Re: debian: cvs server giving permission denied

Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux > (stable). I can checkout from the repository but I can not do > simple operations like status or update. This only happens when > performing these operations on directories with subdirect

Re: Pretty boot up graphics?

Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:57:28PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: I seem to have heard of some package available for debian that lets you have a graphically nice boot up sequence. Can anyone tell me what package that is? I'll let somebody else answer this one, as I

debian: cvs server giving permission denied

I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux (stable). I can checkout from the repository but I can not do simple operations like status or update. This only happens when performing these operations on directories with subdirectories (excluding CVS). Is this a known problem a

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:54:01PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not > > send mail anymore so every guy in the internet will have to depend > > upon a third-party mail relay to send mail..

apache+cgi+php+ssi

I have a website that includes a "virtual" SSI directive for site statistics. This worked for a long time, and it still *sort of* works, but within the last week I have had some strange problems. Things work within the local network, as far as I can tell (I have checked on my computer and my husb

THIS INVOLVES EVERYONE

>Smokescreens >Dangers of the Ecumenical movement: > >Many Christians are joining the ecumenical movement, thinking God has ordained it to bring all Christians into unity. But this book reveals that the ecumenical movement is nothing more than a smokescreen, hiding the

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

hey, have you created your sound devices (as root)? # cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV audio are you a member of the audio group? those are two pretty common mistakes for NEWBIEs (actually I think everyone makes them at some time or another--i know I have) Cameron Matheson Joe Nahmias wrote: Hello A

Re: Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

Joe Nahmias wrote: > > Hello All! > > I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade, > but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound > card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on. > > So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2

Re: dpms problems with X 4?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:33:08PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > Yea, think this is something with the X screensaver. X screensaver > probably kicks on at 10 minutes, and doesn't go to Standby 'til 30 > minutes. Seems the two need to get in sync... That should not be the case. According to the

Re: FYI: webmin is back in Debian

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, albi wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:30:36PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > hello > > > webmin 0.85 was just installed into unstable yesterday. Another upload > > > For potato users, I've made packages available at the following apt source > > > > deb http://www.braince

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:54:01PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not > > send mail anymore so every guy in the internet will have to depend > > upon a third-party mail relay to send mail..

keyserver has problem???

If I empty my pubring.gpg to empty file, gpg ask keyserver and can not get signiture checked. I checked with keyserver search.keyserver.net keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net keyserver pgp.ai.mit.edu None works. It is not just my address but all others too. Of course I can check signiture is I put

Need help setting up SB PCI 128 sound card on potato system

Hello All! I have a newly installed Debian 2.2r0 (yes, I know I should upgrade, but that's what was on the cd...) system that I'm trying to get my sound card (SoundBlaster PCI 128) working on. So far, I have downloaded the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.19) and compiled in support for the

Re: Shutdown

Well i used to have a problem that hanged up my machine, at first i thought it was an irq mess up but then i noticed it was my sound card overheating and that caused my motherboard to lock up, since then the only time my machine actually had been forced to power down was when we had black outs *

Problems with syslog

I'm having all syslog messages on my console, this is rather annoying, it happend after I switched to single user mode, in wich I killed syslog and a few other programs so I could umount and fsck /var/, after switching back to normal mode, syslog stopped working, I restarted it but it didn't hel

Re: dpms problems with X 4?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:22:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Hello. I'm having a strange problem with X 4.0.2 (woody) and my Energy > Star compliant Sony monitor. I've configured X to use DPMS to turn off > the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity with the following line in > XF86Config

dpms problems with X 4?

Hello. I'm having a strange problem with X 4.0.2 (woody) and my Energy Star compliant Sony monitor. I've configured X to use DPMS to turn off the monitor after 10 minutes of inactivity with the following line in XF86Config-4: Option "DPMS" Option "OffTime" "10" After th

Re: XDM

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Brian Nelson wrote: > Try: > > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > though this doesn't always as expected for me. 'apt-get install kdm' > might work too. I have not yet figured out exactly how debian > determines what window manager to run. For me, it seems to

Re: Pretty boot up graphics?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:57:28PM -0500, Stephen Boulet wrote: > I seem to have heard of some package available for debian that lets you have > a graphically nice boot up sequence. Can anyone tell me what package that is? I'll let somebody else answer this one, as I can't. > Also, which runleve

Re: what is 'slot-service-0-3' ?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:14:33PM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > > Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > > > I tried to set up the sound, but didn't get it to work. I always got > > > this in /var/syslog this: > > > > > > /var/log/syslog > > > . > > > Apr 1 19:13:36 la

Re: LaTeX to text (was Re: "firing up" DocBook)

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:22:36PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:12:22PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:38:17PM -0500, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > What LaTeX buys is the

Re: Problems with su´ d users in X (KDE2?)

on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:47:02PM +0200, Roberto Diaz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a small but nasty problem when running KDE2. > > If I try to run a command as another user as the one who is "really" logged > > in i get the following error message: > > > > ERROR: KUniqueApplication: T

Re: pstree problem on woody

on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:01:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Has anyone's pstree command stopped working when upgrading from potato > to woody (and to kernel 2.4.x). I have two systems - one is debian > woody and other debian sid. On sid pstree runs just fine,

Pretty boot up graphics?

I seem to have heard of some package available for debian that lets you have a graphically nice boot up sequence. Can anyone tell me what package that is? Also, which runlevel do I switch to if I want to launch into a login screen in X? And what file do I need to edit to change the default runle

Re: experiences w/ linuxconf

On Tuesday 03 April 2001 07:50 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:15:12PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi fellow debs > > > > If anyone has made any experiences with linuxconf on Debian, would they > > mind sharing it with me? > > Few, but poor, and a wh

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:50:56AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of a > mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains command > sequences which I would like to touch up before running. > > I don't want to use

Re: fetchmail segfaults

On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote: > I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my [...] > Fetchmail dies with something like the following: Speaking as the fetchmail maintainer, get a new version. The fetchmail in slink is full of segfaults. Same goes to the one in potato. The

Re: pasting text into bash without use of mouse

on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:50:56AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of a > mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains command > sequences which I would like to touch up before running. > > I don't want to use

RE: how do i chop wav files with sox

xcrdao It is packaged in debian - I think it comes with the cdrdao package. You can graphically view a .wav file, choose your track points, have gaps or continuous play, etc. -tim PS Sorry all about the legal messages at the bottom of my posts. It is added on by the (exchange) mail server at m

Re: removing obsolete packages

* Karsten M. Self [030401 20:30]: > on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:52:02PM -0500, Robert A. Jacobs ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Iwan Mouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030401 19:28]: > > > Hi, > > > > > > is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other > > > directory) for which

Re: Simple Install Question

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > >I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS > or Windows. :) < > > How about if I call it 'the little shiny box that makes whirring and > clicking noises which is under the other one which is sort of like it?' :) > >

Re: GMT problems

I use GMT quite a bit on Debian, but I used the install script from gmt.soest.hawaii.edu I had to edit .bashrc to get it to work, as follows: #gmt variables export NETCDFHOME="/usr/local/src/netcdf-3.4" export GMTHOME="/usr/local/src/GMT3.3.6" export PATH="$PATH:$GMTHOME/bin" Your directories may

Re: Mail & News Reader

Hello Axel, * Axel Schlicht wrote: > With a new ISDN card installed I can now - finally - switch over to > Linux for email and news retrieval. > > I need a program / programs able to to the following: > - retrieve email / newsgroups automatically or (definitely preferred) > whenever I fell like

Re: Help: apt-get -f install

Hi Dean, thanks for the help. I thought you might be interested in the solution (not my own). 1. installed suidmanager (after looking over dpkg -l perl*) 2. vi /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl-5.004-suid.*rm 3. hash out set -e from script set -e is [apparently] used to kill the post install removal prog

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

> > Well...woody and potato handle X and its configuration very differently. > Woody uses X 4.02 (I think) while potato uses 3.3.6. There are a number of > differences, not the least of which is that your X configuration is no longer > stored in /etc/X11/XF86Config but is now stored in /etc/X11/

fetchmail segfaults

I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my home computer (I'm no expert) after a failed attempt to install potato, but can no longer get incoming mail. Fetchmail dies with something like the following: fetchmail: POP3< 9 562 fetchmail: POP3< . 9 messages fo

Re: removing obsolete packages

on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:52:02PM -0500, Robert A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Iwan Mouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030401 19:28]: > > Hi, > > > > is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other > > directory) for which a newer package exists in that directory. > > My

Re: experiences w/ linuxconf

Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:15:12PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi fellow debs If anyone has made any experiences with linuxconf on Debian, would they mind sharing it with me? Few, but poor, and a while back. I've found it confusing, nonintuiti

Re: how do i chop wav files with sox

"Jake R. Johnson" wrote: > > I have some really large wav files...120minutes and I would like to chop > it into 6 single files so that i have 6 tracks on a cd. How can i do > this? gramofile (not sure about the exact spelling) might be able to do this, it's for getting the stuff from LPs (vyni

pasting text into bash without use of mouse

Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the use of a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which contains command sequences which I would like to touch up before running. I don't want to use an editor for this. Just the line editing functions of bash. Offhand the only (un

Re: Shutdown

See below. On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:25:43AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > * What are the 'command' keys? > > ~~~ > > 'r' - Turns off keyboard raw mode. (THIS IS FOR FROZEN X) > > 's' - Will attempt to sync all mounted filesystems. > > 'u' - Will attemp

Re: experiences w/ linuxconf

on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:15:12PM +0200, Sven Burgener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi fellow debs > > If anyone has made any experiences with linuxconf on Debian, would they > mind sharing it with me? Few, but poor, and a while back. I've found it confusing, nonintuitive, and prone to shoot m

Re: removing obsolete packages

* Iwan Mouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030401 19:28]: > Hi, > > is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other > directory) for which a newer package exists in that directory. > My /var/cache/apt/archives has several versions of lots of packages and > I want to remove them. apt-g

Re: removing obsolete packages

on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:09:18AM +0200, Iwan Mouwen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other > directory) for which a newer package exists in that directory. > My /var/cache/apt/archives has several versions of lots of packages and

Re: WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:48:57PM +0100, Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hay all. > > A few nights ago, I left my machine on over night whilst > ripping some cds. The file names were rather long (>20). > In the morning all was fine until I rebooted at which point > the / partition r

slrnpull posting

I have posted the following msg. it is as follows. === Path: gandhi From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (L.V.Gandhi) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: linux starting with vga=771 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) I am getting rh linux s

mozilla - a few doubts

I had a few problems with mozilla. When a mail is opened in a separate window, after deleting it it didn't go to next msg as it does in netscape. is there any tweak which can make it to do it? I have installed jdk1.3. Still it needs jvm plugin from its site. How to make it to see the jre that came

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

> If you find an actual case like this, I'd bet that MAPS would take > that range off the list. I bet we will never know.. thats always the case with poor people nobody wants to know about them. > But you won't be bothered by reality, since you care about the > principle of the thing. Principl

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Godwin's Razor has been invoked: second warning. On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: >> I have no idea why you cc'd this email to debian-user, since Debian does >> NOT rely on the DUL as part of our spam-blocking setup. > >Because there are some

Re: XDM

Ted Gervais wrote: > > Well I finally got the KDE stuff loaded unto my newly installed Debian > System. And it works well. However, how do I change things so KDE desktop is > the default. Right now it is FVWM?? I thought it might be in a file called > .xinit, or .xsession etc in my users director

Re: Sys Admin

hi ya ethan... seen many of your posts... but this one was worth commenting on too > [0] i would rather not call them admins, as `morons with root > password' is far more appropriate. knowing root password != sysadmin i'd add thatif you have to ask for the root passwdyou don't need it

Re: XDM

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:31:16PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > Try: > > update-alternatives --config x-window-manager > > though this doesn't always as expected for me. 'apt-get install kdm' might > work too. I have not yet figured out exactly how debian determines > what window manager to run

Re: Sys Admin

hi anthony... go to the local linux install festand see if you can help people build/debug their linux boxes if you can...you're doing pretty good if you can see someone else fix the problemi would guess that you just learned something too ??? - for more sys admin stuff...

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

> I have no idea why you cc'd this email to debian-user, since Debian does > NOT rely on the DUL as part of our spam-blocking setup. Because there are some human beings here.. people who are ready to fully understand the stupid and dangerous of using DUL. Just think.. you only have to break the

Re: Simple Install Question

>I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS or Windows. :) < How about if I call it 'the little shiny box that makes whirring and clicking noises which is under the other one which is sort of like it?' :) Thanks for your consise and perfectly clear explanation

Re: Compaq Smart2 Array

I use Compaq Proliants for my servers and have had to manually make the necessary devices as SOP on fresh installations. Configuring the array does nothing to solve this issue - the device files just aren't in the boot image (/dev/ida/c0d*). After booting from the CD I Ctrl-Alt-F2 and get i

Re: Simple Install Question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: > > My apologies for stupid question, I've known nothing but Microsoft stuff >until yesterday. After much learning, I finally got debian to the point >where APT was almost configured when I ran out of disk spa

Mutt and NFS

Hi all, I have a question about running Mutt and NFS together. My current mail setup has procmail delivering mail to ~/mail and mutt reading the mail boxes from there. However, when I'm reading mail from my other box (which has /home mounted from NFS), mutt always open my mail-boxes read-only. I'

Re: Simple Install Question

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kevin Stokes wrote: >I wanted to have three partitions on my D: drive for Linux. I assume you mean your second hard drive? It's only a D: drive under DOS or Windows. :) Seriously, it is a useful distinction to make because if you call it "my second hard drive," everyone

Re: setgid on /home

Scott E. Graves wrote: > I was contemplating setting home setgid so all users would create files/dirs > with the same gid in their respective home dir, for security reasons. I was > rather unclear in my question. I understand the idea behind having /home > setgid, but I was looking for any secur

RE: Srdjan,Vranje-Yugoslavia

Hi! Well, that's alot of stuff you need there - I suggest you go and have a look at a few pages on installing linux on laptops, these will tell you where to get drivers from *and* how to install them. Try: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ - for general linux/laptop inf

Re: Linux Virus

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 09:23:33AM +, hzi wrote: > When you use wvdial, you read e-mail as root, don't you? Wvdial is probably > the most common way to set up a ppp conection, since it's suggested in the > Debian docuemtntaion. > So I guess my question would be how to use wvdial and still re

Re: Shutdown

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:15:27PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Ales Jerman wrote: > > >Hello! > >Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, > >but for halt or shutdown system? > > C-A-D does a "/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now", so just edit /etc/inittab

Re: Newbie Question

>It's possible that your setup (LAN, cable access, etc.) assumes that you'll get your IP address via DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) and your Win95 is setup (default,??) to accomodate this fact. On installation of Debian, you can tell it to make use of DHCP or you can modify /etc/networ

Request for Help: write man pages for Debian

As you know, Debian is a community effort. I'm asking for help from intermediate to advanced users to make Debian even better than it is. As per Debian's Policy, every executable file in Debian has to supply a man page. However, many packages don't follow this requirement yet. I have created a l

Re: setgid on /home

On Tuesday 03 April 2001 17:58, Joey Hess wrote: > Scott E. Graves wrote: > > what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set? I was contemplating setting home setgid so all users would create files/dirs with the same gid in their respective home dir, for security reasons. I was rather un

Simple Install Question

My apologies for stupid question, I've known nothing but Microsoft stuff until yesterday. After much learning, I finally got debian to the point where APT was almost configured when I ran out of disk space. Reason: I wanted to have three partitions on my D: drive for Linux. One was going

Srdjan,Vranje-Yugoslavia

Help! I require drivers for the following aspects;display, sound, PCMCIA adapter. Notebook Texas Instruments (Acer Extensa 355,, Ext. No.:133X) Thanks! Srdjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Re: setgid on /home

Scott E. Graves wrote: > what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set? None at all, really. There are some small benefits to individual directories inside /home being setgid; there are also known bad side effects, which is why adduser no longer does that. See bug #64806 for more. --

Re: kickstart on Debian

Hi, I'm sure developers could answer this with much greater authority than I could, but I'll try anyway :) Two ideas: 1. Ask on debian-boot, since this is more their field of specialty. 2. As to your question: I don't think so, but I'm relatively certain that a number of boot-disk developers ar

Re: Newbie Question

Hi, It's possible that your setup (LAN, cable access, etc.) assumes that you'll get your IP address via DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) and your Win95 is setup (default,??) to accomodate this fact. On installation of Debian, you can tell it to make use of DHCP or you can modify /etc/n

Re: setgid on /home

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Patrick Mauro wrote: > > > >what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set? > > As I understand it, it means that any directories created underneath > /home will have the same settings as home (groups, permissions, etc) > Any file (or directory) created under the

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I invoke Godwin's razor and declare this thread dead! Fascism has been mentioned, EOT. On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: > >And I insist that what you are doing with dynamic ip's has a >name.. FASCISM. > >Sorry very much but this is the true.

Re: XDM

Try: update-alternatives --config x-window-manager though this doesn't always as expected for me. 'apt-get install kdm' might work too. I have not yet figured out exactly how debian determines what window manager to run. For me, it seems to decide arbitrarily... -Brian On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 a

Re: setgid on /home

> >what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set? As I understand it, it means that any directories created underneath /home will have the same settings as home (groups, permissions, etc) Patrick Mauro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

setgid on /home

what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?

Re: Compaq Smart2 Array

Nathan Ollerenshaw wrote: > > Ok, > > the driver definately on there and the smart2 array controller is detected, > but the debian installer doesn't find it after the keyboard configuration. > > It should be /dev/ida/c0d0 but opening an interactive shell and trying to > find it, it's not there.

Re: Shutdown

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Ales Jerman wrote: >Hello! >Is there any combination like Ctrl+Alt+Del, but not for reboot system, >but for halt or shutdown system? C-A-D does a "/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now", so just edit /etc/inittab and remove the -r flag fro

removing obsolete packages

Hi, is there a way to delete packages from the cache (or from some other directory) for which a newer package exists in that directory. My /var/cache/apt/archives has several versions of lots of packages and I want to remove them. apt-get autoclean doesn't seem to do what I want. Iwan.

Re: Problems with apt-get

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 apt-get update On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Debian User wrote: >I installed Debian from cd-rom. > >I am networked. > >I want to now manage packages by downloading from http sites. > >I've copied /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list from another >worki

PROM address does not match CSR address

Hi, I have an intergraph TD30, with two pentium 133 Mhz on it. I run Debian Sid on this machine, with kernel 2.4.3-pre7. So that was the layout.. Here comes the problem. I am installing this machine to make it a router/gateway/dhcp/samba/ftp/web/ server. It is also the machine which is connect

WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

Hay all. A few nights ago, I left my machine on over night whilst ripping some cds. The file names were rather long (>20). In the morning all was fine until I rebooted at which point the / partition refused to mount and the entire system became unusable. The fault was ReiserFS: I seems that BugTr

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

Roberto Diaz wrote: > By blocking the whole dynamic segment of the internet you are > not a solution anymore but a part of the problem. I have no idea why you cc'd this email to debian-user, since Debian does NOT rely on the DUL as part of our spam-blocking setup. Of course, I don't know why you

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Think for example in a lot of third-world countries maybe in some places > they could be using dynamic DNS as the only way to have multiple e-mail > for everybody in a small village.. they maybe only can afford a dial-up > connection... If you find an ac

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

> If you have an ISP who doesn't provide a mail server for you but > provides you with a DUL-listed IP, that's your fault. Please.. there are a lot of combinations.. a lot of countries a lot of realities.. you can have no chance to choose a ISP who provides you SMTP/POP and is not your fault.. An

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

Nate Amsden writes: > ISPs don't take the responsibility most of the time to restrict outgoing > mail to their servers(ive worked at a few so i know this from the > inside), dynamic ips should NOT be allowed to send mail, there should be > stuff in the router or firewall or whatever to prevent this

Re: Unable to open various sites.

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:56:38PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > "Scott E. Graves" wrote: > > > This problem only occurs when the 2.4.2-k7 kernel is installed. > > 2.2.18pre21-ide works perfectly fine. Any suggestions? > > yes there is an option in 2.4.x to disable i believe that should fix this. >

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

Gary Jones writes: > Do they? I can name at least one which may not (depending on the tarif > you choose). They might provide a newsserver as well, but it doesn't mean > you are forced to use it, either to read or post. This is true. You can contract with anyone you want to for either news or mai

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

Gary Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do they? I can name at least one which may not (depending on the > tarif you choose). If you have an ISP who doesn't provide a mail server for you but provides you with a DUL-listed IP, that's your fault. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a varie

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

Roberto Diaz wrote: > > I am sending this here because according to mail-abuse.org I and the whole > dynamic dns users are spammers just because we are using dynamic ip's. > I want all the debian mail relay's administrators be very aware about > this. can't win it all. the amount of spam blocked

Re: 2.4.3 + X 4.0.2 + star office = dead box

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > not quite sure who to blame on this one, x? kernel? star office? > > whenever I start up star office installer, machine bombs. make sure the binary your running is a valid binary, id say copy it to another machine and try to run it and see if it works ok. if the bina

Re: Unable to open various sites.

"Scott E. Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been unable to connect to various web sites from one Debian machine on > our network. It seems that when attemplting to connect to sites, such as > www.dogpile.com, the user is receiving connection refused. All machines are > identical and

Re: latex *pk files in /var?

Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after running xdvi I noted that several *pk files appeared in > /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/public/cm. Why this? The Computer Modern fonts (the default latex fonts) are in Metafont, a scalable font language developed by Knuth to go with TeX. In o

Re: Unable to open various sites.

"Scott E. Graves" wrote: > This problem only occurs when the 2.4.2-k7 kernel is installed. > 2.2.18pre21-ide works perfectly fine. Any suggestions? yes there is an option in 2.4.x to disable i believe that should fix this. i forget what the option is called but search the archives its been mentio

Re: VMware

> Elfert wrote: > "The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.0) does not match your running > kernel (version 2.2.18) Consequently even if the compilation of the module > was successful, the module would load into the running kernel." be sure you have the source packages installed for the ker

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

On 3 Apr 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not > > send mail anymore so every guy in the internet will have to depend > > upon a third-party mail relay to send mail [..] > "Your ISP gives you a

VMware

A few days ago we made the switch from Mandrake, which we felt was pretty but too flaky , to Progeny/Debian.  As with Mandrake the initial installation went quite quickly and easily and we had our homeLan and ADSL connections humming with surprising ease.  When we came to installing VMware h

Re: dist-upgrade to woody

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Robert A. Jacobs wrote: <...> > Well...woody and potato handle X and its configuration very differently. > Woody uses X 4.02 (I think) while potato uses 3.3.6. There are a number of > differences, not the least of which is that your X configuration is no longer > stored in /etc

Unable to open various sites.

I have been unable to connect to various web sites from one Debian machine on our network. It seems that when attemplting to connect to sites, such as www.dogpile.com, the user is receiving connection refused. All machines are identical and no firewalling rules have been enabled. This problem

Re: what is 'slot-service-0-3' ?

Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > I tried to set up the sound, but didn't get it to work. I always got > > this in /var/syslog this: > > > > /var/log/syslog > > . > > Apr 1 19:13:36 laptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module > > sound-slot-0 > > Apr 1 19:13:36 lapt

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