Re: Apache Out of Memory

2001-10-05 Thread Angus D Madden
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:15:24PM -0400, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > The largest demand on the server comes from a web-based homework system > which uses a cgi interface. We have 600 students using the system > (dual 550MHz Pentium III with 256M RAM) > > Two days ago, I received a message from

Re: Forwarding X apps

2001-10-05 Thread Richard Hector
Kyle Girard wrote: > > What does one have to do to enable X apps to be forwarded to my machine? I would tunnel through ssh: debian % ssh -X firewall firewall % netscape & or whatever. > on debian: > > xhost + firewall I would try to avoid trusting a firewall this much. Richard

Re: network

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Lanett
man 5 interfaces (the sample is missing the gateway line) ~mark - Original Message - From: "Michael Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Re: network > > I do have a /etc/network/interfaces file > But it just has local host defined in it

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:23:53AM +0200] Timo Blazko Boewing : > DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging as > well as the real hostname of a destination machine. Please do note that the ping derived from netkit-ping_0.10-8_i386.deb is broken. But for me, ping from ip

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread John
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:30:33AM +, Hans Steinraht wrote: > > - make-kpkg --revision Custum.1 kernel-image > This has never failed me: make-kpkg --revision=3:custom.1.0 kernel_image John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ pgpjm8INeNUQs.pgp Descripti

Re: network

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Grover
I do have a /etc/network/interfaces file But it just has local host defined in it. Can some one show me one with eth0 in it? thanks, mike Mark Lanett wrote: > > $ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/network\* > netbase: /etc/init.d/networking > > Do you have netbase installed? > > My interfaces are describe

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

2001-10-05 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Bristow Paul-BPB007, > I'm in a similar situation to this but my proxy requires a password to > get through it. Is there anyway I can do this? Set the following environment variables: http_proxy="http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080" ftp_proxy="http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080" Where `us

Re: So many package tools, apt, dselect, dpkg, which should I choose?

2001-10-05 Thread will trillich
Yuwen Dai wrote: > I'm new to Debian but not new to Linux. I find there're many packages in > Debian. I'm confused. In what situation should I choose one? when you need the functionality it provides. :) many debian packages are uber-instances of redhat packages, if that helps. the hard part, i

Re: network

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Lanett
$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/network\* netbase: /etc/init.d/networking Do you have netbase installed? My interfaces are described in /etc/network/interfaces ~mark - Original Message - From: "Michael Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian" Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 7:01 PM Subject: netw

Forwarding X apps

2001-10-05 Thread Kyle Girard
What does one have to do to enable X apps to be forwarded to my machine? For two machine named debian and firewall respectively, I want to forward a display from fireall to debian on debian: xhost + firewall on firewall export DISPLAY=debian:0 I try and run any program and I get 'cannot open

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Richard Hector
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:25:57PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > As for exploits, original poster talk about, I do not think so. Random > > number contains some accidental ANSI sequence and that is changing font > > assignment or something like t

network

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Grover
Ok, I have sucessfully installed my network card :-) A debian doc I downloaded from the www.debian.org web site says that I sould put info need to bring up my eth0 interface in a file called /etc/init.d/network I don't have this file? I did find a file /etc/networking and put it in the top of

Re: linux + winME

2001-10-05 Thread D.
I have the same setup, Laptop with ME and wanted to install Debian. What I did was first do a Scan disk then did a defrag then I went to one of the Debian mirror sites and downloaded a copy of FIPS and folowed the README in FIPS. I was able to partation the drive and not lose any data that was th

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:25:57PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Try: > > > >$ reset > >$ vi ZZ > >$ top q > > > > ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, > > but I'v

Re: Error files in /

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:17:13PM +0800, Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > > > > I'm running into a strange occurance. I evidentally have something that is > > creating error files in my / directory. They're usually named something > > like "e

Re: HUGE .xsession-errors file

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:06:21AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 05-Oct-2001 David Purton wrote: > > at some point in the last day or so my .xsession-erros fil grew to an > > enormous size and completely filled up my hard disk (like almost 1GB in > > size). > > > >

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:11:56PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Try: > >$ reset >$ vi ZZ >$ top q > > ...which should reset your screen. Not all are necessary at all times, > but I've found that a 'reset', brief 'vi' session, and a few screen > refreshes of 'top' will fix things

Re: Crash postmortem.

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:18:10PM +0200, oivvio polite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I've been experiencing some system instability lately. > The system crashes like once a week or something. Ctrl-Alt-Delete has > no effect. And I can't even ssh in from another host to do a graceful > shutdown

Re: Trapped in X

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:36:36PM -0500, 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 > line. What do I need to do to boot up to just a plain old prompt

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:30:49AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > - make-kpkg clean > > - make menuconfig > > - make-kpkg --revision Custum.1 kernel-image > > It is called kernel_image, an underscore, not -. Yes but reading make-kpkg perl script, it seems to accept both as same target as undocume

Re: Gnome + wmaker (problem switching workspaces)

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:56:43PM +0200, Antonio Arauzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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? ObHolyWar: Reply-To Munging Considered Harmf

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces, > and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases? > If so why? > Only if

Re: X related

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:44:35PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Is there any freely downloadable X window system administration guide > available ? What specifically are you looking for? Man pages exist. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > 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.

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

2001-10-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:14:34PM -0300, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > > > Ricardo Gazoni gravada: > > > Osamu Aoki gravada: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0300, Ricardo Gazoni wrote: > > > > Yes, I did. In fact, step 1 loaded /boot/config-2.2.19pre17 and > > > > saved it in /usr/src/k

Re: Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-05 Thread Robert Gill
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > Don't know what's happening. I upgraded today in unstable > (I upgraded everyday). But Gnome and X no longer works. X seems > to start properly, but not gnome. My .xsession-error said > > /usr/X11R6/lib/

psql: IDENT authentication failed for user 'js'

2001-10-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Woody - postgresql_7.1release-4_i386.de After upgrading to woody I had the following problem with posgtresql: As user postgres: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ createuser js Shall the new user be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y Shall the new user be allowed to cr

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

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:03:21PM -0400, christenpet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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

Re: gs vs. gs-aladdin

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Wohler
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:54:10PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > | Which one will do double-sided printing on my HP OfficeJet G85xi? > > This printer doesn't do double-sided printing regardless of what > software you have. Actually, it does. You do have to buy

Re: Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-05 Thread Robert Gill
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:48:23PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > Don't know what's happening. I upgraded today in unstable > (I upgraded everyday). But Gnome and X no longer works. X seems > to start properly, but not gnome. My .xsession-error said > > /usr/X11R6/lib/

Re: Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-05 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > Don't know what's happening. I upgraded today in unstable > (I upgraded everyday). But Gnome and X no longer works. X seems > to start properly, but not gnome. My .xsession-error said > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /

Gnome and X no longer works

2001-10-05 Thread Chun Kit Edwin Lau
Hi everyone, Don't know what's happening. I upgraded today in unstable (I upgraded everyday). But Gnome and X no longer works. X seems to start properly, but not gnome. My .xsession-error said /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent /home/lauedw/.xsession: No such file or

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:27:38PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces, > and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases? > If so why? Is the

Re: How get CUPS?

2001-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:07:36PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote: > I tried to install CUPS from my debian 2.2r3 cd's, but apt-get says > it's not there. Is there a version somewhere that is compatible with > debian 2.2r3? You just need the right package name(s): $ apt-cache search cups apcupsd

Re: compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Hans Steinraht wrote on Sat Oct 06, 2001 um 12:30:33AM: > > -- Hehe, never put -- at the beginning, it is a sign for beginning a signature and some software cuts everything below. > - make-kpkg clean > - make menuconfig > - make-kpkg --revision Custum.1 kernel-image It is called kern

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfaces, and it gets loaded and works. Do you really need it in aliases? If so why? Thanks, Matthew On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:16:41PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Fri,

compiling a kernel?

2001-10-05 Thread Hans Steinraht
-- Hi, I just started with Debian, installed the compact unstable version and came to the conclusion that I had to compile a new kernel to let Debian do the things I want. This is the firsttime I'm doing this, so I followed the steps described in the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ, and in the README f

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Hello , Problem may be related to SDRAM. If you have source tree you may be able to fix it in that. NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.tar.gz has a file called os-registry.c Try going through that and see if anything is possible. -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011005 12:23]: > Hi, > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on > my Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh > on my Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with > 32 MB of SDRAM.

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread August Logan Bear Jr.
On Friday 05 October 2001 03:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > With the nVidia driver, however, X tried to load, flashes some dark blue > colors on the screen, then quits with the error: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to > initialize the NVdriver kernel module! > I also had this problem. When I b

libreadline4 package error

2001-10-05 Thread Miller, Matt
After attempting to install the libreadline4 and libreadline4-dev packages (which failed), I now repeatedly receive the following error message: /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: /bin/bash: undefined symbol: history_max_entries This problem disables my ability to enter any other init

inatalling debian through a socks4 server

2001-10-05 Thread Ian Corbett
Is it possible to install debian and the debian packages through a socks server? Is there any documentation describing methods of doing so? -i -- Ian Corbett . . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specialized Solutions . . . .

Re: error related

2001-10-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Jeffrin Jose T. wrote: > Hello all , > > The output of "ps x" at a particular situation is related to this .. > > > Unknown HZ value! (12) Assume 100. You use kernel 2.4.11-pre4 (and I think I remember this was mentioned on linux-kernel some hours ago). > Warning: /usr/src/

Lexmark E210 Printer

2001-10-05 Thread Steven Kurylo
I am runing Woody, kernel 2.4.9, using CUPS for printing. I just got a Lexmark E210 laser printer which is supported under linux. They want you to install their ghostscript rpm(or source) and then a cups ppd to use the printer. I have not been able to get the ghostscript package to work under

Re: Single floppy to CD installation

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:02:11PM +0100, John W Sherman wrote: | Is it possible to download (from anywhere) a single floppy disk | (1.44) that will provide access to installation from the CD-ROMS | onto a clean system with no dos and will format as Linux. Have you seen http://www.debian.org

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:50PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my > > Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my > >

How get CUPS?

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Fontenot
I tried to install CUPS from my debian 2.2r3 cd's, but apt-get says it's not there. Is there a version somewhere that is compatible with debian 2.2r3? Mike Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Single floppy to CD installation

2001-10-05 Thread John W Sherman
Is it possible to download (from anywhere) a single floppy disk (1.44) that will provide access to installation from the CD-ROMS onto a clean system with no dos and will format as Linux. John Sherman

Indenting with magicfilter

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Fontenot
After being unable to get my postscript printer to work properly using apsfilter, I uninstalled apsfilter and installed magicfilter.  That worked much better, but there were still two problems (both "showstoppers"):   1) I can't get any indentation.  The man page for magicfilter     says tha

RE: putting cdrom into sources.list

2001-10-05 Thread Eileen Orbell
Try deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Offical i386 Binary-1 (20010427)$ That is the line in my sources.list but of courses yours might differ depending on what version of Debian you have installed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

Re: Error files in /

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Michael C. Alonzo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I had the same problem about a month ago. what i did was to delete > 2.2.19 and use 2.4.7 (only one kernel). Suddenly, this question makes sense. I just got a bunch of these since I moved to 2.4.10 on this Woody box. When you say delete the 2.2.x

Pan and HTML messages

2001-10-05 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I noticed that Pan (great newsreader) does not support HTML messages. I know Pan is able to use gtkhtml for messages display. Is there another package I can install that enables this, or can the package be changed to include HTML capabilities? I was going to search the bugs list but www.debian.o

Apache Out of Memory

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I am running an Apache Webserver (1.3.9-14) for our department on a mostly potato system. The largest demand on the server comes from a web-based homework system which uses a cgi interface. We have 600 students using the system (dual 550MHz Pentium III with 256M RAM) Two days ago, I received

Re: putting cdrom into sources.list

2001-10-05 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Alex Hunsley wrote: > Originally my surces.list file (for apt) pointed to my cd rom drive, which had > potato cd #1 in it. Since then I've changed sources.list to get stuff from the > net, but how do I add the cd drive back to sources.list? > I suspect it's something like file:/cdrom but I've tried

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:45, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I loaded the latest drivers from the NVIDIA web site and tried them and they > kept the xserver from starting. Fortunately I kept the old version (1251) > and they worked fine so I reverte

Re: putting cdrom into sources.list

2001-10-05 Thread Gustaf Erikson
Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Originally my surces.list file (for apt) pointed to my cd rom drive, which had > potato cd #1 in it. Since then I've changed sources.list to get stuff from the > net, but how do I add the cd drive back to sources.list? > I suspect it's something like file

Re: error related

2001-10-05 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 10/05/2001 02:30:16 PM "Jeffrin Jose T." wrote: >> Hello all , >> >> The output of "ps x" at a particular situation is related to this .. >> >> >> Unknown HZ value! (12) Assume 100. >> Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an incorrect kernel version. >> PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND >

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 October 2001 8:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my > Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my > Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:29, James D Strandboge wrote: > I know there is an option to have it active. My was set to having it > active, and now I just manually set it to 0 (well, in a script at > boot). Okay, I will try setting this option from scratch. > > > actually, sun.com works (Star Office

putting cdrom into sources.list

2001-10-05 Thread Alex Hunsley
Originally my surces.list file (for apt) pointed to my cd rom drive, which had potato cd #1 in it. Since then I've changed sources.list to get stuff from the net, but how do I add the cd drive back to sources.list? I suspect it's something like file:/cdrom but I've tried that and no luck... (yes, I

Re: nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my > Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my > Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of > SDRAM

Re: How can I get dselect's selection to match what's installed?

2001-10-05 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011005 12:07]: > OK, somehow I'v _reallY- got dselct's selection list munged up. It want's > to dlete 200+ packages! > > How can I (short of spending hours ding it by hand), get dslect's "desired" > selection to match what's installed on the system? I don't know

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:44:02AM +0200 or thereabouts, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > mh, this "file" is not there (some other tcp_* are there); may I have > forgotten in kernelconfig??? I know there is an option to have it active. My was set to having it active, and now I just manually set it to

error related

2001-10-05 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Hello all , The output of "ps x" at a particular situation is related to this .. Unknown HZ value! (12) Assume 100. Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map has an incorrect kernel version. PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 596 ?S 0:01 oafd --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=10 1687 tt

nVidia kernel driver fails to initialize

2001-10-05 Thread nebrich
Hi, I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of SDRAM. I am running kernel 2.4.9. I installed the latest nVidia drivers

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello, thx for your quick answer. On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:04, James D Strandboge wrote: > I had the same problem until I realized it might be ecn related. If > you are running kernel 2.4.x, then do: yes, I have kernel 2.4.9 > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > and see if it shows '1'. If

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

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Ricardo Gazoni gravada: > Osamu Aoki gravada: > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0300, 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

Re: ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:23:53AM +0200 or thereabouts, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote: > I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach > almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my > station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when

How can I get dselect's selection to match what's installed?

2001-10-05 Thread Stan Brown
OK, somehow I'v _reallY- got dselct's selection list munged up. It want's to dlete 200+ packages! How can I (short of spending hours ding it by hand), get dslect's "desired" selection to match what's installed on the system? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread James D Strandboge
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:13:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Matthew Garman wrote: > > Does anyone out there have a home LAN setup using non-routable IP > addresses (e.g. 192.168.x.x)? And if so, do you have postfix running as > the MTA on more than one machine in the LAN? > Yes. > Have you been ab

ping works not on all sites

2001-10-05 Thread Timo \"Blazko\" Boewing
Hello everyone, I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging as well as the real hostname of a destination machine. I know fro

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

2001-10-05 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 01:35, ramsubs wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:40 AM > Subject: Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD > > > > On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote:

Re: sendmail hash in /

2001-10-05 Thread Mike Pfleger
* Richard A Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The hash/hash.db are a fluke, I'll look into that, but the others > shouldn't be sendmail... > > What version of sendmail did you install ? can you remove those two > files and run `/usr/share/sendmail/update_db` and see if they return ? Hi Richard

Re: package sig checking ?

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:15:00PM +0200, christophe barb? wrote: > Is-it possible to configure apt-get to check package GPG signature > before installing it ? You can install debsig-verify and change /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg to say 'debsig'. There are very few (none?) signed packages in Debian yet, tho

Re: Snort - syslog, docs & packages [longish]

2001-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:15:16PM -0400, Robb Kidd wrote: > [packages] Also, I notice that snort is also suffering from poor > package descriptions. snort, snort-common, snort-doc, snort-mysql and > snort-rules-default all seem to have the following: [...] > ... which doesn't really he

installing debian on a Jaz

2001-10-05 Thread Maxime Gamboni
Hi all ! I am new to this mailinglist (as well as to the linux world :-) I want to install debian on my pc, but there's already windows installed on it, and I don't want to partition the hard disk (which is btw almost full already) for debian. Before I start downloading and installing and end u

Re: Stable -> 2.4 kernel, best path?

2001-10-05 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Stan Brown: > > I have a stable machine, that I need to use the 2.4 kernel on. I > remebr a > > while back lloking inot this. > > > > As I recall, I found 2 ways to do this. > > > > 1. Some kind soul had created a set of packages for this (kernel, > lbc, file > > u

Canon and CUPS (was Re: Printing with Epson 880, CUPS, & unstable - landscape only)

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:56:24PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | > Ok, here's the details : [ snipped here, if you want them see the old thread (I forgot to change the subject last time) or ask for a private post ] | Not boring dman, fascinating! Cool. | I must say it takes the

apt-get do not yields to 'n'

2001-10-05 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I think apt-get is getting too smart (or independent); look at these lines: - voabaixo:/etc/apt# apt-get install kmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 libc6-dev

RE: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Eileen Orbell
Thanks Mark for the source. Works sweet... -Original Message- From: Mark Lanett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:57 PM To: Subject: Re: Kde From: "Ben Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You'll have to wait for future versions of Debian to get KDE. Or go to t

Re: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Mark Lanett
From: "Ben Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You'll have to wait for future versions of Debian to get KDE. Or go to the website from the future, kde.debian.net. deb http://kde.debian.net potato main crypto optional deb ftp://kde.debian.net/pub/kde potato main crypto optional deb http://kde.rap.uca

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Oct-2001 Alexander Wallace wrote: > I have another debian system I'll try compiling the module today... But, > what is it that I need to copy? just the tulip.o? will there not be > dependencies and stuff like that? Can I put that tulip o in a floppy in > /lib/modules/net or something like th

Re: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Ben Simpson
You'll have to wait for future versions of Debian to get KDE. Ben - Original Message - From: "Charles Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eileen Orbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Kde > Personally, I prefer WindowMaker > > http://www.windowmake

Re: Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Charles Baker
Personally, I prefer WindowMaker http://www.windowmaker.org/ I hope this doesn't turn into a flame war over window managers and/or desktop environments. --- Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > What windows manager do poeple on the list > recommend using? I have > just inst

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Wallace
I am, but I thought it was a problem on my side, now I know it may be not... On 4 Oct 2001, 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 g

Kde

2001-10-05 Thread Eileen Orbell
Title: Message Hi all,    What windows manager do poeple on the list recommend using?  I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (a.k.a. Potato) and was trying to find KDE.  Could someone point me to this or maybe recomment something else   Thanks   Eileen Orbell ISA Ma

RE: Instalation on a laptop advise...

2001-10-05 Thread Alexander Wallace
I have another debian system I'll try compiling the module today... But, what is it that I need to copy? just the tulip.o? will there not be dependencies and stuff like that? Can I put that tulip o in a floppy in /lib/modules/net or something like that and give it to it at startup? I tryed this alr

Re: Error files in /

2001-10-05 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 07:46:57PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > > I'm running into a strange occurance. I evidentally have something that is > creating error files in my / directory. They're usually named something > like "errs9vkVeD" or "errskFcjY", always beginning with "errs", ending in a > seemin

Snort - syslog, docs & packages [longish]

2001-10-05 Thread Robb Kidd
Okay, I'm trying to get to know the pig. I've only just installed it and have done no modifications to the default install other than answer debconf's questions. I notice that my snort-monitored interface leaves promiscuous mode and enters it again five seconds later. I'm assuming this is f

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike Grover([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi all, > I am new to using debian. > I have just finished installing ver 2.2 r3 and was wondering how I > go about setting up network cards? > > I have a ne2000 in the machine, but when I type ifconfig, All > I see is the local

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Dave Sherohman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Using exim. In .forward > > > > if $h_MBOX-Line: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > then > > save /dev/null > > finish > > endif > > You don't have to actually (pre

Re: HUGE .xsession-errors file

2001-10-05 Thread burningclown
This happened to me, too. I reported some weird jumps in the % usage reported by df, and subsequently found that this file had mushroomed at some point (the other % were addressed by running apt-get clean). Glenn Becker On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, David Purton wrote: > at some point in the last day or

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

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Osamu Aoki gravada: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0300, 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

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

2001-10-05 Thread Ricardo Gazoni
Michael Heldebrant gravada: > 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 .con

Re: linux + winME

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Garman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:03:50AM -0700, kiran hiriyanna wrote: > i am running windows ME on my laptop. i have a lot of info on it. > without having to back up, can i install llinux over w/ME and later > erase w/ME? It depends on the setup of your disk that contains the WinME installation. If yo

Re: anyone using postfix in a home LAN setup?

2001-10-05 Thread Darren Wyn Rees
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:13:02AM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > Have you been able to get postfix to send mail to different machines on > the LAN (completely internal, no external DNS routing)? I'm sure this is possible with a Postfix 'transport map', like your.host.name smtp:[192.168

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:22:00AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:10PM -0400, dman wrote: | > Neat, thanks. (I want to switch from procmail to exim, but haven't | > tested by rules yet). Say, how do you use maildir folders with exim | > filters? | | IIRC, if you sav

Re: Problem with hda1 ('/) at boottime, what now?

2001-10-05 Thread Carlos Sousa
So I log in as root (glad I didn't disable that yet) and do: (none):~# mount -n -o remount, rw / There should be no space between the comma and "rw". But the next lines in your mail suggest that it worked, so now I'm puzzled... EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, ru

Re: duplicate old posts?

2001-10-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:10PM -0400, dman wrote: > Neat, thanks. (I want to switch from procmail to exim, but haven't > tested by rules yet). Say, how do you use maildir folders with exim > filters? IIRC, if you save to $HOME/Mail/foo, it goes into mbox format and if you save to $HOME/Mail/

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread dman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:37:48AM -0500, Mike Grover wrote: | Hi all, | I am new to using debian. | I have just finished installing ver 2.2 r3 and was wondering how I | go about setting up network cards? | | I have a ne2000 in the machine, but when I type ifconfig, All | I see is the lo

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