Re: crack traces in /var ?

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: Would you think with deleting the /var/bobsdata dir, the crontab entry and my --reinstall I have stopped being a DDoS client and can skip a new install of my m

libdvdread and libdvdcss

2003-07-24 Thread marsu
Hi there, I am currently using Debian Woody which comes with libdvdread2. When trying to access a DVD it complains that libdvdcss.so.0 was not found. Installed was libdvdcss.so.2. Making a symbolic link libdvdcss.so.0 to libdvdcss.so.2 did not help (only the error message changed...). After I inst

Re: Problem with Files Sharing in One System

2003-07-24 Thread Nick Hastings
* Yuhanes Tjandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030725 14:34]: > Hi, > I need to share some files between certain users in a linux system. > Therefore I created a new group and I put those users in that group. > > The problem is every user in that group saves/creates a file with > his/her own group. Rig

Couldn't log in after upgrading ssh, libpam

2003-07-24 Thread SEBASTIEN LAWRENCE BAILARD
After upgrading the following packages, I was unable to login to my machine, either by X or at a virtual terminal; the system behaved as though I was using an incorrect password. My lilo boot is not password protected, so I was able to log in using "init=/bin/bash rw" boot parameters, and then upd

Re: Including tulip drivers in a new kernel

2003-07-24 Thread Nick Hastings
* Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030725 12:45]: > > I compiled a new kernel for a PC, but in doing so I lost the tulip > drivers for an ethernet card. How do I get them back? One of the > ethernet cards in the system needs it (the other works fine) Lost? Do you mean you forgot to select

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:53:04PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they give it away > > for free from FTP, why complain? > > > > IBM abandoned its own version of Unix in favor of using GNU/Linux. IBM

Problem with Files Sharing in One System

2003-07-24 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
Hi, I need to share some files between certain users in a linux system. Therefore I created a new group and I put those users in that group. The problem is every user in that group saves/creates a file with his/her own group. Right now, with administrator privilege, I can change it either manua

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9, and they give it away > for free from FTP, why complain? Mostly because their distro feels sloppy and more of a means to make a buck rather than

Apache:mod_ssl:Error: Private key not found.

2003-07-24 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello list: I just finished the installation of libapache-mod-ssl and everything seems to have gone ok until I configured httpd.conf to recognize mod_ssl. I tried to stop and start apache as the mod_ssl "readme" documentation says to do at the end of the configuration, but when I try to start apac

Re: Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:46:10AM -0400, Bill K wrote: > Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome > (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user. Don't log in as root ever. Use your normal use

openbabel

2003-07-24 Thread Andrea Tasso
hello, is there someone here who is using openbabel ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific > instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going > ina few minutes using alien and dpkg. Ah, c

Re: crack traces in /var ?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:19:46PM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > Would you think with deleting the /var/bobsdata dir, the crontab entry > and my --reinstall I have stopped being a DDoS client and can skip a new > install of my machine? Any id

Network speed (Wiring)

2003-07-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:58, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:46:19AM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're > > > running at 100, then it could be full or half. If yo

Re: incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:09:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g > desktops in /etc/rc2.d. Why not just dpkg --purge kdm xdm gdm? No point in having them installed if you're not

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities > > to begin with. > > Sure their is. Countersuit.

Re: Network speed

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:46:19AM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > > If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're > > running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network cables > > only have four leads connected, you're

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:49:57AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > Dosshell was more likely another example of Microsoft's way of finding > new features for Dos/Windows - find a feature/program that you like > and imitate it. It wouldn't surprise me if they

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities > to begin with. Sure their is. Countersuit. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :prou

Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1, PCMCIA modem

2003-07-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Thursday 24 July 2003 10:38 pm, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 4:29 pm, Christopher Swingley wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to get 2.6.0-test1 running on a laptop. > > I've gotten it to run fine on many desktop systems, but on the laptop I > > just

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:24:54AM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > It looks like RH will become more debian like in the sense that they > > > will alow the community to mantain pac

Re: Advise on avoiding spammers

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:29:14PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > I run my own small email server for my home network using sendmail > (fully patched), I have set it up to deny relaying for another domain > apart from my own, just lately I've been getting a lo

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-24 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Since there's still only(?) GPL s/w in RH9... X is GPL now? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1, PCMCIA modem

2003-07-24 Thread Marino Fernandez
On Thursday 24 July 2003 4:29 pm, Christopher Swingley wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm trying to figure out how to get 2.6.0-test1 running on a laptop. > I've gotten it to run fine on many desktop systems, but on the laptop I > just can't seem to figure out what I'm supposed to do in order to get a > P

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:24:54AM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > It looks like RH will become more debian like in the sense that they > > will alow the community to mantain packages, and to participate in > > the development cycle of their produ

Re: Icons dissapearing in SId / KDE

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:22:13PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: > See below. Nobody with some clue? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `.

Re: Using exim4 with fetchmail warning

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:53:18AM +0200, franck routier wrote: > The risk, as I understand it, is a deny of service attack... but if it's > a dialup machine, I guess it's no big deal. Another way would be to run > a script with exim4 -ql on a regula

Re: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:21, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have Woody installed on an IBM 340CSE laptop with a 486/50, 12MB of RAM, > and a 10GB drive. It currently boots, but hits swap the instant I start the > PCMCIA card services to bring up wireless networking; even a "ps axw" starts > grinding in

Re: RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:24:54AM +0200, Alfredo Valles wrote: > It looks like RH will become more debian like in the sense that they > will alow the community to mantain packages, and to participate in > the development cycle of their products. I wo

Re: Including tulip drivers in a new kernel

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Schlansker
Actually, I just found some modules online. I compiled them, and installed tulip.o. Should this work? (I can't verify because it's not working - I don't know whether it's the driver or the IP config) The device appears as eth1 now; it didn't before I installed it (there's two ethernet cards) On

Re: Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-24 Thread Charles-Roberts
Kirk Strauser wrote: I have Woody installed on an IBM 340CSE laptop with a 486/50, 12MB of RAM, and a 10GB drive. It currently boots, but hits swap the instant I start the PCMCIA card services to bring up wireless networking; even a "ps axw" starts grinding in single-user mode. Now, I don't expect

Trying to setup a wireless keyboard + mouse

2003-07-24 Thread J.F.Gratton
Hi everybody, I'm trying to setup a Debian (unstable) system running on a 2.4.21 kernel with a mouse + keyboard wireless (RF) combo. The model is a G-Tech (China) K-3523 combo. I can get the keyboard to work, I get this entry in syslog: Jul 24 21:48:46 oslo kernel: input0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboar

Re: Unstable Packages

2003-07-24 Thread Charles-Roberts
Marcelo Macchi wrote: Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other packages that are unstable. I want to know if there is a way to setup my apt

Re: Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Jeremy T. Bouse (Thu 24 Jul 02003 at 02:35:12PM -0700): > For using my Cisco Aironet 350 on my Sony Vaio laptop that goes > between several WiFi networks using WEP I just created a script that I > use in /etc/network/interfaces that handles the mapping for me... The > script basic

Wanted to build: bare minimum Debian system

2003-07-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have Woody installed on an IBM 340CSE laptop with a 486/50, 12MB of RAM, and a 10GB drive. It currently boots, but hits swap the instant I start the PCMCIA card services to bring up wireless networking; even a "ps axw" starts grinding in single-user mode. Now, I don't expect wonders from this l

Re: Multiple IPs on one NIC

2003-07-24 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:05:52PM -0600, Francisco Castellon wrote: > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.8 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.1.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > gateway 192.168.1.1 > > auto eth0:0 > iface eth0:0 inet static >

Re: Running processes unniced as a normal user.

2003-07-24 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Mike! At Thursday 24 July 2003 22:50 Mike Mestnik wrote: > I was hoping there was an easy unix(debian,posix) way of doing this. > Running processes unniced as > a normal user. AFAIN I need to be suid0 for this, but I can't find > any examples in yahoo. > > The problem is that I'm using A

Multiple IPs on one NIC

2003-07-24 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello: I am trying to set up SSL to run on my Apache server with virtual hosts. The problem is that using SSL with virtual hosts requires you to use ip-based virtual hosts otherwise it will not work properly with named-based hosts. So what I am trying to do is set up my Debian machine to be able t

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-24 Thread Kenneth Jacker
>> Sorry I can't remember the *exact* error message ... I today found the error messages caused by "apt-get upgrade": The following packages have been kept back libpng3 x-window-system-core xbase-clients xfree86-common

Re: Unstable Packages

2003-07-24 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Marcelo! At Friday 25 July 2003 01:20 Marcelo Macchi wrote: > Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last > version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the > wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other > packages that are unstable

Re: Why pppoe bothers to bring the interface up?

2003-07-24 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shaul" == Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaul> /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.dsl has the following lines: # Bring the interface up /sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE up Shaul> Why bother? Isn't /etc/rc0.d/S35networking guaranteed to Shaul> run before the pppoe has a chan

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2003-07-24 Thread Wilko Fokken
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Re: [Fwd: nautilus keeps scanning mount points]

2003-07-24 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Micha! At Wednesday 23 July 2003 09:20 Micha Feigin wrote: > I am running nautilus version 2.2.4 (from unstable) and autofs (ver > 4) The problem is that Nautilus keeps probing the mount points which > consequently keeps mounting the floppy and cdrom etc. This in turn > occasionally pops up

Instalação.

2003-07-24 Thread WTC
Como faço para criar um disquete de boot, para instalação via HD?> Qual o diretório da imagem <> Qual o diretório do programa q cria o disquete

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-24 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ian! At Thursday 24 July 2003 22:50 Ian Melnick wrote: > Well, all the users in shadow -- their passwords expire in 9 > days. The machine account doesn't have anything specified in the > password expiration field; I assume that must mean that it just does > not expire at all. For the us

Unstable Packages

2003-07-24 Thread Marcelo Macchi
Hi there, I'm Marcelo from Argentina and I have download the last version of wine for my debian linux, but I have the problem that the wine libraries and all the packages of new versions use other packages that are unstable. I want to know if there is a way to setup my apt program to downloa

Re: installation of package installer

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:02:53PM -0400, Sam Virgillo wrote: > I have an embedded version of Debian running on an Intel 486 single board > computer. I cannot find the Apt-get program or the dpkg program to install > packages. If I download these apps from your site they are in the .deb > package

RE: Hercules 9800 Pro and XFree under unstable.

2003-07-24 Thread Rus Hughes
> After installing the .deb you should cd into > /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod/ and edit the file make.sh. > > You should see something like: > > # assing default location of linux kernel headers > # *** adapt to your individual setup if needed *** > #linuxincludes=/usr/include# no config info

Re: PCMCIA NIC -was "do I need to re-install from scratch?"

2003-07-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 24 July 2003 17:19, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:14, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop > > without an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC > > (PCcard), I cannot get any connection - when I try > > # i

Including tulip drivers in a new kernel

2003-07-24 Thread Steven Schlansker
I compiled a new kernel for a PC, but in doing so I lost the tulip drivers for an ethernet card.  How do I get them back?  One of the ethernet cards in the system needs it (the other works fine)

Re: alsa-source invalid group

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:10, Jeff wrote: > Micha Feigin, 2003-Jul-24 23:41 +0300: > > If this is the debian alsa-source package look under > > /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.gz for directions. > > > > Specificly enter you kernel's top directory and enter > > make-kpkg --revision 0.1 --added-mod

Re: Adaptec 2940UW Pro

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Dersey
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:16:04AM -0500, Frank wrote: > I have an Adaptec 2940UW Pro installed and have installed many OS's on > my system. However, the Debian tells me to "take a hike" when I try to > install on my system. I know that there has to be support for this > controller as every othe

Re: Creating a patched binary package

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:17, Paul Worrall wrote: > Hi all, > > I wish to create and install a patched version of fetchmail. I would > like to take the source package plus the patch file and produce my own > binary package. What is the best way to do this? > > -- > Paul > You may try apt-get s

Re: setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Todd Pytel
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:06:37 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I'm using AFS on the University of North Carolina campus. Much about AFS is specific to your institution. I'll make some guesses, but you need to talk to your IT department. > 1) When using an afs client, th

Re: virtual terminals

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 08:52, Jeff Wiegley wrote: > The file you probably want is /etc/inittab. > > the lines in my (unstable) setup that control the virtual > terminals are: > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 > 4:2

Re: Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
For using my Cisco Aironet 350 on my Sony Vaio laptop that goes between several WiFi networks using WEP I just created a script that I use in /etc/network/interfaces that handles the mapping for me... The script basically scans the network and tries to match an ESSID it finds from scanning

Re: ports and www.debian.org

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
ouch - I accidentally had blocked the host which I could unblock unknowingly with another rule. Sorry. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation of package installer

2003-07-24 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:10:07 +0200, Sam Virgillo wrote: > I have an embedded version of Debian running on an Intel 486 single > board computer. I cannot find the Apt-get program or the dpkg program > to install packages. If I download these apps from your site they are > in the .deb package form

Re: [Fwd: nautilus keeps scanning mount points]

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 02:13, Mark Roach wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:10, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I am running nautilus version 2.2.4 (from unstable) and autofs (ver 4) > > The problem is that Nautilus keeps probing the mount points which consequently > > keeps > > mounting the floppy and cdro

Linux 2.6.0-test1, PCMCIA modem

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! I'm trying to figure out how to get 2.6.0-test1 running on a laptop. I've gotten it to run fine on many desktop systems, but on the laptop I just can't seem to figure out what I'm supposed to do in order to get a PCMCIA modem to work (the laptop has internal eth0, and a Winmodem).

Re: cron, won't change time !

2003-07-24 Thread David selby
Shawn Lamson wrote: On Thu, July 24 at 8:13 AM EDT David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that

Re: Unable to configure PS/2 Mouse in woody!

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 21:00, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > SRIKANTH NS wrote: > > > I installed debian woody (3.0 r0)after wiping RH7.3. Machine Celeron > > 900MHz, 128 MB RAM, i815e M/B ( Kobian brand ,16MB shared RAM) already > > having Win98 > > and MDK9.1. > > > > Installation went alri

Re: root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 17:23, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:52:52AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > On 23 Jul 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:45, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > > > > With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root > > > >

Re: make menuconfig

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:31, john gennard wrote: > Normally, I've used make config for kernel recompiling. > > I've decided to move a Woody installation to the 2.4.x > kernels (2.4.21 in fact) and use make menuconfig so > that I can 'go back' to alter mistakes. > > The compilation went fine (I th

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-24 Thread Ian Melnick
Well, all the users in shadow -- their passwords expire in 9 days. The machine account doesn't have anything specified in the password expiration field; I assume that must mean that it just does not expire at all. For the user accounts, in the following field, is a 7, representing that 7 days b

Running processes unniced as a normal user.

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Mestnik
I was hoping there was an easy unix(debian,posix) way of doing this. Running processes unniced as a normal user. AFAIN I need to be suid0 for this, but I can't find any examples in yahoo. The problem is that I'm using ANDeamon that puts gkrellm at 15(nice:), this is what I like. What I don't

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 24 13:20:34 2003 > ... > Description: Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - normal > version Midnight Commander is a feature-rich file manager. It has mouse > support in a linux console and in an xterm. It started as a Norton > Commander clone but now i

Wireless access point association daemon?

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Hood
I have a laptop with an 802.11b card. When I am in the vicinity of an access point (AP) I can see the AP's details by running "iwlist IFACE scan". However, in order to associate to APs with encryption switched on I need to set the encryption key using "iwconfig IFACE enc KEY". My question is: h

video4linux (quickcam) on unstable - /dev/???

2003-07-24 Thread Chris Searle
Unstable running the latest unstable devfs. Just downloaded kernel-source-2.4.21 and qce-source. Built the kernel with make-kpkg and got two deb files: kernel-image-2.4.21_10.00.Custom_i386.deb and qce-modules-2.4.21_0.40d-2+2.4.21+10.00.Custom_i386.deb. Installed - rebooted. lsmod shows: Mo

setting up an openafs server on Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I just sent the following, rather clueless, and somewhat Debian-specific message to the openafs-info mailing list. If anyone has any insights to share they would be welcome. Does anyone here have any experience setting up an openafs server on Debian and would be willing to share his

Re: how do i type my own words

2003-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:53, James wrote: What the heck does that mean? Is it zen? -- +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

installation of package installer

2003-07-24 Thread Sam Virgillo
I have an embedded version of Debian running on an Intel 486 single board computer. I cannot find the Apt-get program or the dpkg program to install packages. If I download these apps from your site they are in the .deb package format and I have no way to install them (catch 22). Can I get just

Creating a patched binary package

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Worrall
Hi all, I wish to create and install a patched version of fetchmail. I would like to take the source package plus the patch file and produce my own binary package. What is the best way to do this? -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

how do i type my own words

2003-07-24 Thread James
 

Re:Samba Problem

2003-07-24 Thread Don Nash
I snipped this from the samba How-To at samba.org: encrypt passwords is necessary unless you need to provide support for Windows 95/NT computers. It's recommended that you read ENCRYPTION.txt, WIN95.txt, and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. The default is "no", although most people will want

abcde is failing me

2003-07-24 Thread Antonio RodrX
If I run it as root, it works good. If I run it as user, not so. I've tweaked the $HOME/.abcde.conf and have been able to make the list of errors get smaller, but still. Next I copy what I keep getting. It seems as if cdparanoia is not working fully for the user. However, at the command prompt i

Re: x-pstn header?

2003-07-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:54:52 -0500 Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Steve Lamb: > > Does anyone know what puts the x-pstn header into mail > I believe it's Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service That would be it. Thanks for the help. -- Steve C. Lamb

solved alsa and alsaconf problem with kernel 2.6.0-test1

2003-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
This problem came up in the thread concerning kernel 2.6.0-test1 and the alsa problem. Apparently alsaconf expects the kernel modules to end with .o but the ending was change somewhere along the 2.5 kernel line to .ko (don't know where exactly but certainly appears with 2.5.75 and 2.5.69). A crude

Re: Need GNU-based live CD [WAS - Re: Important!]

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Sunil wrote up a step by step account of modifying Knoppix at: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue87/sunil.html HTH, Patrick. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't configure authentication in exim (SOLVED!)

2003-07-24 Thread Francesc Oller
The problem was that Lotus Domino smtp server answers to EHLO AUTH with 250-AUTH=LOGIN The equal sign (=) is non-standard, should be a blank as per specs, but this is common practice in some Windows related MUAs, MTAs. exim author Philip Hazel (with good reasons) refuses to change exim's code t

Restore a debian backup

2003-07-24 Thread Erhard Schultchen
Hi, I'm looking for the right way to restore a backuped debian system: The main system ist archived by "dar", excluding all binaries in /sbin, /bin and the complete /usr directory. There is a list of alle installed packages, retrieved by dpkg --get-selection The backup medium (harddisk) contains a

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Paul Johnson wrote: Anything's gotta be better than what I've got right now...anybody know the ETA of seeing this in Debianized form? Check out the release notes for the driver. They provide specific instructions on how to get the RPM install with Debian. I got it going ina few minutes usi

Re: OT: card catalog system for public library?

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
I just happened to have the following message still around, because I'm interested in cataloguing systems. I haven't tried it at all, but it might fit your needs: Date: 03 Sep 2002 19:14:20 +0200 From: tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANNOUNCE] a library software toolkit

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-24 Thread Antonio Rodr
Hey Christophe, you seem to be the man. I have a Sony DVD camcorder (DCR TRV 33). Are there any USB recognitions plans for it? I think firewire already works there, I am not sure... Thanks On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a flash card reader which is designed to read > from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying > to get working with debian. I plugged it into my > linux box with a flash card with

Re: make-kpkg fails on changelog with wrong name after patch -SOLVED

2003-07-24 Thread Mark C
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:50, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > You can also use patch -p1 path_to_path in the /usr/src/linux directory > to apply the patch and then use steps 5 & 6. > That's what i did to apply the debian-logo patch. It also didn't work > when using the --added-patches switch so i had to

Re: OT: card catalog system for public library?

2003-07-24 Thread Favio Garcia
You should check the Koha libray system at www.koha.org Cheers On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Henry House wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > My local public library wants to replace its antiquated card catalog system > with something completely modern. Unfortunately, their re

All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Loren M Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying to get working with debian. I plugged it into my linux box with a flash card with some data on it and linux detected the device being attached a

Re: Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:46:10AM -0400, Bill K wrote: > Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with > gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root > user. Good, that's by design. Don't use X as root, really. (There's a flag in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf to

Re: Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Bill K wrote: Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user. This is the normal default behaviour, as you would normally never need to do this. If you feel you must, there is a setting in the gdm con

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-24 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:25:23PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and above video cards. Anything's

Re: do I need to re-install from scratch?

2003-07-24 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:14, Richard Lyons wrote: > Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop without > an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC (PCcard), I > cannot get any connection - when I try > # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > I get > SI

OT: card catalog system for public library?

2003-07-24 Thread Henry House
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My local public library wants to replace its antiquated card catalog system with something completely modern. Unfortunately, their response to my local LUG's offers of help is that they want software that is off-the-shelf and used by other libraries, n

do I need to re-install from scratch?

2003-07-24 Thread Richard Lyons
Can anyone advise me? I installed Woody from CD on a laptop without an internet connection. Now, when I plug in the NIC (PCcard), I cannot get any connection - when I try # ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.7 netmask 255.255.255.0 up I get SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface

Logging into gdm as root

2003-07-24 Thread Bill K
Hi. I just installed debian woody and have gdm installed along with gnome (and sawfish). For some reason I cannot log into X as the root user. Furthermore, I cannot use pon to establish a ppp connection as the non-root user. Does anyone have any solutions to either of these problems. Thanks. --

Re: First mail from my Linux

2003-07-24 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:31:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:33:53PM -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > You may not want to hear this, but I far prefer > > Midnight Commander (mc) on a virtual console. I think > > it looks better and is easier to use than a

error trying to upgrade gzip

2003-07-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm trying to upgrade gzip, but it keeps aborting with this error message; sudo aptitude install gzip Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: apache apache-common attr automake1.7 bash cpp cvs d

Re: x-pstn header?

2003-07-24 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Steve Lamb: > Does anyone know what puts the x-pstn header into mail I believe it's Trend Micro Spam Prevention Service -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. - Edwin Percy Whipple pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: make-kpkg fails on changelog with wrong name after patch -SOLVED

2003-07-24 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op do 24-07-2003, om 16:58 schreef Mark C: > I have now managed to solve it, it seems a bit weird way, but it works, > and I've tried it around 6 times now > (after each time rm -rf kernel-source-2.4.18). > > 1. extract kernel-source > 2. copy over .config to kernel-source top level directory > 3.

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-24 Thread christophe barbe
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 07:47:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > If only, I could get the gphoto2 cvs debs, then my Canon A70 would be > easily recognised. It's your lucky day. You can find gphoto2 packages from the last release candidate at: http://cattlegrid.net/~christophe/gphoto2/ Please rep

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