Re: redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working!

2003-01-28 Thread nate
louie miranda said: > I have a script that is on a cron basis, It runs every hour. > I have read a document that if you dont want any output. > You can add >/dev/null 1>&2 to redirect it to /dev/null > But i still received email about those output, is this syntax > im trying to add on my cron for d

OT: "S1G" (was Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31)

2003-01-28 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > > is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? > > 1970-01-01 is time

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-01-28 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I've found my current disk set up to be quite satisfactory until today > when I couldn't pick up mail. /var had run out of space. /var/share is > new as of tonight to deal with an otherwise quite usable disk > configuration. I bel

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread nate
will trillich said: > what's wrong with rsync? > > i'm heartily exploring backup methodologies and from what i can > tell, rsync sure looks like "the bomb". > > any drawbacks? some good reason to NOT use it? something better? rsync was the primary backup method at my last company, I use it on my

moo

2003-01-28 Thread will trillich
$ apt-get moo (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ "Have you mooed today?"... can't say that i have. this is almost as cute as some of those mac easter eggs. what's the story beh

Re: Updating Critical Packages Only

2003-01-28 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:25:24PM -0800, S Yuval wrote: > I recently bought the Debian 3.0r1 7-CD set and am trying to upgrade some obsolete >packages. However, it turns out that if I ask apt to update its package database, >most packages I have on the CD-set become obsolete and can no longer be

Re: OpenOffice 1.0.1 CRASHES when exporting as html

2003-01-28 Thread Joris Huizer
This page is talking about exactly the same prob. I tried fixing locales but it didn't help... As I don't see another solution there, does it mean it's an open issue or something like that ? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=178459 --- Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:37, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:00:58PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm _not_ suggesting you just do > > > > > > # umount /var/cache > > > # rm /var/cache > > > > Not quite - rm won't r

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:20, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:00:18AM -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote: > > > # dd if=/dev/hda6 bs=1k count=50 | file - > > 50+0 records in > > 50+0 records out > > 51200 bytes transferred in 0.116208 seconds (440589 bytes/sec) > > standard input:

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-28 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > I've got this question: I recently added a > partition > > to the /etc/fstab file so it's mounted during boot > > time. I haven't done that before and I probably > made a > >

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:42, will trillich wrote: > apparently it does a remote diff somehow and then sends only the > parts that need changing? i can't imagine that it's possible to > compare two 1mb text files for differences without at least > sending one across the wires -- yet the manpage cert

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Wow... that was easy in the end :-) Thanks for the pointer! By the way, what exactly does the 2 in that row mean (or the 1 for the root partition) ? --- Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:52:14PM -0800, Joris > Huizer wrote: > > I've got this question: I recently add

HOWTO HELP ? creating mp3s of a cd (just for personal use)

2003-01-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody, I've got this question: Is there a program to read a cd & store songs or whatever as a MP3 format ? And if there's a program available, what are good settings to keep enough quality while the MP3s won't become too big (there's a prog I know on windows but it generates extremely

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > what's wrong with rsync? > > i'm heartily exploring backup methodologies and from what i can > tell, rsync sure looks like "the bomb". > > any drawbacks? some good reason to NOT use it? something better? > > i'll be backing up the usual stuff (/etc

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:41:49AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >I was under the impression that you needed to keep your security sources > >pointing at stable, since that's the only place that emergency security > >patches get placed consistently. Am I incorrect? > > Since mo

Re: HOWTO HELP ? creating mp3s of a cd (just for personal use)

2003-01-28 Thread tom-werk
> I've got this question: Is there a program to read a > cd & store songs or whatever as a MP3 format ? You just mean ripping CD's and storing the music on your hard disk, don't you? > And if there's a program available, what are good > settings to keep enough quality while the MP3s won't > becom

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The > whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default, but it can use ssh as an alternative. Richard --

Re: HP 8250i cd-writer

2003-01-28 Thread Frank Lenaerts
on Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:38:03PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote about Re: HP 8250i cd-writer: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:08:23AM +0100, Frank Lenaerts wrote: > > Did somebody already get an HP 8250i cd-writer working on Woody? I've > > never had any problems with an HP 8100i or so, but the 82

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-28 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Sorry, I'm new to debian so I don't know how old is slink :). I remember having reiserfs on potato. On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 04:21, John Griffiths wrote: > >Type 83 is not nessaeseraly ext2. it could be one of many file systems > >suported by linux. try ext3, reiserfs (or even xfs and jfs). > > > >

No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-28 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
Hi! I was going to rip some music to my hd (for private use of course...:) with grip but it didn't find anything. *No Disc* it says. When I tried to play the cd with a cdplayer it didn't work either. Otherwise the cd-rom works as it should. Can someone tell me why this happens? Thank's in advance

Re: OT: "S1G" (was Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31)

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:53:52AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > time zero is 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, right? well, guess when we > passed time 999_999_999? > > $ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime 1_000_000_000;' > Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 2001 > > Second-One-Gig was 9-september, a bit past mid

Re: No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-28 Thread tom-werk
Hello, > I was going to rip some music to my hd (for private use of course...:) > with grip but it didn't find anything. *No Disc* it says. When I tried > to play the cd with a cdplayer it didn't work either. Otherwise the > cd-rom works as it should. Can someone tell me why this happens? You mea

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-28 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > :-). Yes, I am the exim guru, but I'm also playing with postfix. I > wanted to better understand how it was designed and see how it's > configuration/configurability compared. I still have exim as the SMTP > server on my machine so that I can reject spam during th

Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???)

2003-01-28 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:51, Steve Lamb wrote: > Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on > the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just that > with swapd. Question is what effects do a journalling file system have on > swap files? A

Re: Xcdroast, cdrecord and SafeDisk Copy protection

2003-01-28 Thread mody
Hi! On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:49:45PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Have You tried cdrdao? Not sure if it helps, but it can copy some copy-protected CDs. (apt-get install cdrdao) Patrik msg26843/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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Re: No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-28 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
tis 2003-01-28 klockan 11.54 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello, > > > I was going to rip some music to my hd (for private use of course...:) > > with grip but it didn't find anything. *No Disc* it says. When I tried > > to play the cd with a cdplayer it didn't work either. Otherwise the > > cd-rom

Re: partition table incorrect/ fdisk messed up?

2003-01-28 Thread ajlewis2
> I have remade a partition table before from a printout after losing it. The > data was still there. Something is nagging me about this remaking the partition table. I'm not positive, but I think it is important to reboot before writing to the partitions. So just to be safe, be sure that you r

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Pfeifer
"Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:58, Curt Howland wrote: > > Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... > > > > Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > > Testing? > > > > Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-28 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:55 pm, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Yeah, > > my problem is that it shows *udma2 (udma-33), with using_dma > on... hdparm -X69 /dev/hda (or whatever is your disk) This needs to be run every time you put so put a script in /etc/rcS.d Tom msg26849/pgp0.pgp Description:

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Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:09:04AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > Debian Weekly News warned a while back that it would get the hook, as a) > > it is non-free, b) it is buggy and not getting noticeably better as > > Netscape is looking to retire it in favour of Netscape 7, an

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-28 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:23:27AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > Wow... that was easy in the end :-) > > Thanks for the pointer! > > By the way, what exactly does the 2 in that row mean > (or the 1 for the root partition) ? Take a look at fstab(5). The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the

Re: No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-28 Thread tom-werk
Hi, >> > I was going to rip some music to my hd (for private use of >> course...:) with grip but it didn't find anything. *No Disc* it >> says. When I tried to play the cd with a cdplayer it didn't work >> either. Otherwise the cd-rom works as it should. Can someone tell me >> why this happens? >>

Troubles with pcmcia modules

2003-01-28 Thread Jesper Holmberg
I recently installed Woody on a new box on a Dell Latitude. It uses a standard D-Link pcmcia network card, and worked fine after installation. However, last night I upgraded to Testing, including an upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.20, and kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.20, and now I can't get my network up

Using VIA C3 and Woody?

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any hardware issues? The machine will not be running X, rather it will probably be a home-use IMAP mail server (very low traffic). So on-board video and lan wi

Re: Debian & Mandrake

2003-01-28 Thread Matthias Weinhold
Hallo Klaus, > Hat jemand Ratschläge oder Erfahrung mit der gleichzeitigen Benutzung 2er > Systeme ? Eine Lösung wäre vielleicht, unter Woody einen neuen Benutzer mit > eigenem /home-Verzeichnis zu schaffen. Dann stellt sich aber die Frage des > Zygriffs auf /home/klaus mit meinen Dateien. >

kernel source 2.5

2003-01-28 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, The package kernel-patch-2.5-lsm Suggests kernel-source-2.5 but this package doesn't exist ! Is there a special sources.list entry to get some kernel-source-2.5.x ?? Thanks a lot François msg26857/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thinkpad T30?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Newton
>From arief_mulya on Monday, 2003-01-27 at 16:43:11 +0700: > Dear all, > > > > I just got a T30 from the office. > Well, actually, I don't have it in hand yet, so I'm not sure > what's the exact specs. (the stuff comes tomorrow, but the > letter came to me today). > > Anyone has played with a

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-28 Thread John Hasler
nate writes: > not try to set your date to something thats not accurate? why would you > want to set your date in such a way anyways? He isn't trying to set a date. He is trying to _convert_ a date, one of the functions of 'date'. File a bug against 'date'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jo

Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread Jimbo De La Fuente
Hi List, I've been using RedHat for a couple of years. Now, as a result of their change in EOL (only untill the end of year for the latest release RedHat 8.0) I want to switch to another distro. My preference goes to Debian. I do have some doubts before really switching. How long are Debian-re

Re: Troubles with pcmcia modules

2003-01-28 Thread Jean-Luc
Le Mardi 28 Janvier 2003 13:28, Jesper Holmberg a écrit : > Runing for example dpkg-reconfigure pcmcia-cs gives: > > /lib/modules/2.4.20-686/pcmcia/i82365.o: unresolved symbol > isapnp_find_dev_R27cb2cad /lib/modules/2.4.20-686/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: On my DELL INSPIRON 8100 when I try woody

Mount problems

2003-01-28 Thread Harshu
Hi Folks, I am facing this problem with mounting vfat partitions. I have a directory named /cdrive and mount my vfat partions on it. As root user or as an odinary user the permissons of cdrive always get changed to 744. I have tried changing the permisions to 777 as root user but I am unable to

radvd error

2003-01-28 Thread sree manikandan
hai i installed a system but it is noe stable and always gives me an error when installing software the error messages are -- 1st message 1 time dpkg: error processing radvd (--remove): Pack

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-28 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:47, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:03:47PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > FWIW I first of all dump my postgres databases into $HOME, then make a > > list of my installed (debian) packages, also in $HOME. > > > > I then backup $HOME excluding browser cache fil

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-28 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:22, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:03:47PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32, Grant Bowman wrote: > > > Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly > > > what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has

ext3 partition recovery

2003-01-28 Thread Miguel
hi, last night I decided to format a partition to fat32 and I used window$ to do this (bad decision...). Aparently, all went ok but, today, when I rebooted the machine to linux, my home partition has been erased! (It was the last partion in the disk). My partition looks (used to...) like this:

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote: > How long are Debian-releases supported (okay, with 'open' software you can > compile/write your own upgrades but that's not an option)? Typically until the next release plus six months or so. It depends entirely on how long th

Re: moo

2003-01-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:05:49AM -0600, will trillich wrote: | $ apt-get moo |(__) |(oo) | /--\/ | / ||| |* /\---/\ | ~~ ~~ | "Have you mooed today?"... | | can't say that i have. | | this is

Help debugging package problems

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm running a mix of testing/unstable. $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "testing"; APT::Cache-Limit 1000; This is a desktop machine where I want to use new code: I have installed some packages with apt-get -t unstable install I wonder if that has not caused problems and if I

Re: No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-28 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
tis 2003-01-28 klockan 13.42 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > If the disc is spinning, and you're player is, ehm, playing, but you > don't hear the music, chances are you just don't have a cable connecting > your CD-player to your soundcard. MS Windows doesn't need such a cable, > but Linux does (a

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > > > Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The > > whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. > > Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default

backport of ICH4 IDE support

2003-01-28 Thread Gregory Seidman
It is my understanding that the current 2.5 kernel has support for various DMA modes on the Intel ICH4 chipset. I don't really want to be running an experimental kernel, however, so I'd like to find a backport patch for a 2.4-series kernel. I've spent a fair amount of time with Google, but I still

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:01:14PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >> >> Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The >> whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. > >Well, (according to the manpage) it uses

Re: Troubles with pcmcia modules

2003-01-28 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Tue Jan 28, Jean-Luc On my DELL INSPIRON 8100 when I try woody, I must use yenta.o because > i82365.o doesn't work. Merci beaucoup, Jean-Luc. That worked just fine. Jesper -- Jesper Holmberg|"But how can | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one be warm | ENST Br, BP 832, 2928

SOLVED: XFree86 4.2.1 & Matrox G550 & DRI

2003-01-28 Thread mody
Hi, in case someone have the same problem as I had, I'm writting this: I had a strange problem. DRI didn't work after XFree86 4.2.1 update. glxinfo as normal user showed "direct rendering: No", but if run as root showed "direct rendering: Yes". Because DRI worked in XFree86 4.1.x, I thought driver

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:44:10PM +, Jimbo De La Fuente wrote: > How long are Debian-releases supported Depends, but looking at the Debian news page, 2.2 (potato) was released back on [15 Aug 2000]. There were several updates (7) to it. It was then finally replaced by 3.0 (woody) on [19 J

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-28 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It >> is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? > >1970-01-01 is time zero

Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Anand Buddhdev on Monday, 2003-01-27 at 11:47:07 +0100: > I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' > boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They > have kernel 2.2.22, and they did not recognise my ethernet card. Then > I decided to try th

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:01:14PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The > > whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. > > Well, (according to the manpage) it uses

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-28 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: -> > OTOH, it is currently not possible to mount a FS without explicitly -> > changing to nonexistent directory. You can workaround this with symlink -> > that points to the destination, but in that case never call stat() on -> > that link. On 25.01 12:11, Bob Proulx

Testing/unstable system: keyboard freeze in X on reboot

2003-01-28 Thread Stephanie Boyd
First post for a while - only recently resubscribed, so here goes: My main box has been running testing for some time, with the odd thing pulled in from unstable. Before shutting it down for the weekend it had been up for a month without incident. Upon return the gdm logon screen would acce

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 00:42, will trillich wrote: > what's wrong with rsync? > > i'm heartily exploring backup methodologies and from what i can > tell, rsync sure looks like "the bomb". > > any drawbacks? some good reason to NOT use it? something better? > > i'll be backing up the usual stuff

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-28 Thread Rupa Schomaker
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Rupa Schomaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.27.1652 +0100]: >> It is nearly impossible to get sasl to work *correctly* in a chroot >> and even more difficult with PAM. > > Which is, I believe, why saslauthd was created - to load the > authe

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-28 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 07:09, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > "Mark L. Kahnt" wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:58, Curt Howland wrote: > > > Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... > > > > > > Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > > > Testin

Re: what's fstype 83? &quot;Linux&quot;?

2003-01-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich said: > > > files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than > > september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive* > > i've never even tried reiserfs, certainly not two-and-a-half > > years ago. wasn't ext2 t

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-28 Thread Rupa Schomaker
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.27.1949 +0100]: >> 1) the pam config file can be found >> 2) the pam module referenced can be found >> 3) any other resources the pam module needs can be found > > which is a

New unofficial pine 4.53 packages available

2003-01-28 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
>From http://www.braincells.com/open/ Click on the woody or sid links to get the right apt source lines. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: backport of ICH4 IDE support

2003-01-28 Thread nate
Gregory Seidman said: > It is my understanding that the current 2.5 kernel has support for various > DMA modes on the Intel ICH4 chipset. I don't really want to be running an > experimental kernel, however, so I'd like to find a backport patch for a > 2.4-series kernel. I've spent a fair amount of

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread nate
alex said: > Has the Linux security bubble burst? > > http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013/1 as usual, this is very misleading. Most linux distributions contain hundreds if not thousands of times more software available for them "out-of-the-box" then win32 does. Now if they sepera

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:50, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:37:57PM +, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > > OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob, > shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant > north-americaner? :) http://dictionary.re

Re: Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap???)

2003-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 19:51, Steve Lamb wrote: > On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't > > do it!! > > Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on > the curr

Trouble installing postgresql

2003-01-28 Thread Dave De Graff
I get the following error when trying to install postgresql. The packages listed as required dependencies are all available. Does anyone know why apt is not simply installing these along with postgresql?   Thanks,   Dave De Graff   root@host:~# apt-get install postgresqlReading Package Lists

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > i mean like > > /a -> /mount/a > /b -> /mount/b Ew... /symlinks to network mounted locations are not recommended. Which is my way of saying they are a very bad thing. One 'ls -l /' and you find yourself hanging waiting for a down network. I am very sensitive to th

Module parameters

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew M. Lindley
Hello, Two questions - how do I find out what parameters a module accepts (which part of the kernel source if thats where you look)? And how do you get a driver to work with 2 network cards (two ne2000:s). TIA - Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious diskactivity)

2003-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 21:32, nate wrote: > Ron Johnson said: > > > Leave it on, and fall quickly to sleep listening to white noise, > > while lowering the house's thermostat, since you have an auxillary heater > > in the room. > > I like white noise, but unfortunately not all computers emit such

Re: Switching groups - not working

2003-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Melnick wrote: > > I want certain users to be able to switch into different groups. So I Switching groups is a real pain. I recommend that you just put your users into each group and let them stay there. Then they don't need to switch groups. Then look at using sgid directories for any sha

Re: phoenix and java?

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Land
Thanks for the detailed explaination using a additional library system - I really appreciate your help. > > Just curiously grepped for LD_LIBRARY_PATH in > > some dirs and noticed that perl seems to use > > this environment variable too. Is there some > > source of standard env. variables? - I h

Re: fonts in tables

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Land
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:45:39PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > Thank you very much for your assistance Emma. > > I hoped not to use style sheets because the w3m > > version I am using does not seem to support CSS - > > so I tried

Re: using man pages for programming

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Land
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > reading the signal(7) man page I noticed > > the header "Linux Programmer's Manual" - > > yet, how to I find the contents or index > > of this manual 'section'? > > Inst

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
There's a way to fix this. Googling for "Bad magic number" and "super-block" should bring something up... On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 20:58, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote: > > will trillich said: > > > ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd lik

RE: LinkSYS BEFSR41 router

2003-01-28 Thread Narins, Josh
> I didn't give my machines afixed ip in setup, since it would > go against > the dhcp settings ( I think). Could this be the reason for the > invisibility problem? () > From my other machine I can see now the page, but not from the WAN. > More detailed, I got the router's IP, and set the

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:58:21AM -0500, alex wrote: > Has the Linux security bubble burst? > > http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013/1 I would say "no", for five reasons: 1) Langa suggests that part of the reason behind the current rise in Linux security flaws being found is b

Re: Using VIA C3 and Woody?

2003-01-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 07:10, Bill Moseley wrote: > I want to build a very quiet and stable machine. Anyone using a VIA C3 > based system with Woody? If so, what motherboard are you using? Any > hardware issues? There's an option to specify the C3/Elan when compiling new kernels. Even if there w

Re: Module parameters

2003-01-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andrew M. Lindley said: > Hello, > > Two questions - how do I find out what parameters a module accepts (which > part of the kernel source if thats where you look)? > > And how do you get a driver to work with 2 network cards (two ne2000:s). > > TIA - Andrew You can

odd message from apt, 'Encountered status field in a non-version description'

2003-01-28 Thread Walter Tautz
W: Encountered status field in a non-version description W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems running it twice works...as suggested but then the problem reappears...later a google search on the phrase doesn't yield anything... and bugs.debian.org does list anything i

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working... SOLVED !!!

2003-01-28 Thread Dominique Deleris
Thanks to anyone for your feedback. Yes, the cable is connected correctly to the MB (blue connector), and to the drive (black connector, since drive is alone). I had also tried `hdparm -X69 /dev/hda` without success. And when I was getting the drive working correctly, then the day after, at machin

Re: recurring costs of computer hobby (was: Re: Mysterious disk activity)

2003-01-28 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > Your electric bills my be outrageous... If I were in california I'm sure they would be! But I'm in washington, and my last bill was about $91. And last time I checked I use about 4 times the power as the average family in washington according to my power company. $91 is very

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:32:45AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > >> is possible that this

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-28 Thread Paul E Condon
Pierre THIERRY wrote: Since most security updates for stable are going to be a version lower You can use APT preferences to give security updates a higher priority. Note also that there is a security repository for sarge... I thought I new how to set up sources in my sources.list, but wh

Re: Module parameters

2003-01-28 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 17:50, Andrew M. Lindley wrote: > Two questions - how do I find out what parameters a module accepts (which > part of the kernel source if thats where you look)? No need to dig this deep. 'modinfo -p ' prints a list of parameters and descriptions. > And how do you get

libc6_2.2.5.5-11.2_i386 corrupt in release 30r1?

2003-01-28 Thread Deklan Dieterly
Everytime I try to install debian i386 30r1 from us.debian.org or oregon state university, i get the error message that libc6... is corrupt. I've used jigdo and the md5sums were correct. I've downloaded the iso image from oregon state u. I've even tried to install this over the network, and I alw

Patching the Kernel the Debian Way

2003-01-28 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I need to apply the freeswan patch to the kernel, and, as always, I hope to do this "The Debian Way". I've been reading the make-kpkg man page, and there appears to be 3 different ways to do this. 1. The patch_the_kernel configuration option, which I assume is somewhere in the .config fi

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-01-28 Thread tallison
> Hi List, > How long are Debian-releases supported (okay, with 'open' software you > can compile/write your own upgrades but that's not an option)? http://www.debian.org/releases/ Debian only has one version, stable... sort of... Think of Debian as one version that is periodically rolling fro

Re: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Selby
Thanks for the advice guys I will leave swap partition as nature intended !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dist-upgrade question (Thanks)

2003-01-28 Thread D.
Thanks to all who responded. As usual, you can always learn something new. Thanks Again Don --- Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:17:29AM -0800, D. wrote: > > I'm running Testing on a PII 350 and attempted > to do > > a dist-upgrade last night. Here is the results o

Re: using man pages for programming

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:14:57PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > > reading the signal(7) man page I noticed > > > the header "Linux Programmer's Manual" - > > > yet, how

newbie - tar.gz unistall

2003-01-28 Thread Gilberto Garcia Jr.
How can I unistall applications that was installed through a .tar.gz file?   in this case is turboprint application   []´s Iced Sun

Getting gcc to work

2003-01-28 Thread Dave De Graff
I've installed gcc but can't find its executables. Seems like the last time I installed it on a fresh woody installation, it was all configured to run. Session output is below. Any ideas?   Thx, Dave De Graff   root@host:# feta install gcc-3.2Reading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency T

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