Samba Serving

2001-08-27 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to share directories through samba. I have the workgroup and server set correctly, because I can see the server in the network neighborhood on the win98 client. But it will not allow access. I used to change the windoze box to use plain text passwords...but since linuxtopia no longer exi

Re: evolution and woody

2001-08-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:43:09PM -0400, Glen Snyder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is > it frozen out of woody for the time being?)?? Last I've heard, Woody freeze is policy only to date. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2001

Re: Samba Serving

2001-08-27 Thread ktb
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:17:28PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I'm trying to share directories through samba. I have the workgroup and > server set correctly, because I can see the server in the network > neighborhood on the win98 client. But it will not allow access. I used > to change the windoz

Re: using cd is shell script

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:26:36PM -0700, bob parker wrote: > Hi all, > being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that > goes like this: > > #! /bin/bash > # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain > > cd /some long dir chain/xxx > > > My question is, how can i make the chan

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Well, you have found a bug I would guess. That is "why"... Maybe a buffer over-run..too long a line ? Report it.. Cliff On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've > just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' bu

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. The last one in the file is what wins... Cliff On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:44:00AM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:22:37PM -0500): > > A couple of questions, subsequently ... > > pleas

[Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]

2001-08-27 Thread Curt Howland
Some success: Using the google search, I was able to find an example of the ess1869 sound card under Linux. Now, at least the sound modules load, and YIFF sound driver says it's working in the boot startup messages. However, I still cannot open /dev/dsp And yes, I did make the changes recommend

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
Daniel Kleine-Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> i'm using it in conjunction with testing without _ANY_ problems Also here. I've used 2.4.5, 2.4.7, 2.4.8, and 2.4.9 without problem on a mostly testing system. The only issue (as was pointed out to me here) is that 2.4.9 is really designed to w

Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
Hi,   My setup: I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem.  My first computer has just Windows 98 on it, the second computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and Debian's latest stable release.   My skills: Total Linux and networking newbie.  Took a long time t

Re: Actualizar de Potato a Woody.

2001-08-27 Thread javi
Hola! Para pasar a woody que es la actualmente en testing debes cambiar alla donde hubiera stable por testing, de todos modos aqui te lo explica bastante mejor: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ El canal Debian, por lo menos al que yo me conecto de vez en cuando es el del irc hispano: ir

Re: mod-ssl vs apache-ssl

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
Am 26. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Erdmut Pfeifer so: > In terms of practical usability, I'd say no -- at least I wouldn't > know of any. If you search the web for differences between the two SSL > implementations, about the only thing you'll find is a difference in > philosophy: apache-ssl is primarily fo

kernel-headers package and upgrading

2001-08-27 Thread Jeff
Hi all, I upgraded my potato system to the 2.4.9 kernel via Adrian Bunk's packages, all went smoothly. One thing that confuses me is the purpose of the "kernel-headers" package. I installed it, and it put some files in /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.9-686 but it didn't update /usr/include... do I n

automatically get the server up

2001-08-27 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fsck etc first? Thanks! Umum

Re: postgreSQL

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
bob parker wrote: >Using potato r3 and postmaster is running. > >Attempt to 'psql' get error message: >FATAL1: SetUserID: user 'bob' is not in pg_shadow > >How may i sign on to postgres - command line please Have you created a PostgreSQL user called "bob"? When PostgreSQL is installed

Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
You need samba to share file between Linux and Windows over LAN. This is official way. But this takes skill or RTFM :-) which may be too much when you are newbie using "mc" as shell. (That was me) Cheating is use dual-booted windows machine and share drive partition. I suppose you can share fil

adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
moin, moin, luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfen

Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Steve Dondley" wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please tell Outlook not to add HTML to your mails; plain tedt only is what we want. >My setup: >I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem. My > first computer has just >Windows 98 on

Re: realplayer as plugin

2001-08-27 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
which scripts in which directory? there are no scripts as far as i can see (i looked in the package list). i guess in addition to the afore- mentioned problems, there is no way to set up konq to respond to the pnm: and rtsp: protocols, are there? -c [ Structural Informatics Group ] [ Dept. of

[Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]

2001-08-27 Thread Curt Howland
One more comment: I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy". Also, reading the sound HowTo has not been helpful, it's all well and good if things *work*,

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-27 Thread Curt Howland
Ok, finally something real. It's yiff that's dominating the sound files: #fuser -v /dev/dsp USERPID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/dsp root245 f yiff #ps auxwww USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 245 0.1

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Curt Howland wrote: > >One more comment: > >I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use >sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the >message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy". Some other program has it open. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Java apt sources link for woody & potato

2001-08-27 Thread Danie Roux
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:44:23PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Just found the apt sources link for the Blackdown Java packages. > > Thought this might be of interest as I have only seen tgz links on the > list. > > Woody > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:48:11AM +0200): > Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. > The last one in the file is what wins... are you serious? i must admit that i never really knew what "domain" did, but i didn't know that they were mutually diskliking

Re: apt-getting recommended/suggested packages?

2001-08-27 Thread patrick q
--- "Avdi B. Grimm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > quick question: is there a simple way to tell apt-get to install a > package *plus* all of it's recommended and suggested packages? For > example, KDevelop can utilize a whole slew of optional packages if > they > are installed, but by default apt-g

[maybe OT] Liveice: anyone knows where it defaults for the config file?

2001-08-27 Thread calyth
I've ran liveice before as a tarball, and now I'm glad that debian had included it. I'm just wondering where does this version reads its default config because it says it reads one in /etc/liveice.cfg, so I copied one there, but it doesn't read it still... Hm It has 644 permission, so anyone

Re: automatically get the server up

2001-08-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Umum Wijoyo wrote: > >Hi! >I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, >always requests for root to do an fsck etc. >Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? >Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root >to do a manual fsck

GTK-Xemacs

2001-08-27 Thread LAMIRAULT Nicolas
do you know where i can find packages for GTK-XEmacs ? I have debian potato. Thanks -- Nicolas LAMIRAULT

TEST PLASE IGNORE

2001-08-27 Thread LordZe
TEST PLEASE IGNORE. LordZe--> Un Computer sicuro è un computer spento. -> Di Maria Antonio System Administrator -Credito Italiano- Italy(MI) UIN 123773221 /join #linux-mi (ircnet) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)

Re: automatically get the server up

2001-08-27 Thread Magnus von Koeller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 02:35, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > (as it doesn't use inodes... ) and I've yet to succeed installing lilo > with a reiserfs partition as root. Works fine with the latest version of lilo (at least for me). I'm not running De

Re: Where's Woody?

2001-08-27 Thread F Zimmermann
-- Dr. Frank Zimmermann School of Bioscineces University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Tel.: 44-121-414 2508 Fax.: 44-121-414 5925 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > I was trying to download the Woody CD images and can't find them. I saw on > a po

Re: Progeny vs. Libranet vs Pure Debian.

2001-08-27 Thread F Zimmermann
> > G'day DanSV, > > > I've heard good things about Progeny but haven't used it my self, the > Progeny web-site says As long as you are in America or your PC has american hardware e.g. keyboard and so on. There was a test of differnt Linux Distributions in the germa LinuxMagazin acouple of month

Re: UK suppliers of laptops with Debian preinstalled ?

2001-08-27 Thread F Zimmermann
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > Anyone know where I might be able to locate such a beast? I've been > digging around on Google, but most links seem to be out of date - > hardware firms now consultacy/software only, etc. There seem to be a few > that sell RedHat[1] but I can

Re: [OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-27 Thread F Zimmermann
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that > attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some > of the dirty work as I begin tr

Re: MSN Messenger through Debian gateway

2001-08-27 Thread Jason Bleazard
Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > ipchain has timeout. If you use ipmasq, see Z92timeouts.rul/def > check -M option in man page. Make larger value. I'll check that, thanks. Is a timeout something that would get logged? > Also Do you provide IP to DOZE machine by DHCP? I assume you have > fixed

Re: evolution and woody

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:34:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:43:09PM -0400, Glen Snyder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is > > it frozen out of woody for the time being?)?? > > Last I've heard,

Re: kernel-headers package and upgrading

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > I upgraded my potato system to the 2.4.9 kernel via Adrian Bunk's > packages, all went smoothly. > > One thing that confuses me is the purpose of the "kernel-headers" > package. I installed it, and it put some files in > /usr/src/kernel-heade

Network Collisons

2001-08-27 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port hub. Thanks, Hereward

Re: stepping and /proc/cpuinfo

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 11:13:00PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > What exactly is cpu stepping? I just realized that my dual cpu's have > different stepping, one is 6 and the other 10. These CPU's were > purchased on the same day. I can't seem to find any relevant info when I > tried a google search.

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Stathy G. Touloumis
Another possiblity is to install a base system, modify the bootloader, put a getty on serial, and pray. Not that I've tried this. That is actually what I did but the base system is the Cobalt 2 OS. I have to follow a portion of their procedure up until the Init process because the bootp, n

Re: Network Collisons

2001-08-27 Thread Martin Würtele
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:39:10PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between > the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port > hub. as you write: you're using a hub. if you don't want collisions you might want to get a switch. b

Re: VMware and Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> A related question. Does vmware-2.0.4-1142 run with 2.4.7 kernel? When I > run vmware-install.pl I got compilation error messages. Anyone has > experienced the same problem? Any hint? Search linux-kernel mailing list archives for thread with subject "Vmware and 2.4.9". -- Alexey

Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
Steve Dondley wrote: >Hi, >What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is it >possible over the LAN >created with the router? What software do I need to accomplish this? > >My gratitude: >Thanks! Have you ever tried Samba? It has a very straight-forward help file and co

SIS5513 UDMA problem +Andre's IDE patches

2001-08-27 Thread Pascal THIVENT
Hi all, first, excuse me for boring the entire list with this question that has (I think so) already been solved. I've got a 'little' problem with DMA feature... I use a motherboard with a SIS5513 IDE chipset and two UDMA hard disk. I run a 2.2.17 home build kernel. Here come an extract of the d

Installing Perl 5.6.1

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
Situation: Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable". Questions: 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.1 as "stable". What about it is not considered "stable" for use on Debian?

RE: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Dondley
Oliver, According to the setup files, my router is actually acting as a "gateway". I'm not quite sure of the distinction between a router and a gateway. Yes, I can ping the Debian machine with the Windows98 machine. I'll look into Samba. I wasn't sure if it could be used in a network configurat

Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
- Original Message - From: "Steve Dondley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-Users" Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: Installing Perl 5.6.1 > Situation: > Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl > and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "

Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
My heartily suggestion # apt-get install samba then # vi /etc/samba/smb.conf (or if you are that newbie,) # nano /etc/samba/smb.conf add: # requires user-level access to computer to access this resource; # however, it's read-write. [sharing] comment = File Sharing browseable = yes

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas. - Original Message - From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karsten M. Self" ; Sent: Monday, A

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: | moin, moin, | | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes | get rolled out as appr

Re: Installing Perl 5.6.1

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:11:17AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Situation: > Debian ships with Perl 5.005. But there are more recent versions of Perl > and Debian lists two versions of Perl 5.6.1, "testing" and "unstable". > > Questions: > 5.6.1 has been out quite a while and Perl.com lists 5.6.

Re: colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: | I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv | driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. | | After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to | uninstall all X-related packages

Installing woody without downloading lots of MB?

2001-08-27 Thread Magnus von Koeller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I currently have a Mandrake 8.0 and although I like some parts of it I am very intrigued from the experience of installing / maintaining Debian 2.2 on two firewalls / routers. The problem, though, is that I am depending on a working copy of KDE

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > | moin, moin, > | > | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. > > I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. > > | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes > | get rol

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Stathy G. Touloumis
cfdisk tasksel + dpkg + apt-get I was not able to find the cfdisk package or apt-get. Are they under different package names?

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-27 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:15:38PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > Took me a while to get this working. Not bad excersize reading "Lerning > Python". Does any one have suggestions of better python coding practice? for real advice you should try the python mailing list. But for starters: don't use

Re: Installing woody without downloading lots of MB?

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
"Magnus von Koeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I currently have a Mandrake 8.0 and although I like some parts of it I am > very intrigued from the experience of installing / maintaining Debian 2.2 on > two firewalls / routers. The prob

RE: CD not bootable

2001-08-27 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
Generally if you have a CD, IIRC you need a root disk and a rescue disk. Boot from the rescue disk, swap to the root disk when asked, and voila, you're installing. HTH, Brooks > -Original Message- > From: Visvanath Ratnaweera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 25 August, 2001 0

Re: Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Hereward Cooper
> >Hi, > >What is the easiest way to share files between the two > computers? Is it possible over the LAN > >created with the router? What software do I need to > accomplish this? > > > >My gratitude: > >Thanks! > > Have you ever tried Samba? It has a very straight-forward > help file and config

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | > terminals have no

Unable to handle kernel paging request (smbd)

2001-08-27 Thread Romanenko M.A.
I found some error messages in my log files. So far as I can understand they have something to do with file locking while samba processing them. But I do not know what should I do to solve the problem. Here are the messages: >From /var/log/syslog [...] Aug 27 13:19:48 nagan kernel: Unable to hand

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: :X is not listening. So even though I changed /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and :removed the "-nolisten tcp" stuff X is still not open a TCP port to listen :on. : :I have installed "xfree86-common 4.0.2-1", could it be that it is a compile

Testing upgrade problem?

2001-08-27 Thread D. Hoyem
I had Potato 2.2r.2 installed on my system and did a upgrade to testing. I changed the sources to testing and did apt-get update. Then did a apt-get dist-upgrade. About 270 programs downloaded and then started to install. During the installation I kept seeing the message Unable to (and I forget

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: > > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > | > termi

Colour coding in vim?

2001-08-27 Thread mdevin
Hi all you vim fans. Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be good to see all the comments coded a different colour. How do you do this? Thanks. Mark.

Kmail questions

2001-08-27 Thread Brian Schramm
I just upgraded to kde 2.2 with kmail 1.3.1 on unstable. kmail looks nice. Thanks to everyone that worked on it. When I type an address is there a way to have it complete the address when it finds it fro the keyboard? I hate moveing my hand off he keyboard just to click on a button. Is there a

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
Stathy G. Touloumis wrote: > > >cfdisk > >tasksel + dpkg + apt-get > > I was not able to find the cfdisk package or apt-get. Are they under > different package names? yes gateway:/var/log# dpkg -S /sbin/cfdisk util-linux: /sbin/cfdisk > >

Re: Testing upgrade problem?

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
- Original Message - From: "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:09 PM Subject: Testing upgrade problem? > I had Potato 2.2r.2 installed on my system and did a > upgrade to testing. I changed the sources to testing > and did apt-get update. Then did a apt

Re: Colour coding in vim?

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-user" Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 9:58 PM Subject: Colour coding in vim? > Hi all you vim fans. > > Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is > make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be > good to

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:22:11PM +0900, Curt Howland wrote: > Ok, finally something real. > > It's yiff that's dominating the sound files: > > #fuser -v /dev/dsp > USERPID ACCESS COMMAND > /dev/dsp root245 f yiff > > #ps auxwww > USER

Re: Kmail questions

2001-08-27 Thread Magnus von Koeller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 15:51, Brian Schramm wrote: > When I type an address is there a way to have it complete the address when > it finds it fro the keyboard? I hate moveing my hand off he keyboard just > to click on a button. Actually, auto compl

Re: Network Collisons

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:39:10PM +, Hereward Cooper wrote: > Hi, > What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between > the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port > hub. > Collisions are a normal consequence of the EThernet protocol. A very high number .. >10%

.raw woody images to .iso

2001-08-27 Thread John Purser
All the Woody CD images I've found have been in .raw format. I'm unfamiliar with this format and have been looking for .iso files. Is there a process for converting between the two on a MS box? My CD burner doesn't become Linux until I download these disks. Thanks, John Purser

automatic recovery on power-down

2001-08-27 Thread Umum Wijoyo
Hi! I'd like to ask why my Debian server, on a power-down or black-out, always requests for root to do an fsck etc. Is there any way I can automatically get the server up and running again? Is this a good solution? Or is it better off having root to do a manual fasck etc first? Thanks! Umum Wijo

DRI questions

2001-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
Well, I finally got around to setting up X 4.1 and DRI/DRM yesterday so I can play all the Loki games that I've bought. Still having a couple problems with it, although it is functioning: - The final step I had to take was fixing some device permissions. /dev/dri/ and /dev/dri/card0 were owned by

Re: Multiple X servers?

2001-08-27 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:49:36AM -0500, Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Lo, on Friday, August 24, Karsten M. Self did write: > > > > > --kunpHVz1op/+13PW > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii > > > Content-Dispos

apt-get causing some frustration

2001-08-27 Thread Craig W
Hi, Wondering if someone out there can help? I have been having numerous problems with apt-get lately, first I keep getting strange characters appearing in the sources.list, that I have come to live with I edit it, correct it & it appears to function fine afterwards, then possibly some days later

Re: .raw woody images to .iso

2001-08-27 Thread Daniel Farnsworth Teichert
I think they're the same thing--I've never had any trouble writing either kind to CD's using cdrecord. Well, maybe "never" is a little strong, but you get the idea : ). If for some reason your software requires a .iso extension, I think you can just rename the file. But I doubt it's necessary. St

Re: .raw woody images to .iso

2001-08-27 Thread ktb
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:46:12AM -0600, John Purser wrote: > All the Woody CD images I've found have been in .raw format. I'm unfamiliar > with this format and have been looking for .iso files. Is there a process > for converting between the two on a MS box? My CD burner doesn't become > Linux

Re: .raw woody images to .iso

2001-08-27 Thread Hall Stevenson
> All the Woody CD images I've found have been in > .raw format. I'm unfamiliar with this format and have > been looking for .iso files. Is there a process for > converting between the two on a MS box? Here's a simple idea: Rename the *.raw file to *.iso and try to burn it with Easy CD Creator,

mountig iso images as normal user

2001-08-27 Thread Sven Garbade
Hi there, is it possible to allow normal users to mount an iso-image (which is in the home directory)? Normally this must do root. Thanks, Sven

Re: automatic recovery on power-down

2001-08-27 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
That would be because when you experience a power outage or black-out that is not a good thing for a multi-user OS as files may be cached in memory and not saved to disk at the time of the outage. This leads to an unstable filesystem and if it persists may corrupt it well enuf that it req

Re: Colour coding in vim?

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:58:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all you vim fans. | | Is it possible to colour code text in vim? What I would like to do is | make vim colour my .c files while I edit them. For example, it would be | good to see all the comments coded a different colour.

Re: .raw woody images to .iso

2001-08-27 Thread Pedro Neves
Hi I had the same problem. I downloaded a *.raw compatible software and burned the CD's. Unfortunately I cannot acess my home PC right now, so I don't have the URL. Nevertheless, I made a search in Google and came up with 2 solutions: The first is for NERO burning ROM (not sure if that's the one

Re: DRI questions

2001-08-27 Thread bill triplett
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:25:23AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > - The final step I had to take was fixing some device permissions. > /dev/dri/ and /dev/dri/card0 were owned by root.root, preventing > normal users from getting at DRI, so I changed them to root.video > (which matches /dev/agpgart).

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > | > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > | > box th

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Monday 27 August 2001 09:31, Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:48:11AM +0200): > > Hello .. "search" and "domain" are mutually exclusive btw. > > The last one in the file is what wins... > > are you serious? i must admit that i never really knew what "d

Re: automatic recovery on power-down

2001-08-27 Thread glynis
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:10:22AM -0700, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > interactive prompting. If you're having to manually fsck everytime and > don't have a UPS with atleast 30 minutes of backup power I *HIGHLY* recommend > a good one IMHO. or, if you don't get a long-life ups, get software (smupsd?

tripwire - or others?

2001-08-27 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi all, i need to employ some tripwire-like tool on a couple of hosts and i was wondering if you had any experience. i myself have used tripwire for years, but i could see many features that other programs could have that tripwire doesn't... but i don't have time to test the others out, so i was wo

Re: Running remote X apps

2001-08-27 Thread Duncan Watson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:07:59AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:27:33PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote: > > :X is not listening. So even though I changed /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and > :removed the "-nolisten tcp" stuff X is still not open a TCP port to listen > :on.

Re: tripwire - or others?

2001-08-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > i need to employ some tripwire-like tool on a couple of hosts and i > was wondering if you had any experience. i myself have used tripwire > for years, but i could see many features that other programs could > have that tripwire doe

Configuring Network Card

2001-08-27 Thread jayson keidel
Hullo: I'm new to Debian and just installed it. After fighting through the steps of setting up the video card, Xserver, and mouse, i discovered that the network card was not initialized. I have an old D-link ethernet card, and it appears not to have a driver. Is there a way (short of re-install

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-27 Thread burningclown
All, Thanks for the responses/discussions on this topic. I'm gonna secure myself copies both of the O'Reilly TCP/IP book and the DNS/BIND book and cross my fingers that they'll lift the fog for me. In the meantime: I -think- I'm a trifle befuddled by my own situation, where I have a DSL provider

Re: Configuring Network Card

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:37:56PM +, jayson keidel wrote: | Hullo: | I'm new to Debian and just installed it. After fighting through the steps of | setting up the video card, Xserver, and mouse, i discovered that the network | card was not initialized. I have an old D-link ethernet card, and

Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character "doppel-s". I've tried: xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis"

python-fcgi?

2001-08-27 Thread Robert L. Harris
I'm trying to install web2ldap for apache. It appears to require the python-fcgi which I can't find. I've got pythong and the other modules hanging around, but can't find this one. Any thoughts? Robert :wq! --- Robe

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]

2001-08-27 Thread Rich Rudnick
* Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > > >One more comment: > > > >I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use > >sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the > >message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy".

Re: colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing

2001-08-27 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
dman saw fit to inform me that: >On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:10:12PM -0500, DvB wrote: >| I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv >| driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. >| >| After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided

Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian

2001-08-27 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] saw fit to inform me that: >Greetings!! > >I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, >without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless >you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on >CD

Re: DRI questions

2001-08-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:16:34AM -0400, bill triplett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:25:23AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > - The final step I had to take was fixing some device permissions. > > /dev/dri/ and /dev/dri/card0 were owned by root.root, preventing > > normal users from getting

Cups after upgrade

2001-08-27 Thread Brian Schramm
I just upgraded from woody to unstable (yes there is a difference) and now I cannot print with cupsys-bsd utilities. I get the error of lpr: unable to print file: client-error-not-found I can go into the cups admin interface and print a test page. Cups showes the printer installed and running

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