Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 19:33), Andreas Janssen wrote: Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it possible? Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command

Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read

2003-11-11 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:37:36 +0100 steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...mmm. if you put append=hdx=ide-scsi in lilo.conf and run lilo afterwards you 'make' your cdrom_reader/player/writer into only a cdrom_writer. to use it as cdrom-reader again you have got to get rid of the line in lilo

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:01:32PM +, Jess Anderson wrote: But isn't this group moderated No, it's not. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 10 November 2003 23:07, Eric Walstad wrote: Greetings kind debianites, I'm in the process of learning MTA admin. My head is about to explode. I'm wanting to setup a Debian box that'll suck down pop email from an ISP for a few local users and then serve those email up via pop3 or

IRQ conflict?! (was Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 ...)

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:50, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: # apt-get -u install

unsubscribe

2003-11-11 Thread L.F.
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Re: UI font size in OpenOffice

2003-11-11 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 11, 2003 06:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:19:24PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a sid upgrade the font is larger than I would like. See bug #218585. So there's no resolution

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
John L. Fjellstad([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm currently running Debian Testing, Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (from Mozilla.org), and Java 1.4.2_02 (from sun.com), and I'm having problems with the combination. Even though I

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for ^Subject:.*Test and ALLOW rules for marssociety and marssocietynewsletter: $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety'

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:03:35PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: I do use mutt's built-in support for mailing lists. However, like many people it seems (especially on debian-user); I occasionally hit 'r' to reply to a list-post rather than L, and I don't have a copy of what I wrote to post to

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:57:34AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 14:58, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:48:17AM -0500, Parfait BINI wrote: Good morning Sir, My name's Parfait BINI, I got a boot problem with my computer. [snip] Parfait BINI

Re: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers

2003-11-11 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:24:14PM -0800, Tom wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:11:04PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: Paying the occasional sysadmin bill might well come out to less than what these people spend on the software itself now. People cost a ton -- $100g + 30% for benefits. I

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for ^Subject:.*Test and ALLOW rules for marssociety and marssocietynewsletter: $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety'

SVGATextMode

2003-11-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I am doubtful that this gets a response... but here goes... Because I run BACKSTREET RUBY the *great* multi-seat Linux solution, I cannot use framebuffers. So a, perhaps better, solution is to use SVGATextMode, which sets console fonts by writing directly to the graphics card. It,

workspace switcher

2003-11-11 Thread user list
I would like to set my workspace switcher once and keep it for all futer sessions (the way it worked in gnome 1.4). Any suggestions? Art Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
I need to have installed the kernel source in order to compile a driver, but have difficulty finding the source for 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is the answer that the bf2.4 is just an addition, and that the kernel source for my kernel is actually just 2.4.18? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16:22, John L. Fjellstad wrote: Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (from Mozilla.org), BTW, are there any debs around for 0.7...? I'm one sid, nothing there, and I can't find any on apt-get.org either... Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT

Question about debian-update-3.0r1-i386.iso

2003-11-11 Thread Barry Skidmore
I am getting ready to do a new install of Debian woody from iso's, and just downloaded the first three. In addition, I noted that there is an iso named: debian-update-3.0r1-i386.iso Do I need this, or is this iso what is used to update from an earlier version of Debian?

dvorak keyboard

2003-11-11 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i've been getting enough questions off-list (of a few lists, not just this one) about my experiences with the dvorak keyboard layout that i finally wrote them up: http://www.maenad.net/geek/dvorak/ in case anyone's interested. /nori -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\

What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Otto Wyss
Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the password for root!?! Can't this password just be written on the line before

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 22:48), Otto Wyss wrote: Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the password for root!?! Can't this

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the password for

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for ^Subject:.*Test and ALLOW rules for marssociety and marssocietynewsletter: $ grep -Ei 'test|marssociety'

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Nicolas Rueff
Ainsi parla Roberto Sanchez le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: csj wrote: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for ^Subject:.*Test and ALLOW rules for marssociety and marssocietynewsletter: $ grep -Ei

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Otto Wyss
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: the password for root!?! You should have been asked to supply a password during the installation process. It's that one. I wasn't asked. I guess I just started the installed system right after installing base system. Since I never

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:41, Micha Feigin wrote: Last time I checked the debian packages, there was a problem with the have plugins. But I'm not using the debian packages. You will need to install the non-debian version compiled with gcc

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:00, Wayne Topa wrote: I didn't put the link in -my- mozilla-plugin directory but here ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so - /usr/local/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc and it works. Tried

Re: scsi vs. cdrom_read

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:41:22PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: No, it is still possible to read CDs from a CDRW drive that you've setup using append=hdx=ide-scsi in lilo.conf. If you have sr_mod.o compiled into the kernel or as a loadable modules, your cdrom drive will show up as /dev/srX or

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:50, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: BTW, are there any debs around for 0.7...? I'm one sid, nothing there, and I can't find any on apt-get.org either... Couldn't tell you. Usually pick up the mozilla.org/sun.com versions.

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:24, Jamin W. Collins wrote: I'm using the Firebird nightlys, current running version is: Which Debian are you using? - -- John_ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:50:27PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: I need to have installed the kernel source in order to compile a driver, but have difficulty finding the source for 2.4.18-bf2.4. Is the answer that the bf2.4 is just an addition, and that the kernel source for my kernel is actually

Re: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Eric Walstad
Hi Alan, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 13:57, Alan Chandler wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 23:07, Eric Walstad wrote: I'm wanting to setup a Debian box that'll suck down pop email from an ISP for a few local users and then serve those email up via pop3 or imap on the LAN. Following some

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:51:00PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: the password for root!?! You should have been asked to supply a password during the installation process. It's that one. I wasn't asked. I guess I just started the

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:18:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead) and run 'passwd root'. I found this out rather recently when I was reading the debian users'

Noisy mount

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a cron based backup script that mounts an smbfs share in order to backup a windows machine. Each morning in my mail I get the following load of diagnostics from what appears to be the basic mount commant opts: ro opts: noexec opts: nosuid opts: nodev opts: noauto opts: users opts:

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:20:47PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Personally I love the stuff Andreas Metzler has done with the config. Makes it TONS more managable. Hi Greg, Can you explain why you think it's more managable? I'm not arguing that it isn't, I'm just curious what you find better

odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-1006130973579 1 0 24% / /dev/hda2-1006139352819 1 0 8% /home TIA, Jeffrey --

Re: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers

2003-11-11 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:33:02PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:24:14PM -0800, Tom wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:11:04PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: Paying the occasional sysadmin bill might well come out to less than what these people spend on the software itself

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Nicolas Rueff
Ainsi parla Otto Wyss le 315ème jour de l'an 2003: Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know the password for root!?!

Re: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:07:57PM -0800, Eric Walstad wrote: I can't tell you how to edit the complicated new way of dealing with the configuration - I gave up an made one big config file. I gave up because I didn't know it *could* be set up with one file. I can understand that breaking

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.11.11.1443 +0100]: Deinstall hotplug and rmmod the HID driver? Kinda drastic, though... My keyboard is usb... -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jonathan Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.11.11.1455 +0100]: Find out the vendor id / product id pair (check dmesg or /proc/bus/usb/devices if it exists) and make sure that you comment out lines which reference them to a driver in /etc/hotplug/usb.* (I believe) We are the vendor,

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-11 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I installed minicom from KDE package manager. It is very easy. Issued 'minicom -s' and was able to move around and inserted a telephone number in the calling option but couldnt make anything happen. Red the man page as well. Got into initalization modem and couldnt get out without closeing

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Otto Wyss wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:48:16PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: ... Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead) and run 'passwd root'. Unfortunately there is no boot prompt where I could enter

Segfaulting WindowMaker

2003-11-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I had been using Daniel Stone's unofficial Xfree86 4.3 for several months (which is no longer available). Today I needed to compile a program for one of my classes which requires that I have the libxaw7-dev packages installed. Of course since Stone's build is no longer avilable, I had to update

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..oh, daring. You oughtta come up with a policy on how you wanna sysadmin or coach your clientele, and upfront. Good luck! ;-) Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John L. Fjellstad wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:50, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: BTW, are there any debs around for 0.7...? I'm one sid, nothing there, and I can't find any on apt-get.org either... Couldn't tell you. Usually pick up the mozilla.org/sun.com versions. Easier for me...

Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of slowness, a couple minutes of normal, a couple of slow, et c.), and there's no apparent

Re: MTA help

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 23:07, Eric Walstad wrote: I gave up because I didn't know it *could* be set up with one file. I can understand that breaking it up into multiple files can be nice for complex configurations, but it would've been better for me if it was one file. How did you

Re: Noisy mount

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:41, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a cron based backup script that mounts an smbfs share in order to backup a windows machine. Each morning in my mail I get the following load of diagnostics from what appears to be the basic mount commant opts: ro opts: noexec

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file into parts and when exim4 is (re)started a new config file is built from all the parts, tested that it's valid and then exim4 is started with the new config. A

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 23:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-1006130973579 1 0 24% / /dev/hda2

Re: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-11 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Haines Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:50 Subject: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4 I need to have installed the kernel source in order to compile a driver, but have difficulty finding the source

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: csj wrote: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for ^Subject:.*Test and ALLOW rules for marssociety and marssocietynewsletter: $ grep -Ei

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:36, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.11.11.1443 +0100]: Deinstall hotplug and rmmod the HID driver? Kinda drastic, though... My keyboard is usb... So ssh in!! :) --

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-11 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Marc, Don't know a thing about Quake... Quake puts me to sleep. Can't see it as anything but a good thing that it doesn't work for you. Heh... was using it as an example OpenGL - that was before someone told me about glxgears. Ewww... framebuffer. Shoot immediately with extreme

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/foosoft.html): FooAdmin For a monthly fee, I will administer your computers. There are 2 plans. Basic Plan: When a patch for your distro

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 23:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-1006130973579

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-11 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: You say ttyS3 is different from ttyS0 ttyS1; um, yes. They're different files. Maybe you mean something else when you say they're different? Yes, from dmesg: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
John L. Fjellstad([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 November 2003 22:00, Wayne Topa wrote: I didn't put the link in -my- mozilla-plugin directory but here ls -l

Re: Debian testing, Mozilla Firebird and Java

2003-11-11 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:02:16AM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 18:24, Jamin W. Collins wrote: I'm using the Firebird nightlys, current running version is: Which Debian are you using? Mix of testing and unstable. -- Jamin W. Collins Facts do not cease to

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-11 Thread kmark+debian
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] Second, more general question: the dependency links in debian form a directed graph. Presumably, it is acyclic. That

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:04, Vikki Roemer wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..oh, daring. You oughtta come up with a policy on how you wanna sysadmin or coach your clientele, and upfront. Good luck! ;-) Well, I've come up with this much (quote

kword: Any idea why it bombs?

2003-11-11 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got my KDE and koffice from CVS at this archive... deb http://oberlin.cems.umn.edu/kdecvs/debian ./ ...and I got to wonder why the current version bombs on my resume that I need to tweak a little. Here's the fun part: It only bombs on my resume,

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of slowness, a couple minutes of

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-1006130973579 1 0 24% / /dev/hda2

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:18:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead) and run 'passwd root'. I found this out

Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-11 Thread David Gaudine
Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso ? I get a CD that looks good when I browse it, but that won't boot. I burned it on the same system and with the same software that I used to burn my 3.0R1 CD, and tried it

Definitive HOWTO use truetype fonts on a Network

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Miller
I've been GOOGLING for a while - but so far I haven't found a definitive answer. I'm hoping someone can set the record straight here - and maybe we can get a mini-FAQ posted later on. Given a (in my opinion) typical networked Debian environment: One or more workstations, each running it's own

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-11 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed minicom from KDE package manager. It is very easy. Issued 'minicom -s' and was able to move around and inserted a telephone number in the calling option but couldnt make anything happen. Red the man page as well. Got into initalization modem and couldnt get out

Re: Thoughts on exim4-conifg

2003-11-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:36, Bill Moseley wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:20:47PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Personally I love the stuff Andreas Metzler has done with the config. Makes it TONS more managable. Hi Greg, Can you explain why you think it's more managable? I'm not arguing

Exim4 ACLs (was: Thoughts on exim4-conifg)

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:25:02AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people think of exim4-config? It splits the exim config file into parts and when exim4 is (re)started a new config file is built from all the parts, tested

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: fun stuff !!! i shoulda been reading this thread earlier :-) On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/foosoft.html): FooAdmin For a monthly

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-1006130973579 1

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of slowness, a

Re: SVGATextMode

2003-11-11 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:22:49PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! I am doubtful that this gets a response... but here goes... Because I run BACKSTREET RUBY the *great* multi-seat Linux solution, I cannot use framebuffers. So a, perhaps better, solution is to use SVGATextMode, which

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Piers Kittel wrote: Hello Marc, Don't know a thing about Quake... Quake puts me to sleep. Can't see it as anything but a good thing that it doesn't work for you. Heh... was using it as an example OpenGL - that was before someone told me about glxgears. Ewww... framebuffer. Shoot

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: Services consulting varies from $25-$400/hour. The services you are offering tend to be valued on the low side. and even highter ... try $50,000/yr with no minimum gurantee of anything $50,000 /

kernel 2.4.22 on testing

2003-11-11 Thread TK
I'm new to this list. I just installed kernel-image-2.4-386 from testing (or unstable), which is actually 2.4.22-3. The kernel boots fine, but failed to load any network card drivers. I manually tried insmod via-rhine but got a unsolved symbols errors. Looking into /boot, the kernel file is

regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I complied the kernel I am using last may. I noticed when I did an 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' that a kernel-source-2.4.18 was updated. So should I recompile ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Recommend a better sound card?

2003-11-11 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Can you suggest a better sound card to me? The cheap sound card I use in my PC picks up a lot of electrical noise. Digital circuitry emits a lot of RF noise, and this is picked up in the analog circuitry of my sound card as a crackle and buzzing sound. Also, if I try to digitize sound input,

Re: regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:53PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I complied the kernel I am using last may. I noticed when I did an 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' that a kernel-source-2.4.18 was updated. So should I recompile ? What I would say personally is: Unless the new kernel has

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:04:07 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikki Roemer) wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:32:18PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..oh, daring. You oughtta come up with a policy on how you wanna sysadmin or coach your clientele, and upfront.

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:07:12AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try and take good notes setting things up, but all I have is doesn't work on secondary head. My memory is that I saw a reason why it doesn't work on the secondary head but my Googling isn't finding that right now. Oh,

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:13:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used

Re: Definitive HOWTO use truetype fonts on a Network

2003-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:30:12PM -0800, Daniel Miller wrote: What's the best way to do this? It seems to me using a central XFS type font server provides the most efficient X-server displays - but then these fonts appear unavailable to OpenOffice. Correct, because OpenOffice couldn't care

Re: freelance sysadmining - $50k [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya tom On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: Services consulting varies from $25-$400/hour. The services you are offering tend to be valued on the low side. and even highter ... try

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate problem, because

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:11, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:13:01 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it?

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:04:07PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: fun stuff !!! i shoulda been reading this thread earlier :-) Well, I've come up with this much (quote from my website

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct it? # df

better than nice -d 19

2003-11-11 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi ! I have a backup process running on a debian woody webserver with kernel 2.2.20-compact. The system is not very responsive while this backup process is running. Is there any way I can improve that? I checked the nice value with top. Thanks for any suggestion. regards, Jochen Daum Web

Re: dvorak keyboard

2003-11-11 Thread p
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:56:40PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: i've been getting enough questions off-list (of a few lists, not just this one) about my experiences with the dvorak keyboard layout that i finally wrote them up: http://www.maenad.net/geek/dvorak/ in case anyone's

Re: freelance sysadmining - $50k [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:07:19PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: Services consulting varies from $25-$400/hour. The services you are offering tend to be valued on

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate

RE: regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread Joyce, Matthew
-Original Message- From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 1:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: regarding kernels On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:53PM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I complied the kernel I am using last may. I

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, How would I force a newly created file by userA to have the permissions set automatically to userB, groupB 775? What I am trying to do is when a user uploads a file to our ftp server (proftpd) it does not create the file using their

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:39, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal

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