difficulty with autofs mounting my home directory

2001-05-03 Thread idalton
I can't figure this out.. I want a consistant directory structure across my network, and I want to have all my nfs-mounts using autofs4. The problem: I have my home directories under /share/acct/, and I have extra project space from another server under /share/projects, and I have an mp3/ogg arc

Re: ssl096

2001-05-03 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:04:38PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > make sure you have "crypto" in the sources.list for kde > > deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/debian potato main optional crypto qt1apps Thanks a lot. 'crypto' has the file libssl096_0.9.6-0.potato.4_i386.deb. Downloading it now :-

[bmw2288@yahoo.com: installing xfree86]

2001-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
Can someone help this person? - Forwarded message from ubto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: ubto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: installing xfree86 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 21:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am new to Debian and am having problems getting

Re: gnome/sawfish: windows only open on workspace #1

2001-05-03 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 02 May 2001 17:39:50 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > I had all of these turned ON: > > Automatically remember window positions. > Automatically remember window sizes. > Automatically remember other window attributes. > Don't automatically remember details of transient windows. Hmmm.

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:10:52PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Used tape is not expensive. 8-12 GB units are available on eBay for < > US$100. Tape is cheap and reusable. I assume you mean some SCSI tape drives as that cheap. If it is so cheap, I should think about it when 640MB became no

Re: Alsa Sound in Potato stable - question

2001-05-03 Thread Dana J . Laude
On Thu, 03 May 2001 00:25:07 Carl Greco wrote: > Dana, > > Not certain what the problem is; however, it appears you have another > version of alsa/emu10k1 installed -- either from debian distribution > or from the linux kernel distribution. I don't have any debian alsa > package installed. Ch

Boa

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Donaldson
I just installed boa and having some trouble setting up the VirtualHost. My main problem i think is that i don't quite understand this ServerName www.0wnz.slyip.net # VirtualHost: a logical switch. # Comment out to disable. # Given DocumentRoot /var/www, requests on interface 'A' or IP 'IP-A' # b

Re: help required with X configuration and mouse

2001-05-03 Thread Joseph
Sorry for the late reply. Bob Nielsen wrote: The answer may be as simple as this: COM1 = /dev/ttyS0, not ttyS1. Another thing to look for is a symbolic link from /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0 (if you refer to the mouse as /dev/mouse in XF86Config). Sorry about that it is not com1 it is COM2. I wil

bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) > > It is not reliable as HD but it will never get erased. got some pointers you could share? say you've got a debian box set up to Do What You Want, what steps are needed to b

nessus login problem

2001-05-03 Thread Joakim Svensson
Hi, Just installed nessus nessusd and nessus-plugins from unstable. I create a user and start nessusd > nessus-adduser ... snip > nessusd -D I fire up nessus and try to login. I then get an error stating that I might be having tcpwrappers. What is the correct way to use nessus on a stand al

Re: difficulty with autofs mounting my home directory

2001-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ferret autofs hides things that would be under your mount point ie using autofs to mount server:/home /home will hide all your /home/ on your local pc... ..all you'd see is server:/home - thats good and bad...depending you probably need to do some symlinks

Re: Boa

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Peter Donaldson wrote: > I just installed boa and having some trouble setting up the VirtualHost. My > main problem i think is that i don't quite understand this > > ServerName www.0wnz.slyip.net > > # VirtualHost: a logical switch. > # Comment out to disable. > # Given Documen

Re: Linux style dialup automatically

2001-05-03 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Mike, Originally this was my question. No it is not a multi-user box, I just wanted my mail downloaded automatically every time I connect, without manually invoking fetchmail... Now it is solved, the prob was that I did not know that for this I have to put my fetchmailrc to /etc on debian --

Debian samba 2.2.0

2001-05-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
I installed samba_2.2.0.final-2.deb but ran into a problem. Profile loading by W98 clients does not work for me. Can ayone please either confirm or deny that they are having the same problem so that I know where to start looking. And has anyone got samba debs for potato? Lindsay -- =-=-=-=-

/etc/resolv.conf disappears on reboot

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I've got a Debian SPARC box that was initially setup to use DHCP, but now has a statically assigned IP address, and every time it boots, it wipes out /etc/resolv.conf I've been unable to track down what's doing it. Are there any other DHCP settings hanging around that might be doing it? Andr

Re: /etc/resolv.conf disappears on reboot

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a Debian SPARC box that was initially setup to use DHCP, but now > has a statically assigned IP address, and every time it boots, it wipes > out /etc/resolv.conf > > I've been unable to track down what's doing it. Are there any other D

Re: Building from source

2001-05-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > Hello > I have downloaded > somepackage..diff.gz > somepackage.dsc > somepackage.orig.tar.gz > from incoming. Presently I have a potato installation > How do I make a deb file from the above > TIA > sunil cd /your/build/dir

Fasttrak IDE Raid + Quotas

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel Sand
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 2.2.19 Kernel All installed and Mounted. It runned bonnie on the Raid Partition and all seems to me right. So, now i turned on th

Announce: Qaptivate 0.3 - GUI for APT

2001-05-03 Thread Erik Winn
Hi peoples, This is just to announce that there is a new release of Qaptivate which is a (Qt libs*) GUI front end for apt-get and friends. It is now available in .debs at either: http://www.linuxmechanix.com/qaptivate.html or http://unilinux.sourceforge.net (in the ftp download area, follow

Debian 2.2r3 - pure Potato

2001-05-03 Thread Glyn Millington
I've got a Potato system which has been regularly updated, but I've also flirted with things like Helix Gnome and installed a few other things from unstable over the last few months. I'd like to get back to the Potato purity and stability of 2.2r3 and have acquired cds to that end. If I do an

Re: Netscape 4.77 - spell checker

2001-05-03 Thread Keith O'Connell
Greg > For whatever reason spellcheck does not get upgrqaded/replaced during > an upgrade. Netscape installs to a separate dir here, I have both 476 > & 477. You need to 'apt-get' the spellcheck package. OK - The spell check facility is back again, *however* when it comes across unrecognised,

Configure PS/2 mouse -- /dev/??

2001-05-03 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
How can I configure a mouse for use with Debian ? I've gone through xf86config and chosen /dev/tty0 but to be frank, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to configure thereabouts. Type 'startx' and no working mouse. Thanks for any help. -- "S+M is outta the question, have you got a better su

Configure PS/2 mouse for new Debian install

2001-05-03 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
[re-sent with correctly subscribed address; apologies for any duplicates] How can I configure a mouse for use with Debian ? I've gone through xf86config and chosen /dev/tty0 but to be frank, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to configure thereabouts. Type 'startx' and no working mouse. --

removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
I have been plagued by this for a long time, decided to do something about it and messed up. Who has kind words of advice? I'm running Potato 2.2r1 on a P200 desktop. For some reason (honestly, I didn't do it consciously) irda-common-0.9.5-2 was installed, but never wanted to get configured (and I

Re: Printer Failure

2001-05-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:59:06AM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > let's see - I've tried adding a form feed character at the end of foo.txt > - still fails silently. I added the IO address and IRQ line > /etc/modules.conf (and just to see if it would work to /etc/modules). > I have no file /etc/mo

Re: Configure PS/2 mouse for new Debian install

2001-05-03 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Thu, 3 May 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > [re-sent with correctly subscribed address; apologies for > any duplicates] > > How can I configure a mouse for use with Debian ? > > I've gone through xf86config and chosen /dev/tty0 but to be > frank, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to c

Re: Configure PS/2 mouse for new Debian install

2001-05-03 Thread punt45ACP
I've had some troubles with my (serial) mouse. Make sure you hardlink your mouse (in my case /dev/ttyS1) to /dev/mouse. That should enable you to use your mouse in X. Good luck! Richard. Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [re-sent with correctly subscribed address; apologies for > any

Re: Configure PS/2 mouse for new Debian install

2001-05-03 Thread Martin Würtele
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:23:58PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > If you´ve got a PS/2 mouse, /dev/psaux should be the appropriate device. > But if you are running gpm in parallel to X11, you have to redirect it > to /dev/gpmdata and set gpm to repeater mode. i don't think so, i use gpm and x

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:18:40PM +0200, Hans wrote: > I'm running Potato 2.2r1 on a P200 desktop. For some reason (honestly, I > didn't do it consciously) irda-common-0.9.5-2 was installed, but never > wanted to get configured (and I don't even have ir hardware installed). It > also wouldn't let

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:21:49PM +0200, PiotR wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:30:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > In power combining applications like these, balancing diodes > > or resistors are usually used. It's not good just to connect > > the outputs together. > > What's the differ

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:49:27PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > the diodes need to be power diodes... vs signal diodes > > given you cannot tie the power supplies at two diff voltages together... > you have to isolate it somehow... ( the power diode method ) I'm a bit hazy on how this actually work

TDSL Router

2001-05-03 Thread Chrisi
Hallo, ich möchte einen Linux Router für die TDSL Connection bei mir aufbauen. - Was ist den die mindestanforderung oder die empfehlung für ein Rechner zu nehmen - reicht da ein 486er mit 16 MB RAM ??? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christoph Jähne

Re: debian package mirrors

2001-05-03 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> >Colin Watson wrote: -> >-> That's very old, and doesn't seem to know about pools. The one I quoted -> >-> is billed as a working pool-aware partial mirror script. -> > -> >well, pool is just subdirectory in the hierarchy, why should it work badly? -> -> Because the packages that used to go in

Re: [bmw2288@yahoo.com: installing xfree86]

2001-05-03 Thread David Wright
Quoting Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can someone help this person? > > - Forwarded message from ubto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > From: ubto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: installing xfree86 > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 21:41:23 -0700 (PDT) > Message-ID: <[EM

Re: TDSL Router

2001-05-03 Thread Martin Würtele
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:32:13PM +0200, Chrisi wrote: > ich möchte einen Linux Router für die TDSL Connection bei mir aufbauen. - > Was ist den die mindestanforderung oder die empfehlung für ein Rechner zu > nehmen - reicht da ein 486er mit 16 MB RAM ??? christoph this is an international de

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
> >dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common > >See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the >potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this >package, especially since you've never actually installed it properly. > I think you meant dpkg --f

Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
>> I'm not sure about reiserfs but at least ext3 does replays logs on >> read only filesystem. I'm going to check if it so with reiserfs. >> >> Here http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010119_103.html#1 you can >> find some discussion why on jornaling filesystems log can be replayed >> even if

Supermount patch for 2.2.18pe21 - anyone?!

2001-05-03 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi Debianers, I want to patch my kernel (stock 2.2.18pre21 potato 2.2r2) with the supermount patch. I was only be able to find the patch for 2.2.17. Is there a place where I could find this patch for 2.2.18? Or what happens if I patch with supermount-2.2.17? Does anyone outhere run a patched de

Does apsfilter work?

2001-05-03 Thread Victor
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with printing Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - In reply to:[EMAIL PR

Re: Does apsfilter work?

2001-05-03 Thread Brian Nelson
> -- Forwarded Message -- > Subject: Re: Problems with printing > Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:56:29 -0400 > From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subject: Re: Problems with printing > Date: Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:59:34AM - > > In reply to:

Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
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 host B. Now what I need is, depending on the

create png files on gnome

2001-05-03 Thread Timeboy
Hey You! Which useful graphical tool of potato2.2r3 i can use to create little png files? Need some selfmade icons... TIA Cu, yours Timo

Using Unicode in emacs20

2001-05-03 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I think I am going to solve a weird problem. I never managed to run emacs20 with utf-8 encoded files. Now I know the reason. I am using emacs20 and had the package user-de installed. This contains the file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50user-de.el which contains the line (standard-display-europ

is dpkg broken currently?

2001-05-03 Thread Forrest English
i get a LOT of segfaults whenever i'm trying to install an application. so, i basicaly can't install anything anymore. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing

Re: is dpkg broken currently?

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
"Forrest English" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i get a LOT of segfaults whenever i'm trying to install an application. > >so, i basicaly can't install anything anymore. Welcome to unstable :) dpkg --version http://bugs.debian.org/dpkg -- Colin Watson [E

Re: create png files on gnome

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
T> Hey You! T> Which useful graphical tool of potato2.2r3 i can use to create little T> png files? Need some selfmade icons... gimp? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

Re: email options and --force with dpkg

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Following helpful replies from Kent(ktb) and Steve Gran to a >request under the subject of 'email options', I've been looking >further into the possibilities. > >I want to try qmail which I've found and built. It will not install >as it conflicts with ssmtp - seems I c

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > I'd use disk as backups... if i was starting from scratch > - nothing need be done...unlike tapes that requires regular > possibly daily interaction ) > Are you not concerned that your disk controller will go wacky, fubarring both drives? I'd be in

Re: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
Using the 2.2 kernel you could use ipchains to mark the packets then use ipmasqadm to forward based on the mark set. Andrew On Thu, 3 May 2001, 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 w

ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
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. Andrew

power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Akop Pogosian
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 but recently I switched to a pre

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: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
El Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:45:16AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: -| Using the 2.2 kernel you could use ipchains to mark the packets then use -| ipmasqadm to forward based on the mark set. How would I do something like that? I mean marking the packages depending on the host-name they come from?

Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
You need to enable apm support on startup - from memory, just add: -apm to the LILO startup line and it should work. ap 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" > comman

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: power off on shutdown doesn't work

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

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: ssh question

2001-05-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:50:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.

how can I help?

2001-05-03 Thread Marco
Hello doodies :) I am not quite qualified to make something IMPORTANT to debian users, as package/solutions development, but I can 'spray' the debian's name and help on translating something to my primary language, portuguese. How could I join to Debian's team? I am waiting for response, I only w

Re: difficulty with autofs mounting my home directory

2001-05-03 Thread idalton
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:39:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ferret > > autofs hides things that would be under your mount point > ie using autofs to mount server:/home /home will > hide all your /home/ on your local pc... > ..all you'd see is server:/home > > - that

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

Broken e2fs...please hellp

2001-05-03 Thread Dean A. Roman
Hello all, It appears that the superblock is bad? I have tried some other superblocks with no luck. The following commands below show the problem. I can't mount the file system either. I checked the partition table with fdisk and everything looks fine...except the partition no longer lists

Re: Configure PS/2 mouse for new Debian install

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:15:38AM +0100, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > How can I configure a mouse for use with Debian ? > > I've gone through xf86config and chosen /dev/tty0 but to be > frank, I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to configure thereabouts. I saw several comments which made me wonder

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: Can linux do this?

2001-05-03 Thread ahall
Hello, Add a rule to your incoming chain something like: ipchains -A input -p tcp -s hostname.net -d you.local.ip 80 -m 100 to set a mark on all packets coming from some hostname to your local webserver ip. Then add an ipmasqadm rule something like: ipmasqadm mfw -A -m 100 -r ip.of.webserver p

Re: gnome/sawfish: windows only open on workspace #1

2001-05-03 Thread Ross Boylan
I have had the same problem for quite awhile. However, it's erratic: sometimes everything ends up in my top left pane, and sometimes it doesn't. I have set automatically remember position for sawfish.

Re: how can I help?

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Watson
Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am not quite qualified to make something IMPORTANT to debian users, as >package/solutions development, but I can 'spray' the debian's name and >help on translating something to my primary language, portuguese. Translations are great - try http://www.debian.org

SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread David Steinberg
Hi all, I'm trying get a Debian box to act as a mail server. I'm using exim. Presently, it receives mail, but it won't send mail, at least to the destinations I've been using for testing. When it tries to connect to a mail server, the connection is either refused or just hangs and then times o

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Hans wrote: > > > >dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common > > > >See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the > >potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this > >package, especially since you've never actually install

buz.c inkernel compile

2001-05-03 Thread Sergio E. Schvezov
hi everyone,i'd apretiate some help a lot! i'm having trouble compiling my kernel, :( specifically, it's with the buz.c in the 2.4.3 (unstable/sid), it tries to call a funtion named KMALLOC_MAXSIZE which isn't defined, i actually don't know if i need it, it's an optional thing for compiling for th

[joris@linux.be: X4 + 2.4 causes system freezes?]

2001-05-03 Thread Branden Robinson
- Forwarded message from Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X4 + 2.4 causes system freezes? Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 08:10:13 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I know you're probately not the right person to email this to, but

Weird apt error

2001-05-03 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hello all-- I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice would be most welcome. crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Unable to write mmap - msync (5 In

corrupted ext2 filesystem with raidtools 0.42 and nbd 1.4

2001-05-03 Thread Francesc Oller
Hi all, I'm gathering together 15 sparse 1GB files distributed in 5 PCs with 3 files each to get a 15GB block device. I'm using nbd 1.4 and raidtools 0.42 in linear mode. Kernel is 2.2.15 I intend to use the block device as a debian archive mirror but after some amount of successful downloading t

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach David Steinberg (on Thu, 03 May 2001 10:05:44AM -0700): > When it tries to connect to a mail server, the connection is either > refused or just hangs and then times out. Just to test, I also tried > using telnet to connect to port 25 of the same hosts. Same thing: either > "telnet: Un

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > >dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common > > > >See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the > >potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this > >package, especially since you've n

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Thu, 3 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > are you behind a firewall? Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects. > try to telnet to port 25 of mail.madduck.net - if you get a refusal, > then you have a problem on your side and i think you might have a > firewall that blocks outgoing 2

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach David Steinberg (on Thu, 03 May 2001 11:09:37AM -0700): > > are you behind a firewall? > Yes, but I don't think it blocks outgoing 25/tcp connects. no it doesn't. i saw your connects... > Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide which IP > addresses to block? Why wou

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > > On what basis could a mail server decide which hosts it > > > is going to allow to connect to it? > > > > ip addresses mostly... > > Could you expand on this? How would a mail server decide > which IP addresses to block? Why would it suddenly decide > that it doesn't like mine? :) Mail se

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread csj
On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) > > > > It is not reliable as HD but it will never get erased. > > got some pointers you could share? say you've got a deb

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Hall Stevenson (on Thu, 03 May 2001 02:19:43PM -0400): > If your IP address has been flagged, this could be a reason. but the server i made him try uses RBL extensively and did not refuse him. i think he's suffering more a client side problem... but i am a postfix expert, no clue about

Re: SMTP Connections

2001-05-03 Thread David Steinberg
On Thu, 3 May 2001, MaD dUCK wrote: > but the server i made him try uses RBL extensively and did not refuse > him. i think he's suffering more a client side problem... but i am a > postfix expert, no clue about exim... You're right! It was my configuration of exim. I had it doing hostname lookup

Re: alian fails to unpack a .rpm file

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Gerd Arlitt wrote: > I used alien successfully for a set of RPM packages which I am using > here. Now some will install and some will not with the following errors: > > e.g. > > alien -i XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm > > error: query of XmlAda-runtime-0.5.1-1.i386.rpm failed > . > . > error: q

Netscape Error: Readlink error: Invalid argument

2001-05-03 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I recently got a new hard-drive because I was running out of space and I created a new partition on this which I mounted as /usr. I copied (cp -R ) all the files from the original /usr. Now netscape does not run at all. The version of netscape is Netscape navigator 4.73, my linux is slink

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:04:23AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux :-) # apt-get install cdrecord To create CD-ROM of files under t

VNC problems in stable?

2001-05-03 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I've been using VNC on a bunch of platforms (Debian/unstable(x86 and sparc); Debian/stable(sparc); Solaris; RH6.2; Win32), but the two x86 Debian/Stable boxen I've tried are having troubles. Xvnc starts, but none of the clients in my startup file will start. I get a bunch of Xt auth denied e

irda-common: won't install/remove in unstable

2001-05-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've been getting the following messages trying to install irda-common on a TuxTops 20U laptop (x86, unstable) for the past month or so: Preparing to replace irda-common 0.9.5-2 (using .../irda-common_0.9.14-3_i386.deb) ... Stopping IrDA Manager: dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Bartosch
Hi! > > at these extremes... the diodes wont helpand the dioes will simply > > burn up due to the current it has to pass to get to that "voltage" > > one side being a diode drop ( 0.7v ) across itself.. > > - a power mosfet is better suited ... hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC

Web-based email w/notes field?

2001-05-03 Thread Robb Kidd
A bit off-the-wall, but does Debian include a web-based email implementation that offers a "notes" field for e-mails? I'm in a position where it might be helpful for some of my users who share a mailbox for public information requests and the like to have a web interface to the mailbox with

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread straylite
At Thu, 3 May 2001 22:36:27 +0200 , Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense to me - IIRC they only work like switches A MOSFET is a type of field-effect transistor ... hence the "FET" part of the name -- it can be sued for much more than a switch. Get your ow

Re: Weird apt error

2001-05-03 Thread Philippe Gramoulle
Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > > Hello all-- > > I'm getting a really odd error with a debian box I administer. Apt > seems to be broken, or at least missing some serious files. Any advice > would be most welcome. > > crhist95:~# apt-get remove gdm > Reading Package Lists... Error! >

Installation Problems with USB keyboard

2001-05-03 Thread Christoph Pickart
Hello debian users, since a couple of hours I try to install debian 2.2r2 on an AMD1GHz, AsusA7M266 with USB keyboard and mouse. I also read another thread about the problem and made a rescue disc myself with kernel 2.4.1 where I included input core and USB HID support, I tried the keyboard in all

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya keith when i work on a backup system - i assume your primary machine yu are backing up lost its disks - i assume the backup disk can also lose its disk... - disk failures etc is easy to simulate... - just pull the cable off the disk... and see the panic and can

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Stephan Hachinger
> Hi! > > > > > at these extremes... the diodes wont helpand the dioes will simply > > > burn up due to the current it has to pass to get to that "voltage" > > > one side being a diode drop ( 0.7v ) across itself.. > > > - a power mosfet is better suited ... > > hmm, mosfet doesn't make sense t

i wrote a program: xtar

2001-05-03 Thread a
i wrote an X interface to process tar/tgz files. It works by calling tar/gzip/gunzip. It is based on Athena widgets, readily available in every X packages. It's built on Debian 2.0. Please give it a try. It's in the attachment. if you know any site that accept uploading my program, please let me k

Re: i wrote a program: xtar

2001-05-03 Thread Eric Kristopher Sandall
On Fri, 4 May 2001, a wrote: > if you know any site that accept uploading my program, please let me know http://www.freshmeat.net accepts program submissions. /* *Eric Sandall ICQ: 667348 *email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Debian samba 2.2.0

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:19:40PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > I installed samba_2.2.0.final-2.deb but ran into a problem. Profile > loading by W98 clients does not work for me. > > Can ayone please either confirm or deny that they are having the same > problem so that I know where to sta

Re: bootable cd

2001-05-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:01:00PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:04:23AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On Thursday 03 May 2001 14:27, will trillich wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:16:09PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > CD-R is a neat toy to create interesing bootable Linux

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences? - diodes

2001-05-03 Thread Rich Puhek
http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_pedge_1_pedge_2550.htm ...Has a system with dual power supplies. If anyone is interested in putting together a system like that, I suggest they go ahead and buy one. Otherwise, let's leave the design stuff to the power supply engineers at Power One and

Gnus: two questions

2001-05-03 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks to everyone who helped me to get gnus going. My first question relates to the problem I had in sending the second one to the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup: Gnus refused to send it complaining about a void nntp-soup-request variable or something like that. I could not get gnus to work with slrnp

Re: backup strategies

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Tuesday, May 1, Alvin Oga did write: > > hi osamu... > > coolthat your script goes to cdr ... > ( looks like a manually run backup script due to "yn" question > > but its not a full nor incremental backup since its not backing > up "user defined" system config changes in /usr/local,

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