Re: Problems with Install of Woody from CD (and Network)

2002-12-24 Thread Jeff
Hal Vaughan, 2002-Dec-24 23:06 -0500: > 1) Not once was I able to do a complete install. Even when I was ONLY > installing the base system, I always got messages that not all packages > could be installed. Even if I went back and re-selected packages, I still > had this problem. This happened

updating to GUI

2002-12-24 Thread Bear
I finally got the CD burned right and loaded the system. WOW only a days work, anyways I would like to avoid reloading everything and just add new components, is there an easy way of doing this?   [EMAIL PROTECTED]    

Re: Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-24 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 03:53, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Aryan" == Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aryan> Hi all: I have a Cannon PowerShot A40 Cammera, which (after > Aryan> upgrading gphoto and gtkam), works perfectly well with Mandrake > Aryan> 9.0, but isn't working with Deb

Re: New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse (solved)

2002-12-24 Thread Adam
I have fixed the problem. In the following section: Section "Device" Identifier "STB Velocity 128" Driver "nv" Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection I used debconf to remove the "UseFBDev" option, and everything came up fine. Thanks, Ada

Re: Fetchmail security problem and sarge

2002-12-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I figured it out--fetchmail-common no longer exists with the newer > version. Using --force-depends with dpkg got fetchmail to install. Ick. Why not just remove the fetchmail-common package instead of forcing the depends? -- Curse my natural showmansh

Re: webserver using name based virtual hosts, make problem

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 06:10:18 -0700, eric lin wrote: I'm a time zone behind you yet you are nine hours ahead of me. Wow! > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:07AM -0700, eric lin wrote: > > > Do you know why in the html code to show photo by > http://12.34.56.78/pho

Re: New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse

2002-12-24 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:54:23PM -0800, Adam wrote: > Hi I just installed debian and X, and X cannot detect my mouse. There > is no /dev/mouse. what kind of mouse do you have? usb? ps2? busmouse? afaik /dev/mouse is actually just a symlink to your mouse of choice, like /dev/cdrom is a symli

Re: New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Adam said: > Hi I just installed debian and X, and X cannot detect my mouse. There > is no /dev/mouse. > > Adam /dev/mouse is just a symlink to the real device. What kind of mouse do you have? PS/2 are at /dev/psaux, and serial are at /dev/ttySx. I've never played

Re: Sylpheed and mail client

2002-12-24 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 03:34:31AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > I reported this bug almost a year ago (can't find it in the BTS > though), and got an answer from upstream, through the Debian > maintainer, saying that Sylpheed follows the relevant RFC's > scrupulously and they *won't* change the co

Re: webserver using name based virtual hosts, make problem

2002-12-24 Thread eric lin
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:07AM -0700, eric lin wrote: Do you know why in the html code to show photo by http://12.34.56.78/photo.gif or jpg"> work but http://www.domain.com/photo.gif or jpg"> not work? If you want us to help you need to provide real address, real err

Re: Problems with Install of Woody from CD (and Network)

2002-12-24 Thread Geordie Birch
said Hal Vaughan (on 2002-12-24), > Is it possible to install w/ the floppies and NO CD and do a complete > network install? If so, why did install refuse to go on until I provided > the first CD? Yes, it is possible to install over the network with no CDs. In addition to the Rescue and Root fl

New debian install, XFree86 cannot detect mouse

2002-12-24 Thread Adam
Hi I just installed debian and X, and X cannot detect my mouse. There is no /dev/mouse. Adam __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread John Hasler
Bill Moseley writes: > Any idea why [Chrony] conflicts with ntpdate? I didn't think it was a good idea to have two programs yanking on the system clock at the same time. As far as I know chronyc lets you do everything that ntpdate does. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood

Re: Sylpheed and mail client

2002-12-24 Thread Gerald Livingston
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 03:34:31 + Carlos Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:29:24 -0500 Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Sometimes, when I receive mail-list digests, some of the message > > will display, but not all of it. > (...) > > Obviously, using a more complex, and less likel

Problems with Install of Woody from CD (and Network)

2002-12-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been running a LAN based on Mandrake Linux for over a year (including a box or two w/ Win2K, using Mandrake w/ Samba as a PDC and handling logins for Win2k). I've been very interested in switching to Debian for a while, since I've heard so many people talk about how easy it is to upgrade p

Re: Sylpheed and mail client

2002-12-24 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:29:24 -0500 Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have found another problem with Sylpheed that I do not think has > been mentioned before: > > Sometimes, when I receive mail-list digests, some of the message will > display, but not all of it. (...) > Obviously, using a more complex, and

Re: Manual install permissions

2002-12-24 Thread Russell
Seneca wrote: On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:24:23AM +1100, Russell wrote: I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called "vutrax", and add myself to the vutrax group?

Re: Promise PDC20265 lockups...Please help

2002-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 00:55, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I'm having problems with a Promise controller on my motherboard. > Everything works fine until I plug a drive into it, which kinda defeats > the purpose of having it on the motherboard. :) > > In any case, it is 1GHz Athlon-C running Debian/s

Hello,debian-user,let's be friends

2002-12-24 Thread gdminternet
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Re: framebuffer support in 2.4.18 kernel sources

2002-12-24 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:04:55PM -0500, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > I am trying to get my Handspring Visor to work, running into a baffling > problem where the module loads, but the visor won't sync. > > I thought perhaps I had a bad module and downloaded the 2.4.18 kernel > from the Debian ar

framebuffer support in 2.4.18 kernel sources

2002-12-24 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I am trying to get my Handspring Visor to work, running into a baffling problem where the module loads, but the visor won't sync. I thought perhaps I had a bad module and downloaded the 2.4.18 kernel from the Debian archives (I read the FAQ and used the Debian way to do things AFAIK). I rebuilt t

Re: Handspring Visor hotsync problem

2002-12-24 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 17:29, nate wrote: > > Bret Comstock Waldow said: > > > Hotsync doesn't happen at all (works in my Redhat with gnome-pilot) and > > pilot-xfer starts sync'ing, transfers a variable number of files, then > > fails on the Visor. I've done it several times, and it fails on >

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:32:43PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > What does `wiki' mean ? Wiki Wiki is Hawaiian for 'quick'. For an intro http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki? -- Jerome msg20912/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-24 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Aryan" == Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aryan> Hi all: I have a Cannon PowerShot A40 Cammera, which (after Aryan> upgrading gphoto and gtkam), works perfectly well with Mandrake Aryan> 9.0, but isn't working with Debian (mixture of sarge and sid). Aryan> On debian, I am using the

Re: sub-pixel anti-aliasing in mozilla

2002-12-24 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Chris" == Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Now that Xft2 and fontconfig have made it into sid, and also a Chris> version of mozilla with Xft2 support compiled in, does anyone Chris> know how to make mozilla use Xft2 and do sub-pixel anti-aliasing? Chris> I've tried everything

Re: scsi_read error

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:24 PM 12/23/02 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: >scsi_read error: sector=0 length=7 retry=0 > Sense key: b ASC: 48 ASCQ: 0 > Transport error: Unspecified error > System error: Input/output error Just to follow up, for the archives. This was a result

Are "openquicktime" and "quicktime4linux" mutually exclusive?

2002-12-24 Thread Lloyd Zusman
I'm trying to get quicktime support, and I'm noticing all sorts of "apt-get install" conflicts between the various "openquicktime" packages and the various "quicktime4linux" packages. Is it safe to say that I should install only one, and not the other of these? If so, do you folks have any though

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-12-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bruce" == Bruce Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> Hello debian users, I'm currently using the 2.4.18-bf2.4 Bruce> kernel and I would like to use a new kernel so that I can Bruce> have access to my ms sidewinder joystick. Bruce> Since I'm new to kernel compiling, I was w

Re: Snort Remove errors

2002-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:09:51PM -0700, Dana J. Laude wrote: > Removing snort ... > /etc/init.d/snort: var: command not found > dpkg: error processing snort (--remove): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Please file a bug report about this. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

PHP/MySQL problem

2002-12-24 Thread Michael Olds
OK I need a little help here, some insight into what may be going wrong. Setting up on a Debian Woody with Apache; trying to install a PHP BB script. I have checked in with the script folks but I need to work this from both ends. The PHP module is set up and working (I have uncommented the correc

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 06:36:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Bill Moseley write

Re: ide disk access problem

2002-12-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:38:47AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:22:38PM -0800, nate wrote: | | Derrick dman Hudson said: | | > I've got an old IDE disk (Western Digital AC2420H) that I want to copy | | > data off from. I plugged it into my fairly recent system (

Re: webserver using name based virtual hosts, make problem

2002-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 07:49:07AM -0700, eric lin wrote: > >> Do you know why in the html code to show photo by > >> http://12.34.56.78/photo.gif or jpg"> work but > >> http://www.domain.com/photo.gif or jpg"> not work? > If you want us to help you need to provide real address, real error messa

bind9: DNS updates from windows

2002-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Merry Christmas! I'm trying to get WinXP clients to update thier own dns for me using Bind9. What am I doing wrong? (Yes, I know access control soley by IP is insecure, but I've got other means of dealing with that at the DMZ). // This is the primary configuration file for the BIND DNS server n

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

2002-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:08:34PM +0100, Chris Niekel wrote: > But indeed, time is of no critical importance to me, so maybe I should > just remove a few of the servers. If you already have them listed, there's no real reason to remove them, as it'll maintain reliability if the timeservers go out

Re: Happy XMAS O.T.

2002-12-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:11:53PM -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:42:33PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:29:46 +0100 > > Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Gary Turner and Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > > > 1) Yuenling Por

Re: Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-24 Thread James Tappin
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:57:39 +0330 Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > I have a Cannon PowerShot A40 Cammera, which (after upgrading gphoto and > > gtkam), works perfectly well with Mandrake 9.0, but isn't working with > Debian (mixture of sarge and sid). > On debian, I am using th

Re: volume controller

2002-12-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 08:13:54PM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote: > said Aryan Ameri (on 2002-12-24), > > > On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:57, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:30:02PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > > however i wonder if there is any other program (console based

Re: CD How to boot to load ?

2002-12-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:50:44AM -0800, Bear wrote: | I down load the CD images, unpacked the ISO and burned #1 to CD up to | point everything looks good, But the CD does not auto run when booting | the system. I can put in other bootable CD from Redhat and Microsoft and | they boot, but not GNU

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
What does `wiki' mean ? Merry Xmas Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:30:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: http://wiki.debian.net/ doesn't appear to be a debian wiki. Anyone know what's up? It seems to be correct

Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-24 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi all: I have a Cannon PowerShot A40 Cammera, which (after upgrading gphoto and gtkam), works perfectly well with Mandrake 9.0, but isn't working with Debian (mixture of sarge and sid). On debian, I am using the same version of gtkam (a gphoto frontend) that I'm using under Mandrake, and my cam

Re: Snort Remove errors

2002-12-24 Thread nate
Dana J. Laude said: > Greetings everyone. > > I'm having trouble removing the snort package. Here's the info: > /etc/init.d/snort: var: command not found I would reinstall it and remove it again. if that error comes up check out that script for any occurances of 'var' and remove them(backup the

Snort Remove errors

2002-12-24 Thread Dana J. Laude
Greetings everyone. I'm having trouble removing the snort package. Here's the info: --- Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: snort snort-common snort-rules-default 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully

Re: How do I allow other users access to X display under kdm?

2002-12-24 Thread Chris Lale
Aryan Ameri wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:59, David Marsh wrote: I would like to be able to setup kdm and/or the X server to allow me to open X applications when su'ed as root. Sometimes when I am root I need to open an X application (eg, an installer for a 3rd-party application), but

Re: Mixed install of Open Office 1.0.1

2002-12-24 Thread Chris Lale
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hello I have seen there is a lot traffic because of OpenOffice. I was really happy, when I realized that OO is in unstable. I'm running testing on my iBook (11.2002) and try run do a mixed system in order to install OO. I got my copy of OOo direct by adding deb http://

Re: Fetchmail security problem and sarge

2002-12-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
I figured it out--fetchmail-common no longer exists with the newer version. Using --force-depends with dpkg got fetchmail to install. On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:18:00AM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > There is a new Debian security advisory about fetchmail. Since sarge > does not get security update

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 06:36:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > > Bill Moseley writes: > > > > > I just don't think it unreasonable that th

Re: ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Jacob S .
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:11:44 +0100 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of > Jacob S. told: > > > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) > > Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > > >

Re: ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 the mental interface of Jacob S. told: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) > Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > > and /dev/hda2 / > > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2

Re: ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Jacob S .
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot > and /dev/hda2 / > /dev/hda3 is my swap space. > > When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead > of ext2, I get the error: > kernel: ext3: No

bind ing ip and domain

2002-12-24 Thread eric lin
Dear Matthias: My registar can not resolve http://www.mycompany.com/file.gif";> to static ip the registar claim he already bind to mycompany.com BUt rul or hyperlink(a href) is OK just img src code in html my registar did not resolve to static ip and if I use then it can show

Re: No ip-masquerade after upgrade 2.2.19 to 2.4.20

2002-12-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:05:03 -0600 (CST) Russ Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please disregard my previous email. On my fifth kernel compile, I now > have ipmasquerading. I enabled and included everything under the sun > with regard to ppp, iptables, ipchains, and ipmasquerading. > Undoubtedl

Re: [solved] volume controller

2002-12-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 01:43:39 +0330 Aryan Ameri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 23 December 2002 23:40, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:30:02PM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > hi all: > > > > > > my machines sound volume is terribly low. unfortunately I can't > > > use km

CD How to boot to load ?

2002-12-24 Thread Bear
Help,   I down load the CD images, unpacked the ISO and burned #1 to CD up to point everything looks good, But the CD does not auto run when booting the system. I can put in other bootable CD from Redhat and Microsoft and they boot, but not GNU/Linux one.   What to do,   [EMAIL PROT

Re: Interesting for artist types ...

2002-12-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:58:00 + Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just browsing the web at random, and discovered that Corel make > photo paint freely avaiable (and provide debian packages). > > I just intsalled it on unstable and it woks well. Thought some of you > guys might be i

ext3 filesystem error

2002-12-24 Thread Russ Cook
My hard drive is set up with /dev/hda1 /boot and /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 is my swap space. When I edit /etc/fstab to set /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda1 to ext3 instead of ext2, I get the error: kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1) My file /etc/mtab shows /dev/hda2 mounted as ext3, but /d

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 06:36:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > Bill Moseley writes: > > > > I just don't think it unreasonable that there could be periods of time > > > > when ntp can't connect to the remote ho

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 06:36:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote: > > > Bill Moseley writes: > > > I just don't think it unreasonable that there could be periods of time > > > when ntp can't connect to the remote hosts -- and that should not stop > > > ntp. > > >

Fetchmail security problem and sarge

2002-12-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
There is a new Debian security advisory about fetchmail. Since sarge does not get security updates (why not??), I built a new package using unstable source. This is not installable, because fetchmail-common does not get built. Is there any way around this? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: work but http://www.domain.com/file">not work

2002-12-24 Thread eric lin
Christian Hammers wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:51:04AM -0700, eric lin wrote: Do you know why in the html code to show photo by http://12.34.56.78/photo.gif or jpg"> work but http://www.domain.com/photo.gif or jpg"> not work? There are several web servers running on the host that has onl

Re: No ip-masquerade after upgrade 2.2.19 to 2.4.20

2002-12-24 Thread Russ Cook
Please disregard my previous email. On my fifth kernel compile, I now have ipmasquerading. I enabled and included everything under the sun with regard to ppp, iptables, ipchains, and ipmasquerading. Undoubtedly, I have a bloated kernel with features I don't need, but it works now. I now need to

Re: How do I allow other users access to X display under kdm?

2002-12-24 Thread csj
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:29:47 +, David Marsh wrote: > > > I'm running the kdm login manager under KDE 3.0.3 ("unofficial" .debs) > on my 'sarge' system. > > When I installed kdm it noted that it locked down all kinds of settings > in order to improve system security, but didn't explain how I

Re: apt-get update fails with File not found (404)

2002-12-24 Thread Cam Ellison
* bob parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:05, Matej Pfajfar wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am experiencing some problems with apt-get update. > > What happens is that it can't fetch the Packages file from the debian > > security site. > > > > This is the error I get : > > > > F

Re: Happy XMAS O.T.

2002-12-24 Thread Cam Ellison
* Shawn Lamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:29:46 +0100 > Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Gary Turner and Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > 1) Yuenling Porter. > > 2) A bottle (750ml) of Chimay Ale? > > > > HoHO, > > that are already two beers.

Re: No ip-masquerade after upgrade 2.2.19 to 2.4.20

2002-12-24 Thread Russ Cook
Thanks for the reply. I'm still in a quandary. I have installed .deb packages for iptables and ipmasq. I believe I have enabled the appropriate kernel options (there seem to be many more options in the 2.4 series kernel). I regret to say that I am ignorant of the intricacies of the iptables pac

Re: ide disk access problem

2002-12-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:22:38PM -0800, nate wrote: | Derrick dman Hudson said: | > I've got an old IDE disk (Western Digital AC2420H) that I want to copy | > data off from. I plugged it into my fairly recent system (Gigabyte 7IEX4 | | looks like the disk is dead to me.. try running WD's diagno

Re: xterm starts with LINES=24 s/b 25

2002-12-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:35:22AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: | In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, | Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | >XTerms stick to the standard computer | >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into the | >source (I pres

About the drivers for acx100 chip(TI)

2002-12-24 Thread Carlos Mestre González
Hi: I'm going to buy a DWL-650+ chip, but this card don't have any driver. In this web http://www.eusso.com/Model2/GL2422-AP/GL2422_utility.htm are drivers for the acx-100 chip. Anybody have try to run this drivers? Thanks --

Re: xterm starts with LINES=24 s/b 25

2002-12-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On 24 Dec 2002 06:45:27 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 04:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, > > Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >XTerms stick to the standard computer > > >terminal geometry

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:30:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > http://wiki.debian.net/ doesn't appear to be a debian wiki. Anyone > > know what's up? > > It seems to be correct now ... try http://wiki.debian.net/DebianWiki/Fro

Merry X-Mas

2002-12-24 Thread Frank Brodbeck
To all of you! Frank. -- $ Hello World! $ I am [Ff]rank ;) 1024D/EC4CE5CC 2002-05-14 Frank Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fingerprint = 193D 62EC 03A5 1066 A951 4DA3 947A D578 EC4C E5CC msg20864/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do I allow other users access to X display under kdm?

2002-12-24 Thread Mark Whaite
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 02:04:49AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 24 December 2002 00:59, David Marsh wrote: > > I'm running the kdm login manager under KDE 3.0.3 ("unofficial" .debs) > > on my 'sarge' system. > > > > When I installed kdm it noted that it locked down all kinds of settings

Re: files who won't tell who their parent packages are

2002-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:38:01PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Is it therefore true that there can be some files, say created by > scripts, who have laundered their origins, so that there is no record > of what caused them to get there, Yes. Consider a fair percentage of /var. > and being that t

Re: wiki.debian.net?

2002-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > http://wiki.debian.net/ doesn't appear to be a debian wiki. Anyone > know what's up? It seems to be correct now ... Hosts in debian.net are generally just random aliases pointing to machines run by individual Debian developers. F

Re: Whose bug(s)? tetex-base, tetex-extra, lilypond

2002-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:31:26AM +0100, J?rg Johannes wrote: > Colin Watson schrieb: > >This kind of thing is always a bug. If a file moves from one package to > >another, the destination package needs a versioned Replaces: against the > >original package. If the file is simply shared, then eithe

Re: Cobalt Raq2 network trouble while boot....

2002-12-24 Thread Samuele Bosco
Il mar, 2002-12-24 alle 05:11, Adam Majer ha scritto: > Obviously I don't have a Cobalt server, but don't those > things come with a serial port or something you could > use for a console besides using TCP/IP? It would > seem kind of stupid to provide a server with no > input - well, unless sun rea

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread James Tappin
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:19:35 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say this is the sort of thing people mean when people say 'IDE > sucks!'; the CPU has to babysit the burner through the entire process... It's actually probably even more subtle. My experience has been that cdrdao causes

Re: Testing security

2002-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.24.1538 +0100]: > Where does this leave testing? Some statement would have been nice. testing has no security updates, at least not yet. if you are worried, install the unstable version. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can hand

Re: Manual install permissions

2002-12-24 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:24:23AM +1100, Russell wrote: > I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install > instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. > Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called "vutrax", > and add myself to the vutrax group? rwx for

Testing security

2002-12-24 Thread Richard Kimber
I note that fetchmail has a problem, and that we are told:- For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 5.9.11-6.2 of fetchmail and fetchmail-ssl. For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.3-4.3. For the current uns

Re: Whose bug(s)? tetex-base, tetex-extra, lilypond

2002-12-24 Thread Colin Watson
[Cc'ing back to the mailing list. There's no reason why I'm necessarily the best person to answer this, and since I'm away from home at the moment I don't want to have too much non-list mail to deal with.] On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:19:58PM -0500, David L. Craig wrote: > You wrote [paraphrased] th

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moseley
On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote: > Bill Moseley writes: > > I just don't think it unreasonable that there could be periods of time > > when ntp can't connect to the remote hosts -- and that should not stop > > ntp. > > Chrony is designed to work with intermittent connections. Any idea why it c

Survey: Should MySQL be chroot'ed?

2002-12-24 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi I'm currently preparing the 4.x version of mysql (see /experimental/) and thinking about chrooting the daemon in /var/lib/mysql. This would be more secure although it would be a bit of work for me and limit the LOAD DATA INFILE and SELECT INTO OUTFILE commands to this directories. Now I'm w

Manual install permissions

2002-12-24 Thread Russell
Hi all, I installed a CAD package to /usr/local/vutrax, and the install instructions say to set the permissions to rwx for all. Is there a better way? Should i add a user and group called "vutrax", and add myself to the vutrax group? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread John Hasler
Bill Moseley writes: > I just don't think it unreasonable that there could be periods of time > when ntp can't connect to the remote hosts -- and that should not stop > ntp. Chrony is designed to work with intermittent connections. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Re: work but http://www.domain.com/file">not work

2002-12-24 Thread eric lin
Thomas Braun wrote: eric lin wrote: Dear advancers: Do you know why in the html code to show photo by http://12.34.56.78/photo.gif or jpg"> work but http://www.domain.com/photo.gif or jpg"> not work? Do you can resolve www.domain.com on the computer? cu thomas highly appreciate you

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > I'd say this is the sort of thing people mean when people say 'IDE > sucks!'; the CPU has to babysit the burner through the entire process... It's hard for me to believe that can be the only problem. The clock falls behind almost a minute during a 4 minute

Re: How can I delete useless kernels

2002-12-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I had compiled Ben's kernel several time with different option (because > of the radeon module). Now I have some kernels i'd like to get rid of. > > I tried dpkg -r kernel-image..., but it doesn't work. Now I will kiil th

How can I delete useless kernels

2002-12-24 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I had compiled Ben's kernel several time with different option (because of the radeon module). Now I have some kernels i'd like to get rid of. I tried dpkg -r kernel-image..., but it doesn't work. Now I will kiil the useless kernels manually, but I do not know all the files I can (have to)

Re: encrypted filesystems with debian packages?

2002-12-24 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2002-12-24 um 11.42 schrieb Jörg Johannes: > Hello everybody > > I just started to read the Linux Encryption HOWTO on > http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO.html > and I wonder if I can use encryped filesystems with my sid installation. > However, I di

Re: forte for java ce

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Weir
[Wrap your lines!!!] On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:15:54AM -0200, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: > Hey guys, > > I solved the locale problem with x and open office, but forte for java > ce, from sun, still get this error. there is a way to configure locale > just for one software? Sure. Create a w

Re: win 98 crash, damage to debian KDE taskbar ?

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:43:46PM +0100, Olivier Esser wrote: > daves debian wrote: > >I had a problem, my windows 98SE crashed badly, no supprise there, and > >seemed to corrupt debian on the next partition. I didn't think windows > >could access any other partitions ? > > > >I had to manua

Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 06:46:50PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 10:32:43AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > Maybe it's because the CD-R is so fast? "Let's do the time warp again!" > > > > > > This is why I installed rdate, I thi

Re: Computer beeping but no sound on

2002-12-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "H" == Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: H> Any thoughts as to why my system would be beeping? Its the speaker H> inside the case. The speakers are off and the Linux sound control is H> muted. When mute is off, the beeps come from the speakers. My problem is ever since I turned u

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Re: xterm starts with LINES=24 s/b 25

2002-12-24 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 04:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, > Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >XTerms stick to the standard computer > >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into the > >source (I presume a header

Re: Installing a new kernel...

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, alan brown said: > I'm not sure I followed your instructions correctly. I tried looking up > the video option for lilo but didn't see it on the web or the man page > for lilo.conf. Nevertheless I went to my new kernel image and added the > line > > video= > > to i

Re: apt-get update fails with File not found (404)

2002-12-24 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 21:05, Matej Pfajfar wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing some problems with apt-get update. > What happens is that it can't fetch the Packages file from the debian > security site. > > This is the error I get : > > Failed to fetch > http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/upd

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