Linux compatability for IBM desktop machines

Dear People, I am writing to ask whether anyone has any Linux experience with something similar to the two desktop machines described at (http://www.unc.edu/cci/index/ccishop/departmental.html) See http://www.unc.edu/cci/index/ccishop/fullconfiguration.html for more detail. Our department (UNC

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

Pascal Hakim said: >la(reject non english email) > This is non-trivial. The current plan is to just have some procmail > rules to deal with this, which can be set on a per-list basis, instead > of having different Spam Assassin configurations for different lists. > > Not really. This list is suppo

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:52:21 -0500 alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ABrady wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:37:57 -0500 > > alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't > >have> an installed MS Windows system, what problem

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:01:48PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > I'm from the South (USA) as well, and I'm _not_ very sensitive about it. > There _are_ inbred, pointy-headed biggots in the South. But only idiots > think all people from the South act/th

problem with dns/network

hi everyone. I am having some network/dns problems. my first problem is that when first booted up, the network isn't automatically configured and i have to ifdown and ifup it to make it work. my second problem is when I go to mozilla and type in a page like www.google.com, it take a VERY long ti

Re: Can't insmod any more after kernel 2.6

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:03:39PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > Since this morning I am running 2.6.0-test9 (upgraded from 2.4.18) to > sort things out. However I noticed that my first test itself has proved > to be impasse. I am nolonger able to load modules. I did > > mak

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:19:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and using > Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've learned a few > details. First, I have to use Vulgarly Illogical for my text editor for > the purpos

Re: Blender on debian

I installed it ages ago & it worked fine, I reguarly apt-get update & upgrade||dist-upgrade, and one day I noticed blender in the downloads, thought to my self woohoo (looking forward to the rewritten game engine), and tried to run it - this is what I got. I've downgraded back a step & it works fin

Apache woes after upgrade

Hi, I'm having all sorts of trouble since upgrading Apache to the latest in testing, yesterday. Using the default settings, it works. As soon as I try and add some VirtualHost directives and start apache, very occasionally it works, but mostly it just fails silently. Which log file will this sor

The adventures of linux

Having finally cleared my apt-get problems using dpkg to remove the offender, I did an upgrade. System was trashed as the modules.def file was gone. The extra directory was killed somehow. As luck would have it, there was another copy of this file around so after getting rid of 'extra' and mdir

Re: Blender on debian

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:18:41AM +1100, glenn wrote: > $: ls -l /usr/bin/blender > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 75 Dec 18 09:10 /usr/bin/blender > ->/home/alexis/packages/blender-2.30pre1/debian/tmp/usr/local/blender/blender The symlink target path looks weiird; what are it's perm

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:49:52AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I use my laptop for both work and school, so any major changes (i.e. OS > changes) are out of the question. If I had the drive space I'd just > create a seperate partition to use Fedora on, but unfortunately I don't. > And I hope

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > what can I expect in the way of differences. > > Dependency hell ;-) > Mind you, you can install "apt" for RPM and it works just fine too. Of course, the amount of software currently available from

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On 2004-01-15, Alex Malinovich penned: > > I use my laptop for both work and school, so any major changes (i.e. OS > changes) are out of the question. If I had the drive space I'd just > create a seperate partition to use Fedora on, but unfortunately I don't. > And I hope I didn't come across as to

Re: X program from cron

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:24:30PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > #!/bin/sh > NEXTFILE=`ls $1 | rl -c 1` > wmsetbg $1$NEXTFILE > > Now that's coding. Anyway, it works. However, cron reports: > wmsetbg fatal error: could not open display Hi, Antony. Do you mean it works despite the fatal error?

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:24:17AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:19, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and > > using Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've > > learned a few details. First, I ha

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:19:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > So, with all of that said, what can I expect in the way of differences. > I have already confirmed with him that any and all GUI tools will NOT be > used for any labs. (i.e. all installation and configuration will be > text-only,

Re: [OT] update static html site over ftp (rsync like ftp syncing)

On 2004-01-15, Alex Polite penned: > I'm helping my girlfriend updating her website. It's static HTML and > pictures and the only way to update it is over ftp. > > So far I've been using gFtp. I can either upload the site file by file > or upload all files in one go. > > When I've changed some 30 f

Re: default terminal application in KDE

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:55:59PM +, Josh Robinson wrote: > apologies if this is an absolutely inane question: when i execute a > command (e.g. after pressing alt + F2) and elect to 'run in terminal', > it always chooses to use uxterm. is there an

Re: problem with network configurations

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:34:11AM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > > > iface eth0 inet dynamic I overlooked this. It couldn't work, because... > ok, i was not being very observant and forgot to switch the 'dynamic' > word to 'static' when I got home to my static IP network. I still ... `dynamic' is

Re: Problem with Startx - Intel 8284 5G

Praveen Kumar wrote: Hi ! I am new to debian and have just installed it on my system but the XServer does not work. The hardware configuration of my PC is as follows: PIV - 2.66 GHz 512 MB RAM Video Chip - Intel(R) 8284 5G/GL/GE/PE/GV Vendor - Dell Monitor - Dell H Sync - 30-85 V Sync - 50-160 M

Re: Problem with Startx - Intel 8284 5G

The messages at the end of the log are the ones of intrest. From them i can see that. 1. X cannot find your mouse 2. X cant connect to the font server With the mouse it looks like you have chosen the most logical device name for the mouse :). However if your mouse is a PS/2 mouse using /dev/psa

Re: ping hostnames problem

Hi, I can ping now to hostnames inside my network. All I had to do was to use the complete domain name (e.g., hostname1.somedomain.something.com). I was using the short name (hostname1). You can see that I am a newecomer to GNU/Linux world, and I have the right to seem (and to feel) stupid so

Re: can't install mutt with apt-get

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laurence J. Lane wrote: | On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:48:21AM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: | | |>when I check for libidn9 I can't find anything. Anyone can help me out here? | | | http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libi/libidn/ thanks, but

Re: Linux slooow?!?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:43:38AM -0800, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > Kernel: I have tried many. Use the k7 kernels with the AMD, i686 kernels with the Intel. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and

Re: Hard Drive Problems

Sometime near Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: > I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running > great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error

Re: Equivalent commands

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:54:00AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using redhat for all of my linux experience and have been > trying to move to debian but most of the admin commands are different. I > was wondering if anyone has a nic

Re: disable ping

Am Don, 2004-01-15 um 23.26 schrieb Jan Minar: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:48:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > > Is there a way to disable the ping response > > on a server. (silent mode) > > Although I heard it's not considered polite... Well i guess blocking ICMP ping only might be ok. Not

Re: problem with network configurations

Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, enantiomer. > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:43:41PM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > > I was very careful to > > return the file back to it's original state. Any help? > > Backup

Re: hardware problem???

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:40:04PM -0300, dafer_listas wrote: > I have an old machine where I had only win98 installed on it. So, I > installed Debian 3.0 (woody) on another partition of the same > pc. The problem is that when I?m using debian, sometim

Re: Making rescue floppy using third party kernelmodule.

Am Don, 2004-01-15 um 22.32 schrieb Hans Kristian Eiken: > I have installed Woody with Raid 1 on a Promise SX4000 raid controller, > the raid disks are the only one in the computer. I do know how to change > kernel to another than bf24, and load FastTrak.o with initrd. I do even > have the sourc

Re: Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird

It doesn't quite follow the standard relationship between /etc (global) and ~/. files (users). don't want to argue on that. BTW mozilla is not ported to linux Ever heard of XPCOM? If that ain't a port... Yes heard of it. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/lib

Problem with Startx - Intel 8284 5G

Hi ! I am new to debian and have just installed it on my system but the XServer does not work. The hardware configuration of my PC is as follows: PIV - 2.66 GHz 512 MB RAM Video Chip - Intel(R) 8284 5G/GL/GE/PE/GV Vendor - Dell Monitor - Dell H Sync - 30-85 V Sync - 50-160 Mouse - Optical USB M

Re: X program from cron

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:24:30PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to update my wallpaper at time intervals. So, I've set up a > crontab: > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.bCmoxk/crontab installed on Thu Jan 15 21:07:39 2004) > # (Cron

Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:03AM -0500, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hi, > Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools) > to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It > seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that > one of the

Re: problem with network configurations

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:50:11 +0100, enantiomer wrote: > I tried doing some diagnostics by running > ifconfig and route, but they dont return any values at all. What do you mean with 'not at all' ?? I'd expect a lo0 to 127.0.0.1 at least. Some route, probably. If both are really empty, I'd have t

Re: Berried Question

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 01:32, Dennis Kaplan wrote: > Hi all, > Intel 1000 MHz, 1000Mb Ram, 40 + 20GB HD > > The problem is the CPU load when idle it runs between 5-30 % > As soon as I start an application it goes up to 100% and stays there till > the application is done loading. Loading an applic

Hungarian HU_HU.AFF file

Dear DEBIAN team, my name is Frank Dieckmann, Hannover / Germany. I'm a linguist and right now I'm interested in Hungarian. I found the HU_HU.AFF and .DIC files but have problems understanding the affix file. I'd appreciate very much if you could take a minute to read and (I hope) answer my quest

RV: Tarjeta Gráfica y las X

  Tengo un coñazo de estos de tarjeta gráfica integrada, una "Intel 8281OE" de 0Mb (se los roba a la RAM he leído por ahí).   También he leído que al instalar el X Server se puede configurar con los drivers "vesa", le he dado 16 bits ó 8 bits para colores, lo de la memoria lo dejo vacío ó pon

Re: Possible Slapper Worm Infection

> I reported a bug a couple of versions ago where scalper was > mis-reported. Scalper is supposed only to go for *BSD systems running > apache. Are you sure you're running 0.43? Yes, I confirmed with 'chkrootkit -V' that I am running version 0.43. Do you have any suggestions about what might be

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

Alex Malinovich wrote: > what can I expect in the way of differences. Dependency hell ;-) HTH, wjl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Music Packages

Is there a FTP address when I can download a debian music / sound programs download?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

insmod works but modprobe and depmod don't

Hi all, I'm trying to solve a problem I am having with some modules and don't really know what the errors I'm getting mean. Any insight anyone can offer would be very useful I have compiled the creative dxr3 drivers from source using the stock 2.4.22 kernel headers and the lates gcc from sid.

Berried Question

Hi all, I think my question got berried in the list so I like to add some more info and ask again. One of my two Debian installations is very slow. On the bottom I have added the output of top & the output of hdparm. Intel 1000 MHz, 1000Mb Ram, 40 + 20GB HD The slow machine: Intel Celeron Pro

Blender on debian

hi all, Just tried to run my favourite toy, blender. First time in quite a while. Anyhow heres what happened: $: blender ksh: blender: not found $: whereis blender blender: /usr/bin/blender /usr/local/blender $: ls -l /usr/bin/blender lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 75 Dec 18 09:10 /usr/bin

Re: OT: How to match a substring?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:59:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux} Hi, Colin and others gave "correct" answers :-) Just for the heck, I have no "awk", no "sed", no shell pattern match to do this. #!/bin/sh get_first () { BUFFER=$1 } get_first `uname -a`

Apt-Get crippled

For all but the simplest apt-get's, the thing will not work. It is apparently blocked by some dependency problem centering arround alsa. Following the recommendation for apt-get -f install (with no target), it attempts to install some alsa_utilities upgrade but since there is a cross-reference

Re: Default profile settings in mozilla-thunderbird

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:48:49PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > OK, I have this in /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/mailnews.js Do I need to make a /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/pref/prefs.js file? What do I need to do to change the default settings for new profiles mozilla-thunderbird? -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Possible Slapper Worm Infection

Incoming from Barry Skidmore: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:21:05PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > > I am using Debian (woody)-i386 on a home network. > > > > I run chkrootkit (0.43) daily, and today's report suggests that I might > > have been infected with the 'slapper' worm. Network Associat

Re: Truetype font size

Incoming from Antony Gelberg: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:36:07AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Antony Gelberg: > > > > > > Anyone know how to change the font size in the following line: > > > rxvt -fn "-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*" > > > > Do you know xfontsel?

Re: Truetype font size

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:36:07AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Antony Gelberg: > > > > Anyone know how to change the font size in the following line: > > rxvt -fn "-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*" > > Do you know xfontsel? > > xfontsel -pattern '-*-trebuchet ms-me

Re: disable ping

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:48:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Is there a way to disable the ping response > on a server. (silent mode) Although I heard it's not considered polite... man iptables > Also, how can I check to see what ports might be listening. man netstat man nmap HTH -- Ja

Re: Possible Slapper Worm Infection

Sorry, I meant to say 'scalper' worm, NOT 'slapper' worm On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:21:05PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > I am using Debian (woody)-i386 on a home network. > > I run

X program from cron

Hi all, I want to update my wallpaper at time intervals. So, I've set up a crontab: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.bCmoxk/crontab installed on Thu Jan 15 21:07:39 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp # $) 0 * * * *

Possible Slapper Worm Infection

I am using Debian (woody)-i386 on a home network. I run chkrootkit (0.43) daily, and today's report suggests that I might have been infected with the 'slapper' worm. Network Associates web site has a good description of this worm, including some of the symptoms of the infection. These include th

xconfig patch 2.6.1, how do you do it

How do you put the xconfig patch in 2.6.1 to make xconfig work ??? here is the patch: # This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: Linux kernel tree # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

alex writes: > It would seem ridiculous to sell a computer that has a modem that can't > be used with the operating system that came preinstalled. But, supposing > it does have a winmodem that works with one linux system, shouldn't it > work with any linus system or would it be necessary to develo

Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > i "claim" that one should just buy better drives ... > than to monitor for it to fail > ( buy it brand new from the local pc store ) > ( vs letting the ups/fedex gorillas toss it onto the shelf/floor > ( during transport/deliveries > >

Re: Truetype font size

Incoming from Antony Gelberg: > > Anyone know how to change the font size in the following line: > rxvt -fn "-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*" Do you know xfontsel? xfontsel -pattern '-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*' & BTW, your .sig says don't CC: you, yet y

disable ping

Is there a way to disable the ping response on a server. (silent mode) * Also, how can I check to see what ports might be listening. Thanks, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

Quoting alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It would seem ridiculous to sell a computer that has a modem that can't > be used with the operating system that came preinstalled. The winmodem may be built into the motherboard. The seller is taking an OEM's whitebox, installing an OS on it and (optionally)

Making rescue floppy using third party kernelmodule.

I have installed Woody with Raid 1 on a Promise SX4000 raid controller, the raid disks are the only one in the computer. I do know how to change kernel to another than bf24, and load FastTrak.o with initrd. I do even have the source for the kernelmodule. But: How do I make a rescue disk that bo

Re: [OT] update static html site over ftp (rsync like ftp syncing)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > I'm helping my girlfriend updating her website. It's static HTML and > pictures and the only way to update it is over ftp. > > So far I've been using gFtp. I can either upload the site file by > file or upload all files in one go. > >

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:49:52AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 05:24, Richard Lyons wrote: > --snip-- > > But Fedora must be less unpleasant than a slap round the face with a wet > > fish. Why not take it as a learning exercise and install it on your > > laptop for the

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

ABrady wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:37:57 -0500 alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the har

Re: Red Hat and Debian differences (ignore previous thread)

Alex Malinovich wrote: Ok, it seems that my previous thread was broadly misunderstood on this topic, so my apologies for not expressing myself more clearly. Don't feel too bad; it was my impression (and just my impression - I'm not accusing anyone of anything) that you did not say anything wrong

Hard Drive Problems

I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=97055, sector=96984 hdc is primary master

Re: breaking depenancies

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:42:01AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:14:45AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: >> >> apt-get install webalizer wants to install X libs. I don't want X >> >> libs. How can I break this dependency so I can install webal

Re: [HELP] Debian Woody on HP Proliant DL 380 G-3

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, arief_mulya wrote: > Other thing I have in mind is, what is Smart Array controller? I got 3 > scsi disk each 72GB, but only got 144GB disk in size. Is it RAID or > something like that? How the OS sees your disks depends on how the array is configured. You need to run the ar

Re: maildirmake

On Thursday 15 January 2004 02:23, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:37:16AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 04:59, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:39:21PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > > 4. throw in spam filtering > > you can do basic spa

Re: Reading Adobe DRM-enabled e-Books under Linux?

On Thursday 15 January 2004 07:27, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:18:53AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:30:28PM -0800, Nano Nano said > > > > > Therefore, I do not believe I am doing > > > anything ethically wrong here. > > > > That's nice, but the law doesn'

Debian TAKEOVER script

I am trying to the Debian Takeover Script (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200401/msg00313.html) Wehn I execute the script, I get this error: ./debian: line 200: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' ./debian: line 200: `sed -e 's:^/::' $WORKDIR/debianize-exclude.lis

Red Hat and Debian differences (ignore previous thread)

Ok, it seems that my previous thread was broadly misunderstood on this topic, so my apologies for not expressing myself more clearly. Any other considerations notwithstanding, what are the structural differences between Fedora and Debian? So far I know that documents are in a different path, and Ri

Re: Can't insmod any more after kernel 2.6

Hello Ramasubramanian Ramesh (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Since this morning I am running 2.6.0-test9 (upgraded from 2.4.18) > to sort things out. However I noticed that my first test itself has > proved to be impasse. I am nolonger able to load modules. You need the module-init-tools for Kern

Re: How to disk cleanup after apt-get upgrade/install/remove cycles?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:05:24AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > Often one is not sure of the choices and strength of packages/utilities and tend to > install > multiple utilies for the same purpose. For example I have about 3 or 4 cd players > and assortment of > mp3 palyers

Re: Debian booting new kernel

Hello Devin Atencio (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am kind of stumped cause I downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.23 from > apt-get, Then ran make-kpkg kernel_image. I then ran dpkg -i > kernel-image-whatever.deb And installed the kernel. When I reboot the > machine it still boots the old kernel.

Re: default terminal application in KDE

On (15/01/04 08:39), Andreas Janssen wrote: > Josh Robinson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > apologies if this is an absolutely inane question: when i execute a > > command (e.g. after pressing alt + F2) and elect to 'run in terminal', > > it always chooses to use uxterm. is there any way of tel

Very slow mount over NFS?

Good day, Debs, I am experiencing a very peculiar delay while mounting NFS volumes on my OS X box. Now, I realize that this isn't really the place for OS X questions, but I wonder if anyone has experience with debugging a mount procedure? I have tried -v but it doesn't tell me ANYTHING while it h

Re: [OT] update static html site over ftp (rsync like ftp syncing)

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 12:25 +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > I'm helping my girlfriend updating her website. It's static HTML and > pictures and the only way to update it is over ftp. > > So far I've been using gFtp. I can either upload the site file by > file or upload all files in one go. > > When I

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:19:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and using > Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've learned a few > details. First, I have to use Vulgarly Illogical for my text editor for > the purpos

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:57PM -0500, alex wrote: > If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an > installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding > and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard > drive is properly

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 16:41, Joseph Jones wrote: Original Message Subject: Preliminary investigation were started Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:49 -0600 (CST) <---Snip---> Anybody else got this crap? Send the FUll Headers and such... that means Cut aa

Re: default terminal application in KDE

Hello Josh Robinson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > apologies if this is an absolutely inane question: when i execute a > command (e.g. after pressing alt + F2) and elect to 'run in terminal', > it always chooses to use uxterm. is there any way of telling my box to > use Konsole instead, which (a)

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

alex wrote: If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard drive is properly partitioned? Depends on the model of computer and

Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

Hi, Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools) to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that one of the drives was about to die, but I don't know if the smartmontools package will

Re: problem with network configurations

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (enantiomer) writes: > Recently I looked into setting up my laptop so that it could switch > between static and dhcp. I looked at an article on this group and > tried the suggestion and it didn't work. I restored my interfaces > file back to normal (i had commented out what I h

Re: Reading Adobe DRM-enabled e-Books under Linux?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:18:53AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:30:28PM -0800, Nano Nano said > > Therefore, I do not believe I am doing > > anything ethically wrong here. > > That's nice, but the law doesn't really take into account your personal > beliefs about the rightn

Re: Remote health test for servers?

Quoting Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob S. wrote: > > > Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I > > suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that > > periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive? > > > > If the server were running t

Re: maildirmake

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:37:16AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 04:59, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 02:39:21PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > > > I am a MTA/MDA/MUA email noob. I am doing things piecemeal to understand > > > the functioning of each compo

Re: dhcp client setup

Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How to setup a dhcp client? My computer connected to an another(server) > the server act as a "dhcp server". If I put the following lines to the > /etc/network/interfaces > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > Is it enough or should I start a client pro

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:25PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Preliminary investigation were started > Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:49 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:35:00 -0600 (CST) > From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Truetype font size

Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know how to change the font size in the following line: > rxvt -fn "-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*" That's a font spec requesting a non-bold non-italic font named "trebuchet ms" at 100 dpi, at any size. Adding a point size mig

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

Quoting alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an > installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding > and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard > drive is properly partitioned? If it

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 22:37:57 -0500 alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have > an installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with > adding and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if > the hard drive i

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

> Did someone say Legoes! Now that they are dumping the mindstrom legos, > they want to focus on JUST LEGOS! ask them to build a lego stonehenge > (actual size!) x-) Already done, but not in original size: http://www.x-brick.de/legoland/windsor/stonehenge.jpg joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance!

Re: Remote health test for servers?

Jacob S. wrote: > Does anyone have some good scripts (or know of a progam, though I > suspect that's overkill) for having an automated process that > periodically runs to make sure a server is still alive? > > If the server were running the other os, I think an occasional ping > would be good eno

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

Em Qui, 2004-01-15 Ãs 01:37, alex escreveu: > If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an > installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding > and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard > drive is properly partitione

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:28:36AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Stonehenge sucks! > > > > Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters

Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?

Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:57PM -0500, alex wrote: > If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an > installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding > and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard > drive i

Re: X "no screens" error with bf2.4 kernel and intel 810 graphics on laptop

Rua Haszard Morris wrote: Thanks all for the help so far.. I've had some success by choosing "vga" driver in the setup (instead of i810). However, the resolution is really bad (looks like 320x240). (I've also changed to using vanilla flavour instead of bf2.4) Which vanilla kernel? "uname -a"

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