

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello again, > > Now i've built the nvidia package and I installed it, dselect says it's > installed correctly, But now I don't know how get the driver installed so I > can use the driver with X > > Sorry for the dumb questions, > > HTH, > Willem-Jan

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