Kernel upgrade time

God, I hate dicking with the kernel. What would be nice is a really well-thought out Wizard that just tells me what to do. My process for answering the questions is pretty formulaic: favor modern features over archaic ones, favor simplicity, and don't use every feature under the sun. -- To

FIXED - Re: dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)

Things seem to be behaving well now. Here's what I did: 1) I found the correct /var/lib/dpkg/status in /lost+found. I simply hadn't thought to check until an hour ago. Replaced. 2) I removed the files /var/cache/debconf/*. I got the suggestion from this from this post: http://lists.debian.o

Inquiry for China

Our client is interested.  We're more familiar with American specificiations.  How many lbs does one raw hide weigh approximately?  How many pieces are on a pallet?  How many lbs does each pallet weigh?  In America, there's approx. 600 lbs in one lot, and each hide weighs 62 - 64 lbs.  Plea

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

Bill Moseley wrote: > Once again I'm not clear about a security posting. > > Wichert's post about the Debian hacked machines and the integer overflow > in the Kernel talks about the 2.4.18 source package being updated. > But my machines are all using the package: > > kernel-source-2.4.20 - Linu

Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

Hi, Debian (installed from the 7 Woody CDs which I downloaded and burned using my SuSE system) does not recognize my onboard Ethernet interface. SuSE does. Debian seems not to. Is there hope of getting Debian to recognize my onboard Ethernet? Or should I simply buy a $12.00 Ethernet card tomor

Re: Question on Perl modules

Bill Moseley wrote: > Filename: > pool/main/libc/libclass-container-perl/libclass-container-perl_0.07-1_all.deb > Note the version. But Bricolage install says it needs a newer version: > Checking that Class::Container version is >= 0.09... not ok. > Ok, so I grab the latest version from CPAN

Re: Kernel upgrade time

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:03:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: > God, I hate dicking with the kernel. > Did God answer you on this complaint? Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be

Re: trouble while compiling xv

Marc Wilson wrote: > H. S. wrote: > > and I am trying to compile xv(xv-3.10a) and get this error: > I assume you're trying to build it from the sources on Bradley's web site. > That works, sort-of, but you can get Debian sources from here: > [...] > ... and you'll have the last Debian package. It

Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

Hi, Learning as I go... I hope... I also tried editing /etc/network/interfaces thus: auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp Then command # ifup -a ifup: interface lo already configured eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device Darn. Because

Re: Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

Roger Chrisman wrote: > Debian (installed from the 7 Woody CDs which I downloaded and burned I know you won't benefit but perhaps others will. If you have a network connection then I recommend using the 38 MB network install disk from: http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/netinst-full

Re: trouble while compiling xv

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:45:37AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > You can also alien convert the rpm supplied on the Bradley page to a > deb and install that. This happens to be the Red Hat 5.2 version in > this case. Does that one have all the patches? Some of them are nice to have. I just diddled

Re: dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)

Hello Aaron! On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:07:40AM -0800, Aaron Maxwell wrote: [...] I've included a typescript that succinctly demonstrates what's happening. In the script, I have aptitude purge'd and then aptitude install'ed the cvs package. Notice that there are errors and warnings from /usr/sha

Debian Package Finder, where?

Heya there. Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. Is there a mirror or equivalent search engine? Google shows that at leas

Re: Kernel upgrade time

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:44:26AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:03:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > God, I hate dicking with the kernel. > > > > Did God answer you on this complaint? God uses Windows. Didn't you know that? > > Johann > -- > Johann Spies Telefoon

base64 translation

I'm trying to decode an applefile ppt that is in base64 coding. I have read that there is a utility base64-decode that might work? Because packages is down, can someone tell me the appropriate package(s) to read? Thanks Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: passwordless ssh-login

Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Greg Folkert um 21:22: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:29, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in > > combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: > > I have my noteboo

Re: passwordless ssh-login

Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Vineet Kumar um 19:34: > * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 09:52]: > > Hi everybody > > > > Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in > > combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: > > Yes, the key s

Re: Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 00:09, Bob Proulx wrote: > What does lspci say? > >   lspci | grep Ethernet > > Here are some common cases. > >   Intel Ethernet Pro 100  -- eepro100  (e100 in 2.4.20 and later) Bob, THank you, lspci | grep Ethernet indicates Intel Ethernet Pro 100 So I will try to fo

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Chema um 03:02: > Heya there. > > Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking > for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. > Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to > miss packages.deb. > > Is there a mir

Re: allowing root to ftp to localhost

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:07:34AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031127 18:55]: > > How do I allow root to ftp to localhost but not allow it to ftp in > > remotly? > > Which FTP daemon are you using? > > You might find (depending on your daemon) that the easiest

[OT] port 2896

I keep seeing on my firewall logs quite a few droped attempts to connect to port 2896 both udp and tcp. This is a computer conected through an adsl modem (it was on more then one of the dynamicaly allocated ips). All I could find with a search on google is that its assigned to ecovisiong6-1, but I

Re: Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

Roger Chrisman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >   Intel Ethernet Pro 100  -- eepro100  (e100 in 2.4.20 and later) > > lspci | grep Ethernet > indicates Intel Ethernet Pro 100 In that case you have two drivers available. As noted in 2.4.18 only eepro100 is available. It is a free software driver.

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

Hello Chema (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for > "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having > resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss > packages.deb. > > Is there a mirror or equivalent s

Re: odd: gv *very* slow while view ps file from dvips

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:03:43AM -0500, H. S. wrote: > Hi, > > I am compiling a latex source file(just 2 page resume) in Debian > (Unstable) and when I try to magnify a certian area in the resulting ps > file the new magnified widow of gv takes ages to come up. This behavior > was not so in R

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:19:10PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things like > apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I believe this is > a problem with character sets in Windows versus Linux. I'm assuming that > if I i

Re: 2.4.23 in unstable?

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:39:22PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, at 14:11 -0800, Tom wrote: > > > I'm sure you're all reading the Slashdot article right now. > > > > Since 2.4.23 does not appear to be in unstable, should we all go out > > and download it ourselves?

Re: Install Debian over loopfs-based Linux

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:00:06PM -0600, Lynn W wrote: > If a person has a loop file system Linux already running (say in a large file in > FAT32 e.g. Peanut Linux), how can she install Debian over it without booting from > the Debian install CDs? The reason is, when one boots from the Debian CD

Re: problems installing java

"Kristian Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that didn't help. What do you get back from 'type java' (remove quotes) at the command line? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Hot to be a Guru

On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:05:46PM +, Brendan Sleight wrote: > * Try kernel hacking, Linux from Scratch ? If you are a programmer I'd recommend having a look at this. There's a fantastic book 'linux device drivers' that I'd recommend buying if you find that you like this stuff, also available

Re: passwordless ssh-login

Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 09:52]: >>Hi everybody >> >>Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in >>combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the >>following: > >Yes, the key setup is completely i

Re: 2.4.23 in unstable?

quid 2.6.0-test11 ? Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:39:22PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, at 14:11 -0800, Tom wrote: I'm sure you're all reading the Slashdot article right now. Since 2.4.23 does not appear to be in unstable, should we all go out

Cinelerra : libXv.so.1 not found

Hello to the community ! Someone can tell me where to find this shared library : libXv.so.1 ? I'm using Debian/Sid, I've just installed Cinelerra to edit my videos, but when I try to run it I get the following err message: # cinelerra & cinelerra: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.

[Fwd: Re: unchecked 31 times]

My apologies, Greg: I actually wanted to send this mail to the list, so with the private mail I accidentally sent you, you'll probably have it now a second time. Best Regards, Wolfgang -Forwarded Message- From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Su

apt-get + latest package versions

Hi list, I have installed packages using the apt-get command. However some have not installed the latest version. The gcc package is an example of this, as apt-get has installed version 2.95.4-14 even though the latest version is gcc-3.3_3.3.2-4. Is there a switch to ensure the latest version

Re: base64 translation

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to decode an applefile ppt that is in base64 coding. I have > read that there is a utility base64-decode that might work? Because > packages is down, can someone tell me the appropriate package(s) to > read? Well, if the contents of that f

SMTP setup question

Hi All, I have signed up with two ISPs and I tried to set up my Mozilla mail for the second mail account. Mozilla mail would not let me set up a second SMTP. My question is if I send a mail from the second account, which SMTP server will be used? What can I do about it? Regards Anim __

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2003 03:02 schrieb Chema: > Heya there. > > Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for > "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved > the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. > > Is there a m

Problems accessing

Dear all, since the servers went down, I experience problems to access , more specifically: for the individual FVWM packages updates. Trying to access this site by FireBird results in an error window popping up: "Redirection limit

Re: unchecked 31 times

Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I guess there's no free lunch. But is there some way to schedule fsck > at some regular time when you know you won't be needing the mounted > file system? e.g. at 3am local time, or maybe 3pm for night owls? Or maybe while the machine is going down fo

Re: apt-get + latest package versions

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:02:24 + Alex Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > not installed the latest version. The gcc package is an example of > this, as apt-get has installed version 2.95.4-14 even though the > latest version is gcc-3.3_3.3.2-4. Is there a switch to ensure the > latest version i

Re: Problems accessing

on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Lukas Ruf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > since the servers went down, I experience problems to access > , more specifically: > for the individual FVWM > packages updates. The first five quot

Re: problems installing java

I get 'java is /usr/bin/java'. Which I assume is as it's supposed to be. I believe it's a case of bug #225423, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225423 Which has been taken care of. It's just not implemented in the current debian build. Still, if you've got further suggestions, I'm all

Accents etc. in Openoffice not working.

I have seen this on more than one system now and I don't know what is causing it. I have the following installed on Sarge: ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-2high-quality office productivity suite ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-2OpenOffice.org office suite binary files ii openoffice.org 1.1.0-2

Re: installing a pci nic with debain 3

*.* wrote: so i found out the driver i need for a dlink is rtl8139... debian has it and when i run modprobe ("modprobe rtl8139") 0it says that the device / resource is busy the card is in fully and its not in use... whats up with that?? Are you sure the module is not already loaded? Take a

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

I had that problem when mounting a windows partition. Solved it by adding, in my case, 'iocharset=iso8859-15' to fstabs; i.e. mounting it with that option. Don't know which charset is the proper one for american english though; iso8859-1? Apostrophes, quotes, scandinavian characters (åäö), etc.

Re: Cinelerra : libXv.so.1 not found

> I'm using Debian/Sid, > I've just installed Cinelerra to edit my videos, > (just a detail : Cinelerra is a rpm package; I downloaded it, > then used > alien, then "dpkg -i") Not a detail, go to apt-get.org and search for unofficial cinelerra debs. There are two links. Add one ( I used http://w

Re: Kernel upgrade time

Tom wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:44:26AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:03:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: God, I hate dicking with the kernel. Did God answer you on this complaint? God uses Windows. Didn't you know that? God doesn't use base-2 computing

Re: SMTP setup question

Anim Asante wrote: Hi All, I have signed up with two ISPs and I tried to set up my Mozilla mail for the second mail account. Mozilla mail would not let me set up a second SMTP. My question is if I send a mail from the second account, which SMTP server will be used? What can I do about it? Regar

Re: base64 translation

Thanks very much for the reply. The file is powerpoint. I will try your first suggestion since a. I don't know perl (yet?) and b. I know nothing of base64 encoding. Art Edwards On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:01:29PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > >

Re: installing a pci nic with debain 3

Kent West wrote: *.* wrote: so i found out the driver i need for a dlink is rtl8139... debian has it and when i run modprobe ("modprobe rtl8139") 0it says that the device / resource is busy the card is in fully and its not in use... whats up with that?? Are you sure the module is not alrea

Re: Kernel upgrade time

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:33:22AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > God doesn't use base-2 computing systems; He uses base-4 systems; and > they're not based on silicon, but on dexoyribonucleic acids. And instead > of grouping the operands as bytes, He groups them as codons (triplets). > And by the

Re: problems installing java

"Kristian Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I get 'java is /usr/bin/java'. > Which I assume is as it's supposed to be. > > I believe it's a case of bug #225423, > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225423 > Which has been taken care of. It's just not imp

Re: Kernel upgrade time

Tom wrote: God, I hate dicking with the kernel. What would be nice is a really well-thought out Wizard that just tells me what to do. My process for answering the questions is pretty formulaic: favor modern features over archaic ones, favor simplicity, and don't use every feature under the sun

SMTP relaying/sending mail

Hi,   I have a Debian Woody server running on a ADSL connection with (of course) dynamic IPs. I have the (default) Exim 3.35 MTA installed, and when I try to send mail to certain domains, it gets refused.  Some destinations are delivered, but most are not.   Is there a configuration change I

Pop server

Hey all, Can anybody recommend a good pop3 server to serve a user community of a few thousand? Ideally something that supports APOP, SSL, etc... and is less I/O intensive than qpopper, hopefully by a good margin? Our mail server is running with a L.A. around 55 at the moment, which just isn't a

Re: Kernel upgrade time

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:48:14 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom wrote: > > God, I hate dicking with the kernel. > > > > What would be nice is a really well-thought out Wizard that just > > tells me what to do. My process for answering the questions is > > pretty formulaic: fa

Re: base64 translation

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:10:59AM -0700, user list wrote: > Thanks very much for the reply. The file is powerpoint. I will try your > first suggestion since a. I don't know perl (yet?) and b. I know nothing > of base64 encoding. > > Art Edwards > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:01:29PM +0100, [EMA

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Chema (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. Is there a mirror or e

ndiswrapper

Hello List Currently I am trying to install in the perspective to use my wireless bradcom stuff the ndiswrapper module which the source can found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/ Where is the right (Debian) place to put the needed NDIS stuff (namely Windows drivers (*.sys and *.i

apt-get broken after KDE dev download

I recently installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop (2.4.22-xfs). I had no problem using apt-get to grab the latest openoffice, python, xemacs, etc. But after I retrieved some KDE development tools, I'm no longer able to use apt-get. When executing apt-get -f install: Reading Package Lists... Done

Where did the CD writing howto go?

I know there is supposed to be a howto file in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz but the complete /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt directory is missing (I guess it's not part of the knoppix harddisk installation) What do I have to do to get the - very helpfull! - howto's ? Thanks for y

How to shutdown openbsd ssh server and samba server

Hello, At the end of the knoppix harddisc installation, the installer asked to set up some servers, accidentilly I *did* allow it to setup the openbsd ssh server and samba server - but it's of no use for me (I didn't intend to do this - and I don't even really know what steps would be necessary

Kernel Security Update - 2.2?

Ok, I haven't seen anyone else ask it, so I'll ask the dumb question I couldn't find an answer for. :-) Is the 2.2 kernel series affected by the bug found in the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel tree? My assumption would be yes, but if not, it would save me some work. In other words, I'm trying to figure out

Re: problems installing java

Might it be that sarge uses another version than sid? (Correct me if I'm wrong, but sarge is 'testing', and sid is 'unstable', right?) I'm using unstable, and thus we might be using different versions of FB, and maybe this particular bug emerged in a *later* one. --A version I may happen to be u

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >apt-get install apt-file > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > apt-file: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but it is not going to be installed > E: Broken packages I find that message so helpful! ;) > It appears perlapi-

Re: improving security on a home server

> Em Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:30:06 +0100, Benedict Verheyen escreveu: > >> i was wondering how i could secure it better. > > The first tip is, before thinking about adding anything, remove. > > AIDE and SAINT are nice because they help you check what to remove. > > Only after doing th

Re: nvidia vs ati

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:54:08 -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Which is still less than exciting. And that's the default window size > for glxgears. Full screen (maximized) is real ugly: > > 164 frames in 5.0 seconds = 32.800 FPS > 165 frames in 5.

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:12:59 -0500, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:24, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 01:28 GMT, Greg Folkert penned: > > > > > > / and /var are machine critical. Let us remember I come from

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

> I'm using a 2.6 kernel I compiled from the Debian source package, and > encountering some odd behaviour. I cannot unload modules--I get: > > Module foo cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in > include/linux/module.h:483 > > This results in having a lot of cruft in the kernel. Is this

Re: Unison dies..

> How can I set unison to run as a dameon on the server and on the client > prevent it for running more than on instance when the cron calls it.. pgrep unison || unison in your crontab. -- To reply by email, replace "deadspam.com" by "alumni.utexas.net" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:02, Chema wrote: > Heya there. > > Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for "which deb > provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved the situation in > unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. > > Is there a mirror

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 12:07 GMT, Juergen Stuber penned: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I guess there's no free lunch. But is there some way to schedule fsck >> at some regular time when you know you won't be needing the mounted >> file system? e.g. at 3am local time, or maybe 3p

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:12:12 -0600, "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - Original Message - > From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 13:34 > Subject: Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg

Re: Kernel upgrade time

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 03:24, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:44:26AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:03:33PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > God, I hate dicking with the kernel. > > > > > > > Did God answer you on this complaint? > > God uses Windows. Didn't you know t

doubt about CONFIG_RTNETLINK option on kernel 2.4.18

According description of iproute packet, the options CONFIG_NETLINK and CONFIG_RTNETLINK must be compiled in the running kernel. I have a kernel 2.4.18 and on the config-2.4.18 I can see: CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=m but I can't see any line relative to CONFIG_RTNETLINK. I have downladed kernel-image-

Re: nvidia vs ati

Gerard Ceraso wrote: I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I have noticed that some of the Ati cards seem to have a bit better performance in some of the tests on the hardware review sites. I w

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:55:47 -0700, Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > scripsit Arnt Karlsen: > > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:08:20 -0700, > > Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > scripsit Paul E Condon: > >

Re: Where did the CD writing howto go?

scripsit Joris Huizer: > I know there is supposed to be a howto file in > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz but the complete > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt directory is missing (I guess it's not part > of the knoppix harddisk installation) > What do I have to do to get the - very he

Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/debian-announce-2003/msg3.htmlDebian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

Kristian Niemi said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:51:33PM +0200: > I had that problem when mounting a windows partition. > > Solved it by adding, in my case, 'iocharset=iso8859-15' to fstabs; i.e. > mounting it with that option. Don't know which charset is the proper one > for american english thou

Re: Kernel Security Update - 2.2?

Jacob S. said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:58:45AM -0600: > Ok, I haven't seen anyone else ask it, so I'll ask the dumb question I > couldn't find an answer for. :-) > > Is the 2.2 kernel series affected by the bug found in the 2.4 and 2.6 > kernel tree? My assumption would be yes, but if not, it w

Re: Where did the CD writing howto go?

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:50, Joris Huizer wrote: > I know there is supposed to be a howto file in > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz but the complete > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt directory is missing (I guess it's not part > of the knoppix harddisk installation) > What do I have

Luck with sarge-i386.netinst.iso?

Hi list! I tried again with the sarge netinst iso from http://freedesktop.org/~daniel/d-i/ But had no better luck than the last time. The menu hilite keeps pointing to network install (forget the exact wording) and does not progress, so you have to do the things yourself. Result is something th

Re: Windows character sets and Linux

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:51:33 +0200, Kristian Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Paul M Foster wrote: > > I've often seen webpages where certain characters (primarily things > > like apostrophes, quotes and such) show as '?' under Linux. I > > believe this is a pr

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:44:48 -0700, Thanasis Kinias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also, as a side issue I'm not seeing the vaunted desktop performance > increases I keep hearing about. On a 2.6 GHz P-IV system (512 MB > RAM), 2.6 seems if anything a bit more sluggis

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Re: apt-get broken after KDE dev download

Jeff Bauer wrote: I recently installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop (2.4.22-xfs). I had no problem using apt-get to grab the latest openoffice, python, xemacs, etc. But after I retrieved some KDE development tools, I'm no longer able to use apt-get. When executing apt-get -f install: Reading Pack

dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server

I'm trying to put together a proof-of-concept thin-client Debian computer lab at my university. Here at the university, we have a centralized RIS (Remote Imaging Server? Microsoft?) that provides a means whereby Tech Support can instruct a client PC's BIOS to boot off the network (PXE) and then

Re: Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:09:33 -0800, Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ..you're running the 2.2 or 2.4.18-bf24? (' uname -a ') -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenario

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Re: How to shutdown openbsd ssh server and samba server

Joris Huizer wrote: Hello, At the end of the knoppix harddisc installation, the installer asked to set up some servers, accidentilly I *did* allow it to setup the openbsd ssh server and samba server - but it's of no use for me (I didn't intend to do this - and I don't even really know what step

Re: How to shutdown openbsd ssh server and samba server

Hello Joris Huizer (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > At the end of the knoppix harddisc installation, the installer asked > to set up some servers, accidentilly I *did* allow it to setup the > openbsd ssh server and samba server - but it's of no use for me (I > didn't intend to do this - and I don't

Re: Pop server

> Can anybody recommend a good pop3 server to serve a user community of > a few thousand? Ideally something that supports APOP, SSL, etc... and > is less I/O intensive than qpopper, hopefully by a good margin? I don't know, if this applies to your case, but you can tweak the I/O intensity of q

Re: bind and dynamic ip

Lucas Bergman írta: You are an idiot, but I guess I could read that from your letter. *plonk* LOL : I can just laugh at you... Lucas -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] port 2896

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 03:38:48 +0200, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I keep seeing on my firewall logs quite a few droped attempts to > connect to port 2896 both udp and tcp. > This is a computer conected through an adsl modem (it was on more then > one of

Re: Problems accessing

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 05:00:00 -0800, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Lukas Ruf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > since the servers went down, I experience problems to access > > , mo

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:09:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [zealous snip] | debian Xprt_64: lpc: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information | available (required by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2) Install libgnutls7, or install a different version if you have some v

Re: odd: gv *very* slow while view ps file from dvips

"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am compiling a latex source file(just 2 page resume) in Debian > (Unstable) and when I try to magnify a certian area in the resulting > ps file the new magnified widow of gv takes ages to come up. Is it faster on Debian if you do dvips -Pcmz file.dvi -o f

dell poweredge 2400

I am trying to install debian 3.0r1 on a dell poweredge 2400.   This has the perc 2/si adaptec aic7880 raid controller installed.  I am unable to get this to run.   I did try to compile the latest kernel on another machine and boot with those disks however it did not work either.   If

Re: Re: Nagios on Debian

Our setup is with Apache2. The binary characters appearing in the right-hand frame of the Nagios web interface must be un-interpreted CGI. This seems to be Apache2 related, or can it be explained by the fact that no plugins are installed? Gerhard As for the issue with Apache2 I haven't actu

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