Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:05:56PM +0100, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Take a look at > http://www.apt-get.org/search.php An invaluable resource, particularly if you're using Woody (Friends don't let friends mix Woody with Sarge/Sid) and need to find a backpo

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Reading Package Lists... Done > /Tue Dec 02-07:51:30HDB5# apt-get install apt-file > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > apt-file: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl but

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:08:00AM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > apt-get install apt-file apt-file is only handy if you know the exact file you're looking for, however. This isn't usually an issue for most people, who start on a package hunt with "

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns. On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:02:35AM +, Chema wrote: > Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking > for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having > resolved th

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:53:21AM -0800, Tom wrote: > OTOH, you have to respect Bill falling for the paper bag types. I can > sure identify... IIRC, Bill didn't use a paper bag, but rather hid under the desk. Which begs the question, is the type Bi

Re: [OT] Posting unnecessary quotes! (was: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy)

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:34:28AM -0800, Tom wrote: > Yeah, my bad, I noticed it just after I posted. I tend to follow the > style of the thread (i.e., it was in grow mode before me). No offense, but don't buy into that line. This same logic is us

Re: Accents etc. in Openoffice not working.

2003-12-02 Thread Johann Spies
Hello Nelson, > I tried OO recently and I found out I had to change the LANG > env. variable before starting it so I could type with accents > in Spanish. > Thanks. I have tried it now but neither changing the language nor changing the locale in OO helped :( Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please quote appropriately. http://learn.to/quote/ On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:41:04AM -0800, Tom wrote: (re: news) > > Exception CNN 0% Fox News 90% +/- (depending on source) > > I'll agree Fox is for the stupid, but it's better than 40 movies being

Re: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please quote appropriately. http://learn.to/quote/ On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:13:20AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Sounds like a workable idea, this list has too much traffic. I would > suggest that consideration be given to a "newbie" list as well

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

2003-12-02 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Arnt Karlsen: > ..I dunno if transplarency works with Gnome (does anyone?), > but try Konsole-1.2.3: [EMAIL PROTECTED] konsole --version > Qt: 3.2.1 > KDE: 3.1.4 > Konsole: 1.2.3 I dunno about Gnome, but it doesn't under IceWM, which is what matters for me ;) There may be some tweakin

Re: HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-02 Thread Roger Chrisman
Googling my topic, I find, http://www.maenad.net/geek/di8k-debian/node5.html "The way to reconfigure the X-server is by using dpkg (what else?). Do: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to reconfigure X. It's best just to change one parameter at a time, so you can see what's wor

these fonts are making me go crazy

2003-12-02 Thread H. S.
Hi, Is there a "Fonts How To" for Debian Sarge? I am trying to follow some instructions: 1) The KDE Font installer 2) http://new.linuxnow.com/docs/content/TT-Debian/TT-Debian-3.html 3) http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/debian_tt.html but I just keep getting only that many fonts :( I hope someb

Changes made to /etc/ioctl.save follow

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am using changetrack in my debian-woody system. About a week now I receive the following log-entry: [...] Changes made to /etc/ioctl.save follow: Binary files /var/lib/changetrack/etc:ioctl.save.yesterday and /etc/ioctlsave differ [...] My question is which programm is using/is causing

HOWTO configure Debian Woody

2003-12-02 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi, I had my monitor working fine the first time I installed Debian Woody. I remember configuring it during the install routine. My monitor is a 17 inch flat panel LCD (Samsung SP 1702) and I had selected: - VESA - 1024x768 @ 60Hz - 16bit color which Gnome had no problem with. However, I had f

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:09:41PM +, Siraj 'Sid' Rakhada wrote: > I think maybe a single new list should be created - > debian-user-unstable, or maybe just debian-unstable, for... well > unstable people ;) Well, debian-devel is the unstable mai

CD-Burner/DVD Drive Optimization

2003-12-02 Thread Tyler Hepworth
Title: Message  I am trying to optimize my ide cd and ide dvd drives. They are initialized as scsi emulated devices during bootup which I have found is necessary or else they will not work, but because the dvd is placed in this mode, it takes a huge performance hit when playing back dvd vide

Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!

2003-12-02 Thread shawn galvin
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:33:44AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..cure is, try _several_ search engines, and consider homebrewing. ;-) those interested in homebrewing should check out ht://Dig http://www.htdig.org, it's GPL'd and effective. shawn galvin [EMAIL PROT

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 at 00:31 GMT, Hugo Vanwoerkom penned: >> > > And how did you get here at gmane.linux.debian.user? > > (With my ISP, prodigy.net.mx, at 01-800-123-222 (Mexico), asking > anything at all about performance or lack of it, is to be avoided at > all costs, since the staff is traine

Re: Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

2003-12-02 Thread Roger Chrisman
I ran # /usr/sbin/base-config but this seems to skip the Ethernet config process of the initial install in which I hoped to set the Ethernet kernel module. (1) So I tried rebooting from my install CD #1, to see if installer will let me choose the Ethernet kernel module I need. After rebooting fr

alternate apt source for xfree 4.3 woody backport?

2003-12-02 Thread tjm3
Hello. people.debian.org is still down. Is there a backup apt source for the xfree 4.3 backport for woody available? thanks, tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!

2003-12-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:01:24 -0700, "Dr. MacQuigg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the future: > > Wouldn't it be nice if debian.org just listed the contents of each > package on a webpage. Then we could use Google for these searches. > Why do so many websites

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, at 15:01 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > >Though I am somewhat concerned about the following bit from the > >message: > > > > "Please understand that we cannot give away the used exploit to > > random people who we don't know. So please don't ask us about it." > > > > I

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, at 18:31 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Dr. MacQuigg wrote: > > I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they > > > > never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume > > > > this is something to do with a connection between this

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003, at 17:53 -0700, Dr. MacQuigg wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. My ISP doesn't carry the gmane > newsgroups, and I can't figure out how to make my newsreader subscribe > to more than one news server. So I'll just use the mailing list for > the few messages I need to send

Re: 2.6 kernel: module cannot be unloaded

2003-12-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Schulman wrote: > I'm using a 2.6 kernel I compiled from the Debian source package, and > encountering some odd behaviour. I cannot unload modules--I get: > > Module foo cannot be unloaded due to unsafe usage in > include/linux/module.h:483 > > This results in having a lot of

Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!

2003-12-02 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:50:32 +0100, Bill Goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists//Contents-.gz > zgrep Contents-.gz Thank you. Thank you. Finally a method that works !! Just to summarize everything I've tried and failed: Debian Package Problems 1. S

Re: 2 graphic cards

2003-12-02 Thread Kent West
shawn galvin wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:39:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Oops; that should be "PCI:2:9:0"; but the point is that lspci spits out decimal but XF86Config-4 expects hex. Actually, lspci produces hex output, and the Xserver expects decimal in XF86Config-4 Oops; my bad

Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

2003-12-02 Thread Carlos Sousa
Please keep your postings to the list. Thanks. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 16:51:01 -0800 Ross Boylan wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:53:21PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > > As extra precaution, Ross can disable apt-get from getting packages from > > unstable unless explicitly told to by creating

Re: 2 graphic cards

2003-12-02 Thread shawn galvin
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:39:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Oops; that should be "PCI:2:9:0"; but the point is that lspci spits out > decimal but XF86Config-4 expects hex. Actually, lspci produces hex output, and the Xserver expects decimal in XF86Config-4 see: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc

Re: Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > There has been a lot of talk about kernels on the list lately and I am at a > loss to understand what options or modules are required. Is there a > document that lists these items that I could read. The modules you need are the ones that correspon

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

2003-12-02 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 09:54 Subject: Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please! > > Ok You proved something. Was it that ftp.debian.org was unrel

Re: dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server

2003-12-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: When I boot the client pc ("bi-19x"), it gets the IP address 150.252.x.y from my dhcpd/tftp server, as indicated by the BIOS's PXE messages. But then, instead of finding the pxelinux.0 file on my dhcpd/tftp server, it finds the campus's central RIS server inst

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-02 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Benedict Verheyen said, : Op wo 03-12-2003, om 01:18 schreef Harshwardhan Nagaonkar: Yes indeed. But make sure that if the initrd was using modules that were needed to get the system going, for instance lvm support, you will have to use a kernel with initrd support. Most of th

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Klaus Imgrund
> more plainly and simply, but in that particular case I grok him. > > > "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and > > a woman." > > > > -- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California > > That's hilarious :-) Only came in secound though. Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: > There would seem to be a misnomer, "script-kiddies" can come up with an > exploit like this and still be "kiddies"? Script-kiddies don't come up with anything. Crackers come up with exploits and give to the kiddies to play with. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danci

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:11:00 -0500 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess most debian users use mailing lists (I have no > idea why) Less spam, I would think. Cybe R. Wizard -- Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.H.P. Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P. "Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y. Barely To

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
Thanks for the suggestions. My ISP doesn't carry the gmane newsgroups, and I can't figure out how to make my newsreader subscribe to more than one news server. So I'll just use the mailing list for the few messages I need to send. -- Dave P.S. The requirement to use a real email address in

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:31:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > anything at all about performance or lack of it, is to be avoided > at all costs, since the staff is trained to place all blame for > lack of service squarely on the clients and their hardware/software) > > Hugo Sounds a bit like our Iri

removing nvidia packages

2003-12-02 Thread Roberto Magana
Recently I put a new (ATI Radeon 9200) in my computer. I also installed the binary ati utilities(non-debian.) Before doing that I did a removal of the debian nvidia packages, but apparently failed to remove nvidia-glx. My XFRee log tells me that it can not load the glx module. I did a dpkg --l

Status of Bug Tracking System

2003-12-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I submitted a couple of bugs days ago (Nov 29) and never got a confirmation. I figured the BTS was down because of the breach, but the latest DWN doesn't mention it. Is the BTS working at the moment? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:28:23PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:28:05 -0800, Tom wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > >> "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting > >> to me, because as we know, there are kn

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: dman writes: The only thing I have to add, apart from noting above that the exploit was divulged... The _bug_ was divulged. The exploit is so difficult that the kernel hackers didn't think the bug was exploitable. There would seem to be a misnomer, "script-kiddies" can come u

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:20:05 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Paul Morgan said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0500: >> > There are currently Debian packages which are needed at boot time which >> > depend upon datafiles kept in /usr. discover is one of them, there may be >> > more. In woody, t

Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

2003-12-02 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:53:21PM +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:59:44 -0700 Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:25:06AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > ... > > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > > in apt.conf. I do not have an apt/preferences file. > >

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dr. MacQuigg wrote: I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the newsgroup. Are we supposed to use email only, or can we work

Kernel options, modules, etc.

2003-12-02 Thread Hoyt Bailey
There has been a lot of talk about kernels on the list lately and I am at a loss to understand what options or modules are required. Is there a document that lists these items that I could read. Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server

2003-12-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: When I boot the client pc ("bi-19x"), it gets the IP address 150.252.x.y from my dhcpd/tftp server, as indicated by the BIOS's PXE messages. But then, instead of finding the pxelinux.0 file on my dhcpd/tftp server, it finds the campus's central RIS server instead. How do I get

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:28:05 -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting >> to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we >> know we know. We also know there ar

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-02 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op wo 03-12-2003, om 01:18 schreef Harshwardhan Nagaonkar: > So, does this mean that I can compile my kernel without initrd, and it > will still not break on debian? Yes indeed. But make sure that if the initrd was using modules that were needed to get the system going, for instance lvm support,

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:51:58 +0100, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > > PS Saw a 'toon recently depicting a new arrival for hell checking in, a > devil at the reception asking him to wait a little while he reboots XP. > > What a mystery all that is. My favorite is a Gary Larson cartoon: There's

Re: dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server

2003-12-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Albert Dengg wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:38:34 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I get my client to get my tftp offering instead of the RIS offering? BTW, the RIS server is on a different network segment. you can simply add "next-server yourserver;" to your

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-02 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Harshwardhan Nagaonkar said, : And thus we see that Bob Proulx said, : Bill Moseley wrote: If you cannot wait then you would need to compile the 2.4.23 kernel yourself. That was released only three days ago and has not I'm trying to take this route of compiling the vanilla k

Re: When will packages.debian.org be available again?

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:51, Neodym123 wrote: Hi! Does anyone know, when the packages list and search on www.debian.org will be available again? apt-cache search Does just fine! Having installed apt-file... apt-file search CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz (previous post) produces

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:42:14 -0700, Dr. MacQuigg wrote: > I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never > appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is > something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the > newsgroup. Are w

Re: Kmail receiving problems

2003-12-02 Thread theo
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> When I invoke kmail from root I am able to get email from my mail file >> /var/spool/mail/theo into the inbox at /root/mail/inbox. >> When I invoke kamil from my user account "theo" I cannot get the email >> that is piling up in /var/spoo

Re: Kmail receiving problems

2003-12-02 Thread theo
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> When I invoke kmail from root I am able to get email from my mail file >> /var/spool/mail/theo into the inbox at /root/mail/inbox. >> When I invoke kamil from my user account "theo" I cannot get the email >> that is piling up in /var/spoo

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread John Hasler
dman writes: > The only thing I have to add, apart from noting above that the exploit > was divulged... The _bug_ was divulged. The exploit is so difficult that the kernel hackers didn't think the bug was exploitable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: spam microsoft

2003-12-02 Thread Robin Gerard
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:06:59PM -0400, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On November 26, 2003 07:20 pm, Robin Gerard wrote: > > Hello, > > microsoft sends me five spam of 160 000 bytes in my box and when I . > There already is a script written in perl it is Swendeleter you can get > it here

Re: Rationale

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:27:20 -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > Default debian install creates no usr/local directories, at least it never > has for me. > Sorry, I lied about this, I think it does create a set of empty directories. > Also, default debian installation does *not* put cwd in root's p

Re: 2.6 Kernel

2003-12-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:51:42 +0100, John Orford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I've just compiled and installed the 2.6 Kernel debian package. > > It works perfectly *without* devfs enabled. > > Can anybody tell me how to get it working with devfs? ..I tou

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-02 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
And thus we see that Bob Proulx said, : Bill Moseley wrote: If you cannot wait then you would need to compile the 2.4.23 kernel yourself. That was released only three days ago and has not I'm trying to take this route of compiling the vanilla kernel myself. I've compiled the kernel many times be

RE: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:01:48 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > > I agree. I support and recommend Debian to my peers and clients on the > basis that Debian is a stable and secure distribution. Therefore when > something (such as this) happens I want to have full disclosure so I can > confidentl

Re: conditionals in ~/.muttrc ?

2003-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:47:22PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > in my vim configuration files, i have different settings for dark and > light terminal backgrouds > i'd like to have the same functionality in my ~/.muttrc. looking at > the documentation, i can't see that it supports conditionals.

Re: dhcpd/tftp server subservient to another tftp server

2003-12-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:26:40 -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:38:34 -0600, > > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > >> fixed-address 150.252.x.y; # x & y to protect the innocent >

Re: Having Trouble with e100.o network card driver

2003-12-02 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:45:37 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > And since you mention you're using kernel 2.2.19, it's an easy > > "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18" to upgrade to the 2.4.18 > > kernel with a newer ee100 driver. > > > > (Note: You may need to do

Re: Help with installation

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 13:44:00 -0500, Robert Benjamin wrote: > I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall > Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat. I have iso images 1 and 2 on CD > roms and the drive is bootable. Using the iso 1, I get stuck at the part > where it asks

Re: Booting Problems with grub

2003-12-02 Thread Lance Simmons
* Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031202 16:38]: > Except for the initrd, I exactly copied the configuration settings. What do you mean "except for the initrd"? Are you building from debian kernel sources (which are patched for initrd)? How are you building your initrd, and how are you linking t

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 21:42 GMT, Dr. MacQuigg penned: > I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they > never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume > this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list > and the newsgroup. Are we sup

Re: Re: Compiling kernel - problems

2003-12-02 Thread Cruncher
Thanks for these replies.  I realised afterwards that hdc was not my cdrom, but the hard disk that contained the linux partitions.  Checking it showed it did have errors.  I've had trouble with this disk before - may or may not be related, but it crashes any software that attempts to create

Re: Network interface card / Ethernet on IMB motherboard

2003-12-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:12:33 -0800, Roger Chrisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 02 December 2003 08:51, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..you're running the 2.2 or 2.4.18-bf24? (' uname -a ') > > Arnt, > > 2.4.18-bf24 > > I don't understand what you mean by (

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread H. S.
Dr. MacQuigg wrote: I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the newsgroup. Are we supposed to use email only, or can we work

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:20, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Paul Morgan said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0500: > > > There are currently Debian packages which are needed at boot time which > > > depend upon datafiles kept in /usr. discover is one of them, there may be > > > more. In woody, theref

Re: Problems with migration from pppoe to dhcp-client (router) for internet access

2003-12-02 Thread eric brown
--- Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:43, eric brown wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I just got a nice deal on a Barricade router for > my > > home network. > > > > I try to get my internet connection to work with > > dhcp-client. I was using pppoe before with no > > pro

Re: How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread H. S.
Dr. MacQuigg wrote: I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the newsgroup. Are we supposed to use email only, or can we work

Re: When will packages.debian.org be available again?

2003-12-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:51, Neodym123 wrote: > Hi! > > Does anyone know, when the packages list and search on www.debian.org > will be available again? apt-cache search Does just fine! -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry signature.asc Descriptio

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2003-12-02 11:20:24, schrieb Michael Perry: >I think that this is a good idea overall. Since I also track a bit of >freebsd stuff, I always liked their approach to having email lists for I am on FreeBSD and NetBSD Lists... ;-) >Perhaps there should be a discussion whether a debian-question

Re: Help with installation

2003-12-02 Thread H. S.
Robert Benjamin wrote: I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat. I have iso images 1 and 2 on CD roms and the drive is bootable. Using the iso 1, I get stuck at the part where it asks the server:/path for the root filesystem. I'm

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
God probably doesn't use a computer. Can you picture him rebooting the universe because of a newly compiled kernel or a bug? "Excuse me people, you will be non existing for a couple of minutes while i install a new universe kernel". Benedict I wonder. The Bhagavad Gita has 8,16-19 "For all the wor

Re: [OT] port 2896

2003-12-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:20:48PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:05:55 +0100, > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 03:38:48 +0200, > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:12:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: | Thanks for the link. It certainly makes for interesting reading. Though | I am somewhat concerned about the following bit from the message: | | "Please understand that we cannot give away the used exploit to random | people who we

Re: Having Trouble with e100.o network card driver

2003-12-02 Thread Kent West
Jacob S. wrote: On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:39:16 +0100 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:51, Watwe, Abhay wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 8300 PC with master HD of 120 GB with Windows XP on it. I installed Debian ´potato¡ on a slave HD (6GB). Kerner version is 2.2.19. I

Re: SMTP setup question

2003-12-02 Thread Todd Pytel
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:46:33 + (GMT) Anim Asante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have signed up with two ISPs and I tried to set up > my Mozilla mail for the second mail account. Mozilla > mail would not let me set up a second SMTP. > > My question is if I send a mail from the second > account

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:04:56PM -0500, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: | Just a friendly question; I haven't seen any updates or new files for | sid/unstable since the security problme, and was wondering if it's | something buggy on my system or simply a lack of nifty new stuff to look at. Lack of u

Re: 2 graphic cards

2003-12-02 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Florentin Ionescu wrote: I have an old computer and has an embedded graphic card and was thinking to buy a PCI one. Does anybody know please - haw do you declare the second graphic card in XF86Config ? I look into BIOS but did not see any way haw to disable the first one, on bo

Re: need to upgrade to 3.0r2?

2003-12-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:19:21PM -0500, H. S. wrote: | I am running Sarge (testing) after dist-upgrading from Woody a few weeks | ago. Do I need to upgrade to 3.0r2? Many (most, I'd bet) of the packages in 3.0r2 are older than the ones in sarge. It would be a downgrade, not an upgrade. Howev

RE: dell poweredge 2400

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Martinell
This seems to have worked. Thanks. Now I have to get the gigabit NIC to work. -Original Message- From: Ken Gilmour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dell poweredge 2400 Replying to the message sent by

2.6 Kernel

2003-12-02 Thread John Orford
Hi, I've just compiled and installed the 2.6 Kernel debian package. It works perfectly *without* devfs enabled. Can anybody tell me how to get it working with devfs? John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to post to linux.debian.user

2003-12-02 Thread Dr. MacQuigg
I've tried several new posts and replies to existing posts, and they never appear in the newsgroup. My ISP has no explanation. I assume this is something to do with a connection between this mailing list and the newsgroup. Are we supposed to use email only, or can we work with our normal new

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-02 Thread Tom
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting > to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we > know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we > know there are

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Bill Goudie
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:24:38AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >Chema (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > >>Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for > >>"which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having > >>resolved the situatio

Re: nvidia vs ati

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:33:21 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Oh, no. I can't stand watching those slowly flashing images! ;) The trick is not to do acid before going to the movie. Peace, brother :> -- paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Help with installation

2003-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:38:14PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 18:44 GMT, Robert Benjamin penned: > > I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall > > Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat. I have iso images 1 and 2 > > on CD roms and th

Re: unchecked 31 times

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Paul Morgan said on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:49:52PM -0500: > > There are currently Debian packages which are needed at boot time which > > depend upon datafiles kept in /usr. discover is one of them, there may be > > more. In woody, therefor, a seperate /usr can cause problems. Does it > > gain

conditionals in ~/.muttrc ?

2003-12-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, in my vim configuration files, i have different settings for dark and light terminal backgrouds, as follows: if &background == "dark" hi Comment ctermfg=DarkGreen ctermbg=nonecterm=none ... else hi Comment ctermfg=Magenta ctermbg=nonecterm=none ... e

need to upgrade to 3.0r2?

2003-12-02 Thread H. S.
Hi, I am running Sarge (testing) after dist-upgrading from Woody a few weeks ago. Do I need to upgrade to 3.0r2? If yes, is this what I need in sources in list file: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/ stable main contrib non-free d

Re: Having Trouble with e100.o network card driver

2003-12-02 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:39:16 +0100 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:51, Watwe, Abhay wrote: > > Hi: > > > > > > > > I have a Dell Dimension 8300 PC with master HD of 120 GB with > > Windows XP on it. I installed Debian ´potato¡ on a slave HD (6GB). > > Kerner

Re: Where did the CD writing howto go?

2003-12-02 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:15:27 +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: > Thanasis Kinias wrote: > >>scripsit Joris Huizer: >> >> >>>I know there is supposed to be a howto file in >>>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz but the complete >>>/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt directory is missing (I guess

Re: Installing KDE

2003-12-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:30:23PM +, James Hosken wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying top install KDE but all I get are errors. I origianlly > installed woody then upgraded to testing. > > here's the message I get.. > fork:~# apt-get install kde > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depen

Booting Problems with grub

2003-12-02 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, booting Debianized kernels with grub does not create any troubles. However, when I try to build a kernel myself optimized for my laptop, the kernel panics because it believes not to be able to mount root. Except for the initrd, I exactly copied the configuration settings. Of course, the

No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-02 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
Just a friendly question; I haven't seen any updates or new files for sid/unstable since the security problme, and was wondering if it's something buggy on my system or simply a lack of nifty new stuff to look at. -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Softwar

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