Re: Really, really nice monitor

2003-01-16 Thread Gary Turner
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >No - I haven't seen one, nor heard of one. I had a client today ask me >if there are graphic cards and monitors available on the 16:9 >proportions, as is the digital tv and plasma screen format. I honestly >haven't heard or seen any, and thought I'd throw the question out her

Re: java on woody

2003-01-16 Thread Johan Ehnberg
AFAIK, blackdown is a version of sun's java. And I haven't seen any debs of sun's java. Just add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody main non-free and select at least the j2re package. hth, /johan GavLac wrote: Hi e

Re: Can't remove Gnus! Help!

2003-01-16 Thread Glyn Millington
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, the --description fiend does seem to exist. ^ Maybe an exorcism would fix it? ;-) Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet http://www.debianplanet.org/ For the children http:

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.16.0831 +0100]: > I presume you mean either in testing or stable? Unstable has... kool. i will check that out... -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Darko Koruga
Hi, I've downloaded the Debian 3.0r1 CDs. I can't find the package libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 anymore on the CDs. This package existed in 3.0r0. Can anyone shed a light on this ? I have also checked the list on http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.0r1/ as was mentioned in the 3.0r1 announcement mail sent o

Re: exim wierdness

2003-01-16 Thread Rohan Nicholls
* Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030115 16:26]: > > That is because hotmail.com and canoemail.com are not "local domains" > for exim. What do you get if you run the exim command above on these > addresses? That works out nicely, giving router and host info. > Do you remember what option yo

re: gnome2 gconf startup prob

2003-01-16 Thread Peter Van Der Male
Hi all, After my last upgrade on unstable, Gnome2 was no longer able to start, it loads up two rectangles on the screen showing differing parts of my normal desktop then X exits. Anyone else seen this on unstable running Gnome2? This is the only reports in syslog can't find any errors in an

CS46xx question: switching between speaker & headset for HerculesFortissimo II

2003-01-16 Thread Calyth
Here's my problem, no matter how I try, I couldn't get aumix to supply the sound through the headset instead of the speakers. The speakers have front and back plugs, while the headset is on a separate plug. Any ideas? Calyth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

sshd idletimeout

2003-01-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I've been trying to workout if the OpenSSH shipped with woody support idleTimeout? I'm not having much luck to get it working /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 79: Bad configuration option: IdleTimeOut /etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options Will have to setup autologout time

How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
Hi there, I was just rsyncing a 10Gb tree to a remote server over SSH when the connection was reset by the remote side and the server was consequentially unreachable. So I proceeded to get to it physically and discovered that not even the console was working -- the screen remained blank. From the

Re: md5sum & cmp don't work on wav & avi files

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Waters
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 17:22 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Should I be thinking of reinstalling from scratch after replacing the > > ram? :( > > Shouldn't be necessary, although you may have to reinstall a few > packages if they turn out to have been broken ... > > > Is there a way of checking

Re: Really, really nice monitor

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:52:28AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > No - I haven't seen one, nor heard of one. I had a client today ask me > if there are graphic cards and monitors available on the 16:9 > proportions, as is the digital tv and plasma screen format. I honestly I know Apple makes a wide

Video card works - mouse is dead

2003-01-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody... First of all, that's to everybody who has given advice on the NVIDIA - I finaly installed the NVIDIA :-) Yeah ! Unfortunately, there is another problem... The mouse doesn't work - that is, it works (on windows) but Linux doesn't yet detect it or something; During the installatio

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: > Disk: 6x 36MB Ultra SCSI disks > I also need some advise how to partition the drives. I figure most of it > will be one large partition (~80-100GB RAID 5), and a few other partitions > for things like swap, root, boot, homes, etc.

GNU Emacs tutorial?

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Kao
When I learned Emacs (almost 20 years ago) there was a nifty tutorial. Now I can't find it in the info hierarchy. Has it been retired? How should a novice start learning Emacs? Thanks, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:57:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > So my question is: how can I figure out what happened, and why is > there absolutely no information between my last successful automatic > fetchmail log entries and the sysklogd restart message? Under what > circumstances can Linux

Re: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Chris Lale
Darko Koruga wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the Debian 3.0r1 CDs. I can't find the package libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 anymore on the CDs. This package existed in 3.0r0. Can anyone shed a light on this ? I have also checked the list on http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.0r1/ as was mentioned in the 3.0r1 a

Re: How to set colors of ls listings?

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Kao
Someone on IRC pointed me at dircolors. But since my problem is that the primary colors are too strong and clash with the background, I ended up editing the profile in gnome-terminal and assigning a pastel RGB value to each primary color in the Color palette provided to the terminal applications.

Re: GNU Emacs tutorial?

2003-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:02:05AM -0800, Adam Kao wrote: > > When I learned Emacs (almost 20 years ago) there was a nifty tutorial. > Now I can't find it in the info hierarchy. Has it been retired? How > should a novice start learning Emacs? In emacs: C-h t Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Getting SSI to work

2003-01-16 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I've just setup apache on a test box and I can't for the life of me get Server Side Includes working I've edited apache.conf so... AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml # # This may also be "None", "All", or any combination of "Indexes", # "Includes", "FollowSymLink

Re: GNU Emacs tutorial?

2003-01-16 Thread Glyn Millington
Adam Kao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I learned Emacs (almost 20 years ago) there was a nifty tutorial. > Now I can't find it in the info hierarchy. Has it been retired? How > should a novice start learning Emacs? C-h t hth Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian Planet

Re: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Darko Koruga
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:16:15 + Chris Lale wrote: > > > I've downloaded the Debian 3.0r1 CDs. I can't find the package > > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 anymore on the CDs. This package existed in > > 3.0r0. Can anyone shed a light on this ? I have also checked the > > list on http://people.debian.org

2 Question

2003-01-16 Thread Vanilla
1) I bought a new server with an ati 9000, an in the instalation I selected the "ATI Radeon" an no Frame-Buffer. The XF86Config-4 indicate the driver is "ati". I can't start X. I have another box with an mga and I can't use Frame-Buffer too, if i try to use frame-buffer I can't start X either. 2

Re: Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-16 Thread Riccardo Gusso
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:52, Steve Mayer wrote: > Riccardo, > > Try adding your local machines hostname and IP address in here. Not > just the localhost entry. Sendmail is hanging because it cannot > resolve your hostname. > I am not in a local network, my machine is a laptop and I acces

Re: 2 Question

2003-01-16 Thread Russell
Vanilla wrote: 1) I bought a new server with an ati 9000, an in the instalation I selected the "ATI Radeon" an no Frame-Buffer. The XF86Config-4 indicate the driver is "ati". I can't start X. I have another box with an mga and I can't use Frame-Buffer too, if i try to use frame-buffer I can't st

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: > panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really > even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font servers). This one's resolvable if you have the Magic System Request key enabled (not sure if it i

Re: GNU Emacs tutorial?

2003-01-16 Thread Adam Kao
Thank you for your help. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNU Emacs tutorial?

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:02:05AM -0800, Adam Kao wrote: > When I learned Emacs (almost 20 years ago) there was a nifty tutorial. > Now I can't find it in the info hierarchy. Has it been retired? How > should a novice start learning Emacs? Start emacs, hit C-h t (control-h lower-case "T") to op

Re: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:37:21AM +0100, Darko Koruga wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:16:15 + Chris Lale wrote: > > A packages search at http://www.uk.debian.org/distrib/packages shows > > the availability: > > > > Release Package (size) > > stable libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 2.91.66-4 (99.4k) >

Re: 2 Question

2003-01-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:41:26AM +, Vanilla wrote: > 1) > I bought a new server with an ati 9000, an in the instalation I selected > the "ATI Radeon" an no Frame-Buffer. > The XF86Config-4 indicate the driver is "ati". > I can't start X. > I have another box with an mga and I can't use Frame

Re: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Darko Koruga
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:20:40 + Colin Watson wrote: > > > > I did check the packages page. I forgot to mention that in my > > email. Try to click on the link that says 'list of files'. I get > > this:"Can't find that package, at least not in that distribution > > and on that architecture.". >

4.2.1 and 3.3.6 X servers coexist?

2003-01-16 Thread Russell
Hi all, On the XFree86 page: http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status9.html#9 some video cards only work with 3.3.6 X servers and others work with 4.2.1 X servers. If i put the two video cards in the pc, can i choose whether to start the 3.3.6 server or the 4.2.1 server with suitable entries in a si

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Birch
I thought I was alone in hating AA fonts. To me they just look blurred even on a very high res monitor. I turn them off. Steve On Tuesday 14 January 2003 00:10, Richard Beri wrote: > > You're right, gtk 2.2 brings in Xft2. It's very pretty. > > Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate

KDE questions

2003-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, having gotten tired of dealing with nautilus, I gave KDE a shot. At first it was kind of strange and constricting (first impressions quite overwhelming), but after a while it sort of became a part of me. Feels strangely like CDE but actually good. I was wrong: Neither KDE nor Gnome suck. The

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Birch
apt-get install curator On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch > thumbnail & possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' > do this? I will explore all the functionality of Gimp at some point, >

Re: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:49:09PM +0100, Darko Koruga wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:20:40 + Colin Watson wrote: > > You're using the wrong search form. Try the "Search package > > directories" one. > > I am not. I entered the above package name in that input field and it > transferred me to

SCSI error

2003-01-16 Thread Roni Balthazar
Hi there, I'm getting this error when booting a system (woody): Jan 16 10:13:39 www2 kernel:  *** Possibly defective BIOS detected (irqtable) Jan 16 10:13:39 www2 kernel:  *** Many BIOSes matching this signature have incorrect IRQ routing tables. Jan 16 10:13:39 www2 kernel:  *** If you see I

Re: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 package in Debian 3.0r1

2003-01-16 Thread Darko Koruga
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:18:16 + Colin Watson wrote: > > > I do know the package is on FTP, but you can't expect from > > everyone to install off the net. > > Please drop language like "you can't expect", as it doesn't appear > to be intentional that it isn't on the CDs. > Sorry, it wasn't me

Pile compile problem

2003-01-16 Thread willem
Hi, Using unstable here and i wanted to compile and install pine. However...i got a few errors and in the end no *.deb file and nothing installed What i did... apt-get install apt-src apt-src install -i pine The errors at the end of the build make[3]: *** [mtest] Error 1 make [3]: Leaving dir

Getting X to start

2003-01-16 Thread Kris K
Hi - Just installed Debian, and can't get X to start. I've included my XF86Config-4 file, plus the log output that results from it. What can I do to get it to work (ok...RTFM...that didn't work)? Thanks for your help guys. Kris Kerwin P.S.: Another example of M$ irrespecting Linux - the H

installing GEM

2003-01-16 Thread James William Morris
Hi, I'm trying to install GEM, got past the ./configure stage and all is well. Just when I enter ./install-sh I get the following error: bash: ./install-sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permisson denied what do I do? cheers, jmorris sirromseventyfive ___

Re: Re-init X11

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Russell said: > Hi, > > After i've modified /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, is there a way to make the > X system re-read it without having to exit out of X? Nope. -- -- | Stephen Gran

Re: Minimal Woody Installation Disk and Serial Console

2003-01-16 Thread Martin McCormick
I have partly solved my own problem. The bash-type shell which is part of the installation software is just what I need to get a shot at modifying the inittab file. It turns out that a special inittab file is installed just for the installation process and then the real inittab is put in

Re: Getting X to start

2003-01-16 Thread Russell
Kris K wrote: Hi - Just installed Debian, and can't get X to start. I've included my XF86Config-4 file, plus the log output that results from it. What can I do to get it to work (ok...RTFM...that didn't work)? Thanks for your help guys. As root, try XFree86 -configure which should give som

Re: Pile compile problem

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, willem said: > Hi, > > Using unstable here and i wanted to compile and install pine. > However...i got a few errors and in the end no *.deb file and > nothing installed > > What i did... > > apt-get install apt-src > > apt-src install -i pine > > The errors at the

Re: Getting X to start

2003-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:56, Kris K wrote: > Hi - > > Just installed Debian, and can't get X to start. I've included my > XF86Config-4 file, plus the log output that results from it. What can I do > to get it to work (ok...RTFM...that didn't work)? Thanks for your help > guys. >From your lo

Re: Getting X to start

2003-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 06:56, Kris K wrote: > Hi - > > Just installed Debian, and can't get X to start. I've included my > XF86Config-4 file, plus the log output that results from it. What can I do > to get it to work (ok...RTFM...that didn't work)? Thanks for your help > guys. > > Kris Kerw

Re: USB Mouse Dead [Woody 2.0r1]

2003-01-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Jim" == jvarn359 writes: Shyamal> apt-get install hotplug Jim> works like a dream if your kernel is good (and 2.4.18-k7 is Jim> what I'm using). << Jim> I'm not sure hotplug will help (and I'm loathe to bring in Jim> unstable packages into stable) because after I read

Re: sshd idletimeout

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Rus Foster said: > Hi, > I've been trying to workout if the OpenSSH shipped with woody support > idleTimeout? I'm not having much luck to get it working > > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: line 79: Bad configuration option: IdleTimeOut > /etc/ssh/sshd_config: terminating, 1 bad

2 doubts [newbie]

2003-01-16 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
hey guys,   I have a cdr-w driver. I mount it on /cdrw directory. I put it on fstab with /dev/hda5 /cdrw   it munts ok. I can read cdr cd´s, or any other cd i want. But, when i try do read a cdr-w cd, the ls command show me nothing, just if the cd was empty.   some idea?   2) why flash files

Re: SCSI error

2003-01-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Roni Balthazar said: > Hi there, > > I'm getting this error when booting a system (woody): > > Jan 16 10:13:39 www2 kernel: *** Possibly defective BIOS detected > (irqtable) > Jan 16 10:13:39 www2 kernel: *** Many BIOSes matching this signature > have incorrect IRQ

Re: installing GEM

2003-01-16 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:32:46 + "James William Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to install GEM, got past the ./configure stage and all > is well. Just when I enter ./install-sh I get the following error: > > bash: ./install-sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permisson denied

woody and Trojan.Linux.JBellz

2003-01-16 Thread Denzil L. Kelly
Is the version of mpg123 in woody vulnerable to this trojan? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-16 Thread R Ransbottom
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:52PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > I want to set up DNS on my system so I can have my domain names point to > it. > What is a good way to do this? Is there an easy way? I am running the > current unstable distribution. Is there something I can apt-get easily? dn

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-16 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:31:51PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I presume you mean either in testing or stable? Unstable has... > Package: squirrelmail > Version: 1:1.3.2+1.4.0rc1-1 > ...which is what I've been calling 1.4.0rc1. Maybe doing the same with > v1.3.2 would help? I'm not sure.

RE: 2 Question

2003-01-16 Thread Narins, Josh
I have the ATI Radeon Mobility 9000, is yours the mobility? (in a laptop) If so, don't bother trying to get any XConfigurator to know about it, it's still too new. I am using frame buffers. Mine's on a powerpc, so I do have different issues, but I definitely had to build my own kernel (for my 1G

Re: Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-16 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:52, Steve Mayer wrote: > > Riccardo, > > > > Try adding your local machines hostname and IP address in here. Not > > just the localhost entry. Sendmail is hanging because it cannot > > resolve your hostname. > > > > I

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:04:09 -0500 John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > may i ask, which imap server are you using with this. i've had a > terrible time getting squirrelmail to match up with an imap daemon. ii uw-imapd 2001adebian-6 remote mail folder access server I've fo

Re: Pile compile problem

2003-01-16 Thread willem
Thanks for the help, I have checked the build depends and from what i can tell everything is there...checked with apt-get build-dep pine as you pointed out. Sorry for the somewhat large mail because of the log but this seemed better than sending it as an attachment. there seems to be a problem wi

Re: woody and Trojan.Linux.JBellz

2003-01-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:45:50AM -0500, Denzil L. Kelly wrote: > Is the version of mpg123 in woody vulnerable to this trojan? AFAIK it is not vulnerable and there is no trojan. Most of the advisory was gobbles fun anyway but it themes to me that most people these days have no sense for humor. Sv

Re: squirrelmail users can't login after 1.3.2 update

2003-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John M Flinchbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.16.1604 +0100]: > may i ask, which imap server are you using with this. i've had a > terrible time getting squirrelmail to match up with an imap daemon. courier, and it works just fine with other IMAP mailers or SM 1.2.6. -- Please do

Initrd diskless boot

2003-01-16 Thread Rodrigo F. Baroni
Hello all, I'm needing to set a diskless pc, and I have been studing the initrd procedure. The idea is to have the read-only directories mounted on nfs, and others one read-write in ram-disks. Does anybody have done this before, or have some suggestions ? Would be very welcome. Thanks

Unidentified subject!

2003-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i run djbdns at a couple of sites and while it does not have any means to dynamically update DNS information (that's *not* an advantage of BIND, just look at their implementation), the datafile makes programmed edits really simple. I want to give my users the possibility to change their

URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-16 Thread Irene Sygkouna
Dear all,I am installing the linux kernel 2.4.18 in debian following the instructions found in the url:http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding?skin=printAt the final step for installing the new kernel and module packages:"dpkg -i {list of .deb packages from the previ

Re: How to analyze a server crash?

2003-01-16 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:01:53AM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote: panic. I've had that happen when X crashed, too, and that wasn't really even a driver bug (it was combination of wine and font servers). This one's resolvable if you have the Magic System Request key enabl

Re: Can't remove Gnus! Help!

2003-01-16 Thread Curtis Dean Smith
Thanks, everybody! When I opened a new xterm, su'ed, and tried dpkg -r gnus again to look at the error, I was surprised to see the remove go through smoothly. Weird! Curtis Dean Smith ¥v°ê¿³ Asst. Professor of Chinese Coordinator of East Asian Studies Dept. of Modern Langs & Lits Gran

allowing users to update stuff on the server

2003-01-16 Thread martin f krafft
First off, please excuse the missins subject. > let's say everything works on the server, all i need is a method to > authenticate a user and upon successful authentication, pass the IP > s/he used for the authentication on to a script that takes care of the > edit. > > There exists a fake POP3 s

Re: dpkg/apt problem: /var/lib/dpkg/status bad!

2003-01-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 11:31:14PM +0100, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote: > NO! Nate's advice is not for good. > This is definitely so called Dynamic MMap error, this week mentioned at > least thrice in this list, find solution in archive. > Hint: in your /etc/apt/apt.conf fill in: APT::Cache-Limit 2

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:42:44PM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > apt-get stores downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. you can > clean these out using "apt-get clean". I don't know whether apt-get > will automatically clean out its cached packages when it need the space; It will not.

URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-16 Thread Irene Sygkouna
Dear all, I am installing the linux kernel 2.4.18 in debian following the instructions found in the url: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding?skin=prin t At the final step for installing the new kernel and module packages: "dpkg -i {list of .deb packages from the previ

File too large problem

2003-01-16 Thread berger
Hi all I got a weird (?) problem. I got a machine with debian woody on it (Linux version 2.4.19 (root@flora) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)). I got with several tools the problem, they can not handle files bigger than 2 GB. But the Kernel seems okay, I also can create huge fil

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:11:00AM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > Yes, I usually clean once a while, but a recent upgrade neds 50+ MB and > I;m short on space. I'll try the aforementioned recommendations. Although moving your apt cache is probably the better solution, you can also try this: - `apt

Mirroring Question

2003-01-16 Thread Ray
we have multiple machines here running debian, and to try to save bandwidth i followed the instructions for setting up rsyncing a debian mirror. while looking at it i noticed a few odd things, i don't know if they are a problem or should be of any concern. several of the folders are setgid (if

MOUSE won't function

2003-01-16 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody... I've got the following problem: the mouse doesn't react - that is, it works (on windows) but Linux doesn't yet detect it or something; I tried the following: apt-get install hotplug But it doesn't seem to help at all (I did a reboot to be sure the change would be applied (as this

Re: allowing users to update stuff on the server

2003-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:44:28PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > First off, please excuse the missins subject. > > > let's say everything works on the server, all i need is a method to > > authenticate a user and upon successful authentication, pass the IP > > s/he used for the authentication on

Re: URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-16 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Before you compile your Kernel (In this case you'll need to start again) and probably do a 'make clean' in the source directory followed by 'make menuconfig' then find the option about RAMDISK SUPPORT - then turn it off! then I'd 'make dep', 'make modules'.. &c. PS. I don't think this is the Deb

Major problem with boot disk and reading HD partition

2003-01-16 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, I've kinda buggered up my install of Linux, anyhow, I booted my ram disk from my floppy disks. However, when I mount a Linux partition of my HD install I cannot read the contents of any of the directories what gives? Is there no way to read and manipulate the contents on the hard dri

Re: GNU Emacs tutorial?

2003-01-16 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:02:05AM -0800, Adam Kao wrote: > > When I learned Emacs (almost 20 years ago) there was a nifty tutorial. > > Now I can't find it in the info hierarchy. Has it been retired? How > > should a novice start learning Emacs? >

CD sound

2003-01-16 Thread tallison
This is one of those, "It used to work..." problems. I have OSS sound. I have one CD-R and one CDE-RW (scsi emulation blah-blah-blah) I have sound on things like XMMS, Xine. I have no sound in my cdplayer. I can start the disk spinning from wmcdplayer and wmsound shows nothing turned off. But t

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-15T17:33:03Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The original statement, "you still have to write zone files", could be > read as meaning you'll still have to deal with the "bad" format bind uses. > If it is read as simply meaning you'll need to configure whatever so

Re: bogus 'active system attack' logcheck (merely postgres "explain"!)

2003-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:34:27AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > Active System Attack Alerts > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-2] Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13992.25 rows=1 >width=101) > Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-3] -> Nested Loop (cost=1.77.

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-16 Thread Warren Dodge
This one time, at band camp, Paul Johnson said: > OK, having gotten tired of dealing with nautilus, I gave KDE a shot. > ... > I've started to get curious about a few things, though... > ... > 3) How do you say "drawer" in KDE? Having all the icons on the panel >without being able to drawer s

Re: Mirroring Question

2003-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:20:12AM -0600, Ray wrote: > we have multiple machines here running debian, and to try to save bandwidth i > followed the instructions for setting up rsyncing a debian mirror. while > looking at it i noticed a few odd things, i don't know if they are a problem > or sho

Re: cron-apt: how can I configure the time it is started

2003-01-16 Thread Lukas Ruf
Hi Bob, * Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-16 06:41]: > Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-15 23:45:44 +0100]: > > > > can anyone explain to me where and how I can configure the time, > > cron-apt is launched to run its jobs? > > Edit /etc/cron.d/cron-apt and change the time. > thank

Re: Really, really nice monitor

2003-01-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:52:28AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > No - I haven't seen one, nor heard of one. I had a client today ask me > if there are graphic cards and monitors available on the 16:9 > proportions, as is the digital tv and plasma screen format. I honestly > haven't heard or seen an

RE: URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-16 Thread Narins, Josh
The debian way can be found, if I understand, with "man make-kpkg" Kevin, I hope you'll be pleasantly surprised. I sure as was. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:21 PM To: Irene Sygkouna Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

which 2.4 kernel and patch(es) to avoid IDE disk corruption when DMA on?

2003-01-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
I've been having a heck of a time with repeated IDE disk corruption when I try to enable DMA mode, and with trying to figure out which versions of the stable (2.4) kernel actually are stable. What is the recommended combination of base kernel versions and patches to avoid IDE disk corruption and

Re: Mirroring Question

2003-01-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 11:20:12AM -0600, Ray wrote: > we have multiple machines here running debian, and to try to save > bandwidth i followed the instructions for setting up rsyncing a debian > mirror. while looking at it i noticed a few odd things, i don't know > if they are a problem or should

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Birch wrote: > apt-get install curator > > > On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch > > thumbnail & possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' > > do this? I will exp

Vulnerability in VIM?

2003-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
http://www.guninski.com/vim1.html Description: Opening a specially crafted text file with vim can execute arbitrary shell commands and pass parameters to them. Some exploit scenarios include mail user agents which use vim as editor (mutt) or examining log files with vim. The malicous text should b

Re: URGENT: Building kernel.

2003-01-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:31:30PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > The debian way can be found, if I understand, with "man make-kpkg" As well as the URL in the original message. ;-) [...] > I am installing the linux kernel 2.4.18 in debian following the instructions > found in the url: > http://subw

Re: 2 doubts [newbie]

2003-01-16 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:24:28PM -0200, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > hey guys, > > I have a cdr-w driver. I mount it on /cdrw directory. I put it on > fstab with /dev/hda5 /cdrw CD-RW mounted like this only works as CD(IDE). You need to use SCSI emulation mode to get it as Read/Write. This is

citrix ica-client

2003-01-16 Thread Craig Jackson
The Netscape plugin Citrix ica client fails on Debian Woody. Has anyone gotten this to work? ldd wfica gives the following output: /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6) libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (

samba and vpopmail auth in debian - is it possible?

2003-01-16 Thread Vladimir Kozlov
Hello, Maybe it was already an answer for this, but I spend three days searching Internet (what a big trashcan!) with no success. The problem is that we would like to have users in our PDC (under samba) to have one auth mechanism both for access to domain and to mail server (under qmail+vpopmai

Compiling Kernel - ncurses and wish

2003-01-16 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I'm trying to compile a new kernel on a woody machine. make menuconfig tells me I don't have ncurses installed, but I've installed every package in the Debian Package archive with ncurses in the name . . . and make xconfig can't find a "wish" script . . . . This has never happene

Re: DNS hosting

2003-01-16 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 15 Jan 2003, 15:34:01, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > I've got a DSL line with a single static IP address. I run the > > primary DNS server on my home system and use ns[12].granitecanyon.com > > for secondaries. Works like a charm.

Citrix ica-client fails

2003-01-16 Thread Craig Jackson
The Netscape plugin Citrix ica client (ver 6.20) fails on Debian Woody. Has anyone gotten this to work? ldd wfica gives the following output: /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6) libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.

Re: Getting SSI to work

2003-01-16 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 16 January 2003, 10:33 AM +): > I've just setup apache on a test box and I can't for the life of me get > Server Side Includes working > > I've edited apache.conf so... > > AddType text/html .shtml > AddHandler server-parsed .shtml >

Re: 2 doubts [newbie]

2003-01-16 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Gilberto Garcia Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 16 January 2003, 12:24 PM -0200): > I have a cdr-w driver. I mount it on /cdrw directory. I put it on fstab with / > dev/hda5 /cdrw > > it munts ok. I can read cdr cd´s, or any other cd i want. But, when i try do > read a cdr-w cd, th

Re: which 2.4 kernel and patch(es) to avoid IDE disk corruption when DMA on?

2003-01-16 Thread nate
Daniel Barclay said: > > I've been having a heck of a time with repeated IDE disk corruption when I > try to enable DMA mode, and with trying to figure out which versions of > the stable (2.4) kernel actually are stable. > > What is the recommended combination of base kernel versions and > patches

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