Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread John
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:56:15AM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:46:24AM -0700, John wrote: > > I upgraded my son's dual booting box from win98 to win2k expecting the > > upgrade to wipe out lilo on the mbr, but when rebooted, the lilo prompt > > was still there. > > Win2k

Realplayer installer broken in sid?

2001-10-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi all, after a harddisk failure I reinstalled sid on one of my pcs. There were no big problems. However the it seems that the realplayer installer may now be broken. Here is what happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 8% sudo apt-get install realplayer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependenc

Re: What's making the list go back in time?

2001-10-04 Thread Craig Dickson
Josh McKinney wrote: > Glad I'm not the only one. Earlier today /. was going in and out, > going back to yesterdays headlines and such. I thought I was going > crazy. Nah, that was just Slashdot having internal problems. I remember seeing the same things happening when they first switched to Slas

Re: looping messages [was Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.]

2001-10-04 Thread Craig Dickson
Mike Dresser wrote: > I'm sorta wondering about this. I've gotten this email about 8 times so > far in the last 3 days. Maybe you're just resending it cause i never > replied, i don' tknow I've been getting a lot of repeat messages from debian-user lately also. I have the impression, based on t

Re: What's making the list go back in time?

2001-10-04 Thread Josh McKinney
Glad I'm not the only one. Earlier today /. was going in and out, going back to yesterdays headlines and such. I thought I was going crazy. On approximately Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:50:10PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > debian-user is redelivering messages from several days ago. I just got a

A Very Big Apology

2001-10-04 Thread Allen Wayne Best
hello: i owe everyone on the list a very big apology, i'll bet. it appears that a large number of messages from the list sent to my address got resent to the list. my isp this week has changed everything i have with them, including my mail service and caused me havoc. and now, you've suffered

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicate old posts?

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 22:41, hmike wrote: > The stuff I'm seeing seems to always be coming through: > > X-Envelope-Sender: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and seems to have been received from the list server and then resent? > > Anyone else getting this? > > --mike Responding to myself, I've gotten in

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicate old posts?

2001-10-04 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:41:32PM -0500, hmike wrote: > The stuff I'm seeing seems to always be coming through: > > X-Envelope-Sender: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > and seems to have been received from the list server and then resent? > > Anyone else getting this? Yup. -- John Patton

Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm sorta wondering about this. I've gotten this email about 8 times so far in the last 3 days. Maybe you're just resending it cause i never replied, i don' tknow > what does mailq say about those messages (why are they queued)? Have to wait for it to happen again some more, so i can look. A fe

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

2001-10-04 Thread john
Thanks Rich and Jason. I'm going to crawl over my config this weekend with a fine tooth comb until I find where my system is configured differently. It seems that the XFree docs are incorrect btw, as they insist you must have bus-mastering enabled on the Voodoo card. John P Foster Rich Rudnick

What's making the list go back in time?

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
debian-user is redelivering messages from several days ago. I just got a batch of several dozen in the last minute, dated from the past week. These aren't delayed messages; I already got them once. -jwb

Re: free proxy server

2001-10-04 Thread john
Hi! I think we've all been reading this the wrong way. Are you ('a') looking for an installed proxy server on the Internet that you can point your browser at? If so why? Do you think it'll make you anonymous? It won't really. Are you trying to browse content that's blocked by your {ISP|parents

Is everyone else seeing duplicate old posts?

2001-10-04 Thread hmike
The stuff I'm seeing seems to always be coming through: X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and seems to have been received from the list server and then resent? Anyone else getting this? --mike

Re: Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 19:36, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > Yes, I did. In fact, step 1 loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 and saved it in > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19pre17/.config. To be precise, doing this via make > xconfig only adds comment lines to the .config file. I checked it out > carefully

Re: bind pop/ftp/sendmail to a port?

2001-10-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Ian Marlier wrote: > I'm running a machine with multiple ethernet interfaces. The box > runs sendmail, pop, and ftp...but I can't figure out how to make any > of them bind to a specific one of the eth ports...it's not > documented! Help! > > ipop2d, ipop3d, and ftpd are all r

Re: gs vs. gs-aladdin

2001-10-04 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:54:10 -0700, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you use gs or gs-aladdin? Why? > > The only thing I know is that gs has the advantage in that it is in > main instead of non-free. Since I'm not shipping product, this is > not necessarily a deal-breaker. What

Re: Trapped in X

2001-10-04 Thread Helmut Trinkl
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:36:36PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote: > I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving me a bit crazy...the > default install of debian sends me straight to X, rather than a command > line. What do I need to do to boot up to just a plain old prompt? Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2

modules not loading

2001-10-04 Thread BizarroBum
when i boot up i get the message modprobe: Note the file etc/modules.conf is more recent than the file /lib/modules/2.4.9/modules.dep and all the modules are not loading, this is a problem since my ethernet driver is a module, i've tried to recompile the ethernet driver to be included in the ke

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-04 Thread christenpet
Thanks to everyone who helped out with this. I tried "vmstat 5" and found that in the last 8 lines it reported as Mozilla was starting the SIs and SOs ranged from 100 to 300. So I definitely need to get more memory for my machine! One other thing: If I wanted to try Galeon how would I install i

Re: [OT] Sane envelope sender

2001-10-04 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Friday, October 5, Damon Muller did write: > I have numerous email accounts, but am permanently behind a firewall. > The firewall only allows me access to the one smtp server, which I use > as a smart-host to forward my outgoing mail. Yet I don't have an account > on that server to receive

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread Rino Mardo
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:46:24AM -0700, John wrote: > I upgraded my son's dual booting box from win98 to win2k expecting the > upgrade to wipe out lilo on the mbr, but when rebooted, the lilo prompt > was still there. > Win2k not as jealous/possesive of the mbr as win98? > keyword - install, n

Re: video ram?

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 04-Oct 08:09, parn wrote: > O.k. so about 4mb is ok. I am using X with gnome/enlightenment. I guess my > real question would be where and how to add the append = . > would this be correct: > > > > append videoram = 400 > or am i still clueless??? > > Again thank-you to any that rep

Re: wm menus

2001-10-04 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 20:47 Uhr -0500 4.10.2001, Rory O'Connor wrote: Somehow i managed to blow away my windowmaker menus for myself. but if i start X as root i see that the structure is there for root. Does anyone know what file the wm menus are stored in for root...and where i'd put them to restore them for my

gs vs. gs-aladdin

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Wohler
Do you use gs or gs-aladdin? Why? The only thing I know is that gs has the advantage in that it is in main instead of non-free. Since I'm not shipping product, this is not necessarily a deal-breaker. What I don't know is: Which one is "better?" More up to date? Which one will do doub

wm menus

2001-10-04 Thread Rory O'Connor
Somehow i managed to blow away my windowmaker menus for myself. but if i start X as root i see that the structure is there for root. Does anyone know what file the wm menus are stored in for root...and where i'd put them to restore them for my onw user acct? thanks, rory

Re: Trapped in X

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Another way to do it is to do a apt-get remove xdm and its gone forever until you reinstall it. Don --- Rory O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving > me a bit crazy...the > default install of debian sends me straight to X, > rather than a command >

[OT] Sane envelope sender

2001-10-04 Thread Damon Muller
Hi all, With the recent (long) thread about the increase in spam from the mailing list, it occured to me to ask if anyone has any suggestions for a sane envelope sender for outgoing emails. I have numerous email accounts, but am permanently behind a firewall. The firewall only allows me access to

Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2001-10-04 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Matthew Garman, > > I bought a Matrox Millenium g450 over the summer. I got it setup to do > hardware accelerated 3d with XFree 4.x. > > The only real 3d apps I've used are the "glxgears" test program, and the > 3d screensavers that can be built with the xscreensaver package. > > Some of

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], > >= Original Message From Ailbhe Leamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = > >If you post to any mailing list with archives on the web you are likely > >to have your address harvested by spammers. This is not news. > > Yeah, knee-jerk reaction on my behalf, but I would have ap

Re: kernel-source-2.4.9-1 builds but does not boot

2001-10-04 Thread Charles Baker
OS: Debian Gnu/Linux testing/unstable Hardware: Dell Latitude CPi D300XT 128 MB RAM PII 300 lilo.conf: lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map append="apm=on" default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOL

Re: HELP: system hangs at boot

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:07:06AM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: | Whenever I boot up my system I get the following error message when the | file system is being mounted: | | ERROR: "cannot fsck root fs because fs is not mounted read-only" | | and a little later the system hangs. | | If I boot my s

Re: Trapped in X

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:36:36PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote: | I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving me a bit crazy...the | default install of debian sends me straight to X, rather than a command | line. What do I need to do to boot up to just a plain old prompt? | | In addition, o

Re: Trapped in X

2001-10-04 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Seems you have xdm or something like that. Try Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2... until F6). Ctrl+Alt+F7 brings you back to X. At least it works fine here ;) Rory O'Connor gravada: > I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving me a bit crazy...the > default install of debian sends me straight to X, rat

Exim error

2001-10-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I configured a potato Debian GNU/Linux box with exim and some e-mails are getting back: 2001-10-04 21:44:11 15pJ63-0004Y4-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts I put the following at exim.conf file and it is still getting wr

Re: Java / resin on debian

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:52:20PM -0400, ANOOP KUMAR wrote: | | Hi, | | Has anyone succesfully installed resin on debian. I just switched from | red-hat to debian and am struggling to install resin on debain to deploy | servlets and jsp. | | I first installed the java( debain package jdk1.1) w

Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, | the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on | sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am | not sure which))

Re: Debian install

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:06:01PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Hmmm... Ok I give up, I will make a CD, and install from that then. Is | this the correct image for my i386 machine then: | | ftp://ftp.sunsite.auc.dk/mirrors/debian-cd/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso Looks like a nice URL :-). Yo

Re: Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-04 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Yes, I did. In fact, step 1 loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 and saved it in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.19pre17/.config. To be precise, doing this via make xconfig only adds comment lines to the .config file. I checked it out carefully Thanks anyway... Osamu Aoki gravada: > Hi, > > Did you c

Trapped in X

2001-10-04 Thread Rory O'Connor
I'm a debian newbie, and there's something driving me a bit crazy...the default install of debian sends me straight to X, rather than a command line. What do I need to do to boot up to just a plain old prompt? In addition, once I am in X, I can't figure out how to get out of it. Wm's "exit" as w

Re: Cant install Debian, please help

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:09:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | I have downloaded the rescue.bin and root.bin, and used rawrite2 to | write the floppies. rescue boots just fine, but when I insert the root | disk, the following error occurs: | | request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted

Re: SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?

2001-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:49:32PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, > the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on > sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am > not sure which))

Re: Woody printing problem

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:09:37PM -0700, Lars Jensen wrote: | I just installed woody, but can't get printing to work. When I try to | print I get the error message that | | | /dev/lp0 does not exist. Does 'lsmod' show parport, parport-pc and lp? If not try 'insmod'-ing them. -D

re: video ram?

2001-10-04 Thread parn
O.k. so about 4mb is ok. I am using X with gnome/enlightenment. I guess my real question would be where and how to add the append = . would this be correct: append videoram = 400 or am i still clueless??? Again thank-you to any that reply!

Re: Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Did you copy configuration from /boot/config- Otheise config change makes kernel size different. Cheers:-) On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:08:50PM -0300, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > I'm a newbie on kernel compiling, and would like to recompile the kernel > on my > machine to remove undesired dri

Re: vidoe ram? /2much

2001-10-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:53:13PM -0500, parn wrote: > How do I control the amount of video that my card gets. dmesg says > that 320meg is for video. I dont want it that high. I read about > append = for lilo and was wondering how to place it in and how much > should be given. I have an i810 b

Re: How can I use dselect from behind a firewall?

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a Debian stable machine located atw ork behind a very restrictive > firewall. I don have a machine runing squid that can be used as a HTTP only > proxy to get through it. > > How do I set this up? Easy. Just set the environment variable "http_prox

How can I use dselect from behind a firewall?

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian stable machine located atw ork behind a very restrictive firewall. I don have a machine runing squid that can be used as a HTTP only proxy to get through it. How do I set this up? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -

Java / resin on debian

2001-10-04 Thread ANOOP KUMAR
Hi, Has anyone succesfully installed resin on debian. I just switched from red-hat to debian and am struggling to install resin on debain to deploy servlets and jsp. I first installed the java( debain package jdk1.1) with lot of difficulty and figured out that it misses the class HashMap in cla

Re: Q about autofs

2001-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bill have fun playing with autofs - what is the contents of your auto.master and auto.* it refers to for more info... autofs howto.. http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS c ya alvin On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Bill Benedetto wrote: > Good day. > > Under HP-UX, SunOS, and IRIX, I c

Re: Woody printing problem

2001-10-04 Thread Jason Boxman
On Thursday 04 October 2001 02:09 am, Lars Jensen wrote: > I just installed woody, but can't get printing to work. When I try to > print I get the error message that > > > What is going on? I don't know if the stock kernel has parallel suport compiling in or not. You will need parellel port supp

Re: What is the ide-tape device name (/dev/?) ?

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 17:18, Michael Fontenot wrote: > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > Make the device nodes using ./MAKEDEV ht0 in the dev directory as root > > if the device file is missing. > > > > Worked like a charm! Many thanks to Michael Heldebrant! > > Mike Fontenot > [E

Re: What is the ide-tape device name (/dev/?) ?

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Fontenot
Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > Make the device nodes using ./MAKEDEV ht0 in the dev directory as root > if the device file is missing. > Worked like a charm! Many thanks to Michael Heldebrant! Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread Kent West
Gary Hennigan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The system administrator at work is a subcontract employee. He is also the administrator at his company. The company that I work for also has employe's from his company working here and they travel back and forth between companies and use their

test - please ignore/delete

2001-10-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
Apologies, all. Either everyone suddenly fell silent today, or I somehow mysteriously stopped receiving list mail. This aims to find out which. -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq

SPARC Station 5: how to find out what's the HW configuration?

2001-10-04 Thread Erik Steffl
I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well, the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am not sure which)). as of now it is working, but I would like to build a new kernel

Re: proper setup of /dev/dri for normal users?

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: > > The permissions on /dev/dri look like the following by default: > > # ls -la /dev/dri > total 23 > drwxrwx---2 root root 1024 Aug 10 19:08 ./ > drwxr-xr-x6 root root21504 Oct 4 16:12 ../ > crw-rw1 root root

proper setup of /dev/dri for normal users?

2001-10-04 Thread Matthew Garman
The permissions on /dev/dri look like the following by default: # ls -la /dev/dri total 23 drwxrwx---2 root root 1024 Aug 10 19:08 ./ drwxr-xr-x6 root root21504 Oct 4 16:12 ../ crw-rw1 root root 226, 0 Aug 10 19:08 card0 What is the "correct" wa

Can't compile an exact copy of kernel image.

2001-10-04 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
I'm a newbie on kernel compiling, and would like to recompile the kernel on my machine to remove undesired drives. So, I got kernel-source-2.2.19pre17.deb, kernel-package.deb and gcc272_2.7.2.3-15 and followed the instructions: 0 - $ make xconfig 1 - in xconfig, loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17; sa

Debian install

2001-10-04 Thread Søren Neigaard
Hmmm... Ok I give up, I will make a CD, and install from that then. Is this the correct image for my i386 machine then: ftp://ftp.sunsite.auc.dk/mirrors/debian-cd/2.2_rev3/i386/binary-i386-1.iso -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Don't worry if it doe

Re: kernel-source-2.4.9-1 builds but does not boot

2001-10-04 Thread Charles Baker
I had a similar problem when I tried to install a kernel package from the deb archives. I'll try to boot that kernel again tonight and post the exact message. --- Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:21, José Luis Rey wrote: > >make dep > >make > >make modul

vidoe ram? /2much

2001-10-04 Thread parn
How do I control the amount of video that my card gets. dmesg says that 320meg is for video. I dont want it that high. I read about append = for lilo and was wondering how to place it in and how much should be given. I have an i810 board w/700 celeron. Debian testing/unstable w/ 2.4.9 going

Re: NIC problems

2001-10-04 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nils-Erik Svangard: > Hi! > I have a Realtek NIC, this is the output of cat /dev/pci > Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16). > IRQ 10. > Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. > I/O at 0xcc00 [0xccff]. > Non-prefetc

Re: Gnome + wmaker (problem switching workspaces)

2001-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +0200, Antonio Arauzo wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > I'd also prefer you kept list mail on-list. > > Sorry, I forgot to change the "To:" field. > Why doesn't debian lists set "Reply-To:" field to the list address? Because it makes it difficult to follow

Re: Building 2.4.9 kernel for a laptop

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: | I'm trying to build the 2.4.9 kernel for my laptop. Everything works | except for the PCMCIA system. When I insert the card, | /var/log/message outputs that it's noticed the new hardware, but it | doesn't identify the card (3COM 57

Re: Postscript printer doesn't work...

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:50:48PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote: | I recently installed debian 2.2r3, including the various "parport" | driver modules and the lp module. I also istalled "lpr". When | the lpr command didn't print, I installed apsfilter, but it failed to | print the test page. |

Re: free proxy server

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:38:51AM +0800, a wrote: | Do you know any free proxy server on the Internet? What sort of data are you trying to proxy and in what sort of setup? That is, who is requesting and who is providing the data? -D

Cant install Debian, please help

2001-10-04 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have downloaded the rescue.bin and root.bin, and used rawrite2 to write the floppies. rescue boots just fine, but when I insert the root disk, the following error occurs: request_module[block-major-2]: Root fs not mounted apm: BIOS version 1.2 flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled on us

Re: requesting information

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:56, Marc Weldon wrote: > I am starting a new company, and I was curious to know what services and/or > products you offer in the way of computer security. Any information you can > give me would be greatly appreciated. You must operate out from under a bridge because th

Re: requesting information

2001-10-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 19:56:14 +, Marc Weldon wrote: > I am starting a new company, and I was curious to know what services and/or > products you offer in the way of computer security. The information at http://www.debian.org/intro/about#what and http://www.debian.org/security/ should go a

Re: What's the device name for my tape drive?

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 08:01, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a Debian stable machine with all IDE dirves. it also has an Adaptec > AIC-7892 SCSi controler. This controler has one slave device, a HP C1537A > 4mm tape changer. It's at SCSI ID 5. > > What is it's device name? /dev/?? > as far as I k

JDK on ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de?

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
I was getting the 1.3 JDK with the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian woody non-free but it seems that that directory has disappeared. Any idea what happened to it? There's a version for potato, but the woody one is gone. Thank

Re: Gnome + wmaker (problem switching workspaces)

2001-10-04 Thread Antonio Arauzo
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > there is at least one window running on current workspace. Has anybody > > > > experienced this? Is it any configuration problem? > > > What happens if you open, then close, a window? > > It doesn't matter. Whenever there is an open window on actual workspace > >

requesting information

2001-10-04 Thread Marc Weldon
I am starting a new company, and I was curious to know what services and/or products you offer in the way of computer security. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Mark Weldon _ Get your FREE

Postscript printer doesn't work...

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Fontenot
I recently installed debian 2.2r3, including the various "parport" driver modules and the lp module.  I also istalled "lpr".  When the lpr command didn't print, I installed apsfilter, but it failed to print the test page.   I have a postscript parallel printer (Optra Ep), which is supposed t

Building 2.4.9 kernel for a laptop

2001-10-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I'm trying to build the 2.4.9 kernel for my laptop. Everything works except for the PCMCIA system. When I insert the card, /var/log/message outputs that it's noticed the new hardware, but it doesn't identify the card (3COM 575BT) and there's no mention of eth0 in when I list interfaces with ifc

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Alan Shutko wrote: > > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the > > sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your > > program was started. > > And the impact of this depends on what the

eht0: Cared reports out of resouces

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to install STABLE on a Compq Proliant server. It has a NIC that dmesg reports as OEM i8257/i8258 10/100 Ethernet. This machine will be an Amanda tapehost. When I start trying to run Amanda (which loads tthe network up pretty good). I get a continous stream of messages on the console abo

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Guess what? If you have a netgear card, you probably want a ng_tulip driver instead of a tulip driver. I just found this out when I compiled a new kernel. Don't be mad, I didn't know either. :-) -- ||/ Peace, understanding, health and happiness to all beings! || |-K ars sine scientia nihil

Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote: > i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to learn. i've installed and reinstalled it many times but the routine of swapping cds (from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome. > > so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3 partitions with the idea of copyin

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Agno
Robert L. Harris writes: > where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. Can ext2 be > upgraded to ext3 once the machine is installed and I'm upgrading to 2.4.X? > I take it I have to patch the kernel for ext3 as I don't see it as an option > in my 2.4.10 kernel config. htt

What am I doing wrong? (apt-get via http proxy)

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian STABLE machien that I need to isntall at work behind a very restricitive firewall. I have a Squid server runing thta can get through the firewall (HTTP only ftp does not work). I have set up /etc/apt/apt.conf like this: // Pre-configure all packages before they are installed. // (

[OT] Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The system administrator at work is a subcontract > employee. He is also the administrator at his > company. The company that I work for also has > employe's from his company working here and they > travel back and forth between companies and use their > M$ laptops a

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:02:31 -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. It's a separate patch at the moment, AFAIK. It is included in at least Alan Cox' series of patches for 2.4 kernels (where you need to say [*] Prompt for development and

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread D.
As a point of interest, When I used the same configuration that you have for your Windows partation "other=/dev/hda1" on a HP Pavilion 5450 my Windows Me would not boot up.. It gave the error message that It was missing the command.com file. When I realized what was wrong I changed it to "other=/d

how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD

2001-10-04 Thread ramsubs
i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to learn. i've installed and reinstalled it many times but the routine of swapping cds (from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome.   so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3 partitions with the idea of copying the 3 cds into the 3 partitions, and sub

Re: DHCP problems with cable modem

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Fontenot
Are you sure that dhcpcd isn't working?  I just installed dhcpcd, and at first I thought it wasn't working, because there was nothing about DHCP written to the console during boot.  But I eventually discovered that it was working fine... it just doesn't print out its transmission and recep

Re: DHCP PUMP trouble

2001-10-04 Thread Antti Tolamo
Eskild Wikkeling wrote: Hello, I recently got a ADSL modem for babyxl (a dutch adsl provider that uses dhcp to give me my ip) and am trying to get it to work. in /etc/network/interfaces I have: auto eth0 eth1 iface eth0 inet static iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname MYNAME.demon.nl and in /et

Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > The system administrator at work is a subcontract > employee. He is also the administrator at his > company. The company that I work for also has > employe's from his company working here and they > travel back and forth between companies and u

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Liu Tao
On Friday 05 October 2001 01:36, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess > > > the sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread Sean Morgan
On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:40:38 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sitting in front of a W2K-Debian dual-boot system now, and I have a > laptop set up that way also. I don't remember any particular > tricks/problems, other than to install W2K first. I just thought I'd post a working

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters. > Other ttys are normal.

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Well in response to Does mine work the answer is No. I have tried for a few days to get this going and finally figured out that I did not have a eth0 device it was a sit0. I tried and read everything that I could and could not figure out a way to get the eth0. I tried to compile the driver like

ipmasqadm bug in potato 2.2r3 - 2.2.18 - i386

2001-10-04 Thread Andreas Beham
Sorry I dont know the package that covers ipmasqadm. But on my system i386 Potato 2.2r3 kernel 2.2.18 the localhost cant open any internetconnections anymore when I have defined some portforwarding rules (or is it just the large number that causes the bug I dont know). Here is the script that gene

Re: What to choose

2001-10-04 Thread Teppo Hytönen
I admit that I might've been a little too hard on them, yes. But I've heard much more good about Debian, and the examples about getting things to work were true. But of course Mandrake can't be that bad, otherwise no one would use it. It's just that I find Debian, both in abilities, features and id

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the > > sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your > > program was started. > > And the impact of this depe

NIC problems

2001-10-04 Thread Nils-Erik Svangard
Hi! I have a Realtek NIC, this is the output of cat /dev/pci Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xccff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd581 [0xd58100ff

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the > sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your > program was started. And the impact of this depends on what the program is used for. If you're seed

LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Hi all, The system administrator at work is a subcontract employee. He is also the administrator at his company. The company that I work for also has employe's from his company working here and they travel back and forth between companies and use their M$ laptops at both sites. Here is the pro

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-04 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
--- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > init uses getty (or some variant - check /etc/inittab) to spawn a > terminal, and getty spawns /bin/login to produce the prompt and handle > user logins. getty can be instructed to spawn a different program with > the -l option. Perhaps if you put an en

X related

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Is there any freely downloadable X window system administration guide available ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

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