Re: which driver for onboard ethernet controller on Dell Diemnsion 8300 ??

2003-12-22 Thread Anita Lewis
Axel Burwitz wrote: Hi, I installed , for my first Debian try, Debian Sarge from the LinuxUser magazine's DVD. After some hurldles it worked but: did'nt configure any network card, eth0 etc. When I try to configure with modconf from the debian KDE set, I don't know which driver to choose, and

Re: Iptables can't locate its modules

2003-12-16 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:43:06 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up iptables using kernel 2.4.23. I've installed iptables and iptables-dev from testing and I've enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER but all attempts to execute the iptables commands produces: root:~:# iptables -F modprobe:

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs, I can load knoppix

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Anita Lewis
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:51:04 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: I've been trying to set up POP3 email access (in text mode instead of from the desktop), and am really stumped now. I just did a little experiment and installed fetchmail, then from the command prompt gave the fetchmail command as

Re: Setting Up Email

2003-12-13 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:01 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote: I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you didn't tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file

Re: Mail consolidation

2003-12-06 Thread Anita Lewis
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:27:29 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to only get these emails batched together instead of 20 separate emails from the mailing list. It is two difficult to go threw my mail with all these emails added in there. I find that reading

Re: is it possible to use newsgroups?

2003-11-27 Thread Anita Lewis
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:04:39 -0800 (PST), mighty sword wrote: Hi, I am new to all this lists stuff. I have primarily used newsgroups readers till now. I have just subscribed to debian-user list from my linuxmail account, found that inconvenient and unsubscribed, and again subscribed from

Re: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Anita Lewis
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:26:44 +0530, Vikas B N wrote: Hi All, I have a system running WinXP and Linux. Except for one partition, all others are ext2 partitions. I had to make some space for a FAT32 partition, so wanted to format one of the ext2 partitions to FAT32. So, I booted into

RE: Is it possible to recover deleted ext2 partitions??

2003-11-20 Thread Anita Lewis
Vikas B N said: What exactly does 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' show with a rescue disk right now? I didn't *write* the partition table to disk at all. that's exactly what I cannot understand. the sequence of commands that I used were somewhat like this - #

Re: Newbie

2003-11-17 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:00:44 -0800, Steven Bradley wrote: Hi,=20 Just finished with a fresh install of 3.0, got all the way to the end = where it was time to reboot put in user name and password this is what = followed after hitting enter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$. Is there another = command

Re: How to start a user process on boot?

2003-11-17 Thread Anita Lewis
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:45:41 + (UTC), Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anita Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beside using start-stop-daemon, su or sudo, you could just use cron. As the user run crontab -e and use @reboot as time argument. Yours sincerely

Re: How to start a user process on boot?

2003-11-16 Thread Anita Lewis
I want to start a p2p program while booting. I tried to write a script=20 for /etc/init.d it works but only as root. I want the program starting as a user process (for security reasons). =20 How can root start automatically a process as a user? Beside using start-stop-daemon, su or

Re: making /dev entries

2003-11-16 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:43:50 +0100, LeVA wrote: Hello! I accidentally deleted my /dev/dsp0 file. Is there any way, to remake that device? I have recompiled my kernel, and run /sbin/MAKEDEV, but no success. Thanks! Daniel cd /dev MAKEDEV audio Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: file creation permissions

2003-11-12 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:38:38 -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote: I don't know if its possible to modify the ownership of a newly created file. He who creates, becomes owner. You can use the sgid bit to modify the group permission to follow that of the parent directory. I thought that is what the

Re: Upgrade Problem..

2003-11-08 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:16:20 + (GMT), Richard wrote: Unpacking replacement Joe... /var/lib/dpkg/info/joe.potrm: line 3: /usr/bin/update-menus: Permission denied snip After this 'apt-get upgrade' dies altogether thus causing the whole upgrade to die.  Can't install Joe or remove it.  

Re: please help, lost my partition

2003-10-31 Thread Anita Lewis
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hello! I lost my partition. One of my most important ones... It is a 100gb partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc... I had a crash in kde, and I had to reset the computer. After the boot, the boot process said that it can not mount

Detect Mail Status in mbox - not mail spool

2003-09-07 Thread Anita Lewis
I'm using icewm. There is a nifty little icon that shows the mail status on the toolbar. The problem is that I have procmail deliver all my mail to folders - much of it to separate folders, and what's left goes in mbox. The reason for this is that I have various versions of Debian installed and

SOLVED: Re: startx fails - PAM problem?

2003-08-21 Thread Anita Lewis
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:55:27AM -0400, Anita Lewis wrote: I just installed debian on another partition. I have Sarge going on one partition, but am starting from scratch for learning purposes - and to make proper notes this time. xdm started right up and I could login as root and user

startx fails - PAM problem?

2003-08-20 Thread Anita Lewis
I just installed debian on another partition. I have Sarge going on one partition, but am starting from scratch for learning purposes - and to make proper notes this time. xdm started right up and I could login as root and user (ajlewis2) Then I decided to mount my /home partition and use that.

ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-11 Thread Anita Lewis
This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in /var/www. There's a firewall on it and it is set so that we can send and receive mail,

Re: deleting email queue on exim

2003-07-25 Thread Anita Lewis
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:10:06AM +0200, Louie Miranda wrote: how to delete email queue on exim? -- Thank you, Louie Miranda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To get rid of all of it remove all files in /var/spool/exim/input. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-23 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:50:13PM +0200, Anthony Rowe wrote: I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then browse this file using my MUA ('c', '?', and then to '../', and '/News' etc. in mutt). Saved articles

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-27 Thread Anita Lewis
cr said: I've concluded that there must be something fairly basic wrong with my bios settings or maybe the MBR (though I did run bios autodetect before I started all this and made sure the alternatives I selected gave the same drive/head/sector numbers as the labels on the hard drives did). I'm

Re: Disk Corruption

2003-02-04 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:30:05PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: /boot/boot-menu.b: no such file or directory. Hmm... + I have other things under that, and when I boot, I get a red menu with the list to choose from. It waits a while and then goes off to load the

Re: Trying again... X, KDE, Monitor

2002-06-18 Thread Anita Lewis
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: [Sorry if this is the 2nd or 3rd attempt at posting. My Mac system here is acting wierd, and I'm not sure if the email went or not.] I have Debian/Woody with KDE login, the kind that shows users' heads, and allows options to be selected such as console login.

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread Anita Lewis
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:49:41AM +, Simon R Tod wrote: If I just type 'rescue' at the boot prompt I get the slightly different error message 'Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00', so this doesn't provide me with the chance to run fdisk, or anything else. But, I know that

apt-get download size

2001-08-25 Thread Anita Lewis
Hi. I'm running woody and do apt-get upgrade weekly. Why does it sometimes download something like 24Mb and only use something like 1.5Mb? That is what is happening today and I've seen it quite often. Thanks, Anita

Re: Help: lilo wasn't able to install...

2001-08-17 Thread Anita Lewis
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:23:43AM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote: Anita, I tried the root=/dev/sda1 process already. It too failed. I even tried making a small 10MB /boot partition, but Debian still refuses to install LILO. Thanks, /*Raj*/ So you are saying that you can use that install