Re: Installing X window

2002-11-23 Thread Irvine Russell
Osamu Aoki kirjoitti 23.11.2002 kello 08:37: > > Where is the best place to find information on installing X under > > debian. A friend of mine says that it's a pig to get X working under > > debian. Just thought I'd try and prepare myself b4 I begin. > > "Debian Reference" > http://www.debian.or

Installing X window

2002-11-22 Thread irvine russell
I have a base system installed. Now I would like to install X. Where is the best place to find information on installing X under debian. A friend of mine says that it's a pig to get X working under debian. Just thought I'd try and prepare myself b4 I begin. tia. iruum __

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-19 Thread Irvine Russell
Rogier Wolff kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 09:43: > It looks as if you crashed your system badly by playing with hdparm. You got that right! > That usually doesn't happen. Hope your right. Next time (if I'm brave enough to try again) I'll follow the instructions given in the articles that I was

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Irvine Russell
Gary Turner kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 03:44: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > > > > > >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > >with the message: > > > > "kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > > > >I rebooted and

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-24 Thread irvine . russell
Hello Again thanks again for all the suggestions. I haven't quite found out what the processes generating those lines in netstat were but I have I think got closer to an answer. I looked in the netstat manpage and it mentionned the file /proc/net/raw. I looked at this file and found the fo

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread irvine . russell
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:04:39PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > This means that you have a process that's listening for anything > for that protocol. Usually this is a firewall with rules > specific to icmp and tcp in this case. I had read something similar to that before. My problem is finding whic

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread irvine . russell
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:10:15PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: > > Do an "lsof | grep raw" and post what you find. > > Have you tried netstat -ap ? It'll show you process id and program name > of the corresponding process. You may need to be root to see all of > them. Actually I have (sorr

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread irvine . russell
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:25:34PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > > > raw0 0 *:icmp *:* 7 > > > > raw0 0 *:tcp *:* 7 > > > > Do an "l

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread irvine . russell
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:18:43AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'd probably do it the hard way. Start in single mode, and manually bring > up services one-by-one and see when they show up. Thanks for the idea. I was searching the web and found the following: *re: raw socket *:6 * *David

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread irvine . russell
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:53:51PM -0700, craigw wrote: > maybe the xserver? > try: > ps aux | grep tcp > ps aux | grep icmp Thanks for the reply. I tried that but it didn't help. t.irvine -- Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor ne'er shall be. Ale

Re: why boot using floppy is very slow?

2002-02-26 Thread irvine . russell
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:25:40PM -0500, debianlist wrote: > I boot my DEbian 2.2R4 using floppy,but the process is very slow..at > least much slower than other linux distr...how can i improve the speed based > on boot by floopy...(there is no hardware problem) > i have a 2.2r4 boot flop

Re: debian newbie : 2 simple questions

2002-01-30 Thread irvine . russell
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:26:41PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > 1) what is the minimal package install to send emails from the shell ?? > > (mailx, zmailer-ssl ?) imperative is : SMTP daemon on port 25 must NOT be > > running. > > install mailx + exim, then comment out the smtp line in /etc

subnetting

2002-01-13 Thread irvine . russell
Hello all, I am a little confused about subnetting. I read an article in the linux journal. I later bought a book and it seems to give quite a different picture of subnets. First a quote from the book: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed snip- When subnetting, it's important to note that th

[OT]Tcp wrappers

2001-12-25 Thread irvine . russell
Hello all I have 2 questions that relate to tcp wrappers. 1) How exactly are the files hosts.allow and hosts.deny read. >From what I have read, it works as follows: hosts.allow is read first. The first rule that applies to the host trying to make a connection is applied. If no rule

Re: How to capture start up messages?

2001-12-11 Thread irvine . russell
Quoting Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody > system boots. > > dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the > kernel, > and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read. I am not sure

Copying a harddisk to another using dd

2001-12-10 Thread irvine . russell
Hello all Can someone give me someadvice on how I would use dd to copy the contents of one harddisk to another hardisk on the same machine. I want really to copy my linux stuff to a new harddisk and get rid of the old hd. T:Irvine

perl modules ?

2001-11-16 Thread Irvine Russell
Hello all. I wanted to use a small script that I found on the internet, and it says that I would need to have the following modules inorder for it to run: Net::Telnet; Mail::Sendmail; Getopt::Std; Text::CSV_XS; 1) How would I check whether I have these modules or not, and 2) what packa

Re:problems installing 2.4 kernel (2)

2001-10-22 Thread Irvine Russell
Thanks to nate and jerome. I followed your suggestions and have another problem. When I: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386 I get the following (I haven't include the whole text) Sorry but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kernel-image-2.4.9-386: Depends : init