Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:31:44PM +, Geoff Thurman wrote: > There are a lot of links here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45261 > > There was a good piece about security on the same site roughly a > fortnight ago, but I can't find it now. I might post

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread Mark Healey
After not getting any instructions on how to compile a module that didn't come with the source into a kernel I gave up and decided to just do the nic module as installable. Since I had the source for the new kernel I went ahead and compiled it by Kents 10 step list. I left the things I didn't und

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

2003-11-13 Thread Sam Bashton
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:53:05AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > 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 pro

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy. > > I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it > would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the > hardware I have (or

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hello, > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none seem > to fit the bill yet. > I need a window manager with the following > - As lite as possible

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

2003-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Nov 2003, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:18:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > 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, b

problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

2003-11-13 Thread Rafael Quintanilla
(Texto en castellano más abajo) Hi members of the list, I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3 catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768 resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S, samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85 Hz). I obtain only a 800x600 re

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:08:32PM -0400, eCLe wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:51, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I need a window manager with the following > > - As lite as possible on memory (I heavily stress my laptop so I don't > > have much to spare). > WindowMaker http://www.windowmaker.org tas

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-13 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 23:08, Daniel Edmund Davison wrote: > Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep noise > it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is very > loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not recognised. Is > there an alteration

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy. >> >> I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it >> would be nice to have t

Woody Soundblaster Config Trouble

2003-11-13 Thread max von seibold
Hi After installing Woody on my desktop can anyone advise on the correct setup for a Soundblaster card. At the moment I am getting these errors when KDE starts:- Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the

LAN setup

2003-11-13 Thread Japox
I have just recently bought a DELL inspiron 500m which has a wireless card built in... how do i get two of the same type notebooks to get wireless LAN...     JAPOX

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:34:19 + Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:51:10AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Hoping this won't turn into a flame war, I am looking for > > recommendations for a window manager. I tried quiet a few but none > > se

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

2003-11-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.13.0439 +0100]: > Unstable's current a2ps is (a) broken wrt paper sizes, (b) is currently > without libpaper support. You need to downgrade to the non-CVS-in-the-name > version, that being: I am already running just 4.13b-16. > Well, not -20.2

unsubscribe

2003-11-13 Thread Дмитрий Солдаткин
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:17 AM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3475 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miguel Alvarez Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As I said in the first message, I do not know how to keep a package >installed in the system and yet be able to de-activate its startup >scripts, sort of like leaving it unconfigured. # cd /etc/init.d # mv script

Re: Woody Soundblaster Config Trouble

2003-11-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello max von seibold (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > After installing Woody on my desktop can anyone advise on the correct > setup for a Soundblaster card. > > At the moment I am getting these errors when KDE starts:- > > Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be ope

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:26 pm, Geoff Thurman wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 9:30 pm, Jigga Man wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am pretty much a new user to debian linux and i have > > a problem setting the correct time on my system. My > > hardware clock is set to GMT and when i installed

problem with turning on the DMA (was: better than nice -d 19)

2003-11-13 Thread Shot
Hello. Florian Ernst: > hdparm -d doesn't toggle DMA, you have to set it explicitly, ie. > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda Sorry for jumping in mid-thread. I'm new to Debian and I wasn't aware that the DMA isn't turned on by default. However, when I try to set it up, I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdpar

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread John Peter
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:45:09PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: I recieved many suggestions to remedy the problem, non of them easy. I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it would be

migration to utf-8?

2003-11-13 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! on a new install i tryed to conform to modern times and set the kbd to utf-8 encoding. and now its getting near hell on earth :D so is there some migration odcu out there? cause i have some questions: there doesn't seem some general switch (as e.g. with the papersize) with which i ca

Re: wireless configuration questions

2003-11-13 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Read this site: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html And I recomend you to use wavelan2_cs driver. Em Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:29:02 -0700 Tim Folger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Hi, > > I'm a linux newbie, and have just installed debian woody with the 2.4.18 > ker

Swen on the come back trail.

2003-11-13 Thread David Palmer.
Is it my imagination, or is it really happening? Seem to be new headers involved, too. The rumoured new one should be easy to deal with, headers are obvious, called mimail with an attachment. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:42:20 -0700 Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > underst

Patching Debian Kernel Source

2003-11-13 Thread Patrick Beard
Hi, I have compiled the Kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 from testing. All is working well with the exception of my smartmedia. This is giving me a 'wrong fs type' 99 time out of 100 mounts. From what I've managed to find out 2.6 does FAT checking that 2.4 (my previous kernel) didn't. There appears to be

exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

2003-11-13 Thread BruceG
Hey all, I had decided not to mess with my e-mail server, but not messing is a short-term thing ;-)I know exim4 has the ability to reject messages based on the extension of file names in mime attachments. I haven't found the file to change that in yet (the configuration is broken up into

Escape sequences displaying in man pages

2003-11-13 Thread Curt Daugaard
Hi, I'm running unstable and use the most package as pager for man pages. After an upgrade the color output broke and I see instead the raw escape sequences. Running update-alternatives, I noticed the pager was changed to less. I set it back to most, but that didn't help. Any help appreciat

Re: problem with turning on the DMA (was: better than nice -d 19)

2003-11-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'Shot'! On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Shot wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) [... snip ...] 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT8

Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

2003-11-13 Thread Tom
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:13:54AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Hey all, > > I had decided not to mess with my e-mail server, but not messing is a > short-term thing ;-)I know exim4 has the ability to reject messages > based on the extension of file names in mime attachments. I haven't found >

[Fwd: Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read]

2003-11-13 Thread steef
Original Message Subject: Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:07:18 +0100 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: zeta To: Jacob S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks! you are darned r

Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

2003-11-13 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:13, BruceG wrote: > Hey all, > > I had decided not to mess with my e-mail server, but not > messing is a short-term thing ;-)I know exim4 has the ability to > reject messages based on the extension of file names in mime > attachments. I haven't found the fi

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-13 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Thursday 13 November 2003 6:58 am, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:31:44PM +, Geoff Thurman wrote: > > There are a lot of links here: > > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid= > >45261 > > > > There was a good piece about security on the sam

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 21:30 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "oskar nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>Hoyt Bailey wr

.db files

2003-11-13 Thread amit tiwari
hi i have come to know through google will u pls tell me how to open .db files amit tiwari _ Enjoy shopping online? Get this e credit card. http://server1.msn.co.in/features/amex/ It cuts cost & adds value! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

"BIOS Legacy USB Support"-emulated USB keyboard works in text-mode but not in X

2003-11-13 Thread Jørgen H. Seland
I have a USB keyboard (Logitech iTouch) connected to an SBC MediaGX (a Cyrix MediaGX oneboard machine) running debian/testing (that's sid, I believe), installed within the previous two weeks. Kernel is 2.4.22 with no patches and no USB support. I installed X and KDE yesterday, and everything r

Rebooting problem

2003-11-13 Thread Vanh Phom
Hi all, I'm a debian newbie. Last night I've download the debian-installer beta. With a litle luck I got it to install the base system. Now comes the problem. I have 3 HDs the boot HD has Grub and XP on it. The 2nd HD has Debian on it. With LILO install on (HD2) /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/dis

Re: Swen on the come back trail.

2003-11-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Do, den 13.11.2003 schrieb David Palmer. um 13:06: > Is it my imagination, or is it really happening? At least the number of Swens is increasing again... joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-13 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At first this new system seemed really great. For example, to > support mailmain I created three files: > > conf.d/main/01_local_mailman_macros > conf.d/router/350_local_listdirector > conf.d/transport/30_local_mailmain > > Whi

Re: migration to utf-8?

2003-11-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 13:11, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > on a new install i tryed to conform to modern times and set the kbd to > utf-8 encoding. > > and now its getting near hell on earth :D > > so is there some migration odcu out there? cause i have some questions: > > there doesn

Re: 2 Server in leafnode

2003-11-13 Thread Werner Mahr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I thought, that there can be a problem, if Leafnode send a Post to a Server with don't have the group. I thought about how to say Leafnode to route to the original Server. I also thought, how Leafnode decides, if two Servers have the same Group

Re: how to change beep noise

2003-11-13 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:08:54PM -0600, Daniel Edmund Davison insinuated: > Hi, I've just installed debian woody on a HPze1230 laptop. The beep > noise it is making on ambiguous file-completions, new mail, etc is > very loud. The keyboard volume-changing and muting keys are not > recognised. Is there

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-13 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> BruceG wrote: >> > - Original Message - >> > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM >> > Subject: Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one > [snip] >>

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
Geoff writes: > I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up. Tzconfig has no man page. This is a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

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

2003-11-13 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:58:41PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > 4. My brother in law paid me $25/hour to install some Macintosh ^^^ > computers in elementary & kindergarten classrooms, and hook them up to > the internet. That was totally wierd, going back to those little desks > and water foun

Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions

2003-11-13 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Kjetil Kjernsmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:35 AM Subject: Re: exim4 - rejecting .com,.bat,.exe,.pif extensions > On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:13, BruceG wrote: > > Anyone have a pointer to what fi

Re: freelance sysadmining -- friends

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > Pull out your piercings, > > hide your tatoos. *Blouses* should be tucked into *slacks* or > > *skirts*[1]. > > you forgot the tie .. > you forgot dont use white sox with black shoes/

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:23, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > >> BruceG wrote: > >> > - Original Message - > >> > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM > >> > Su

basic font question

2003-11-13 Thread Shane McAndrew
Hi, I am trying to display correctly a UTF-8 encoded file in Gnumeric. I have managed to get Gnumeric to open this file, but some of the characters (notably the phonetics symbols) are not displayed, regardless on the font I choose from Gnumeric drop-down font selector. The same problem occurs if

2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

2003-11-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
Hi. Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic. I recompiled the latest package kernel-source-2.4.22(3) (sid) with same config of the latest kernel-image2.4.22-686. It runs in a woody machine without problems, but in the other machine it crashes with a kernel panic before mounting the root file syst

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I begin to wonder if the pci-tables might be listed in /proc didnt find that but the following was interesting:/proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 50953IO-APIC-edge timer 1:140IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 6: 32IO-APIC-edge

dvd ripping tools

2003-11-13 Thread Kevin Coyner
I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's where I truly own the rights. The 30 sec clips will be used on our website where we advertise the DVD's for sale (bicycling workouts - spinervals.com for those interested). Could someone please suggest: 1. a tool for ripping the DVD

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-13 Thread dajhorn
> What is your experience regarding workstations? Is there any advantage > or disadvantage in using a simpler partitioning (eg. only /boot and /)? I use a single partition (just "/") on all of my workstations and many of my servers. In practice, I've never been in a situation where it was benefic

Re: .db files

2003-11-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:20:35PM +, amit tiwari wrote: > will u pls tell me how to open .db files google with : "berkeley db tutorial" Regards. -- http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard F

Re: dvd ripping tools

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 09:23, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I need to (legimately) rip a few 30 sec clips from some DVD's where I > truly own the rights. The 30 sec clips will be used on our website > where we advertise the DVD's for sale (bicycling workouts - > spinervals.com for those interested). > > C

debian autoinstall boot cd

2003-11-13 Thread Rohit Kumar Mehta
Hello, we are trying to set up an autoinstall which will support all the newest network cards (including eepro1000). Although this is possible with the 2.2 kernel, things would be a lot easier if we could generate our own autoinstall CD images. The autoinstall-i386 package creates a file: /usr/

mtrr and X windows

2003-11-13 Thread jan
Hello! I'm curious about mtrr. when i type cat /proc/mtrr i got: reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xd600 (3424MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1 so. to me it looks

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-13 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:23, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote: >> >> BruceG wrote: >> >> > - Original Message - >> >> > From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:39 PM >

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-13 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So all you need to do is create a similar file for ttyS4. This command should do it: MAKEDEV -v ttyS4 Already tryed that it created /dev/ttyS4 but dosent change the message (dmesg) in any way I noticed. Also will not respond to echo

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 07:44, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:58:46PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > This WM was mentioned by a poster on this list a month or so ago. At > > the time I was using sawfish, but was getting sick of the bloat and > > considering switching back to fvwm. I

migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-13 Thread ben
anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info. all clues gratefully appreciated. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: After not getting any instructions on how to compile a module that didn't come with the source into a kernel I gave up and decided to just do the nic module as installable. Since I had the source for the new kernel I went ahead and compiled it by Kents 10 step list. I left the

Re: Debian version

2003-11-13 Thread csj
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:43:50 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [...] > unstable is always 'sid'. slink/potato/woody started life as > testing (afaik) before migrating to stable. I don't think there was "testing" before slink was released. IRC I started using Debian around the time potato was relea

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Jigga Man
Paul, Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know how to reply to the mailing list. when i click the reply to link it gives a dialog box saying mailto protocl not registered. Anyways Thank you very much for your time to help me with my problem I tried the su -c tzconfig and when thru

Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

2003-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Rafael Quintanilla wrote: (Texto en castellano más abajo) Hi members of the list, I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3 catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768 resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S, samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85 Hz).

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-13 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I begin to wonder if the pci-tables might be listed in /proc didnt find that but the following was interesting:/proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 50953IO-APIC-edge timer 1:140IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 6: 32

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Hugo! Just a short note, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213092 might be of interest, too. Cheers, Flo Thanks Florian! That explains why I could not find where modprobe -c gets the above from: it is build into the upgraded modutils! The fix is above h

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Isn't this just a matter of re-running base-config and setting the hardware clock to UMT, as is suggested when running a dual boot system with windows? is there a dpkg-reconfigure that will get you into just the time settings part of base-config? Chris Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 15:

Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-13 Thread Jacob S.
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:10:19 + ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've > googled and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info. > > all clues gratefully appreciated. > > ben Howdy Ben, The easiest way I've found is to cre

Re: Debian version

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:30:49AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:43:50 +, > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > unstable is always 'sid'. slink/potato/woody started life as > > testing (afaik) before migrating to stable. > > I don't think there was "testing" before slink was released. IR

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Right Kjetil! And I figured out that backstreet-ruby removed it. Yup! :-) I cannot find keybdev anywhere in the 2.4.22 kernel that I am using, except for traces in the documenation, but nothing in .config keybd

Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-13 Thread Nelson E. Castillo
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:10:19PM +, ben wrote: > anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled > and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info. Hi, Make backups :) ... Buy insurance ... - you can got to runlevel 1 ("init 1", no network, only root user

Repairing mime files

2003-11-13 Thread Haines Brown
Years ago (OS/2?) I had a little utility that would repair the header of a mime file so that I could un-mime it. Anyone know of such a thing for linix/debian? My search effort failed. Specifically, I have an acquaintance that insists on sending out documents to a small distribution list using MS E

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Hugo! On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:18:03AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Florian Ernst wrote: Just a short note, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213092 might be of interest, too. That explains why I could not find where modprobe -c gets the above from: it is build into the up

gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my Debian box, a Dell Precision. The Debian command line works great. However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter how many times I try variations on apt-get install . I get an Xserver could not start error... I *am* able to boot to Kno

Automating the passwd command

2003-11-13 Thread Hoehn, Jacob
Is there a way to automate the passwd command in a similar fashion as allowed by Red Hat's version of passwd?   The Red Hat version has a --stdin flag which lets me pipe a password to the passwd command so that I can automate it.   On Red Hat I have a custom made script for creating lar

Locales vs. xlib

2003-11-13 Thread Tom
Hey, The last few days, I've been wondering how I should get those #!@ locales working. Using debconf, I selected en_US.ISO-8859-15 to be generated (the ISO-8859-15 while I like to be able to use the euro-sign). However, little problems started to pop up. First, there was gnome-terminal, which d

RE: Automating the passwd command

2003-11-13 Thread Hoehn, Jacob
Never mind. I should have looked harder. I think I can do it with mkpasswd and moduser. If that doesn't work I'll try using expect.   -Original Message- From: Hoehn, Jacob Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Automating the passwd command  

Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

2003-11-13 Thread Palfalvi Richard
Am Mit, 2003-11-12 um 21.37 schrieb duck: > I think you're missing some module or other. Here's my lsmod: > > Module Size Used byTainted: P > snd-pcm-oss39556 1 (autoclean) > snd-mixer-oss 13592 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] > agpgart

Re: 2.4.22-3 panic in woody / ide bug?

2003-11-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Nelson E. Castillo (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Abstract : Trying to avoid kernel panic. > > I recompiled the latest package kernel-source-2.4.22(3) (sid) with > same config of the latest kernel-image2.4.22-686. It runs > in a woody machine without problems, but in the other machine > it

Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

2003-11-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rafael Quintanilla (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3 > catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768 > resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S, > samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85 > Hz). I obtain only a 80

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
jigga writes: > this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its > actully 10:44 here ... Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time. > i didnt find any specific option for daylight savings time... There is none. It isn't needed. The system knows all

Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-13 Thread
Quoting ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > anyone know how to safely migrate /home to a new partition? i've googled > and checked the archives but can't find appropriate info. > > all clues gratefully appreciated. > There have been a number of postings, including on this list, on how to do this that a

Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
Howdy. I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including the root filesystem. I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i686 kernel, which (according to /boot/config-2.4.16-686) has ext3 support _as a module_... Now, my understanding is that this kernel uses initrd, and thus it'll

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-13 Thread Rick Weinbender
Thanks for the help! -Rick ** 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? > > Has anyone used bastille? What do you think > of it? > > Thanks, > -Ri

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-13 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:25:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:33:02PM +, Pigeon wrote: > (c) running costs for > > the sort of vehicle that gets you from A to B legally but no more > > $150, tops, and that's if you're as hard on a bike as I am I just broke th

Re: problem in screen resolution at 1024*768

2003-11-13 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Rafael Quintanilla writes: Rafa> I recently installed debian from a Knoppix 3.3 Rafa> catalan. The problem is that I want to have a 1024*768 Rafa> resolution (BTW my monitor is a 15" SyncMaster 551S, Rafa> samsung, with a recommeded refresh vertical rate of 85 Rafa> Hz). I obtain onl

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Jigga Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Sorry to directly send you an email but i dont know > how to reply to the mailing list. when i click the > reply to link it gives a dialog box saying mailto > protocl not registered. Anyways Thank you very much > for your time to help me with my problem

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:57, John Hasler wrote: > jigga writes: > > this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its > > actully 10:44 here ... > > Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time. > Sorry: I already deleted the first messages in this thread,

apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Rick Weinbender
I'm running the current stable version and I need to install a package from an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). (the unstable package does work with woody). * Is there a way to install an unstable package on stable distro from the command line. * Someone suggested 'apt-get -t unstable install tmda'

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:00:36PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). > * > Is there a way to install an unstable package on > stable distr

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Rick Weinbender" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). > * > Is there a way to install an unstable package on > stable distro from the command

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rick Weinbender wrote: I'm running the current stable version and I need to install a package from an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). (the unstable package does work with woody). * Is there a way to install an unstable package on stable distro from the command line. * Someone suggested 'apt-get -t

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:15:29PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:34:19 + > Jonathan Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PWM, or ION (pwm, ion, ion-devel packages) > > > As I suggested before, Icewm. If I reply with, 'As I suggested before, PWM.', when will it stop?

Re: gnome installation help

2003-11-13 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 05:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my > Debian box, a Dell Precision. > > The Debian command line works great. > However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter > how many times I try variations on apt-get install > . I

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:00 am, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I'm running the current stable version > and I need to install a package from > an unstable source (tmda ver.0.86). > (the unstable package does work with woody). > * > Is there a way to i

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

2003-11-13 Thread Tom
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:35:39PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Another lesson learnt here: stay off the pot. At a later age you > will not be able to count past 4. :-) just couldn't help it. I haven't touched it for 5 years, once I realized I'm still same old boring me with it or without it

sylpheed-claws/unstable trouble: ssl/gpg support missing?

2003-11-13 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I've been using sylpheed-claws/unstable (together with sylpheed-claws-plugins/unstable and dependants) VERY happily on my testing system for a while now. Recently I caused some mess on my system and had to reinstall it afterwards ... Linux gives you the power to screw up whatever you feel l

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:38:40PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > the default look kinda sucks though... it can be changed completely > (take a lok at www.fvwm.org) There is a great article about window-manager choices, and fvwm advocacy at http://www.igs.net/~tril/fvwm/ -- Jon Dowland http://

Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

2003-11-13 Thread duck
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:38:09PM +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Am Mit, 2003-11-12 um 21.37 schrieb duck: > > > I think you need scsi_mod and sr_mod (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I > > have also included the relevant bits from dmesg below. > > When I did "insmod sr_mod" or insmod scsi_m

Re: Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3

2003-11-13 Thread David Z Maze
ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including > the root filesystem. > > I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i686 kernel, which (according to > /boot/config-2.4.16-686) has ext3 support _as a module_... 2.4.*16*? That's really old;

  1   2   >