Re: Not installing gnome

2004-10-13 Thread ms linux
>I am a KDE user and was wondering when I install sarge >is there a way to not install anything Gnome and only >use KDE? apt-get install x-window-system kdm kde cheers, --me-- __ Do You Yahoo!? Download the latest ringtones, games, and more! htt

Re: Multimedia keyboards and SID

2004-10-13 Thread ms linux
hi,... you might be want hotkeys. apt-cache show hotkeys cheers, --me-- >Well, I'm running Sarge (gnome 2.6) but if I go to >Applications-->Desktop Preferences-->Keyboard >Shortcuts alot of >this can be set up. Simply select the function you >want, hit the >key want to perform that function

"Contents" files

2004-10-13 Thread ms419
Anyone know how to generate "Contents" files from a repository, for use with apt-file? I found no hints in the apt-file documentation... Thanks! Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where do I download Unstable from?

2004-10-13 Thread Jeff Golden
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:18:29 -0400, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am able to find download sites and jidgo files for Testing but not for > Unstable. I tried to find these on Debian webpage but I am unable to. So > where can I download Unstable from, either ISO images or a jidgo file? > > ->

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-13 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Michael Satterwhite_, on 10/13/04 15:07,typed: In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really need is to take a document and append it to another. Does anyone know of a Linux tool

where do I download Unstable from?

2004-10-13 Thread H. S.
I am able to find download sites and jidgo files for Testing but not for Unstable. I tried to find these on Debian webpage but I am unable to. So where can I download Unstable from, either ISO images or a jidgo file? ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
But Sarge seems to be available only for netinstall. I am going to have to install debian (if it succeeds) on a number of machines in a computer lab. Netinstall is no good for that. I want to do it with the full set of CDs. I downloaded the CD ISO images from the website of debian (http://www.

base-config net install not installing any packages

2004-10-13 Thread Matthew Jackson
During the base-config, I receive an error message saying that the instalaion can not continue die to bugs in software or not enougth space or other problems. This is after I select if i want a Desktop enviro, file server, mail server etc and hit ok.   Any Ideas?   I got the net install cd fr

Locked out of server appliance: PAM Issue

2004-10-13 Thread Cole S. Ashcraft
I had my box using LDAP authentication and I tried to remove the LDAP lines from the /etc/pam.d files. I now cannot log in to my box. It is a server appliance. I have linuxconf (web) running on it. I need to edit my server's configuration files to uncomment the LDAP lines. How can i do this? All I

Re: anyone tried chroot_safe?

2004-10-13 Thread Greg Norris
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:57:32PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: > Looking at the code, it seems as though chroot_safe simply uses the > normal chroot() call; I would think the binary running would not be > able to see the difference between `real' chroot and chroot_safe > (and should thus not be a

Re: anyone tried chroot_safe?

2004-10-13 Thread Greg Norris
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:09:17PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I haven't read any of the code, but based on their documentation, so > long as you trust the binary you're chrooting, it should be as safe as > regular chroot. That's a pretty good fit to my situation, so I guess I'll go ahead and give

Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6

2004-10-13 Thread Mark Schonfeld
Sorry, I replied to Andreas rather than the list. Gmail doesn't pop the list address in the "to" field, and I tend to forget to change it. I didn't realize that there was more than one aliases file. I modified /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and changed: alias net-pf-10 ipv6 to alias net-pf-10 off r

Not installing gnome

2004-10-13 Thread Matthew Jackson
I am a KDE user and was wondering when I install sarge is there a way to not install anything Gnome and only use KDE?

Install options until Sarge lands...Can I use the installer with my 7 Woody discs?

2004-10-13 Thread scott
Hi all, I have played with the latest discs of Knoppix and MEPIS, and they both install the the HD well enough, but I would like a regular Debian system. I have all 7 Woody discs (not the last release (not the latest stable 3.0r2 version, but the plain 3.0). I am anxious (like everyone) for the

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: >> Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying >the files >> via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/sec > >That's horrible! Is

Secure Password Storage

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob S
Ok, so I know that using key based authentication is better, and that you should never write down passwords. But, I don't know of any websites that allow key based authentication (yet) and 135+ passwords is hard to memorize. :-) So, my next thought was removeable media. But, what happens if I lose

Re: Internet slow with Debian Sarge w/2.6

2004-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Mark Schonfeld (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I've just installed Debian Sarge via netinstall with the 2.6 kernel. The internet is horribly slow. However I've had this before in Suse 9.1 so I assumed I need to disable ipv6 support. I went to /etc/modutils and edited al

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The following message is a courtesy copy of an article >that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user as well. > >>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying copy about 350Mb of files - each one about 2.8MB each - over an > nfs link. Although I primarily trying this via drag and drop inside kde, > command line copying is also not working > > With the sync option it is very

Help with samba3...

2004-10-13 Thread ognen
I just ran "apt-get upgrade" with testing and samba was upgraded to V3, since then i have not been able to get samba working again, no matter how many times i reinstall it and remove/reconfigure it (inc purging all related files). I also tried downgrading samba with "apt-get install samba=2".

printer won't stop

2004-10-13 Thread dougpol1
Hi all, I am using Debian 2.6 Sarge. In KDE I clicked on system, printers using foomatic-gui I installeda Canon BJC 4400 printer. After installation I clicked 'print test page'. My printer printed about 20 pages of cod and data. I can't figure out how to end it. I have shut it down for now

Re: Automating wifi setup

2004-10-13 Thread Chris
> "Alvin" == Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alvin> i'm not sure if 3com uses prism54 or not ... but if it Alvin> does, you should use it instead of ndiswrapper ( last Alvin> resort ) Alvin> http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php Alvin> http://hostap.epitest.fi/

$50,000 for the Linux kernel!

2004-10-13 Thread Steven Jones
gee what a bargin, pay $50,000 for a $600 million kernel... says a lot for the dodgy canopy group does it not? why work when you can exploit regards Steven

Re: What means that: FATAL: udev is already active on /dev/. ?

2004-10-13 Thread Christian Leimer
Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Christian Leimer wrote: > >> Christian Leimer wrote: >> >> > Sebastiaan wrote: >> > >> >> I today moved a /dev folder from an other clean sarge disk and this fixed >> it. However! I now have a /dev which seems to be created by udev and I >> have a

Re: New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:45:47AM +0100, Glyn Tebbutt wrote: > Thats exactly what i thought, they said, and this is > beyond my relm of mind, have been grabbing snapshots > of the install, and keep reinstalling. i can > understand to bug test, but from what he said, it > sound as if he was "updat

Re: kernel-patch-bootsplash for 2.6.8?

2004-10-13 Thread Rainer Bendig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Nick Hastings, *, Nick Hastings wrote on Wed Oct 13, 2004 at 04:50:24PM +0900: > I tried googling but found nothing applicable. Anyone know anything about > this? I have patched my 2.6.8 Kernel with bootsplash (working ^^), and i am able to provide

Re: configuring HP9100 CDWriter to burn CD;s

2004-10-13 Thread ognen
try "cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus" which would give you a list of ATAPI cd recorders e.g. on my box: debianServer:~# cdrecord -dev=ATAPI -scanbus scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code

Re: Combining PDF documents

2004-10-13 Thread Martin Dickopp
Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting > document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really > need is to take a document and append it to another. > > Does anyone know of a Linux tool fo

Re: Reverse ip lookup does not use /etc/hosts

2004-10-13 Thread halbtaxabo-debuser
In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm almost certain that the 40-second delay reported in the previous message is due to tcpwrappers trying to do redundant reverse DNS lookups. I rebuilt exim from the version 3.36 source (same version Debian has on Sarge). It does have a build option for using tcp

NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying copy about 350Mb of files - each one about 2.8MB each - over an nfs link. Although I primarily trying this via drag and drop inside kde, command line copying is also not working With the sync option it is very slow - the dialog box can't report the copy rate and marks it as stalled

Re: [Solved] Webmin certificate problem

2004-10-13 Thread S.D.A.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:30:53PM -0700 or thereabouts, Vadim wrote: > S.D.A. wrote: > > >I've installed the Debian package. When attempting to login via https, I'm > >presented with the following: > > > >"You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server > >administrator blah,

Re: kernel-patch-bootsplash for 2.6.8?

2004-10-13 Thread Glyn Tebbutt
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:50, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi all, > >following the most recent Debian weekly news, I decided to try to > setup bootsplash. I added the appropriate source[1] to my apt sources > but, it seems the kernel-patch-bootsplash package is a bit out of date > since it doesn't a

Re: Webmin certificate problem

2004-10-13 Thread Vadim
S.D.A. wrote: I've installed the Debian package. When attempting to login via https, I'm presented with the following: "You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator blah, blah. You probably reinstalled your webmin, and mozilla (or what ever other browser you

massive .xsession-errors (was Re: chkrootkit finds 'value too large for defined data type')

2004-10-13 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:58 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Geoff Thurman: > > I'm running woody on one hd, and have recently installed sarge on > > another by upgrading everything over the net after installing from > > my original woody cds. Tonight on the sarge hd, chkrootkit gives > >

Not regenerating the full path with dump/restore

2004-10-13 Thread Andrei Badea
Hi all, my Debian installation contains all the files (/home, /usr and everything) in one single root partition. I want to move the contents of my /home directory to another partition. I couldn't just use cp because user directories contain links. So I thought dump and restore would help: dump

mountd won't start

2004-10-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
What is causing the following error? Oct 13 12:47:01 tc xinetd[26317]: Service mountd missing attribute rpc_version - DISABLING Here's the line from inetd.conf (I'm running 'xinetd -inetd_compat'): mountd/1 dgram rpc/udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd -- "Nothing is m

Webmin certificate problem

2004-10-13 Thread S.D.A.
I've installed the Debian package. When attempting to login via https, I'm presented with the following: "You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator blah, blah." It then goes on to say: "Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificat

Combining PDF documents

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
In Adobe Acrobat, there is the ability to combine PDF documents, inserting document 2 at a given location within document one. Actually, all I really need is to take a document and append it to another. Does anyone know of a Linux tool for this. tia ---Michael pgpqxRlGuQaWr.pgp Description: PG

Re: MySQL 4.1 package

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob Larsen
Anyone know of a MySQL 4.1 package? If you want to help debug the 4.1.5 version that's present in experimental... ; ) Sorry, I didn't know there was an experimental distro :) Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: MySQL 4.1 package

2004-10-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:54:21 +0200, Jacob Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know of a MySQL 4.1 package? > If you want to help debug the 4.1.5 version that's present in experimental... ; ) Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

MySQL 4.1 package

2004-10-13 Thread Jacob Larsen
Anyone know of a MySQL 4.1 package? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Enabling hyperthreading

2004-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > I don't know enough about hyperthreading vs. real SMP but IIRC 2.6 > kernels are much better at smp then 2.4 They are extremely better at SMT (HyperThreading) than 2.4 kernels are. But HT works just fine on 2.4, I am typing this from a Intel D875PBZ with

Re: Help! Lost keyboard - still failing

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 10:23 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (12/10/04 08:36), Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:36:37 -0500 > > Subject: Help! Lost keyboard. > > > > I'm running Sid. Everything was

portsentry and courier: RPC error

2004-10-13 Thread Vadim
I am running portsentry and courier, and I am getting this error in my syslog: imapd-ssl: pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection reset by peer If I stop either of the services, error stops. There is no mentioning of port 530 (courier rpc) in portsetry.conf. How do

Re: MultiMedia keyboards and SID

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Well, I'm running Sarge (gnome 2.6) but if I go to Applications-->Desktop Preferences-->Keyboard Shortcuts alot of this can be set up. Simply select the function you want, hit the key want to perform that function and whala! paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Chad Davis-- >

esdsink

2004-10-13 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I'm running GNOME with Sarge. It seems GNOME is configured to use the esd sound driver by default yet some (GNOME?) sound applications--Music Player (a.k.a rhythmbox), Sound Recorder (a.k.a gnome-sound-recorder)--seem to be configured to use OSS (with no preference option to change it to esd).

Re: vsftpd or pure-ftpd?

2004-10-13 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I am in the process of building a new ftp-server. The old one used vsftpd and it performed well. I have recently become aware of pure-ftpd which seems to have more features like using an sql-database for user definitions, quotas etc. Our setup is like thi

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Marc D Ronell
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user as well. >> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marc D Ronell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Under Debian, is there a method

Re: Mail Delivery (failure greigstad@reigstad.com) "123323"

2004-10-13 Thread Gordon H. Reigstad
Thank you for sending me your email. I really want to receive it. In an effort to eliminate junk email, I am using Mail Wiper. Mail Wiper has placed your message safely on hold. Please reply to this email and send it to me so I can add you to my eMail address book and we will be able to commun

converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-13 Thread Marc Jackson
Hello, I've connected a "j-bod" with to an Alpha running the latest stable release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as "ufs" in /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. In poking around, it seems as if there is no support for writing to UFS filesystems. Q1: is it possible to write to U

Re: Automating wifi setup

2004-10-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Chris wrote: > Debian unstable. 3com OfficeConnect 11g card together with CVS > ndiswrapper (need CVS for Version 2.0 card). i'm not sure if 3com uses prism54 or not ... but if it does, you should use it instead of ndiswrapper ( last resort ) http://prism54.org/su

Re: ALSA

2004-10-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here you see a es1371, i'm not sure, but this seems the OSS module for > your soundcard and both, ALSA and OSS, are loaded. I've read that with > the recent ALSA Sarge packages this behaviour is corrected, but you > can avoid this inserting a line in

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy Brown
Artur M. Piwko wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: Now I can log in as jeremy.brown (although my home directory doesn't exist on this machine), but once logged in my user name becomes "I have no name!": login as: jeremy.brown Password: Last login: Wed Oct 13 10:44:16 2004 from 172.28.2.124 Could not chdi

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Artur M. Piwko
Jeremy Brown wrote: Now I can log in as jeremy.brown (although my home directory doesn't exist on this machine), but once logged in my user name becomes "I have no name!": login as: jeremy.brown Password: Last login: Wed Oct 13 10:44:16 2004 from 172.28.2.124 Could not chdir to home directory /h

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:41:14AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500: > > > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade > > doesn't do anything? Thanks! > > >None of the packages you have installed have candidates for upd

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Alex Malinovich wrote: Since I'm assuming you're wanting to build a kernel image, I'd suggest installing kernel-package (apt-get install kernel-package) and then reading /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. That will give you everything you need to quickly and easily build a kernel image the De

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread John Fleming
begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500: > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade > doesn't do anything? Thanks! >None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update. Then why did it get something? tnx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: OpenOffice - Unrecoverable Error - Debian Sarge

2004-10-13 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:19:18AM +0100, David Nicholls wrote: > Hi There, > > I did a standard apt-get install openoffice.org to install open office. > > When starting open office, I get the splash screen come up, but then > before the application actually starts (any open office package) I ge

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-13 Thread Jeremy Brown
OK, as per the suggestions given, I've changed my pam config files to read: /etc/pam.d/common-account: account sufficient pam_ldap.so account required pam_unix.so try_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-auth: auth sufficient pam_ldap.so auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass /etc/pam.d/common-session: s

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:17:03 +0200 Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried to run make xconfig and make menuconfig on my debian sarge > system. > > But I'm receiving errors, and have Googled without any luck. } From /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README: } } Before you go any fu

Re:[SOLVED] iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:35:46 +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > > That worked! Thanx a lot! > I am not sure I understand how it works, but it works :) > > Pim > > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:00:30 -0700 (PDT), Sergio Basurto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:37:35 +0200, Pim Bliek wr

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:17 +0200, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Hi. > > I have tried to run make xconfig and make menuconfig on my debian sarge > system. > > But I'm receiving errors, and have Googled without any luck. --snip-- Since I'm assuming you're wanting to build a kernel image, I'd suggest in

RE: nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
high, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Well, that's strange to believe because it's a new DELL 1703FPt flat > screen monitor and i am sure of it that it can handle higher resolution. > Anyway, this i my Xfree log. > I also tried with 1152x864 but no luck with that also

Re: routing help please...

2004-10-13 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 05:45 am, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: > > Thanks for reading! > > > > I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: > > > > I've attached a situation scetch. > > > > The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection >

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-10-13 Thread Arias Hung
On this revelational Saturday, of the seventh month of 2004 you wrote: > And if this happens with something like glibc, you're hosed. Okay, I just happen to be the poor sod you were referring to in this nugget I found in the archives of just three months ago. What's worse is that my carelessnes

make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. I have tried to run make xconfig and make menuconfig on my debian sarge system. But I'm receiving errors, and have Googled without any luck. If running make menuconfig, I receive this: # make menuconfig /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> Unable to find t

Re: cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Helmut Toplitzer
Try putting security ahead of the rest of your sources. BTW: Installing the currently fixed mpg123 will install the correct 0.59r-13woody3 version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Sergio Basurto
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:37:35 +0200, Pim Bliek wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am trying to get a firewall running, but I am no > networking expert. > I use Debian Sid, and kernel 2.4.25-1-386 (yes I need > to upgrade ;)). (...) > Regards, > Pim Bliek > you must add something like this, addapt to your

Re: cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Helmut Toplitzer
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Helmut Toplitzer wrote: Hi! Today I got the security announcement about the cyrus-sasl package. There is a link in the mail to the new sparc-binaries. The link is working, but doing an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade does not update to the current security-version. "apt-cach

RE: nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Well, that's strange to believe because it's a new DELL 1703FPt flat screen monitor and i am sure of it that it can handle higher resolution. Anyway, this i my Xfree log. I also tried with 1152x864 but no luck with that also. The video card is a nVIDIA quadro card. Cheers, Philippe This is a p

Re: iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # ICMP Echo-request deny > $IPT -t filter -A INPUT -p icmp -s 0/0 -d $NET --icmp-type echo-request -j DROP I would try setting this to ALLOW. I had issues when dropping echo-requests -- don't know why exactly -- I think that certain OSs try to ping the ser

Re: AVOIDED: ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 12:54, Michael Graham wrote: > Richard wrote: > > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups > > problem? > > [...] > > Have you tried asking on the cups newsgroups? Details here: > http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php > or the GNU ghostscript newsg

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks and 1GB RAM. The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. I downloaded the driver from nvidia, Started it with: Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-

iptables troubles

2004-10-13 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi All, I am trying to get a firewall running, but I am no networking expert. I use Debian Sid, and kernel 2.4.25-1-386 (yes I need to upgrade ;)). Anyway. I got my fw script from a webpage, and it looks pretty ok to me. When I run it, it certainly blocks everything except the ports I want it to

Re: nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Hi, > nVidia installation work... > I did it with the flag --kernel-name='KERNEL_NAME' and i don't know why > but that helped for me. > Changed my XFConfig file and now i first have a nVIDIA screen before i > get into gnome so i assu

nVIDIA installation works....

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hi, nVidia installation work... I did it with the flag --kernel-name='KERNEL_NAME' and i don't know why but that helped for me. Changed my XFConfig file and now i first have a nVIDIA screen before i get into gnome so i assume that it's working. Only strange thing is that my max. Resolution seems

RE: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Roozemond
> #apt-get update > #apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. It means you're totally up to date and don't have to do anything! You're done! Go and have cof

RE: big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread Roozemond, D.A.
Please do not send private replies, reply only to the list > # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for > a non-linux OS > # on /dev/hda1 > title Windows NT/2000/XP > root(hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 In my gentoo grub config (that's the o

Re: Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of John Fleming on 2004-10-13 07:50:53 -0500: > What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade > doesn't do anything? Thanks! None of the packages you have installed have candidates for update. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, My kernel is manually build. I used make menuconfig, saved it and then a make and at last a make modules_install Cheers & thnx for help! Phil. -Original Message- From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 13 oktober 2004 14:43 To: Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) Cc: [

Pse explain apt-get msg

2004-10-13 Thread John Fleming
What does it mean when update gets packages, but then upgrade doesn't do anything? Thanks! #apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages [3124kB] Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages Get:2 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release [111B] Get:

Re: big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/10/04 14:38), Dan Roozemond wrote: > Hi, > > > First,I installed win xp pro in /dev/hda1, > > then installed debian with sid net-installer, > > and partitioned for linux with installer, > > everything went well.But > > after rebooted ,grub just couldn't recognize the NTFS partition >

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: I downloaded and then installed the kernel from http://kernel.org ,this should be enough i thought ? And i have the kernel source, that's where i point to in my command. I did a make menuconfig for my kernel configuration and then a make (make does it all in these ker

RE: big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Roozemond
Hi, > First,I installed win xp pro in /dev/hda1, > then installed debian with sid net-installer, > and partitioned for linux with installer, > everything went well.But > after rebooted ,grub just couldn't recognize the NTFS partition > and wouldn't boot the windows xp. > Even worse,i could

Re: cyrus-sasl SPARC update missing on s.d.o

2004-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Helmut Toplitzer wrote: Hi! Today I got the security announcement about the cyrus-sasl package. There is a link in the mail to the new sparc-binaries. The link is working, but doing an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade does not update to the current security-version. "apt-cache show libsasl7" outpu

Re: vsftpd or pure-ftpd?

2004-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johann Spies wrote: I am in the process of building a new ftp-server. The old one used vsftpd and it performed well. I have recently become aware of pure-ftpd which seems to have more features like using an sql-database for user definitions, quotas etc. Our setup is like this: It is a unversity ca

Re: Help! Lost keyboard.

2004-10-13 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I'm running Sid. Everything was working fine. I did *NOT* run any apt > command or (knowingly) make any changes - other than a sound level change > in kmix. Regardless, things were working perfectly up to the point of a > reboot. > > I'm using KDE / KDM. I rebooted my system to Windows for a t

Fwd: Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/10/04 16:16), Vikas Rawal wrote: > I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. > > I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 > CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to > install, pretty soon it gives a message to the

big boot problem with sid i-386 installer

2004-10-13 Thread duzhenhuan
Hello, I got into trouble with booting windows xp os after installed debian with current sid net-installer. First,I installed win xp pro in /dev/hda1, then installed debian with sid net-installer, and partitioned for linux with installer, everything went well.But after rebooted ,grub just coul

Re: Preferred way of adding truetype fonts in debian?

2004-10-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:26:43 +0200, Olle Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm seeing tons of information regarding this issue on the net and it's > difficult to tell what is current and what is deprecated information and > what is best to do on a Debian system. Could you help me out? > > I ha

Re: ALSA

2004-10-13 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:35:04 -0700 (PDT), Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 04:18:09 -0700 (PDT), Roger > > Creasy > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > i suspect hotplug is > > > > loading the OSS

Re: ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-13 Thread Michael Graham
Richard wrote: > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups > problem? I did try asking here but got no response (problem of > ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that). > I have googled with no success and have no idea how to proceed. Have you tri

Re: New sarge install question

2004-10-13 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> Hi all > i've recently used the new sarge-netinst image to > install debian on both my desktop and server. Both > worked a treat, but today somebody said to me i will > have to reinstall again when the install becomes > final. I presumed a apt-get update, apt-get > dist-upgrade would simply kee

RE: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
I downloaded and then installed the kernel from http://kernel.org ,this should be enough i thought ? And i have the kernel source, that's where i point to in my command. I did a make menuconfig for my kernel configuration and then a make (make does it all in these kernel versions) so now my kernel

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Luke Kearney
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:44:09 +0200 "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system > > System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks > and 1GB RAM. > The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E

Re: Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system > > System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks > and 1GB RAM. > The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. > > I downloaded the driver

Re: routing help please...

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Maas wrote: > Thanks for reading! > > I hope someone can help me with a routing issue: > > I've attached a situation scetch. > > The thing is, my road warriors connect via a pptp connection > to my VPN server via GW2. > This fails because the default gateway (GW) on

Nvidia driver installation error

2004-10-13 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I'm trying to install a nvidia driver on my system System is debian sarge with new kernel 2.6.8.1, XEON proc, sata disks and 1GB RAM. The video card is a nvidia quadro PCI-E series card. I downloaded the driver from nvidia, Started it with: Sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --kerne

Making a Debian Kernel Patch

2004-10-13 Thread Peter A. Cole
Hi all, I'm a bit lost as to how to proceed here, and the dh-kpatches.html file and man dh_installkpatches are totally confusing me at this point in time. I'm trying to find a way to get the Via EPIA kernel patch into a standard Debian patch form to apply to a custom kernel. I hope that makes s

Re: Problems with debian install

2004-10-13 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Vikas Rawal wrote: > I am new to debian but have some experience with Redhat 9. > > I would like to install debian on a Compaq PIII machine. I have the 7 > CDs (downloaded ISOs and burnt CDs without trouble). But when I try to > install, pretty soon it gives a message to

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