Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-15 Thread Pekka Laukkanen
Hello, There is a nasty limitation in Linux kernel version 2.4 that one user can't belong to more than 32 groups. This is a problem for our company because user management (e.g. for Samba) is done using groups and limit of 32 is getting too small. This limitation has been removed from kernel

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: Stephen R Laniel wrote on Jun, 14: See also http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 I don't think these are neede

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-15 Thread Colin Ingram
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:07PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: This fantastic list help me on this one before. Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd: BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in /var/log/boot. Cool! Tw

Re: apache virtualhost ?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:31:10PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > I have an entry as: > LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so > > But I keep getting this: > User cannot occur within section > > If anyone has any tips or advice it would be most appreciated. suExec doesn't work like that.

apache virtualhost ?

2005-06-15 Thread Brent Clark
Hi list I seem to have a problem whereby in my apache conf file, I have a virtualhost entry and the user , group entry as so User abc Group abc On running httpd I see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] public_html]# httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork.c http_core.c mod_so.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:30:23AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > one of the neat tools in Debian is 'module-assistant'. Use Debian's neat > search tool: apt-cache like so: > 'apt-cache search nvidia' > to find nvidia related software but it is actually better to use > 'module-assistant' in this case!

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Anthony Campbell: > On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > Yes and no. With Win-Space I meant my keyboard shortcut: Windows key + > > Space bar. You could also do Ctrl-Alt-Space. > > Thanks for this clarification. My Windows keys don't seem to do this ModSuperIsCtrlAlT=1 # 0/1 J. -- I am

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > The debian README in /usr/share/doc/iptables > describes a better > method involving actions to take when interface are > up'd and > down'd. Indeed, I use: interface eth0 inet static # ... post-up /etc/iptables.sh (I don't us

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade gave me emacs

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:09:39PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I woke up this morning to find that apt-get dist-upgrade, which > had been running since the night before, was downloading emacs > packages. > > - I've never had emacs on this machine. > - A subsequent "dpkg -l" showed no sign of

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for > my own use what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C > (and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for > writing oper

openoffice impress - how to print the draft

2005-06-15 Thread LeVA
Hi! I'm using OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, but my settings are in hungarian language, so I don't know what is the correct name for this function. I think it is 'Draf` mode (it shows up when you press the F12 button). My question is: how to print only that draft. If I've switched to draft mode, and pre

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-15 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:33 +0800, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Hello > > When using Thunderbird I get reminded all the time to "compact the > folder to save space". > I know this is good, but i want to do it when I want, not evertime I > want to read my new mail! > > And when I click Cancel or OK bu

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Lars Roland wrote: You do not need the init script just use iptables-save to save your current rules. But, you then need to manually call iptables-restore whenever you boot... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: Yes I'm aware of iptables-save and iptables-restore but in what script is iptables-restore called on system startup/run level change? I grepped /etc/init.d/* for iptables and it found nada. Also is /var/lib/iptables/active still the correct place for the rules? It isn't

Re: How useful is apt-spy?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:45:02PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > Wanting to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and having a slow modem > (not one of those ultra-modern 56K things), I thought apt-spy > might be a useful thing to use to find the fastest mirror. I > have no complaints about the result be

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-15 Thread TreeBoy
On Wednesday 15 Jun 2005 01:06, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 14.58, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:35 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > > > [...] > > > I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new > > > small business. If possible I would like colou

Re: sarge testing->stable and USB mouse issue

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Dowland
Jon Dowland wrote: On 6/9/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right - well indeed when I got in my PS2 mouse wasn't working in X. No events on /dev/input/mice. psmouse module loaded, '0' modules depending on it. rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse resulted in the following on dmesg: inp

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:32:14PM -0400, j Mak wrote: > > > Thanks for everyone helping me setting up my > sources.list. Now, it works fine. But I still cannot > find anywhere Nvidia drivers. Hi J, one of the neat tools in Debian is 'module-assistant'. Use Debian's neat search tool: apt-cache

Re: Forcing a PCMCIA card to a specific eth?

2005-06-15 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 15.06.2005 at 01:27 -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:04:32PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > Sounds like you want to investigate the package 'ifrename' - this > > lets you determine interface names based on certain factors, such as > > MAC address or (I think) dr

Re: [courier-users] courierwebadmin: ERROR: No such file or directory

2005-06-15 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
On 6/14/05, Flavio Stanchina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > > Installing aliases/webadmin... > > ERROR: No such file or directory<< > > > > Any idea what I have done wrong, or haven't done? > > Likely, /etc/courier/aliases is a file rather than a directory; see > /usr/sha

Re: Brief Apt-Get and KDE Question

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:43:28PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > On 14/06/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:18:42AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > I have recently gotten KDE 3.4.1 from deb > > > http://pkg-KDE.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ .

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:12:44AM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > Kevin, > > Thanks, for the device. I used a touch command follow by an apt-get > mentioned in a previous post to get past that error. > > I was having problems with Apache, PHP4, proftpd and MySQL. I got > past most of tho

Re: alsa emu10k1 pcm problem

2005-06-15 Thread Andras Lorincz
I'm using alsamixer and ran alsactl store as root. On 6/15/05, CoolFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andras Lorincz a écrit : > > I'm using kernel 2.6.10 with my Creative Live Player! and 4.1 > > satellites. I have this problem: in alsamixer I can see 2 "emu10k1 > > pcm" controls and 4 "emu10k1 pcm

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Anthony Campbell: > > On 14 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > > > I think it was already there when I started using IceWM (~4 years ago)! > > > Unfortunately, it lacks Tab-completion and history. What I like is that > > > when you finish the command with

a2ps: Printer "display" not working

2005-06-15 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, "a2ps -P display .bashrc" yields: [.bashrc (plain): 2 pages on 2 sheets] sh: line 1: /tmp/a2_HSzrDm: Permission denied [Total: 2 pages on 2 sheets] sent to the printer `display' [2 lines wrapped] Using strace i found: [pid 8415] open("/tmp/a2_N4Fh2p", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGE

Re: Getting the hang of APT....

2005-06-15 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:14:06PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > The maintainer puts the dependency information in the package when he > creates it. When the package is uploaded that information is taken from > the package and added to the Packages file. Sounds logical. > > According to the list t

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-15 Thread Nathan Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mitja Podreka wrote: > Hello > > When using Thunderbird I get reminded all the time to "compact the > folder to save space". > I know this is good, but i want to do it when I want, not evertime I > want to read my new mail! > > And when I click Cance

Re: Mailinglists

2005-06-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:06:59AM +0200, VFJ - Damiaan Peeters wrote: > Is there a good howto available on the net, to install MailMan? There are some quite complete docs at http://www.list.org/docs.html By the way, please don't copy me on messages to the list. I read the list. --

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

2005-06-15 Thread Lars Roland
On 6/15/05, Shaun Lipscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the stable release of debian why is there no /etc/init.d/iptables ? > > How do you initiate iptables the "debian way" on system start up? You do not need the init script just use iptables-save to save your current rules. Regards.

Re: install cd with newer kernel?

2005-06-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:17:20PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a new (VIA) SATA card which is not recognised by the kernel in > the Sarge installer (3.1r0a) CD (2.6.8). The Ubuntu Hoary CD has 2.6.10 > and works fine. Perhaps it isn't just the version, but that isn't too > im

Re: alsa emu10k1 pcm problem

2005-06-15 Thread CoolFox
Andras Lorincz a écrit : I'm using kernel 2.6.10 with my Creative Live Player! and 4.1 satellites. I have this problem: in alsamixer I can see 2 "emu10k1 pcm" controls and 4 "emu10k1 pcm" controls and whenever start a new playback of a movie or music those controls change its values and 4 of them

Re: resolvconf w/ dhcpd -> /etc/hosts not working

2005-06-15 Thread Meni Shapiro
On 6/12/05, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!I'm using a dhcp3 client with resolvconf configuration. The ip updating andname server configuration works fine, but I can not use the /etc/hosts file.For example if I set this up in /etc/hosts: 192.168.0.1server.example.org   server That's ok  The

Re: Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze

2005-06-15 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 01:22 +0800, Emile Kroeger a écrit : > (oops, accidental single-user reply ... damn gmail !) > > > Looks like inkscape leaks memory too fast ... then your swap fills (your > > machine becomes slower), and when filled you get into an OOM (out of > > memory) situation, and

Re: Forcing a PCMCIA card to a specific eth?

2005-06-15 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:04:32PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > Sounds like you want to investigate the package 'ifrename' - this lets > you determine interface names based on certain factors, such as MAC > address or (I think) driver/type. Dave... you're my new hero. ifrename worked like a ch

install cd with newer kernel?

2005-06-15 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I have a new (VIA) SATA card which is not recognised by the kernel in the Sarge installer (3.1r0a) CD (2.6.8). The Ubuntu Hoary CD has 2.6.10 and works fine. Perhaps it isn't just the version, but that isn't too important. What I want is either 1. A Sarge CD image with a new kernel that

Re: Mailinglists

2005-06-15 Thread VFJ - Damiaan Peeters
Is there a good howto available on the net, to install MailMan? - Original Message - From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:59 PM Subject: Re: Mailinglists > Lots of snipping below. > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:38:08PM +0200, VFJ - Damiaan Peeters wrote

Re: Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bill: > On June 14, 2005 05:56 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > > ... the "netinst" iso comes with base -- whereas the business > > card one does not. > > Sorry no fast connection. I'll be installing from cd. This is why > I'm looking for the index, toc, list etc for the cds at the above > url. I t

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Anthony Campbell: > On 14 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > I think it was already there when I started using IceWM (~4 years ago)! > > Unfortunately, it lacks Tab-completion and history. What I like is that > > when you finish the command with Ctrl-Enter the command is started > > inside a t

Re: /etc/debian_version - the penny drops

2005-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
David Jardine wrote: > When upgrading to Sarge, I was asked if I wanted to keep my old > entry in /etc/debian_version or have it replaced by the package's > version. You must have modified it from the previous package in some way. (Or at least dpkg thought you did.) You can look at the old

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-15 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:34:40AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Right you are, Steve (*blush*). My TBird hides the headers and I have to > click on the + button to see them. No big deal but sometimes I just > forget they are there. Meh, wrote that in a hurry. Forgot to mention that I am runn

alsa emu10k1 pcm problem

2005-06-15 Thread Andras Lorincz
I'm using kernel 2.6.10 with my Creative Live Player! and 4.1 satellites. I have this problem: in alsamixer I can see 2 "emu10k1 pcm" controls and 4 "emu10k1 pcm" controls and whenever start a new playback of a movie or music those controls change its values and 4 of them get to 100% which distorts

problem of "0000:02:08.0 Network controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1042"

2005-06-15 Thread Bo Xu
Currently We're using the Debian sarge with kernal 2.6.11 on one Dell desktop. We have one Intel Pro/wireless 2011 PC card and one Intel Pro/wireless 2011 LAN PCI Carrier. "The Intel PRO/Wireless 2011 LAN PCI Carrier is a PCMCIA-to-PCI conversion card designed to provide a means for the Intel PR

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