Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 19:48, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Hi, > > I apparently have a lot of leftovers from old packages that did not > get cleanly uninstalled, and am losing quite a bit of disk space for > that. > > I would therefore like to do a fresh install (backing up /home and > /etc), but using

Re: downgrading libc6

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 20:30, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Well, for the record, with not getting anyone else's opinion on this, I > finally gave things a try and ran > > dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.5_i386.deb > > and the only warning (other than the obvious fact that I was

Re: wont install

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:01, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > stuart whittaker wrote: > > file will unzip with winzip. > > > > > > Since the message was HTML generated with some M$ tool I would > guess that the attachment contains a virus of some sort. > Maybe we are witnessing fledgling attempts at soc

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:36, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:04:44PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Friday 17 October 2003 12:53, Jeff Elkins wrote: > ... > > Unfortunately, using a good anti-spam system is a necessity today, and > ... > > I read this book called "The Illusion of Te

2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Folkert
Now that I have done it (on Saturday afternoon) I did a "dselect update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade" Now, for the fun part: Whence restarting gdm I get: duke:~# /etc/init.d/gdm start Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm/usr/bin/gdm: error while loading shared libraries: libbonobo-activation.so.4:

Re: 2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:11, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Now that I have done it (on Saturday afternoon) I did a "dselect update > > && apt-get -u dist-upgrade" > > Standard description of how u

Re: Exim4 and MailDir

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:29, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 00:07:53 -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > Googling for an Exim4 + MailDir + HowTo has yeilded little of value to > > this poor soul. > > > > One referred to a maildirmake command, which isn't on my sarge box inspite

Re: Problems installing xfree86 4.3 from experimental

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:51, Alexander Barinov wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install debian/unstable on my laptop and I badly need > xfree86 4.3 there. I use aptitude for package management. > > So that's what I did: > > 1. Added > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental

Re: Routing table drops packets via ppp0

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 03:39, Mark Devin wrote: > I am having some trouble getting routing to work properly on a box with > three network connections. One, eth0, is connected to a router and is > the default gateway. Another, ppp0 (eth1 - ADSL) is connected to a > private network on the 192.168

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:59, David Lloyd wrote: > > > You know what? > > All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to > how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no > solution. > > You're so fucking helpful. > > <<-(( http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Exim4 won't send mail - what does this error message mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:55, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm getting serious trouble with exim4. > > A lot of mail, incoming and outgoing, just sits in /var/log/exim4/input > indefinitely. This includes even messages I email to myself. > > However, some things do go out (including this, if it reach

Re: java in mozilla

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 02:49, Paul William wrote: > Hi, > > I am struggling to get the java plugin to work in mozilla. I am running > unstable . I have blackdown jre1.4 installed. I have tried jre1.3 but > that did not work either. The symlinks to the java plugin seem to be > correct but mozilla is

Re: VT switching broken in Gnome

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:14, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm having a problem with my VT switching while in Gnome. I think it's > related to the recent 2.4 update but I'm not sure. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4, > for example, does nothing. It works while I'm at the gdm login screen, > but once I'm actually log

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 09:01, Ron Johnson wrote: -(major snippage) > Is there anything more to moving an IMAP server from NODE1 to NODE2, > other than copying the config files over (and adding users, if need > be)? Umm, nope. If you can have both machine up @ once... you can use IMAP to copy th

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..IMHO, we should instead buy IBM irons and boycott HP, > HP is sponsoring SCO; http://groklaw.net/ > No HP is not "supporting SCO" on this matter. Neither is SUN (as they are doing the same) The reasoning they are using, is that *IF* customers

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:15, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..HP is sponsoring SCO "City to City Tour". I say boycott HP > until they join us against SCO et al. Same for Sun etc. You should understand the "City to City" Folk are currently extremely embarrassed by the present High and mighty muckity m

Re: AverTV Studio & Sound

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:10, techlists wrote: > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0f.0, irq: 11, latency: 64, memory: 0xcbdf > e000 > bttv0: detected: AVerMedia TVPhone98 [card=41], PCI subsystem ID is 14 > 61:0003 > bttv0: using: BT878(AVerMedia TVPhone 98) [card=41,autodetected] > i2c-core.o: adapter b

Re: 3com

2003-10-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:20 GMT, Selim Bolgen penned: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > --=_NextPart_000_0021_01C39F0A.22244EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-p

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 07:39, A. Loonstra wrote: > A. Loonstra wrote: > [snip original message] > > ksymoops says: > Warning (expand_objects): object > /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-686-smp/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o for module ext2 has > changed since load > Warning (expand_objects): object > /lib/modules/2

Re: tasksel

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 10:49, Ravi Gehlot wrote: > I've been trying to get tasksel to work after a fresh installation but it > doesn't work, instead I get a question like "have you upgraded packages" ? > What is going on? > Just run: base-config. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! h

Re: Xawtv

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:32, Wayne Sitton wrote: > ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm > radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into > Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. > > Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a pic

Re: dpkg --get-selections

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 06:44, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > I've got a machine with a freshly installed woody and wanted to clone > the installed software from a running system. I did as seemingly is > common lore: > > > > On source machine: > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt > > > >

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 08:31, Haines Brown wrote: > I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, > aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt > woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a > /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US

Re: Problem with patched 2.4.20 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:39, Cam Ellison wrote: > After making one modification (not at all relevant) to an existing > kernel, it will not compile, giving this message: > > net/network.o(.text+0xd147): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': > : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb' > make: *** [vmlinux

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:45, wsa wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to > > guarantee that the > > boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders > > So where do the kernels go when you don't have a /boot partition? > I'm now using

Re: [OT] SCO's crack legal team

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:35, csj wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:52:09 -0600, > Greg Norris wrote: > > > > I thought this might provide some much-needed amusement... My > > wife has put together a picture of SCO's crack legal team, > > which pretty much explains their entire strategy. Feel free to

Re: Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:45, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Hi, > My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. > It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with > a trojan. > The /root/.bash_history file is set to this: > > chsslx1:~# ls -la .bash_history > -rw-r--r--1 root root

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:46, Chris Knoblock wrote: > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this one. > running unstable and trying to install > kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 is giving me an error > > ldd: /lib/ld.linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code > (139) > > Failed to create initrd imag

Re: Spamassassin

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:37, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: > Em Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:47:40 +0100 > Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:28:34AM -0200, Gilberto Villani Brito wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:06:37 -0400 > > > Naitik Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Alsa with 2.6.0-test9

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:48, Martin wrote: > Hi everybody > > Since I've upgraded from 2.4.23 to 2.6.0-test9 I don't have sound > anymore. Here's the environment: ASUS M2400N notebook, Intel i810 > onBoard soundchip, debian sid and - as mentioned above - kernel > 2.6.0-test9. > I've compiled every

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 15:59, Chris Knoblock wrote: > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 13:46, Chris Knoblock wrote: > > > hi all, wondering if anyone can help me with this > > one. > > > running unstable and trying to ins

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:22, Simon Tod wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On > Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:12, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:00, Ron Johnson > > wrote: > > > > Guess not. I don't see them anywhere in the > > menuconfig hierarchy. > > > >

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file > into parts and when exim4 is (re)started a new config file is built from > all the parts, tested that it's valid and then exim4 is started with the > new config. > >

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:36, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:20:47PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Personally I love the stuff Andreas Metzler has done with the config. > > Makes it TONS more managable. > > Hi Greg, > > Can you explain why you thin

Re: not in sid yet? - CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-11-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:40, bruce edge wrote: > Looks like this is only available in woody: > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-24.html > http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-382 > http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-383 > > Is there no fix for sid yet? What do you mean, it has been

Re: not in sid yet? - CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 01:54, Chema wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:40:08 -0500 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GF> What do you mean, it has been fixed in the current version of ssh > GF> (3.6.1p2-9) The days they were announced there were fixes > available &

Re: Re:unsubscribe

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:21, L.F. wrote: > The 12th of November Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED] told me "READ THIS > CAREFULLY. PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY.TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO THE DEBIAN USER > MAILING LIST:SEND and E-MAIL to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THAT > MESSAGE ONLY PUT:unsub

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 23:55, Jerry Quinn wrote: > Joerg Rossdeutscher writes: > > Am So, 2003-09-07 um 21.11 schrieb Mario Vukelic: > > > On Son, 2003-09-07 at 21:05, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > > > > > A lot of banks here in germany allow online banking for linux only with > > > > netsc

Re: Disk I/O stalling whole system ..

2003-09-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:42, Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > when copying from one ide disk to another ide disk on the the same controller > the whole systems stalls. I am running 2.4.19 on unstable. > > When renicing the copying processes it works ok, but I am not sure if that > is the soluti

Re: your mail

2003-09-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:24, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:44:00AM +0300, ShowReddy wrote: > > WHAT IS THE USE OF PROGRAMIG > > Far less than is commonly thought. :-) > > > I INTERESTED STUDY ABOUT PROGRAMING > > OK, work out what this does, then demonstrate it: > > #include > #i

Re: Gnome 2.4

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 01:49, karrottop wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a apt-get source for Gnome 2.4 yet > anywhere...I am running unstable and i don't see it yet...although I may > just be jumping the gun with my anxiousness Everyone back to the starting blocks... especially you Jason one m

FIX for strange behaviour when starting GDM

2003-09-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:01, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running Sid, updated to the latest. I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 pro > on an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev2 motherboard. I use Xfree86 4.2 with the VESA > driver (couldn't get the radeon support to work properly :( ) in a > r

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 04:02, csj wrote: > I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy. > > I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're too > expensive to fix or upstream thinks they're a "feature"). But > how are bug reports resolved in the Debian bug system? I just > checked m

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-12 Thread Greg Folkert
Yes... Just make sure you compile a 2.4.21+ kernel with proper controller drivers in it. Then reboot. I use a seriously modified version of the twiki.iwethey.org one. I should update it... On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Hi, > > ..has anyone tried use these methods to intall t

Re: kernel config files

2003-09-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:34, Tom Allison wrote: > I think I have to build my own kernel because I have problems with my > motherboard. When I turn on dma, the hard drive starts having errors like crazy. > > lspci says this: > IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Mas

Re: security update broke X

2003-09-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 03:36, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have made the security update on a woody box. Now my X seams broken: > > On the top of the screen there's a region showing garbage and the mouse > > can be moved, but the mouse keys do not wor

Re: installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:27, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: > > private socket dir: Permission denied" > > > > Root works fine, but no one else does. > > > > help? > > I was searching through the archives and found

Re: alsa

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:09, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm working on a new install and ran through the alsa-modules et al for > 2.4.20-3-686 and selected my sound card (checked to make sure the module was > loaded) > > I'm not getting anything at all on this. > > lsmod shows cs46xx as loaded, but u

Re: whereis Mozilla 1.4 .deb

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:26, William Bradley wrote: > On my Mandrake system I have Mozilla 1.3, but Debian comes with Mozilla 1.0. > When I tried to "upgrade" with a local Debian mirror on my source list, it > came back with nothing. When I went to Mozilla, all I could find was a > "tar.gz" file

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:57, csj wrote: > At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, > John Hasler wrote: > > > > csj writes: > > > Qt is now required to configure a kernel? > > > > No. "make config" and "make menuconfig" still work. > > Well, of course ;-). I assume by your statement that "make > xc

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 06:50, Raúl Wild-Spain wrote: > Hi! > > Did someone installed Oracle and/or IAS server on Debian ? on a production > environment? > > I read that Oracle only certifies on RH Advanced Server (IAS). What's your > experience? and advice? Yes... Wonderful. Works well. You just

Re: vmware without X

2003-09-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 20:59, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know if it is possible to start vmware without a X-Display. > I've installed an image and would like it to boot up a the real machines > host boot time. Any ideas? > > Rus If you are using VMWare Workstation... NO. There is a

Re: Sources.list

2003-09-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:25, Trey Sizemore wrote: > Would someone send me a copy of their sources.list? Mine is missing a > few on update and want to try some known good sources. > > Thanks http://www.gregfolkert.net/files/sources.list -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.i

Mailhost...

2003-09-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:30, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30:01AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:04:51 +0100, > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >^^ > Hmmm.. Karst

RE: Insert module at startup

2003-09-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 05:18, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Robert Vollmert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: donderdag 18 september 2003 11:03 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > But how can i add the module so that it starts when the system boots, > > > i

Re: debian package install problem

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 18:43, gerald simpkin wrote: > I am a new user of Debian. I have the operating system installed but > due to some difficulties cannot seem able to install packages. At > install when I use apt it starts okay but then I get a configuration > error in configuring Binutils . I do

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:49, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. On > various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting > hammered by the mail, too. > > >From the descriptions I've read of W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it mails itself

Re: How to include the experimental distribution

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:03, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > The expertimental distribution should be locatet on many mirror at "debian/ > projects/experimental". I wondering how i should access this place through > apt. > > A line like > deb /debian/projects experimental main contrib non-free

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:10, Chad M Stewart wrote: > Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've > got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0

Re: Version handling of apt-get

2003-09-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:03, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote: > According to the Debian site there exists a magicfilter version 1.2-55 in > 'testing' state (current stable is 1.2-53). > > My /etc/apt/sources.list contains, among others, the lines > > --- > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stabl

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:51, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 12:41, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > >>I've just received one with what looks like all the debian-powerpc list > > >>a

Re: Large File Copy

2003-09-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:03, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Daniel L. Miller said on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:20PM -0700: > > > >>I have a large hard drive with a single NTFS partion. I have installed > >>this drive in a Woody box and mounted the partition. > > > > > > F

Re: rule of thumb: how to calculate the Horiz- & VertRefreshRate

2003-09-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 09:16, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > can anyone share the "secret" with me how to easily calculate the > Horiz- & VertRefreshRate required for a given Screen-Repeat-Rate at a > certain resolution with a certain color depth? > Info on it: http://www.knowplace.org/timings.

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:53, Ron Johnson wrote: > After getting hundreds of infections per day early in the week of > 14-Sep, it seems to have radically tapered off: > > Date Count > -- - > 2003-09-1952 (10 hours) > 2003-09-2037 > 2003-09-2114 > 2003-09-2265 > 200

Re: spmassassin configuration

2003-09-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:33, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have simple step by step configuration for spamassassin_2.20 > for sendmail in debian. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman Hope that helps! -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Your no

Re: cannot find libncurses

2003-09-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:45, Reaz Baksh wrote: > Hello > Any help or instructions to just go away would be really appreciated. Here try this on for size: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding Hope that helps... -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://w

Re: 19 and 22 september - did anything unusual happened?

2003-10-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:20, Grzesiek Sedek wrote: > Hello, > Just wanted to know if anyone of you experienced any unusual traffic ( > worms, viruses, scanning, exploits?) around 19 and 22 September? > Many thanks. > G. Ummm, YEAH. Since Sept 19 I have recieved 28,301 (Twenty Eight Thousand T

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 17:06, Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fet

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:28, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson declaimed: > > | 2. hwconf - shows what hardware is in place > > > > I don't think there is an equivalent. What functionality do you need > > out of this? The 'lspci' command will list the PCI devices. Other > > hardware

Re: spamassassin: recent process slowdown ???

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 01:53, Michael D Schleif wrote: > Since the end of last week, spamd processing time per message has gone > from ~6 seconds to >30 seconds. > > I am not clear whether or not any recent upgrades have changed > spamassassin. > > I did not, at first, attribute my mail processing

Re: boot loader question

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:05, Jason Housewright wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a > question about the boot loader. I have used grub for > quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian, > and if one is preferred over the other, is it > difficult

Re: What filesystem for no-halt boot?

2003-10-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:25, Danie Roux wrote: > I use ext3 for all my servers, and I have no problem with it. > > Except for one thing: Every now and again, you need to run e2fsck -y > after a power failure or such. > > Now one of my servers (little P1) is quite a drive from me and stuck > behin

Re: Mplayer eating all CPU

2003-10-05 Thread Greg Folkert
WOW On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:29, csj wrote: > At Sun, 5 Oct 2003 07:55:11 -0700, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:18:12PM +1300, Paul William wrote: Last year... MAN you really were predictive... Man you've been as far as 10 days in the future when posting here... No

Re: Gave it a try and will try again ....

2003-10-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:12, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Die, 2003-10-07 at 15:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > > What I have found is even better is to boot Knoppix, and then use it to > > do a chroot install. > > FWIW, I just want to add that Knoppix has a script to install it do HD > directl

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:50, nori heikkinen wrote: > trying to install debian on some new servers (dell optiplex gx270's). > i need an ISO with kernel >= 2.4.20 for the GB ethernet card they > have, so i'm using a sarge ISO since i haven't found a working woody > ISO with 2.4.20 -- i'll just dist-d

Re: Setting Gnome preferences system wide

2003-08-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 19:31, Mark C wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this has already been asked before, but after some net > searching, I'm still slightly stuck on the answer. > > I'm build a Debian Gnome desktop for a small local company, and wish to > set a few things up as default in Gnome-2.2.2 for

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 17:51, Jeremy Davis wrote: > I am in the process of learning the the subtle differences in debian > compared to my main linux distro, which is Slackware. So I believe that I > am going to move to debian because of apt and all that it implies :) But I > do have a question. A

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:06, Alan Connor wrote: > Here's the Person who's been harassing me: > > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 15:44:11 2003 > Status: U > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from pop.earthlink.net [207.217.121.216] > by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9

Challenge-response mail filter. Goodwin's Law...

2003-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
I hereby invoke Goodwin's Law. EFFING. STOP. PH4KK3RZ, JUST QUIT IT. We are doing more bandwidth wasting picking every NIT, than ANY CR or GPG Signature would or has in MY Lifetime. For the love of Mike... Let's just drop the subject already... Enough of the "Gentleman's Flame Fest"... it ALMO

Re: Challenge-response mail filter. Goodwin's Law...

2003-08-09 Thread Greg Folkert
Please I know Goodwin's wasn't really crossed just that it has gotten terribly long and wasting. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:32, Greg Folkert wrote: > I hereby invoke Goodwin's Law. > > EFFING. STOP. > > PH4KK3RZ, JUST QUIT IT. > > We are doing more bandwidth

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-11 Thread Greg Folkert
Sorry for the resend... forgot a link. On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:20, nori heikkinen wrote: > [cc'ing the list for posterity :)] > Interesting. Trying again, it's working fine -- but a little > experimentation reveals that if i edit a file inside the chrooted > heirarchy from outside of it, i get

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

2003-08-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 08:48, TR wrote: > > Michael, this is very much within the topic. Whoever says that this has not much to > do with Debian is a little blind, or naive. But for sure that person (consciously or > not) is cooperating with the forces trying to break the free sofware movement,

Re: problem regarding kernel 2.4.18 and grsecurity 1.9.4 (in woody)

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 13:45, smurfd wrote: > No one with my problem?!? > > Really? > > Oki, i tried mailing the package maintainer, but havent gotten any > response.. > I add some more additional output/configs so that i might get help.. > > best regards > /smurfd > Just to make sure... you ar

Re: can't login as root on gdm

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 11:18, Icarus wrote: > Hello. I just installed debian woody along with the window enviroment > (gnome, sawfish). When I get to the GDM login screen I cannot log in > as root. I'd like to be able to use the GUI as root, but when I switch > consoles I still can't use startx (bec

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:57, ZekeVarg wrote: > Hi! > > Have just installed debian and run a dist-upgrade to sid. Now when I try > to open a gtk based program I get this error message: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > Any idee's on what's the problem and how to fix it? Yeah... shutdo

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:20, nori heikkinen wrote: > [cc'ing the list for posterity :)] > Interesting. Trying again, it's working fine -- but a little > experimentation reveals that if i edit a file inside the chrooted > heirarchy from outside of it, i get these GLIBC errors. steering > clear of

Re: What happened to apt-get.org?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:05, Dugan Chen wrote: > Could someone please tell me what happened to apt-get.org? I haven't been > able to access it. > 13. pos6-0.mpr2.pao1.us.above.net0%4471 69 70 71 > 14. 209.249.24.136.he.net0%4468 68 70 72 >

Re: freeswan-modules-source - 2.4.21

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 01:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > found this to be a known bug: > #200033: freeswan-modules-source: failure compiling against 2.4.21 > Package: freeswan-modules-source; Reported by: > =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Torkelsson?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 33 days old. There, that'll teach y

Re: overstaop op W2K

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 13:10, A. Loonstra wrote: > > > > http://matilda.sphaero.org/~arnaud/w2k-pdc-02.pdf > > > > Arnaud. > > My apologies, I sent this to the wrong address. Oh no... Not a problem... anyone who saw it should download it and read it. Vera nice. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEM

Re: Image on Insatall CDs.

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 06:08, Vicente Ferrando wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody know if it is possible to change the kernel in the Install CDs > ISO images? > > I'm going to install Debian on a new system where I'll need support for > SiI3112 that is supported on kernel 2.4.21

Re: configuring xwindows?

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 13:51, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello, > I have seen that redhat does a great job with configuring the xserver and > I was hoping that Debian has something comparable. Please let me know so > I don't have to try and play with xf86config! as root dpkg-recondfigure xserver-xfr

Re: GCC for kernel compilation

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 18:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >#!/bin/bash > ... > ># Make it so make-kpkg patches the source > >PATCH_THE_KERNEL="YES" > > The variable PATCH_THE_KERNEL is not used later in the script. Since > there is no "export", it's not p

RE: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 03:51, Hershel Robinson wrote: > Said Greg Folkert: > > > Stable is NOT "stability of the system"... STABLE means few if any > > changes to the DISTRO. > > Said : Andreas Janssen: > > > ... Sarge or Sid are usable for > > de

Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 14:38, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 13:10:21 -0400, MJM wrote: > >> > If anyone else has ghostview vs xpdf vs acrobat v

Re: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:26, wsykes.lists wrote: > All, > I have a crappy old Compaq Presario 1210, and KDE runs like a dog on it. > I really only need a couple of xterminals, and mouse functionality. > > What version of Xwindows is light and fast on older boxes. I dont care how > ugly it is. >

Re: GCC for kernel compilation

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:46, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > I believe it's more a question of what the authors recommend/support, > from the README: > > COMPILING the kernel: > > - Make sure you have gcc 2.95.3 available. gcc 2.91.66 (egcs-1.1.2) may >also work but is not as safe, and *gcc 2.7.2

Re: more install problems

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:19, Richard Lyons wrote: > Update: Flawless. It installs and boots. A few configurations in > /etc/hosts and so forth and the networking is alive. I HAVE A > WORKING DEBIAN! Sorry to shout, but -- well -- it took a while. > > A thousand thanks to everyone who helpe

Re: nfs mount takes a really long time

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 13:55, nori heikkinen wrote: > trying to mount nfs partitions. they eventually work, but they take > 46 minutes, and give errors like: > > lock_d up: no pid, 2 users?? > > in the process. which is weird as shit. > > i was using kernel 2.4.21; i downgraded to 2.4.20, think

Debian: REALLY live dangerous, for those wanting to (was woody vSarge...)

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:48, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Of course, why should I talked I have this line in my /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > > > APT::Default-Release "experimental"; > > > > The recent (re

Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 19:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:53, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:30:33PM -0600, John M. Purser wrote: > My mixed sarge/sid system has worked very well for me, with minimal, > surmountable issues. Certainly less than I had when tryin

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