Re: process limits (was: Spamassain question, whitelist?)

2003-12-14 Thread Randy Orrison
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:51:04AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: | > > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: | > > > For performance reasons, I also have in /etc/security/limits: | > > > | > > > mailhardnproc 30 | > > > | > > > ...to avoid runaway condit

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 1:10, sloopy malibu wrote: > I followed these directions and now I get to login when I run vnc... > > http://trilug.org/~chrish/blog.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=130 > > And runs great > I followed those directions and it didn't change anything. I think that is because step

RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > >Terry writes: > > > > > >>Now, if you are just doing this "in good faith" or making a "best > >>effort", you're asking for a lawsuit the first time somebody buys your > >>stuff and can't get t

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
Step 3 is also rather confusing... # Modify your xinetd configuration - You will need to create files in /etc/xinetd.d/ for each of the lines you've added to /etc/services. Here are some examples that you can pretty much copy & paste: * /etc/xinetd.d/vnc # description: VNC service vnc {

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread David Baron
Yup! This is what started the sholw "consumers" threat. A common enough problem. Maybe a hundred messages so far on this and related ADSL problems since I got my Debian/Gnu/KDE installed. Still ... no ADSL. A few things you might check though: What type of modem are you using? USB ones need speci

Re: remote GNOME session over ssh fails

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi Lloyd, I have the same problem, though I recently changed my default PATH, which I consider to be the most probable cause. Too lazy to change it back, because it actually has a reason. Did you changer your default PATH too? I run a 'fat' environment (gnome etc.) and was able to

Re: Linux Music Recording

2003-12-14 Thread David Baron
I have looked at dozens of these since being advised of their existance. Adour looks really exciting. However, I am as tied to Cakewalk as you to Cubase. All those nice pluging, audio-engine optimizations, etc. My main reason for staying with windows here is the MIDI software that are my main too

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-14 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:31:03 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 04:04 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> Whenever I open an application it is too big for my desktop (Gnome). >> There are a couple of problems with this. If I resize it many of the >> controls are obscured. Then there

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi Michael, check your /etc/hostname which should contain your hostname only, /etc/hosts which should contain your ip-address and hostname, /etc/nsswitch.conf which should contain some line like hosts: files dns and wether the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf is still valid. All files s

Re: ssh behaviour: unexpectedly being logged out

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi, what does ssh -v -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm say? (More v's => more verbosity) Compare this with the same from your other box. Sincerley, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 05:48, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:26, Kent West wrote: > > > My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in > > /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 harnoiscomputer localhost > > A wonderful idea, but alas, the hosts file on my l

Re: RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:16 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > >Terry writes: > > >>Now, if you are just doing this "in good faith" or making a "best > > >>effort", you're asking for a lawsuit t

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread sloopy malibu
On 12/14/03 03:24, "Scarletdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It says to create files in /xinetd.d/, yet there was no such directory. > Also, what is supposed to go into those files? I thought at first that > it meant the above statements; one for each file, but those look like > they belong i

Re: disabling inetd

2003-12-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 22:52]: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Initech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031212 13:42]: > > > > > > update-rc.d -f inetd remove > > > > > > (note: this is the way you modify init scripts in debian) > > > > note: this is _

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does > not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive > lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the > floppy then what

loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread A. L. Meyers
Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback interface lo is down, unreachable (even as root) and ping fails. Occasionally I get message

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Adam
On Saturday 13 December 2003 09:50, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > I agree to that. Not everyone should use a private mailserver. Hobbyists > and Freaks should not run such service, it's a job for professionals, > and those have a static ip. I'm really tired of writing a lot in > mailinglists an get

rootstrap gets stuck

2003-12-14 Thread Shaul Karl
I am trying to build a root_fs with rootstrap. Yet rootstrap gets stuck after Mounted devfs on /dev and nothing seems to happen. All the processes seems to be sleeping. Pinging the tap0 interface works but not the uml side of the connection. No network traffic seems to take place, which is w

Re: RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:35:06AM -0600, Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:16 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > >Terry writes: > > > >>Now, if you are j

Wrong colors with gimp-print

2003-12-14 Thread dooble M
Hi I'm trying to configure my epson stylus color 670 under linux debian woody. I installed cups and gimp-print and everything works fine eccept that when I print something, the output image is pink ! It does the same thing with lpr/magicfilter and with cups under mandrake 9.2. That's not my print

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned: > > I would like to create a role-account, configure everything for this > > account and copy all those settings everytime a new user is created. > > I know about /etc/skel but I am not sure if it's possible to u

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
Brad Sims wrote: > On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any > > pointers. > > Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gnome, .gnome2, .vimrc, .bashrc. Doesn't work. It's not just the owner of a file,

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:04:36PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > > > On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any > > > pointers. > > > > Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gno

chmod

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Turner
I am a newbie. Everyone has to start somewhere right? :) Anyway, i have been using chmod. I wanted to change all my files to 775 in one folder. I used the -R addition. But it did not work. It gives me the message 'too few arguments'. What is going on? I did in the end, change them all one by

Re: chmod

2003-12-14 Thread Rus Foster
> > Anyway, i have been using chmod. I wanted to change all my files to 775 > in one folder. I used the -R addition. But it did not work. > > It gives me the message 'too few arguments'. > > What is going on? > > I did in the end, change them all one by one. Which did work. But it is > a pain. It

Re: chmod

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Sun Dec 14, 2003 at 01:15:01PM +0100, Stephen Turner wrote: > Anyway, i have been using chmod. I wanted to change all my files to > 775 in one folder. I used the -R addition. But it did not work. > > It gives me the message 'too few arguments'. So you gave it too few arguments ;-). chmod

debian community (was Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array)

2003-12-14 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 13 Dec 2003 08:13:09 +(-0500), Paul Morgan wrote: > > BTW, the debian community deserves a lot of credit for their QA work. > Doing QA sucks for the most part, and most folks do their level best to > avoid being part of it. And yet debian, this cloud of volunteers from all > over the

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-14 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). POP3/fetchmail/exim/procmail. I'm on 56k too, actually about 40k in reality. I haven

NSCD not in process list

2003-12-14 Thread Craig Jackson
Hello, After "apt-get install nscd", nscd installs and says it's starting but it is not in process list. The nscd.conf file is not modified. "/etc/init.d/nscd start" says nscd is starting but again not in process list. I am using pam_ldap and libnss_ldap with nsswitch looking like this: passwd:

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Robert Storey
If I understand correctly, you've created a grub floppy? If not, you can download a floppy image file (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html) and use the dd command to create the floppy. With the floppy, you should be able to boot. You'll have to manually type the commands (unless you can use

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:20, John Smith wrote: just to be sure, you say 'identical', they are not useing the same hostname, I hope? Well, no, they aren't. But the hosts files are identical; it's only the /etc/hostname file that needs to be different. -- Michael D. Harnois 3L,

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello A. L. Meyers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, > I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only > failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback > interface lo is down, unreachable (ev

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:10, John Smith wrote: > check your /etc/hostname which should contain your hostname > only, /etc/hosts which should contain your ip-address and hostname, > /etc/nsswitch.conf which should contain some line like hosts: files > dns > and wether the contents of your /etc/reso

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should > upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. How very odd. Yes, that does make hostname -f work. The strange thing, though, is that with both 2.11 and 2.12, hostname --version r

Re: chmod

2003-12-14 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Sunday 14 December 2003 13:15, Stephen Turner wrote: > I am a newbie. Everyone has to start somewhere right? > > :) > > Anyway, i have been using chmod. I wanted to change all my files to 775 > in one folder. I used the -R addition. But it did not work. > > It gives me the message 'too few argum

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Philipp Schulte
Nunya wrote: > FWIW this approach works perfectly for me. > I cp -rL my dotfiles as root, chown root, chmod a+r them. > When I reimage, I cp them as my account. This fixes the owner. > I think they still end up world-readable, but you can fix that. > > I do it for these files: > > desk:/mnt/ap

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 23:16 Subject: Re: Easing the load. > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:16:24 -0500 > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:50:15 +0800, David Palm

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Nunya wrote: > > I don't get it. You are talking about copying the files. This of > course is not a problem, but what do you do if you have to change the > content of hundreds of files for each user? > Phil The point is, to the d

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:09:35AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > The point is, to the degree you want the users to have identical > settings, you don't, for big things like kde and gnome. They (luckily) > don't have the username embeded in them. Correction, this statement is wrong. I guess you either

BIND can't find root nameservers

2003-12-14 Thread John Holland
I have a recurring problem on a Debian machine that is running named. The bind program becomes unable to get the address of the root nameservers and fills up /var/log/daemonlog,/var/log/syslog with messages to that effect. sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) This causes th

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scarletdown wrote: On 14 Dec 2003 at 1:10, sloopy malibu wrote: I followed these directions and now I get to login when I run vnc... http://trilug.org/~chrish/blog.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=130 And runs great I followed those directions and it didn't change anything. I think that is bec

Re: RFC: Linux compatibility test framework

2003-12-14 Thread Kent West
Terry Hancock wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:16 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: John Hasler wrote: So you guarantee that [a computer system] works with a specific version of a specific distribution. And

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:29:48 -0500, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Arnt Karlsen wrote: or `make oldconfig`. To be honest, I only found out about oldconfig a few months ago. .. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the Debian way.

Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-14 Thread Carl Fink
A couple of web searches don't find a simple step-by-step guide to installing Spamassassin on Debian Stable. I'm unwilling to experiment without some guidance because I don't have a "spare" server, only a production system running Sendmail. Most guides that I've seen refer to using Procmail for t

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
H. S. wrote: Good thing this is not a common approach, else everybody would be *told* they *must* know image processing theory and compression theory to view an mpeg movie on a computer! ->HS I find that learning the theory behind something (when I have the time) makes it significantly easier

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 14:08:21 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely > usable, but google seems to disagree. Google isn't quite the all-seeing eye yet. http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp has e.g. the P

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice. - snip - Before starting test as per your advice, following discoveries were found 1) # pppoe pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADO packets (pppoe could not start. It can be started at time of configuring network card after installation of Debian 3.0)

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. - snip - > > What happens if you try pinging 66.218.71.86 (w7.scd.yahoo.com, one of > the servers that listens to www.yahoo.com)? # ping -c 3 66.218.71.86 PING 66.218.71.86 (66.218.71.86): 56 data bytes --- 66.218.71.86 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitt

Re: NSCD not in process list

2003-12-14 Thread Craig Jackson
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:16, Craig Jackson wrote: Also see this in syslog: Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[320]: /usr/sbin/identd: exit status 0x1 Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[5663]: getpwnam: identd: No such user Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[320]: /usr/sbin/identd: exit status 0x1 Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[3

Sid login problem (delay)... PAM or something else?

2003-12-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
I noted on my Dec. 10 dist-upgrade of Sid that logging off of a virtual terminal had a large delay introduced (minutes, it seems). An error msg. is spit out after a bit: INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes This does NOT happen with the console (tty1). Googling noted the e

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How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-14 Thread J N
... I'm noticing that I appear to need to know more specific technical information than I currently have access to for my laptop: Dell Latitude CPI-A 366XT. Can anyone point me to a FAQ that would tell me what kind of chipsets were in the machine (such as FLASH chipsets), or the type of IDE co

Can't mount floppy as USER

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, I can't mount floppy as USER only as ROOT /etc/fstab /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hdc2 / ext2errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdc3 noneswapsw

Re: BIND can't find root nameservers

2003-12-14 Thread Shaun Crossley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0500, John Holland wrote: > I have a recurring problem on a Debian machine that is running named. > The bind program becomes unable to get the address of the root > nameservers and fills up /var/log/daemonlog,/var/log/syslog with > messages to that effect. > > s

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, J N wrote: ... I'm noticing that I appear to need to know more specific technical information than I currently have access to for my laptop: Dell Latitude CPI-A 366XT. you can visit the site http://www.tuxmobil.org/ to get usefull links and stuff Can anyone point me to a FAQ that wo

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:34, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > > If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should > > upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. > > How very odd. Yes, that does make hostname -f work. :) > The str

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-14 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of trying to convert a leased rack space from RedHat to > Debian. I'm working my way through: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html > http://trilldev.sourceforge.n

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does >> not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive >> lay-outs, I can load knop

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Yes, many ISPs do that, and it's a good thing. > We all would drown in spam if they accepted mail from > everywhere. There is absolutely nothing you can do except to > use your providers mailserver. On Saturday 13 December 2003 0

Re: Sid login problem (delay)... PAM or something else?

2003-12-14 Thread Joe Potter
Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I noted on my Dec. 10 dist-upgrade of Sid that logging off of a virtual > terminal had a large delay introduced (minutes, it seems). An error > msg. is spit out after a bit: > > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > This does NOT happen with the c

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: .._I_ would add everything in netfilter/iptables and remove ipchains support, and make use of iptables statefullness features, up high in in my rule lists, seatch netfilter.org mailing lists for samples of " -j ALLOW RELATED,ESTABLISHED " in action. Well, that's a given. Th

Re: NSCD not in process list

2003-12-14 Thread Craig Jackson
More info: sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can't install mythtv on unstable

2003-12-14 Thread stan
I'm building a new stable machine to use as a testbed for mythtv. I've added the following to etc/apt/sources.lst # MythTV deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu:8088/~mdz/debian woody mythtv deb http://marillat.free.fr testing main But when I do an "apt-get install mythtv\*" I get an error about not fi

Re: Kernel-HOWTO has been removed for review

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
> > Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >>>.. ;-) And I need to get time to learn the Debian way. ;-) > >>The Debian way is really a piece of cake. > > ..patching too? How about Netfilter Patch-O-Matic? > > > From `man make-k

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Liu: > [somebody:] > > Similarly to kill the connection: > > > > poff dsl-provider > > # poff 202.123.68.108 > /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for provider Close, but no cigar. Use (literally!): poff dsl-provider# not IP address -- Any technolo

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: [snip] Perhaps you'll follow your own advice and seek three votes to throw yourself off the list for your inability to use line wrap. -- paul "Do the little things" ("Gwnewch y pethau bychain") St. David (Dewi Sant)

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 14 December 2003 08:49 am, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Nunya wrote: > > I do it for these files: > > > > desk:/mnt/apt/inst/dotfiles# ls > > dot.fetchmailrc dot.gnome dot.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 > > dot.procmailrcdot.xsession > > dot.fluxbox dot.gnome2 dot.gtkrc-2.0

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:48:26AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 23:16 > Subject: Re: Easing the load. > > > > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:16:24 -0500 > > Paul Morga

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 14 December 2003 09:54 am, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp has e.g. > the PDF Reference, Fourth Edition, Version 1.5 (1172 pages). xpdf seems to > handle the "Acrobat 5" version of it just fine. Hmm. Yes, that's very interesting. I

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Roberto Sanchez_, on 12/14/03 10:48,typed: H. S. wrote: Good thing this is not a common approach, else everybody would be *told* they *must* know image processing theory and compression theory to view an mpeg movie on a computer! ->HS I find that learning the theory behind someth

Re: I can't update SPARC unstable

2003-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Saturday, Dec 13, 2003, at 15:02 America/Denver, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: Colin Watson wrote: The maddening thing is, the update worked for the Sparc a couple of weeks ago, but hasn't worked at all in the last few days. In what way does it fail to work? In dselect, when I ask it to update, th

Re: Bootup Freezes - Still Need Help

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
Responders have suggested this might be a hardware problem but I don't see why. I downloaded the latest debian kernel-source-2.4.22 and complied a new kernel. I still have the freeze on bootup problem. The point in the bootup process where this occurs seems to be random. I can recover by bootin

Re: NSCD not in process list

2003-12-14 Thread Craig Jackson
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:16, Craig Jackson wrote: Looks like nscd is looking for the root account but can't find it. I think maybe something isn't working properly with pam_ldap. 6126: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) 6126: GETPWBYUID (0) 6126: Haven't found "0" in password cache

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Magnus von Koeller
On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: > It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, uncensored, > fast email system. Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better description for my email account if it wasn't for my Spam filtering - considering that >95% of my email is Sp

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 23:58:34 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:31:55PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> - if you don't read communications from earthlink, then no wonder you >> don't know what's going on >> > I did check my backed up folder and found the last 8 months of earthl

Re: Can't mount floppy as USER

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:53:31 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I can't mount floppy as USER only as ROOT > > /etc/fstab > /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > > /dev/hdc2 / ext2errors=remount-r

Client Development Specialist for Technology firms

2003-12-14 Thread Scott M. Wiseman
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don't have enough free space

2003-12-14 Thread Gruessle
Hi, This is my first post and help call :) I just installed Debian I did exit without installing any packages - had to install it 3 times and didn't want to risk another glitch while installing packages. Anyway the basic system seams to work now, but I have following problem I ran tasksel from

Re: don't have enough free space

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Gruessle_, on 12/14/03 14:02,typed: Hi, This is my first post and help call :) I just installed Debian I did exit without installing any packages - had to install it 3 times and didn't want to risk another glitch while installing packages. Anyway the basic system seams to work now, bu

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. > > 1: Every time I connect, I always ge

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Roberto Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > Unless you need the entire desktop for something, you might try > X11 forwarding. You can install Cygwin/X on your '98 box and then > ssh into your Debian box. Then you can run whatever X apps you want > as the user that you logged in as. Tru

changing roots on: dpkg -i

2003-12-14 Thread Rob Benton
I'm trying to install the xfree86 packages with the /opt directory as root. I've tried using --instdir but the install fails on the pre/postinst scripts. Is there an easy way to do this without having to build my own package? If not is there a way I can modify the binary debs without having to r

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Nunya
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original > developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people > could disconnect their viewer at work, go home, reconnect and be > exactly where they had left of

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:25:11 -0500 Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > [snip] > > Perhaps you'll follow your own advice and seek three votes to throw > yourself off the list for your inability to use line wrap. Well, maybe this t

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > > True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original > > developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people > > could disconnect their viewer at work, go home,

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread John Hasler
H. S. writes: > But we are fortunate the kind of attitude that some programmers and > hackers have is not so common outside their community. Imagine going to a > charity medical camp and explaining your problem and getting a retort in > return similar to "Go read a book on medicine first," or "To r

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:22PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > search domain.com\000 > nameserver 192.168.2.1 Ah ha! You might try adding a nameserver on the outside or make sure that nameserver is able to get a connection

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:35:58 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:48:26AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 23:16 > > Subject: Re: E

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 14 December 2003 12:41 pm, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: > > It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, > > uncensored, fast email system. > > Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better description > for my email account if i

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _John Hasler_, on 12/14/03 15:11,typed: H. S. writes: But we are fortunate the kind of attitude that some programmers and hackers have is not so common outside their community. Imagine going to a charity medical camp and explaining your problem and getting a retort in return similar to

Re: xsane on woody [SOLVED]

2003-12-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi list! I am setting up *Backstreet Ruby* the multi-seat Linux option on woody. Had to recompile X 4.3.0: works great... Have a problem with xsane. On woody it's version 0.84-2. When doing any scanning the colors look extremely weird, sort of like a color negative. Googli

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:45 -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > I accessed this without registering because you provided a deep-link, but > normally, Adobe makes you go through a forms process to get this far, > AFAICT. Nope. I very vaguely recalled it being available on "developer.adobe.com" (whic

eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't work any more: 1. as user. When run witn "-v" parameter it shows like the following: - - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't work any more: 1. as user. When run witn "-v" parameter it sh

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
This is a repost, the first one got screwed up, apologies. Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then changed to sid's repositories), eject won't wor

Re: eject won't work any more

2003-12-14 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 12/14/03 15:33,typed: This is a repost, the first one got screwed up, apologies. Apparently, _Joan Tur_, on 12/14/03 15:29,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having removed all *knoppix* packages (I installed SID using knoppix 3.2 and then

Re: Can't mount floppy as USER

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:53:31AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > (remark: I also tried > /dev/fd0 /floppy autoowner,user,noauto 0 0) You want... /dev/fd0 /floppy autouser,noauto,rw 0 0 - -- .

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:26:07 -0500, Al Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually ... I have several email addresses, and my mail comes > in from several paths. MY spam filtering seems to be nearly > 100% effective on the freeelectron address, which I control.

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