Re: Future of policykit

2016-04-08 Thread mad
On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:05:12AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2016 at 10:13:24 +0100, m...@janitor.chat wrote: > > > Hello debian-users, > > I have a quick question about the policykit package in Debian - I've > > just noticed that the current version on my desktop (using Arch) has > >

Future of policykit

2016-04-08 Thread mad
Hello debian-users, I have a quick question about the policykit package in Debian - I've just noticed that the current version on my desktop (using Arch) has default configuration files in the form of javascript lambdas (not even JSON..), but the debian one (on sid) has flat config files. My

lightdm uses last window manager

2015-04-07 Thread mad
the changed window manager is then written to .dmrc. TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55238cdb.30...@sharktooth.de

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-28 Thread mad
Argh, now it works. Turns out that the themes from gtk3-engines-xfce seem to have a problem. E.g. Xfce-winter from gtk3-engines-xfce doesn't work, Adwaita from gnome-themes-standard-data does. Am 03/27/15 um 13:04 schrieb mad: Hmmm, doesn't seem to help. Am 27.03.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Alexis

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread mad
. Still only the gtk2 applications use the theme, gtk3 applications look broken. More ideas? TIA mad Am 27.03.2015 um 10:49 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: On 03/27/2015 12:41 PM, mad wrote: Hi! I use XFCE and when using gtk3 applications (evince, meld, ...) the theme is broken and I can't

xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread mad
Hi! I use XFCE and when using gtk3 applications (evince, meld, ...) the theme is broken and I can't seem to fix it. I installed gtk3-engines-xfce, made sure that the configuration is correct but nothing seems to work. Any ideas or suggestions? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread mad
Hmmm, doesn't seem to help. Am 27.03.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Alexis: mad m...@sharktooth.de writes: More ideas? It might be that gnome-settings-daemon needs to be running, although doing so might well mess with XFCE's settings setup Alexis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

XFCE, network-manager and VPN?

2015-03-17 Thread mad
] get_secrets_cb(): Failed to request VPN secrets #2: (6) No agents were available for this request. And if I open NM to change/remove/add VPN profiles, I get the error message: ** (nm-connection-editor): WARNING **: Unsupported connection type 'vpn' Any ideas? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

x2go login/session via [kgx]dm?

2015-03-02 Thread mad
direction? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54f48896@sharktooth.de

CAP_SYS_MODULE/CAP_NET_ADMIN

2015-01-28 Thread mad
. bonding.conf), but none of the solutions seem to apply to my configuration. I didn't configure anything special, the network configuration is out of the box. The only thing I configured is a bridge for KVM use. Thanks in advance mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

LVM RAID5 with missing disk?

2014-12-04 Thread mad
Hi! I wanted to create a RAID5 with lvm. The basic setup is something like lvcreate --type raid5 -i 2 -L 1G -n my_lv my_vg which would mean 3 physical drives would be used in this RAID5. But can I specify that one drive is missing as it is possible with mdadm? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Stale file in Debian after change of equivs package

2014-12-03 Thread mad
Perfect! That what I was searching for. The configuration is marked as obsolete! Thank you! Am 02.12.2014 um 23:29 schrieb Bob Proulx: Don Armstrong wrote: mad wrote: I am using equivs to create simple packages with dependencies and a few files. Now I removed one file from the equivs

Stale file in Debian after change of equivs package

2014-12-02 Thread mad
did I do wrong? Example - Old package: $ dpkg-deb -c package1.deb /etc/test1.conf $ dpkg -L package1 /etc/test1.conf New package: $ dpkg-deb -c package1.deb /etc/test2.conf $ dpkg -L package1 /etc/test2.conf /etc/test1.conf TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: ntpd confusion

2014-11-27 Thread mad
I found it. It was DHCP. The NTP init scripts checks if there is a file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp in which the local router is configured as only ntp source. Am 11/24/14 16:11, schrieb Chen Wei: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:58:29AM +0100, mad wrote: mentioned, other Debian installations

Re: ntpd confusion

2014-11-24 Thread mad
Am 24.11.2014 um 06:13 schrieb Chen Wei: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 09:57:50PM +0100, mad wrote: # ntpq -p remote refidst t when poll reach delay offset jitter fritz.box X.Y.Z.A 3 u- 641

Re: ntpd confusion

2014-11-23 Thread mad
Am 22.11.2014 um 22:01 schrieb Erwan David: Le 22/11/2014 21:57, mad a écrit : Hi! I'm stumped. On my home network all my Debian installations _only_ use the router as clock source. # ntpq -p remote refidst t when poll reach delay offset jitter

ntpd confusion

2014-11-22 Thread mad
with 'Connection refused'. If I start it with '-6 -n' ntpq says 'No association ID's returned'. I'm thoroughly confused. Does anyone knows what's happening? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Powersaving with Xeon CPU (cpufreq)?

2014-11-16 Thread mad
maximum transition latency: 4294.55 ms. I can load certain modules (speedstep-lib) and governors, but it still doesn't work. I know from Scientific Linux that a (different) Xeon CPU can scale. I also tried kernel 3.2 and 3.16. Anyone already has experience with this CPU? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

apt.conf.d: Multiple declarations of one value?

2014-10-27 Thread mad
; }; [...] $ cat 90local [...] Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Pattern { origin=Other,label=Other-Security; }; [...] Or will then only the last definition be used? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Vanished log files after reboot

2014-10-26 Thread mad
Hi! After a reboot of a virtual machine *all* old log files in /var/log and directories under that are gone (.1, .2.gz, ...). Does anyone know how that might happen? I already checked the VM for root kits and I certainly can't remember configuring something like that. TIA mad

No volume change possible

2014-06-30 Thread mad
is possible Anybody any idea what the problem may be? On my laptop (also Debian testing, very similar setup) volume change is possible. Thanks in advance mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: No volume change possible

2014-06-30 Thread mad
pavucontrol does not fix the problem. In pavucontrol between 1 and 100% the volume stays the same. It is muted when switched to zero and it is getting louder over 100%. On 30.06.2014 20:07, B wrote: On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:44:02 +0200 mad m...@sharktooth.de wrote: I can no longer change

Strange things happening with forwarded mails

2014-06-15 Thread mad
happens with mail already tagged as spam by the email provider. Does anybody know why this is happening? What the problem is? Thanks in advance. mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Package Install Problem

2014-02-15 Thread mad
Hi! How about using gdebi? DESCRIPTION gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages. Cheers mad Am 15.02.2014 14:41, schrieb Mike: I am trying to install a .deb package from

Re: cannot open display: :0.0 on chroot sid 32bit

2009-08-05 Thread maD
Jean-Michel OLTRA a écrit : Bonjour, Le mardi 04 août 2009, maD a écrit... J'utilise une sid en chroot sur une lenny amd64 Suite a une mise a jours du sid chrooter, les programmes 32bit tournant dans cette sid non plus acces à X. Habituellement j'ai tjrs un axe de recherche qd j'ai un

cannot open display: :0.0 on chroot sid 32bit

2009-08-04 Thread maD
Salut J'utilise une sid en chroot sur une lenny amd64 Suite a une mise a jours du sid chrooter, les programmes 32bit tournant dans cette sid non plus acces à X. Habituellement j'ai tjrs un axe de recherche qd j'ai un pb, mais là je ne vois pas du tout. Vous avez une idée? Merci d'avance :)

PowerBook 12

2009-07-15 Thread MAD
Hello, I would like to install Ubuntu 9.04 PowerPC on my PowerBook 12 with no working CD drive. I have copied the 4 files into the root directory (just the top level of my Macintosh HD, right)? I also extract the .iso file and copy its contents into my root directory (otherwise, yaboot

Re: [SOLVED] Re: ALSA Problem: mehrere Programme gleichzeitig Sound ausgeben lassen

2005-10-25 Thread mad
... (alsa) eintragen. Bye, mad -- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

Re: CD/DVD drive not in /dev/

2005-07-23 Thread Mad Marty
What does ls /proc/ide say? Look for a drive there that's not hdb. The kernel sees your drive iff it's listed in /proc/ide. $ ls /proc/ide drivers hdb ide0 sis Doesn't look hopeful... $ cat /proc/ide/sis SiS 5513 Ultra 133 chipset --- Primary Channel

Re: [(totalement) HS] réparation portable

2004-09-03 Thread mad
Salut, J'ai un Toshiba avec l'alim arrachée aussi, je n'ai jamais trouvé de réparation en dessous de ... 8000 F. Le truc est simple, personne ne répare ces choses là (en boutique), on change les pièces. Et pour moi, je pense que pour toi le pb sera le meme, c'est que la pièce défectueuse,

Re: Debian-women: suite

2004-07-13 Thread mad
Salut, Juste un passage pour donner vite fait mon avis, j'ai pas tout lu, les trolls me gavent, j'espère que vous me pardonnerez. Ceci dit, l'informatique est un domaine très masculin, je pense, et les hommes sont ce qu'ils sont, empreints de moult défauts, et bien souvent dénigrent avec

Re: [PRB] $PS1 retour sur la meme ligne

2004-07-06 Thread mad
Bonjour, Le probleme vient du fait que les caractreres de coloration doivent etre entourés par des crochets pour indiqués qu'ils ne doivent pas etre pris en compte pour determiner la fin de ligne. soit: \[\e[1;37m\]\t mathias k13 wrote: Bonjours Voici ma variable:

Re: La mafia a encore frapp !

2004-06-25 Thread mad
Bonjour, Juste un truc à dire, si on aime pas apt, on utilise pas Debian, si on aime apt et que les paquets sont mal fait, on les refait, ce sera plus contructif que de brailler comme un putois ! Surtout que, du peu que j'ai suivi, c'est plutôt à la portée de n'importe qui de recompiler un

PDC Samba et droits des utilisateurs

2004-06-24 Thread mad
Bonjour, Tout d'abord je tiens à m'excuser de poser cette question ici, puisque ce n'est pas spécifique à Debian. Ceci dit, j'ai installé un serveur Samba pour en faire un contrôleur de domaine pour quelques Windows XP et aussi quelques 98 et un 2000 pour mes tests, et je cherche un moyen

Re: PDC Samba et droits des utilisateurs

2004-06-24 Thread mad
J'ai oublié de préciser que c'est un samba 3.0.4 de backports.org (3.0.4-2.backports.org.1), et donc c'est une testing aussi ;) mad wrote: Bonjour, Tout d'abord je tiens à m'excuser de poser cette question ici, puisque ce n'est pas spécifique à Debian. Ceci dit, j'ai installé un serveur

Re: shell script kommands

2001-09-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Timeboy (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 01:41:08PM +0200): Is there a possibility to do this with a bash script? #!/bin/bash cnt=0 while read i; do var[cnt]=$i cnt=`expr $cnt + 1` done echo there are $i object(s) in array var[]. martin; (greetings from the heart of the

Re: ssh/scp and the change of remote shell

2001-09-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Bostjan Muller (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:47:20PM +0200): 1. I cannot ssh/scp to a remote machine, if the user has an shell that does not allow interactive login (like if he/she has /bin/false for the shell), that is ok for ssh, but scp should still work right? sftp does not work

Re: External modem line drops with activity

2001-08-19 Thread MaD dUCK
which kernel are you using, and does it have VJ compression enabled? the option should be around the configuration item for PPP. martin

tripwire reports constant changes of /usr/doc and /home

2001-08-18 Thread MaD dUCK
folks, this one leaves me puzzled, so i was wondering if you could help me out. every day, tripwire reports to me that on one of my systems (only), the directories /home and /usr/doc have changed: changed: drwxr-xr-x root 8192 Aug 6 16:18:56 2001 /usr/doc changed: drwxr-xr-x root

Re: tripwire reports constant changes of /usr/doc and /home

2001-08-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Roberto Diaz (on Sat, 18 Aug 2001 07:11:26PM +0200): at first, it was only /home, and i thought it had anything to do with the quotae i enabled on that partition, but /usr/doc is (a) not a partition of its own, and (b) /usr doesn't have quotae. /home could be explained if you

Re: [users] dialup query

2001-06-29 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Stig Brautaset (on Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:17:19AM +0100): install ppp and pppconfig, taking care to pull ppp off people.debian.org/~bunk/debian if you have a 2.4.x kernel. Why? I run ppp on a pcmcia-modem with the standard package (unstable). (It is slow to connect, but runs fine

Re: [users] which NIC driver to use?

2001-06-29 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Griffiths (on Fri, 29 Jun 2001 05:49:28PM +): I've got an IBM xseries 200 i'm trying to get deb running on the onvoard NIC is confounding me does anyone know which driver module should i be using? i don't know, but it will most likely be one of the following: tulip,

Re: [users] Re: apt-get : difference between dist-upgrade and dselect-upgrade

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:37:29PM +0200): When I sat down with it and took a minute or two to get acquiainted, it turned out to be quite a likeable and most of all very helpful critter, in fact. try apt-console, i like it much better since i can't stand the awkward

Re: [users] dialup query

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:30:54AM -0500): Therefore, I need to reconfigure my system for a regular old dialup connection. I stupidly neglected to do this while I still had DSL, and now am wondering what packages I will need to enable this. At worst I can put them on

Re: [users] hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach thomas anderson (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:59:03PM +0200): I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl directory however I don't have permission access...I tried symlinking it but it still won't work. is there I way to do this without becoming root or sudo? no. user

big IBM harddrive (41Gb)

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
adding to the recent discussion on the 40Gb drive with IBM - i did what someone suggested, to not tell the BIOS anything about the drive, but to let linux take care of it. i run 2.4.5, and i know have 41Gb available :- (without the 32Gb clip jumper). martin; (greetings from the heart

Re: [users] custom spam file (ala rbl)

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:18:40PM -0700): kind of like using rbl, except i'd have my own custom reject file. i can simulate such a file usign ipchains, but i'd like to know if exim has an IP reject file. the way i have done it is via my bind installation, just

ssh: Command terminated on signal 13

2001-06-28 Thread MaD dUCK
hi guys, i have one machine - seamus - an AMD K6-2 500/160 Mb which is acting up. sometimes when i ssh into it (like 1/5 times), it gives me the following: fishbowl:~ ssh seamus [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Fri Jun 29 01:47:06 2001 from fishbowl.madduck.net on pts/1 Linux seamus

Re: [users] big IBM harddisk

2001-06-27 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach nico de haer (on Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:06:13PM +0200): I've tried this '32 Gb clip' and it does allow me to boot using my 40 Gb, but i've been unable to get access to the last 8 Gb. I've been experimenting with the 'hdx=c,h,s' parameter but all i can get are screens filled with all

Re: [users] big IBM harddisk

2001-06-26 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach virtanen (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:28:04PM +0300): I purchased a new 40 G IBM harddisk. try setting the jumper called 32Gb clip even the LBA enabled BIOSs still can't handle 32Gb, so you'll lose 8Gb, but in my case, the BIOS did detect the drive. martin; (greetings from

Re: [users] Re: Using different DNS per ISP

2001-06-26 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Greg Rowe (on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:52:06AM -0400): Would installing bind on your system work for you? You could add all of your ISPs DNS servers as forwarders in named.conf and then simply point resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1. 0.0.0.0 it's just a little undocumented trick to make local

Re: [users] Re: Using different DNS per ISP

2001-06-26 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach John Hasler (on Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:52:49AM -0500): ...or you should write something for /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d. Pppconfig already installs a something there. Run pppconfig and look at Advanced-Nameservers. i know. but in his case, pppconfig doesn't seem to work. martin;

Re: [users] Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-25 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach thomas (on Mon, 25 Jun 2001 01:44:01AM +0200): make a new kernel with VJ compression compiled in and/or enable VJ in your ipppd.ippp0. i am pretty sure this is a configuration problem. thanks for the replies! i ended up figuring this out... i was a little confused that one had to

Re: [users] /proc/pci incorrect

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Kevin C. Smith (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:39:40AM -0500): Changed the NIC months ago, but noted that the /proc/pci continues to show the old NIC. Why would this be? How do I correct it? what does it show? many NICs work atop one of the following chipsets, so two different NICs may

ipppd problems

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
hi, i am in the process of setting up an ISDN router for a network of three computers, using a 486 and running kernel 2.4.5 (because of the iptables functionalities). the system has one of the very old AVM A1 (Fritz!Classic) cards, which I can load and talk to with the hisax.o driver. it's at

Unidentified subject!

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
folks, just now i figured out that the pppd debug option is also present in ipppd, and i turned it on to see the following in the logs (after a bunch of packet dumps): Jun 25 01:13:31 embryo ipppd[3918]: Unsupported protocol 'Van Jacobson Uncompressed TCP/IP' (0x2f) received well, that would

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Joost Kooij (on Sun, 24 Jun 2001 09:42:19PM +0200): Debian/GNU Bob Now you can put the stark fist of removal at work for YOU! hehe, and when you mistype your password three times, it'll prompt you to change it. believe it or not, Micro$oft Bob did that. martin;

Re: [users] Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-24 Thread MaD dUCK
i just wanted to add my two pfennige. see, the reason that debian rocks is that it does not impose configuration tools on you like suse and redhat. it does provide a very cool package system, but everything is under the control of the user and vi. that's the beauty. now looking at how i

Re: [users] Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach nico de haer (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:54AM +0200): Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting e-mail. the next level. Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do. Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem using

Re: [users] Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:40:36AM +0800): 1. What if multiple users on my network have set up multiple POP3 accounts in the past (before the server was up) and wish to go this way, leaving their mail OFF their POP3 accounts, but ON the home server? Can this still

kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
i love debian. seriously, apt is a work of genius and the entire system is exactly how i want it - unlike SuSE or RedHat. since i do a fair bit of developing and since i always want to have at least one machine that's cutting edge, i do a whole lot of kernel compiles. in the past, i have always

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:13AM -0500): Well, for one thing, you can compile kernels on your 1GHz Athlon instead of your old 486 :) Since kernel-package creates a package, it can be installed anywhere. but i usually choose the appropriate kernel architecture during

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Sean Morgan (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:05:19PM -0400): zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale exaclty what i wanted. thanks! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- your fly might be open (but

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:42:37PM -0500): I fail to see why you think compiling a kernel on an Athlon, but optimising for a 486 cos you're installing on a 486 is a problem. that's what i am doing btw. and sorry, i wasn't possibly thinking about multiple .debs, just

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Bob Nielsen (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:42:23AM -0700): True, but you can/should configure and compile separately for each destination architecture, optimizing appropriately. so yes, the argument that my athlon (thunderbird actually) will outperform the others still holds. but i'd need

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:20:41PM +0200): you don´t need to maintain seperate trees of the whole source. just `make (menu|x|)config`, then backup the .config-file. that´s where the information you entered/chose is kept. i understand... but when i change the .config

Re: [users] Re: kernel compiles

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Robert Waldner (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:44:51PM +0200): now do a `make clean` (just to get rid of the modules, mostly) and re-do steps 1-3 for the second machine and the third and... when you want to re-do for the first machine, just move the appropriate .config back, and

Re: [users] e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread MaD dUCK
i have done this in two different ways. the first is straight forward, but depending on how many users you have, it might be a pain (and a security risk). the second works on the assumption that your ISP is running a sensible MTA (postfix, qmail) and that you will not be down for longer than 3

oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but i want to try

boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
so i finally managed to boot off the floppy disks and am now in the debian installation menu, just short of installing the operating system. i have a local debian mirror, so i'd like to install via network (ftp) -- especially because i don't have the cds. i am using the compact kernel. i am

Re: boot disk dilemma

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:38:10AM -0700): dd driver disks (3 of them for compact) to Floppy as originally designed like boot/root disks. Good luck :-) well, i understood that, and i have my disks. but in the installationprogram, there are two options: - preload modules

Re: [users] Re: oldtimer pc

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Nathan E Norman (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:38:47PM -0500): Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram. A router in 8 MB ican get ugly :) I've run 16 MB in my router and was happier with 32 (my router is a 486/25 old timer with 2 3c509b :) I'm running 2.2.19

more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
i swear, i read all the readmes and did the websearches, but i don't arrive. i am still baffled as to what these driver_[1-4].bin images are supposed to be used for - or more likely, how they are supposed to be used. but right now, i am wondering why each of the falvors, vanilla, compact, idepci,

Re: [users] Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Hoeteck Wee (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 06:03:30PM -0400): Here are the network related modules that are provided with driver-1.bin in the compact images. The 3c509 might work with your 3c59x card, but I'm not too sure about that. i have looked at, and unpacked the drivers.tgz archive,

Re: more boot floppies questions

2001-06-20 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Osamu Aoki (on Wed, 20 Jun 2001 03:53:49PM -0700): Are you potato or woody? potato. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in

pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
hey all, we are still failing to establish a connection with wvdial and pppd (on a potato system). wvdial looks all good, until we get to the login: -- Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt. login: -- Looks like a login prompt. -- Sending: heikkin heikkin Password: -- Looks like a

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Jeremy (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 07:42:32PM -0500): My knowledge on this is limited, but have you made sure that you have the domain and nameserver entries in the /etc/resolv.conf file? I got this same sort of message when I was trying to dial in with wvdial and I didn't have those

Re: [users] Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:46:06PM -0700): I browsed through the source code for pppd, and it looks like the only way that error can be generated is if you're using kernel 2.4.x. So the fact that you're using pppd version 2.3.11 tells me you're using potato, but with a 2.4

Re: pppd troubles

2001-06-19 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Kevin Ross (on Tue, 19 Jun 2001 04:50:14PM -0700): One more thing. There's a 2.4.0 pppd compiled for potato w/kernel 2.4.x at: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html kevin, you rock!!! fixed it... and thanks to adrian as well!!! martin; (greetings from the heart

Re: [users] MAC - IP?

2001-06-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Sebastiaan (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:22:49PM +0200): if you have a MAC address, how can you find ou tit's ip address? a tool like arpwatch or iptraf can help you, but these obviously require watching some traffic going to that mac address first. mac addresses are data link layer

Re: [users] Re: MAC - IP?

2001-06-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Sebastiaan (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:40:54PM +0200): Which package contains that command? net-tools on woody. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.

concatenate eps files

2001-06-18 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, does anyone know how i can take an eps file and print it onto a page 2x5, so that the initial eps file is on the page 10 times, preferably without any margins in between? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: concatenate eps files

2001-06-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Alexis Roda (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:02:06PM +0200): pstops (IIRC) can put some pages on a single page you would not happen to have an example, would you? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- a

more GPG questions

2001-06-18 Thread MaD dUCK
: 2002-06-17 trust: f/u sub 2048g/E93FAECE created: 2001-05-07 expires: 2002-06-17 (1) Martin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2). MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] (3) [revoked] Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] correct me if i am wrong, but these are all user IDs, right? to account for possible

Re: [users] Re: ntpdate on two machines

2001-06-18 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Harry Henry Gebel (on Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:17:51PM -0400): What are the contents of /etc/timezone on each machine? i think you really want to make sure that /etc/localtime point to the same file in /usr/share/zoneinfo. but then again, i don't know what's *right* with timezones... do

deleting GPG UIDs

2001-06-17 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, i have my GPG key uploaded to the keyservers. unfortunately, i somehow messed up, and now i have three UIDs associated with it: fishbowl:~ gpg --list-keys A8FA196E pub 1024D/A8FA196E 2001-05-07 MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] uidMartin F. Krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] uid

Re: deleting GPG UIDs

2001-06-17 Thread MaD dUCK
] MaD dUCK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin F. Krafft (MaD dUCK) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry if i don't understand and have to ask trivial questions... but while we're at it, could you tell me how to revoke a whole key on the keyserver? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun

pppd problems

2001-06-17 Thread MaD dUCK
[this email is pretty long, so please take my apologies for eating your bandwidth] debianers, a friend of mine is experiencing severe problems connecting to her ISP in madison, wisconsin (inxpress.net). she has an internal 33.6 modem that seems to work (i have done the basic minicom AT tests),

Re: [users] Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Alex Suzuki (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 08:42:37AM +0200): Do I just have to add this at the end of the line? options keep uidl precisely. did you 'man fetchmailrc' ? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [users] delete n files in a directory

2001-06-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mário Henrique Cruz Tôrres (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:08:14AM +): Good morning everyone. I wan't know if can I delete the first 200 files ( in alphabetical order ) in a directory wich have 300 files ? ls -1 | head -200 | xargs echo rm when you made sure that the command line

Re: [users] how to find a package that provides ____._____

2001-06-16 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach rich (on Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:00:49AM -0500): I need libXt.so.6 and libX11.so.6 to run Wordperfect how do I find out which .deb package provides these? fishbowl:~# dpkg -S libXt.so.6 libX11.so.6 xlibs: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 xlibs:

snort dies

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
hey, i am using snort straight out of the potato distribution on a server that i administer remotely. as i have to find out every now and then, snort - started through /etc/init.d/snort - dies and i have to manually restart it. have you guys experienced similar problems? martin;

Re: [users] Also...

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Adri (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:31:34PM +0200): Any similar utility under Debian? nope, and that's why debian is so good. if you need those utilities, get redhat or suse or progeny! those gui utils have inherent problems on systems like linux where config files may be edited by hand

ntp problems

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
i have an xntp3 server (redhat, sorry) running on 192.168.1.1 configured as follows: // server 130.149.17.21 prefer # ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de fudge 130.149.17.21 stratum 1 server 129.132.98.11 # bernina.ethz.ch fudge 129.132.98.11 stratum 1 restrict default

Re: [users] Re: now what ?

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach D-Man (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:58:22AM -0400): Simply edit /etc/modutils/aliases to have alias eth0 module where modules is the kernel modules for your ethernet card. One of mine is 'tulip' and another is 'ne'. even better. although modconf is important too. but

Re: [users] Re: fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Rafael Sasaki (on Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:59:39PM -0300): poll server1 with proto POP3 user user1 there with password *** is asuzuki here options keep (if this is the account you just want to read the messages, not delete them from server) and you might want to consider using

Re: [users] Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:25:09AM -0500): To be most effective, /etc/resolv.conf should list the IP address of your local machine (127.0.0.1) as a nameserver. It currently does not. that should be 0.0.0.0. i found that once somewhere and never again, but from the source code,

Re: [users] Re: stopping named from starting

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ktb (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:31:18AM -0500): I did not sprach this. i am sorry, my bad. should pay more attention to quoting. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redistribution of this email via

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:48:29AM -0400): chmod o-rwx / chmod o-rwx /home chgrp root / chgrp root /home at which point you won't be able to access even your homedirectory anymore. na, you need the x right on directories higher up the hierarchy from where you want to

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200): I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need to be able to retreive or

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