what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
what's wrong with rsync? i'm heartily exploring backup methodologies and from what i can tell, rsync sure looks like "the bomb". any drawbacks? some good reason to NOT use it? something better? i'll be backing up the usual stuff (/etc /home ... and /var/backups with pg_dump output in them...)

Re: redirect of "ls --color" causes problems

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:53:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:12AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > * Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-26 08:29]: > > > * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 20:14]: > > > > So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't act

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:00:58PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm _not_ suggesting you just do > > > > # umount /var/cache > > # rm /var/cache > > Not quite - rm won't remove a directory, and you don't want to anyway. > "rm /var/cache/

How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-01-27 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I'd mostly call myself a "regular user" -- although I do have a web server installed on my laptop it doesn't broadcast to the world...it's just me the couch and the tv and occassionally the cat. I choose not to worry about things like security and the latest and greatest versions of things (altho

Re: Bunch of musicians in a tent [was: Re: Gimp Print Problem]

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:47:12PM -0900, Andy wrote: > > > How do I get back to Band Camp? > > > > What is a Band Camp? > > Why does "get back to Band Camp" mean "fix my system"? > > Why do so many people quote emails with "This one time, at band camp..."? > > And why the odd phrase "This one time

Re: redirect of "ls --color" causes problems

2003-01-27 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-28 05:36]: > > yeah, but then you're still stuck with csh. > > I wonder why the sh vs. csh battle isn't mentioned a often as the vi > vs. emacs battle; it seems to be hust as much of a religious issue. I personally like the tcsh for daily work rathe

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-27 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? 1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened before the big bang!

Re: what's fstype 83? &quot;Linux&quot;?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
will trillich said: > files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than > september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive* > i've never even tried reiserfs, certainly not two-and-a-half > years ago. wasn't ext2 the default for formatting under the > potato or slink install? (as

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:00:18AM -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote: > On 2003.01.27 19:20 Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:27, will trillich wrote: > >> i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and > >> plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions! > >> > >>

Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Stan Heckman said: > On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It is > possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? not try to set your date to something thats not accurate? why would you want to set your date in such a way anyways? nate -- To U

Re: M$ Curse

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:39:37PM -0900, Andy wrote: > > > Just boot from your CD and fix lilo. > > > > "fix lilo" is a large black box with "pandora" written all > > over it. > > Understood and my apologies to the debian-user list. > > At the time, I did not see any respones to his question so

Re: Fwd: setting up mysql-server

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Ray said: > -- this is a resend, its been over an hour, and the 1st hasn't shown up on > the list yet. i'm assuming my mail server dropped it -- it came through :) most likely afteraffects from the worm .. > > i seem to be missing part of the setup on this. i can't remotely connect > to mysqld

Re: Bunch of musicians in a tent [was: Re: Gimp Print Problem]

2003-01-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Andy wrote: > > I believe it is in reference to this movie: > http://www.americanpievideo.com/ > and the second one: > http://www.americanpiemovie.com/ap_home.html very cute ... netscape/moz seems to be better than konqueror for me addded those page onto the test site

Re: Sort of OT: network logins

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:44:55PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: > I am looking for an approach to the problem of having multiple > installations of debian on each computer on my lan that I use. While it > is certainly reasonable to have a minimal install on each system, > consisting of a basic debian

Updating Critical Packages Only

2003-01-27 Thread S Yuval
I recently bought the Debian 3.0r1 7-CD set and am trying to upgrade some obsolete packages. However, it turns out that if I ask apt to update its package database, most packages I have on the CD-set become obsolete and can no longer be installed conveniently through dselect. Since I cannot

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:41:49AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >Colin Watson wrote: > >>On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > >>>testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? > >>No. testing started out as a copy of stable. The exceptions

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> Since most security updates for stable are going to be a version lower You can use APT preferences to give security updates a higher priority. Note also that there is a security repository for sarge... Morningly, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg26802/pgp0

How to start aumix during init?

2003-01-27 Thread rajukv
Hi, How can I start aumix during init? There is an entry /etc/init.d/aumix but it is not called from any of the init levels. The volume is always set to 0.Since aumix is never called during boot, changinging it in /etc/aumixrc doesnt make difference. Thanks, Raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working!

2003-01-27 Thread louie miranda
Ah yeah, thanks! -- thanks, louie miranda - Original Message - From: "Travis Crump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:01 PM Subject: Re: redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working! > louie miranda wrote: > > I ha

disk partitioning & partition size allocations

2003-01-27 Thread David W. Jensen
I have been a telecommunications technician for many years & worked on the perifery of the data world over many years. I have got about 8 books on Linux and have loosely studied this OS for about 3 years. But I am certainly a newbie.So far I have not found a good general reference about par

Re: Bunch of musicians in a tent [was: Re: Gimp Print Problem]

2003-01-27 Thread Andy
> > How do I get back to Band Camp? > > OK, I've seen this once too often now. I've just got to ask: > > What is a Band Camp? > Why does "get back to Band Camp" mean "fix my system"? > Why do so many people quote emails with "This one time, at band camp..."? > And why the odd phrase "This one time"

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? No. testing started out as a copy of stable. The exceptions are if you happen to want something that's been removed from testing si

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:47:21 -0600 will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:03:47PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > My idea is that after a disaster I'd make a minimum debian install, > > restore $HOME, /usr/local. After that I'd reinstall my packages from the > > list I g

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:58, Curt Howland wrote: > Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... > > Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from > Testing? > > Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files ok? > > Chocolate or Vanilla? > > C

Re: Can not get UDMA-100 working...

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:21:04PM +0100, Dominique Deleris wrote: > Hello, > > The background: I have recently bought a new Seagate Barracuda V > disk (60 Gb), which is UDMA-100 capable. Since my motherboard > (Asus CUV4X) is only UDMA-66 ready, I have also bought a Promise IDE > controller (Ultr

Re: compiling with large file support

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:23:12PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to compile some small C-programs with large file support using > gcc flags: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE. > > How can I make this default? Maybe with environment variables? Yes. export CFLAGS="-D_FI

Re: device never checked

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:13:34AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > I recently added a (kind of big) partition on > /dev/hdb3 (where /tmp lives) to the /etc/fstab file so > it's mounted. But I think it's never checked for > errors or anything. > > How can I make Debian check it like it does for other

Bunch of musicians in a tent [was: Re: Gimp Print Problem]

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > How do I get back to Band Camp? OK, I've seen this once too often now. I've just got to ask: What is a Band Camp? Why does "get back to Band Camp" mean "fix my system"? Why do so many people quote emails with "This one time, a

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread Shaun ONeil
On 2003.01.27 19:20 Haim Ashkenazi wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:27, will trillich wrote: > i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and > plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions! > > root# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb > > Disk /dev/hdb: 4956 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 se

sendmail & cyrus21 & SASL 1, SASL 2

2003-01-27 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, I installed Henrique's ( http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ ) woody backport for cyrus21. Problem is that woody's sendmail is build with SASL 1 and cyrus21 with SASL 2. Now I have two different user databases. SASL 1 is used for sendmail's SMTP_AUTH, SASL 2 is used for cyrus21 authentication.

Re: redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working!

2003-01-27 Thread Travis Crump
louie miranda wrote: I have a script that is on a cron basis, It runs every hour. I have read a document that if you dont want any output. You can add >/dev/null 1>&2 to redirect it to /dev/null But i still received email about those output, is this syntax im trying to add on my cron for debian co

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:03:50AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? > > No. testing started out as a copy of stable. The exceptions are if you > happen to want something that's b

Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-27 Thread Curt Howland
Personal reply if possible, I cannot keep up with the traffic on user... Does anyone know why Netscape Communicator has been dropped from Testing? Does Mozilla email load the Communicator mail files ok? Chocolate or Vanilla? Curt- -- "Wherever I go, everyone is a little bit safer because I a

Re: Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:57, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, > > 2003. > > > > Just curious what the current lag is. > > two hours, for those who care :D My last post got back to me in ab

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread Donald Spoon
will trillich wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote: will trillich said: ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to use it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody server...) what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot mount? Try running a read

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Kent West
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? No. testing started out as a copy of stable. The exceptions are if you happen to want something that's been removed from testing since the last stab

Re: instructions for setting up sound?

2003-01-27 Thread Kent West
Daniel Barclay wrote: Can anyone point me to instructions for setting up audio that addresses kernel messages such as: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Thanks, Daniel What does "lspci" say your sound card is (assuming it's a PCI card - if it's (E)ISA, Yikes! I'm

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2003-01-27 Thread Qrterris
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Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
oh with the use of it, have the timeserver addy you want handy, debconf will ask you the address just type it in and away you go, give it half an hour (to sync) and then set your other boxes to query the first one (avoids unnecessary traffic to the public servers) I use ntp-simp

Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, will trillich said: > after revisiting the longest-thread-of-the-millennium again, i > thought i'd be a good citizen and get ntpd going instead of > ntpdate. > > root: /mnt# apt-get install ntpd > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tr

Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and watching the computers go "tick tick tick" in time with the clocks is a source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life. (ok i'm exagerating about my life,

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:54:57PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > I made a new partition for /var/cache since that's where all my data is. > > Unfortunately /var is still counting the contents of /var/cache and thinks > > that /var is full

invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

2003-01-27 Thread Stan Heckman
On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? $ date -d 1969-12-31 date: invalid date `1969-12-31' $ date -d 1970-01-01 Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 EST 1970 $ uname -srpmvi Linux 2.4.18 #1 Fri Aug 16 15:40:44 EDT

Re: Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, > 2003. > > Just curious what the current lag is. > > Mike two hours, for those who care :D Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: scsi HD install Problem

2003-01-27 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:39:41PM +0100, Mikkel wrote: >I got a Adaptec 29160 , and my problem is that i can't see my scsi HD ( only >my IDE HD). > you may need to load the particular scsi driver module from a floppy, but first, if it's an ide controller, the isapnp module from floppy. also, swi

Re: redirect of "ls --color" causes problems

2003-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:12AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-26 08:29]: > > * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 20:14]: > > > So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't actually do much with > > > them. > > > What's the problem with tcsh? > >

gnome2--tooltips

2003-01-27 Thread Jacob Stowell
Hi All, I was wondering if someone might be able to remind me how I can turn off tooltips in gnome2. I had to reinstall this weekend and that is the last thing I can't seem to figure out. Every time the mouse pointer runs over a panel applet a box pops up, even when I remove the text from th

Re: instructions for setting up sound?

2003-01-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Barclay said: > > Can anyone point me to instructions for setting up audio that > addresses kernel messages such as: > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 This is because the module handling system is unable to figure out which mod

Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:05:57PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:24:53AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: >> /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY >> (i.e., without -a or -p options) >> >> fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please >> note that the ro

Re: Gimp Print Problem

2003-01-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > Epson Stylus Color 860 on /dev/usblp0 installed with > CUPS+GIMP-print_v4.2.2-pre2. > > Print Test Page prints a page with color hexagon but no test. > > From a command line escputil -s -u -r /dev/usblp0 returns printer > st

Re: LinkSYS BEFSR41 router

2003-01-27 Thread Paul Mackinney
Antonio Rodriguez declaimed: > Hi Paul, I am having some problem here. I set the ports for http and ssh > as indicated in the Advanced > Forwarding section, but I astill can not > reach the computer from the outside world. > I didn't give my machines afixed ip in setup, since it would go against

Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card

2003-01-27 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: >I want to install Debian over the network. I downloaded the 2 'vanilla' >boot floppies, rescue.bin and root.bin, and booted with those. They >have kernel 2.2.22, and they did not recognise my ethernet card. Then >I decided to try the

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:03:47PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > FWIW I first of all dump my postgres databases into $HOME, then make a list > > of my installed (debian) packages, also in $HOME. > > > > I then backup $HOME excluding browser cach

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Ron Johnson said: > Leave it on, and fall quickly to sleep listening to white noise, > while lowering the house's thermostat, since you have an auxillary heater > in the room. I like white noise, but unfortunately not all computers emit such noise. my tivo is one, as is my laptop, I gotta turn on

Re: Speculation: Debian GNU/Watch

2003-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:27:33PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Overcoming your typical limitations of watches, the Debian GNU/Watch is > a new, open source solution to portable timekeeping. A multi-user > solution, multiple people can elect to wear the same watch, and for one > person, it could b

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:03:47PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:32, Grant Bowman wrote: > > Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly > > what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been > > asked and answered many times before, s

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

2003-01-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:47:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:28:16 -0800, > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:34:17AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z -dao -isosize filename.raw > > > > The hitch was the instruction to c

Re: kernel-2.4.18 module mis-install

2003-01-27 Thread Jonathan Brandmeyer
> "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <...> writes: > > Installed the stock kernel-image-2.4.18-i686 debian package, with dselect. > > Installed and unpacked kernel-source-2.4.18, with dselect and tar. > > Downloaded and unpacked nvidia-kernel-source and nvidia-glx-source, with > > apt-get and tar. > > Built nv

Keyboard Lockup

2003-01-27 Thread Harshu
Hi Folks, I am having this wierd problem. When I launch a X session from the prompt and exit the keyboard locks up and become unresponsive. This happens only when I am the root user. The freeze up also happens when I hit Cntrl+Alt+ Fn to switch to the terminal when running a X session. The displa

Re: active programs overview

2003-01-27 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:11:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:52, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What is the program to use when I want to know which > > programs are running ? > > $ ps -ax > $ ps -axf > $ ps -axf --cols=`echo $COLUMNS` I hate to nitpick, but al

ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
after revisiting the longest-thread-of-the-millennium again, i thought i'd be a good citizen and get ntpd going instead of ntpdate. # apt-get update Fetched 257kB in 4s (62.2kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done root:

Switching groups - not working

2003-01-27 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello, everyone I want certain users to be able to switch into different groups. So I did a usermod -g/-G on them and checked the group file to make sure it did it right (and it looks like it did). So then I try out the sg and newgrp commands. Problem is, these groups don't have passwords. In the

redirecting output to /dev/null on cron not working!

2003-01-27 Thread louie miranda
I have a script that is on a cron basis, It runs every hour. I have read a document that if you dont want any output. You can add >/dev/null 1>&2 to redirect it to /dev/null But i still received email about those output, is this syntax im trying to add on my cron for debian correct? /scripts/cron_

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:22:21PM -0800, nate wrote: > will trillich said: > > ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to > > use it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody > > server...) > > what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot mount? Try > running a read-only p

exim - retry time not reached for any host

2003-01-27 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
For mail I use a fetchmail+procmail+mutt+exim combination. Not every message I send but a few don't get sent to my ISP's SMTP server. When I run eximon and check the message log of messages awaiting delivery, I will see entries like: 2003-01-27 20:09:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (-4

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? No. testing started out as a copy of stable. The exceptions are if you happen to want something that's been removed from testing since the last stable release; even then you pr

Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread Seneca
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:43:32AM +, iain d broadfoot wrote: > testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? No. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sit (compressed files)

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
short version: http://stuffit.com/expander On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:27:38PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > My silly designer just sent me an .sit file. Does anyone know if this can > be expanded in debian? those silly designers seem to like their silly macs. (i know i sure do...) aladdin sys

Re: setting up mysql-server

2003-01-27 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:22:51PM -0600, Ray wrote: > i seem to be missing part of the setup on this. i can't remotely connect to > mysqld and it seems to have the TCP port disabled, but the config files seem > to say it should be using the default tcp port. > > >a few lines from /etc/mysql/m

Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Dresser
The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, 2003. Just curious what the current lag is. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: M$ Curse

2003-01-27 Thread Andy
> > Just boot from your CD and fix lilo. > > "fix lilo" is a large black box with "pandora" written all over > it. > > that's not a helluva lot of information. it's a good idea to > choose one of two options: > > 1) respond with assistance or inquiries, > or > 2) don't respond. > > given the nature

Re: about RUNLEVELs -- was "debian rookie"

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:20:20PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > update-rc.d is a good way to keep the debian package system > up-to-date on your intentions. (sure, you may manually rename or > remove enough files to stop the service from auto-starting, but a > future `apt-get upgrade` may -- or ma

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread John Griffiths
>Type 83 is not nessaeseraly ext2. it could be one of many file systems >suported by linux. try ext3, reiserfs (or even xfs and jfs). > On slink??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Weird Galeon Errors

2003-01-27 Thread Jason Wojciechowski
Matt Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Upon startup of galeon, new windows immediately popup over and over > again ad infinitum. I'm running unstable. I've tried reinstalling > galeon, to no avail. Any ideas? The answer I saw on bugs.debian.org (and that worked for me) was to dpkg-reconfigure

java not working in galeon

2003-01-27 Thread andy
hello all - i'm having an issue with galeon and java. i currently have galeon version 1.2.7-5 from people.fsn.hu/~pasztor/debian and j2re1.3 1.3.1.02b-2 from blackdown (although the problem has existed for a while now). java works in mozilla, but when i visit the same page in galeon, it fails.

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:37:57PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use the Make CD Recovery program (http://mkcdrec.ota.be/). > What it does is allow me to make a Multi-CD, bootable backup > of my Debian filesystem. So, in the case of disaster recovery > I can boot from disk one and reinstall

Re: Returned mail... am i relaying? aaugh!

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:26:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:09:54AM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | does this [see attachment] indicate that some spammer has found > | a way to get me to relay his mail? aaugh! > > No. It means you are the victim of a spamme

Re: Returned mail... am i relaying? aaugh!

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:10:33PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > Something that I recommend for anyone putting a mail server > on the 'net that's open to the public is to telnet to > 'relay-test.mail-abuse.org' *FROM* the mail server. The > remote host will run a series of tests to see if your sys

Sort of OT: network logins

2003-01-27 Thread Neal Lippman
The subject doesn't really explain what I am looking for, but I couldn't think of a better two-word summary. I know this is a bit off topic, but I was hoping the collective expertise would provide me with some ideas. I am looking for an approach to the problem of having multiple installations of d

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2003-01-27 Thread Gilles Referner
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Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 15:37, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:03:05AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:58:04AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > Hi, [snip] > No, I switch it off when I'm not using it. I sleep in the same room > and 4 fans and 6 disk drives make a lot of

OT: Rio SonicBlue S10

2003-01-27 Thread Neal Lippman
I am trying to figure out if this device is supported under linux-usb. I've found no direct references to it (the Rio-500 seems supported by a specific driver, but that's the closest I've come). It seems that this device might be supported as a usb mass storage device - usb-storage driver. Does an

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Maybe try an fsck on them first? Or could you have used a different filesystem? reiserfs, maybe? On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 15:27, will trillich wrote: > i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and > plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions! > > root# sfdisk

Re: sit (compressed files)

2003-01-27 Thread Cam Ellison
Alternatively, you can email me the file -- if you trust me with it :-) , and I'll unsit it on my Mac laptop, which is plugged into my system, and fire it back. The version of Stuffit I have is pretty much up to date. Cam * Haim Ashkenazi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I don't know what

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:03:47PM +1100, bob parker wrote: > FWIW I first of all dump my postgres databases into $HOME, then make a list > of my installed (debian) packages, also in $HOME. > > I then backup $HOME excluding browser cache files, /etc and /usr/local. > > My idea is that after a di

Swap and ext3 (was: tune2fs ext2 -> ext3 do I do it to swap ???)

2003-01-27 Thread Steve Lamb
On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't > do it!! Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just

Re: apt-get

2003-01-27 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:08:43PM -0600, N.D.O wrote: > I understand the apt-get , the thing is how do i add a source to the > sources.list so that debian will know where to find something and it will > know where to find, lets say opera, just giving an example. try apt-setup for alternative apt

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-27 Thread nate
Joris Huizer said: > The partition is NOT checked before mounting - and I > get warnings on that. This is the /dev/hdb3 partition > where /tmp lives. I'm not 100% sure what message your seeing but I think I know which one it is. Try to go to single user mode('init 1') and unmount /tmp and run fsc

do i need stable in my sources.list?

2003-01-27 Thread iain d broadfoot
testing/unstable, do i still need the stable entries? iain -- wh33, y1p33 3tc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun java in testing

2003-01-27 Thread Fraser Campbell
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Is the java sun 1.3.1 version compatible with testing? If so, do they > have debs, apt sources, or just plain download? > Thanks, Dough ( I am very interested in this drawboard thing, and don't > have a clue about java programming, so I will probably need all the help >

Fwd: setting up mysql-server

2003-01-27 Thread Ray
-- this is a resend, its been over an hour, and the 1st hasn't shown up on the list yet. i'm assuming my mail server dropped it -- i seem to be missing part of the setup on this. i can't remotely connect to mysqld and it seems to have the TCP port disabled, but the config files seem to say it sh

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread nate
will trillich said: > ideas? (i think this was my slink disk drive -- i'd like to use > it to alleviate some space pressure on my woody server...) what does e2fsck say for those drives you cannot mount? Try running a read-only pass on them. I can't imagine why the newer kernel would be unable to

Re: sit (compressed files)

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:25:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Run "mandb" as root, Or preferably as the 'man' user. If you run it as root it should behave as if run as 'man' anyway - I think - but best not to involve root when it isn't necessary. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got this question: I recently added a partition > to the /etc/fstab file so it's mounted during boot > time. I haven't done that before and I probably made a > mistake somewhere. > > The partition is NOT checked before mounti

instructions for setting up sound?

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
Can anyone point me to instructions for setting up audio that addresses kernel messages such as: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: fonts in tables

2003-01-27 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:23:56PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Thank you very much for your assistance Emma. > I hoped not to use style sheets because the w3m > version I am using does not seem to support CSS - > so I tried something in between - and hoped > for the best. > Is there something else

Re: partition is NOT CHECKED before mounting

2003-01-27 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:52:14PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > I've got this question: I recently added a partition > to the /etc/fstab file so it's mounted during boot > time. I haven't done that before and I probably made a > mistake somewhere. > > The partition is NOT checked before mounting -

Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I would boot from the cd/floppy in rescue mode (not from the kernel on the hard-disk) and then run fsck on each ext2/3 partition. hopefully it will be able to fix all the errors. This happens from time to time when you use non-journalistic file system. you should consider using reiserfs/xfs/jfs

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 23:27, will trillich wrote: > i've found an old (debian slink?) drive around the house, and > plugged it in -- but i can't mount most of the partitions! > > root# sfdisk -l /dev/hdb > > Disk /dev/hdb: 4956 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track > Warning: Th

setting up mysql-server

2003-01-27 Thread Ray
i seem to be missing part of the setup on this. i can't remotely connect to mysqld and it seems to have the TCP port disabled, but the config files seem to say it should be using the default tcp port. >a few lines from /etc/mysql/my.cnf [mysqld] user= mysql pid-file= /var/r

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