Re: HELP! - My linux server won't boot anymore

2004-05-07 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 07 May 2004 01:51, Joost De Cock wrote: [...] > That's why you have to be in the chroot jail, to make sure your running the > lilo on your disk, and not the lilo on your knoppix cd. > > If you forgot to run lilo, just use knoppix again, check if all is ok in > lilo.conf and punch in the 4

Re: Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:21:16AM -0500, Rick Weinbender wrote: > How can I make the following expression display only occurrences that > do NOT contain the searchstring. Is this possible? > > find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \; > > I want to search for the absense of a particu

Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
How can I make the following expression display only occurrences that do NOT contain the searchstring. Is this possible? find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \; I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline in a user config file. TIA, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: traceroute Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-07 Thread Katipo
Clive Menzies wrote: On (06/05/04 18:17), Alvin Oga wrote: you're probably trying to go thru a slow firewall or heavily loaded network Try tcptraceroute instead. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Prolink Hurricane 8000 ADSL modem

2004-05-07 Thread jack kinnon
Hi   With the kernel-2.6.3 installed, I am back to working on the ADSL modem.   What I am encountering is a gcc compilation problem. In the process of compiling the file amload.c, there are "undefined reference to" many usb functions followed by the line:   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status   Tho

Re: cdrecord error

2004-05-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Peter Rohrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TUGGY:/home/pete/cobalt# cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure

re:kernel upgrading basically ok now

2004-05-07 Thread jack kinnon
Hi Thomas   Thanks for the reply.   For the /dev/ttyS0 error msg, I have checked the config. I have selected 8250/16550.   For the 'kernel modules not enabled' msg, I have definitely selected "Loadable Module.." When I do a 'lsmod', the modules that I had selected in the config menu were listed. Co

cdrecord error

2004-05-07 Thread Peter Rohrman
I just installed cdrecord and ran "cdrecord -scanbus" and got the following error message. I'm trying to burn an iso image to CD. Can anyone help? TUGGY:/home/pete/cobalt# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or director

Re: Setting locale failed

2004-05-07 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my resent apt-get upgrade of my German sarge system failed while > installing > some locales packages. > When I now execute an upgrade the process always fails with the message: Check the BTS... http://bugs.debian.org/ -- Thomas Ada

Re: Imapd trouble

2004-05-07 Thread Toby Batch
Toby Batch wrote: LeVA wrote: 2004. május 4. 14:08 dátummal Toby Batch ezt írta: Ah Ha, OK so I'm running couriertcpd p4-7126:~# netstat -anp | grep 143 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 26673/couriertcpd unix 2 [ ] DGRAM2864143 21874/

Scheduling problems

2004-05-07 Thread Chris Boot
Hi, I'm having several problems concerning scheduling on my linux box. I'm running it as a server and therefore I'd like it to be as reliable as possible, but several niggling factors force me to reboot the box relatively often. The biggest problem I have is if there is no CPU idle time (as re

Re: Limewire and Java runtime

2004-05-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:37:33AM -0400, Thomas G wrote: > Does anyone know a way go get the limewire package working without the > java runtime packages that have been broken in unstable for some time > now. Unstable does not contain java runtime packages. Debian does not distribute a JRE. --

Re: Imapd trouble

2004-05-07 Thread Toby Batch
LeVA wrote: 2004. május 4. 14:08 dátummal Toby Batch ezt írta: Ah Ha, OK so I'm running couriertcpd p4-7126:~# netstat -anp | grep 143 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 26673/couriertcpd unix 2 [ ] DGRAM2864143 21874/imapd Now all I nee

Re: How to downgrade kernel?

2004-05-07 Thread Kent West
Anyway, at the expense of being locked to a specific kernel version, I'd really like to get it working. So I use apt-get to download the appropriate kernel, headers and pcmcia-modules. But how do I "activate" it? Presumably I need an initrd image in my boot partition? None have been forthc

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-07 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:21:07PM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:13, Wendell Cochran wrote: > > > This seems as good a place as any to observe that English is > > emphatically open source. > > I humbly disagree. Free and open source software is not about the abandon

bstj allstate

2004-05-07 Thread Orville Rucker
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mono beta 1 package

2004-05-07 Thread Harobed
Hi, where can found the mono beta 1 debian packages ? Thanks -- Stéphane KLEIN Home page : http://www.harobed.org Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-07 Thread Alexander Nordström
On Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:13, Wendell Cochran wrote: [Edited for brevity. The balance of the cited argument may have been affected.] > This seems as good a place as any to observe that English is > emphatically open source. > > No one owns English. No dictatorial authority sets rules of > usage

Re: (FIXED, THANKS)Dual Boot Windows Permissions For User

2004-05-07 Thread D Hoyem
-- - Original Message - DATE: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:28:24 From: Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: >On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:22 am, D Hoyem wrote: >> Hi All, >> I have a dual boot system (Windows Millennium/Testing) on my HP >> laptop. I would like th

Bandwidth sharing

2004-05-07 Thread aurel . ric
Hi, Based on some man, tutoriels and docs I wrote a script that allows a connection of more than one ISP using only one NIC, via a switch (tested with 2 modems but should work with 3 or 4 ...). I don't know if such a solution already exists but all docs I've found required one NIC by modem/ISP. F

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Pete Clarke
> Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 > etc)? or just Stable. > I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem a > little out of date, and an upgrade with a 56k modem looks as though it > would take forever. :-) check the archives. There was

Setting locale failed

2004-05-07 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, my resent apt-get upgrade of my German sarge system failed while installing some locales packages. When I now execute an upgrade the process always fails with the message: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "de", LC_ALL =

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/05/04 09:22), mags wrote: > Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 > etc)? or just Stable. > I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem a > little out of date, and an upgrade with a 56k modem looks as though it > would take forever

Re: Mutt's internal pager and accented characters

2004-05-07 Thread richard lyons
On Thursday 06 May 2004 21:46, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: [...] > > Where would I get legal values for LC_CTYPE? The instructions said to > > read my /etc/locale.gen file and what I have is definitely listed there. > > fr_CA ISO-8859-1 ..

Re: Debian as a router.

2004-05-07 Thread Mal Beaton
I have posted the interim howto on http://mbeaton.id.au:5537/debian/ This will move in the next couple of days. I have a few updates to do on the documentation as I have been slack If anyone can find any glaring errors or omissions please let me know This was written from the same frustration th

Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:39:42AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 02:14:56PM -0400, David P James wrote: > > William Ballard wrote: > > > -e 's/href=\//href=http:\/\/google.com\//g' \ > >^ > > Does this line actually work? To me it looks like you'r

Re: authenticate via NTLM & AD

2004-05-07 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
You need to give clients access in the APS config! Maybe that helps? > Hi, > > i'm getting closer but it's still not working. > First, i've installed the Jana server but i couldn't > even use it from my windows machine. > I mean it worked but i wasn't able to establsh a connection > through it. >

Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o

2004-05-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > Increase? What increase? What spam? > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/antispam_postfix/ Apparently at: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/antispam-postfix/ Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:22:06AM +0100, mags wrote: > Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 > etc)? or just Stable. Hi Mags, The Debian CD is stable (aka woody) > I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem a > little out of date, You ar

[VIRGE] VIRUS NOTIFICATION

2004-05-07 Thread Virge
# VIRUS NOTIFICATION # A message you sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] contains a virus or a worm, and was not delivered. -- DATE : Fri, 7 May 2004 01:08:50 -0700 SUBJECT: Mail Delivery (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED]) VIRUS : HTML_Netsky.P -- It is possible

No windowmanager when using vnc?

2004-05-07 Thread Rich Stanton
I’m running debian stable on a headless system.  I’ve installed (among others) ‘vncserver.’  However when I run ‘vncserver –geometry 1024x768’ and connect to the display using the tightvnc viewer (on a windows client) I get a window with a mottled grey background and an ‘X’ shaped cursor, b

Unidentified subject!

2004-05-07 Thread aurel . ric
Hi, Based on some man, tutoriels and docs I wrote a script that allows a connection of more than one ISP using only one NIC, via a switch (tested with 2 modems but should work with 3 or 4 ...). I don't know if such a solution already exists but all docs I've found required one NIC by modem/ISP. F

Re: lynx and google.com

2004-05-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 May 2004, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (06/05/04 11:14), William Ballard wrote: > > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:57:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (06/05/04 09:23), William Ballard wrote: > > > > Has anybody tried 'lynx google.com' lately? > > > > > > > > You get HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Reques

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-07 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:27:10PM +1200, cr wrote: > Okay, you were referring to yourself, then, I take it. It is of course > entirely acceptable to refer to oneself in mildly deprecatory tones. I have > occasion to do it all the time Gee, I'm glad you find me "acceptable." Listen, guy,

Anybody else finds grip broken as of today ?

2004-05-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
Was about to rip some ten CDs today. Went through well for three, but from the fourth onwards, I noticed encoding to be around 0.1 for some ten seconds and jump back to 'idle'. The .ogg files are about 7-20 k in size, no error messages. Did so far: checked oggenc with an 'old' .wav: okay playing

Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread mags
Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 etc)? or just Stable. I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem a little out of date, and an upgrade with a 56k modem looks as though it would take forever. Thanks for your help Mags -- To UNSUBS

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-07 Thread cr
On Fri, 07 May 2004 00:33, William Ballard wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:12:06AM +1200, cr wrote: > > Yes I know exactly which meaning of the word 'affect' you were using. > > Since your comment was IIRC in response to my post, I wondered if you > > thought I was American, or were you referri

Re: Mountpoints - not taken from fstab !?

2004-05-07 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 07 May 2004 09:40:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Grub is configured through the file /boot/grub/menu.lst. You have to > adapt this file too. Thanks for trying. Wrong answer, though: Only when you boot using it. Booting from floppy doesn't. Secondly, this is boot/grub/menu.lst on hd0,

Re: Shell scripting

2004-05-07 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hi Pete, > I have a script that performs batch zipping of files. Trouble is that it > only does one file at a time (kind of going against the "batch" idea). > Could someone point out the silly mistake I am obviously making? [...] > #!/bin/sh > # > # batch zip > # invoke with batchzip > # > # th

Apache Tribes: 1.3... and 2

2004-05-07 Thread David Baron
There seem to be two packages here. Apache, Apache-common updated from SID today after being killed off by the Perl dependency cavalry :-) and Apache2-common (also from SID) There are two sets of init scripts. SID also cites apach-doc and apache2-doc and various auxiliary modules, more for apa

Re: Supercilious replies and I really do want your help

2004-05-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:46:12AM +0200, Ken Fish wrote: > > Hi > I sent the following message > > Will some one please suggest a suitable ALSA sound driver package for Linux > release 2.4.24.xfs. The card is described as fm801. > > So far I've recieved one reply. This was both supercilious

Supercilious replies and I really do want your help

2004-05-07 Thread Ken Fish
Hi I sent the following message Will some one please suggest a suitable ALSA sound driver package for Linux release 2.4.24.xfs. The card is described as fm801. So far I've recieved one reply. This was both supercilious and patronising. I have noticed that I'm not the only one to be on the re

RE: authenticate via NTLM & AD

2004-05-07 Thread Mark McRitchie
Morning, (well it is here) > Somewhere there is a problem with the Linux. > This is what i've tried to get it to work: > > 1) Changing /etc/apt/apt-conf You do mean apt.conf don't you? Mark. -- This e-mail message may contain confidential or privileged info

Re: Shell scripting

2004-05-07 Thread Pritpal Dhaliwal
you can save the script as batchzip.sh then make it an executable.. >chmod 755 batchzip.sh and then run it >./batchzip.sh HTH, Pritpal Dhaliwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you call your script? Aurel Quoting Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there people, I have a script that performs

Re: authenticate via NTLM & AD

2004-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, i installed lynx and guess what? Lynx plays nice and works! Lynx uses aps as proxy and thus can get to the net. So it's just apt-get and wget that aren't playing nice. I tried setting the proxy in /etc/apt/apt-conf and via the system var http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.int:8080 Still, apt-get

Re: Mountpoints - not taken from fstab !?

2004-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Uwe Dippel wrote: I'm quite surprised to find this problem; if I remember well, I did this a few times before with success: On a quadruple-boot, I copied all partitions (copy&paste from 'mount') /dev/hda12 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda11 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda13 on /u

Re: Shell scripting

2004-05-07 Thread aurel . ric
How do you call your script? Aurel Quoting Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi there people, > > I have a script that performs batch zipping of files. Trouble is that it > only does one file at a time (kind of going against the "batch" idea). > Could someone point out the silly mistake I am

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