Debian, limits and pam

2008-08-14 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I'm sure someone here runs vserver and came across this problem in the past. Basically, every root logins (from remote or cron), auth.log gets the following message, Aug 14 10:59:56 mail sshd[31167]: (pam_unix) session opened for user root by root( uid=0) Aug 14 10:59:56 mail

Re: AMD64 question...

2005-08-16 Thread Adam Majer
Brad Sims wrote: I am thinking of switching to an AMD64 processor... I am currently running kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I really don't wanna switch to a 2.6 series kernel if I don't have to... I presume I can simply install the -386 versions of the packages and have them work; correct? Yes. If you

Re: Sarge Install | From floppy DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless (RESOLVED)

2005-07-03 Thread Adam Majer
David Hart wrote: Hi, Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine won't boot from them so using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st DVD. Solution - The BIOS only looked at the first IDE device for boot - disabled the CD and

Re: debian hosting service

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Majer
fenallen wrote: $70 dollars seems a bit steep. I pay less than that much for a server collocation at http://tera-byte.com (in Canada) - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA problems

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Majer
Jim Blake wrote: I believe SATA support was included in the kernel from 2.6.10, but even when I try to install with a 2.6 kernel and the NetBoot disk, it fails. SATA should work with the 2.6.8 kernel as well. FWIW, I've moved to SATA only setup at the beginning of the year. The biggest problem

Re: Sarge Install | From floppy DVD | Not finding hard drive or wireless

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Majer
David Hart wrote: Hi, Installing for the first time. I have Sarge on DVD, but my machine won't boot from them so using floppys. Using the boot.img, root.img and cd-drivers.img from the 1st DVD. Problem 1 - Does not detect my Belkin 802.11g PCI card (F5D7000). I will leave this until after

Re: ppp addresses and routing table

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Majer
Bernd Prager wrote: I'm experiencing some trouble with my DSL setup. Every time after reboot my routing table is using my ppp0 P-t-P address instead of its inet address. Which is the correct way of setting routes. Default should go though the other end of the ppp connection. $ ifconfig

Re: kernel status or possible update

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
John Graves wrote: I have sarge running with kernel image 2.4.25-1-386. My processer is a P4. Is there any advantage to updating to 2.4.27-686? What risks am I running. Or am I better to ugrade to 2.6?? If you use HT (you need to run SMP kernel for that), then 2.6 should have much better

Re: cannot burn 612MB iso

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
Kudret Güler wrote: No problem on writing, no problem on mounting the new cd-rom. However when I try to read one of the mentioned files, errors appear in /var/log/messages But now that I rebooted the system this morning, after burning a fresh copy with the same iso file I created yesterday, I

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
Jochen Schulz wrote: Today it looks like they found another provider. Three cheers for whoever that is! Giving away rackspace, redundant power supply and unlimited bandwidth for free is not very common. :-) One of the addresses seems to be, $ whois 128.101.80.133 OrgName:University of

Re: Upgrading from mysql 4.0 to mysql 4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
stud rocket wrote: Hi all, What's the best way to upgrade from an existing MySQL 4.0 install to MySQL 4.1? I'm running etch, and I have a number of existing databases and database users that I want to smoothly upgrade. I noticed the 4.0 and 4.1 packages conflict, so can I just remove 4.0 and

Re: Upgrading from mysql 4.0 to mysql 4.1

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Majer
stud rocket wrote: On 6/28/05, Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Backup all databases. `man mysqldump` will help you here Definitely. I was also planning to just backup the binary db files in hopes I can just drop them into MySQL 4.1. The reason that the two conflict

Re: Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-21 Thread Adam Majer
Oliver Elphick wrote: which returns 0 rows, works correctly in mysql. But when it is passed through this statement in Perl: my @row = $dbh-selectrow_array($sql) or failed(__FILE__, __LINE__, Failed to run the sql statement with error

Re: Frozen Sarge?

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi all, I know that Sarge has been frozen for a while now but updates keep coming in. Today I got 77 updates to installed packages and I update 4-5 times a week. Are these updates that were already in the pipeline and the package maintainers are pushing them through to

Re: HP 3325 Inkjet on Sarge

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
shatam bhattacharya wrote: Hi list, I am facing problems installing my HP printer (make 3325 inkjet). This could be of some help, http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_3325 - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Two internet connections

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Hans du Plooy wrote: My feeling is that the mailserver tries to respond to the connection via it's default gateway. How do I tell it to respond via the interface that the connection was made on? You need to set up routing tables with the ip(8) tool. That is in the iproute package. You

Re: Cannot boot Debian Unstable after shutdown.

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 09:19:28PM -0400, KS wrote: And the last = sign keeps on blinking, nothing happens. The rescue disk also gave similar results! Bootloaders need to know the physical location of the kernel. If it moved and you didn't rerun whatever Grub uses

Re: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-386 (2.6.11-5) detection problem with Zaurus (OpenZaurus)

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Mary Mark Pinderski Johnso wrote: I ran dmesg to a file, plugged in the Zaurus, then ran dmesg again. This is what diff showed (without the characters). # dmesg usb 4-1.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 4-1.1: khubd timed out on ep0in usb 4-1.1: device not

Re: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-386 (2.6.11-5) detection problem with Zaurus (OpenZaurus)

2005-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
Mary Mark Pinderski Johnso wrote: Any ideas on what happened? I've checked the kernel-image 2.6.11 doc files changelog.Debian.gz and Debian.src.changelog.gz, but I didn't see anything related to the Zaurus or to usbnet. I just wanted to add that you should look at the changelog for

Re: What to do with source package?

2005-05-28 Thread Adam Majer
Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm consideeing adding functinoality to a Debian package. But I have no experience with source packages and the like. It seems to be distributed in two parts: a .tar.gz file, and a set of diffs applied to that. What's the proper way to make the source for the current version?

Re: cd player blocks the soundcard for xmms

2005-05-28 Thread Adam Majer
Adam Hardy wrote: I searched the mailing list and saw quite a few people with the opposite problem, but for me, I can play CDs happily but doing so blocks the soundcard for XMMS and I can only free it up by rebooting. My soundcard is otherwise configured fine and plays sounds for most

Re: ia64 available packages

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Majer
Rick Pasotto wrote: I'm thinking of getting an AMD-64 machine. Is there an easy way to see if all the packages I currently have installed are available in the ia64 distribution? It is easier to see which ones are not available. Anyway, AMD64 uses an amd64 port, not the ia64. ie64 is for

Re: 3D gaming

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Majer
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, Does anyone know why FLOSS programmers haven't built superb 3D games, say ones comparable to titles like 'Halo' or 'Burn-Out'? I'm not sure how tough it is to create high-profile games like these two, but I believe that it can't be as tough as something like

Re: exim SMTP Authentication

2005-05-24 Thread Adam Majer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exim can't find the drivers which leads me to believe that the exim package wasn't built with AUTH capabilities. If that is so, does anyone use exim with smtp auth or exim4 with SMTP auth and is is built into that package? There are two exim packages,

Re: Woody - Sarge apt-get dist-upgrade

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Majer
Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi all, Now that Sarge has entered freeze, I'm considering upgrading my Woody box to it. This runs the firewall for my local network (connected via Ethernet cable modem) handling mail (Exim v3 and fetchmail), news (newsstar and INN v2.3.2), web proxy etc. Is the upgrade to

Re: partitioning help

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Majer
Franklin Parlamis wrote: i tried to partition my hard drive for a debian woody install. it is just south of 80 Gb and IDE (from a Compaq EVO D510 I am tranferring from Windows platform). i wanted to go with 6 partitions, which would require using an extended type physical drive to put the

Re: XP doc to Debian printer?

2003-11-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:42PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: My grandson does homework on an XP laptop which connects to our wireless network but all the other computers on the network are Debian. Last year we were

Re: usbdevfs boot error

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:22:48PM +, Guldo K wrote: Hello everybody :-) usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 2 ep 0x85 len 512 ret -110 This means that you have some USB device that either broken or the driver for it is broken. Some IN endpoint (EP: 5 IN ) is

Re: Debian + SB51G

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:22:23PM +0200, Bruno Agostini wrote: Hello I have a SB51G Shuttle barebone with an integrated Intel I845GE graphic controler and an ATI Radeon 9100 in the AGP slot. The installation of Debian 3.0 failed when I configured the X server. I compiled the kernel with

Re: dual booting

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:03:10AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: MS-DOS and the Win95/98/ME systems need to be on what they think is C:, which would mean the first drive that has a filesystem they can read (FAT, VFAT, FAT32,) and preferably the first primary partition of the first physical

Re: Linux vs Windows

2003-05-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:46:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, MindCraft has been well established as nothing short of a HOAX put on by Microsoft. IIRC it was a test between two servers, one of which was configured by the best minds in the business. The other configured by

bind9 and microsoft issues

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I keep getting flooded with messages like Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[232]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache) denied Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[231]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query (cache) denied Jan 31 17:30:14 polaris named[232]: client 207.46.150.12#32645: query

Re: gcc not working

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:48:27PM -0300, Albert Knox wrote: hi! i'm trying to compile a program from sources, but when I type ./configure it says that gcc is not working. The package is installed. What can be the problem? A micrometeorite destroyed one or two bites on your hard drive! :) At

Re: bad dynamic tag

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 04:17:14AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: I've had trouble booting since I installed woody a couple of months or so ago (kernel 2.2.20 #1), but things have become so bad recently that I'm hoping I might get some help from you kind folks. (I've found correspondence

Re: QT Libraries, help needed

2003-02-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:53:58PM +0100, Peppe wrote: Hi, I have problems with the QT libraries: But 1) gcc doesn't compile ANY qt-based program, like even tutorials O_O 2) the binary compiled on another system doesn't start... Are you using qmake? Or your own method. Are you using

Re: sendmail just queueing everything

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:12:57AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! On my (home) box, I seem to to have a problem with sendmail: it just queues everything until I start a queue-run manually, then everything goes out as expected. Eg I send a mail at 01:18, and at 01:52 it's still in

Re: ide disk access problem

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:15:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I unburied the router and determined that it's a hardware incompatibility. The disk worked fine in the router. The router's disk is a WDC2320H -- identical except for lower capacity. The router's disk works in my

Re: Survey: Should MySQL be chroot'ed?

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:35:22PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: Hi I'm currently preparing the 4.x version of mysql (see /experimental/) and thinking about chrooting the daemon in /var/lib/mysql. Chroot it but make it an option selectable from debconf or something. thanks, Adam -- To

Re: howto for compiling of deb packages

2003-01-01 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: Hello I have to know how you can build deb packages from source. Could somebody tell me if there exists an apt-get(able) doc package that introduces me in the topic of compiling your own deb packages from source? Just use

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:33:01AM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: Il lun, 2002-12-23 alle 01:57, Adam Majer ha scritto: On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: The /nfsroot was mounted The kernel image was ok and readable What can I check ? Can't

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-23 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:51:44PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: Il lun, 2002-12-23 alle 19:49, Adam Majer ha scritto: During a regular install, Debian is going to ask questions on what to install and the rest of the parameters. That means you need some sort of a console that is supported

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: date; burn-cd.sh; date and burning the CD using cdrdao (48x drive -- about 4 minutes to burn a CD) caused the system clock to fall behind about *50* seconds. Maybe it's

Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:38AM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote: I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard. Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :) In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C running

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:47:11PM +0100, Samuele Bosco wrote: Hi @ all ! Thi is my first post on this ml And my first experience with debian :-) I'm trying to debian-ize a Sun Cobalt Raq2 with Paul Martin's how-to, that seem the easiest way to do it So, i've installed my dhcpd

Re: swap not being used

2002-12-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 02:40:21PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: mother:~# cat /proc/swaps FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/hda2 partition 996020 0 -1 now say i'll start openoffice and mozilla and a couple

Re: 2 Problems Quake3 and Bind9

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:42:43PM -0600, Jason Jorgensen wrote: Now, the more important question! Quake3. I recently upgraded my Debian unstable workstation and now all of a sudden my Quake3 for linux wont respond to my mouse movements. The mouse buttons register fine inside the game, but I

X in unstable is unstable [hosed] ?

2002-12-20 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, I just wanted to report a nasty problem with X in unstable. After about 6h of uptime, it starts to reset the screen. I have to reboot - restarting X does nothing. Here's the tail of the X log: (==) Wacom tablet top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=30480 bottom Y=24060 (==) Wacom tablet top X=0 top

Re: getting networking to work [was Re: ethernet card]

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:29:14PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: On 12/16/02 23:40, Andrew Hurt wrote: On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Once I connect (using the PPPoE interface within the router), I get access to the outside! My connection was turned-on today and I'm getting

Re: Quake 3 + nVidia drivers

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:56:29AM -0500, John Mitchell wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Using quake 3 on debian woody with the nvidia drivers the game loads fine but the display is all garbled. What parts of the display are garbled? the text is

Re: Woddy and ATI Radeon 7500

2002-12-18 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:41:07PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: Guess I'm new around here, so hello to everyone. I recently bought a IBM ThinkPad A31, which uses a ATI Radeon 7500 mobiliti as it's video card. Using woody, I can't setup my X server. when I issue the command startx it

Re: spamassassin out of memory

2002-12-16 Thread Adam Majer
Just use a message queue so it doesn't kill your box. See my message from 2 minutes ago... On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:50:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 16 Dec 2002, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: Salut, J'utilise spamassassin pour filtrer mon courier ? moi, ? l'aide d'un .forward et

Re: Soundcard Problem VIA Technologies

2002-12-16 Thread Adam Majer
By any chance, do you have the volume up? Use something like aumix (it's also a package -- nice text mixer) to set the volume. And make sure that the module is loaded :) [just add the module to /etc/modules but I think you got that step :] - Adam On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:53:46PM +0100,

Re: ethernet card

2002-12-13 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:35PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: Greetings. Going to be getting DSL, soon, and I just don't know what make/model of ethernet card I should get. PCI is a given, but I need something that goes well with =2.4.19 kernels and Debian 3.0 I've heard Intel and

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-28 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 10:05:28AM +1000, John wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 08:37, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:46:29AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: [snip] To make an observation, Americans have this bizarre superiority complex. Oregonians, and to a

max number of processes and woody [thread from some time ago]

2002-05-03 Thread Adam Majer
Hi all, Some time ago there was a thread asking about the limit of ~300 processes allowed by the kernel and no more. Actually, in 2.4 kernels, that is not necessarily imposed by ulimit but by the kernel limit set in the /proc directory. /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max By default, this is set to

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-04-04 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:00:20PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Adam Majer quotation: No!! There can't be an option. If a calculator does not follow precedence then there should be a grave bug against it. Why? Well, for starters, it would mean 2+3 != 3+2 Hardly. Ignoring

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 06:32:13PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil unrest in Nigeria and the plot of smuggling funds into the United States, but the recipient failed to

Re: Advice req on switching from static to dynamic IP ...

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:06:13PM -0400, C-Cose Masters wrote: QUESTION - 1 !!! My thought is that ~prior~ to installing my pppOE, I should rename the /etc/init.d file so that it does not load, so that the only script called is the /etc/network/interfaces script. Yes? No? PPPoE is a PPP

Re: OT - NFS through firewalls

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:46:18PM -0900, Christopher Swingley wrote: David, The NFS box is one of many machines that have real IP addresses, and are connected to the Internet. The clients are cluster nodes joined Isn't this a security risk? NFS servers should never have public IP

Re: Woody install from scratch on 03/27/2002

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:59:16PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Dselect runs a lot slower than under potato, enough that I threw another 16 meg ram in the machine. But that's a dselect db issue. It's because current setup _does_not_ scale. As sizeof(Packages) goes up, I'll bet you that it

Re: how to get Mesa/OpenGL to use direct rendering?

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:45:55PM -0600, Dan Griswold wrote: Hi, I may be so confused that maybe I'm not even asking the right questions, but here goes. I'd like to have X use the hardware acceleration of my video card. Actually, it's not an extra card at all, but a Trident

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 04:05:22PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: 1x2+5x50 (in this order, not in normal precedence order that computers and etc use...) And it outputs 252 not 350! NO. Not if I enter it in a specific order. 1x2 = 2 2+5 = 7 7x50 = 350 Not 252! That is how a

Re: kcalc math bug?

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:38:24PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remember, we are working with hand entered calculations that go into the app in a certain order, and *that* is the order that it should be calculated... There should probably be a preference

Re: StarOffice for potato

2002-03-29 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:29:22PM -0500, Phil wrote: I have old x86 machines (I work at a public school) and managed to get Debian 2.1 running but I'm having trouble getting software. mozilla,and staroffice are not installing because of glibc conflicts. wher can I find old packages that

Re: dri causing hard lockups?

2002-03-27 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 06:46:31PM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: Trying to use the DRI stuff is causing X to lockup. In fact, the whole system is almost locked up---the keyboard and mouse are impotent, and the monitor doesn't show anything. Fortunately, I can do a remote login, but the only

Re: Are these machines up to it?

2002-03-24 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 12:09:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:39, Keith O'Connell wrote: 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this as a firewall. Totally yes. A 486DX2/66 with 16MB RAM is up to the task... With a 1GB disk, you

Re: 3c5x9setup adapter failure on isa etherlink 3

2002-03-24 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:05:27AM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:14, Jason M. Harvey wrote: hello, i have an isa 3com etherlink III. i had another one before, on the same PC... as long as i specifed irq7 in modconf it worked fine. this one will not work. i ran

Re: OK, I am too stupid for chrony

2002-03-24 Thread Adam Majer
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 10:17:14PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: I have a internet link via cable one eth0 (up when machine is up), but the machine does get powered off. 1.) In this case, do I need the offline directive in the server lines in chrony.conf? I don't think so.. As long as you

Re: sound question

2002-03-21 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:53:24PM +0100, Malte Thoma wrote: can anybody tell me, how to set up the soundsystem of my laptop? I have tryed severalthings, but without success :-( lspci says: 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Try the

Re: 3c5x9setup: EEPROM rewritting

2002-03-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:01:55PM +0100, Rudolf Divicin wrote: Hello GNU users. I have rewritten content of EEPROM of my 3c509B card (3Com ethercard) by utility 3c5x9setup. This utility has no man page and in help 3x5x9setup -h is not that before using this operation source file should be

Re: SSH 2 slower than 1?

2002-03-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:17:28PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote: Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from stable - testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than before? ssh2 is more computationally intensive.

Re: making my own dist. ? ?

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Adam craig wrote: Hello, I've 3 servers to install - not the same hardware but the software needs to be the same. I have installed the first server and got everything working the way I want it to. My problem is that I need to use interbase with

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:27:24AM -0600, hanasaki wrote: I have both installed. - is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use? dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf. Pump is nice in that it only requireds on place to

Re: Pump and Dhclient

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:26:42PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: What about these lines in the example config? Woudl you be kind and send your interfaces and dhclient.conf ? Thank you #alias { # interface eth0; # fixed-address 192.5.5.213; # option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255; #}

Re: pppoe and kernel 2.4.x

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:06:09PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote: Hi debianers, well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel. Reading the file

Re: Configuring a modem

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0600, Eric wrote: Hello all: I am attempting to configure my Debian Potato system to connect to the internet, but I'm not clear on how to set it to recognize my modem. Any suggestions? Just my 2 cents again, but it's not a winmodem or a controlles modem or

Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:57:25PM -0500, stan wrote: I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines. I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing fetchmail as that user). What;s The Debian Way of starting up these user instances of fetchmail? I don't know

Re: nfs is slow

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 03:13:58AM +0100, Andreas Leitner wrote: myhost:/mydir /myotherdir nfs user,noexec,dev,suid,rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 Is there some app in debian with which i could easily messure the saturation of my connection? Try nload (package nload) Sometimes

Re: hardware question

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:26:34PM -0600, Richard wrote: I am going to be putting together a new computer in the next couple of weeks. When i do i want to install debian on it. I am looking at a kr7a abit motherboard with the KT266A chipset. I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about

Re: cdrecord can't find scsi modules

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:27:08PM -0500, James Hughes wrote: Kernel command line: Shouldn't the value of append show up there? My next course of action, (and I'm running out of courses [:)] , is to recompile the kernel without IDE/ATAPI support. Any other ideas? YEs, I have: Kernel

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:14:36PM +0100, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote: Hello, Thank you guys, that's exactly the answer i needed :). I can't compile a kernel on this machine (it's a 486 @ 66 mhz.. Slow even to untar :p). I'll keep my 2.2 for now. You _can_ build it - it takes about 2-4h

Re: LILO other=/dev/hda6 (boot logical partition)

2002-02-13 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:59:49PM -0800, ben wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:28 pm, Michel Loos wrote: [snip] As far as I know Windows can only boot from a primary partition. Since you have more then 4 partitions some must be secondary partition: you won t be able to boot windows

Re: user homedir chroot jail..

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:23:29AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 04:37:01PM -0800, Petre Daniel wrote: how can i deny to a user with shell access the browsing of /home ? thanx chmod 711 /home So they can go into directories they know about, but they wont be able to

Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

2002-02-12 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: Hi, I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: # cat /proc/meminfo total:

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-10 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:59:54PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Timothy Burt wrote: 1) Have you compiled support for agpgart in the kernel? And are you using the kernel-supplied radeon driver? Following your suggestion, I installed the radeon

Re: ati radeon XF86Config

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 12:36:53AM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: Can anyone supply a copy of their working XF86Config-4 they use with the ATI Radeon? Here's a few choice lines from my configuration - can you spot the error? Section Device Identifier ATI Radeon Driver ati

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:27:16AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Joey Hess wrote: Did loki put all their games up there for free or something? No, but thier binaries were publically avalible. You'll have to buy the Windows version to get the data files to

Re: sources.list question

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 05:51:17PM -0800, Patrick Kirk wrote: [snip] I remember pine is only available as source due to licensing issue and removed from binary distribution. If I were desparate, I might download source package and compile. (Which I believe comes with pico.) But, I

Re: Can't dpkg-reconfigure ssh

2002-02-09 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:19:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: When I run dpkg-reconfigure ssh, I just get dropped back to a command prompt. No questions; no disk thrashing; no bells and whistles. I originally told sshd to not run; now I want it to run. I know I can just delete the file

Re: ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:33:36PM -0600, will trillich wrote: i try ping aa.b.cc.dd and get 100% packet loss. ifconfig says the connection is up. (ifup at first reports rx on 1 address; if i ifdown and then ifup again, it reports rx on 0, rx on 1. what's up with that?) yes, the 10baseT

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:57:32AM -, Shri Shrikumar wrote: It is soo sucky that you get so many good games for windows like Half Life and Diablo II and very few for Linux. I for one would like to see more games supporting the linux os. I obviously wouldn't expect Microsoft to release

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:06:23AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be s easy on most cases if they just used OpenGL and not Direct3D. That's why Quake III runs so well under X and nonOpenGL games are so difficult to port... I have

Re: PPP and Linux 2.4.9

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:26:46PM +, Mark Sweeting wrote: --- ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 February 2002 04:32 am, Mark Sweeting Thanks for the suggestions so far. Yes, I do have ppp installed, pppd is up and running, and it appears all the packages needed are installed.

Re: Installation of X

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 01:25:28PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I want to install an X system on my Dell inspiron 8100 notebook and after that install KDE, but cannot find any X system that will support my video card. The card is Nvidia Geforce2 GO 32Mb (dell mobile). Does anyone

Re: Install woes...X problem

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:36:19PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:19:29 -0800 ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:54 pm, Ray Bowles wrote: VIA686a apparently all straight 2.4 kernels are affected by this. allegedly, there are ac patches that

Re: partition types

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've got a REALLY STUPID question here. :/ there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers :) I decided recently that I wanted to try out the Linux from Scratch project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). In order to

Re: dns

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:23:03AM +0300, Alexey wrote: There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. Is it a Debian-specific software? I can connect to the provider, run pppd. There appears resolv.conf with nameserver... lines. I can ping those servers, and it's

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) There is a lot of drivers ATI in the list.

Re: ATI Radion video card

2002-02-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:03:15AM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi all, Has anyone gotten XFree86 up and running with an ATI Radion video card. I just did an install on Friday and once again X has got me stumped. Any tips, hints, words of wisdom, or random thoughts would be greatly

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: Thanks, Stephen, even now I get: -rw-rw 1 ngterry mail If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still get Mailbox is read-only. Why? When I set up my /var/spool to be mounted over NFS I got exactly the same problem. It had to do

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