Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 01:11, Andre Volmensky wrote: > Hello all, > > I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a > firewall on some of our clients networks. > > What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows > with WinRoute on it, or even a hard

Re: swsusp for Debian was: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:56:09AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > AFAIK swspnd has been integrated into acpi. For kernle 2.4.21 you need > the acpi patch though, it is not included in the partial acpi support in > the kernel. > On the debian version of the kernel you will get a lot of regects, > main

Re: legacy hostname problem

2003-07-30 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, wsykes.lists wrote: > All, > > I have a Debian host that used to be called dnimail. > I have since changed the name to mail. > I did this by editing the /etc/host and /etc/hostname file. > > when i ping dnimail i get "unknown host dnimail" > when I ping mail i get icmp echo

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

2003-07-30 Thread David selby
Stephen Touset wrote: Did you try restarting anacron when you made the /etc/anacrontab changes? The reason it's working now is probably because you added that line into /etc/cron.d/anacron, and it restarted the next time it came across that. Try taking out /etc/cron.d/anacron and see if it s

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jeffrey Hartmann wrote: > I run a small server that is used for myself and some friends and family to > host email, webpages, etc. > > So can anyone give me some idea of what they run, or suggestions of what to > use that could be configured to do a lot of this stuff? Ease o

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 00:44, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Agung Suyono wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm a new Debian user. I got a problem on istallation. My network > > device, Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, was not detected. > > When I tried to configure it using "Configure Device Dr

Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-30 Thread Andre Volmensky
Hello all, I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a firewall on some of our clients networks. What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like Windows with WinRoute on it, or even a hardware based firewall. What are the disadvantages etc. I know I am a

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Agung Suyono wrote: Hi All, I'm a new Debian user. I got a problem on istallation. My network device, Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, was not detected. When I tried to configure it using "Configure Device Driver Module" during installation process, it asked me to enter a command li

Re: CD Boot Problem

2003-07-30 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Mustafa Al-Shawaf wrote: > I am trying to install Debian on my computer. I used jigdo to get the > iso. Then I burned the iso to cd. When I try to boot from the cd, > the drive spins up then spins down a lot. [ ... snip ... ] > The drive works well with other cds though.

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Nick Hastings
* Agung Suyono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030731 13:32]: > About the kernel and output of lspci, I'm afraid I can not answer > because I don't know how to obtain the information about the kernel > and there's no meaningful output when I type lspci from the console. No meaningfull output from lspci!

Re: combining multiple ip's into one variable on iptables script?

2003-07-30 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Mark C wrote: > I'm running a firewall using iptables on each server, these are just > standalone firewalls they then have to go through my main firewall after > woulds to go to their final destinations (just do not ask why ;)). > > As each pc will have to use apt-get get get

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi Agung, Agung writes: > The error message that I got was: > > = > Installing module 8139too. If the device isn't there, or isn't > confugred correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a > minute. The reason you are receiving this error me

Re: Problem with ifconfig

2003-07-30 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> I am having some problem that I don't understand with ifconfig: How is the interface brought up ? What is the content of /etc/network/interfaces ? > RX packets:26802 errors:22859 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 ^ Something is wrong with this if, for sure... Quickly,

Re: limiting download speed

2003-07-30 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 do

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
Agung Suyono wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks Antony for your response. > > The error message that I got was: > > = > Installing module 8139too. If the device isn't there, or isn't > confugred correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a > minute. > > /li

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Agung Suyono
Hi, Thanks Antony for your response. The error message that I got was: = Installing module 8139too. If the device isn't there, or isn't confugred correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute. /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net/8139too.o:

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 22:08, Agung Suyono wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a new Debian user. I got a problem on istallation. My network > device, Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, was not detected. > When I tried to configure it using "Configure > Device Driver Module" during installation

Re: my treo won't sync

2003-07-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:24, Tom Vier wrote: > i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes > it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char > dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right after > hitting the sync

Re: can't unmount cdrom

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
Micha Feigin wrote: > I am using kernel 2.6.0-test1 with acpi patches. If it worked in 2.4, you might want to take the issues to the linux-kernel mailing list. There will be a lot more people there testing this version. A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

can't unmount cdrom

2003-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I am mounting my cd as scsi emulation (its a burner) and if I open it with nautilus the device locks up and won't let me unmount the cdrom even if I close just about every possible process on the computer claiming that it can't be unmounted since its being used. The cdrom is being mounted through a

acpi S3 sleep state locks on wakeup

2003-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
When I try to send my laptop to sleep using the S3 state: echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep it shuts down properly and the green power light turns flashing red (as is supposed to) Pressing any button wakes up the computer, only the screen is blank and backlight is off, and the hardisk light is constantl

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:12:52PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote: > > > My question remains what's the best way to manage unofficial backports > > without having much trouble. I how do others do this? > > Cautiously, with a restorable backup.

Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
Agung Suyono wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a new Debian user. I got a problem on istallation. My network > device, Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, was not detected. > When I tried to configure it using "Configure > Device Driver Module" during installation process, it asked me to > enter a

Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

2003-07-30 Thread Agung Suyono
Hi All, I'm a new Debian user. I got a problem on istallation. My network device, Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter, was not detected. When I tried to configure it using "Configure Device Driver Module" during installation process, it asked me to enter a command line argument. The i

my treo won't sync

2003-07-30 Thread Tom Vier
i've tried both pilot-xfer (from pilot-link) and kpilot. neither recongizes it. my visor platinum works fine. there is the minor problem of the usb char dev not showing up til you hit the button. if i run pilot-xfer right after hitting the sync button, it works for the visor. treo just isn't seen.

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-30 Thread Abdul Latip
> I'm running Debian testing and Evolution 1.0.5. It seems > that no matter what I do I cannot get the 'Spell check > document..." menu option to become enabled. > I have aspell installed, as well as gnome-spell. Here is what I did: I went back to woody plus backports instead of sarge :). But,

Re: appletalk

2003-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 22:02, Louie Miranda wrote: > anyone can give me some info about Linux on Appletalk network? > > -- > Thank you, > Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Netatalk Baby! Works and ROCKS... MacOS 8+ through OSX. You'll see. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://w

Re: php4 and apache

2003-07-30 Thread Paul Brossier
it's true, you have to do it by hand indeed. a dialog like if it is by purpose, it would be wise to warn the user dialog --msgbox "Warning: you still need to edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf to \ enable php4" 6 $COLUMNS but when you look at it, it can potentially be a small security hole, or

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

2003-07-30 Thread Neal Lippman
OK, here's what I notice: in /dev, your /dev/sd* device entries are correctly set up with block major device number 8, as is the case for the first (I think) 33 scsi disk devices. The output of /proc/devices, however, does not show that you have a block major device 8 entry, which should show the

appletalk

2003-07-30 Thread Louie Miranda
anyone can give me some info about Linux on Appletalk network? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-30 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 > backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list > > # XFree 4.2 > deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free

Re: arts Server Problem - only running as root

2003-07-30 Thread Paul Brossier
i usually do this after on a freshly installed debian : $ for group in audio floppy cdrom; do sudo addgroup $USER $group done (you don't need sudo, just run as root and change $USER to the user you want to modify). other groups, such as adm and src, can be useful to the administrator

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-30 Thread Titus Barik
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:35:17PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Also here is requisite stuff I have installed: > > > I hope this helps out. Hi, It may have nothing to do with the dictionary packages at all; and, being that I'm using version 1.0.5, I'm sure that this has been fixed in future ver

Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote: > My question remains what's the best way to manage unofficial backports > without having much trouble. I how do others do this? Cautiously, with a restorable backup. I hold some packages too ("=" in aptitude). If there's a better way, I'm intere

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:24, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:08, Greg Folkert wrote: > I followed this. It added 'gnome-spell' to my install, saying the > others were already up to date. > > When I go into the spelling configuration tab in Evolution, there are no > language

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:24, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:08, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > aptitude install libaspell15 aspell gnome-spell > > > > Will get you aspell, aspell-en (ia, ib and ic versions), pspell and > > gnome-spell > > I followed this. It added 'gnome-spe

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:39:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thanks. Does sid's 1.0.5-1 work? Yes, seems to be working for me. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:51:49PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote: > > I went through the same steps and mindset but after reading > > other posts about "nfs problem", I back-reved my > > nfs-kernel-server and my problems went away. > > Thanks. Is there a straightforward way for doing that? Go to snaps

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:08, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:51, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > > > Make sure you're running the most recent ones or else > > > downgrade to 1.0.3-1. > > > # dpkg -l | grep nfs > > ii nfs-c

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:37:52PM -0700, Jeffrey Hartmann wrote: > I'm currently using sendmail, qpopper, and openwebmail. Although this setup > works, it's lacking in some features I would like. > > Requirements (mostly standard stuff): > > 1) maildirs - I've been told that maildirs is less C

(OT) eth card malfunction - rtl8139c

2003-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
This is OT but couldn't get answear on the sources I found and was hoping someone can point me in a better direction or is knowledgeable and kind enough to help. I have an onboard realtech 8139c ethernet card (sony vaio laptop). I used ethtool and nictools-pci to diagnose. It seems that the card t

Re: swsusp for Debian was: Activating ACPI supend and ACPIHibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > > Look here for starters. > > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html > > > > My laptop only gives: > > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep > > S0 S3 S4 S5 > > > > so no acpi sle

Re: LANG in /etc/environment and in .bashrc

2003-07-30 Thread Robin Gerard
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:27:00AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Robin Gerard (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I would like to understand why, when I set LANG to C, in > > /etc/environment and LANG to fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 in my .bashrc, after the > > login, I can't write te letters wit

Installing Deb 3.0r1 on a Dell PE6450

2003-07-30 Thread Brad Tarver
How do I get the drivers for my Perc3/DC card loaded using the CD-ROM installer? -- Brad Tarver, CCNA Network Administrator Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy LLP 188 East Capitol Street Suite 1200 Jackson MS 39201 United States Main 601 960 8600 Direct 601 960 3155 Fax 601 960 3177 Cell 601 668

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jeffrey Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be nice to be able to setup the filters from the MUA, but I'm > guessing thats going to be pretty rare or impossible to find. I believe sieve (with Cyrus imap) can do this. At least, Gnus claims support for it. I don't know if any other

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
My highly biased opinion in favor of qmail and friends. Comments inline: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:37, Jeffrey Hartmann wrote: > Requirements (mostly standard stuff): > > 1) maildirs - I've been told that maildirs is less CPU intensive since the MUA > doesn't have to scan through huge mailbox fi

legacy hostname problem

2003-07-30 Thread wsykes.lists
All, I have a Debian host that used to be called dnimail. I have since changed the name to mail. I did this by editing the /etc/host and /etc/hostname file. when i ping dnimail i get "unknown host dnimail" when I ping mail i get icmp echos and replies. the problem is when i try to send mail to

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-30 Thread Ian Melnick
> I went through the same steps and mindset but after reading > other posts about "nfs problem", I back-reved my > nfs-kernel-server and my problems went away. Thanks. Is there a straightforward way for doing that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: kernel-source-2.5.69.tar.bz

2003-07-30 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:44:49 -0700 Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Rodney D. Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030729 21:12]: > > Well, on of the maintainers closed the report. Seems it's supposed > > to be a bad download. > > Works for me. Maybe your mirror has a bad deb? > > wingnut:/usr

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jeffrey Hartmann said on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:37:52PM -0700: > Requirements (mostly standard stuff): > > 1) maildirs - I've been told that maildirs is less CPU intensive since the MUA > doesn't have to scan through huge mailbox files. I also like that one mangled > message isn't going to corru

Re: Newbie - Using Samba client

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Quintin
Got it thanks. I wasn't specifying my workgroup. On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:23, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Richard Quintin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I want to > > a. Access "network neighborhood" shares > > b. Not share anything on my machine > > c. Not open any security holes >

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Yves Goergen
i'm learning exim right now. i'm going to use this as MTA along with courier-imap for POP3. from what i know, exim should be able to handle all the things you mentioned (except that filter setup from within a MUA). but you wouldn't have to mess around with a shell account. i've heard of sieve as

Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Hartmann
I run a small server that is used for myself and some friends and family to host email, webpages, etc. I'm looking to put a new mail server into place and after much research I'm even more confused than ever, and I'm looking for some advice. I've look at many packages, but I might be missing a fe

extra apt sources, backports etc.

2003-07-30 Thread A. Loonstra
Hi, I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list # XFree 4.2 deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main co

Re: Newbie - Using Samba client

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Quintin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to > a. Access "network neighborhood" shares > b. Not share anything on my machine > c. Not open any security holes > > I've tried to muddle through without much luck. What specifically do > I need to do? You need the smbclient packag

Re: New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-30 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Ian Melnick writes: Ian> Just dist-upgrade'd and now have a new problem. I have a typical setup Ian> where one computer is the nis/nfs server, and the other workstations use Ian> autofs to mount the home dirs on login. Seems like after a certain Ian> period, the home directories become

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:54, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > The cause of the errors was that linux/version.h was being included > from a 2.2 kernel, but linux/netdevice.h was being include from a > 2.4 kernel. Thanks Andrew. I'm impressed. > > You said you installed kernel-headers-2.4.1

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:47, Greg Folkert wrote: [...] > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall [...] > I have used that procedure MANY times... > > Maybe even just use knoppix as the booting OS. > > I'll tell you I should edit that page to show how to do it with >

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:32, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 6:02 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:24:05 -0500 > > > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody knows how to do this? > > > > > > I've learned in the net that, for example in Man

New Sarge NFS Server Unexporting after certain interval?

2003-07-30 Thread Ian Melnick
Hi all, Just dist-upgrade'd and now have a new problem. I have a typical setup where one computer is the nis/nfs server, and the other workstations use autofs to mount the home dirs on login. Seems like after a certain period, the home directories become unexported, or something. I have to restart

Re: evolution - how to enable spell check

2003-07-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:08, Greg Folkert wrote: > aptitude install libaspell15 aspell gnome-spell > > Will get you aspell, aspell-en (ia, ib and ic versions), pspell and > gnome-spell I followed this. It added 'gnome-spell' to my install, saying the others were already up to date. When I go

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-30 Thread Ian Melnick
> I browsed the archives and found many people having your type of > problem, but no solution. > Perhaps the Samba folks know something, or maybe someone jumps in > here... Thanks! Glad to know I'm not the only one :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:43, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] Why can't you compile the driver? Now you have the kernel headers, it shouldn't be too difficult. I thought you stopped trying when you thought that 8139too might work. If you decide to try, it might help to post ac

Newbie - Using Samba client

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Quintin
I want to a. Access "network neighborhood" shares b. Not share anything on my machine c. Not open any security holes I've tried to muddle through without much luck. What specifically do I need to do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread tallison
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:19 pm, Mark Roach wrote: >> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:43, Marino Fernandez wrote: >> > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 4:05 pm, Mark Roach wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> > > My laptop only gives: >> > > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep >> > > S0 S3 S4 S5 >> > > >> > > so no acpi sleep for me.

swsusp for Debian was: Activating ACPI supend and ACPI Hibernate in klaptop

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:05:21PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > Look here for starters. > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/sleep.html > > My laptop only gives: > $ cat /proc/acpi/sleep > S0 S3 S4 S5 > > so no acpi sleep for me. If you have a similar situation, try swsusp Do anyone have s

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

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:46:23AM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > If you're using the default Debian kernel, it loads all of the modules > from the initrd, before it even mounts root. > > If you want to see what's going on, run: > > mount -oloop /initrd.img /mnt > > and look in /mnt. It's a cram

Re: Identify dhcp client to server using hostname

2003-07-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have created a range of dynamic ip-numbers and have tried to find > a way to identify those hosts that need a fixed address using host > statements. The client-supplied "host-name" parameter won't do it. Instead, you need to configure the client

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

2003-07-30 Thread mody
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:35:24AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > That should have been /etc/modutils/aliases > > SORRY for the confusion I didn't notice that. :-) I know what file You mean. But it really doesn't help. :-( Mody pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: moving mail to imap

2003-07-30 Thread Andy Saxena
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Juri Haberland wrote: > > It is said that the server with the most features is Cyrus-IMAPd, which > is quite hard to istall and to configure. I have cyrus server running for personal use, and I am by no means an admin. One of the bigger differences betwe

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

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:15:19PM +0200: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:09:34PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > In /etc/modutil/aliases put in: > > <...> > > > If you don't need any of them... uncomment all of them. > > > > Then run "update-modules" > > Hmm, didn't help. :-

Problem with ifconfig

2003-07-30 Thread TR
I am having some problem that I don't understand with ifconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig : error fetching interface information: Device not found However, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:09:86:ED inet addr:192.168.

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 17:43, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > > Why can't you compile the driver? Now you have the kernel headers, > it shouldn't be too difficult. I thought you stopped trying when > you thought that 8139too might work. > > If you decide to try, it might help to post actual erro

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:51, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Make sure you're running the most recent ones or else > > downgrade to 1.0.3-1. > # dpkg -l | grep nfs > ii nfs-common 1.0.3-2 NFS support files common to client and serve > i

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:34, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something > > that Debian can't help the admin with. > > [Rural modem users have lots of CDs.] > > Ron> Why not use "-t"? I have a "mostly sarge" system with some sid. > Ron> The "-t"

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:17, Richard Lyons wrote: > Rats! I have now tried the 2.2 standard install, and you are right - > Andrew is right: the 8139too driver does not work. So this throws > me into trying the method given at > http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:17:36PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:08, Antony Gelberg wrote: > [...] > > > No, you've got the wrong end of the stick. 8139too is probably > > _not_ right for your card. Hence you do need to compile the > > driver. > > Rats! I have now

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:08, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] > No, you've got the wrong end of the stick. 8139too is probably > _not_ right for your card. Hence you do need to compile the > driver. Rats! I have now tried the 2.2 standard install, and you are right - Andrew is right: the 813

Re: RH to Debian migration

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:38, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > 1 fileserver (2x80GB RAID-0) houses user home directories, is the print > > > server > > Using RAID0 for a fileserver like this is very inefficient. If users open > > a small file, both

Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:07, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the > only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be: > set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print| > sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`

Re: hotplug question

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:19:41PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > Docs found with Google all seem to say that there is a Debian way of > setting up hotplug, using an update-usb.usermap script. This script does > not exist on my machine, nor can I see it listed on the testing and > unstable packag

Re: no days in uptime

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:09, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Florian Ernst wrote: > > > Hello Sebastiaan! > > > > At Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:50 Sebastiaan wrote: > > > > > > For some reason, after 497 days the uptime doesn't return day > > > information any more: > > > > > > $

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-07-30 Thread Yves Goergen
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: "Shawn Lamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2003 23:12 Betreff: Re: sudo doesn't work > On Tue, July 29 at 10:41 PM EDT > "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >(...) > > I note that two different comman

Re: nfs problem

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 07:51, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:31:13AM -0400, gerard wrote: > > Everything was working fine with my nfs, rebooted, and now when I try to > > mount an nfs drive this is the error I get "mount: RPC: Unable to > > receive; errno = Connection refused". An

hotplug question

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Kimber
Docs found with Google all seem to say that there is a Debian way of setting up hotplug, using an update-usb.usermap script. This script does not exist on my machine, nor can I see it listed on the testing and unstable package web pages. It does seem to be part of the Mandrake rpm for hotplug, h

RE: CD Boot Problem

2003-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
sounds like the cd media you burned has an error.  this can be caused by a manufacturing error on the cd.  burn another cdrom and give it a try.  also, try not burning at full speed.  sometimes people burn disks that are rated 12x at 30x+ and will make cd's that behave like you describe.  

Re: Later kernels

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 18:30, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any reason why I can't grab kernel-source-2.4.21 from testing > and build it for stable? My system satisfies all the dependencies. You should be able to. Have you tried? -- +-

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives > section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to > woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am > confused as to which files I need to us

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:55:29PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:18, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > [...] > > My mistake, 8139too is built into bf2.4, not a module, so if it > > worked, it would have picked up the card at boot time (or would it, > > with the card being pcmc

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:38, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: [...] > you can convert an ext2 partition to an ext3 partition using a > single command. These links from google provide more information. That easy, eh? Looks as though I am some kind of masochist, doing everything the hard way... > So

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:18, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] > My mistake, 8139too is built into bf2.4, not a module, so if it > worked, it would have picked up the card at boot time (or would it, > with the card being pcmcia, have needed some pcmcia-cs to run > first?). Oh, thanks andrew. Tha

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Kent West
Antony Gelberg wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: Hello folks, Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am confuse

Re: bboxconf ?

2003-07-30 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:09:44PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Is there a wmakerconf type program for blackbox ? I'm not familiar with wmakerconf, but there is a configuration tool for blackbox, called "bbconf". -- Jamin W. Collins Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with

Re: Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jianan Huang (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > More about the BIOS. In DOS machine, hardware diagnostics and > initialization is done by the BIOS. And this is done before the operating system is loaded. Which means that it is done by the BIOS, independent of if Linux or DOS is installed on t

Re: Re Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:36:17PM +, Jianan Huang wrote: > Those double d commands are marvellous; simple and yet effective. It > even produces a positive side-effect; a backup copy of the floppy > image in the harddisk. I don't know if I'm the only one with this > problem; I read through 'dd'

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Sridhar Srinivasan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:56:21PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I suppose my only alternative route now is to start again with the > standard version and ext2 partitions. I thought the ext3 was worth > having on a laptop, where there is an extra risk of needing to unplug > the power when i

Re: Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:31:38AM -0500, Shashank Bhide wrote: > Hello folks, >Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section > (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), > but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which fil

Re: more install problems

2003-07-30 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 14:18, Antony Gelberg wrote: [...] Use script. man script for details. Basically it's like a wrapper that records everything on your terminal between typing script and doing a Ctrl-d. But, as was pointed out earlier, you _could_ try modprobe 8139too.

Debian installation by newbie

2003-07-30 Thread Shashank Bhide
Hello folks, Could you tell me how to install Debian ? I got to the archives section (I want to install Potato and then upgrade to woody.learning process), but there are a lot of files and I am confused as to which files I need to use in order to get the OS installed. Do I need to burn CD

Re: Python bindings for libglade

2003-07-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:25:25AM -0500, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > Now it is complaining that it can't find gnome-config. I have > searched for gnome-config with no luck except finding messages from > other people who had the same problem. Anyone know where to get this? There's a search engin

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