Re: Check if laptop in use?

2004-12-04 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hello Jacob, Jacob S wrote: > I have a laptop on my network that I need to do an occasional upgrade > on. It runs Debian - what else? :-) I'd like to make sure it's not > currently in use when I do the upgrades though, as the upgrades are > usually done over the network via ssh. > I know this us

lspci and /sys

2004-12-04 Thread Petter Senften
Hello! I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some attention here :) My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from Woody a few months back). Anyhoo, anytime I use lspci I get the following error

M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread Yevgen Reznichenko
Hello, I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-stick from M$ and can't mount it. Actually the stick is from Swissbit and according to its homepage it is supported by 2.4+ kernels. How can I run this th

Re: lspci and /sys

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 10:22 +0100, Petter Senften wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to > my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some > attention here :) > > My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from Woody a

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread David Purton
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > Hello, > > I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, > 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-stick > from M$ and can't mount it. Actually the stick is from Swissbit and >

change my home directory or how to migrate evolution?

2004-12-04 Thread Pascal Bonesh
Hi, For some reason nautilus always changed to audio-viewer mode when I opened my home directory. It then crashed and never could be brought up again. So I had to move to another user name and subsequently other home directory. Now for almost every application this was painless: I just copied t

Re: change my home directory or how to migrate evolution?

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 12:50 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: [snip] > 2. how can I migrate evolution? I would like to keep all configuration, > filters, junk mail detection, mail settings and mails. The first thing to do is to log in as the-user-to-be-moved and run "evolution --force-shutdown" and als

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread Yevgen Reznichenko
David Purton wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-stick Sorry, I forgot "not" in this sentence. The right version is "...,

Re: apache and phpwebsite

2004-12-04 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Friday, 15 October 2004, psychoelmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:35:21 -0400, Harland Christofferson ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i am trying to virtual host using apache. i have several hosts already >> but, for some reason, I haven't been able to get phpwebsite to wor

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > Hello, > > I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, > 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-stick > from M$ and can't mount it. Actually the stick is from

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-04 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:30:17 +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: >> I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have >> tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad >> corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult to distingui

XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-04 Thread Otto Wyss
Once my application on XFCE changed their look when I switched the theme but not anymore. Most of them still show the ugly GTK look. What's wrong? How does XFCE switch the themes so the apps show the correct scrollbars etc? What package does this? O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers:

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:39 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, >> 2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memory-

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 04 December 2004 12:33, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > David Purton wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > >>I have again troubles to run M$ mess on my linux machine (sid, 2.4.27, > >>2.6.9), but now it is software it is hardware. I got an USB-Memo

I Need Tips for Building Dual Opteron System

2004-12-04 Thread John Foster
I am currently doing research for building a new Dual Opteron system. Anyone on the list with positive/negative experience in using Linux (esp. Debian based) on this type of machine please reply. I am concerned about matching up hardware that all works. I plan to use this as a server/workstation

Re: Snort Messages may not be Telling Me Much.

2004-12-04 Thread David Mandelberg
I'm having the same problem. From what I hear, a solution has something to do with acidlab, but I'm not sure. Martin McCormick wrote: > I've got snort installed and running on Debian3.0. It runs > fine but I never get any thing in the report Emails that I receive > each day. The messages h

Logitech wireless mouse

2004-12-04 Thread Michael Satterwhite
I have a Logitech wireless mouse attached to my computer. It works fine under Debian, but the battery monitoring software is windows only (of course). Does anyone know of an equivalent piece of software that runs under Linux? pgpVf1b6Fv36r.pgp Description: PGP signature

Can't get hal/udev/hotplug/whatever to mount usb flash card reader

2004-12-04 Thread René Seindal
Hi, I have tried just about everything, so I need some help. I have installed Gnome 2.8 from sid, including hal, udev, hotplug, ... I'd expect it to just mount my removable devices when I plug them in, and it does seem to work with cds, but not with anything usb. I plug in my usb card reader, and

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-04 Thread steef
On Friday 03 December 2004 04:00, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 3:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > > > like (from firsthand experience) a

virtual interfaces

2004-12-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After 1. adding the needed paragraph to /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the virtual iface with 'anotherIP', 2. adding the corresponding file in /etc/apache2/sites-available, 3. creating the symlink in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled 4. stopping, starting, reloading again networking and apache2 stil

/sys and lspci

2004-12-04 Thread Petter Senften
Hello! I'm new to this list, but after googling for a few hours after a fix to my problem it seems I have no other option than to try to get some attention here :) My server is a Debian Sarge-box (dist-upgraded from Woody a few months back). Anyhoo, anytime I use lspci I get the following error

Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread Stefan Fredriksson
Hi, I have a server without a monitor that I need to run X on. I will need to run X programs on the machine and I want to be able to log on to the server from my desktop mashine. When I log in I want to be able to start X programs and have them running when I log off. Server is running testing+g

Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) that can detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily or permanently) the IP address? portsentry is similar but not quite on point. As I understand it, portsentry will block port scanners, but not people attempting ra

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brad Sims wrote: I have a 512mb Sandisk Cruzer, it works perfectly. However when unmounting it the light stays on, it goes off on Windows... Personally Windows nor any product of M$ is not a measure of anything, given what that organization is, does and wants to stand for. Just was wondering if

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Saturday 04 December 2004 16:53, Stefan Fredriksson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server without a monitor that I need to run X on. > I will need to run X programs on the machine and I want to be able to > log on to the server from my desktop mashine. When I log in I want to be > able to start X pro

dvips problem

2004-12-04 Thread Ray Kong
Hi, dvips does not work properly in my sarge installation, it gives me the following error message: This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2004.12.03:2310' -> hw8.ps kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+1602/8000 --d

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> Hi, > > I have a server without a monitor that I need to run X on. > I will need to run X programs on the machine and I want to be able to > log on to the server from my desktop mashine. When I log in I want to be > able to start X programs and have them running when I log off. > > Server is

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefan Fredriksson wrote: I have a server without a monitor that I need to run X on. I will need to run X programs on the machine and I want to be able to log on to the server from my desktop mashine. When I log in I want to be able to start X programs and have them running when I log off. We

problem solved: sharing xp printer

2004-12-04 Thread Jim Woodward
http://www.mepis.org/node/view/3458 solution found below: Here's what worked for me.- L Submitted by mepiswala on Thu, 09/16/2004 - 23:36. when loggeg onto http://www.mepis.org/node/view/3458 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread Pablo Wolter
yes, ssh -X will display back your session very well, the only problem that I cannot solve ussing it is that in some applications, when I get a opened window and double click some parts to open another window, mouse click doesn't work, with some windows inside the same application. I cannot fig

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:06:54PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Once my application on XFCE changed their look when I switched the theme > but not anymore. Most of them still show the ugly GTK look. What's > wrong? How does XFCE switch the themes so the apps show the correct > scrollbars etc? What pac

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
reply below On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Hey, Thanks for the reference. I'm lurking the group emails and have read > some manuals on board. Problem is some are too geeky for me to understand > although I've picked up a lot since installing linux about 2 months ago. I > have

Re: dvips problem

2004-12-04 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Ray" == Ray Kong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Ray> Basically, it seems I have too problems: s/too/two/ Ray> 1) mktexpk: Mismatched mode ... I assume that's because lj4 can't go up to 8000 dpi. How are you invoking dvips? Ray> 2) cmr17 font is missing cmr17 files are found in tet

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-04 Thread Jim McCarthy
Stephen Patterson writes: > > s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: > >> I would like to know what font are people using for coding > >> ... This last one I am using makes it difficult to distinguish > >> braces "{" from parentheses "(". Bad news for coding. > > > > -b&h-lucid

Installing Debian on USB HDD

2004-12-04 Thread Johnson, Chad
Hi, I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on it. I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my drive is not listed, so I can't partition my drive. I'm just starting out with Linux, so I have a ve

Re: Installing Debian on USB HDD

2004-12-04 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Johnson, Chad wrote: Hi, I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on it. I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my drive is not listed, so I can't partition my drive. Actually I would be interested

Re: Installing Debian on USB HDD

2004-12-04 Thread Rob Benton
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Johnson, Chad wrote: Hi, I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on it. I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my drive is not listed, so I can't partition my drive. Ac

Re: XFCE and themes switching

2004-12-04 Thread Otto Wyss
Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you change it in the UI settings from the settings manager? > Yes. > That's in the xfce4-mcs-plugins package. You might need the > gtk2-engines-xfce package too. > I have it installed (from Debian/sarge). My app is GTK 1.2 but there doesn't seems

Re: changing default os in grub

2004-12-04 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:38:00AM +, john gennard wrote: > The man and info pages do not appear to help (perhaps > because I don't fully understand them). I don't want to > risk making everything unbootable by experimenting, so > can anyone please explain how I can safely put Sarge > back as d

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-12-04 Thread Shan Mignot
Hi, Sorry I'v been away last week... All right, I'v tried all three suggestions you made: * with xkeysym, I get: 64 0 Alt_L for left Alt 37 0 Control_L for left Ctrl 67 12 F1 for F1 * with xev, I get: keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L) for left ALt keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L) for left C

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-04 Thread Jason Rennie
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:55:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: > I have often wondered why exactly it defaults to requiring a password. > Requiring a user who has physical access to a computer root privileges > to shut it down seems fundamentally flawed to me--they could easily shut > it down by

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 10:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > > I have a 512mb Sandisk Cruzer, it works perfectly. However when unmounting > > it the light stays on, it goes off on Windows... > > Personally Windows nor any product of M$ is not a measure of anything, > given wha

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel: > Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) that can > detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily or > permanently) the IP address? fwlogwatch purports to be able to do this (I haven't tried this feature; ymmv). However, woul

Re: Installing Debian on USB HDD

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 00:50 +, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > Johnson, Chad wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I just bought a USB harddrive and I want to install Debian on > it. I have a base Debian installed on a miniCD, and when I boot > to the Debian installer and I get to the partitioning part, my >

Upgrading the woody kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Felixk Karpfen
I am aware that this question has been asked and answered umpteen times on this newsgroup and I know that the available options include: - roll your own; and - use the Debian way. However I believe that my situation is sufficiently different that it is worth asking: - which option?; and - plea

open terminal in VNC

2004-12-04 Thread Stefan Fredriksson
Hi, Just installed vnc (tightvnc) and solved the "problem" I had with loggin on and controlling a remote server. Things work like a charm but. Sometimes you accidently close the terminal in the VNC and you are stuck. Is there a way to open en termial through ssh or similar and make it appear in

Re: Installing Debian on USB HDD

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:56 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 00:50 +, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > > Johnson, Chad wrote: [snip] > > Actually I would be interested in knowing how to do this too. What I > > would want to do is install a minimal debian system on 1gb flash usb 2 >

Re: Re: dvips problem

2004-12-04 Thread Ray Kong
Ray> 1) mktexpk: Mismatched mode ... I assume that's because lj4 can't go up to 8000 dpi. How are you invoking dvips? I did "dvips -Ppdf", so I ran "texconfig" to configure dvips to use 300dpi on printer "pdf", then the problem went away. thanks for the hint. Ray Ray> 2) cmr17 font is missing cm

Updating ACPI DSDT tables the Debian way?

2004-12-04 Thread David Goodenough
I have a laptop (a Samsung P28) which suffers from a bad ACPI DSDT and so fails to do such simple things as telling me the battery state. I have found a variety of documents through Google which tell me how to fix this, but they are all aimed at non-Debian systems. There is reference to a kernel

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 04 2004, Jim McCarthy wrote: > Stephen Patterson writes: > > I find my regular terminal font (7x13) to be good ... > > Or if Antonio is looking for something larger, try 9x15 or 9x15bold ... I think that on higher resolution devices, 10x20 is the minimum that my eyes can see without too mu

Re: Can't get hal/udev/hotplug/whatever to mount usb flash card reader

2004-12-04 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:14:37 +0100, René Seindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried just about everything, so I need some help. > > I have installed Gnome 2.8 from sid, including hal, udev, hotplug, ... > > I'd expect it to just mount my removable devices when I plug them in, > an

Re: dvips problem

2004-12-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 04 2004, Ray Kong wrote: > I did "dvips -Ppdf", so I ran "texconfig" to configure dvips to use > 300dpi on printer "pdf", then the problem went away. I'd think that the ljfour option would allow one to easily use 600dpi without any problems. Is your intent creating PDF files? If it is, the

Re: Upgrading the woody kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:42 pm, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > - please point to documentation, full and sufficiently simple to be > understood by amateurs. > Here's a newbie oriented, step-by-step, set of docs for just that purpose: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/tutorials/kernel-pkg/index-

Re: Can't get hal/udev/hotplug/whatever to mount usb flash card reader

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:14 +0100, René Seindal wrote: [snip] > I need this for my WAF! What's a WAF? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "But a much bigger business is selling anti-

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 18:46 +0100, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: --snip-- > /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 -query -from vt8 > (adapt the number of the desktop's local display and the > virtual terminal it shall connect to to your needs) > > Don't know if I got the syntax exactly right, but you can look > up the m

pam db version for Debian vsftpd virtual users

2004-12-04 Thread Tong
Hi, Hi, I followed the virtual users readme file (/usr/share/doc/vsftpd/EXAMPLE/VIRTUAL_USERS/README.gz) to apply virtual users for vsftpd. The readme is well explained. I'm sure I've followed all the steps, though there is one only thing I can't figure out, the pam db version: The standard co

Unable to use scanner

2004-12-04 Thread Rick Friedman
I have an HP PSC 2110 All-In-One (printer, copier, scanner & fax). So far, I have not been able to figure out how to use it with Debian (Sarge). I ran the sane-find-scanner command and received the following output: found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x2911 [PSC 2200 Ser

Is there a "rescue floppy" for Sarge?

2004-12-04 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
Is there a "rescue floppy" for Sarge? Is there any "readme.txt", or any info available for it? Thanks, Hearthstone. = Please take part in my survey on "Peace": http://www.modelearth.org/survey.html If we were sincere about wanting Peace, then we would spend more on Peace than what we spend

How to Forwarding all old emails to a new email address

2004-12-04 Thread Thanhvu Nguyen
I want to forward all my old mails to a new email address one by one instead of a big achieve. Of course I can manually forward one by one but I like to have this automated. Is there any (mail) application that allows me to do filters to do what I want ? My inbox has about thousands of msg's in

How to Forwarding all old emails to a new email address

2004-12-04 Thread Thanhvu Nguyen
I want to forward all my old mails to a new email address one by one instead of a big archieve. Of course I can manually forward one by one but I like to have this automated. Is there any (mail) application that allows me to do filters to do what I want ? My inbox has about thousands of msg's in

ltsp: cannot open devices '/dev/psaux' '/dev/mouse'

2004-12-04 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, logging in as a user on the server I was given the choice an X or Gnome setup. I chose X and the mouse started to work intermittently and then died. Worse, when I rebooted into into the XP partition it was also stuck firmly in the center of the screen. Error messages include '(EE) xf86OpenS

Re: How to Forwarding all old emails to a new email address

2004-12-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:20:55PM -0500, Thanhvu Nguyen wrote: > > > I want to forward all my old mails to a new email address one by one > instead of a big achieve. Of course I can manually forward one by one but > I like to have this automated. Is there any (mail) application that allows > me

vsftpd upload only

2004-12-04 Thread Tong
Hi, I want to configure one of the vsftpd virtual user to a "upload only" account. I.e., able to upload but not able to download. I can setup virtual user and upload, but how can I do "upload only"? Further, it is better for the upload to be able to continue uploading from the previous failure

ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source down?

2004-12-04 Thread Shawn McCuan
Does anyone know if the ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source is down? Thanks, Shawn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vsftpd upload only

2004-12-04 Thread Tong
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:00:56 -0500, Tong wrote: > I want to configure one of the vsftpd virtual user to a "upload only" > account. I.e., able to upload but not able to download. > I can setup virtual user and upload, but how can I do "upload only"? download_enable If set to NO, all downloa

Re: How to Forwarding all old emails to a new email address

2004-12-04 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Thanhvu Nguyen said... > > I want to forward all my old mails to a new email address one by one > instead of a big achieve. Of course I can manually forward one by one but > I like to have this automated. Is there any (mail) application that allows > me to do filters to do what I

Fwd: problem solved

2004-12-04 Thread jack kinnon
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250--- Begin Message --- Hi folks, Thanks for all the suggestions. My problem is fixed. I re-install

Re: I Need Tips for Building Dual Opteron System

2004-12-04 Thread Robert Storey
Dear John, I don't have any experience personally, but a close friend just bought an AMD64 box. He says that at the moment, biggest problem is that most binaries are compiled for i386, though 64-bit stuff is slowly coming. Debian's work-around is to install these applications into a chrooted envir

[OT]: Re: data-entry GUIs & python

2004-12-04 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:33 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Do you create forms for data-entry using python? I am looking for a > database solution that integrates closely with OOo, but I find the > form-creation tools in OOo to be a little bit clumsy. An ideal > solution for me would be a great data

alsa-drivers for 2.4.27-speakup

2004-12-04 Thread Xiaowei Yang
Dear all, I am new to debian. I have a kernel 2.4.27-speakup, and want to install alsa-drivers. But apt-cache search shows there is only drivers for alsa-modules-2.4.27-1. depmod will complain if I install it. Can anyone let me know where to get the alsa drivers for 2.4.27-speakup. Thanks, Xia

Kernel panic: Attepmted to kill init!

2004-12-04 Thread Johnson, Chad
I finished installing Debian (took a break for a while) and now when I try to boot using the GRUB floopy the installer created, I get /sbin/init: 426: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! What do I do now? Chad

Re: Snort Messages may not be Telling Me Much.

2004-12-04 Thread Martin McCormick
David Mandelberg writes: >I'm having the same problem. From what I hear, a solution has something >to do with acidlab, but I'm not sure. Thanks. I have another Linux system at work running the same version and I noticed it also has the same problem. Martin McCormick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Fw: gdm and reboot

2004-12-04 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
- Original Message - From: "Jason Rennie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 3:33 PM Subject: Re: gdm and reboot > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:55:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: > > I have often wondered why exactly it defaults to requiring a p

search mail archive

2004-12-04 Thread ken keanon
Hi, When I tried to use the Search in the Debian page, I was directed to Google. This is inefficient. Is the Debain Search engine not coming back? Cheers Ken __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://

Cannot display with 1024x768 res

2004-12-04 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks, This is an old problem that I can coming back to. I have not been able to select a res of 1024x768 for the display. If I select this res, the system will not boot into graphics mode. This is not a lack of memory problem for sure because I can use it under Win XP. I am running 'stable'. C

Fw: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
- Original Message - From: "CW Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:43 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:12:34PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > Chris. > > Thank

Re: Unable to use scanner

2004-12-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Rick Friedman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have an HP PSC 2110 All-In-One (printer, copier, scanner & fax). So > far, I have not been able to figure out how to use it with Debian (Sarge). > > I ran the sane-find-scanner command and received the following output: > > found USB

Re: search mail archive

2004-12-04 Thread Adam Aube
ken keanon wrote: > When I tried to use the Search in the Debian page, I > was directed to Google. This is inefficient. Google indexes the site on its own, and it uses Google's advanced search features to only search debian.org. How is this inefficient? > Is the Debain Search engine not coming b

Re: Cannot display with 1024x768 res

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 19:35 -0800, jack kinnon wrote: > Hi folks, > This is an old problem that I can coming back to. I > have not been able to select a res of 1024x768 for the > display. If I select this res, the system will not > boot into graphics mode. This is not a lack of memory > problem for

Re: Cannot display with 1024x768 res

2004-12-04 Thread Kent West
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, This is an old problem that I can coming back to. I have not been able to select a res of 1024x768 for the display. If I select this res, the system will not boot into graphics mode. This is not a lack of memory problem for sure because I can use it under Win XP. I am r

Fw: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
I have my hostname back, but still can't send out Mozilla email or receive email for the right user. I want a simple DUN to access the internet. I have a 3Com PCI NIC, just the card, nothing else. I get a nasty network configuration popup on bootup that I don't know how to fill out. I tried sev

world map or atlas?

2004-12-04 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I'm looking for a decent world map program, preferably with some flexibility about what information is displayed (political & physical features, etc). I find it hard to believe that Debian doesn't have this, but I'm not having much luck finding one with apt-cache, I guess partley bec

Re: Fw: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I have my hostname back, but still can't send out Mozilla email or receive email for the right user. Let's not worry about email yet; can you ping any other computers, such as debian.org? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> ping www.debian.org PING www.debian.org (194.109.137

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:50:24 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel: > > Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) > > that can detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily > > or permanently) the IP address? > > fwlogwa

Re: ftp question

2004-12-04 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:34:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do you transfer an entire directory using ftp? The directory that I'm > trying to transfer has a lot of "subdirectories" in it. These directories > also have several types of files in them... ie.. text, video, wav, mp3, > et

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-04 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Since my problems includes a malfunctioning Mozilla mail client, Len Chatagnier One non-Debian way to get a late model browser and mailer for woody is to download the tarball file for Linux from netscape.com. The downloader can download a small downloader that then

Re: ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source down?

2004-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Shawn McCuan: > Does anyone know if the > > ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source is down? (0) keeling /home/keeling_ ping -c 1 ftp.egr.msu.edu PING ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225): 56 data bytes --- ike.egr.msu.edu ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet lo

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Jacob S: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:50:24 -0700 > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel: > > > Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) > > > that can detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily > > > > fwlo

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

2004-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 11:42 -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) that can > detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily or > permanently) the IP address? > > portsentry is similar but not quite on point. As I understand