Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-29 Thread Charles Muller
Uwe Dippel wrote: > IMHO someone in here was right: module - IP - routing. We haven't had it > on routing yet. I simply have no idea how to do this. But I just found this very interesting post, which leads me to believe that the problem is unrelated to the particular device: From http://cert.uni

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:09:47AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:45:34AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I see double spaced fonts when I start xterm. I don't know if it's > > related, though I'd love to fix it! > > Double-spaced horizontally, or vertically? Horizontally w

Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Wayne, Lot of thanks for your advice. - snip - > OO is running fine on Debian. You may have a KDE issue but from all I > read OO is running fine on sarge, testing and unstable. > > If you want to update OO, on Debian, you do not have to do what you > had to do on an RPM Linux (Red Hat, Mandr

Problem in running dpkg --configure -a

2003-12-29 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Debina (testing/unstable - 3.0) On running # dselect update Hit ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org testing/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org testing/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org testing/main Sources Hit ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org testing/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org te

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-29 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:47:24PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:10:06 -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > > what's the best imap server for woody? > > I'm asking the same question for the near future, and I already > know what I am looking for: a Po

Re: mount from debian to 44bsd, chown bug report?

2003-12-29 Thread Tomas Szepe
On Dec-28 2003, Sun, 18:43 -0500 Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # chown root /mnt/test > chown: changing ownership of `test': Read-only file system Does dmesg reveal any clues as to why the fs is readonly? -- Tomas Szepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: latex & prosper

2003-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Dec 2003, gustavo wrote: > Hello > > Please I need some help with LaTeX. > I can't get working prosper class (And other ones that also are for > presentations). > I try every think. For example I was take a 'Example.tex' from > "/usr/doc/prosper/examples/" > Run it with elatex (and

Re: is there software that convert mpeg1 files to other format to get better compression rate?

2003-12-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Dom, 2003-12-28 Ãs 21:48, j smith escreveu: > is there software that convert mpeg1 files to other > format to get better compression rate? You should remember that converting from one lossy format to another can degrade quality. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTEC

OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread A . L . Meyers
Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > >> Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on >> one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 years old >> - now I know why the old wizzards always prefer SCSI

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Rus Foster
> Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply > not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the > interface and not in the media? IMHO SCSI disks last longer so its worth paying extra there. Also the interface for SCSI is just better as the controlle

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Qua, 1997-01-01 Ãs 10:09, A.L.Meyers escreveu: > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI disks, > > the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically identical, whether > > IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which a

Public / private IP addresses

2003-12-29 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I've dealt with quite a few LANs over the years. I'd like to try something that I never have done before... I work with ADSL providers who allocate 5 public IP addresses (sometimes 1) to a connection. If I have a LAN of, say, 20 workstations, I can use NAT, and give them private address

Re: freeswan from backports.org

2003-12-29 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Antony Gelberg wrote: | Anyone using the freeswan 2.01 from backports.org? I have: | deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable freeswan | deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian stable freeswan | at the top of my sources.list. | | However, upon ma

Re: Where can I find postgresql 7.3 package?

2003-12-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 01:47, Russ Schneider wrote: > Since packages.debian.org is down, does anyone know where I can find and > download the package for postgresql 7.3 for Woody? I haven't got a repository for that version any more. 7.4 is available at http://people.debian.org/~elphick/debian/

apt-get install problem

2003-12-29 Thread Rick Pasotto
Today's upgrades included 'foomatic-filters'. When dpkg asks about instlling the new `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' I press 'd' to see what has changed and the program hangs. Ctl-C aborts the install. -- "Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good

Re: Where can I find postgresql 7.3 package?

2003-12-29 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Dom, 2003-12-28 Ãs 23:47, Russ Schneider escreveu: > Since packages.debian.org is down, does anyone know where I can find and > download the package for postgresql 7.3 for Woody? If you really don't want to get the testing one, try http://apt-get.org./ -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corc

Re: exim4 and queue_list_requires_admin option

2003-12-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-12-28 22:32:03 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:02:22AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > With exim 3, this could be done by setting queue_list_requires_admin > > to false: > > > > # If this next line is uncommented, any user can see the mail queue > > # by using the

routing gateway question

2003-12-29 Thread Debian User
i am interested in placing a gateway between my work network and my workstation. i have a firewall/gateway at home between my home lan and my isp. i used my home configuration as a guide but i am still coming up snake-eyes here at work. my routing table at work is: Kernel IP routing table Des

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Jan: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:33:17AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 12:56:47PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > I have two Ethernet cards (NICs) in a PII-300. The first recognized is > > an NE2000 ISA clone at IRQ10, and the second is a PCI at (shared) IRQ > > 12. > > >

Re: latex & prosper

2003-12-29 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:13:24AM +0200, gustavo wrote: > Hello > > Please I need some help with LaTeX. > I can't get working prosper class (And other ones that also are for > presentations). > I try every think. For example I was take a 'Example.tex' from > "/usr/doc/prosper/examples/"

Re: hard disk not accessable via second ide controller

2003-12-29 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi all, Just came across this while rooting around for info on one of my own controllers which uses the CMD680. > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:47:15PM +, Eric Bachman wrote: > > > > What do I need to do be able to access the hard disks? > > 00:12.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc: Unkn

Re: apt-get install problem

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 8:04 am, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today's upgrades included 'foomatic-filters'. When dpkg asks about > instlling the new `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' I press 'd' to see > what has changed and the program hangs. Ctl-C aborts the i

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:32:46PM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: > > /bin/bash must be accessible from within the chroot jail. For instance, > > on most systems, "chroot /etc" would not work, because /etc/bin/bash > > does not exist. >

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:51:17PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:18:54PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > Quite correct. The *appearance* is misleading, though. It should > > look like an MDA application with no document loaded (gray > > background) instead of like a text docu

Re: packages.debian.org?

2003-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:57:00PM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:00:00 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: [somebody removed an attribution line here; please don't] > >>Not that I don't miss updates to, say, GNOMESword and SANE... > >> > > The package repo

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:41:05AM +1100, Kieren wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:24:35AM +1100, Kieren wrote: > >> > >> I have followed the Hard-Disk-Upgrade to the best of my ability, > >> upgrading the 3.5 gb hard drive on my old pentium 100 (Del

apt-get totally broken: "/var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked"

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process and eve

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
Morning! Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > > nameif (8) - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses > > > > But I couldn't find nameif called from anywhere--so I guess the right > > thing to do would be to cal

The US is Right (was re: some ID10T is out of the office.)

2003-12-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 17:08, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > Who's doing it backwards depends, I guess, on your point of view. > > Well, the US is fairly unique in doing it backwards. What is with > Americans thinking everyone else is backwar

Re: latex & prosper

2003-12-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:43:02PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: > > Find enclosed my Makefile to produce prosper PDF files. Hope it will > help ... > Will this not be easier? FILE = presentation all: pdf clean: rm -rf *.dvi rm -rf *.pdf rm

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 01 Jan 1997 13:09:41 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:49:17 +0100, A.L.Meyers wrote: >> >>> Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was on >>> one of the bad blocks on that partition (IDE drive about 4 ye

Re: apt-get totally broken: "/var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked"

2003-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Schulman wrote: > This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' > that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is > totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is lo

Font settings in gvim

2003-12-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
After today's upgrade in sarge, I have vim 6.2.x on my machine. The new gtk icons look good. But I am facing a problem in setting the guifont in ~/.vimrc. I have the following line in my .vimrc: set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 10 It does not appear to have any effect on gvim :-(

Re: The US is Right (was re: some ID10T is out of the office.)

2003-12-29 Thread Ken Gilmour
Replying to the message sent by Greg Folkert on Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:56:28 -0500, received at 15:07:40 on 29/12/2003. Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 17:08, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> > Who's doing it backwards depends, I guess

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:21:12 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:50:16 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: >> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:57:42 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >> >> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 the mental interface of >> >

Re: routing gateway question

2003-12-29 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:23:38AM -0500, Debian User wrote: > can someone help me as to what i have neglected? Maybe none of these, maybe all: (0) Reading the Networking HOWTO (1) Assuring it's OK to use the 192.168.*.* within your network @ work (or isolating it (Masquerading-Simple-HOWT

Re: Font settings in gvim

2003-12-29 Thread Todd Pytel
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:37:18 +0530 "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After today's upgrade in sarge, I have vim 6.2.x on my machine. The > new gtk icons look good. But I am facing a problem in setting the > guifont in ~/.vimrc. > Has anyone noticed/experienced this problem? Should I fi

Re: The US is Right (was re: some ID10T is out of the office.)

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:56:28 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 17:08, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:39:16AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> > Who's doing it backwards depends, I guess, on your point of view. >> >> Well, the US is fairly unique in doing it backwar

Re: The US is Right (was re: some ID10T is out of the office.)

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:09:16 +, Ken Gilmour wrote: > > I found an Irish penny in my change so i consider myself part Irish > You are incorrect. Your remark demonstrates that you are 100% Wanker. -- paul It's working as coded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: latex & prosper

2003-12-29 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:29:21PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Will this not be easier? > > FILE = presentation > > all: pdf > > clean: > rm -rf *.dvi > rm -rf *.pdf > rm -rf *.log > rm -rf *.out > > pdf: > latex $(FILE) > lat

Re: cdrdao not working with 2.6

2003-12-29 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Diumenge 28 Desembre 2003 21:46, en Philippe Marzouk va escriure: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:11:21AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote: > > > Well then, now I'm curious: why don't you want

Re: apt-get totally broken: "/var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked"

2003-12-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman wrote: > > This morning I made the mistake of remotely killing an 'apt-get update' > > that had not finished running on another terminal. Now, apt-get is > > totally broken. Whenever I try to install anything, I get: > > > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/conf

Re: Font settings in gvim

2003-12-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 09:24:44AM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: > > I noticed the change also, but it worked out fine for me. I have > > set guifont=Courier\ 10\ Pitch\ 11 > > However, mine is in .gvimrc, not .vimrc. Shouldn't make a difference, > right? I wouldn't think so, bu

Re: PPTP setup

2003-12-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 11:10:50AM +0100, Lorenzo Rossi wrote: > > I would like to setup a pptp client to connect to a win2k pptp server > in my office. > > I use Debian Testing, i have installed the following packages: > > kernel-patch-mppe > pptp-linux > > APT installed also other packages, b

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:35:28PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > home->work). However, my employer doesn't mind. I use tunnelling > > just to bypass the technical limits of a single IP address and NAT. > > Thanks, I was looking f

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

2003-12-29 Thread Kristian Niemi
I don't know why, nor how. I use 0.4 (20031221). This mail was sent simply by pressing the "Reply" button. Really can't tell you much more than that it works like this for me. If I'd press "Reply all" the mail would go to both you and the list. I've migrated all `profile files' from the windows

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:36:49AM +, Rus Foster wrote: > > Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply > > not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the > > interface and not in the media? > > > IMHO SCSI disks last longer so its worth paying

Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation

2003-12-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Stephen Liu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Wayne, > > Lot of thanks for your advice. > > - snip - > > > OO is running fine on Debian. You may have a KDE issue but from all I > > read OO is running fine on sarge, testing and unstable. > > > > If you want to update OO, on Debia

Re: how to convert java bytecode to java code

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 06:27 GMT, j smith penned: > is there software that convert java bytecode (class files) to java > code (reverse engineering)? > Look for the jad package, at least on unstable. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:41:32 -0600, Nathan Eric Norman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:35:28PM -0800, Nunya wrote: >> >> All I want to do is (1) listen to internet radio, if its blocked and >> (2) do my ordinary, noncriminal private things that everyone does at >> work anyway truly in private

request for free movie tickets

2003-12-29 Thread WALTK777
hey,   replying for free movie tickets confirmation is 8471678 tks

default kernel font :)

2003-12-29 Thread Erçin EKER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I really love the font used in debian cd boot, and i got it and use under X. But i want to use them like in debian cd, want to see kernel messages with that sexy font :) have searched list archieves and googled abit, but i have nothing found.

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order: thanks

2003-12-29 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Jan: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:41:29PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > Morning! > > Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed. Sorry about the CC, when I hit "Reply", you were there first and I failed to delete you. Shouldn't happen this time... > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Dean Allen Provi

Sound Problems With Debian 3.0r1 testing/unstable

2003-12-29 Thread Joseph A. Nagy
I have ARTS, ESD, and Alsa installed. The only program that has sound (so far) is XMMS which uses the OSS Sound Driver. Other apps such as GAIM and GnomeMeeting have no sound at all. GAIM is set to use Arts (although it is equally soundless using ESD) and Gnomemeeting is set to use /dev/dsp0 (a

problem with menuconfig

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Schwartz
I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, and it comes back >>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries The following are installed [Woody] libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term Why can't it be found? TIA Paul Schwartz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various > DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller > now bypasses the CPU too. DMA isn't the issue. Bandwidth is. As long as only one IDE dev

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:14:12PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Do you guys mean MDI (Multiple Document Interface) rather than MDA (Mail > Delivery Agent)? :) Slap me with a wet noodle... I didn't catch that through the entire thread. -- Marc Wilson | Evil isn't all bad. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with menuconfig

2003-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Schwartz wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, and it comes back >>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries The following are installed [Woody] libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term Why can't it be found? TIA Paul Schwartz You need libncur

Re: problem with menuconfig

2003-12-29 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:31AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, > and it comes back > > >>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries > > The following are installed [Woody] > libncurses5 > ncurses-base > ncurses-bin > ncurses-term

cd rom wont work

2003-12-29 Thread Joe9747
my cd rom will play dvds but wont read any other kind of cd?

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:53:11AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various > > DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller > > now bypasses the CPU t

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 17:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > Even with huge internet links, radio is a problem. My corp has > upwards of 50,000 PCs, you can imagine the problem and associated cost > if rules weren't strict and the penalties non-trivial ("not excluding > termination") > > If you're

Re: 2 NIC's, assigned in wrong order

2003-12-29 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 07:22:04PM -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: [ parts omitted ] > That seemed like such a good suggestion. I created scripts to assign > the desired names to the desired MAC addresses and placed them in > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/, and then added invocation in the interface

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: > Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to filesystem metadata. This was ext2. Has this not been a

Re: problem with menuconfig

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Schwartz
Andy Firman wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:47:31AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: I'm trying to build a kernel. Do 'make menuconfig' in an xterm window, and it comes back Unable to find the Ncurses libraries The following are installed [Woody] libncurses5 ncurses-base ncurses-bi

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 at 19:49 GMT, A.L.Meyers penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ has a .list file for every package >> on your system. I'm guessing that's what apt is looking for. > > Bingo, Monique. And precisely that directory entry apparently was o

Problems with dpkg-reconfigure passwd

2003-12-29 Thread Hugo S. Carrer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I'm running on a Sarge laptop. The default length of my passwords is 8 characters, well I'want more. So here' what I do: corky:~# dpkg-reconfigure passwd Password setup - -- Shadow passwords make your system more secure because nob

Re: which email server to choose

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:54:06AM -0600: > so, what's the best imap/webmail solution for a woody server? :) It really depends on your site. The three most well known are probably uw-imap, courier-imap, and Cyrus. > advantages, disadvantages, why, why not... Cyrus will scale

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:42:11 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 17:15 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: >> >> Even with huge internet links, radio is a problem. My corp has >> upwards of 50,000 PCs, you can imagine the problem and associated cost >> if rules weren't strict and the p

Re: nvidia-kernel & 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey Folks, > > > > now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers > > (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) > > I used this method, but had

Re: [NAL] Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Rob Sims
On Monday 29 December 2003 09:39 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:36:49AM +, Rus Foster wrote: > > > Interesting, Paul. So are you saying that SCSI hard drives are simply > > > not worth the extra money or that the advantages of SCSI are in the > > > interface and not

lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I've been away from this list for a while. Happy New Year to everyone! I've recently compiled a new kernel, 2.4.22, the "Debian way," but when I go to install it, lilo bails out with the error: Fatal: VolumeID read error: sector 0 of /dev/sda not readable I get the same error when I try

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >> This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various >> DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller >> now bypasses the CPU too. > >

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700: > I wonder if a company could get brownie points with its employees and > save bandwidth at the same time by proxying/caching some internet radio > stations for their use? Only one "user" for as many internal users as > wanted it? >

PATH on root login

2003-12-29 Thread George Ogata
Hello, when I log in at the console as root, how is my PATH determined? If I have no `.bash_profile' file, I get: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin/:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 ... but if I have even an empty `.bash_profile', it is: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/ga

Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

2003-12-29 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Virtually all of them work. For small values of "work". It's really not so simple. I know the timestamp is a bit old, but see: http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/ and in particular, http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/target_offenses.txt I

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:11AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I wonder if a company could get brownie points with its employees and > save bandwidth at the same time by proxying/caching some internet radio > stations for their use? Only one "user" for as many internal users as > wanted it?

Re: Problems with dpkg-reconfigure passwd

2003-12-29 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:47PM -0300, Hugo S. Carrer wrote: > Whats going on? Enable md5 passwords in the various /etc/pam.d/ files, at the least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sis900 module will not load on boot

2003-12-29 Thread ope
I just installed Sarge on a machine and have run into a problem getting the sis900 module to load at boot time. The machine has an onboard SIS Ethernet controller. Originally the machine the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and could load the modules correctly. I upgrade to kernel-image-2.4.22-1-k7 and it is

Re: PATH on root login

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 04:01:30AM +1100, George Ogata wrote: > Why does the mere existence of a `.bash_profile' affect the default > value of PATH? This is from bash (1) in the section INVOCATION: "When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter- active she

on ./configure I get a gcc C Compiler error: what am I missing ??

2003-12-29 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, sorry for the maybe beginners question, but I have following problem: stil on my struggle to get SB Audigy2 to run in Debian Sarge, I want to use sources, her from ALSA and for emu10k1 driver. Now: when I want to do: "./configure" in the sources directory, I get the error message "error: C

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Andrés Roldán
Add the line: disk=/dev/sda inaccessible to the lilo.conf file. Cheers. Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > I've been away from this list for a while. Happy New Year to everyone! > > I've recently compiled a new kernel, 2.4.22, the "Debian way," but when I > go to install

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Joris
Monique Y. Herman verraste ons met de boodschap: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: >> Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) > > I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the > system saw the end result as a 2GB, presumably due to

Re: on ./configure I get a gcc C Compiler error: what am I missing ??

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 08:58:43PM +0100, Axel Burwitz wrote: > Now: > when I want to do: "./configure" in the sources directory, I get the error > message > > "error: C compiler cannot create executables" I think this may be because you are missing libc6-dev. Without it you can't compile anythi

Re: sis900 module will not load on boot

2003-12-29 Thread Albert Dengg
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > However, if I 'modprobe sis900' the module loads > without any errors and the network is available. So > the module is installed and in working order, it is > just not getting loaded when the system boots. How > can I

dpkg/ucf hang (was: Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation)

2003-12-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: | Stephen Liu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | | > One problem I have encountered - during debconf when it came to; | > Configuration file `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' | > ==> File on system created by you or by a script. | >

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 3:05pm, Andrés Roldán wrote: :Add the line: : :disk=/dev/sda inaccessible : :to the lilo.conf file. Thanks! That fixed it. But why does lilo care about /dev/sda in the first place? Patrick :Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : :> Hello: :> :> I've been away fro

Woody

2003-12-29 Thread Christian Wiedel
Hi. I'm a bit confused. What's the difference between Woody and Sarge? Is it just a differnet name for two versions? I can't find it on Debians homepage... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody

2003-12-29 Thread Frederic Lavoie
have a look to this page. http://www.debian.org/releases/ --- Frédéric Lavoie Gatineau (Hull), Quebec [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clubphotopolarise.org - Original Message - From: "Christian Wiedel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 3:43 PM Subje

Re: Woody

2003-12-29 Thread Christian Wiedel
Thanks. I've looked it up, and I'm not as confused anymore :) On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:51:29 -0500 "Frederic Lavoie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have a look to this page. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/ > > --- > Frédéric Lavoie > Gatineau (Hull), Quebec > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cl

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
For those following along at home, I may have left the wrong impression. I mentioned XftConfig for my font configuration, but that's actually the earlier version of font configuration. /etc/fonts/ and the fontconfig package are the successors. I'm not sure which of these, if either, xterm uses, e

Re: sis900 module will not load on boot

2003-12-29 Thread ope
I knew it was more simple than what I was trying to do :-) Thanks for the response and simple solution. I will give it a try. --- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) > ope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > However, if I 'modprobe sis900' the m

X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having problems getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23 and 2.6.0, and in both cases, the module refuses to load. At this point, I'm not sure if it is a module loader problem or within X. X itself is reporting: XFree86

MAKEDEV problem, and 2.6 kernel-related sound problem

2003-12-29 Thread Nick Welch
Just did an install of sarge via the beta debian-installer image, and MAKEDEV is telling me this: /sbin/MAKEDEV: line 1: major_device-mapper=254: command not found I've updated and then uninstalled libdevmapper1.00 and it has no effect, and that's the only related package I could really find. ma

Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hello, I've been using Slackware for a little over a year now, and have loved it except for one thing: installing programs. Most of the time it goes just fine, but the 10% or 20% of the time when it doesn't, it's incredibly frustrating. After spending an entire day last week trying to get Tux

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:18:40PM -0500, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > I just built a sid box from bare metal last week, and am having problems > getting the nVidia drivers to load. I tried this under 2.4.23 and 2.6.0, > and in both cases, the module refuses to load. At this point, I'm not sure > i

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-29 Thread Hugo S. Carrer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500 Anthony DiSante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > ... > ...and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to > the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to p

Re: Slightly failed Hard-Disk-Upgrade

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 20:04 GMT, Joris penned: > Monique Y. Herman verraste ons met de boodschap: > >> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 12:48 GMT, Kevin Mark penned: >>> Personally I use DD to copy but I know others like cp -a ;-) >> >> I tried to use dd to copy a 2GB hard drive onto a 20GB drive, and the

Re: apt-get files problems

2003-12-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 at 22:29 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > A bit of trivia: For any given manufacturer of both IDE and SCSI > disks, the disks themselves are often (usually) mechanically > identical, whether IDE or SCSI. It's just the controllers which are > different. > I ran this past my fianc

Re: lilo fails, /dev/sda not readable

2003-12-29 Thread Andrés Roldán
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 at 3:05pm, Andrés Roldán wrote: > > :Add the line: > : > :disk=/dev/sda inaccessible > : > :to the lilo.conf file. > > Thanks! That fixed it. But why does lilo care about /dev/sda in the > first place? If you see the output of li

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