Re: (Suggestion) A centralized Nameserver for users to use resolv.conf

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:53:44PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why don't we have a 'centralised' Nameserver , that > will do the IP-to-name-resolution for the browsers > of all the Linux users . This is a very foolish idea. Name service should be organied by network topology, not operatin

Re: kmail dependency error ?

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:41:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now, this time around kmail requested procmail with it. > Since when is procmail mandatory for kmail. > I just connect to external pop3 servers. > > Is there an error in dependency for this version of kmail. > Kmail did not requi

kmail dependency error ?

I have just did apt-get dist-upgrade and kmail got updated to 2.2.2-4 on woody. Now, this time around kmail requested procmail with it. Since when is procmail mandatory for kmail. I just connect to external pop3 servers. Is there an error in dependency for this version of kmail. Kmail did not re

Re: Newbie comments & queries

Ian, > I am, after all, still alive. Good! > I plonked an old internal 14400 modem in and had it working in no time > flat. wvdialconf went fine. My wvdial.conf is now like the one that > Brenda showed me, and I added in the line about the new PPPD having found > from man wvdial that the ve

Re: Newbie question : gnome, bash, and ppp [solved]

problem solved. After logging out and in, it worked. I guess I did not allow the change to take effect earlier. Thanks. GZ Gong Zeng wrote: Actually, I did both, i.e. adding the non-root user to both 'dialout' and 'dip'. The problem is still there. Could it be that I should not add the

chess program recommendations?

I'm looking for a good chess program for Debian. I've done apt-cache search chess, so I know the options out there. I'm looking for recommendations from people that have played some/all of them. Something that has a reasonably intelligent AI so I can play the computer. Also, I'd prefer a GUI

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

* Eric Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 05. 2001 23:10]: > I don't have anything against procmail. I am not familiar with it. I > will look it up. This will help you a great deal then: -- -Brian Clark

Re: mozilla/galeon rendering hiccups

* This one time, at band camp, Greg Fischer said: > Has anyone else noticed strange rendering behavior in mozilla/galeon? > I've downloaded nightlies and even they have the same problem: > Occasionally, the text will not be alligned with itself, look: > > http://magnesium.dyndns.org:81/tmp/2001_

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:47:53PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > Do you have any particular reservations agains procmail? It'll do what > you need beautifully. Then you can read your lists in their respective > folders and tell mutt to notify you when there are new messages in them. I don'

Re: ayuda

Hay un package para el chip de nvidia en testing. Necesita suplmentar /etc/apt/sources.list con testing y hacer apt-cache search nivida para el nombre del package. Tambien, para mas informacion puede usar esta lista en espanol http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/ On 2001.12.05 18:43 art

Re: woody openssh quandary

Pete Harlan wrote: When you say the work machine has ssh and ssh2 installed, do you mean openssh version 2 and non-free ssh2, or is the ssh something else? In any case, the nonfree ssh2 uses a different format for the dsa keys than the openssh version does, so you can't just blindly copy the ke

Re: Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

* Eric Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi. I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that > messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail > spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out > from the general mail stream. Right now

mozilla/galeon rendering hiccups

Has anyone else noticed strange rendering behavior in mozilla/galeon? I've downloaded nightlies and even they have the same problem: Occasionally, the text will not be alligned with itself, look: http://magnesium.dyndns.org:81/tmp/2001_12_01_180546_shot.jpg and, once you highlight the text, it

Mutt and filtering to multiple mailboxes

Hi. I use Mutt as my mail client. I am trying to set it up so that messages from the lists to which I subscribe get moved from my mail spool file to a specific mailbox for storage after reading, filtered out from the general mail stream. Right now all my mail goes to 'mbox' -- I would like the d

Re: Norton Ghost?

> You know, I wonder if it's a problem with the lilo 'graphical' menu. I > have not tried using the plain ol' LILO: prompt. No such luck. So let's recap the Lilo errors I've had with this dual boot ghost thing: 1. lilo.conf default=windows, first image=linux-2.4.16: LI 40 40 40 40 40 40 2. l

Re: xterm background color

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: > Le 2001.12.04 22:37, Titus Barik a ?crit : > Create or append in your '~/.Xresources' file these lines: > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: wheat Yeah, something like that will change my colors but what I don't understand is why, without

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:33:17AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: | On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, DvB wrote: | > I'm not running galeon, since it's not in woody yet. However, I went to | | It's in unstable (which is Sid, right?). | But it becomes non-US. | BTW, how do you set your sources.list to get non-US debs? |

OT: perl Crypt::IDEA

Sorry for the OT, but I haven't found anything relating to my problem. I'm trying to install the Crypt::IDEA perl module. I've tried it with both perl -MCPAN -e shell and downloading the .tar.gz file. Both end with the following: cc -c -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGE

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, dman wrote: > Yes, and this plugin is part of the 'j2sdk1.3' package available from > the given URL of a blackdown mirror. Would Sun's javaplugin.so work on the latest Galeon? I already have JDK1.3 and have tried to use the plugin for Galeon 0.10.4. Galeon wouldn't start. Now

Re: Galeon and java (was: Re: Anyone successful with Sun's Java 1.3.1_01?)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, DvB wrote: > I'm not running galeon, since it's not in woody yet. However, I went to It's in unstable (which is Sid, right?). But it becomes non-US. BTW, how do you set your sources.list to get non-US debs? "deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian sid non-US" doesn't seem to be wo

ayuda

Hola a todos instale el debian2.2 r0,pero no pude levantar la tarjeta de video que es una gforce con chip de nvidia, lo levante con vga y una tarjeta generica de nvidia , quise hacer una actualizacion con apt-get pero como todo esta en ingles no logre hacerlo, saben ustedes donde puedo bajar un

Re: Norton Ghost?

> I've got a lab of 19 Gateways that are dual-booting between Debian and > W2K. I use Ghost to create them. Generally I use one as a master, push > the image up to a server, then ghost it down to the other machines. Well, I think if it's possible, it's possible. It must be something about eithe

Re: ... new machine to install Linux ...

When I need some new hardware, first I get a quotation from resellers and them I check if linux supports it. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Laurent Fawer wrote: > Hello, > I am interested to buy a new machine to install Linux on it, so my > questions are the next ones: > > - Do you know a reseller wh

Re: ipchains log

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:47:11PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Rebecca Dridan: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just setting up a masquerading firewall and I'm getting some log > > messages > > I don't completely understand like the follwing: > > > > pluto kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROT

Re: Slanderous articles

Dillo wrote: > would you be interested in an article that lists you OS as a program > tooled to hel teens become hackers? Not particularly. It's either meant as humor or just plain stupid. In this case, anyone with half a brain can tell it's a joke. I mean, it lists the following as criteria for

Re: Slanderous articles

Did you even bother to read the article? 90% chance this guy is a troll. 10% chance he's a complete idiot. --kurt On Wednesday 05 December 2001 05:46 pm, Dillo wrote: > would you be interested in an article that lists you OS as a program tooled > to hel teens become hackers? > > http://home.da

Re: Norton Ghost?

Nicole Zimmerman wrote: Anyone used debian with norton ghost? I have a problem with lilo when I create a bootable CD image of a dual boot debian+win2k box. I thought maybe moving around the order of images in the lilo.conf (which ghost attempts to follow) would fix my issues, but apparently not.

Re: ipchains log

Thus spake Rebecca Dridan: > Hi, > > I'm just setting up a masquerading firewall and I'm getting some log messages > I don't completely understand like the follwing: > > pluto kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 210.86.82.93:3 xx.xx.xx.xx:3 > . > > I've found out that that's an ICMP

Slanderous articles

would you be interested in an article that lists you OS as a program tooled to hel teens become hackers?   http://home.dal.net/shrub/Adequacy_org%20%20Is%20Your%20Son%20a%20Computer%20Hacker.htm

Question about bug-tracking

Hello all, Let's say I saw some behavior in one of programs, namely XMMS, and wanted to file a bug. Trying to not overload our hardworking maintainers, I dutifully first checked with bugview xmms to see if someone had already filed a bug on this behavior. It turns out that someone in fact has.

Re: mozilla-cvs

Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > This is the expected behavior of Mozilla nightly CVS builds. If you > don't think it's fun, you'd better stick with release builds. No, most of the time mozilla-cvs works very well. Once in a while it breaks badly. Tonight seems to be one such, so I thought I'd mention

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use). Do you have "floppy" get mentioned in /etc/fstab? Oki

Re: hotplug... before the harddisk remount?

just to update... I can't really get it working and the error happen during boot up only. And the hotplug seems to start right after INIT start, before any fs is mounted. But I check the start level in rc2 is S11hotplug and S04hotplug in rc1. Anyone knows what's happening? Edwin Lau On Wed, Nov

Re: mozilla-cvs

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 17:17, Craig Dickson wrote: > Is anyone else having trouble with today's Sid update of mozilla-cvs (ver. > 20011205)? It crashes a lot for me; I can't load http://www.theonion.com > for example. The 20011130 version works fine. This is the expected

Re: mozilla-cvs

Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone else having trouble with today's Sid update of mozilla-cvs (ver. > 20011205)? It crashes a lot for me; I can't load http://www.theonion.com > for example. The 20011130 version works fine. > Don't use the deb

mozilla-cvs

Is anyone else having trouble with today's Sid update of mozilla-cvs (ver. 20011205)? It crashes a lot for me; I can't load http://www.theonion.com for example. The 20011130 version works fine. Craig

Re: vnc and inetd - I thought I knew what I was doing . . . ;-)

On Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > login. netstat shows xdmcp only listening over udp. > > service1:/home/jvincent# netstat -l | grep xdm > udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* Actually, that is only telling you that *something* is listening on the x

ipchains log

Hi, I'm just setting up a masquerading firewall and I'm getting some log messages I don't completely understand like the follwing: pluto kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth0 PROTO=1 210.86.82.93:3 xx.xx.xx.xx:3 . I've found out that that's an ICMP packet, with type Desination Unreadable and c

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 09:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes , > that are horrendously pathetic . > It is something like this : > You see two hands , you hear some sound , and after > 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ? > > What's going on ? Move

Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

* Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a > message about block-major-8. It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops. You have two options: 1. build a custom kernel with the driver compiled in.

Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

I'm installing Debian from CD-ROM (2.2). The hard disk is a RAID array (Adaptec 2100s). I've the driver for it from adaptec for kernel 2.2.19 (and the CD-ROM has 2.2.18pre21 kernel but the driver seems okay?). During a clean install I need to load the driver from floppy right after the keyboard

Re: Is everyone else seeing duplicates?

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:22:21PM +0100, Krzysztof Mazurczyk wrote: > > Is your mail server protected by netfilter firewall? If so, I'm suppose that > problem of duplicating mail is caused by netfilter. Let's consider following > scenario: Yep, using iptables on 2.4.14 kernel running potato with

Upgrading to XFree 4.x

i realy want to know the best way to upgrade my debian 2.2 r4 (potato) to use XFree 4.x. ...there is no place like ~ --- Américo Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: failure notice

On 2001-12-05T23:15:11 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > #-"From" related > #set alternates="(webmaster|mail)@*.(linuxkafe).(net) > set envelope_from > set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > set hidden_host > set hostname="linuxkafe.net" > set realname="Americo Rocha" > set reverse_name I, for my part, o

Re: incoming.debian.org

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:07:02PM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is there an apt source for incoming.debian.org? > No, It is not intendended to be used that way. It IMO is so u can pull a specific new package that didn't make it into archive yet, but u really need it. So, no apt source.

Fwd: failure notice

hey all mutt .deb, packaged with potato 2.2.r4, acts weird with my ancient .muttrc file I wrote it for the same version packed in debian (1.2.5i) and still, i can't get the From line, working like it used to I used to have something like: From: Américo Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and now i get n

incoming.debian.org

Is there an apt source for incoming.debian.org? -- Baloo

HELP horrible ssh upgrade

ok this is what happenned: ssh'd onto a potato 2.2r4 box I remotely admin, #apt-get update brought down a bunch of security lists so i did this: #apt-get -s dist-upgrade which told me it had to do an ssh upgrade now this was always going to be interesting to do remotely, but I use this servi

Lost My HD!?!?!?!

Hi everyone, I am having some problems with my root partition on my HardDisk. It is on /dev/hda2. When bootting the machine with this HD, a kernel panic occurs with the following error: ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 224633558)! It started

zsh_history mangled on unstable

Often when I restart my machine, I get my .zsh_hostory file truncated and this (garbage) left behind: -rw-r--r--1 eric eric4 Nov 5 17:57 .zsh_history.2628 -rw-r--r--1 eric eric3 Nov 5 17:57 .zsh_history.227 -rw-r--r--1 eric eric3 Nov 2

Re: tape drive problem

What does mt -f /dev/[n]st0 status report? Are you including the -f and specifying the device in your mt commands? -- mt's default device is /dev/tape, from memory, so you'll need to override it (or create a symlink in /dev). HTH, Matt At 08:56 06/12/2001, Richard Weil wrote: Hi -- I can't

Re: qmail-src & DNS

Dragos wrote: have you done it as the user in question, or as a root? (just to be sure, many times I did it as root, and qmail couldn't write to it) good luck dragos Root of course! I got that to work. But I'm slowing slogging my way through the bad log entries and the RTM's. Progr

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Re: Character-mode clock

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:21:31PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a > character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be > used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode

tape drive problem

Hi -- I can't access use my tape drive with the tar or mt programs and could use some help. I'm running a 2.4.12 kernel and using a SCSI Seagate DDS3 tape drive. The drive appears to be recognized fine on bootup (by looking at dmesg) and the relevant modules are loaded -- st and scsi_mod. The pow

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

On Wed Dec 5 13:45:00 2001 Shri Shrikumar wrote... > >On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:19, Stan Brown wrote: >> Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an >> erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which >> I NEVER use). > >Find out if your fl

Where can I find documentation for kdm (2.2.1.0-6) ?

I am trying to find documentation to explain how to enable XDMCP in kdm. Using gdm, I modified gdm.conf and enabled all the correct fields and it worked first time around. Doing the same thing in kdmrc gets me nothing. It doesn't appear to be enabled or there is something else I am missing and I

Re: apt-localpurge

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 12:15 pm, Guy Geens wrote: > I use apt-localepurge on a couple of systems with small hard disks. > Those are server-type machines that don't need any user access > (besides maintenance from a sysadmin). > > Advantage: you win some disk space. > > Disadvantage: it's no

Re: XFree + KDE + USB mouse = APM misbehavior

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:07, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:00, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > I use the following setup: > > > > Laptop computer > > Xfree 4.1.0-9 > > KDE 2.2.2 (from yesterday) > > > > X is configured to use the built-in touchpad as primary mouse > > input

where is alias 'name' for USB controller module?

I want to auto-load the module for the USB contoller (usb-ohci) by its alias in /etc/modules.conf: alias usb-ohci Where do i find the alias 'name' that kmod+modprobe use to look up this feature?

Newbie comments & queries

Hello, all, I am, after all, still alive. I plonked an old internal 14400 modem in and had it working in no time flat. wvdialconf went fine. My wvdial.conf is now like the one that Brenda showed me, and I added in the line about the new PPPD having found from man wvdial that the version was su

Re: XFree + KDE + USB mouse = APM misbehavior

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:07, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:00, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > Under KDE 2.2.2, the box goes into suspend mode if > > > > - I don't use the keyboard and the touchpad but just the USB mouse > > AND > > > > - I only MOVE the USB mouse during th

Re: Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes , > that are horrendously pathetic . > It is something like this : I dont know what you are talking about. I am using xine, (just a bit problem) mplayer (perfect) mtv ; all are very good quality. (shrug) >You s

Re: Kernel lockups - how do I troubleshoot?

You _might_ have a buggy APM BIOS. Try turning on "Allow Interrupts during APM BIOS Calls" in your kernel configuration, under General Setup Nathan On Wednesday 05 December 2001 11:49 am, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > I am running testing / unstable on a dual CPU Tyan Tiger 100 > motherboard wit

Norton Ghost?

Anyone used debian with norton ghost? I have a problem with lilo when I create a bootable CD image of a dual boot debian+win2k box. I thought maybe moving around the order of images in the lilo.conf (which ghost attempts to follow) would fix my issues, but apparently not. I talked to their tech su

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

also sprach Mathias Gygax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.05.1109 -0800]: > > no, not yet. it's on my todo list, but since i am pretty comfortable > > as root and my users are trusted users, it is not prime importance. > > if you have remote daemons, you don't have anything like "trusted > users". ev

Re: apt-localpurge

> "benfoley" == benfoley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: benfoley> under what conditions is it advisable, or not, to run benfoley> apt-localepurge? i've checked the man page but still don't benfoley> get why i should or shouldn't use it. I use apt-localepurge on a couple of systems with small ha

Re: root equivalent user

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:27:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:44:42 -0600, you wrote: | | >On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote: | >>I'm new to Linux and I'd like to know how (if possible) to create a | >> user with uid != 0 but that can do admi

Re: root equivalent user

On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:44:42 -0600, you wrote: >On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote: >>I'm new to Linux and I'd like to know how (if possible) to create a >> user with uid != 0 but that can do administrative tasks (add/delete >> user/groups, change permissions/ownersh

Re: Kernel lockups - how do I troubleshoot?

On 05 Dec 2001, Jor-el wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could either tell me how to or > > >point me to any info which will atleast allow me to gather info on the > > >crash, so that I can post it to

Re: Woody and MS Natural Keyboard

Thanks for your reply, Pressing the numlock key doesn't light any led, but when I set the numlock with the setleds +num command, the keypad works fine under console, but not under X. Under windoze the keyboard works like a charm. I have noticed that in the Mandrake installer one could sel

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

> no, not yet. it's on my todo list, but since i am pretty comfortable > as root and my users are trusted users, it is not prime importance. if you have remote daemons, you don't have anything like "trusted users". every daemon has it's associated UID.

Re: Woody and MS Natural Keyboard

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:21:28PM +0100, Coen De Roover wrote: | Hi, | | I'm using a french azerty M$ Natural keyboard of which all keys work fine | except the numerical keypad. Is there some option to enable it ? What happens when the number pad doesn't work? If you don't have "NumLock" on the

Dual-boot failure with 2.4.8

Hi: I am running both NT4.0 and Linux (Debian Woody). I recently installed the 2.4.8 kernel. Since it ran fine from a floppy, I copied the bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8 Ran lilo dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 mcopy /bootsect.lnx a: Then under NT copied the bootsect

Re: Patititioning hard drive

Paolo Falcone, 2001-Dec-06 02:25 +0800: > > Yes, there are considerable advantages in breaking up your drive into > smaller partitions. One would be relative security of data against > possible file system corruption. Given that the root partition's > filesystem has been corrupted, it is possible

Re: Patititioning hard drive

Paolo Falcone, 2001-Dec-06 02:25 +0800: > > Yes, there are considerable advantages in breaking up your drive into > smaller partitions. One would be relative security of data against > possible file system corruption. Given that the root partition's > filesystem has been corrupted, it is possible

Re: Kernel lockups - how do I troubleshoot?

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could either tell me how to or > >point me to any info which will atleast allow me to gather info on the > >crash, so that I can post it to linux-kernel. > > if it's specifically a ker

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2,4 kernel on 2 machines one at home, and one > at work. > > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use

Re: ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 18:19, Stan Brown wrote: > Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an > erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which > I NEVER use). Find out if your floppy drive is mounted by using just mount or df df woul

Re: Kernel lockups - how do I troubleshoot?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could either tell me how to or >point me to any info which will atleast allow me to gather info on the >crash, so that I can post it to linux-kernel. if it's specifically a kernel crash (as in Oops) you can use'the ksymoops utility fo

ARGH!! Now It's WORSE :-(

I'm runing potato + Progeny + 2,4 kernel on 2 machines one at home, and one at work. Somehow I have installed something on the machine at work that spits out an erro meesgae about every 5 minutes about an I/O error on the floppy (which I NEVER use). I've posted about this twice in the last week

Re: Patititioning hard drive

Cheryl Homiak wrote: >My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have >read all >the information about partitioning. I have decided to make >linux the only OS >on this hard drive. Can somebody who has >experience with this size drive tell >me if there is major advantage >t

Re: XFree + KDE + USB mouse = APM misbehavior

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 11:00, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > > I use the following setup: > > Laptop computer > Xfree 4.1.0-9 > KDE 2.2.2 (from yesterday) > > X is configured to use the built-in touchpad as primary mouse input > device, and an USB mouse as secondary. Works perfect, except for the >

Re: Fwd: beta software in debian releases?

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 09:51 am, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Possibly, if the bugs are deemed important enough (i.e. release > critical). One would hope that's the case with PHP. > Plenty of pre-release software has made it in to stable Debian releases. > Just look at mozilla in potato (m18) o

Re: woody and mozilla 0.9.5

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 02:34, Timo Boewing wrote: > I had similar symptoms with a non-deb mozilla as of version 0.95. I > recommend to install 0.96 (if not available as .deb) from mozilla.org Its in sid -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: connections

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:28:35PM -0200, Michel Loos wrote: > > tcpwrapper only works on inetd activated ports. wu-ftpd runs as a daemon > and is not filtered by tcp-wrapper (same for apache) > That is not entirely true. Any service can be configured with tcp wrappers support. sshd in debian,

Re: Fwd: beta software in debian releases?

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:09:05PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > If I'm reading it correctly, once Woody is frozen, that only means that new > packages (or new major versions of the same package) cannot be added, but > that bugfixes to the existing package can be added. So, with PHP, new RC >

Re: Character-mode clock

George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a > character-mode terminal? M-x display-time. You _are_ running everything in Emacs, right? 8^) Seriously, I seem to recall a few programs that would stuff it in the terminals

Woody and MS Natural Keyboard

Hi, I'm using a french azerty M$ Natural keyboard of which all keys work fine except the numerical keypad. Is there some option to enable it ? Greetings, Coen De Roover

Re: Patititioning hard drive

* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > My new hard drive is a 20gg drive as opposed to my old 2.5gg. I have read > all the information about partitioning. I have decided to make linux the > only OS on this hard drive. Can somebody who has experience with this size > drive tell me if th

Re: global environment variables?

Christian Kesselheim wrote: > Sorry, but i do not aggree with you. /etc/environment is not specific to > the Xsession, but to the PAM-module pam_env; Well, in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome, I find the following: ### Shell environment if [ -f /etc/environment ]; then . /etc/environment

wine and fonts

Hi there, I'm trying to emulate dotComic (from www.marvel.com) and I'm having font problems, they all appear as those funny faces and diamonds and stuff. I'm running an updated sid, and i don't have windows installed. While emulating this wine drops a lot of similar messages to these: fixme:msvcrt

Re: Usenix LISA 2001

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:28:24PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > i'll be the guy with the long hair, black laptop case, and denim jacket. > > Yeah, I'm sure that'll narrow it down. Bwa ha ha ha ha. :-) Mike

vnc and inetd - I thought I knew what I was doing . . . ;-)

Hey all, I have successfully installed vnc as an inetd service on Solaris 8, RedHat 7.1, RedHat 7.1 and Suse 7.0. My latest attempt is on Debian (woody testing) 3.0 using kdm and I am back to the infamous grey screen. I have modified the /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc file and enabled XDMCP and uncommented

Kernel lockups - how do I troubleshoot?

Hi, I am running testing / unstable on a dual CPU Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard with 2.4.15pre1 . My machine has locked up on me twice in the past week leaving no clues in the syslog or anywhere else. At the point where it locked up, the screen was in power saving mode and couldnt be brought

Re: Is LIDS a good idea?

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.05 20:55:40+1000]: > I know that you run some sort of service for multiple users. Have you > done any of this stuff for your servers? Have you installed LIDS also? no, not yet. it's on my todo list, but since i am pretty comfortable as root and my

Re: Gnus and IMAP on Debian?

> "Brian" == Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (imap-stream kerberos4 > ^^^ > Oops, that looks like a typo. That should be > (nnimap-stream kerberos4) That gives me an error. After stripping mos

Re: Character-mode clock

George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GK> Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a GK> character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be GK> used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode. For something quick, che

Re: (Suggestion) A centralized Nameserver for users to use resolv.conf

* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.05 20:53:44+0530]: > Why don't we have a 'centralised' Nameserver , that > will do the IP-to-name-resolution for the browsers > of all the Linux users . would you provide that nameserver, which can handle the load as well as the bandwidth volume?

Movie players in certain Linuxes , O God !

There are certain movie players in certain Linuxes , that are horrendously pathetic . It is something like this : You see two hands , you hear some sound , and after 5 minutes you see Silvester Stalllone ? What's going on ? Regards, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

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