Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Waters
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > I had endless trouble setting up my SmartMedia reader. The key problem > was... > > I was putting the SmartMedia card in the wrong way up! > > I spent about a day messing about with /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, mount -t > msdos, this variable, that variab

Re: Patch to add resolution information to iscan

2003-07-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:14:24PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you for your interest in using our products and services. > > > > From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:47 AM > > To: PIPS News Release; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ross Boylan > > Subject:

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Joey Hess
Alan Connor wrote: > And pray tell just what are attachments doing on Usenet? If you shoose to read this list via usenet or other gateways, the burden is on you to do any conceptual shifts necessary. This includes not flaming people for complying with standard email etiquette even when it conflic

Re: system has started e-mailing me, cron demon

2003-07-28 Thread David selby
You might wanna chance those lines to "nice -19 run-parts --report /etc/cron.". I don't know if that's the problem, but it might be ;) Also, check in your cron directories to see if there's a crontab entry that restarts crontab. That's what's likely to be causing the problem. Crontab emails yo

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 01:14, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:55:24AM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: --snip-- > > Oh, Note that you'd be copying a LIVE partition. A logging filesystem > > like ext3 or XFS will take care in writing stuff to the drive in the > > right order. You're screwi

Network card not detected or listed in installation

2003-07-28 Thread ThinKer
Ok.. I have the disks partitioned and mounted. I am ready to install the base system, but when I installed the kernel and driver modules, my network card was not detected. I then went to configure device driver modules and selected 'net' for Drivers for network interface cards, and my card is not

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew McGuinness
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Waters wrote: | Hi list, | | I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia card (i | don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching on the web | suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage device and | th

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-28 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working syst

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:14:32PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Note that I'm recommending you run lilo while you're concerned about > > the MBR. It might work, but running LILO again gives you a bigger > > chance to get it to work > > Yes, I would think I'd need to do that. The RAID card i

Re: Newbie needs install help....

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 21:13, ThinKer wrote: > Hello all, > > What are the chances of someone chatting with me on this installation > that I am trying to perform. My original questions were concerning the > partitioning of my hard drives. I actually got beyond that and thought > that I had the ins

Re: Kicking users

2003-07-28 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:37:18AM -0400, Aaron wrote: > Hey ladies and gents- > > I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at > work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously > have root on my box, but I wonder if there is any "official" or > "proper" w

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:55, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 16:24:31 2003 > > > > > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:22, Alan Connor wrote: > > /var, /etc and /usr/bin, things can get sticky regarding symlinks. > > > > If there's a little shell script that can handle multiple

Re: only get packages that haven't changed in last 5 days

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:48, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I want to only upgrade packages that haven't changed on sid in the > last 5 days, but without date information in Packages.gz it isn't > easy... I suppose one could plaster something together with apt-get > --print-uris|...|xargs wget --spider ...

Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-28 Thread Marino Fernandez
Does anybody knows how to do this? I've learned in the net that, for example in Mandrake 9.1 you have to install a package with some scripts (i.e. for suspend suspend-scripts), and that latter you can invoke them from /usr/bin/pmsuspend... again, this in mandrake. In klaptop there is the confi

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:41, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Alan Connor wrote: > >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 20:12:58 2003 > >> > >> > >>On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:13:08PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > >> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:09:43 2003 > > > This is a multi-pa

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:55:24AM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > Can I build a new bare metal drive on /dev/hda using dd > > > >dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/hda > > > > Will that work with the hardware RAID array? If so will it also copy > > the MBR? > > Yep. Yep. > > > The destination drive

Re: Kicking users

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron wrote: > Subject: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell. > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:29:38 -0400 > > Hey ladies and gents- > > I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at > [...] Just eight minutes ago you posted the same note under a different subject line. Why post

Re: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron wrote: > I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at > work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I assume you had previously given this person a valid login on your system or otherwise they would not have been able to log in. > I obviously have root on m

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Alan Connor wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 20:12:58 2003 On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:13:08PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:09:43 2003 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --8222A093BEB3CE9D0AF16851 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:53:27PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I need to clone a disk. The source is a 3ware hardware RAID 1 array. > >From Linux it looks like /dev/sda > > $ mount > /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620

Re: make-kpkg question about version

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley wrote: > $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 --append_to_version=-xfs-athlon > kernel_image > $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 --append_to_version=-xfs-athlon > modules_image > > Now, when I want to run clean: > $ make-kpkg clean modules_clean > I get: > The

Re: local user halt

2003-07-28 Thread Andrew McGuinness
matt zagrabelny wrote: hello, is there a method for allowing (besides root) local users (ordinary users sitting at the keyboard of the computer) the ability to use the shutdown command? i dont want those logged in via ssh or other remote method having this capability. If you're running gdm, set Sy

Re: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:29, Aaron wrote: > Hey ladies and gents- > > I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at > work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously What's more important is, "How the heck did this person get a valid password for that mach

Opening account in gnucash

2003-07-28 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash and its dependencies are from sid. I have three accounts: 'Checking', 'Imbalance-USD', and 'Opening Balances'. I am able to open the last two just fine, but can't open the checking account. I click the 'Open' button when

Kicking users

2003-07-28 Thread Aaron
Hey ladies and gents- I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously have root on my box, but I wonder if there is any "official" or "proper" way to make a user leave the system? Something along the lines of a

RE: Patch to add resolution information to iscan

2003-07-28 Thread pipsnews
Thank you for your interest in using our products and services. (B (B (B> -Original Message- (B> From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:47 AM (B> To: PIPS News Release; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ross Boylan (B> Subject: Re: Patch to add resolution inf

I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-28 Thread Aaron
Hey ladies and gents- I had someone SSHed into my box the other day (my laptop) while at work and I wanted to screw with him by booting him off. I obviously have root on my box, but I wonder if there is any "official" or "proper" way to make a user leave the system? Something along the lines of a

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:28, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:01:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > About the symlinks that Ron mentions, I really don't know. Just have my own > > > experience to draw on. I guess if what you were cloning wasn't self-contained > > > that would b

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 20:25, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:09:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote: > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > > > One thing to watch about, though, is that syml

make-kpkg question about version

2003-07-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I just built a new kernel from kenel-sources, plus I built the ls-sensors modules So, to build the kernel and modules I used: $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 --append_to_version=-xfs-athlon kernel_image $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 --append_to_version=-xfs-athlon m

Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Waters
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:52 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Neal accidentally sent this message to me instead of to the list... > > ,[ Neil Lippman's message ] > | > > | > Did you try to mount a specific partition on the cam and the > reader > | > instead of the whole device, ie. 'mount /dev/s

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings! * Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Jul-28 16:33 AKDT]: > dd has never failed me. My situation is different than his, but I've > used it extensively. > > I have a Thinkpad, and there's no cost effective way to backup up 20G. > I bought a second, identical drive and a car

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 20:34:34 2003 > > Wait! I can get rid of ide-floppy. > Why there is nothing *REALLY* useful anymore. NO! You misunderstand. My floppy drive is the generic something-or-other device. I *LUV* my floppies (and they luv meee :-) > > > What's the unix module

regenerate Packages.gz

2003-07-28 Thread Rene Cunningham
Gday, Is there a Debian tool that will help me regenerate Packages.gz from a pool of packages? I can use dpkg-scanpackages in a script but since i have woody and sid packages in the same pool directory, the latest version is written to Packages.gz Script goes something like PKGDIR=`find pool -t

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 20:12:58 2003 > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:13:08PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:09:43 2003 > > > > > > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > --8222A093BEB3CE9D0AF16851 > > > Content-Ty

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Adrian Zimmer wrote: > with 2.2.20 I get > > eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xc6022000, 00:D0:59:24:04:C0, > IRQ 11. > eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 786d advertising 01e1. > > whereas with 2.4.18 I get > > eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1c00, 00:D0:59:24:04:

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:20:13AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think what you want then is an extra level of double quotes around the > backticks, thus: > > for file in *; do > cp "$file" "`echo "$file" | sed 's/^Copy of//'`" > done > > This is untested, t

Re: LDAP

2003-07-28 Thread charlie derr
Tom Allison wrote: If I install openLDAP, what tools do I use to configure the various databases? If you're converting accounts from an existing machine, you'll probably want to check out the migration tools from padl.com. For administration, it's pretty essential to understand the command lin

Re: local user halt

2003-07-28 Thread hashi
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:32:52PM -0500, matt zagrabelny wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:43, Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote: > > > is there a method for allowing (besides root) local users (ordinary > > > users sitting at the keyboard of the computer) the abilit

X doesn't like my display's 'sleep'...

2003-07-28 Thread Peter S. Hayes
Title: Message OK, I've put Debian onto my Dell Inspiron 8200 - over a period of months working out one little bug after another until it seems not-too-bad... but...   When the display goes into standby on battery and blanks to save power, any X window (I've tried most of the windows manager

Newbie needs install help....

2003-07-28 Thread ThinKer
Hello all, What are the chances of someone chatting with me on this installation that I am trying to perform. My original questions were concerning the partitioning of my hard drives. I actually got beyond that and thought that I had the installation working, when all of a sudden, it just froze o

aptitude and /etc/lilo.conf

2003-07-28 Thread J F
Based on the output from aptitude and my current lilo.conf, do you think I need to do anything to lilo.conf? Is aptitude going to put the new kernel in /boot? Will aptitude fix the link /vmlinuz ? I ran aptitude and it did a lot of things and then said: aptitude wrote: Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.20

Re: installing gnome2.2, broken packages

2003-07-28 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:24:44PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:56, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > > hello, > > > > i was running kde 3 on xfree 4.3 on my woody. i decided to try gnome2.2 and > > read that it requires xfree4.2.1. so i got the binaries of xf4.2 and > > inst

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:13:08PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:09:43 2003 > > > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --8222A093BEB3CE9D0AF16851 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:09:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote: > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > One thing to watch about, though, is that symlinks will remain pointing > back to the original "real" fil

Re: installing gnome2.2, broken packages

2003-07-28 Thread James Strandboge
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:56, Praveen Kallakuri wrote: > hello, > > i was running kde 3 on xfree 4.3 on my woody. i decided to try gnome2.2 and > read that it requires xfree4.2.1. so i got the binaries of xf4.2 and > installed the mandatory one's without overwriting my /etc and xdm/xinit > config f

Re: local user halt

2003-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 03:29:34PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > >On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote: > >>is there a method for allowing (besides root) local users (ordinary > >>users sitting at the keyboard of the computer) the ability to use the > >>shutdown command?

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:37:01PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the > > name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for > > .. in command but it splits up the l

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the > name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for > .. in command but it splits up the lines on spaces and not on line ends. > Any ideas? > > The files are

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:22, Alan Connor wrote: > There have been endless discussions about this on various linux groups, and > the consensus is that dd is not a good idea for this. dd has never failed me. My situation is different than his, but I've used it extensively. I have a Thinkpad, and

Re: 3 questions about pre-compiled kernels in woody

2003-07-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul E Condon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a set of CDs for 30r1 (woody) on i386. > I see in dselect that there are several packages that > use the 2.4.18 kernel. I have a classic pentium, which > seems to referred to as i586. There seem to be two > packages that provide kernel-ima

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:32, Alan Connor wrote: > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. Yes. dd can pick up partition information for this reason. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=512 will transfer across the partitions and the master boot record. It's not cle

installing gnome2.2, broken packages

2003-07-28 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hello, i was running kde 3 on xfree 4.3 on my woody. i decided to try gnome2.2 and read that it requires xfree4.2.1. so i got the binaries of xf4.2 and installed the mandatory one's without overwriting my /etc and xdm/xinit config files. i then bumped to 4.2.1 using its binaries using pretty much

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 16:24:31 2003 > > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:22, Alan Connor wrote: > /var, /etc and /usr/bin, things can get sticky regarding symlinks. > > If there's a little shell script that can handle multiple symlink > redirection, I'm not smart enough to think of it...

Re: Intel Hyper Threading on Linux..

2003-07-28 Thread Louie Miranda
thank you, i'll review them in a while. this is great help. -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Greg Folkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Louie Miranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "DebianUser list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:52 PM

3 questions about pre-compiled kernels in woody

2003-07-28 Thread Paul E Condon
I have a set of CDs for 30r1 (woody) on i386. I see in dselect that there are several packages that use the 2.4.18 kernel. I have a classic pentium, which seems to referred to as i586. There seem to be two packages that provide kernel-image for this chip: kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2 and kernel-image-

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:41, Alan Connor wrote: > They SEEM to all be necessary to me, Ron, but I am not really sure... > > > $ /sbin/lsmod > Module Size Used byNot tainted > agpgart20704 0 (autoclean) > ppp_deflate38912 0 (autoclean) > bsd_co

Re: Printing in Mozilla unstable

2003-07-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:51:38PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Are any "unstable" users on this list able to print (or even to > "print preview") from Mozilla? Any special tricks to make this work? What's so hard? The only thing I had to deal with was that Mozilla generates garbage Postsc

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:01:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > About the symlinks that Ron mentions, I really don't know. Just have my own > > experience to draw on. I guess if what you were cloning wasn't self-contained > > that would be something to deal with. Something for a little shell scri

only get packages that haven't changed in last 5 days

2003-07-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
I want to only upgrade packages that haven't changed on sid in the last 5 days, but without date information in Packages.gz it isn't easy... I suppose one could plaster something together with apt-get --print-uris|...|xargs wget --spider ... bleh, on a modem too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: bash: finding if mozilla is running

2003-07-28 Thread Aaron
On -5360-Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:21:52PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 11:30:06 +0200, David selby wrote: > > > I need to know if mozilla is running, if not I need to call it first ... > > seemed simple > > Yeah. That's why I use Galeon. I never un

Inventory Databases

2003-07-28 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I am wondering what advice people have about the following: Our company needs to keep track of purchased inventory (when purchased, how much, where it's located), etc. Also, we would want to keep a db on analogous products, who they are sold by, their prices, etc. Now, here is what the acoun

still can't install deb with PCMCIA NIC

2003-07-28 Thread Richard Lyons
In spite of previous help, I'm getting nowhere. I thought I had solved this by using the Linux Format coverdisk Morphix, which installed everything, recognised the NIC - all perfect. Only problem, when I installed it to the hard drive, the installer didn't set up lilo, and the system was unbo

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:22, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:14:20 2003 > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb

Re: java vm plugin under mozilla/galeon?

2003-07-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 05:44, Micha Feigin wrote: > Could mozplugger be causing this? No. It's JRE being compile with 2.95.4 vs 3.2.x deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./ That will allow you to grab a JRE compiled properly -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:36:30 2003 > > > Alan Connor wrote: > >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 09:19:38 2003 > >> > >> > >>On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 10:39, Alan Connor wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks to all. I've got 3.0 down to 15 megs of RAM with no X up and > > screen running,

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:32:16 2003 > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > > > > > > > > > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > Well, I think that'

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:13, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:09:43 2003 > > > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. This is the hint... > > --8222A093BEB3CE9D0AF16851 > > Content-Type: text/pla

Success:~> WindowMaker new 'applications' menu ROCKS !

2003-07-28 Thread Adam Bogacki
Yay ! It works ! I had some trouble with themes not installing correctly - I often had to manually put files into their individual directories and some simply did not work when installed. Also, wmakerconf kept crashing. Once I had manually (!) deleted them I slept on it and this morning ran /gen

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:14:20 2003 > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > > > > > > > > > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. > > Well, I think that'

Opening account in gnucash

2003-07-28 Thread Aaron Maxwell
I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash and its dependencies are from sid. I have three accounts: 'Checking', 'Imbalance-USD', and 'Opening Balances'. I am able to open the last two just fine, but can't open the checking account. I click the 'Open' button when

Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 15:09:43 2003 > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --8222A093BEB3CE9D0AF16851 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > --8222A093BEB3CE9D0AF16851 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset

Re: Upon boot, many strange and useless modules are loaded

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Bizarre. The funky little modules are due to the IDE rework that was merged into 2.4.21. The advantage is much better IDE support, but a side effect is that the IDE code got broken up into a ton of chipset specific modules. Is this in -testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: local user halt

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
matt zagrabelny wrote: hello, is there a method for allowing (besides root) local users (ordinary users sitting at the keyboard of the computer) the ability to use the shutdown command? i dont want those logged in via ssh or other remote method having this capability. thanks, matt zagrabelny Ch

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
Alan Connor wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 09:19:38 2003 On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 10:39, Alan Connor wrote: Thanks to all. I've got 3.0 down to 15 megs of RAM with no X up and screen running, and just two TTYs available, which is plenty. Next step is to rebuild my kernel and remove a LO

Re: firewall scripts

2003-07-28 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 28 July 2003 23:59, Tom Allison wrote: > I know that RedHat uses something called Bastille, > Suse has their own firewall script/gui thing. > > Does Debian have any firewall scripts or gui's that work for a Debian > configuration? Bastille is available via apt... -- Got Backup? -- T

Re: apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl?

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
ScruLoose wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:12:13PM +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: hi list, i'm running a webserver for a client who wants to add an online payment system to his webshop so i have to deploy a ssl-enabled webserver on the same machine. the question is now if i would upgrade the alre

Re: Identify dhcp client to server using hostname

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
Robert Ian Smit wrote: I am trying to allocate ip-addresses on my local network using dhcp3-server. I want a couple of systems to have a fixed address, while other system should get any ip that is still available. I have created a range of dynamic ip-numbers and have tried to find a way to identify

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LDAP

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
If I install openLDAP, what tools do I use to configure the various databases? I'm interested in NSS/PAM (passwd, group, hosts...) and also an LDAP address book for Mozilla. But I'm not even sure where to start RTFM-ing. help? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Brian White wrote: > I've been trying to stop kernel log messages (generally from iptables) > from going to the console, and thus making the console unusable for > login. I've tried different things, but they just keep popping up. I think you can disable kernel logs on consoles completely

firewall scripts

2003-07-28 Thread Tom Allison
I know that RedHat uses something called Bastille, Suse has their own firewall script/gui thing. Does Debian have any firewall scripts or gui's that work for a Debian configuration? -- I wonder if I should put myself in ESCROW!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

SSH & Connection reset by peer

2003-07-28 Thread tom r
I'm using SSH to tunnel thru my company's firewall to allow easy access to the servers inside the firewall when I'm at home. On the server side I issue this command: ssh -f -C -R2001:localhost:23 pctom sleep 8h this connects to my home pc, which has an external address via the cable modem. T

Re: java vm plugin under mozilla/galeon?

2003-07-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I checked that its pointing correctly: > > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin_oji.so -> > /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so > > and > > /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so -> > /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so >

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login

2003-07-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just

Re: corrupted dpkg?

2003-07-28 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:56:12AM +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote: > > I think i need to go > > into some file and either delete or modify the entry for mozilla but I'm > > not able to figure out which file it is. > > > those files you are seeking are in /var/lib/dpkg > backup this dir, then play w

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:59, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:53, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I need to clone a disk. The source is a 3ware hardware RAID 1 array. > > >From Linux it looks like /dev/sda > > > [snip] > I do it this way: > date; dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Adrian Zimmer
Thanks, I had already seen in dmesg and ifconfig that the ethernet was configured. There is a difference that I had not thought consequential: with 2.2.20 I get eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xc6022000, 00:D0:59:24:04:C0, IRQ 11. eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 sta

Can't Keep Kernel Log Messages From Console

2003-07-28 Thread Brian White
I've been trying to stop kernel log messages (generally from iptables) from going to the console, and thus making the console unusable for login. I've tried different things, but they just keep popping up. I have "iptables" lines like: iptables -A WATCH -m limit -j LOG --log-level warn --log-pr

limiting download speed

2003-07-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. My home computer (running Debian sid, kernel 2.4) is connected to a LAN and runs Apache to serve web pages and files to other computers in the LAN. Recently admins of the LAN told me to limit total download speed from my computer over http. Than means, if one person is downloading from my

voodooV, glxinfo and direct rendering: NO

2003-07-28 Thread davis
Hello When I run glxinfo, I get direct rendering no. here is my setup: relevant portion of /etc/modules.conf: alias /dev/dri/* tdfx I dont have a /dev/dri/card0 file but I think the above address that problem. lsmod output: Module Size Used byTainted: P sound

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:32, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > > > > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. One thing to watch about, though, is that symlinks will remain pointing back to the original "real" file,

Re: Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:46, Adrian Zimmer wrote: > I have version 2.2.20 (idepci downloaded) running OK (at runlevel 2). > > I have version 2.4.18 (compiled myself under 2.2.20) running sort-of OK > (again runlevel 2). > > One difference is that my self-configured/compiled version isn't est

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:32:06PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > > > > > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. Well, I think that's the reason to use dd. I just want to clone the drive and not have to p

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:53, Bill Moseley wrote: > I need to clone a disk. The source is a 3ware hardware RAID 1 array. > >From Linux it looks like /dev/sda > Can I build a new bare metal drive on /dev/hda using dd > >dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/hda I don't know, but I have (possibly useles

Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 28 13:31:19 2003 > > Use cp -a . Dd is just a dumb parrot and knows nothing about filesystems. Alan -- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam from your life with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See the thread MSP on comp.mail.misc for the la

Kernel 2.2 and 2.4: boot differences?

2003-07-28 Thread Adrian Zimmer
I have version 2.2.20 (idepci downloaded) running OK (at runlevel 2). I have version 2.4.18 (compiled myself under 2.2.20) running sort-of OK (again runlevel 2). One difference is that my self-configured/compiled version isn't establishing a network connection. Here are my thoughts as to w

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the > name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for > .. in command but it splits up the lines on spaces and not on line ends. > Any ideas? > > The files are n

Re: batch renaming for filenames with space

2003-07-28 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Sunday 27 July 2003 12:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the > name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for > .. in command but it splits up the lines on spaces and not on line ends. > Any ideas? > > The fil

Re: local user halt

2003-07-28 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:43, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, matt zagrabelny wrote: > > is there a method for allowing (besides root) local users (ordinary > > users sitting at the keyboard of the computer) the ability to use the > > shutdown command? i dont want those logged in via ssh or

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