Re: Samba not accessible with 3.0.8

2004-12-16 Thread Brian Brazil
I'm having similar problems on win98 and Samba 3.0.9-1 (on Sarge). I've found a slight workaround: if I access samba by the ip address of the server from the win98 system it starts working. E.g. goto Run... and type '\\124.47.34.97' and press enter. Then I'm able to use the NetBIOS names as

Re: Success! 386sx40 16meg ram

2004-06-09 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:59:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Trungie*! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just wanted to share my success with debian. I just finish putting it on a 386sx 40mhz with 16 meg ram and a 200 meg hard drive. I can do it with half the RAM and half the disk on the same

Re: How to get rid of logrotate

2004-06-05 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 12:50:48PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, is there any easy possibility to get rid of logrotate? I make use of sid on one station and sarge on another one. logrotate is marked as a dependency of several packages. Among others mailman and apache. However, I do

Re: Files in /etc/pam.d/

2004-05-02 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 02:23:02AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:12, William Ballard wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:04:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Problem for me, as I said: no docs that I found so far on which file in /etc/pam.d is used by which

Re: aptitude as non-root

2004-05-01 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: from what i understand of the aptitude philosophy, i'm supposed to be able to select what i want as me, and then only su - root after i've selected everything. however, when it prompts me to become root and i type in the root

Re: [Ignor Whois] Re: make-kpgk -- recompile without clean?

2004-04-21 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:54:13AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:17:43PM +0100, Brian Brazil wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: I built a kernel image and I forgot to enable one setting (console framebuffer). Is it possible

Re: Security warnings from pam_securetty?

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:57:13PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: I find these messages in my logfiles. What has changed recently? The access to the tty devices is crw-rw and owned by root.tty. sshd[4196]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure ! xscreensaver:

Re: make-kpgk -- recompile without clean?

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: I built a kernel image and I forgot to enable one setting (console framebuffer). Is it possible to recompile without running clean first? It should complain. Not a good idea to do this anyway. If you must do this search back on

Re: system wide fix for 'max user processes'/RLIMIT_NPROC?

2004-04-19 Thread Brian Brazil
. And there has beena change between 'woody' and 'sarge' since sarge isn't screwed up like this. My apologies. Try putting ulimit in /etc/init.d/rc maybe? Brian --On Friday, April 16, 2004 11:19 +0100 Brian Brazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:10:37PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote

Re: system wide fix for 'max user processes'/RLIMIT_NPROC?

2004-04-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:10:37PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: For whatever reason debian stable somewhere somehow defaults to a RLIMIT_NPROC (max user processes) of 256. This is fine for a desktop but absurd for a server. I have yet to find a good way to fix this, but I still don't see

Re: Disc usage monitors

2004-04-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 03:00:44PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:25:08 +0200 (SAST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm looking for a tool to monitor and log the level of disc usage. Something like the disc tabs in gkrellm, but that doesn't require a gui and that can

Re: Anyone used Backports.org to upgrade a woody to 2.6?

2004-04-15 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 02:36:13PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: I see that there's both module-init-tools and a kernel-image-2.6.5 (kernel-image-2.6.5-1-k7_2.6.5-0.backports.org.1_i386.deb) available. There's another modules deb in the folder - make sure you have it if you need to drop back to

Re: samba shares and case sensitivity

2004-04-12 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:22:03PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: I am having an issue with samba exports. I am trying to compile a program with msvc (Yes I know the enemy) which resides on a samba share on my linux system (I actually developed it cross platform with wxWindows and msvc is running

Re: /tmp clean at boot time

2004-04-12 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:07:03AM -0700, Umar Draz wrote: hi dears i have woody with kernel 2.4.25 (now i have install mysql through source) its working . now when i reboot my machine. during boot up /tmp directory is clean and also mysql.sock delete thats why mysql server not

Re: problems accessingg / viewing shares on a linux box from windows.

2004-04-07 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:54:39PM +0100, robert fernando wrote: Hi all, Problem viewing a linux pc from windows On a box running windows 98 I login using the login name x w x space w when I double click on the linux enty in network neighbourhood, I get prompted for a password to enter,

Re: fixed rate audio

2004-04-07 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:44:06AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, the motherboard in the PC I've just build and installed Debian on has a built in VIA 82Cxx audio processor. These seem to operate at a fixed sample rate of 48k/s and the rate cannot be changed at the driver level. So I

Re: Re: How to Eliminate Popups?

2004-04-07 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:10:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how much? apt-get install lynx They'll never bother you again. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's Wrong With My Perl Install?

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 09:03:14AM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: Attempting to execute a perl script, I received errors the meaning of which I need explained. debian-rtg:/home/tilleyrw# ./scrape_test.pl 'Demolition Man' Can't locate XML/LibXML.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl

Re: Modules from other dist's ??

2004-04-02 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 05:16:27PM -0500, Phil wrote: I couldn't get my NIC to work because the module didn't exist in except on the internet. (can't logon). I found the module I need (e1000.o) when I put SuSE the machine. Can I copy the e1000.o file into the /lib//net/ directory

Re: (No Subject)

2004-03-31 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:57:35AM +0200, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Julius Plenz wrote: * Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-30 20:13]: On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 15:00, Manjula Kuntennkar wrote: we are looking for the algorithm of data compression, we need to send data the

Re: irremovable package?

2004-03-31 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:19:01PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. dpkg has become locked up over one errant package and is not allowing anything else to be processed. - - # dpkg -P --force-all

Re: dual boot system sharing data - suggestions please

2004-03-31 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:30:07PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got me a new laptop the dell inspiron 8600 with a 60gig harddrive. I would like to set up a dual boot system on the one harddrive. The catch is I was thinking it would be nice if my linux

Re: how to measure netork bandwidth

2004-03-29 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 05:58:26PM -0800, j smith wrote: i have cable modem connection. is there Unix command that can tell actual netork bandwidth? Try 'bing' I find its most accurate with bigger (100,1000) packet sizes. Still has a tendancy to be under the correct number though... Brian

Re: Mail and Telnet time out specially under Linux

2004-03-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:16:33AM +0100, Ulrich Sucker wrote: Hi folks! During debugging a mail problem, I found a very interesting problem. My mail server says connection timed out if he tries to connect to some specific systems which are properly run under windows. I tried to connect

Re: Stripping KDE

2004-03-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:38:18PM +0100, Shot wrote: Hello. Katipo: I am in the process of stripping my system down.again. I want at this stage, to get rid of KDE completely. [...] Does anybody have any good advice as to a successful technique for this, e.g., is there a

Re: how to save images of webcam from a webpage

2004-03-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:45:36PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am interested in saving the live Traffic webcam images on my computer from a web page. The webpage refreshes the image at regular periods. Is there a way/software with which I can save the images? If the name is constant just use

Re: debfoster vs aptitude (was: Re: Stripping KDE)

2004-03-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:44:11PM +0100, Shot wrote: Brian Brazil: Try aptitude. It keep track of packages that are manually/automatically installed. True. But I remember aptitude had this all-or-nothing feeling to it; if you don't use aptitude from the beginning, this functionality

Re: Installing on an SiI680?

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 03:45:49PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote: Hello all!! I'm trying to install Debian on my second computer and have ran into some problems... All my hard disks are connected to my computer via an SiI680 based PCI IDE controller... SNIP On to the next thing I've

Re: How to start network _after_ pcmcia drivers load?

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:10:29AM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: I recently did a reinstall of Debian (3.0r1 kernel 2.4.18-686). I must have done something different this time as the network is trying to come up before the pcmcia driver is loaded which is where the network card is. The first

Re: Via Epia 5000 Video RAM

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:10:09AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to install XFree86 and it's asking about video ram. I don't know how much ram to specify. The online docs I can find say it uses system RAM. Leave it blank - works fine for me. Correct answer might be in the BIOS.

Re: usb broadband modem

2004-03-26 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:49:07AM -0800, jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I want to upgrade to sid, via network installation. To deal with the download, I have upgraded to broadband service. The USB modem, which comes free with the subscription, is Prolink Hurricane 8000. Just found out from

Re: increasing screen resolution

2004-03-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:20:57PM -0700, Brad Camroux wrote: Hello, I wonder how to increase the screen resolution in X. I'm currently at 1024x768, but would like to go to 1280x1024. I love having the larger desktop space so I can get everything I need on one screen if possible.

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:31:17AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: Am Do, den 25.03.2004 schrieb Paul Johnson um 03:03: For any signature, it's generally considered polite to put in a -- (that is, dash dash space newline) on a line by itself. See my signature for an example. See also:

Re: unable to increase process ulimit

2004-03-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:41:22PM -0600, Jonathan Rockway wrote: Hello, everyone. I'm having a problem with eclipse spawning many processes, causing me to go over my process limit. Since this is normal behavior, I would like to increase my process limit. I have edited

Re: shell script

2004-03-24 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:53:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi I have this script: ## rm -f *.tmp while read line; do echo -e \nzone \${line}\ { type master; file \tuttoqui.zone\; allow-transfer {

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:44:03AM -0800, Renhao Zhang wrote: --- Darik Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition to Windows, KNOPPIX networks just fine with no problems. If your computer runs Windows 98 and Knoppix properly, then your Debian installation isn't loading drivers

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the i flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:06:49PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Recently I found that the i flag had been set on /bin/ps. I removed it with chattr -i. Now the flag has reappeared

Re: SoundBlaster Audigy under OSS?

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:22:12PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 05:36:33PM -0500, Paul Galbraith wrote: I have a soundblaster audigy gamer, and am running sarge with a 2.4.24 kernel. Has anyone gotten this card to work under OSS? Define OSS. The Audigy is not

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the i flag?

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:12:39PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 Mar 2004, Brian Brazil wrote: [snip] I said md5sum for a reason. Even a checksum would be nice. See RFC1680(?) - MD5, RFC1750 - Randomness recomendations for security. Essentially date(touch) and file size(echo

Re: Debian 3.0 Woody Module problem

2004-03-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:48:55PM +0200, JOKe wrote: I hate instaled Debian 3.0 r1 woody with bf24 kernel ( 2.4.18) i have select module of my lan card under the isntallation the module is via-rhine but when everythink was installed i have no lan I meen the module is loaded it is in use

Re: OK, I'm a coward...help me feel more at ease?

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:01:26PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Did the deed, still boots to the old kernel. I've read the man lilo.conf til I'm blue in the face, changed, rechanged, changed again, still no other boot option. Uncommenting the alias line helped give options for boot aliases,

Re: /etc/profile and setting env variables

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:56:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my questions: a) Where do I edit global profile changes? One place for enviroment variables is with pam_env in /etc/pam.d and /etc/security. Another for enviroment variables is /etc/enviroment Limits can be handled with

Re: Dns Port Problems

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:35:20PM +0200, George Roman wrote: this is the result of nmap started from my local workstation(172.16.35.137), when the DNS...server had no firewall(/etc/init.d/iptables clear) ^^^ 53/tcp opendomain this is the result of nmap started from the

Re: VMware installation problem

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:57:59AM +0100, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: Hi, when installing vmware eval on my debian sarge I encounter problem compiling modules. Install scripts refuses to compile modules because `uname -r` ('2.6.3-alfons32-2') differs from UTS_RELEASE ('2.6.3'). Kernel is of

Re: Max number of ide disk atteched

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 12:14:17PM +0100, Lukovszki Csaba wrote: Dear Debian Users, Since I have attached numerous disk to my server with debian lunux running on it, I had to face to the problem, my last devide is /dev/hdh. Unfortunatelly, I could not access to other two drives /dev/hdi and

Re: ifconfig

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:24:20PM +0800, Enrique Samson Jr. wrote: When I use ifconfig to reconfigure my NIC, i lose the changes on reboot. What is the tool that could make permanent changes? TIA. /etc/network/interfaces. 'man interfaces'(IIRC) for more information. You might want to try

Re: how to download java class file from a web page to loca dir

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 07:57:00PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: I am using Mozilla 1.6 in Debian/unstable with j2re. I am able to view java applets with it without any problem. Now in case I want to save the java.class file in my local dir (so that I can run it later), how do I do it? The

Re: Rooted? Could anything innocently alter the i flag?

2004-03-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:21:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Recently I found that the i flag had been set on /bin/ps. I removed it with chattr -i. Now the flag has reappeared! Is there any way this could conceivably happen innocently following routine upgrades via aptitude? Do I have

Re: mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-20 Thread Brian Brazil
Was sent to my own addres, not list. Reply at end. On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:56PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: here they are. Christopher J. Noyes SNIP Disk /dev/hdb1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 130 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart

Re: mvs to mp3

2004-03-20 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:18:42PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Has anyone heard of a tool to convert mvs files to mp3? (mvs being a sony audio file type) The only thing I've been able to come up with is converting to wav and then to mp3. Or, perhaps there's a utility to convert mvs to

Re: frustrating problem with networking encountered while installing Woody

2004-03-20 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:31:42PM -0800, Renhao Zhang wrote: I have the exact same network card that you do, and have had the same problem. I have never been able to do a net install with dhcp using the bf2.4 kernel. So what I do is just install the base system with the vanilla kernel. Then

Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:49:50AM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote: First try, with obs=512, = even worse: $ time dd if=/home/ccomb/tutorial.pdf of=/mnt/IntelligentStick/tutorial.pdf obs=512 3795+1 enregistrements lus. 3795+1 enregistrements ?crits. 1943399 bytes transferred in

Re: mounting extended or logical partions

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:35:43PM -0500, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: I managed to mount my primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partitions on my two hard drives, i.e. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 but I can't mount the logical/extended partitions, i.e /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 etc. Does anyone know an answer for

Re: subnet seen on intranet

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:11:21PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have a network i use for code development branching off of the corporate intranet. the topology is: +---+ +-+ | 192.168.1.100 |---| 192.168.1.1 |

Re: USB: KDE faster than GNOME faster than TERMINAL ??!!

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Christophe Combelles wrote: Something very strange : I have done a test with a small USB1 memory key (i-stick). I copy a 1.9 MB file from the hard drive to the USB mass storage device, with three different methods: 1) from KDE with Konqueror :

Re: iptables and snort

2004-03-18 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:36:33PM -, Col @ Home wrote: Hi, Am trying to set up a firewall on a Debian linux machine using iptables. New to linux, can anybody point me in the direction of a good guide to configuring a firewall using iptables? There a howto in /usr/share/doc/iptables

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:51:56PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday March 16 at 07:38pm Brian Brazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact I then export this to all my other systems with samba. BTW: you can't loopback from NTFS. Do you mean NFS? If so, have you looked at the option

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:58:08PM +1100, bob parker wrote: apt-get does not barf but it just ignores the /mnt lines and demands a cd. Here's /etc/sources.list deb file:/mnt/Debian3.0/CD1/ pool woody unstable main contrib non-US/contrib non-US/main non-free deb file:/mnt/Debian3.0/CD2/

Re: usb storage devices

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:19:00AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: how do you know where the usb storage device is in the /dev/ directory? syslog says: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 3 ... USB Mass Storage device found at 3 USB id 3 (don't have a clue what this

Re: DNS query

2004-03-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:35:53AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: and that the name server is used by checking that /etc/nsswitch contains the entry hosts: files dns mine has this line too (wish I had a clue what it means) When doing getHostByName() try files(/etc/hosts), then check

Re: Installing from iso images.

2004-03-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images. When I use apt-get install whatever it comes

Re: Running kernel 2.4.25 in woody stable

2004-03-12 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Feb 12, 1988 at 11:23:35AM -0500, Jody Grafals wrote: I'm running debian woody with kernel 2.4.25 that I downloaded from kernel.org and built with make-dpkg and I just noticed that I have compatibility problems with ifconfig in woody, specifically I can not add virtual interfaces.

Re: ssh through NAT firewall host ID problem

2004-03-10 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:23:59PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:17:02AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:02:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: } I have two computers at home running sshd which I can get to through my } firewall using NAT on two

Re: Reconfiguring internal clock

2004-02-29 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:51:33PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Brian Brazil: I believe the relavent file is /etc/adjtime. I was wrong there. Looking at ye olde /etc/init.d/hwclock(first)?.sh it infers that /etc/default/rcS is the file. Debian uses this to overide /etc/adjtime

Re: Reconfiguring internal clock

2004-02-28 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:32:34PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: Being used to that, I did the same for the notebook. But on the notebook there's another operating system present which assumes the hardware clock stores local time. How can I reconfigure this setting with Debian GNU/Linux

Re: setup second nic on debian/powerpc not succeeding

2004-02-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Joey Macao wrote: Selective snipping... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:02:C9:BA:CC inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:B3:1D:31 inet

Re: openoffice

2004-02-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:21:22AM +, steve downes wrote: After an apt-upgrade Openoffice.org will no longer work. Nothing in the logs seems reevant nothing in /var/log. Tried a forced re-install to no effect. I don't even get a cannot find note. Just the PC carries on as if I hadn't

Re: setup second nic on debian/powerpc not succeeding

2004-02-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:59:12PM +0100, Joost De Cock wrote: On Friday 27 February 2004 12:58, Brian Brazil shoved this is my mailbox: ^^ H... On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Joey Macao wrote: ... eth0 Link

Re: openoffice

2004-02-27 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:14:54PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:07:13PM +, Brian Brazil wrote: Oh the pain I had with this. Set up your locale properly and it will work. I put enteries in /etc/security/env.conf for LC_LANG IIRC. Nearly. See locale(7). 'C

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:34:54AM -0500, David Clymer wrote: The Debian Way, as I think i've heard it refered to, is merely the way its done using Debian's particular tools (i.e. make-kpkg rather than the all manual kernel compile, using .debs rather than installing from source, etc). I can't

Re: How to deny host through Mac Address

2004-02-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:53:38PM +0530, GauravA wrote: Dear Sir/ Madam, I am Gaurav Arora working in internet company.Can you help me in telling that how to deny a host through mac address so that customer or host may not able to use internet further. I will be thankful to you if u help me

Re: howto block ports

2004-02-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:50:28AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have had a firewall configured to drop inbound packets on ports that i am not using via iptables. i ran a port scanning utility from an external machine. the utility detected that, although the ports were _closed_,

Re: howto block ports

2004-02-25 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:53:12AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:50:28AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i suspect that data destine for these _closed_ ports is being put in the TCP/UDP stack. All traffic coming in is, whether or not it's for you, if it's on

Re: dependency validator tool ???

2004-02-23 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:36:36AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: I am not quite sure how to search for this, and so far I have not turned up anything substantive ; Is there some dpkg/apt tool to scan an existing system, and pass judgment on the current state of installed dependency

Re: How to config twice with make-kpkg

2004-02-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:43:17PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: That's ekactly what I do. Works every time :-) I also like doing it better that way so that I am sure make-kpkg won't stop to ask me any questions once I embark on building the kernel-image. Note how do you uninstall the old

Re: Kernel Compile Problems

2004-02-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:11:24AM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h:29:20: curses.h: No such file or directory Install libncurses-dev. IIRC its one of the suggests for kernel-source-* Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: PNY USB CompactFlash card reader

2004-02-21 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: Before I return the thing, I thought I'd see if anyone knows of a way to make it work cleanly. I have no experianece with cameras however with usb memory keys/sticks I use a combination of usbmgr and automount. Its been working on a

Re: How to config twice with make-kpkg

2004-02-21 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:07:23PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: When building kernels the Debian way, with make-kpkg and kernel-source-xxx, as well as various Debianized kernel-patches, I find I want to run oldconfig and then xconfig. The problem is that if I run make-kpkg configure twice, the

Re: Problems with samba

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:05:44PM -0600, Brian wrote: I can see my samba server on my network and but i cant seem to get a user account added to it so i can logon to it ??? anybody have any suggestions ? It prompts me of course for a password but im doing something wrong. Try

Re: Problems with samba

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Brazil
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:20:33AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Depending on the windows os it gets much worse than that. In my limited experience I installed samba servers on rh9 and fbsd 4.8 servers and established shares on my windows xp workstation. Also got shares working on my wife's

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Brian Brazil
The differance between vanilla kernels and debian kernels is that Debian a) removes stuff it believes to not be sufficiently free - something about patches to eeproms b) adds some patches - e.g. some additional network card drivers Also in my experiance they don't create the /usr/src/linux

Re: Compiling PHP with postgres support?

2004-02-18 Thread Brian Brazil
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Danny O'Brien wrote: According to research, it seems as though we failed to compile PHP with postgres support at install time. We used Debian packages to install PHP and don't recall whether compiling with postgres was an option. As you seem to be

Re: KDE Starts-and then X Server stops

2004-02-17 Thread Brian Brazil
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:30:37PM +0100, Strop Alexander wrote: If i type startx The x Server starts, then The KDE Logo appears and then the first icon on the logo seems to be ok. Then the second icon blinks and suddenly X crashed. What could it bee? I had this once. All files in ~user

Re: Debian Sarge Logcheck Query

2004-02-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:02:18PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: I'm using logcheck to get notifications on my Debian Sarge box, but I would really like to get rid of a few extra messages that can be ignored. The entries I want to ignore are: Feb 16 20:49:38 jake in.qpopper[2843]: connect from

Re: Debian Sarge Logcheck Query

2004-02-16 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:31:11PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: In fact logcheck didn't even send an email a minute ago when I check, which is how I want except for reboots and unexpected events. Just a thought - if you don't get any messages how do you know that your machine hasn't been

Re: DHCP hostname

2004-02-13 Thread Brian Brazil
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:22:56PM +, Sam Halliday wrote: hi there, ok, i know there have been many bugs (for some reason, all closed) applied against this issue... but i have found no solution at all to it in either the archives nor the bug reports, and i was wondering if someone could

Re: cron and standard io

2004-02-10 Thread Brian Brazil
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:20:47PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have a bash script called from a cron job. i want to change the terminal size so, within the script, i tried: stty cols 160 rows 60 the result of the script indicated that there is a standard io error when this