RE: Cannot connect to network now...

2004-11-22 Thread Steven Jones
I think it is known as biting off more than you can chew. try running modconf at the command prompt and installing the needed NIC module. regards Thing --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the story so far: > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > 2.Couldn

RE: Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Steven Jones
Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to need "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it was 4 or 5 years ago. With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode only? if you expect a gui, forget this hardware IMHO. If it is for

RE: Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Steven Jones
the gui mode is 800x600. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Andrea Vettorello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2004 9:35 a.m. To: debian-user Subject: Re: Linux on an old machine On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:30:33 +1300, Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Motherboard Problem

2004-11-24 Thread Steven Jones
I think you are being somewhat un-realistic at 10 years   The biggest weakness seems to be capacitor breakdown, therefore research boards that use the highest quality capacitors from mainstream manufacturers.   I have run a range of "good" makers and I have found them all to be stable f

sendmail on debian

2004-11-28 Thread Steven Jones
I have just built a sendmail box with the sarge verion of Debian, I find it is refusing connections inward but send mail out correctly. How can I get the server to accept incoming mail? I have put lines into access with, Connect:localhost RELAY Connect:130.195 RELA

RE: cdrom upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Steven Jones
You can mount the iso's as file systems regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2004 10:45 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cdrom upgrade On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, rogerwphx wrote: > I install

RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread Steven Jones
Title: debian on a sun enterprise 250 Looks like a fault, Im 99% sure the yellow light is a m/board thing and not OS dependant.   Its not likely to be a hd failure, so check the back, see if the psu(s) have a yellow as well (I think they do from memory, I only have 450s here in my new job),

RE: Can't eject CD

2004-12-06 Thread Steven Jones
do a fuser on the cdrive look for the process that "holds" it and stop/kill it. man fuser for details regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: John Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:28 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't eject CD Pse he

RE: webmin sendmail not working Debian Woody

2004-12-12 Thread Steven Jones
piffle...sendmail works fine, real easy to add in clamav/clamav-milter as well, far easier than postfix. MS's NT stands for "new technology" are you suggesting because its "newer" than unix we should swap to it? ;] Also the webmin sendmail (o) options in Sarge 3.1 edits the sendmail.cf direct

RE: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Jones
lol. Sorry win2k/XP cannot find any diskspress f3 to exit and reboot Sorry your hardware is not supported by win2k/win2k3. This product is obsolete we will not be releasing drivers for win2k win2k3, buy a new controller for just $999. The updated Certified Microsoft driver you

RE: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd?

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Jones
I would suggest, /etc/init.d/ssh restart or /etc/init.d/ssh stop ; /etc/init.d/ssh start regards Thing -Original Message- From: Hanspeter Kunz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 11:21 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd? On

RE: *****SPAM***** howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Steven Jones
mdstat shows quite well that all the disks are on line, or not, it is simple and effective IMHO. When you mount one side of the mirror you may actually be corrupting it.possibly preventing it being written to. If you are going to do that, go to single user mode, unmount the mirror device,

RE: Low Power Servers

2004-12-19 Thread Steven Jones
Transmedia, or the via CPU units. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Cole S. Ashcraft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 1:39 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Low Power Servers Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)? Cole -- Col

RE: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Steven Jones
I have noticed some funnies when seting a restrictive umask, mozilla seems to freak out and the ssl stuff no longer works. one to watch for... regards Steven -Original Message- From: David Mandelberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:37 a.m. To: Clive Menzi

RE: Virii on linux

2005-05-18 Thread Steven Jones
While several anti-virus companies have "shown" Linux virii in their labs there has not been one seen in the wild. They have tried really hard to FUD users into buying their products but generally have failed. What is annoying is being forced to incl a anti-virus package on a Linux server to prot

webmin on debian testing.

2005-05-29 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have an issue with webmin, I can login as root to 127.0.0.1:1 with the unix root password, but I cannot login to its external IP, 130.195.20.24:1 I have set allow=130.195.0.0/255.255.0.0 127.0.0.1 in miniserv.conf But still no joy. I tried to enable ssl and generate new keys...no

RE: jfs or reiser

2005-06-21 Thread Steven Jones
I have used reiser for squid servers for over a year and they are heavily loaded, no issues. Don't use software raid its flaky, so use reiser on hw raid. Regards thing -Original Message- From: John Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:29 a.m. To: debian-user@

$50,000 for the Linux kernel!

2004-10-13 Thread Steven Jones
gee what a bargin, pay $50,000 for a $600 million kernel... says a lot for the dodgy canopy group does it not? why work when you can exploit regards Steven

RE: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-09-27 Thread Steven Jones
Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge sources.list? If so take the lines out and update again. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2004 4:23 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Dynamic MMap ran out of

RE: Switching between two network cards

2004-10-07 Thread Steven Jones
I dont quite understand why you need to switch, you could just run everything off eth1, but anyway, I would suggest looking in your bios and either disabling the onboard NIC, or changing the PCI probe order eg if its says first-last change it to last-first or what ever syntax your bios uses. H

clustering outgoing SMTP servers

2004-10-19 Thread Steven Jones
I would like to cluster 2 servers to share the load of outgoing email. They would need to be active / active as one box is buckling under the load, anybody have overall suggestions on how please i woud do this please? Not detail so much as the principles to give me something robust. regards St

RE: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-19 Thread Steven Jones
Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not mounted/used. The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at this point if you are confident its unused you can make a file system on it. If not mount it and go see if amything is in it. regards Steven -Original Message- From: [

RE: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-19 Thread Steven Jones
I am assuming you have no software raid devices like md0 etc as this would hide hdb10 regards Steven -Original Message- From: Steven Jones Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:12 a.m. To: [KS]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Formatting an unused partition Do a df -h and look for hdb10

RE: Formatting an unused partition

2004-10-19 Thread Steven Jones
type And there are no software raid devices on my system. Regards, /KS --- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not > mounted/used. > > The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at > this point if you are confident

RE: Where is the key for the password files stored?

2004-10-26 Thread Steven Jones
Old Red Hat and new Red Hat / Debian use a different system to create the encrypted passwords if I recall correctly. So you cannot simply copy the users line in shadow over, it wont work, hence the need to de-crypt and re-crypt (I assume). regards Thing -Original Message- From: Miquel

RE: security question (sshd log)

2004-11-02 Thread Steven Jones
Is your sshd setup to protocol 2 only? I would suggest seting it up so it is. regards thing -Original Message- From: Tarapia Tapioco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:29 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: security question (sshd log) I found the following e

experiences with Debian Alpha

2004-11-10 Thread Steven Jones
Has anybody set up Debian on an Alpha? Specifically a DS10? If so, can you point me at some docs / hints / tips / pit falls to avoid to start such a install? I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I can. Easy on intel, but this is my first alpha box and the only ha

RE: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails

2004-11-14 Thread Steven Jones
How about adding clamav? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Jerome BENOIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 November 2004 8:26 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails Hello List, I decided to delete infected emails fetched wit

RE: why debian

2004-11-14 Thread Steven Jones
ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why > Debian should be the preferred choice? > Use the one (Linux) you are most comfortable with. Debian has some advantages, 1) IMHO, the quality of the distribution is amongst the highest, if no

RE: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Steven Jones
I am running clamav attached to sendmail, seems to pick up viruses and some phishes...very easy to set up. Adding clamav Firstly download and install the clamav packages with apt-get. clamav - Antivirus scanner for Unix clamav-base - Base package for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix clama

RE: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Steven Jones
8>< > > But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav > instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Well and to close the circle clamav sucks by default cause the virus database is not maintained by an commercial entity working 24/7 on it. Nearly all commercial AV Vendors offer Li

smtp performance

2004-11-17 Thread Steven Jones
I am looking to run 2 outgoing smtp servers in parallel to increase performance and give redundancy. Is there anyway to run them in parallel such that they load share + if one falls over the mail is channeled into the remaining server? I guess I am looking for an active/active 2 node cluster,

RE: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-06 Thread Steven Jones
-Original Message- From: Chris Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 2:31 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommendation for digital camera On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I'm looking for a digital c

squid advice pls

2004-07-08 Thread Steven Jones
Hi all, I have a Dell 1650 with 2 gig of ram, 2 x 36 gig scsi drives Can anyone point me at or suggest good staring points for the squid configuration pls? Worthwhile tweaks to Debian to get the most out of it? I need to build this box on Monday so I am starting from a clean slate, For Dis

sata ~ linux compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Steven Jones
quick questions. Has anybody used serial ata? if so what chipsets worked well? I want to softraid 2 x 160 gig drives for my small home server and I have to fit a eide pci card of some sort (its all scsi otherwise) so I am thinking a combo usb/firewire/sata card looks a good bet...lots of servic

RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-19 Thread Steven Jones
I would agree, Sony are not a nice company to deal with IMHO, and given so much choice of product out there easy to avoid. ;] Steven 8><= > > Avoid them if you care about customer support. Theirs is even worse > then not having any. Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product ma

RE: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-20 Thread Steven Jones
hehand at the rate Linux is taking over Unix space he like RISC based Unix will be going the way of the dodo. ;] Considering how many "Unixes" run Open source applications and utilities I find it laughable that ppl can look down on Linux. Simple answer is Linux is not Unix because its bett

RE: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-20 Thread Steven Jones
thing -Original Message- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2004 1:31 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is Linux Unix? On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:35:11AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > >

RE: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
cat /proc/cpuinfo should show all 4 cpus? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Jacob Friis Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:56 a.m. To: Greg Folkert Cc: DebianUser List Subject: Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs? Greg Folke

RE: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
Then I believe you do not have a smp kernel, because that command should show all 4. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Jacob Friis Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:07 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: Greg Folkert; DebianUser List Subject: Re: How can I

RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
suits never learnthey only think in one term...dollarsand how to make more. Betamax was actually good, pity VHS won regards Thing -Original Message- From: Silvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 1:39 p.m. To: Debian-user Subject: Re: Don't buy Sony (was

RE: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Steven Jones
Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" to quit. ? Otherwise leave the "drive" in and reboot, see if its seeable then(crude I know) regards Steven -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 200

Samba and OSx

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
Hi all, I have a debian 3.0 box running samba, it has been running for 2 odd years and is fully patched. Win2k, NT4, Win98 clients can talk to it and read and write to the common "share" directory without issue. I have just added an iMac running OSx (which is fully patched etc) It finds the w

RE: Samba and OSx

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
thanks. Will experiment tonight. regards S -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 1:18 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba and OSx Steven Jones wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a debia

RE: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
You could run a squid proxy on the box and redirect http requests, this will log. Assuming you only want http of course. I just looked at my squid logs, for 1 squid server (we run 2 in parallel with DNS round-robin) the log is 350meg to 1.3gig per day per serverthats just http regards

RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk, so the machine will not be bootable anyway. It will probably stay up provided the disks are on sepearate channels, if they are on the same one there is a good chance when one disk dies it will lock out the ide channel it

RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:38 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk, > so the machine will not be bootab

RE: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
This must depend on the bios, all the ones I have seen did not allow this. regards S -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:52 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

RE: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Jones
I am pretty sure freshmeat.net has a tool that uses iptables and puts it into a mysql database...try looking under "monitor" or "uptime" its there somewhere. regards S -Original Message- From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

RE: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Jones
I run a very similar machine, a BX chipset with dual p3-500's, that adaptec aicXXX chipset, it just works, since 2.0.34 when the kernel first supported it. ditto e100 Ive been using the onboard set, should be fine.   :)   My motherboard in question is a Tyan DULAN 1836L, stating your board

RE: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Jones
It means your log gets time stamped, personally I like it. Makes it a bit more difficult for someone to chop out parts of the log to hide things and shows the daemon is running, its not unknown for syslog to stop working. regards S -Original Message- From: Mario Flores [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Ever solve eject problem?

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
try fuser, it should show if someone or something is in the directory in question. so man fuser eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fuser /mnt/ (gives no return) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cd /mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# fuser /mnt/ /mnt/: 16337c [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ps aux |grep 16337 roo

RE: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
keep an eye on it but this looks bad. Check something like advanced power manager in the bios is not active that could be shutting down the hd, but biggest likelyhood IMHO is the drive looks to be failing. regards S -Original Message- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: Ethernet card not working after a clean kernel 2.4installation of Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
did you try modconf to load it? I use these cards and have had no issue. Once inserted with modconf it should be there on reboots. regards S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 3:30 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Ether

RE: I/O Errors

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I would suggest the disk is stuffed. regards S -Original Message- From: Michael G. Morey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 8:50 a.m. To: Debian User List Subject: I/O Errors All, I'm running Debia

RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1

2004-08-02 Thread Steven Jones
I have used these quite a bit on Redhat and Debian, with hundred's of days uptime. You will probably find, if it has a 3com network card "its odd" and wont work with Linux, something in the Dell bios. I ended up installing a 8139c. Otherwise I have found them rock steady, the PSU's do go dodgy,

RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1

2004-08-02 Thread Steven Jones
3 August 2004 12:33 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1 On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > I have used these quite a bit on Redhat and Debian, with hundred's of days uptime. start uptimes in x,000's and than rattle the c

dealing with spam ~ advice needed

2004-08-04 Thread Steven Jones
Our site is being constantly "hit" by spammers using bruteforce tactics looking for valid users. At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? or is it simply better to stop such bounce msgs? while polite, spammers are taking the p*ss We are running postfix and

RE: smp install

2004-08-09 Thread Steven Jones
If you have a smp kernel it will automatically detect the extra kernel after reboot, this is not NT land... ;] regards Thing -Original Message- From: Patrick Donker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 8:44 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: smp install If I insta

RE: Making a route change persistent in Debian

2004-08-12 Thread Steven Jones
open, /etc/network/interfaces add something like, up route add -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.2 down route del -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.2 see this page for an example, http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/setup2b.htm regards thing -Original Messa

usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Jones
just a thought I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting hammered ? regards thing

RE: I have broken apt-get Panic!

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Jones
what commands are you using to upgrade with? regards thing -Original Message- From: Dave Whiteley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 August 2004 12:14 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I have broken apt-get Panic! Hello, I have an old system that has been running "stable" fo

icecast

2004-08-24 Thread Steven Jones
I am looking to stream some of my own music, looks like icecast is a good candidate. can anyone offer/suggest?, 1) Good URLs for documentation? 2) Alternative applications for a Debian based box, if they are easier to do? regards Thing

RE: icecast

2004-08-25 Thread Steven Jones
music system", so thanks for the tips on the other stuff I will need to look at. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Martin Theiß [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 8:41 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: icecast Hi Steven Jones, *, Steven Jones wrot

RE: All these open ports

2004-08-25 Thread Steven Jones
>From what I recall of a discussion over SP2 for XP with a MS rep, thier firewall >should have a lots of fun trying to figure out what is legit outgoing and what is >not ;0 regards Thing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 August

RE: icecast

2004-08-26 Thread Steven Jones
neat. Steven -Original Message- From: Marco van Putten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 August 2004 8:51 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: icecast Hey Steven, Steven Jones schreef: >I am looking to stream some of my own music, looks like icecast i

RE: PE 1600SC ???

2004-08-30 Thread Steven Jones
Does it run OK with 2.4.x ? Im running Dells with RHAS3 on 2.4.x without issues. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Sergio Basurto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 2004 9:42 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PE 1600SC ??? I had problems with installation of wo

dell 2850

2004-08-31 Thread Steven Jones
Anybody got Debian to install on one fo these? if so what disk module did you use? regards Steven

RE: HP DeskJet 895C

2004-09-07 Thread Steven Jones
Is USB enabled in the bios? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Freddy Freeloader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 8:46 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP DeskJet 895C Hi All, I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work. It i

RE: Confused about modules

2004-09-13 Thread Steven Jones
try typing modconf and pic the module to install it. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Robert Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:17 p.m. To: Debian User Subject: Confused about modules As root On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel. modprobe apm th

nfs

2004-09-13 Thread Steven Jones
I am trying to mount a nfs share between laptop and server. exports has /home/share/ 130.195.0.0/255.255.0.0(ro) exportfs shows it as being exported, iptables is disabled, no firewalling. all the directories are 0777 permissions, yet even doing a local mount server to itself fails with reason

RE: nfs

2004-09-13 Thread Steven Jones
I have got a bit further If I specify /home/share/ tecra:(ro) and tecra is in hosts then it mounts fine, what I cannot do is specify a 130.195/24 or 130.195/16 network... any ideas please? regards Steven -Original Message- From: Steven Jones Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 1:43

RE: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Steven Jones
from memory,   cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/orig-interfaces   Pretty easy, install dhcpcd with   apt-get update ; apt-get install dhcpcd   Then /etc/network/interfaces needs the interface thats going to run dhcp to be setup   have these 2 lines, auto eth0iface etho inet dhc

RE: How to start NTPD?

2004-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
If you are a client then you can run ntpdate via a cronjob. eg crontab -e 00 1 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate You should be able to install ntp with apt-get and start it with /etc/init.d/ntp start after you have edited /etc/ntp.conf running ntpq to test it, then at the > prompt type ep then as, t

RE: How to start NTPD?

2004-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
run this, apt-get update ; apt-get -y dist-upgrade and hold on to your hat while the box patches itself (assuming you have a WAN connection in place and sources.list is correct) ;] afterwards, apt-get install ntp Should either install ntp or say the latest is installed. For a client you run

RE: Moving existing setup to a competely new server

2004-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
-Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:35 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving existing setup to a competely new server Hi Andrea, > If you have the option to move the HD (and the HW on > the two servers > are simila

RE: How to start NTPD?

2004-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
cd /etc/apt/sources.list regards Steven -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:59 p.m. To: Debian Users Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? Hi Steven, Tks for your advice. > run this, apt-get update ; apt-get -y dist-upgrade >

RE: How to start NTPD?

2004-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
oops cd /etc/apt/ vi sources.list -Original Message- From: Steven Jones Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 1:00 p.m. To: Debian Users Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? cd /etc/apt/sources.list regards Steven -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Moving existing setup to a competely new server

2004-09-21 Thread Steven Jones
modconf is debian's kernel module installer, it gives you a semi-graphical view and lets you scroll through module groups, you can install multiple modules in one session this way. just type modconf as root from the cli, Im sure you will be able to see what to do from the menu presented. regar

compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-19 Thread Steven Jones
I know this is old hat, but due to a bug in the 2.6 kernel and the megaraid driver I can boot a 2.6 kernel2.4 works fine, but I have to add NIC modules for me Asus board, Realtek 8110 and a Marvel sk98lin. The std one (sk89lin) in debian 2.4.27-4 does not work and there isnt one I can find

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-19 Thread Steven Jones
Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/19/2008 05:58 AM, Steven Jones wrote: I know this is old hat, but due to a bug in the 2.6 kernel and the megaraid driver I can boot a 2.6 kernel2.4 works fine, but I have to add NIC modules for me Asus board, Realtek 8110 and a Marvel sk98lin. The std one (sk89lin

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-19 Thread Steven Jones
Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/19/2008 05:17 PM, Steven Jones wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/19/2008 05:58 AM, Steven Jones wrote: I know this is old hat, but due to a bug in the 2.6 kernel and the megaraid driver I can boot a 2.6 kernel2.4 works fine, but I have to add NIC modules for me Asus

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8><-- I just compiled a 2.4.36-3 kernel using the 2.4.27's config file, locks up at the megaraid module, so somewhere between .27 and .36 there was a change that broke the megaraid module. I am compiling a 2.4.30 but I think that's broken as well as it didnt work

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Jones
Alex Samad wrote: Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? adobe plugin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Jones
David Baron wrote: One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just this problem and bash would not run. I was able to play with other s

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Jones
David Baron wrote: One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just this problem and bash would not run. I was able to play with other s

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Jones
Steven Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8><-- I just compiled a 2.4.36-3 kernel using the 2.4.27's config file, locks up at the megaraid module, so somewhere between .27 and .36 there was a change that broke the megaraid module. I am compiling a 2.4.30 but I think that&

Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Jones
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-04-21 10:21 +0200, Steven Jones wrote: David Baron wrote: One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just

Re: Which backup package?

2008-04-22 Thread Steven Jones
George Borisov wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. bacula. regar

disabling the debian gui screensaver globally

2009-09-16 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I am running Debian machines under VMware ESX. I need to permanently disable the screensaver for all users as it chews CPUbut I still want the screen to lock after 10minsand go blank... How please? regards Steven

2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-07 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot on my scsi raid card, it panics regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

RE: 2.6 kernel issues

2009-04-07 Thread Steven Jones
: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 2:17 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel issues In <61df826607311a4ebe75a77ed59e4cde114023a...@stawincoexmail1.staff.vuw.ac.nz>, Steven Jones wrote: >Is there any alternativ

RE: update to Lenny - eth not found

2009-04-28 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, By going to Lenny the kernel changed I would assume then, you need to re-run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl and restart networking, or reboot, did you do that? Which version is the esxi? 3.5update3? update4 is now out, its supposed to have better support for vmware tools. regards Ste

RE: update to Lenny - eth not found

2009-04-28 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, The guest should be seeing a vmware vmxnet module and not the e1000, the e1000 is esxi compatibleits one of the better ones. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 4:18 p.m. To: debian-user@

RE: ubuntu debian question

2009-04-29 Thread Steven Jones
www.freshmeat.net would be a starting point. > Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software > which run on Ubuntu - Debian? > > A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and operating > system but it is for my wife and the only thing she does is search t

RE: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-12 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I would assume at some point you freeze changes to the distro so you can test against a known setup, ie a case of manageability. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 4:04 p.m. To: Debian User Lists Subject

promise sx6000

2009-05-18 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Anybody know if this ATA raid controller is supported on Debian 5.0? regards Steven

Java JDK install hangs.

2008-01-02 Thread Steven Jones
Im new to Debian but have several years Fedora experience. I have a fresh Debian installation (Debian 40r4 net install) to which I am trying to add sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-10-3_i386.deb using dpkg -i.The problem starts when I'm asked to agree to the license. At the bottom of the license text is a

Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault

2009-12-18 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have a clean install of apache2 on Lenny, and once I have apache and dovecot running I attempt to install squirrelmail and the "it works" page packs up and I get this in messages and syslog. Dec 19 16:37:30 warlock kernel: [ 62.058108] apache2[2230]: segfault at 0 ip b6d6281f sp bf80

Re: Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault

2009-12-18 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, Can anyone recommend a webmail package as an alternative to squirrelmail? regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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