Re: Ethernet problems: old 3c509b card is having overrun and errors

2003-03-11 Thread Geordie Birch
said Calyth (on 2003-03-11), 185 overruns upon receiving 838.6 MiB (excuse my ignorance, but I can't recall what MiB means. It has to be something bytes, but what?) From http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=136 Giga- A Prefix meaning 1 Billion, or 10^9 of something.

Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-11 Thread Hal
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:21 AM, Mike Egglestone wrote: Quoting n/a [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello there, For the past couple of days i've been looking into setting up an old pc as a firewall/router for a couple of students. To do so i enabled iptables and started looking into configuration

Re: Howto NFS shared writable space

2003-03-11 Thread Juhan Kundla
Hei! Ühel ilusal päeval [10-03-2003 13:31] kirjutas Rémi Letot: Hi all, I'm trying to setup a shared disk space with NFS. Till then, no problem. But I want that people belonging to a specific group can write to it, and modify every file in it. So I made the exported directory belong to

Re: identifying [DR]SA key used for ssh key-based login

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:58:14AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.0109 +0100]: Oh, I see. Then you should use a forced command in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, establishing the security context on the server side. For example, my dynamic DNS

Re: How do I unconfuse dpkg?

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:09:10PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:09:37PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Unpacking xlibmesa3-glu (from .../xlibmesa3-glu_4.2.1-6_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3-glu_4.2.1-6_i386.deb

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: I have an odd thing with the math library and C. Take this simple program as example: #include math.h doubley1; int main(void) { return 0; } When I try to compile this (just 'gcc test.c'), the compiler

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:39:31 +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: Isn't this a bug in the C library? I mean, the standard libraries ought not to be interfering with the variables you choose? Well, y1 doesn't seem to be a reserved identifier in any case. But you can see the C implementation provided by

security.debian.org - woody/stable

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, In my sources.list, I have: deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main Actually I don't, I have: deb http://emerald.fake:/security woody/updates main because I'm using apt-proxy, but never mind - apt-proxy points to http://security.debian.org/. Unfortunately, that's

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Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-11 Thread Organ Grinder
Hi If you want, give me information about what you do and dont want to allow thro, I'll create the rules for you in a email and explain them. - Regards - Organ Grinder Hal wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:21 AM, Mike Egglestone wrote: Quoting n/a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Metnetsky
I'm trying to install Debian, and was wondering how to use the ext3 File-System as opposed to ext2? The installer defaults me into cfdisk which only has ext2/swap as far as I can see. Suggestions? Oh yeah, I'm using the Debian-30r1 for i386 gotten a few days ago from a Debian mirror. Thanks in

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:37:42 +, Colin Watson wrote: You could '#define __STRICT_ANSI__' at the top of the program if you want the C library to define only what's in bare ISO Standard C, or '#define _ISOC99_SOURCE' for C99. With either of those y1() won't be defined. It won't be

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Kratz
Hi. On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:24:20PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 Trying 24.158.191.171... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I assume you and the web server are behind a masquerading

Zuarus and hot-plug

2003-03-11 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I am running an ibook with a 2.4.19 kernel and I'm trying to connect to a Zuarus which is connected to my laptop via a usb cable. I have installed hotplug and installed two configuration parts in my network interfaces file. I added the eth1 lines after syslog showed an eth1 entry - but I think

Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?

2003-03-11 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:42:41PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a freshly installed Debian machien that I want to make function basicly as an X terminal for a Solaris box. The Solaris X resolutin is 1152x900 abt 8 bit color depth. How can I

Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?

2003-03-11 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h David Z Maze wrote on Mon Mar 10, 2003 um 11:42:41PM: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 8 SubSection Display

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Brian Clark
* Joseph A Nagy Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 11. 2003 00:41]: Brian Clark wrote: telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 ..snip.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 Trying 24.158.191.171... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Kratz
man y1 -- Nicolas Kratz | GPG-key: 1D6D075A [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Never touch a running sysop, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | or your wife is a big hippo. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:43:37AM -0500, Metnetsky wrote: I'm trying to install Debian, and was wondering how to use the ext3 File-System as opposed to ext2? The installer defaults me into cfdisk which only has ext2/swap as far as I can see. You don't choose the partition's file system

Re: Ethernet problems: old 3c509b card is having overrun and errors

2003-03-11 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 05:03, Calyth wrote: I've been using 3c509b cards before, but it seems that this one, at a uptime of 8 days, as a samba server, it have encountered 182 errors and 185 overruns upon receiving 838.6 MiB (excuse my ignorance, but I can't recall what MiB means. It has to

Re: Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Organ Grinder
Hi If you use the debian 20r1 CD1, when it brings up the first install screen, press F3 (for more options!?, cant remember) then choose bf24, it comes with ext3 support so all your partitions can be ext3 :) - Regards - Organ Grinder Metnetsky wrote: I'm trying to install

Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using a command-linetool ???

2003-03-11 Thread Mark Janssen
Hi List. I know I can change the X11 resolution using the Ctrl-Alt-(Numerical+/-) buttons. However, on my Happy Hacking keyboard, and my laptop I don't have a numerical keypad, and the regular + and - buttons don't work in this regard. Does anyone know a tool or program to change the resulution

Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?

2003-03-11 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h David Z Maze wrote on Mon Mar 10, 2003 um 11:42:41PM: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 8 SubSection Display

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:02:21PM -0600, Kent West wrote: It sounds like you're running XFree86 3.x; I think upgrading to 4.x would be of benefit to you. Of course, the easiest way to do that is to leave Woody behind and go for Sid or Testing. I run Sid on my Huh? Woody has X4.1, and it

Re: libc6: did it move from unstable to testing?

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:30:11AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: Sorry for the detailed and probably somewhat obvious question, but I switched over to Debian last summer, and am loving it. But this is the first time I've encountered this type of situation where a testing package upgrade (libc6)

Re: compilation problems

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Christian Fuchs wrote: Dear Debian Community, I just installed Debian 3.0.0r0 from the set of 7 cd's and I am very excited about it (and a new user to debian). I have, however a problem compiling any kind of C - Files. I first tried compiling

Re: Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Rmi Letot
Metnetsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install Debian, and was wondering how to use the ext3 File-System as opposed to ext2? The installer defaults me into cfdisk which only has ext2/swap as far as I can see. Suggestions? Oh yeah, I'm using the Debian-30r1 for i386 gotten a few

Re: Installer that supports 3ware raid

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
Sorry for replying so late, I somehow missed your message till I started cleaning out old messages in my d-u folder... On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:08:23PM -0500, lloyd wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:50:08 +1100 Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone give me the URL of a Debian

Re: apt sources.list problem

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:53:55PM +0530, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: Hi , I am using Debian Woody 3.0 r1 .My problem is below when i cat /etc/apt/sources.list it shows me following output # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ -

Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?

2003-03-11 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h David Z Maze wrote on Mon Mar 10, 2003 um 11:42:41PM: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 8 SubSection Display

Re: How do I unconfuse dpkg?

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:09:37PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: How do I clean this up:? joy:/home/paul# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xlibmesa3-glu The

Re: why doesn't XF86Config-4 include defoma-managed TrueType fonts?

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:44:41PM -0500, Andy Hurt wrote: Cam Ellison wrote: Are you saying that you now have _two_ Files sections? Yup. startx, etc. without a hiccup. XFree86 wouldn't let me start until I bracketed those two FontPath lines--the Section/EndSection seemed logical, and

Re: [OT] Re: [Fwd: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:38:42PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:55 am, Sharninder wrote: This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and

Re: Where to put local .debs?

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:17:01PM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote: Hi, I am just wondering where others put the local .debs (e.g. the kernel-image). Or is it usual just to keep it in /usr/src/ after dpkg -i kernel... ? I usually just leave them where make-kpkg puts them, I don't reinstall them

X goes transparent after update

2003-03-11 Thread Florian Petri
Hi! Last weekend I updated my notebook to the most current unstable version. Before this update my unstable (2 month old) worked fine. kde is broken, but that's a problem I can handle. My problem is the X server: I can't really describe it - the background image is ok, there are two icons on

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Brian Clark wrote: * Joseph A Nagy Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 11. 2003 00:41]: Brian Clark wrote: telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 ..snip.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 Trying 24.158.191.171... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Nicolas Kratz wrote: Hi. On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:24:20PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 Trying 24.158.191.171... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I assume you and the web server are

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Nicolas Kratz wrote: Hi. On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:24:20PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org 80 Trying 24.158.191.171... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I assume you and the web server are

Problem with keyboard under X

2003-03-11 Thread César
Hello, I recently installed Debian unstable (before I was using only stable). Gnome 2.2 and KDE 3.1 are great, but I have a problem with X and keyboard. When I start the X server (either with gdm, kdm or startx), the keyboard doesn't works. However, the mice works fine. If I kill the X server

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:40:49PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:37:42 +, Colin Watson wrote: You could '#define __STRICT_ANSI__' at the top of the program if you want the C library to define only what's in bare ISO Standard C, or '#define _ISOC99_SOURCE' for

image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rutt
I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I've already tried gqview, xli and display, and qiv. ('display -update 1' doesn't update as advertised).

Re: .bash_profile and X

2003-03-11 Thread David Z Maze
Dai Yuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running xdm + fvwm. And my shell is /bin/bash. I find any variable I set in ~/.bash_profile doesn't take effect after I've login X. Well, sure: nothing in the logging in via X sequence runs bash as a login shell (shell scripts might get run via

[possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgradeto GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Specifically, this regards window blanking in full screen curses apps (like man(1), less(1) vi(1), but not more(1)). When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the screen would not blank when I exited these type of apps; i.e., the last remaining bit of the app would still be on the screen.

DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Selby
My DVD drive is making some real loud whineing / graunching sounds for approx 30 secs when first powerd up after being off all night. I am looking to replace it. Will any bog standard IDE DVD drive do ? I have never had a driver issue with a DVD drive nor have any of my friends. They seem to

gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Selby
I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select postscript level 2,

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Brian Clark wrote: * Joseph A Nagy Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Mar 11. 2003 00:41]: What happens when you try to access it from that machine (24.158.191.171)? Try the same thing using 127.0.0.1 and see if you still get

The case of the missing Helvetica

2003-03-11 Thread David Z Maze
I have a current sid machine. If I open a GNOME 2 application with a font selector, looking for Helvetica fails. As an exercise, for example, one might open Gnumeric, and type some text into a cell. I can change the font to Arial since I copied a bunch of fonts from the Windows side of my

Re: Ethernet problems: old 3c509b card is having overrun and errors

2003-03-11 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:29, Jason M. Harvey wrote: actually, i had the same exact problem! mine was an isa 3com, i think the 3c509c... Me too, I had two 3c509 ISA (out of the three I had) die in similar ways in the few last weeks. I guess they are beginning to show their age.

Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?

2003-03-11 Thread stan
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:41:37AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h David Z Maze wrote on Mon Mar 10, 2003 um 11:42:41PM: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 8 SubSection Display

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Nicolas Kratz wrote: man y1 Ok, this makes sense now. I assume those functions are only available within *nix, since my partner who uses Borland doesn't have this problem. Thanks! Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:40:49PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:37:42 +, Colin Watson wrote: You could '#define __STRICT_ANSI__' at the top of the program if you want the C library to define only what's in bare

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 04:37, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h David Krider wrote on Mon Mar 10, 2003 um 03:55:21PM: [snip] The bottom line is that Debian is current enough to suit my desktop needs, and it seems to be more painful than it should be for my server needs. I'm Try Libranet

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Gregory Seidman
Benjamin Rutt sez: } I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an } image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and } automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I've already } tried gqview, xli and display, and qiv. ('display -update 1'

fsck on a mounted disk?

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Farrer
Hello, I have a machine that apparently has a bad spot on the disk. I'd like to run fsck on it, but the problem is the machine is headless and is only accessed remotely (ssh). Without pulling it out, hooking up a montior keyboard, is there a way to run fsck safely, yet remotely, on a mounted

Package system vs. source vs. both

2003-03-11 Thread Radek Zajkowski
Here is a problem, I could not get the X to run from the packages on my machine. It either would not configure, hang during configuration or refuse to accept my settings. I am not an advanced user, therefore I often have no facility to trace these kind of issues. As a result I downloaded the

Re: why doesn't XF86Config-4 include defoma-managed TrueType fonts?

2003-03-11 Thread Andy Hurt
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:44:41PM -0500, Andy Hurt wrote: Cam Ellison wrote: Are you saying that you now have _two_ Files sections? Yup. startx, etc. without a hiccup. XFree86 wouldn't let me start until I bracketed those two FontPath lines--the Section/EndSection seemed

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 14:43:06 +, Colin Watson wrote: It links fine, but if you link with -lm (not the default) then it seems you can get segfaults at run-time. I think that if you use #include math.h this generally means that you use some mathematical functions (defined in the C

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-11 Thread D.
--- Abdul Latip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Osamu Aoki wrote: Use Mandrake GNU/Linux installation CD :-) Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (dolphin) for i586 Well, unfortunately, I am trying to sell Debian through Knoppix; not Mandrake :^). Thanks anyway... I believe

Re: Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 06:43, Metnetsky wrote: I'm trying to install Debian, and was wondering how to use the ext3 File-System as opposed to ext2? The installer defaults me into cfdisk which only has ext2/swap as far as I can see. Suggestions? Oh yeah, I'm using the

[off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi There: This message is not debain related, however as this ML is my best source of information, I hope you'll excuse me. I want to learn shell programming. Thus I went to my university's library and found a book named UNIX Shell Programming. The problem is, the book is written on 1988, and

Re: C, math.h and globals

2003-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:07:37PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 01:40:49PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: It won't be defined in the header, but the corresponding symbol will still be defined in the library itself. Won't this be

Re: fsck on a mounted disk?

2003-03-11 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello, I have a machine that apparently has a bad spot on the disk. I'd like to run fsck on it, but the problem is the machine is headless and is only accessed remotely (ssh). Without pulling it out, hooking up a montior keyboard, is there a way to

Re: Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using a command-line tool ???

2003-03-11 Thread Birzan George Cristian
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:37:46PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote: Hi List. I know I can change the X11 resolution using the Ctrl-Alt-(Numerical+/-) buttons. However, on my Happy Hacking keyboard, and my laptop I don't have a numerical keypad, and the regular + and - buttons don't work in this

Onboard rtl8139 works in 2.2 kernel but not in 2.4 kernel, please help

2003-03-11 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, First off, is this the correct place to get answers on kernel/driver problems? Should I instead post to debian-boot, should I email the kernel maintainer, or should I submit a bug report? Now the problem ... I recently purchased a Gigabyte GA-8SIMLH motherboard. It has an onboard

Re: The case of the missing Helvetica

2003-03-11 Thread daniel huhardeaux
David Z Maze wrote: [...] I know little enough about how GNOME 2 font selection works to track down where this is going on. (The larger problem is that I get the same ugly font in Galeon.) Any hints as to why this is happening? Is it something on my machine, or a (presumably reported) bug in

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Spoon
Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select

Re: fsck on a mounted disk?

2003-03-11 Thread Warwick Brown
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 3:28 pm, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello, I have a machine that apparently has a bad spot on the disk. I'd like to run fsck on it, but the problem is the machine is headless and is only accessed remotely (ssh). Without pulling it out, hooking up a montior keyboard, is there

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:52:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Specifically, this regards window blanking in full screen curses apps (like man(1), less(1) vi(1), but not more(1)). When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the screen would not blank when I exited these type of apps; i.e., the

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Emil Pedersen
Obviously, I am using Debian GNU/Linux not System V or BSD, and I use BASH. But this is the only book in our library about shell programming. so I wonder: Not exactly what you asked for, but I've found Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (or actually it's precursor) very usefull. You can find it at

Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:32 am, Organ Grinder wrote: Hi If you want, give me information about what you do and dont want to allow thro, I'll create the rules for you in a email and explain them. - Regards - Organ Grinder You know, it would help A LOT of us if you could

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:44 am, Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of

Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On 10 Mar 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote: For cases I love Antec. I recently built a system with the SX835II from Antec (see http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=80843). It is hard to tell if the PC is on despite the CPU fan, video GPU fan, dual fan power supply + 2 case

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let us assume that your image is the free JenniCam, which updates every 20 minutes, and that you have a cron job or some other process doing the downloading: #!/bin/sh WATCHIMG=/tmp/jennicam.jpg display -immutable $WATCHIMG while true do

Re: ksh download problem ??

2003-03-11 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi Vineet, I am new to Debian/Linux world. We have few Debian boxes and a redhat box with redhat 8.0. All the scripting on debian boxes are done in ksh and perl. I want to install ksh on redhat box so that I can troubleshoot and write some new scripts. Also I am learning ksh programming. I

Re: Logging

2003-03-11 Thread Debian User
and if possible, revert as much hardware to it's previous state to eliminate chances that it would be the cause of failure. Also if you can revert kernels that would be good too. Other then X, the kernel is the only thing I can think of that could possibly be involved in a system lockup.

DVD Recording

2003-03-11 Thread Joao Paulo
In cds i use mkisofs and cdrecord. In dvds i use ? and dvdrecord. Tanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with Mozilla

2003-03-11 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi all... I've got a little problem with Mozilla. When I try to load certain URLs, X crashes with a segfault. I cannot remember having this problem with a self-built X installation, it came along with the 4.2.1 .deb's. It happens with 1.2.1and 1.3a. Did anybody else encounter this problem? A

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread Glenn English
Many thanks to all of you for the compassion and the information. The little sucker is making pictures now - I learned a lot about X in the past couple days. Next step is getting it to realize there's an Ethernet connector in it's (PCMCIA) NIC. But I expect that to be a pretty straightforward

Re: Package system vs. source vs. both

2003-03-11 Thread sean finney
hey radek, i used to be real gung-ho on rolling my own everything, since i much of what i first learned about adminning was on a solaris box. after a while though, you'll find it gets really, really annoying when you want to upgrade (or lord forbid, remove) software. configuring X in debian is

zsh auto completion

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
with my ZSH 4.0.6 shell, one apparently can do sophisticated autocompletion. i look into /usr/share/zsh/4.0.6/functions/Completion and am impressed. however, nothing works. how do i enable these completions? -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f.

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:41:46PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi There: 1 ) Can this book be beneficial for me? or is it so obsolete that it is not usefull anymore? i would say this makes it even *more* useful. personally, i do all my scripting in /bin/sh (that's the Bourne shell), because

RE: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Milanuk, Monte
I've got the same book, though unfortunately I got derailed from finishing it. So take that in consideration. I think if you dig around on Amazon or Barnes Noble, you'll be able to read a variety of reviews and opinions on this and other books. I do that a lot to help me assess whether or not

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:24, Gregory Seidman wrote: Benjamin Rutt sez: } I have a .jpg image that keeps changing (from a webcam). Is there an } image viewer in debian's packages that will display the image and } automatically refresh the image when it has changed? I've already } tried

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-11 Thread Jack Pistachio
I get the same error he mentioned previously and have also excecuted the script install-css.sh What's the deal? -jackp --- debian_newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:32:58 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at his keyboard and wrote: also sprach John [EMAIL

debian spammed

2003-03-11 Thread Carla Schroder
Oh frabjous day, my debian-users list address is getting spammed. What a lovely world we live in. $100 cash reward for the inventor of an infallible spammer brain burner. $500 if I get to pull the switch -- ~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to

Re: Package system vs. source vs. both

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:36, Radek Zajkowski wrote: Here is a problem, I could not get the X to run from the packages on my machine. It either would not configure, hang during configuration or refuse to accept my settings. I am not an advanced user, therefore I often have no facility to trace

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:08:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 04:37, Eduard Bloch wrote: A server does not need X. Unfortunately, some do nowadays. The management console for Oracle databases is a GUI app written in Java. Install X for the sake of libs, run GUI app

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 05:41:46PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: 1 ) Can this book be beneficial for me? or is it so obsolete that it is not useful anymore? Certainly if you use it and the contents does not bore you :-) The book shows examples for all of these tree shells. Therefore I wonder 2

Re: ksh download problem ??

2003-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Vivek Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030311 10:23 PST]: Hi Vineet, I am new to Debian/Linux world. We have few Debian boxes and a redhat box with redhat 8.0. All the scripting on debian boxes are done in ksh and perl. I want to install ksh on redhat box so that I can troubleshoot and write

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:15, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-03-10T18:25:06Z, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I bet RAID0 would be even faster. Yes, yes, fragile... Not for concurrent reads. If a file spans more than one physical disk, then at least two drives have to be reading from

Re: identifying [DR]SA key used for ssh key-based login

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.1227 +0100]: right, but then i'd have to manage this file, which is everything but nice. Don't understand. It's easy. What are you actually trying to *do*? see my other post. Hm, environment variable cruft ... does that really

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach debian_newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.03.11.1729 +0100]: Well, I did do that. It was in the docs that came with the Ogle that I apt-getted off of the debian mirror. I did notice that when it was installed it said that libdvdcss0 was installed. Notice the 0 on the end? If I do a

Re: Disk problems? (was: Re: dpkg fails)

2003-03-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:49:01PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: Second update: after doing some disk intensive work, these show up in the system log: Mar 9 19:16:27 dmz kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00 10 00 Mar 9 19:16:27 dmz kernel: Info

Re: apt sources.list problem

2003-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
No, seems like it is a bug in apt-cdrom. Same happens on my box with CD images downloaded with Jigdo from official Debian mirror. unstable is symlink to woody, so in the end it does not make any difference, but it is confusing (esp. to newbies). See also my earlier reply to this thread. FJP

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-11 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:37:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 12:55, Peter Christensen wrote: My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't boot from the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into bios-setup mode.) I don't think it's

Re: Changing X resulution (Ctrl-Alt-+/-), only using a command-line tool ???

2003-03-11 Thread Frans Pop
Don't most laptops have an area of the keyboard that doubles as num keypad when you shift with the Fn key? Don't know if that works with Linux though. FJP On Tuesday 11 March 2003 14:37, Mark Janssen wrote: Hi List. I know I can change the X11 resolution using the Ctrl-Alt-(Numerical+/-)

Fluxbox with and without Debian menus

2003-03-11 Thread Gianfranco Berardi
I installed Debian on my laptop a month ago, and I immediately put fluxbox on it as 300MHz wouldn't be fast enough to run much else. B-) In any case, I installed fluxbox, some debian menu stuff, and voila, I have a working fluxbox with a menu that has a lot of my installed apps listed. So I

Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-11 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Joao Pedro Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030310 17:20 PST]: I just got a seagate barracuda ata IV (ST340016A) and it's freaking silent. It's almost eerie; it sounds like a solid state drive or something! In terms of cost, I traded a few GB to get back a handful of dB; I think it

Re: [off topic] Learning Shell from an old UNIX book

2003-03-11 Thread matt zagrabelny
Hi There: This message is not debain related, however as this ML is my best source of information, I hope you'll excuse me. I want to learn shell programming. Thus I went to my university's library and found a book named UNIX Shell Programming. The problem is, the book is written on

Re: How can Iset an odd X resolutin?

2003-03-11 Thread David Z Maze
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK I'm partway here, but I'm still having troubles. I ran videogen and got a modeline as close to 1152x900 as it would generate Modeline 1152x896 94.21 1152 1184 1440 1472 896 898 941 943 I then put this line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Here is the

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