Samba problems.

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Dresser
Any work arounds for the problems with smbmount and smbtar both missing files when you backup? //dumbo/cds 25213952 7384064 17829888 30% /cdrom twiki:/cdrom# ls -alR | wc -l 70099 twiki:/cdrom# ls -alR | wc -l 70094 twiki:/cdrom# ls -alR | wc -l 70098 twiki:/cdrom# ls -alR |

Re: Samba problems.

2002-09-05 Thread R. Bradley Tilley (Brad)
AMANDA uses smbclient. In my experience with smbclient and AMANDA, it has never behaved in the manner that you describe smbmount and smbtar. Try using smbclient. Mike Dresser wrote: Any work arounds for the problems with smbmount and smbtar both missing files when you backup? //dumbo/cds

Re: Samba problems.

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, R. Bradley Tilley (Brad) wrote: AMANDA uses smbclient. In my experience with smbclient and AMANDA, it has never behaved in the manner that you describe smbmount and smbtar. Try using smbclient. smbtar merely calls smbclient though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: SPICE building custom package hangs

2002-09-05 Thread Titus Barik
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:28:30PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: And then dpkg-buildpackage hangs. It will not say anything past the dh_installmanpages line. Any ideas? I gave up and manually modified the rules file to skip this step. The package now builds, less a few man pages. This is

problems with manpages

2002-09-05 Thread Deedra Waters
Please respond directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this list at the present time. I just reinstalled debian, and I keep getting errors similar to this in my manpages. It's not in all of them, just certain ones. This is the error. man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/irssi.1.gz is a dangling

Re: Console output

2002-09-05 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:10:42PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: This is a really basic question. Why does only part of the console output on boot go into the /var/log/dmesg file? /var/log/dmesg is a dump of the kernel's message buffer taken shortly after boot. It allows you to easily get

More samba questions

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Dresser
While I'm at it, any hints on optimizing samba a bit better for speed? A win95/98/NT machine averages about 1500 kps here. The w2k machine averages around 2500-3000 kps. I've done 8000 kps ftp's to the machine before. So just which side is so grossly inefficient? And how do i tune that

Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread h
Hi, I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system there is no /usr/src/linux Is there a package I should install Regards Hendrik-Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:28:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system there is no /usr/src/linux Is there a package I should install Install a kernel-source package for the kernel version you wish, then untar it and create a symbolic

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread jeff
Hi, I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system there is no /usr/src/linux that makes you stupid? in that case, i am tooLOL Is there a package I should install it sounds like you're looking for the kernel package... try apt-cache search kernel-source and see what you come up with

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-05 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:35:19PM +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote: hi, Adam Galant wrote on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:31:29AM +0200: adam I'm not sure this is what you need (I didn't follow the thread from the adam beginning), but you can edit your /etc/inittab and change action on adam

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system there is no /usr/src/linux Is there a package I should install Regards Hendrik-Jan /usr/src/linux is usually a symlink to the actual kernel-source directory, something like: lrwxrwxrwx1 root src

Re: ETH0 not recognized

2002-09-05 Thread Mike Egglestone
Sounds like your kernel isn't loading the module for your nic or something. I'm not a kernel expert so I can't help much. Perhaps run modconf to select the module for your nic. You may want to upgrade to a 2.4.x kernel too. Cheers, Mike Quoting DSC@Siltec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mike Egglestone

leafnode cannot find hostname on debian woody

2002-09-05 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi all, leafnode on my Debain woody system cannot find or get my hostname to set it in the messageid. It always returns the loppback address 127.0.0.1. From where is getting leafnode the hostname (except from /etc/leafnode/config). Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit -- To

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:08:59AM +0200, Joris wrote: for compiling your own kernel, i suggest 'the debian way' (tm) (as root) # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18 kernel-package fakeroot (now login as normal user, after adding him to group 'src' by doing something like `adduser hjan

Re: leafnode cannot find hostname on debian woody

2002-09-05 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:33:20AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: leafnode on my Debain woody system cannot find or get my hostname to set it in the messageid. It always returns the loppback address 127.0.0.1. From where is getting leafnode the

How to make kernel-modules-version.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets created. How do I create the modules deb file? On a related note, does the kernel

Re: How to make kernel-modules-version.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets created. How do I create the modules deb file?

Re: problems with manpages

2002-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:19:02PM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: Please respond directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this list at the present time. I just reinstalled debian, and I keep getting errors similar to this in my manpages. It's not in all of them, just certain ones. This is the

Re: PCMCIA ethernet and Woody with 2.4.x kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Pat Colbeck wrote: Hi It seems that with 2.4.x kernels the way PCMCIA is handled has changed. I have managed to get my Xircom Realport card to work with the 2.4.18 kernel that comes with Woody after much loading and unloading of modules and starting and stopping of

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

2002-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:50:04AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: Why would one want to use fakeroot? I don't have that package installed and have not used it for building kernels. fakeroot allows you to easily build .debs (and other kinds of archives) containing files owned by root. There are

Re: How to make kernel-modules-version.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Eric Richardson
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets created. How do I create

Re: viewing gzipped files inline with less (was Re: FW: kernelsource patching)

2002-09-05 Thread Russell
Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: Vineet Kumar wrote: * Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]: Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz text files without having to first unzip them. less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the

How to clone/copy SanDisk 1.2G flash disk as soon as it is inserted?

2002-09-05 Thread Brian T. Hutchinson
Hi, We are using this card in manufacturing a product. Currently, the card is used by an embedded application and the information on the card is setup by the embedded hardware during the manufacturing process. We would like to take a flashdisk that has already been setup by the hardware,

Re: Root

2002-09-05 Thread Russell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i try to install debian i use the linux kernel. then it gets all the info on my computer then i pops up saying kernal panic can't mount the kernal on 3a:05. is their a different way to install debian to avoid this? i partioned it with f-disk into three partions

Re: How to make kernel-modules-version.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Hubert Chan
Eric == Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric Hi, I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a Eric custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the Eric modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no Eric deb file gets created. How do I

Re: How to make kernel-modules-version.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

2002-09-05 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Peter Christensen wrote: Don, I don't have an ethernet card or LAN, but I did notice that if I shut down Linux and then start up again, I get a message saying: wwwoffle in autodial mode also: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) The default route: debian:/home/peter#

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

2002-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Peter Christensen writes: I don't have an ethernet card or LAN,... You've got diald installed but not configured. It has set up an ethertap pseudo device and made it your default route. All your packets are going to diald, which doesn't know what to do with them. Either configure diald or

Re: Problems with esd in Woody?

2002-09-05 Thread Paul Smith
%% Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kej Have you told Realplayer to use ESD as output? If not, then kej Realplayer and esd will be fighting over the device files... IIRC kej esd will use a timeout, where it will close the sound device if kej there is not sound activity after

USB gamepads

2002-09-05 Thread Robin
I was wondering how I'd go about setting up a gravis gamepad to work with snes9x or xmame (or for controlling the cursor on screen...) the device is recognized and all, the following is the kern.log messages when disconnecting/reconnecting the pad: -- Sep 5 21:16:02 helios kernel: usb.c: USB

are we going to have a Y2.1K problem like Y2K?

2002-09-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ touch -t 2000 a $ touch -t 2011 a $ touch -t 2111 a touch: invalid date format `2111' Oh great, can't deal with dates in the next century. Hope this isn't a deep routed problem for all of Unix or something. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To

how long does stuff in /var/tmp stick around?

2002-09-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
I know that stuff in /tmp sticks around until the next of my daily power-ups, but what about /var/tmp for the default woody configuration? Seems like months, but I'd like to know if there's some cleaner program that is going to come along every 1/2 a year etc. when I least expect it. --

Boot Disk Issues Newbie need Help

2002-09-05 Thread fbrian
Hi: I made a boot floppy by #cp /vmlinuz /dev/fd0 My current vmlinuz is a 2.4.18 kernel that boots fine from the HD. While the floppy is being read I begin seeing this error messages 0424 AX:0212 BX:7400 CX:5001 DX: these repeat until I ctrl alt del I have used several different

Re: how long does stuff in /var/tmp stick around?

2002-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:44, Dan Jacobson wrote: I know that stuff in /tmp sticks around until the next of my daily power-ups, but what about /var/tmp for the default woody configuration? Seems like months, but I'd like to know if there's some cleaner program that is going to come

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Re: are we going to have a Y2.1K problem like Y2K?

2002-09-05 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6 Sep 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote: $ touch -t 2000 a $ touch -t 2011 a $ touch -t 2111 a touch: invalid date format `2111' Oh great, can't deal with dates in the next century. Hope this isn't a deep routed problem for all of Unix or something. 2038 is

Re: are we going to have a Y2.1K problem like Y2K?

2002-09-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Patrick Wiseman wrote: 2038 is when our dates run out: Right, because the standard Unix time value is a signed 32-bit number of seconds from January 1, 1970. Thus, 2^31-1 seconds, which is about 68 years. # touch -t 2037 a # touch -t 2038 a touch: invalid date format

Re: are we going to have a Y2.1K problem like Y2K?

2002-09-05 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:30:23PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On 6 Sep 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote: $ touch -t 2000 a $ touch -t 2011 a $ touch -t 2111 a touch: invalid date format `2111' Oh great, can't deal with dates in the next century. Hope

Re: Most stable MSN and ICQ support?

2002-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 06:36:43PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I want to find a stable MSN and ICQ client but don't know which one is. I know that icq changes its protocol a while ago. Don't know if any client support it. Are Gaim and Gabber ok? Thanx AFAIK,

Re: PPP Internet Connection Not Working

2002-09-05 Thread Peter Christensen
Don and John, Thanks for the info! I used dpkg to purge diald and wwwoffle. Now I don't get that default route 0.0.0.0, so PON connects without a problem. Thanks, Peter Christensen On Thursday 05 September 2002 08:38 pm, Donald R. Spoon wrote: You can safely remove diald with apt-get

How to know the configuration of kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Jsahambi
Is there any method to know what modules are compiled into the kernel on the Debian machine. I can reframe the question: If I install the kernel-sourse and run make xconfig, how do i load the configuration of the existing kernel, so that I can know what modules are compiled into the kernel and

Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Jsahambi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any method to know what modules are compiled into the kernel on the Debian machine. I can reframe the question: If I install the kernel-sourse and run make xconfig, how do i load the configuration of the existing kernel, so that I can know

Mutt's reply-all

2002-09-05 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, How do you do reply-all in Mutt? TIA, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt's reply-all

2002-09-05 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do you do reply-all in Mutt? In my mutt it is bound to 'g', which I believe is the default. Stands for 'reply Group'. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide

Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-05 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
Hi, I've heard people can write some scripts and put it in a cron job that do a dist-upgrade on their system then send what've been upgraded to their emails. Can someone share how they did it ? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
And to know what modules are compiled at the moment, simply run # modprobe -l But it only gives you the modules, not the drivers that are compiled IN the kernel... uickly, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg00966/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Worried about Exim, my mail is dissappearing?

2002-09-05 Thread Lucas Barbuto
And the $64M prize goes to... On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:34:04AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: qk.com.au has 2 MXes with the same priority: $ host -t mx qk.com.au qk.com.au MX 10 qk.com.au. qk.com.au MX 10 mail.qk.com.au. They are different

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

2002-09-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Can someone share how they did it ? $ man crontab apt-get thanks It was a pleasure... le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg00969/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: are we going to have a Y2.1K problem like Y2K?

2002-09-05 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On 05 Sep 2002, 19:39:22, Craig Dickson wrote: 2038 is when our dates run out: Right, because the standard Unix time value is a signed 32-bit number of seconds from January 1, 1970. Thus, 2^31-1 seconds, which is about 68 years. Sure, if we switch to a 64-bit time value, then we'll have

Re: XFree and Matrox G550 -- HELP! -- SOLVED!

2002-09-05 Thread Chuck Percy
My thanks to François, Robert, Balazs and the others who have written. I have gotten the Xserver working, and now I just need to complete the monitor configurations. Hopefully I won't need any more assistance. Chuck Percy n7fz-at-arrl-dot-net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: starting eth1 up on boot ?

2002-09-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
What's the process in Debian to add a service like this ? # apt-get install etherconf You'll modify the network interfaces by simply running : # dpkg-reconfigure etherconf To know what it does : $ man interfaces ifup If you have your network card driver as a module : $ man modules

Re: leafnode cannot find hostname on debian woody

2002-09-05 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, leafnode tries to lookup the hostname in /etc/hosts ... my hostname is me.foo.bar - a valid FQDN. But leafnode always returns 127.0.0.1 when generating the second part of my message-id. So I have to set the hostname in /etc/leafnode/config. Is this a bug and what can I do? Thanx for your

Re: How to make kernel-modules-version.deb?

2002-09-05 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, I've been able to to use make-kpkg kernel-image to create a custom kernel .deb file from a kernel source package. All the modules are compiled and I tried make-kpkg modules-image but no deb file gets created. How do I create the modules deb

Re: are we going to have a Y2.1K problem like Y2K?

2002-09-05 Thread David Zelinsky
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ touch -t 2000 a $ touch -t 2011 a $ touch -t 2111 a touch: invalid date format `2111' Oh great, can't deal with dates in the next century. Hope this isn't a deep routed problem for all of Unix or something. Unix

Re: tomcat4 dependencies

2002-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:39:58PM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: Is there anyone to satisfy the dependencies for tomcat4? None of the packages it requests seem to exist, and i already have various JDK's installed and setup. Which ones can't you find? I've got tomcat4 installed just fine with

Re: New Debian user here

2002-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
Have a look at GNU Stow (apt-get install stow). It lets you install locally compiled stuff into /usr/local/stow/package-name and builds symlink farms in /usr/local/ for you. To remove something from /usr/local/, just run stow -D /usr/local/stow/whatever and delete the dir you put it in. -rob

OT: eDonkey2000 GUI now opensource

2002-09-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Hi, Just saw that the excellent eDonkey2000 GUI has now been opensourced. Its a great GUI for what seems to be the only half decent p2p file sharing app for linux (yes I know about gnutella, no it isn't good). So anyone want to make a .deb? :) I guess I'll give it a try myself otherwise.

Re: OT: eDonkey2000 GUI now opensource

2002-09-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
Leo Spalteholz wrote: Hi, Just saw that the excellent eDonkey2000 GUI has now been opensourced. Its a great GUI for what seems to be the only half decent p2p file sharing app for linux (yes I know about gnutella, no it isn't good). So anyone want to make a .deb? :) I guess I'll give it

Re: starting eth1 up on boot ?

2002-09-05 Thread W.D.McKinney
On (06/09/02 06:41), Pierre THIERRY wrote: What's the process in Debian to add a service like this ? # apt-get install etherconf You'll modify the network interfaces by simply running : # dpkg-reconfigure etherconf To know what it does : $ man interfaces ifup If you have your

Re: shutdown without waking up the monitor

2002-09-05 Thread Suraj Kumar
hi, Geoff Crompton wrote on Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:25:58AM +1000: geoff like at instances where we are maintaining boxen through networks, it geoff just helps when there isn't costly apparels. geoff /ot geoff What about running powerd, and having some sort of very simple switch geoff

Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

2002-09-05 Thread Oki DZ
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:53:37AM +0530, Jsahambi wrote: I can reframe the question: If I install the kernel-sourse and run make xconfig, how do i load the configuration of the existing kernel, so that I can know what modules are compiled into the kernel and baased on that I can add more if

Weird fluxbox menus

2002-09-05 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I'm having a weird problem w/ fluxbox. For some reason the menus (and all submenus) have a blank separator, and the an 'exit' item (that exits the WM), I tried the menus in blackbox and they are fine. does anyone know what is wrong w/ flux, or how i could fix this? Thanks, Cameron

Re: Weird fluxbox menus

2002-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 05 September 2002 23:09, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I'm having a weird problem w/ fluxbox. For some reason the menus (and all submenus) have a blank separator, and the an 'exit' item (that exits the WM), I tried the menus in blackbox and they are fine. does anyone know what

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