Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:53:57AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > Hi H, > I had a thought: some of the new micro-atx systems like the shuttle xp? > shuttle,2 mice, 2 14" lcds, 2 kbds. about $700-800?(a guess). > Small, somewhat portable. Cheaper than a laptop but not able to be used > on the go (

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Lee Whalen wrote: > Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. Welcome to the last OS you'll ever need X-) > So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is > already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server

Re: GRUB and +2TiB disk

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Dresser
Disk label type: gpt Grub cannot boot from a gpt type partition table, and MSDOS style cannot handle over 2 TiB... I have a 15x300 array with the same problem, I ended up putting a 128 meg CF card on a CF to IDE adapter, and using that as /boot. Now the machine boots with the help of LILO

AW: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

2006-11-09 Thread Rohrbach Andre
Okay, here is the solution of the problem: --- /etc/apache2/httpd.conf --- DocumentRoot /var/www/bugzilla/ ServerName name.domain.ch Alias /bugzilla/ /var/www/bugzilla/ ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ -

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread Zoran Kolic
> installation, was automatic. During boot everything would be > connected and all the dhcp stuff with the router would be setup and I > could see this come across the screen and then bang, I was online. > The same is true here in Debian, except that nothing ever appears > onscreen or in dmesg and

Re: apache problem

2006-11-09 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Wu wrote: > Hi, > > I had a fresh install of Debian (Testing branch) and my apache is not > working properly: > This is what's shown in error.log > > [Thu Nov 09 15:13:46 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) configured -- > resuming normal op

Does Debian Support PERC & PERC 3 RAID?

2006-11-09 Thread Charles E. Boston
Hi there, Here's my dilemma. I own an old Dell PowerEdge 2300 that is is very good operating condition and it still takes care of my needs. I would like to install a Linux OS on it to dual boot with Windows Server 2003. The Windows OS is installed The drives are partitioned and waiting for the

Re: apache problem

2006-11-09 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:12:05 +0800 "Timothy Wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I had a fresh install of Debian (Testing branch) and my apache is > not working properly: > This is what's shown in error.log > > [Thu Nov 09 15:13:46 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) > configured -- resumin

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 04:09:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Andrew Sackville-West writes: > >>well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with > >>heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful > >>boxes. And if you're second user i

apache problem

2006-11-09 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi,I had a fresh install of Debian (Testing branch) and my apache is not working properly:This is what's shown in error.log[Thu Nov 09 15:13:46 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Nov 09 15:13:49 2006] [notice] child pid 4429 exit signal Segmentation f

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-09 Thread Shrini
Hi Sven. > Do you have tamil fonts installed? If not, try installing > ttf-tamil-fonts. Thanks. I installed the tamil ttf fonts. Now the firefox shows the tamil sites. But, the fonts are displayed correctly. They are seen splitted. Any way to show them correctly? regards, T.Shrinivasan. -

How to enable/use Hyperthreading?

2006-11-09 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, People. I have a question and haven't been able to get an answer for a week already. I bought recently a new computer with a Pentium D processor (which is supposed to have two cores, if I understand it) and one of the first things that I did with it was to enable SMP. Seeing in /proc/c

Re: Mailman with Apache 2 on Sarge

2006-11-09 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SAJChurchey wrote: > the e-mail is getting sent to the proper command through the aliases > (In this particular case, I'm trying to subscribe by sending an e-mail > to mailman-subscribe), but the owner doesn't

Re: annoying beeping speaker

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > You know that annoying little speaker in the computer that goes beep > everytime you hit the wrong key. > > Well, mine didn't work for years. > > I just did a -testing upgrade and now it works. > > How do I make it stop without open

Re: laptop display

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:15:38AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, reads: > > > >Section "Screen" > >Identifier "Default Screen" > >Device "Trident Microsystems Cybyer 9397" > >Monitor "Generic Monitor" > > > >Default Depth 24 > >Subsection "Display" > >Depth 24 > >Mode

Re: mutt, gnome terminal, xemacs, gnuserv, debian etch

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:15:54PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:47:21PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > The package chain is as follows: > > > > > > INCOMING MAIL: pop3 server @ my ISP --> getmail4 --> maildrop --> > >

Re: Cannot install on SATA hard drive

2006-11-09 Thread aliosha samodossi
2006/11/9, Kanex Kesavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I am trying to install Debian on my laptop using Debian DVD. At the insulation the software cannot see the hard drive. Could you help me to install on a SATA hard drive please? Thanks. Some additional information could help. Go and search f

Re: how to install debian to workstations that boot via network

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:39:41PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:57:57PM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > > Hi, I want to install debian to several workstations. The problem is > > the workstations do not have any CDROM drive or floppy drive but they > > can boot from network.

Re: Cannot install on SATA hard drive

2006-11-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:08:48AM +, Kanex Kesavan wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop using Debian DVD. At the insulation > the software cannot see the hard drive. Could you help me to install on a > SATA hard drive please? Thanks. > If you're trying to install Sa

Re: booting etch with / as lvm

2006-11-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 08:52:09AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get my system booting so that all filesystems are on lvm > (apart from /boot obviously). I am moving from a normal setup. > > I have created my lv's and copied the data over, set up grub but when it > tries to

Re: how to install debian to workstations that boot via network

2006-11-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:57:57PM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > Hi, I want to install debian to several workstations. The problem is > the workstations do not have any CDROM drive or floppy drive but they > can boot from network. How to install debian to the workstation? The > workstation support PXE

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 02:34:46PM -0500, Lee Whalen wrote: > so I am tasked with migrating all of our HeadRat servers over to > Debian. > > My big question is, does Debian work with the Adaptec SATA HostRAID > controller that this IBM eServer x206 box has on it? Etch may. Make an install

Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

2006-11-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:11:16AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hello, > > every day I turn my computer off when I leave work. Consequently, I have > to turn I back on when I get back. About twice a week, of course, one of my > 6 harddisk partitions is ready for its routine check on startup whic

EV-DO Signal Strength on Debian

2006-11-09 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I have a spiffy EV-DO Novatel V620 Verizon wireless card, and I want to be able to monitor the signal strength while it's in use. I know I can get the signal strength by running AT+CSQ from a serial terminal program, but how can I automate this? I tried echo "AT+CSQ" > /dev/ttyUSB0, b

GRUB and +2TiB disk

2006-11-09 Thread Santi Saez
Hello, I'm trying to install GRUB in a server with a 3ware 9550SXU-16 RAID card. There is a unique RAID-5 array formed by 15 SATA disk and one for hotspare, the total array size it's near 6TiB. This is the partition scheme: /dev/sda1 ext3100MB /boot /dev/sda2 swap2GB

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 16:32:10 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > cothrige wrote: > >* ChadDavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've > >>recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent > >>and helpful. But what's with a

Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:04:14PM -0800, Larry Fletcher wrote: > > I had a similar problem with the system hanging during > bootup. In my case, it was something to do with acpi. > So there is definitely some risk involved in upgrading > to to kernel 2.6, especially in your situation. I wonder i

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 16:39]: > I use Sarge 3.1 r3. I > downloaded the CDs. When Etch is released > officially as the stable > version, approximately how many identical > files will it be likely to share > with Sarge 3.1 r3 as a function > of the total number of files

rssh

2006-11-09 Thread Alejandro
People, I'm using rssh in order to give sftp access to the user "test", and he shouldn't go above /home/test path. So I configure /etc/rssh.conf in this way: logfacility = LOG_USER allowsftp umask = 022 user = test:011:00010:"/home/test" But the user "test" can enter to my system under and abov

Re: Yes, I really did it!

2006-11-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Name Withheld wrote: rm -rf / [snip] So I'm thinking, if I could just stuff enough code into that old box to do a bootp thingy, and download a kernel from the bootp server. . . . . I suggest you try DSL. It's based on Debian, and runs on older hardware very nicely. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;

Re: passwords

2006-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 13:48:11 -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > What passwords in the latest rev does one need to use to login if one did > not set login or user passwords at the time of install, please? There is always the superuser who can do anything on the system. The username for this

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-11-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-10-13 20:40:55, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: With Planet Debian and the rest, you can just use RSS aggregation. This would be quiet expensive over GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS while iMode and Mailaccess (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) is free at my GSM provider. So they'll let you pull

Re: cannot ping my own machine

2006-11-09 Thread Mike McCarty
schmity wrote: Ok, newbie here so go easy on me. In general, what type of files would I expect to find in the /etc directory? How would I have known to look in the /etc directory for the hosts file? I suggest you look here http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: jigdo-newbie question Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:26:05 + Richard Lyons wrote: >[...] >> > - What is the advantage of jigdo? As far as I can see it >[...] >> If

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-09 Thread Mike McCarty
cothrige wrote: * ChadDavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around here. Have the threads I read end up in

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread cothrige
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So your router's LAN address is 192.168.15.1. Is that correct? You can > check this by opening your router's web configuration page. OR, you can > also try on your wife's laptop (which IIRC runs Windows and works fine) > and open a command prompt terminal and

Re: ca-certificates

2006-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 00:48:33 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. On a recent upgrade, using Etch, I got an error with > ca-certificates (which prevented the upgrade). Has anyone else gotten > this? I use xfce4. Which version of the package is this? 20061027 installed without error on my

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Andrew Sackville-West writes: well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful boxes. And if you're second user is an intermittent, low-power user (browsing, email) it could probably work pret

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Richard Lyons wrote: >[...] >> > - What is the advantage of jigdo? As far as I can see it >[...] >> If the download is interrupted, jigdo can resume, and even can >> salvage partial files. > >Oh, that makes sense (but I thought some ftp clients -- lftp perhaps -- >could do that too). > >[...]

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 21:18 +, Wackojacko wrote: > linux-image-2.6.18-2-686 - Linux 2.6.18 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 [snip] > No em64t or k8 linux images in my i386 chroot I'm afraid :) Then use 686. I just installed Etch on my spare partition. OK, I have only the first DVD, and no n

Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?

2006-11-09 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Nicolas, > >> - is it worth an upgrade ? > >> > >> - is it as simple as an apt-get install kernel-image-xxx ? > >> > I've just done almost exactly the same thing as you are contemplating > (upgraded to sarge, then from 2.2.20idepci to 2.6.8-3-386).

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 15:00]: > It is the latest available, 'jigdo-file' 0.7.3-1, which contains the > jigdo-lite I ran. The 'jigdo' package claims it is "NOT yet capable of > processing .jigdo files - use jigdo-lite..." jigdo is used on the repository end to create the "t

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:18 +, Wackojacko wrote: Of course you are correct. I was confusing the OS naming with the kernel convention. k8 is just for amd64 processors doh! Although I didn't find any of these on unstable either, so I assume none in etch. Thanks for t

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread H.S.
cothrige wrote: >> When you expect a connection to have been established, what is the >> output of these commands: >> >> $> route -n >> $> ifconfig -a >> $> cat /etc/resolv.conf > > BTW, I had to run this as root, even though it appears you were > expecting a user account to work, but I could no

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 09:00]: > > I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. ^^^ > ... > > for about four hours, then said > > Aaargh - 288 files could n

obase won't work with FORM wizard

2006-11-09 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Debian etch, OO 2.0.4-5 , and gcj 4.0.3-2 I can create a database okay, but when I go to create a FORM, using the wizard, I can get to the last step, and nothing happens, nothing gets created From the command line, I run; /usr/lib/openoffice/program/sbase /home/rodney/waste/DVD.odb libGL erro

Built openvz kernel (2.6.18-3). Now what? (more)

2006-11-09 Thread David Baron
>>Bootup does NOT panic but produces a slew of undefined symbols. Cannot trap >>these but symbols of form UB_ seems most common (there are others). >>This kernel does not use an initrd so maybe I need to compile in some of the >>openvz stuff? Which ones? >Made one with the latest patch from

Upgraded etch; still freezes.

2006-11-09 Thread hendrik
Just updated etch to current today, 2006 Nov 9; some xorg componenets were updates, but bug 379480 is still present. It is still a show-stopper, and I manage to get any useful work done on the system only by running Ubuntu. I am prepared to help try and solve the problem; I just don't know wh

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Kent West
Lee Whalen wrote: My big question is, does Debian work with the Adaptec SATA HostRAID controller that this IBM eServer x206 box has on it? I dunno, but ... does that sound feasible, or am I doing far, far too much work? Sounds good to me. You mention a LiveCD; if you can boot the box off a De

Re: IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 09 November 2006 12:34, Lee Whalen wrote: >Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. So, > I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is > already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server (RHEL 3.0 Typhoon 6), > running a few production a

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:48:24PM -0600, cothrige wrote: > * H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ... > worked fine, but lately the connection is uber-flaky. It doesn't > always come up at boot, and even when it does it is dropping out > badly. When this happens I will experience something like fiv

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread cothrige
* Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:57:06PM -0600, cothrige wrote: > > > > Maybe that could be my trouble, but why do you suppose I would not > > have the same problem with the other computer using that same router? > > crucial information. maybe you sa

IBM eServer x series 206 RH-to-Debian migration

2006-11-09 Thread Lee Whalen
Greetings all, long-time Debian user, first-time poster here. So, I've got a predicament. I need to get Debian Etch on a box that is already an in-production HeadRat Enterprise server (RHEL 3.0 Typhoon 6), running a few production apps (Apache with a handful of VHosts, postfix, a ticketing

Re: Skype via VNC

2006-11-09 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 09 November 2006 08:51, Easthope wrote: > Joshua, > > > It's possible that the Xvnc server does not support an extension > > that Skype > requires. What error messages do you get if you open a shell and > start Skype > that way (or look in .xsession-errors in your home dir). > > Joshua,

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-09 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 00:53 -0800, Shrini wrote: > Friends. > > I use Debian etch testing. > > I installed Firefox 2. > > It does not show any unicode tamil sites well. > It show only boses. > > How to make firefox to show unicode? > Have you tried View -> Character encoding? > Thanks, > T.S

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:57:06PM -0600, cothrige wrote: > > Maybe that could be my trouble, but why do you suppose I would not > have the same problem with the other computer using that same router? crucial information. maybe you said it before, but I didn't see it. That pretty much narrows it

Re: multiseat laptop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:38:32PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with > > heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful > > boxes. And if you're second user is an intermittent, low-pow

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread cothrige
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Perhaps the router is taking care of PPPoE? SWBell (which I > previously used as ISP) typically uses PPPoE. I don't believe so. I had initially connected the modem directly to the computer, this was when I first switched to DSL, and I had not i

Re: acroread

2006-11-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:19:50PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > arch specific issue that affect source code, assuming that app is not > binary only, which I think acroread is. right... thanks A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread cothrige
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am not sure if I see the picture: are you trying to connect to your > ADSL modem through a router or directly from your Debian computer? I have an ADSL modem which is connected to my Linksys router with my computer then connected to that, as is my wife's.

passwords

2006-11-09 Thread Bob Schwartz
Hi, What passwords in the latest rev does one need to use to login if one did not set login or user passwords at the time of install, please? thanks Bob Schwartz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jigdo newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread rlharris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 09:00]: > I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. ... > It downloaded stuff - as far as I could see in batches of ten files - > for about four hours, then said > Aaargh - 288 files could not be downloaded. This should not >

Bind9 behaving weirdly

2006-11-09 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, I have a Debian GNU/Linux box that among other things run Bind9. I am having some problem with it, I've done a lot of changes to the configs today, restarted it many times (about 50) and even restarted the computer. In the logs I can see the right serials are being picked up: starting BI

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Only if you receive your mail OVER a MTA. Er, right, which is how most people do it. > With fetchmail you must download and filter Uh, no. The most common fetchmail method is to drop into the local MTA. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread rlharris
* cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 09:52]: > * Russell L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > From your bellsouth address and the fact that you have DHCP, I presume > > you are also have to contend with PPPoE. I suspect that PPPoE may be > > the culprit. > > No, I have never had to

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread H.S.
cothrige wrote: I have been having some troubles with my DSL internet connection for a while now. First an upgrade appeared to remove some or all of the dhcp related software on my box. Thanks to this list I think I fixed that by installing dhcp3-client. But, then the connection would only be

What is this all about?

2006-11-09 Thread David Baron
Got this series on a logcheck. Never saw anything like it before: Nov  9 18:04:30 d_baron kernel:  [] __alloc_pages+0x200/0x2f0 Nov  9 18:04:30 d_baron kernel:  [] cache_alloc_refill+0x2f0/0x530 Nov  9 18:04:30 d_baron kernel:  [] __kmalloc+0x71/0x80 Nov  9 18:04:30 d_baron kernel:  [] __alloc_skb

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-11-09 08:45:37, schrieb Steve Lamb: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > if you receive messages which have a "-request" in there E-mail > > then it is always spam (at least for Debian lists) ant it can > > be filtered out easily with procmail or mailrop. > > Er, uh, aren't those after SA in

Re: Debian

2006-11-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Tyler Fisher wrote: > Hello, I have Debian running on my web server. I just got it yesturday, and > it's unmanaged running VHCS Control Panel. I have to setup the nameservers, > but I don't know how. Would you please give me a guide on setting up my > nameservers? It would be really helpful. I'm al

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: > And why do Debian need three similar programs which do the same thing? > But unfortiunatly it is... since those which want to be individual and > use only fvwm are cuted to older apps which are "not more supported" > and deprecated since GNOME and KDE exist!

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: > if you receive messages which have a "-request" in there E-mail > then it is always spam (at least for Debian lists) ant it can > be filtered out easily with procmail or mailrop. Er, uh, aren't those after SA in the server-side chain? Sure would be here if I used eit

Re: Mailman with Apache 2 on Sarge

2006-11-09 Thread SAJChurchey
Thanks Sven, With your help I was able to sort out my Apache problems. I've been able to get the web interface working nicely, but now the mail is not functioning correctly. I've set it up with Postfix using directions in README.Debian and README.POSTFIX. The Postfix logs are telling me that the e

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-10-31 23:01:47, schrieb Deephay: > Greetings all, > > I have a problem with my .xsession-errors file, this file will grow > tremendous size each day (956 MB today, cleared yesterday, with a 4 GB > size). > The major source of errors comes from gnash (I am using the amd64 port > which adobe

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-10-28 17:47:55, schrieb Kent West: > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put > it on the back burner and read my email when I came across your post. > > I've tried cfdisk and fdisk to look

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi John, Am 2006-10-24 12:05:29, schrieb John C: > You're absolutely correct. The xterm should be "IN MY FACE" every > time I log on. (it does on my box) Unfortunately the linux > community is sliding down the "commercially" driven "one desktop > fits all" slope, so that once all the desktops

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, Am 2006-10-20 08:28:01, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > If you are using t-bird to get mail directly from a pop server, then I > think you're stuck. But you COULD, setup fetchmail to get your mail, > reconfig exim to use spamassassin and whatever else you want) and then > deliver that ma

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Johannes, Am 2006-10-20 20:34:46, schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > Yes, but for those on slow networks: They always have to first download > the message, before the filter will tell them it's spam. > > It would be really appreciated, if the listmasters could filter messages > with to's and cc'

Re: Dirty spam

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Cord, Am 2006-10-23 15:52:07, schrieb Cord Beermann: > I added a rule that drops mails that have a To/Cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for doing this. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Lin

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-10-13 20:40:55, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > With Planet Debian and the rest, you can just use RSS aggregation. This would be quiet expensive over GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS while iMode and Mailaccess (IMAP/POP3/SMTP) is free at my GSM provider. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzac

For the archive [was: getting a list of manually installed package]

2006-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Since manualy installes Packages are generaly not in any Packages.gz lists someone can use following construct: 8<-- #!/bin/bash for Packages in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages ; do grep --invert-match --only-matching --fixed-strings

Re: Weird system clock problem...

2006-11-09 Thread David Hart
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:08:58AM -0500, Louis-David Perron wrote: > Since I upgraded this server to the 2.6 kernel branch, I have this, > weird, and HEAVY system clock problem. This machine was running > perfectly using a 2.4 kernel. In less than 24 hours, the system clock > seems to get stu

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 07:34 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: I see this: Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8 (2.6.17+2) Linux 2.6 image on AMD64 K8 machines - transition package I don't know about Etch, but on Sarge I see this package: kernel-image-2.6.8-12-em64t-p4 Looks li

Re: apache 2 php5 issue

2006-11-09 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:07:40PM -0800, rocky wrote: > > In my Debian sid box I installed apache2, PHP5, libapache-mod-php5 ^^ I think that is the problem you have. Try installing libapache2-mod-php5 and see whether it wo

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 07:34 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: > I see this: > > Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64-k8 (2.6.17+2) > Linux 2.6 image on AMD64 K8 machines - transition package I don't know about Etch, but on Sarge I see this package: kernel-image-2.6.8-12-em64t-p4 Looks like a better match

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
Bill Wohler wrote: Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill Wohler wrote: I installed the i386 etch distribution on my 64-bit system since the ia64 distribution had been burned on suspect media and wouldn't boot. Are you sure you want ia64. Most 64-bit systems these days use the amd64 po

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-09 Thread cothrige
* Russell L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Patrick - > > From your bellsouth address and the fact that you have DHCP, I presume > you are also have to contend with PPPoE. I suspect that PPPoE may be > the culprit. > No, I have never had to use PPPoE before that I am aware of. Under Sl

Debian

2006-11-09 Thread Tyler Fisher
Hello, I have Debian running on my web server. I just got it yesturday, and it's unmanaged running VHCS Control Panel. I have to setup the nameservers, but I don't know how. Would you please give me a guide on setting up my nameservers? It would be really helpful. I'm also accessing my web server v

Re: Making an ext2 filesystem on a DVD+RW

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > modprobe pktcdvd > > pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/hdd > > ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > Can anyone advise me on this? Make sure that your kernel has pktcdvd support. Then try: pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd If you use udev, the device file /dev/pktcdvd/0 sho

Weird system clock problem...

2006-11-09 Thread Louis-David Perron
This is a resend... I think my first e-mail didn't go through. Since I upgraded this server to the 2.6 kernel branch, I have this, weird, and HEAVY system clock problem. This machine was running perfectly using a 2.4 kernel. In less than 24 hours, the system clock seems to get stuck for a tota

Re: Why root fs "read-only" on shutdown?

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel Haude
On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:27:12 +0100, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you try to fsck / while it is mounted read-write, you will be warned that this is a very bad idea. Note that I don't try to check / on shutdown, and / also isn't checked by checkfs.sh. I'm wondering what makes / re

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Bill Wohler
Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler wrote: >> I installed the i386 etch distribution on my 64-bit system since the >> ia64 distribution had been burned on suspect media and wouldn't boot. >> > > Are you sure you want ia64. Most 64-bit systems these days use the > amd64 port (i.e

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-09 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 09 November 2006 03:53, Shrini wrote: > Friends. > > I use Debian etch testing. > > I installed Firefox 2. > > It does not show any unicode tamil sites well. > It show only boses. > > How to make firefox to show unicode? FWIW, I went to http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%

Re: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 09.11.2006 at 15:10 +0100, Rohrbach Andre wrote: > It works with the following VirtualHost configuration: > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/bugzilla/ > ServerName bug2.mvn.ch > Alias /bugzilla/ /var/www/bugzilla/ > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ >

jigdo newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. I keep hearing about bittorrent and jigdo, so I thought I'd try. Bittorrent wouldn't connect to something; after it had failed for over half an hour, I concluded it wasn't going anywhere and switched to jigdo. I started a download o

Using sysctl in debian considered harmful?!

2006-11-09 Thread David Clymer
Someone has been trying to convice me that advising someone to use sysctl or sysctl.conf to query, or set kernel parameters is dangerous, or unsupported in Debian. In particular, enabling/disabling ip forwarding. I happen to think this is BS. Is there any conceivable, or more importantly, a probab

which driver provide support for Intel 82557/8/9 network adapter

2006-11-09 Thread Serena Cantor
I have sarge and a Ethernet Pro 100 card (see Subject). Which module should I use? Thanks Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

AW: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

2006-11-09 Thread Rohrbach Andre
It works with the following VirtualHost configuration: DocumentRoot /var/www/bugzilla/ ServerName bug2.mvn.ch Alias /bugzilla/ /var/www/bugzilla/ ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ Alias "Bugzilla" is for finding the css-templates. Thank you! Now, there is

Re: Installing an i386 OS on an ia64 system

2006-11-09 Thread Wackojacko
Bill Wohler wrote: I installed the i386 etch distribution on my 64-bit system since the ia64 distribution had been burned on suspect media and wouldn't boot. Are you sure you want ia64. Most 64-bit systems these days use the amd64 port (i.e AMD64 and intel emt64 processors). what have you g

Re: obligatory mdadm.conf ?

2006-11-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ratiu Petru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.11.09.0634 +0100]: > I noticed that recent mdadm packages require the presence of > mdadm.conf, at least for the boot process. This was a necessary step because the magic in use by mdadm (specifically mdrun) previously was unpredictable in many cas

Re: DVD playback problems

2006-11-09 Thread Piers Kittel
Seeker, Thank you very much for your reply. From: Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ ls -l hdb brw-rw 1 root disk 3, 64 2005-02-26 06:38 hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ I assume this should be cdrom not disk correct? That is wha

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