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2003-11-12 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi , All the incoming mails comes to Debian Linux box and get s forwarded to Exchange server for distribution. IF the MS exchange server is down for few hours then what happens to the mail ?? If Linux box keeps it then how long it can keep the mails ?? Will there be any disk space issue for the in

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

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:58, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Well, it works now. Before, when it was empty, was just: > > > > > > Maybe your webserver got overloaded? > > Could be. I've been having problems lately with connectio

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? > > > > > > Run naked down the street, and then disembowel yourself with a > > short, dull knife?

Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, my Spamassassin's bayes stuff finally kicked it as i now see bayes_00 and similar stuff in the headers. Do i need to keep feeding spam and ham to sa-learn? Thanks, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyboard doesn't respond: assistance needed

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hooman Javidnia wrote: Hi list, I have tried to install debian on my laptop several times and everytime it was a failure. I tried two times with KNOPPIX but each time when computer boots up, in a text login screen I am been asked to enter the user name, but the KEYBOARD doesn't work! But KNOPPIX

interface fonts in ooffice

2003-11-12 Thread Micha Feigin
I just reinstalled my system. After reinstallation the open office interface fonts are way too large and I couldn't find how to change them. I tried changing the setting in the gnome-control-center (didn't expect it to work and it didn't). I have all the fonts available both through X (xfontsel) an

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 20:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Right Kjetil! And I figured out that backstreet-ruby removed it. Yup! :-) > >>I cannot find keybdev anywhere in the 2.4.22 kernel that I am > >> using, except for traces in the documenation, but nothing in > >> .config > > > > keybdev

Re: problems with cdwriter on woody-system

2003-11-12 Thread duck
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:20:20 +0100, Palfalvi Richard wrote: > Hi out there! > > I 've got the following problem: I built in a Plextor-CD-Writer in my Desktop-PC > (with Woody on it) but > the machine (kernel) do not recognize it. ... > Module Size Used byNot tainted > ipt_M

cvs over ssh with non standard port

2003-11-12 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to get cvs to access the repository through a ssh connection when the sshd is listening on a non standard port. I tried using cvs -s CVS_RSH="ssh -p port" -d :ext:cvs:/var/lib/cvs co package but cvs insisted on trying port 22. Is it possible to do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Am I supposed to do something else? I am asking because I

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote: > 3. Move PCs to new building. This is just a short walk, so they could be > carried. > Insert floppy in drive to prevent failure. (is there a command to park > the hard drive?). Move the PC, keyboard, monitor, cables and mouse. Are you using 5.25" drives?!?

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? Run naked down the street, and then disembowel yourself with a short, dull knife? Punt? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:18:56 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:25:47 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: > > > > > > > $ mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device > > > > > > This may not be the ans

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:24 am, Drew wrote: > Thanks, > > This is all thats in my sources.list (comments rm-ed) > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main > contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US > stable/non-US m

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:38 PM Subject: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama > Okay, > > Vikki's good post on sysadmin consulting got me to thinking. I do a > lot of volunteer

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition. Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load. If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed by hid". You're the one using backstreet-ruby

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:24:12AM -0800, Drew wrote: > Greetings, > > FWIW I did search the archives first but... > > I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am > running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all > state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box > was installed

keyboard doesn't respond: assistance needed

2003-11-12 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Hi list, I have tried to install debian on my laptop several times and everytime it was a failure. I tried two times with KNOPPIX but each time when computer boots up, in a text login screen I am been asked to enter the user name, but the KEYBOARD doesn't work! Third time I tried with the new be

wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, my current LAN looks like this: cable - eth0 (public ip) -server modemeth1 (192.168.0.1) | hub |

question about suggested fs for solid state flash disk

2003-11-12 Thread Andre Sodermans
what is the suggested filesystem for a solid state flash drive, which appears to the os as an ide drive. The manufacturer warrants 1,000,000 writes per block minimum and the drive has 'active remap' technology which remaps bad blocks and is transparent to the user. As I understand, there is JFFS

FW: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-12 Thread Jochen Daum
> -Original Message- > From: Jochen Daum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2003 8:24 a.m. > To: Henrik Christian Grove > Subject: RE: kde in "testing" ? > > > Hi ! > > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden

re: wireless configuration questions

2003-11-12 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Quoting Tim Folger: >>Are there some other parameters or commands I need to enable internet >>access for my wireless network? >> >>Thanks in advance. >> >>Tim I never messed with *any* config files to get my Orinoco Gold-based Dell Truemobile 1150 Wireless PCMCIA card. I simply activated the Her

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

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Well, it works now. Before, when it was empty, was just: > > > Maybe your webserver got overloaded? Could be. I've been having problems lately with connections refused and stuff. Dunno what the problem could be. I though

madwifi .deb package

2003-11-12 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Anyone know where I can download a .deb package for the madwifi drivers? I don't really have room on this laptop (540MB HDD) to keep the kernel sources that it wants around. TIA, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

worthwhile spam [paris hilton video]

2003-11-12 Thread tb . 31112 . nospam
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Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
Okay, Vikki's good post on sysadmin consulting got me to thinking. I do a lot of volunteer PC/LAN work at our local church. They used to pay someone a good chunk of cash, so they do know what consulting costs. Anyway, the church is moving their office to another building. The office ha

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

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "Vikki Roemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"] No problems getting to the homeschool website from here! -

FW: odd df results

2003-11-12 Thread Jochen Daum
> -Original Message- > From: Jochen Daum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2003 8:24 a.m. > To: Ron Johnson > Subject: RE: odd df results > > > Hi ! > > > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 12 November 2003 6:42 p.m. > > To: Debian-Us

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:44:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: just tried dual monitors with two card (geForce FX 5600 Ultra, nvidia drivers and ATI Radeon 9800, ati drivers), debian unstable, X 4.2.1: The important thing... are you using dual-head, or are you using Xinerama

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Drew
Thanks, This is all thats in my sources.list (comments rm-ed) deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free Thanks for the idea ab

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:07:10PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > > so KDE 3 went into testing about a week ago and will replace any > > > > Since when? I haven't seen kde3 in sarge. > > >

Re: modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi! > > I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition. > > Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load. > > If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed > by hid". You're the one using backstreet-ruby, right...?

Re: initrd with sshd ?

2003-11-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
e-bone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I am just curious if something like this is possible. > > I essentially need a two part boot process. > > I would like to have linux first boot to an initrd with a sshd running > on it. > Then, after connecting to this system over the network, I would lik

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Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? Run naked down the street, and then disembowel yourself with a short, dull knife? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROT

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

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:14, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > > > It's empty > > *shrug* I'm having no prob

Re: G550 and 3D acceleration

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello Roberto again; Have rebooted and sorted out PC regarding to the new kernel - it loads the AGPGART module and detects the G550 card no problem. Still OpenGL doesn't work on both heads of the G550, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual [EMA

Maple9 and LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

2003-11-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am installing Maple 9 on my Debian box (testing/unstable kernel 2.4.22): I have just noticed that the maple script (maple9/bin/maple) set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL for red-hat boxes as fellows << if [ -r "/etc/redhat-rele

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

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Vikki Roemer wrote: > *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- > people are going to my site and the server is sending data, and I haven't > had any complaints from the group. Anybody else here having problems? I just tried it here, because

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Ernest Johanson
One suggestion here might be to put an exit statement on a line by itself near the beginning of the script, before anything is executed. This will prevent the script from running even though the rc.d links are in place. When you update the package, the install script should detect that the init scr

modprobe question

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi! I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition. Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load. If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed by hid". Then if I do insmod /lib//hid.o it gets loaded and the mice can be used. Sure enough when I do "modprobe -c" it shows:

Re: kernel-2.6.0-test9 - Thanks

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:34:40PM +0100, Peter Samek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:12:43AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > [...] > > Additional Problems with kernel-2.6.0-test9 > > > > Although I built the kernel with support for modules and ran > > make modules and make modules

wireless configuration questions

2003-11-12 Thread Tim Folger
Hi, I'm a linux newbie, and have just installed debian woody with the 2.4.18 kernel on a fujitsu laptop. I've installed wireless tools and pcmcia support. I have an orinoco gold card that I'm trying to configure, and think I"m almost there. I've entered my network essid, encryption key, wirel

Re: Clicking links from Thunderbird

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I know this has been brought up before, but the thread simply died. I am running Sid and using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 and Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The problem I have is that I can't click on a link in an email in Thunderbird and have it open in Firebird. Bas

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread TeraLee2
i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do?

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

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > It's empty *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- people are goin

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am > running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all > state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box > was installed. This box could be potato, from when > potato was unstable, but how to tell? > > I

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Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tend to write scripts which are tcsh-compatible. So > "#!/bin/tcsh". But its somewhat a waste of effort to write one > set of scripts for bash and another for tcsh. My main problem is > handling the variables. Is there a shell-portable way to specify > varia

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Kent West
Jimmy Johansson wrote: Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. So this did _not_ create a new /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 & linux-wlan-ng Problem

2003-11-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I compiled a new kernel from kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 and, after installing module-init-tools, most of my modules are loaded and working except for my pci wireless networking card. This has always been something of a problem even with the 2.4.xx kernels. apt-get install linux-wlan-ng reports

Re: a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.12.1818 +0100]: > I am confused. How can I print the two subpages qith equal width, so > that they fill the printable area on the sheet? I should add that it works just fine when printing to a LJ2100tn printer. magicfilter does the translati

looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
I don't use either the Gnome or the KDE desktops (just Blackbox, plus whatever apps I need). I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of memory for what it does (in terms of how I use it - mostly as a storage space for copying and pasting between apps). If I've understood

Re: Clicking links from Thunderbird

2003-11-12 Thread Kent West
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I know this has been brought up before, but the thread simply died. I am running Sid and using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 and Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The problem I have is that I can't click on a link in an email in Thunderbird and have it open in Firebird. Basically, nothing h

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 3:54 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > > that I need to make as secure as possible. > > Can anyone point me to some good links that > > relate to security? > > > > Has anyone used bastille? What do you think > > of it

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

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: [snip] > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ It's empty -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: smbfs and accented chars

2003-11-12 Thread João Miguel Neves
BTW, doing an strace on smbclient, it loads codepage.850, unicode_map.850 and unicode_map.ISO8859-1. Doing an lsmod, the only loaded nls table is nls_utf8. -- João Miguel Neves signature.asc Description: Esta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E9?= uma parte de me

a2ps and page size -- driving me nuts!

2003-11-12 Thread martin f krafft
Help! I am trying to use a2ps to print 2 pages onto one. Very simple: a2ps -2 file.ps The paper is A4, libpaper is configured for A4, --medium=libpaper is set, but the following problem prevails even if I set --medium=a4. A4 is described as "Medium: A4 595 842", basically it's all out

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Kent West wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >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 16550A > >ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > >Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Pl

smbfs and accented chars

2003-11-12 Thread João Miguel Neves
I haven't found a reference to this on the archives, so maybe someone will help me: I have a file on a Windows NT4 server called: encadernação.jpg Going through smbclient, the filename is encadernação.jpg. If I go through smbfs (either fstab, automount or smbmount directly), I see the filename as

Re: openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 17:36, Ben Edwards wrote: > Just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1 (Debian). > > Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? apt-get install myspell- where is whatever language you want to spellcheck in. 'apt-cache search myspell' would give you a list of availa

Re: openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:36:21PM +, Ben Edwards wrote: > Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? There was an extra package that I had to install, but I can't remember what it was offhand. Do you have the following packages installed? myspell-en-gb or myspell-en-u

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

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Anyway - you might want to include a few distributions, as not everyone may > be interested in Debian. I found Mandrake, SuSE and Red Hatto have a very > good look and feel. With RHL moving towards Project Fedora, and Fedora Core > at 1.0 -

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Egglestone
Quoting Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:38 -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: > > > > I don't know if its possible to modify the ownership of a newly created > file. > > He who creates, becomes owner. You can use the sgid bit to modify the group > > > permission to follow

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
> I disabled com1 & com2 hardware ports in the BIOS and booted into Linux the > dmesg log concerning the serial ports is as follows: > > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ > SERIAL_PCI enabled > Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of > lspci

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:24:04AM +0800, csj wrote: > I tend to write scripts which are tcsh-compatible. So > "#!/bin/tcsh". Wow. You're mad. Sorry :) The C shell is too broken for serious scripting. > But its somewhat a waste of effort to write one set of scripts for > bash and another for tcs

openoffice.org 1.1 spellchequer & MS word look

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Edwards
Just upgraded to OpenOffice 1.1 (Debian). Cant work out how to get the spellcheck working, any ideas? Also when talking to the developers at a conference they mentioned something about havein a setting so it behaves & has menues like MS Word (usefull for weening people of m$). Anyway, anyone k

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I disabled com1 & com2 hardware ports in the BIOS and booted into Linux the dmesg log concerning the serial ports is as follows: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of lspci -vv, this mes

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-12 17:28]: > > Greetings, > > FWIW I did search the archives first but... > > I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am > running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all > state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box > was installed. This

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread csj
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:18:56 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > csj wrote: > > Is there a way to write portable shell scripts. In > > particular, I've problems with built-ins setenv (tcsh) and > > export (bash). How do I define variables in tcsh and have > > them usable in bash too? > > Your best opt

Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread Drew
Greetings, FWIW I did search the archives first but... I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box was installed. This box could be potato, from when potato was unstable, but how to

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
> What program generated the connection between the modem's 8 I/O lines > d000-d007 and /dev/ttyS3 and what would happen if I rm /dev/ttyS4 and maybe > /dev/ttyS3 as well and remade, with MAKEDEV, ttyS3 and then run the program > that makes the original connection. > Regards; > Hoyt Alright, I am

Clicking links from Thunderbird

2003-11-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I know this has been brought up before, but the thread simply died. I am running Sid and using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3 and Mozilla Firebird 0.7. The problem I have is that I can't click on a link in an email in Thunderbird and have it open in Firebird. Basically, nothing happens, forcing me to co

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Miguel Alvarez Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) if the sysadmin wants to fiddle with the links, he may do so > (presumably by hand?) and the packaging system will not touch them > *provided the sysadmin leaves at least one of the links*. Now, I can > see how to use this to remove all but an

Re: ldconfig and hosing my system [SOLVED!]

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Benedetto
My original problem was that I had run ldconfig with a bogus LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable setting and that hosed up my /etc/ld.so.cache. Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> both recommended booting knoppix and using chroot to run ldconfig so as to update my hard d

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:10, Piers Kittel wrote: > Marc, > > > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. > > desire:~#

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "John Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 05:36 Subject: Re: Installing modem. > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "debian-user"

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Greg Madden wrote: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386- netinst.iso This one works here, it is dated Nov 9. Thanks. That's the one I used (I mistyped the link). Strange. As a test of my CD burning, and in a cl

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > that I need to make as secure as possible. > Can anyone point me to some good links that > relate to security? > > Has anyone used bastille? What do you think > of it? > > Thanks, > -Rick I used bastille in the past and found it to do it's job

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Rick Weinbender (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > that I need to make as secure as possible. > Can anyone point me to some good links that > relate to security? You might want to take a look at the securing debian howto that is part of the h

Re: Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 16:19, Rick Weinbender wrote: > I have an email server (qmail running on debian), > that I need to make as secure as possible. > Can anyone point me to some good links that > relate to security? Have you read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ I

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 November 2003 05:45 am, David Gaudine wrote: > On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:25 PM, David Gaudine wrote: > > Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using > > > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-net

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:10:20PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Marc, > > > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. > >

Re: SSH update problem?

2003-11-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:48:47PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > I note that I'm using SSH version 3.6.1p2 but I note there's version > 3.7.1 out - how do I update it to that? I downloaded 3.7.1, compiled > and installed it, while doing a "ssh -V" shows 3.7.1, doing an > "/etc/sbin/sshd -v" show

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 question

2003-11-12 Thread Jimmy Johansson
Hi, I tried to do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yesterday expecting it to create a new XF86Config-4 file, but it didn't. I moved the old XF86Config-4 to my /home/ directory and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. Am I supposed to do something else? I am asking because I want to try some diff

SCO binaries on Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Marco Antonio V. Assad
Hi all, I'm trying to run some SCO Openserver 5 binaries on Debian 3.0r1, with kernel 2.4.18, in a Pentium machine. I've installed 'icbs-base', and tried to run the binary, but all I get is 'cannot execute binary file'. If I run the 'file' command on the binary, I get '80386 COFF executable'. Any

apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Marc, > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This is not Debian's > fault. Remove it. It is not the responsibility of an official package > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package. desire:~# apt-get remove --purge fireflies Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

Re: SVGATextMode

2003-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:22:49PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: You really need an answer from someone who uses svgatextmode on your video card; I don't have an nvidia card so can't be specifically helpful. Do your other systems that still work use the same video card? Can you g

Securing Debian

2003-11-12 Thread Rick Weinbender
I have an email server (qmail running on debian), that I need to make as secure as possible. Can anyone point me to some good links that relate to security? Has anyone used bastille? What do you think of it? Thanks, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

SSH update problem?

2003-11-12 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all I note that I'm using SSH version 3.6.1p2 but I note there's version 3.7.1 out - how do I update it to that? I downloaded 3.7.1, compiled and installed it, while doing a "ssh -V" shows 3.7.1, doing an "/etc/sbin/sshd -v" shows version 3.6.1. How do I update the server properly? Or

Re: Booting Sarge Netinst CD

2003-11-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:25 PM, David Gaudine wrote: Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso ? I forgot to specify that I mean the one that's dated Nov 9. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2003-11-12 Thread BruceG
Vikki - your plan sounds god to me! I looked at your website a while back and was pretty impressed. Along the way I decided to mess with Debian (I was running Mandrake on my desktop and switched to SuSE 8.2 Personal, and running dual-boot WinXP/Red Hat 9.0 on my work laptop). Anyway - you might wa

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-12 Thread Henrik Christian Grove
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 02:55 pm, stan wrote: > > > Calculating Upgrade... Done > > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > > a

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote: > I set up mailfilter in response to swen. I found that the ponly way to > stop them was by limiting size. All other rules set in DENY or ALLOW > seemed to be non-functional. In the end, I unset the size command, put a > local rule for

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:43:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Since swen, I started using mailfiter with differing degrees of > success. I tried to look at the basic docs and there is no explicit mention of > the way the rules are evaluated. top down, bottom up, allow then deny, > etc

ntop (Sid) dies...

2003-11-12 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi group (list), I have the following problem: 2 identical machines, both with ntop (on Sid). One of them runs like a breeze, the other one dies frequently. Syslog is telling me: Nov 12 14:40:21 snint ntop[16427]: **FATAL_ERROR** webserver: caught signal 13 SIGPIPE Nov 12 14:40:21 snint ntop[1

Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:31:24PM +, Piers Kittel wrote: > Needed to do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and it finished, but > noted an error, so did an "apt-get -f install", and get the following: > So what am I doing wrong here? The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed. This

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

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:03:12AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..you lost your Wintendo-vs-Linux paper, url? http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/~vikki/windowsvlinux.html > > Basic Plan: > > When a patch for your distro is released, I will patch the system. I > > will also set up a firewall cust

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread Miguel Alvarez Blanco
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: update-rc.d is working as intended. Read its manpage about how you as the local admin should interact with it. In particular, update-rc.d is to be used ONLY by the packaging system, not by the local admin. Thanks for the quick response. However, I am not sure if I

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

2003-11-12 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:44:16PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > great idea and plan ... but ... > > - everybody can do this ??? and does ... Not total newbies who view computers as a tool. They don't know how to compile a kernel or set up a firewall-- most of them prolly have barely heard of

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