Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:44:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia > drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: The important thing... are you using dual-head, or are you using Xinerama? If you're usin

Intranet Mails on Linux

2003-11-12 Thread Amruta Jejurikar
hi! I would like to know how to exchange intranet mails. Intranet in this case, includes a Linux Redhat 9 machine, which acts as the server, and the clients are Windows (9x) machines. It would be great if you could give some advice on online tutorials and links, as soon as possible! thanks,   -bars

Re: Exim4 ACLs (was: Thoughts on exim4-conifg)

2003-11-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 01:44, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:25:02AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file > > > into parts and when exim4 is (r

Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-11-12 Thread Alban Browaeys
Le Sun, 26 Oct 2003 19:08:39 -0500, Paul M Foster a écrit : > mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage -C $NEXTTRACK -M /dev/cdrom /home/paulf/cdrom you should check, though as i remind you cannot have the same dir name at the root of the iso9660 image for multisessions. else the first etry with the nae "/home

Re: kernel 2.4.22 on testing

2003-11-12 Thread Herbert Xu
TK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > network card drivers. I manually tried "insmod via-rhine" but got a > "unsolved symbols" errors. Looking into /boot, the kernel file is You should use modprobe instead of insmod. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{P

moddep *** unresolved symbol

2003-11-12 Thread Gianpaolo Serafini
Dear fellows, I'am an happy Debian user for 6 mounts (not a long time really!). In this period I installed several linux-debian systems. I also made the "kernel build" from sources due to specific hardware. I used a lot the package make-kpkg so I was able to compile the kernel on a development mac

Re: other users of the medion MD40100?

2003-11-12 Thread Ronald van der Meer
Hi, I bought this laptop too and also submitted a site to www.linux-laptop.net It didn't show up yet either. My site is at home.conceptsfa.nl/~revdmeer/md40100. Suggestions are welcome, especially for internal miniPCI wireless-lan card which I still can't get to work. Ronald. -- To UNSUBSCRI

RE: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-12 Thread Iago Sineiro
Thanks. That's work Iago. -Mensaje original- De: Mental Patient [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes, 11 de noviembre de 2003 18:04 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Debian MailList Asunto: Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root Iago Sineiro wrote: > Hi. > > I want to execute s

New user help...

2003-11-12 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
I feel like RedHat has sold out on me as a paying customer, so I'm looking at Debian. I've run into a few problems, though... First, the framebuffer console looks hideous on my laptop. I searched the list archives, but the only solutions I found were using the kernel parameter 'vga=normal' (n

Re: odd df results

2003-11-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:35:53 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:11, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:13:01 -0600, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Tue,

Re: proxy configuration

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Haiko Etzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031112 11:12]: > Hello, > my server is behind a proxy-server with authentification. > I installed debian through http, where I inserted the proxy informations. For package installation with apt-get have a look in /etc/apt/apt.conf > But now I need to change

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:39, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: --snip-- > As a test, I closed all open apps, turned off apache and mysqld, and > start up a round of Unreal Tournament. The problem continued, with > alternating periods of normal speed and slow speed, with the periods of > normal speed get

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:44, Erik Steffl wrote: >just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia > drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: > >one monitor: openGL works fullscreen or windowed > >two monitors: openGL works in window, n

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-12 Thread Lajos Mester
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 20:40, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/11/03 19:33), Andreas Janssen wrote: > > Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is > > >> it possible? > > >>

Re: New user help...

2003-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:49, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: > I feel like RedHat has sold out on me as a paying customer, so I'm > looking at Debian. I've run into a few problems, though... ... > Second, I tried 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-586'. I got the > new kernel installed and running (whic

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Roberto; > nForce2 GART support is in 2.4.22 and newer kernels. The nVidia > drivers have been modified (via a patch) to compile against 2.5.x and > 2.6.x kernels. If you want I can email you the patch, or you can > Goolge for it, or search the threads at nforcershq.com. Aha. Got a bit co

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:01, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:07:12AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I try and take good notes setting things up, but all I have is > > "doesn't work on secondary head". My memory is that I saw a reason > > why it doesn't work on the seco

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:07 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > >>You say "ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1"; um, yes. They're > >>different files. Ma

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-11-12 Thread bob parker
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > Outside of the "crash" screen saver, I have yet to see a BSOD in > Linux. 8:o) Actually I did once, no blue screen of course but I did manage to crash Debian Woody. Fsking around with hdparm at the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 20:20, Greg Folkert wrote: > Personally I love the stuff Andreas Metzler has done with the config. > Makes it TONS more managable. Might I even suggest that Philip Hazel > (Exim's author) adopt it... or include at least a way to do that. I would agree with that, though

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:30 Subject: Re: Installing modem > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I installed minicom from KDE package manager. It is very easy. Issued > > 'minicom -s' and was

modem trouble : olitech self memory v92 ready serie

2003-11-12 Thread liane
my modem who was working fine have now mysteriously a strange behaviour. To have a connexion i must lauch pon something like 30 times. ;(( i put in my message a copy of the /var/log/syslog file and other useful modem configuration file. If anyone have any clues about what is wrong , it will be welc

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Nicolas Rueff wrote: Ainsi parla Otto Wyss le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the p

Re: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Haines Brown wrote: I need to have installed the kernel source in order to compile a driver, but have difficulty finding the source for 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is the answer that the "bf2.4" is just an addition, and that the kernel source for my kernel is actually just 2.4.18? Haines Brown Could it be (

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 19:07 Subject: Re: Installing modem. Hoyt Bailey wrote: You say "ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 & ttyS1"; um, yes. They're differen

Re: regarding kernels

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:28:22PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > So, not compiling, is not a security risk ? You should read the changelog to find that out. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 & USB 2.0 Question

2003-11-12 Thread Peter Samek
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:12:43AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] > Additional Problems with kernel-2.6.0-test9 > > Although I built the kernel with support for modules and ran > make modules and make modules_install the command lsmod reports > AP_MODULES are not installed.

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-12 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:38 -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > I don't know if its possible to modify the ownership of a newly created file. > He who creates, becomes owner. You can use the sgid bit to modify the group > permission to follow that of the parent directory. I thought that is what th

update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Miguel Alvarez Blanco
Hi, I do not really know if this is a bug or a "feature", so I am not sending it as a bug report. The problem is fairly general, it has happened several times to me, although the last one was because of the ipmasq package. I had the package installed in my system while I was using it to provid

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Miguel Alvarez Blanco wrote: > I do not really know if this is a bug or a "feature", so I am not update-rc.d is working as intended. Read its manpage about how you as the local admin should interact with it. In particular, update-rc.d is to be used ONLY by the packaging syst

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Piers Kittel wrote: Hello Roberto; > nForce2 GART support is in 2.4.22 and newer kernels. The nVidia > drivers have been modified (via a patch) to compile against 2.5.x and > 2.6.x kernels. If you want I can email you the patch, or you can > Goolge for it, or search the threads at nforcershq

Exim4 configuration

2003-11-12 Thread Papadopoulos Alexis
Hi all! I'm somehow new to Debian and therefor new to exim (I've been using sendmail which was actually configured by yast2). Now I'm trying to set up exim to send my mails directly without using an external SMTP server... I an error message (I've used the internet option in Exim4 configuration ma

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Walker
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:10:18 +0800, kmark+debian wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> csj wrote: >> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I >> > describe below. >> > >> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" and >> > ALL

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/03 20:53), Brian Walker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:10:18 +0800, kmark+debian wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> csj wrote: > >> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > >> > describe below. > >> > > >> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilter

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: desire:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extr

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > great idea and plan ... but ... > > - everybody can do this ??? and does ... Not total newbies who view computers as a tool. They don't know how to compile a kernel or set up a firewall-- most of them prolly have barely heard of

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Miguel Alvarez Blanco
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: update-rc.d is working as intended. Read its manpage about how you as the local admin should interact with it. In particular, update-rc.d is to be used ONLY by the packaging system, not by the local admin. Thanks for the quick response. However, I am not sure if I

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:03:12AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..you lost your Wintendo-vs-Linux paper, url? http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/~vikki/windowsvlinux.html > > Basic Plan: > > When a patch for your distro is released, I will patch the system. I > > will also set up a firewall cust

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:24PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but > noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: > So what am I doing wrong here? The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This

ntop (Sid) dies...

2003-11-12 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi group (list), I have the following problem: 2 identical machines, both with ntop (on Sid). One of them runs like a breeze, the other one dies frequently. Syslog is telling me: Nov 12 14:40:21 snint ntop[16427]: **FATAL_ERROR** webserver: caught signal 13 SIGPIPE Nov 12 14:40:21 snint ntop[1

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:43:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Since swen, I started using mailfiter with differing degrees of > success. I tried to look at the basic docs and there is no explicit mention of > the way the rules are evaluated. top down, bottom up, allow then deny, > etc

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote: > I set up mailfilter in response to swen. I found that the ponly way to > stop them was by limiting size. All other rules set in DENY or ALLOW > seemed to be non-functional. In the end, I unset the size command, put a > local rule for

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-12 Thread Henrik Christian Grove
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:55 pm, stan wrote: > > > Calculating Upgrade... Done > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > a

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
Vikki - your plan sounds god to me! I looked at your website a while back and was pretty impressed. Along the way I decided to mess with Debian (I was running Mandrake on my desktop and switched to SuSE 8.2 Personal, and running dual-boot WinXP/Red Hat 9.0 on my work laptop). Anyway - you might wa

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:25 PM, David Gaudine wrote: Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso ? I forgot to specify that I mean the one that's dated Nov 9. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

SSH update problem?

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all I note that I'm using SSH version 3.6.1p2 but I note there's version 3.7.1 out - how do I update it to that? I downloaded 3.7.1, compiled and installed it, while doing a "ssh -V" shows 3.7.1, doing an "/etc/sbin/sshd -v" shows version 3.6.1. How do I update the server properly? Or

Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Rick Weinbender
I have an email server (qmail running on debian), that I need to make as secure as possible. Can anyone point me to some good links that relate to security? Has anyone used bastille? What do you think of it? Thanks, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: SVGATextMode

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:22:49PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: You really need an answer from someone who uses svgatextmode on your video card; I don't have an nvidia card so can't be specifically helpful. Do your other systems that still work use the same video card? Can you g

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Marc, > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. desire:~# apt-get remove --purge fireflies Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

SCO binaries on Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Marco Antonio V. Assad
Hi all, I'm trying to run some SCO Openserver 5 binaries on Debian 3.0r1, with kernel 2.4.18, in a Pentium machine. I've installed 'icbs-base', and tried to run the binary, but all I get is 'cannot execute binary file'. If I run the 'file' command on the binary, I get '80386 COFF executable'. Any

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Jimmy Johansson
Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Am I supposed to do something else? I am asking because I want to try some diff

Re: SSH update problem?

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:48:47PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > I note that I'm using SSH version 3.6.1p2 but I note there's version > 3.7.1 out - how do I update it to that? I downloaded 3.7.1, compiled > and installed it, while doing a "ssh -V" shows 3.7.1, doing an > "/etc/sbin/sshd -v" show

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:10:20PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Marc, > > > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. > >

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 05:45 am, David Gaudine wrote: > On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:25 PM, David Gaudine wrote: > > Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using > > > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-net

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 16:19, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > that I need to make as secure as possible. > Can anyone point me to some good links that > relate to security? Have you read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ I

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rick Weinbender (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > that I need to make as secure as possible. > Can anyone point me to some good links that > relate to security? You might want to take a look at the securing debian howto that is part of the h

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > that I need to make as secure as possible. > Can anyone point me to some good links that > relate to security? > > Has anyone used bastille? What do you think > of it? > > Thanks, > -Rick I used bastille in the past and found it to do it's job

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Greg Madden wrote: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386- netinst.iso This one works here, it is dated Nov 9. Thanks. That's the one I used (I mistyped the link). Strange. As a test of my CD burning, and in a cl

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "John Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 05:36 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "debian-user"

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:10, Piers Kittel wrote: > Marc, > > > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. > > desire:~#

Re: ldconfig and hosing my system [SOLVED!]

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Benedetto
My original problem was that I had run ldconfig with a bogus LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable setting and that hosed up my /etc/ld.so.cache. Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> both recommended booting knoppix and using chroot to run ldconfig so as to update my hard d

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Miguel Alvarez Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) if the sysadmin wants to fiddle with the links, he may do so > (presumably by hand?) and the packaging system will not touch them > *provided the sysadmin leaves at least one of the links*. Now, I can > see how to use this to remove all but an

Clicking links from Thunderbird

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I know this has been brought up before, but the thread simply died. I am running Sid and using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 and Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The problem I have is that I can't click on a link in an email in Thunderbird and have it open in Firebird. Basically, nothing happens, forcing me to co

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
> What program generated the connection between the modem's 8 I/O lines > d000-d007 and /dev/ttyS3 and what would happen if I rm /dev/ttyS4 and maybe > /dev/ttyS3 as well and remade, with MAKEDEV, ttyS3 and then run the program > that makes the original connection. > Regards; > Hoyt Alright, I am

Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Drew
Greetings, FWIW I did search the archives first but... I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box was installed. This box could be potato, from when potato was unstable, but how to

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread csj
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:18:56 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > csj wrote: > > Is there a way to write portable shell scripts. In > > particular, I've problems with built-ins setenv (tcsh) and > > export (bash). How do I define variables in tcsh and have > > them usable in bash too? > > Your best opt

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-12 17:28]: > > Greetings, > > FWIW I did search the archives first but... > > I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am > running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all > state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box > was installed. This

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I disabled com1 & com2 hardware ports in the BIOS and booted into Linux the dmesg log concerning the serial ports is as follows: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of lspci -vv, this mes

openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Edwards
Just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1 (Debian). Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? Also when talking to the developers at a conference they mentioned something about havein a setting so it behaves & has menues like MS Word (usefull for weening people of m$). Anyway, anyone k

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:24:04AM +0800, csj wrote: > I tend to write scripts which are tcsh-compatible. So > "#!/bin/tcsh". Wow. You're mad. Sorry :) The C shell is too broken for serious scripting. > But its somewhat a waste of effort to write one set of scripts for > bash and another for tcs

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
> I disabled com1 & com2 hardware ports in the BIOS and booted into Linux the > dmesg log concerning the serial ports is as follows: > > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ > SERIAL_PCI enabled > Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of > lspci

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:38 -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > I don't know if its possible to modify the ownership of a newly created > file. > > He who creates, becomes owner. You can use the sgid bit to modify the group > > > permission to follow

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Anyway - you might want to include a few distributions, as not everyone may > be interested in Debian. I found Mandrake, SuSE and Red Hatto have a very > good look and feel. With RHL moving towards Project Fedora, and Fedora Core > at 1.0 -

Re: openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:36:21PM +, Ben Edwards wrote: > Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? There was an extra package that I had to install, but I can't remember what it was offhand. Do you have the following packages installed? myspell-en-gb or myspell-en-u

Re: openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:36, Ben Edwards wrote: > Just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1 (Debian). > > Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? apt-get install myspell- where is whatever language you want to spellcheck in. 'apt-cache search myspell' would give you a list of availa

smbfs and accented chars

2003-11-12 Thread João Miguel Neves
I haven't found a reference to this on the archives, so maybe someone will help me: I have a file on a Windows NT4 server called: encadernação.jpg Going through smbclient, the filename is encadernação.jpg. If I go through smbfs (either fstab, automount or smbmount directly), I see the filename as

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Kent West wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >Yes, from dmesg: > >Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ > >SERIAL_PCI enabled > >ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > >ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > >Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Pl

a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
Help! I am trying to use a2ps to print 2 pages onto one. Very simple: a2ps -2 file.ps The paper is A4, libpaper is configured for A4, --medium=libpaper is set, but the following problem prevails even if I set --medium=a4. A4 is described as "Medium: A4 595 842", basically it's all out

Re: smbfs and accented chars

2003-11-12 Thread João Miguel Neves
BTW, doing an strace on smbclient, it loads codepage.850, unicode_map.850 and unicode_map.ISO8859-1. Doing an lsmod, the only loaded nls table is nls_utf8. -- João Miguel Neves signature.asc Description: Esta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9?= uma parte de me

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: [snip] > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ It's empty -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 3:54 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > > that I need to make as secure as possible. > > Can anyone point me to some good links that > > relate to security? > > > > Has anyone used bastille? What do you think > > of it

Re: Clicking links from Thunderbird

2003-11-12 Thread Kent West
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I know this has been brought up before, but the thread simply died. I am running Sid and using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 and Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The problem I have is that I can't click on a link in an email in Thunderbird and have it open in Firebird. Basically, nothing h

looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
I don't use either the Gnome or the KDE desktops (just Blackbox, plus whatever apps I need). I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of memory for what it does (in terms of how I use it - mostly as a storage space for copying and pasting between apps). If I've understood

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.12.1818 +0100]: > I am confused. How can I print the two subpages qith equal width, so > that they fill the printable area on the sheet? I should add that it works just fine when printing to a LJ2100tn printer. magicfilter does the translati

kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 & linux-wlan-ng Problem

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I compiled a new kernel from kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 and, after installing module-init-tools, most of my modules are loaded and working except for my pci wireless networking card. This has always been something of a problem even with the 2.4.xx kernels. apt-get install linux-wlan-ng reports

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Kent West
Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. So this did _not_ create a new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tend to write scripts which are tcsh-compatible. So > "#!/bin/tcsh". But its somewhat a waste of effort to write one > set of scripts for bash and another for tcsh. My main problem is > handling the variables. Is there a shell-portable way to specify > varia

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Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am > running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all > state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box > was installed. This box could be potato, from when > potato was unstable, but how to tell? > > I

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > It's empty *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- people are goin

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread TeraLee2
i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do?

Re: Clicking links from Thunderbird

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I know this has been brought up before, but the thread simply died. I am running Sid and using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 and Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The problem I have is that I can't click on a link in an email in Thunderbird and have it open in Firebird. Bas

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 - Thanks

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:34:40PM +0100, Peter Samek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:12:43AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > [...] > > Additional Problems with kernel-2.6.0-test9 > > > > Although I built the kernel with support for modules and ran > > make modules and make modules

modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition. Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load. If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed by hid". Then if I do insmod /lib//hid.o it gets loaded and the mice can be used. Sure enough when I do "modprobe -c" it shows:

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Ernest Johanson
One suggestion here might be to put an exit statement on a line by itself near the beginning of the script, before anything is executed. This will prevent the script from running even though the rc.d links are in place. When you update the package, the install script should detect that the init scr

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Vikki Roemer wrote: > *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- > people are going to my site and the server is sending data, and I haven't > had any complaints from the group. Anybody else here having problems? I just tried it here, because

Maple9 and LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

2003-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am installing Maple 9 on my Debian box (testing/unstable kernel 2.4.22): I have just noticed that the maple script (maple9/bin/maple) set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL for red-hat boxes as fellows << if [ -r "/etc/redhat-rele

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Roberto again; Have rebooted and sorted out PC regarding to the new kernel - it loads the AGPGART module and detects the G550 card no problem. Still OpenGL doesn't work on both heads of the G550, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual [EMA

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:14, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > > > It's empty > > *shrug* I'm having no prob

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? Run naked down the street, and then disembowel yourself with a short, dull knife? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROT

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