installing a backup drive

2003-11-28 Thread richard
I have a email/web server running on one drive and I want to install a backup for obvious reasons. Essentially I'll remove the optical drive and have the new HD take the slave spot. I can't set up a RAID witout nuking the information already contained on the server. So_ Whats the best way to go

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-28 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:31:10 - "Cruncher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've put vga=ask in the boot script (or whatever you call it) which > gives me available modes - which I can select during the boot process > and which work momentarily, but then linux continues to load and > resets the mod

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:33:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > > Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the > > attendant problems. > > I'm trying to get as close as possible to One Big Partition, without

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:44:00AM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:40:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I use this scripts to move all my downloaded .debs into directories > > arranged by date they were obsoleted: > > > > > "x": > > > > dt=`date +"%y%m%d_%H%M

Installing Smarty through apt-get

2003-11-28 Thread Francisco Castellon
Hello: I wanting to install the smarty on my system, however I ran a "apt-cache search smarty" and I found nothing. However, I googled and found some sites that have the package including: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/smarty/ would it just be a matter of me adding the previous site t

how to mount a zip drive

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Valley
Hi All: how in praytell do you mount a zip drive is there a way to do it without recompiling linux? Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No mouse in gpm: Resolved-Sort Of

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:45:46 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 at 06:41 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> >> After trying several different values in gpm.conf, on a wile hair, I >> decided to try bypassing my KVM switch. That fixed it. >> >> This problem doesn't exist in Knoppix. >>

ugly narrow font in mozilla

2003-11-28 Thread Jiele
Hi, I have been using testing branch for a while. Recently, after a "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade", the font in mozilla became really ugly. And I looked around for some time, and tried something, but the problem is still there. I am using WindowMaker, and my mozilla package is 1.4-3 (w

OK, I want to join the PGP World, but need help.

2003-11-28 Thread Paul E Condon
Where is the use of GnuPG within Mutt documented? I want to set up checking of signatures on emails to this list, but I don't find info. Where is it? -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

mount immutable, unchangeably except by reboot?

2003-11-28 Thread Jameson C. Burt
I would like to mount some filesystems or directories "immutable", so that their files can't be altered or added to, except by rebooting. I currently use chattr +i filenames to make individual files immutable. Then I alter the kernel with lcap CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE so this immutability can

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:48:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote > I use LVM myself, as I'm often changing stuff and moving things around. > > I love LVM. No symlink workarounds, able to keep within the FHS > and use disk space efficiently. Questions about LVM... 1) Does it work with ReiserFS

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > The one thing you *don't* say is how much space you've got on the disk. Sorry, approx 40 gigs. My "A" machine is 433mhz, 128 megs RAM, and 17gigs disk. > I'd dump /misc and make it /home. For a workstation. Question... alon

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rus Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 20:57 Subject: Re: shopping > > - Original Message - > From: "Rus Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Richard Kimber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EM

Re: linux 2.6 & apt-get

2003-11-28 Thread Martin Büchler
On Friday 28 November 2003 22:20, Alexander Winston wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 10:41, Martin BÃchler wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't find any > > info about this on the net. > > > > here's my pro

Re: Compromise and updates

2003-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Peter writes: > Except that there are no anonymous ftp uploads operational AFAIK. Not at present, no. My point was just that accounts are not needed for uploading. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

bind9 in stable won't run chroot or setuid

2003-11-28 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried running bind9 in stable as chroot and setuid. setuid nobody it won't run at all. chroot if runs but doesn't actually listen on any port. It will only run as root for some reason. Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong. Its on woody running on a powerpc (beige g3). -- To UNSUBS

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Akira Kitada
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:40:17AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I use this scripts to move all my downloaded .debs into directories > arranged by date they were obsoleted: > > "x": > > dt=`date +"%y%m%d_%H%M%S"` > sub=dists/latest/binary-i386 > cd /mnt/apt I've heard that moving aroun

Re: Compromise and updates

2003-11-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanasis Kinias writes: > > Am I understanding right that the current status of updates to the > > archives is that developers' accounts will only be unlocked when the > > nature of the local root vulnerability is uncovered and the vulnerability > > is fixe

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-28 Thread Scarletdown
On 29 Nov 2003 at 0:05, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Did you try to use the XFree configuration file from Knoppix? Btw, the > Bus ID looks strange. Did you set it manually? What does lspci say > about your card? > > You can also configure your X-server with debconf: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserv

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:31:10 -, "Cruncher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console? I'm > running woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset. I've > installed svgalib, svgatextmode and fbset but I ca

Telling bind9 to listen to only some of the interfaces

2003-11-28 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I tell bind9 to listen to only some of the interfaces/devices and not all available. I have one eth card with two ips (ppp0 and eth0) which are connected to the outside world (adsl) so there is no use for bind to listen on them, I only want it to listen on the localhost and internal interfac

Re: No mouse in gpm: Resolved-Sort Of

2003-11-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 at 06:41 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > > After trying several different values in gpm.conf, on a wile hair, I > decided to try bypassing my KVM switch. That fixed it. > > This problem doesn't exist in Knoppix. > > It kind of sucks having an extra mouse on the table but I can li

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread jason pearl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just booot up linux and edit ur lilo.conf file it isnt activated yet as root type lilo im assuming u have a clean install then edit ur lilo.conf similar to this if u have window in your first partition boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/boot.

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Mark Haney: > I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up my MBR just the other day > and was able to fix it with the Woody install CD #1, which can also > serve as a rescue CD. I booted to the CD, and then entered: > > 'rescbf24 root=/dev/hda3' > > at the prompt. This started up the

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Haney
> > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not > configured. > > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to > make > > boot floppy > > thanks > > I haven't tried Knoppix ye

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Haney
> can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not configured. > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to make > boot floppy > thanks I haven't tried Knoppix yet, but I messed up m

Re: Compromise and updates

2003-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Thanasis Kinias writes: > Am I understanding right that the current status of updates to the > archives is that developers' accounts will only be unlocked when the > nature of the local root vulnerability is uncovered and the vulnerability > is fixed? Developers do not need accounts to upload pack

Compromise and updates

2003-11-28 Thread Thanasis Kinias
Greetings, Am I understanding right that the current status of updates to the archives is that developers' accounts will only be unlocked when the nature of the local root vulnerability is uncovered and the vulnerability is fixed? That is, that only when the vulnerability is eliminated will updat

Radeon9200 + XFree 4.3 + DRI problem

2003-11-28 Thread Michael Lucas-Smith
Hi, I've read the hundreds of DRM problems related to using ATI Radeon cards 9x00+'s, but I've hit a wall that doesn't seem to have been described yet. Basically, I've got a Radeon9200. I've got the DRI trunk modules in my 2.6.0-test9 kernel, I've got the xfree86 4.3.0 DRI trunk version and those

Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-28 Thread Cruncher
Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console?  I'm running woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset.  I've installed svgalib, svgatextmode and fbset but I can't see how to change my text mode from 80x25.   I've put vga=ask in the boot script (or whatever you call

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Scarletdown (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Anyway, the video setup is an S3Virge (86C325) with 4MB RAM, and my > monitor is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan 17se (HZ-Freq: 31.5-82 / > Vt-Freq: 50-150) > > After running XF86Config, and making the correct settings, I run > startx, and this is the

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-28 Thread Jacob S.
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:37:46 -0800 (PST) Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, the video setup is an S3Virge (86C325) with 4MB RAM, and my > monitor is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan 17se (HZ-Freq:#160; 31.5-82 / > Vt-Freq:#160; 50-150) > > > I checked /etc/X11/XF86Config and as far as

Xterm only -- umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed > that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash, > openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs. just a note -- accen

No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-28 Thread Scarletdown
Okay, I just made another unsuccessful attempt to get an XF86 and Ethernet-enabled Debian system running.  The NIC and the video card are both pretty common, so I _thought_ that they would be supported. Looks like I was wrong yet again. Anyway, the video setup is an S3Virge (86C325) with 4M

Re: Automatic debsums generation

2003-11-28 Thread David Z Maze
Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 4. Any debs you built yourself will need manual sum generation with a > command similar to step 2 pointing to the directory with the debs. If you're going off building (or rebuilding) .debs yourself, and the package is debhelper-based, it's easy enoug

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:59:20PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I don't really care, as it works, then again I don't think that editing > this file is advisable for the integrity of my system. Did I miss the > Debian Way here, or is it a bug / one of those things? No, you missed the normal X wa

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread ScruLoose
First thing: pease don't top-post. It screws up the readability of the thread. Also, please send followup messages to the list, not to the individual. There may be others on the list who know more, and just because somebody answers once doesn't mean they want to be your personal mentor. Not that I

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:20:43PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > You can do it if you're willing to switch to zsh as your shell, though, > > because it has PRECOMMAND (or whatever zsh calls it). > > > ee... I don't think Im ready for that. Maybe soon! It's still a Bourne-like shell, after

Automatic debsums generation

2003-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Since security is on everybody's minds at the moment, I thought I should share: I wanted debsums for all of my packages, not just the ones where the package includes them. This doesn't offer protection against server-side hacks, but it's at least another bit of reassurance for a local system. If

Re: Woody on Sparc

2003-11-28 Thread Federico Briata
This is my X-config... I've a SparcStation20 dual cpu and the video card is suncg6 (suncgsix). Good Luck ;) Fred - Original Message - From: "Bojan Baros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Woody on Sparc > > I could install w

Re: linux 2.6 & apt-get

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 10:41, Martin BÃchler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't find any info > about this on the net. > > here's my problem: > i'm running debian sid (up2date, did a dist-upgrade from kernel

Re: is it possible to use newsgroups?

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:30:54 +, Anita Lewis wrote: > > I agree with you. I am using gmane.linux.debian.user. I am not subscribed > to the list - I save those messages that I want to keep and don't need to > download them all. You cannot post to the list from linux.debian.user - that > one re

Re: location of checksum file when using Aide

2003-11-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:54:39PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > Another solution is to set the file "immutable" which means it can't be > edited except by rebooting into single-user mode. I know little of immutable. Is that file system depenedent? Seems like I see that mentioned in the man pages

Re: apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade have problems

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 15:08, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello, > > Since the reports about debian servers being cracked (or something like > that) apt-get update can't connect to a server people.debian.org > (192.25.206.10) > I believe this is a non-us server so it seems reasonable to assume this >

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:13:46 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > You *can* get by with a smaller cache, most of the time, if you use the > "--no-download" option after you run out of space in /var, then flush > cache with "apt-get clean". You can also use a remote archive mounted > via NFS, or an

Re: messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:26:33PM +0100, tripolar wrote: > can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? > lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not configured. > no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to make > boot flopp

Re: location of checksum file when using Aide

2003-11-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:18:43PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm a bit confused about using AID and where the checksum file is > located -- and how it's actually used in Debian systems. > > The debian installation of AIDE (Advanced intrusion detection > environment) places the checksum file in

Re: Replacing Exim with self compiled qmail

2003-11-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +1100, Andre Marenke wrote: > Hi, > I have a minimal Debian install with an Exim in broken configuration. In > addition, I have installed qmail which is running fine. > > Is there a way to uninstall Exim and have dpkg recognize my qmail > installation as the sys

Re: iptables and adsl modem at boot time

2003-11-28 Thread H. S.
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello 'H. S.'! On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:52:48AM -0500, H. S. wrote: [... Customizing the boot process ...] IN google, I have read suggestion which mainly say to put it in init.d and have a soft link in /etc/rcS.d (?) Can somebody attest to this? See the corresponding cha

Re: newbie boot log question

2003-11-28 Thread Bill Goudie
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:08:50AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text that printout > during startup, but they quickly scroll off the screen. > > Are they logged in a file or files in /var/log or somewhere else? Yes. Sometimes subsquent kernel me

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

2003-11-28 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Arnt Karlsen: > ..does this restore Galeon-1.2.5 functionality for later Galeon > versions? No, it only lets you run 1.2.5 on Sarge. -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U

Re: ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread brian
Hi Mike how can we enable it in the unix machine? Thank you Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Ken Gilmour wrote: > > > >ftp> dir > > >227 Entering Passive Mode (68,141,111,92,217,95) > > >ftp: connect: Connection refused > > >ftp> > > > >ftp> dir > > >200 PORT command successful > > >2

messed up mbr- unable to boot

2003-11-28 Thread tripolar
can I use knoppix live-cd to fix mbr to be able to boot sarge & m$XP? lilo is installed on sarge. grub maybe also installed though not configured. no boot floppy :-( used new installer and dont remember the option to make boot floppy thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

location of checksum file when using Aide

2003-11-28 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm a bit confused about using AID and where the checksum file is located -- and how it's actually used in Debian systems. The debian installation of AIDE (Advanced intrusion detection environment) places the checksum file in /var/lib/aide/. Is there any use in running AIDE if the checksum file i

Re: Xresources & Xdefaults documentation

2003-11-28 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I picked up on most of the syntax, but there are a few points, such > as it appears that using XTerm. affects all exterms even if they > were called through a link (x-terminal-emulator for example) while > xterm. affects only when called as xterm or wha

Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

2003-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:14:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'll disagree with Martin's comment that the server compromise didn't > constitute a security issue despite the lack of an archive compromise. > For someone well versed in Debian procedures, it might have been > plausible that the a

apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade have problems

2003-11-28 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello, Since the reports about debian servers being cracked (or something like that) apt-get update can't connect to a server people.debian.org (192.25.206.10) I believe this is a non-us server so it seems reasonable to assume this is just because debian guru's are still working out what happen

Re: HP DesignJet 750C plotter support? Help!

2003-11-28 Thread Ken Gilmour
Replying to the message sent by 14 Falls Ranch on Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:11:03 -0600, received at 19:56:43 on 28/11/2003. 14 Falls Ranch wrote: >Hello: >My name is Francis Busch, I am from Honduras Central America. >I have an HP DesignJet 750C Plus plotter and I have a problem with it. >I was trying

icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-28 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I've just installed windowmaker to have a look at it. (Running unstable.) I was using icewm before. In order to get windowmaker to start, I have to edit /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xfree86-common_determine-startup - specifically to change: if [ -x /usr/bin/x-session-manager ]; then REA

Re: ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Ken Gilmour wrote: > >ftp> dir > >227 Entering Passive Mode (68,141,111,92,217,95) > >ftp: connect: Connection refused > >ftp> > >ftp> dir > >200 PORT command successful > >226 Transfer complete. > >ftp: 287 bytes received in 0.09Seconds 3.05Kbytes/sec. > >ftp> bin > >200 Typ

Re: A web-based frontend to apt (or, configuring a new pseudo-protocol)

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
Jonathan Dowland wrote: Has anyone heard of a web-based frontend to apt? What I am thinking of is configuring a browser to accept some kind of pseudo-protocol such as apt://package-name 'Why' you might ask? Well, I've been thinking for a long time about different ways the archive could be organi

HP DesignJet 750C plotter support? Help!

2003-11-28 Thread 14 Falls Ranch
Hello: My name is Francis Busch, I am from Honduras Central America. I have an HP DesignJet 750C Plus plotter and I have a problem with it. I was trying to print a sheet in black and white and I removed the 4 cartridges in order to do it, and then I turned of and then on the plotter , buit I

Re: ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread Ken Gilmour
Replying to the message sent by brian on Sat, 28 Dec 2002 01:53:28 -0500, received at 19:28:00 on 28/11/2003. brian wrote: >Hi > >I have problem about ftp when run it in the unix > >unix>ftp 68.141.111.92 >Connected to 68.141.111.92 >220 ftp.eric.org FTP Server ready >Name (68.141.111.92:root): fa

ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread brian
Hi I have problem about ftp when run it in the unix unix>ftp 68.141.111.92 Connected to 68.141.111.92 220 ftp.eric.org FTP Server ready Name (68.141.111.92:root): fai 331 Password required for fai. Password: 230 User fai logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files.

Re: Woody and aic7xxx SCSI driver problem

2003-11-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
[Please drop the bandwidthwasting disclaimer. This is a public mailing list] On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 13:37:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got an IBM x330 server with an Adaptec AIC-78929 SCSI controller that > I want to install Woody on. When I boot from the install CD, it does not > re

Re: Convert ext2 to ext3?

2003-11-28 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Scarletdown: > I'm in the process of putting Debian on my test-system, and I noticed > that the filesystem defaults to ext2.#160; Is there an easy way to > nondestructively convert to ext3? tune2fs -j PARTITION Then simply change fstab to mount them as ext3 instead of ext2. If you're

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:04:41PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:21:31PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > I've used this (excellent) howto to set my prompt up nicely, and to > > echo things like pwd, time, and username to the xterm title. However, > > I would love to add {base

Re: Convert ext2 to ext3?

2003-11-28 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:42:00 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: >I'm in the process of putting Debian on my test-system, and I noticed that >the filesystem defaults to ext2. Is there an easy way to nondestructively >convert to ext3? Yes. "tune2fs -j" as documented in tune2fs(8). HTH, Ray -- Pinky, A

Re: installing new latex document type - bst file not found by documents

2003-11-28 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:53:04PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: >> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8). >> > I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texh

ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread brian
Hi I have problem about ftp when run it in the unix unix>ftp 68.141.111.92 Connected to 68.141.111.92 220 ftp.eric.org FTP Server ready Name (68.141.111.92:root): fai 331 Password required for fai. Password: 230 User fai logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files.

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 at 02:27 GMT, Alvin Oga penned: - best way is to disallow all mime attachements.. even windoze users... but guess the ceo and managers like to pass excel attachments to each other which they can do locally thru their local mail server .. The le

Re: Messup with apt-get dselect and sid

2003-11-28 Thread David Z Maze
UnKnown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi people, got a little problem, I inherit a computer on my shob its a > testing machine so it originally had sid installed upgraded from > woody. ...huh? Which one is it? If it's "woody upgraded to sid" it's probably an unstable machine, not testing. > Th

Convert ext2 to ext3?

2003-11-28 Thread Scarletdown
I'm in the process of putting Debian on my test-system, and I noticed that the filesystem defaults to ext2.  Is there an easy way to nondestructively convert to ext3? --Alt-Boundary-28214.4589691-- Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now

Woody and aic7xxx SCSI driver problem

2003-11-28 Thread jcosta
I've got an IBM x330 server with an Adaptec AIC-78929 SCSI controller that I want to install Woody on. When I boot from the install CD, it does not recognize that the server has any disk drives. I've tried booting from the "compact" kernel (which is supposed to have the needed aic7xxx.o module)

umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

2003-11-28 Thread Matt Price
Hey everyone, I occasionally write in french and german and just recently noticed that umlauted and accented characters which now work fine in bash, openoffice, and mozilla, do not work in emacs or xemacs. I can't remember whether they ever worked for me in emacs. is there a trick -- something

Re: Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
ScruLoose wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:32:21PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote: Oh gosh. I'm just trying to figure out apt and now I'm hearing about aptitude in this post and a prior post. Is aptitude really that much better? I tried the Debian site for more information, but it seems that was

Re: what I'm wondering is ...

2003-11-28 Thread Paul Morgan
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Monique Y. Herman wrote: Will there be a sudden flood of the messages that weren't processed in the last several days, or are they just lost? Yep! Reply posted yesterday turned up today. But all this is very interesting: I depend very much upon Debian: its mailing lists an

Package problems on stable

2003-11-28 Thread Fredrik Karlsson
Dear list, I'm currently having problems dist-upgrading stable. (see log below) Does anyone know what this is about? /Fredrik <-- snipp ---> Preparing to replace util-linux 2.11n-4 (using .../util-linux_2.11n-7_i386.deb) ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?/Twists & Guage ?

2003-11-28 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:30:00 -0500 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much for the discussion on twists, I have a > question..what about actual wire size..cat 3 and 5 are usually 22 or > 24 guage..suppose one was to use say 18 guage speaker wire..it's > twisted(like cat), it's unshiel

Re: [Frox-user] can't comple frox (FTP Proxy) from scrath.. HELP

2003-11-28 Thread James Hollingshead
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:16:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm compiling frox on debian woody using - > > ./configure --prefix= --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib \ > --enable-configfile=/etc/frox/frox.conf --enable-ccp \ > --enable-transparent-data --enable-libiptc --enable-vi

Re: LKM?

2003-11-28 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:00:10 -0600 "Kevin C. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running Debian Sid. > > chkrootkit-0.42b reports: > > Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > There are four PID which report as '0' > > lappy:~

Re: LKM?

2003-11-28 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:00:10AM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Not a problem. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=3d9c250c.0311132131.7dae9e79%40posting.google.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522possible%2Blkm%2Btrojan%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf

Re: A web-based frontend to apt (or, configuring a new pseudo-protocol)

2003-11-28 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:27:17PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Has anyone heard of a web-based frontend to apt? What I am thinking of > is configuring a browser to accept some kind of pseudo-protocol such as > apt://package-name > > 'Why' you might ask? Well, I've been thinking for a long ti

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
(CCed to original poster due to the massive delay in posting a reply... apologies if this is annoying) On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 12:53:11AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:31:35 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > >getting a .o kernel module for your NIC into the debian install pr

LKM?

2003-11-28 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Running Debian Sid. chkrootkit-0.42b reports: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed There are four PID which report as '0' lappy:~$ ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ?S 0:04 init [2] 2 ?SW

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:05:45 + Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Nov 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > All I can think of:- > > > > > > 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies > > > Radio Times > > > 1 tin Crapso Olives > > > Peregrino

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
(CCed to the bemused one because of the massive delay in posting a reply) On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:24:40AM +, John Peter wrote: > Mark Healey wrote: > > I then made and make installed the module. Now I need to know what > > lines I have to add to what files to get the module working. > We

Re: is it possible to use newsgroups?

2003-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
mighty sword wrote: Hi, I am new to all this lists stuff. I have primarily used newsgroups readers till now. I have just subscribed to debian-user list from my linuxmail account, found that inconvenient and unsubscribed, and again subscribed from this yahoo account. So from this new email account,

Re: newbie boot log question

2003-11-28 Thread Arthur Barlow
Type "dmesg" at the command prompt. Then use Shift-Page Up to scroll upward. On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 10:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text > that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll > off the screen. > > Are they logged in a file or file

A web-based frontend to apt (or, configuring a new pseudo-protocol)

2003-11-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Has anyone heard of a web-based frontend to apt? What I am thinking of is configuring a browser to accept some kind of pseudo-protocol such as apt://package-name 'Why' you might ask? Well, I've been thinking for a long time about different ways the archive could be organised. I've just browser th

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tom Badran wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic Grab a pack of 12 guiness whilst there :) To continue with this ra

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Karsten M. Self wrote: Incidentally, which was it? Linux/OSF-8759. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+--

Re: Cups Problem - Restated

2003-11-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:15:21AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Thomas! > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > >My printer is suddenly not available and both lpstat -p and lpadmin -p > >ep -E result in the message > > > > /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no versi

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday November 28 at 02:59pm Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > All I can think of:- > > > > > > 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies > > > Radio Times > > > 1 tin Crapso Olives > > > Per

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Tom
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:59:51PM +, Tom Badran wrote: > On Friday 28 November 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > All I can think of:- > > > > > > 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies > > > Radio Times > > > 1 tin Crapso Olives > > > Peregrino Water

Re: [OT] Request for new debian package (unencrypted this time...:o)

2003-11-28 Thread Nicolas
On Friday 28 November 2003 10:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > If the mainteiner is non-responsive, someone else would have to take over > the package. If he is "non-responsive" for just a short while, it is best > to wait a bit more. He may be in vacation or something like that. Well, t

Re: Replacing Exim with self compiled qmail

2003-11-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +1100, Andre Marenke wrote: > > Is there a way to uninstall Exim and have dpkg recognize my qmail > installation as the system mailer so that I can install other packages > that rely on an mta? apt-cache show equivs -- Jamin W. Collins To be nobody but yours

Newbie: dcopserver error with user

2003-11-28 Thread Geoffrey Lane
I just installed my first copy of sarge from a netinstall CD from the site, everything went well in installation. But the normal user I created "freeballer" cannot log into kde, but root works fine. Could someone help me out I would appreciate it here is the error log created: /etc/gdm/PreSessio

linux 2.6 & apt-get

2003-11-28 Thread Martin Büchler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't find any info about this on the net. here's my problem: i'm running debian sid (up2date, did a dist-upgrade from kernel 2.4) with kernel 2.6. everything works fine except for apt-get whi

Newbie: dcopserver error with user

2003-11-28 Thread Geoffrey Lane
I just installed my first copy of sarge from a netinstall CD from the site, everything went well in installation. But the normal user I created "freeballer" cannot log into kde, but root works fine. Could someone help me out I would appreciate it here is the error log created: /etc/gdm/PreSessio

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