Re: serving the web without a web server

> I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web sites, including > http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and even though I've stopped apache > (apachectl stop), I can still ping the web site: You are confusing network access (ping) with web access (apache). The two are not related. After stopi

Re: regenerating the zsh completion cache

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:09:40PM -0700, Petro wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote: > > Hi, > > If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get > > zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I > > could just start a new s

Burning an jigdo ISO

Last time I downloaded a jigdo ISO, I burned it to a CD, but ended up with a problem during install. The problem being that when the install got to the point for installing modules and drivers, it asked for a specific file, which apparently isn’t a part of the image. So, I used jigdo again to dow

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ATI Radeon 7000

I've now discovered that even in unstable, xfree86 is at version 4.1. I'm looking to use 4.2 because, stupidly, I bought an ATI radeon 7000. According to Xfree86, it's supported. However, I was unable to get it recognized. So, my questions are 1. Has anyone had success with an ATI radeon 7000 card

Re: regenerating the zsh completion cache

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:09:40PM -0700, Petro wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote: > > Hi, > > If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get > > zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I > > could just start a new s

Re: Problem with sending usenet items with emacs gnus

Em Ter, 2002-05-21 às 12:23, Carl Weidling escreveu: > > I purchased a Debian Woody (Unofficial) distro from Edmunds Enterprises > and installed it. It seems OK except I'm having a lot of trouble with > default configurations for communicating with the outside world. I've > already posted some q

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

Tom Massey said: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:15:29PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> I get this: >> >> Get:1 http://http.demudi.org woody/local bcast 2000c-1 [3373kB] >> Fetched 3373kB in 37s (90.1kB/s) >> Selecting previously deselected package bcast. >> (Reading database ... 82734 files and dir

reconfigure af all packages

hi all, friend of mine wanted to install debian by him self. he managed pretty well installation process, but the bigger trable was to select packages he wanted. (i have to notice, it was instalation over pppd). because of the all downloading and so on, i was part of the process too, but i would

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:15:29PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > I get this: > > Get:1 http://http.demudi.org woody/local bcast 2000c-1 [3373kB] > Fetched 3373kB in 37s (90.1kB/s) > Selecting previously deselected package bcast. > (Reading database ... 82734 files and directories currently instal

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:37:27PM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > > Actually, I'm thninking that's serious overkill for what I want. Isn't it > > the grand swiss army knife, scheduler, email client, tea maker :-) > > > > I'm looking for a simply little schedule keeper. > > Well, if you're looking

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

I get this: Get:1 http://http.demudi.org woody/local bcast 2000c-1 [3373kB] Fetched 3373kB in 37s (90.1kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package bcast. (Reading database ... 82734 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking bcast (from .../bcast_2000c-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error proc

potato -> sid

Hello all, Yes, I know it's foolish to go from Potato to Sid in a single bound, but hey. I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then waited. After downloading apt freaked out (I can't remember at which poin

Re: Using pinning with apt-get

Thanks very much. All seemed to work, but I've now discovered that even in unstable, xfree86 is at version 4.1. I'm looking to use 4.2 because, stupidly, I bought an ATI radeon 7000. According to Xfree86, it's supported. However, I was unable to get it recognized. So, my questions are 1. Has anyo

Woody install infinite loop seems fixed...

For those who like me were getting stuck on the woody install infinite loop problem (at the point where you specify your timezone, then create a root password and user accounts): I d/l'd a new woody CD #1 iso (via jigdo) over the w/e, and just tried it and the bug is now fixed. I guess the bork

Re: Using pinning with apt-get

On Tue, 21 May 2002 19:55:07 -0600 "user list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to have apt-get pull down only xfree-86 from unstable onto > what is now a purely testing machine. Does anyone know how to do this? Add the unstable references to your sources.list. Then in "/etc/apt/apt.con

Re: apt-get sources

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, user list wrote: > Is the debian ftp site also a round-robin of all the ftp mirrors? It *should* be, but it's better to use apt-spy to find the fastest for you. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (

Re: ssh-agent hangs startx

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:26:26PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > > When I start X with ssh-agent (i.e. "ssh-agent startx"), X hangs. I put > "xterm" on the first line of my .xinitrc and that won't even come up. > The cross-hatched X background comes up, but nothing else. If I run it

Using pinning with apt-get

I would like to have apt-get pull down only xfree-86 from unstable onto what is now a purely testing machine. Does anyone know how to do this? Art edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > You do have a valid point, but a statically linked root shell will > not > > > always work. At lea

unmounting device after playing movie with xine

Whenever I play a (divx) movie off a partition or CD with xine, I am unable to umount the device when I am done. The attempt always fails with a 'device is busy' error message. 'fuser -mv ' doesn't report that anything is using any of the files on the partition, and if I log out of X and log

Re: apt-get sources

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:08:24PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 08-May-2002 Rick Weinbender wrote: > > Hi, > > I fairly new to Debian Linux and was wondering if > > any of you have some alternative apt-get sources > > for running 'apt-get upgrade'. > > I'm running stable version 2.2 r3

Re: serving the web without a web server

Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just tried it with lynx and things are as they should be (as it > doesn't use ntl) - nothing there! > > Guess I'll get on to ntl tomorrow and see what they have to say. IIRC, ntl do transparent caching of http traffic. -- Keith Willoughby "Fans

who can list the contents of the boot cdrom?

When I installed the base file system,I make an image of basedebs.tar.But after the basedebs.tar had been extracted ,it said "/dists/woody/Release was not pre-downloaded".I have downloaded the Release where shall I put the Release? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ext3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > 1) How do I change the ext3 file system to ext2 without wiping out the data > so woody can access the files? Remount as ext2. ext3 is backwards compatible. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: dialup server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Henning, Brian wrote: > I am trying to set up a dial up server with mgetty so friends can log in to > my computer over ppp. PPP howto covers this. - -- Baloo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 May 2002, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Its funny... I am not able to connect to www.nvidia.com from my linux box. I > tried several browsers (konqy, netscape, lynx). Everytime i get a serer > timeout error. > I have on the same machine win2k

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 May 2002, Peter Corlett wrote: > It seems that the only merit sash has is that it is statically linked. I > find it to be a horrible shell otherwise, and I'd rather not have that as > the default root shell on my boxes. So if you can't use the

Re: What package contains gnomecal?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:49:59PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:46:29PM -0400, stan wrote: > > I tried apt-cache search gnomecal, but came up dry. > > > > I have it installed on one machine, so I know it's out there, but where? > > gnome-pim > > Which you could al

Re: ppp gui package?

James Cameron writes: > Debian packages preferred. I've had a quick look at gkdial, and it might > be useful. Any other packages? Gpppon is a GUI wrapper for pon and poff, and pppconfig can use kdialog, gdialog, and xdialog (it doesn't use them by default because I've not found them to be stable

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > You do have a valid point, but a statically linked root shell will not > > always work. At least you shouldn't rely on it being sufficient... > > You don't rely

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 19:55:53 -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Because you probably did not install from cdrom, so the link never got > set up. This is true, but why is the link set up only when installing from cdrom? The /etc/fstab file contains a /dev/cdrom line and there is a /dev/hdc file, so

Re: ext3 problems

"Glen" == Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Glen> I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on Glen> it. I'd like to then be able to access the existing files Glen> on the original hard drive from Woody. But they're Glen> formatted ext3. Is there a wa

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

"Vincent" == Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vincent> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 14:22:33 -0400, Robert_L wrote: >> /dev/cdrom here is a link to /dev/hdc (which is the actual >> device file) Vincent> BTW, I had to add the link manually. Why isn't there a Vincent>

locking your screen..

Title: locking your screen.. Hi all, Using Debian for Sparc, I've been having problems with XScreenSaver, it seems to crash periodically. Is there any other app out there I can use to lock my screen (password it for when I leave my desk)  ? Thanks  :) -- Ross.

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:46:56PM -0400, stan wrote: > Anyone know where i can get this? Add: deb http://http.demudi.org/debian woody local main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update, apt-get install bcast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

Colin Watson wrote: > No, no, no. American beer is American beer. Come to England and try a > decent bitter or ale sometime ... There are hundreds of excellent American beers and ales. Don' be distracted by the mediocre rice wines produced by Budweiser and its imitators. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PR

ppp gui package?

Summary: anyone know of a PPP GUI based on GTK+? G'day, As part of the PPTP Client project, I would like to build or adapt a GUI to make PPTP connections. To make a connection, pppd is started with a particular set of options. I'm looking for Glade or GTK+ based GUI package that provides simila

Gnome 2 download

What components do I need to download from Debian Experimental for Gnome 2? Is it necessary to have an earlier version of Gnome installed, or can a fresh installation be done from Experimental directly? Regards, Mikhail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:26:31AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:06PM -0700, Petro wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:34:20PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > > [1] There's a difference between American beer and Oregonian beer, > > > though, Widmer Brothers and

Re: Recommended tape backup software

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:49:47PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On 21 May 2002 14:31:02 -0500 > "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we're well past the point where we must agree to > > disagree about the best way to back up enterprise databases. > Agreed. Now, would it be poss

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk - raided

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:04:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya petro Morning. > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > --- if the disks is raid5'd ...

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:45 pm, Petro wrote: > I'm having trouble with Wife 1.0, I really don't want to upgrade, > as it's an emotionally problematic, and somewhat expensive a process, > but doing the the weekly floral update isn't quite working as well as > it used to. > > An

jigdo image doesn't install

About a month ago I created a CD image for a 2.4.x kernel installation, which image I created using jigdo. When I attempted to do an installation from the CD, which started out fine, I reached a point where it was going to “install modules and drivers,” and it asked me for access to a nece

Re: regenerating the zsh completion cache

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote: > Hi, > If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get > zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I > could just start a new shell, but that's too easy. > Here is the completions part of my .

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:51:08PM -0700, Tom Cook wrote: > On 0, Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not > > > have to make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled. > > True, but I really can't see any harm in

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:58:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: > > This is something that has been bothering me for a while now. > > See, you guys who put these distributions together are pretty > > bright. It takes a lot of

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 17:18:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> After reading this thread, I decided to install sash. > > I did that too. Is there a reason why it isn't installed by defa

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's > > installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as > > roots default shell? > because the days of static bins are long passed.

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's > > installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as > > roots default shell? > > > > because the days of static bins are l

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Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: > It seems that the only merit sash has is that it is statically linked. I > find it to be a horrible shell otherwise, and I'd rather not have that as > the default root shell on my boxes. > > I'm not sure you gain much by being able t

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On 0, Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not > > have to make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled. > > True, but I really can't see any harm in making root's shell a > statically-linked binary, myself. Aft

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:44:53PM -0700, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.21.2228 +0200]: > > > This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) > > > enabled. > > > > > > You can disable it using: > > > > > > echo "0" > /proc/sys/n

Re: Emacs and shell variables

On 0, Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felix Natter wrote: > > Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > When using Emacs to start a compilation (e.g. with C-c C-c from C++ > > > mode) you get "make -k" as default. The problem I'm experiencing > > > is, that I need some shell va

ssh-agent hangs startx

Hello, When I start X with ssh-agent (i.e. "ssh-agent startx"), X hangs. I put "xterm" on the first line of my .xinitrc and that won't even come up. The cross-hatched X background comes up, but nothing else. If I run it withouth ssh-agent, everything runs fine. Ssh-agent was working fine up

email...qmail

If I am going to run qmail under inetd, do I need ucspi-tcp-src? Also, I noticed that exim as configured in Debian by default, has a daemon mode that periodically does retries. How is this done if exim only starts from an inetd connection? Can I do something similar for qmail? -- To UNSUBS

Re: Bradcast2000 for Woody?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:46:56PM -0400, stan wrote: > Anyone know where i can get this? Usually, you can try http://packages.debian.org/ and if that doesn't help, http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp See http://bugs.debian.org/78209 about Broadcast2000. J. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: controller

> > How can i create a disk with my scsi controller module, for > instalation??? > I want install the Debian 3.0, and i need to load the right module, to > my kernel works. How can i do that? > > Thanks > It is my understanding that you are asking how to tell the boot disk of Debian 3.0 h

Re: serving the web without a web server

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:41:09PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > > > > --- Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Jamin W. > > > Collins wrote: > > > > On Tue, 21 May 20

Re: What package contains gnomecal?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:46:29PM -0400, stan wrote: > I tried apt-cache search gnomecal, but came up dry. > > I have it installed on one machine, so I know it's out there, but where? gnome-pim Which you could also have found out by running: $ dpkg --search gnomecal on the machine where i

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:58:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: > > This is something that has been bothering me for a while now. > > See, you guys who put these distributions together are pretty > bright. It takes a lot of work, and I see a lot of the discussions > that go in to figuring

Re: serving the web without a web server

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Charles Baker wrote: > > --- Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Jamin W. > > Collins wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:18 +0100 > > > "Keith Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

regenerating the zsh completion cache

Hi, If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I could just start a new shell, but that's too easy. Here is the completions part of my .zshrc: # The following lines were added by compinstall zstyle ':co

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 17:18:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> After reading this thread, I decided to install sash. > I did that too. Is there a reason why it isn't installed by default? It seems that the only merit sash has is that it is statically li

Bradcast2000 for Woody?

Anyone know where i can get this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

What package contains gnomecal?

I tried apt-cache search gnomecal, but came up dry. I have it installed on one machine, so I know it's out there, but where? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Frankli

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 17:18:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > After reading this thread, I decided to install sash. I did that too. Is there a reason why it isn't installed by default? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC,

Re: serving the web without a web server

--- Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Jamin W. > Collins wrote: > > On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:18 +0100 > > "Keith Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have something bizarre happening: I serve > some web sites, including > > > h

Re: serving the web without a web server

On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:22:20 +0100 "Keith Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ofcourse - doh! Thanks. However, the site is still accessible through > a browser, despite hard refreshes. The site's not coming up at this end. -- Jamin W. Collins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: serving the web without a web server

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:18 +0100 > "Keith Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web sites, including > > http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and even though I've stopped apa

Re: serving the web without a web server

--- Keith Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web > sites, including http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and > even though I've stopped apache (apachectl stop), I > can still ping the web site: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.dynamiccompan

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 17:02, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not have > > to > > make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled. > > But we make the decision

Re: serving the web without a web server

On Tue, 21 May 2002 23:05:18 +0100 "Keith Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web sites, including > http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and even though I've stopped apache > (apachectl stop), I can still ping the web site: Apache has nothing to do

Re: serving the web without a web server

Just because you can ping the address, it doens't mean the website is still working. All ping does is affirm that your local box can contact and communicate with the remote box; it has nothing to do with www. On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:05:18PM +0100, Keith Robinson wrote: > Hi, > > I have someth

serving the web without a web server

Hi, I have something bizarre happening: I serve some web sites, including http://www.dynamiccompany.co.uk and even though I've stopped apache (apachectl stop), I can still ping the web site: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.dynamiccompany.co.uk PING dynamiccompany.co.uk (213.131.168.136): 56 data

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not have to > make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled. But we make the decision to include a dynamically linked shell as root's login shell, whic

Re: ext3

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 16:44, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: [snip] > The Red Hat installation is currently running kernel 2.4.18-3 with an > ext3 file system. Woody runs a 2.2 kernel, which isn't ext3 compatable. See below. > 1) How do I change the ext3 file system to ext2 without wiping out the data

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

Lo, on Tuesday, May 21, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry did write: Where's the attribution? Who was the OP? > > Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's > > installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as > > roots default shell? > because the days of

ext3

I'd like to begin the process of moving my Red Hat server over to Debian. I'm not sure how to procede. Right now RH is installed on hda. I just picked up another hard drive that I'm going to install on hdb, on which I'll put woody. The Red Hat installation is currently running kernel 2.4.18-

Re: Connectix Virtual PC and the Tulip driver.

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:10:26PM -0500, David Batey wrote: > Hello > I am trying to run Potato on my Win98se machine using Connectix Virtual PC > and everything is working even X with one major exception. My network > connection is not. > > Virtual PC uses emulated hardware. > s3 trio 32/64 4m

Re: Where's the POP3 package?

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:38:34AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On Sun, 19 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > Is there a way that I can search packages for a file using apt and a regexp? > dselect has a search feature. dselect is easier

RE:ext3 problems

You can also use one of the kernels from testing or unstable, which can mount ext3 partitions. I believe there are also 2.4 kernels for potato, but don't know exactly where they are--your trusty internet connection to google can find them, I'm sure. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Connectix Virtual PC and the Tulip driver.

Hello I am trying to run Potato on my Win98se machine using Connectix Virtual PC and everything is working even X with one major exception. My network connection is not.   Virtual PC uses emulated hardware. s3 trio 32/64 4m video sb16 sound DEC 21041 network card (supposedly at IRQ 1 but con

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

> > This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) > > enabled. ... > Whats that? ECN? Yes. Either I misunderstood your question or you didn't read my message :) Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 14:22:33 -0400, Robert_L wrote: > /dev/cdrom here is a link to /dev/hdc (which is the actual device file) BTW, I had to add the link manually. Why isn't there a link by default? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: - 100% validated (X)HTM

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

also sprach Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.21.2228 +0200]: > > This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) > > enabled. > > > > You can disable it using: > > > > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > > > Andrew. > > Whats that? ECN? do you know about google

Re: ext3 problems

also sprach Glen Lee Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.05.21.2219 +0200]: > My Red Hat server crashed when I attempted to upgrade it to 7.3. > Unfortunately this is the box I use to host a couple hundred web sites. > > I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on it. I'd like to >

Re: ext3 problems

First, please don't start a new unrelated thread by replying to existing thread. On Tue, 21 May 2002 15:19:37 -0500 (CDT) "Glen Lee Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on it. I'd like > to then be able to access the existing files on the o

Seeking for root

Hi, Someone reported a bug about Sympa (#147370) with the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I'm not surprised I can't reach him :-) Mister root, If you hear me, please contact me with a real address so I can get more info about the bug. Thanks in advance. Regards, -

Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

> > Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's > installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as > roots default shell? > because the days of static bins are long passed. if *you* want this, Debian makes it even easier. apt-get install sash

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 22:02, Andrew Agno wrote: > This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) > enabled. > > You can disable it using: > > echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > Andrew. Whats that? ECN? -- Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Annoyed about M$ Windows? D

ext3 problems

HELP! My Red Hat server crashed when I attempted to upgrade it to 7.3. Unfortunately this is the box I use to host a couple hundred web sites. I'm going to install a second hard drive and put Woody on it. I'd like to then be able to access the existing files on the original hard drive from Woo

Re: Emacs and shell variables

Stefan Bellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The variables *are* already in ~/.bashrc (and they're exported there). > But Emacs only knows about them if I start Emacs from a bash. If I > however use a function key I have defined with fvwm, then Emacs doesn't > start with the shell as parent and the

Re: Root SSH permitted by default (was: how does root run a graphical prog)

On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:50:57 +0100 "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody who's allowed to run processes as you can, e.g., hijack your X > display and install a keystroke logger. Correct. However, this is still an extra step for the would-be cracker. Security is all about layering

RE:Not able to connect to nvidia.com

This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) enabled. You can disable it using: echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eject command fails on cdrom

Riaan Rottier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > When I try to eject a cd using the eject command, the system returns the > error: > > eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > It used to work a few months back and I updated some packages since then > but I made no ot

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:47, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > Its funny... I am not able to connect to www.nvidia.com from my linux box. I > tried several browsers (konqy, netscape, lynx). Everytime i get a serer > timeout error. > I have on the same machine win2k installed from where i am pref

Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.

This is something that has been bothering me for a while now. See, you guys who put these distributions together are pretty bright. It takes a lot of work, and I see a lot of the discussions that go in to figuring out all the nit-picky little details that give polish to a dis

isdn (ipppd)

Hi! I'm fighting with the problem that ipppd doesn't connect correctly to my ISP. It dials, connects, but also disconnects immediately after that. So I had a look at /var/log/isdn/isdnlog and noticed that ipppd calls the wrong number. Instead of just calling REMOTEMSN, it always calls:

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