Re: Nullmailer and Linux Resource Containers

2013-10-17 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Florian Ernst wrote: > nullmailer: PID check fails on lxc host (and probably openvz and other VM) > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687827 > > Yes, this is annoying, and should be fixed in nullmailer's initscript. Thanks Flo! I should checked th

Nullmailer and Linux Resource Containers

2013-10-17 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Good Morning, I've got a Wheezy box running LXC. There are three containers running on the host. I discovered an issue the other day with Nullmailer. I had Nullmailer successfully installed and running on the host for a few weeks. Then, last week I installed Nullmailer inside one of the contai

mozilla 1.0

2002-06-05 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Now that Mozilla 1.0 has been released, and Debian 3.0 is stuck in a frozen state, is there anyway that we can sneak Mozilla 1.0 into the release? It would be a shame to release Debian 3.0 in the next couple of weeks and not include Moz 1.0. -Bryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

console based word processors

2002-05-10 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good linux console based word processor? What I am looking for is a consoled based word processor similar to something like Wordstar or the early versions of MS Word or and WordPerfect. I need a program that supports underlining text, tabbing, bold text,

ipchains/firewall oddly blocking random websites

2002-02-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I have a bizarre problem that I am having trouble fixing. I have a home firewall running kernel 2.2.20 with ipchains. For some odd reason, the firewall blocks about 5% of the websites I try to go to. I turned on logging for my HTTP ipchains rules and nothing out of the ordinary seems to be happe

Re: FreeSwan

2002-02-02 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:22:33AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to install the .deb, but I had the following: > Kernel support for IPSec not found, aborting. > > What kernel version should I use? Not sure if you got this question answered for you. You need the kernel-patch-freesw

Re: DHCP v3.x in woody?

2002-01-25 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:41:05PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 11:42, Jeff Vincent wrote: > > > Has anyone used DHCP 3.0 on woody? > > > > The mantainer of the ISC DHCP client just went through a long discusio

question regarding udhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, Don't ask me why (perhaps for fun?) but I started playing around with udhcpd, the small dhcp server in the debian package archive. I have been using the regular dhcpd package for some time now, without any problems. This is for a small network. The DHCP server has two nics, and shoul

apt-get -f dist-upgrade removing dpkg-dev

2001-11-30 Thread Bryan K. Walton
This morning, I ran a apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade on my laptop running testing. Here is what apt-get wants to do: work-linux:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:

Re: problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20

2001-11-06 Thread Bryan K. Walton
That did it! Thanks Mike! -Bryan On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:42:18AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > > I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in > > > make[2]: as86: Command not found > > You need

problems with kernel compile on 2.2.20

2001-11-06 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I am trying to compile a 2.2.20 kernel using the kernel-source in unstable and using kernel-package. I am compiling on a laptop running aen up-to-date testing distribution of Debian. After unpacking the source, and running make menuconfig, make dep, make-kpkg clean, I then run: make-kpkg --revisi

Re: Mutt - sent-date hook?

2001-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
o put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so > i could retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form > Sent/Oct-01 , Sent/Nov-01 , etc... > -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in business

Re: why? [Fwd: Delivery Notification: Delivery has timed out and failed

2001-02-28 Thread Bryan K. Walton
stop/restart > > as first command line argument and act accordingly. > > > > IMO it makes sense to have some convention as far as file naming goes, > > so that you know which ones are created by you and which ones came with > > debian packages. > > > >

Trying to fix exim from woody upgrade

2000-09-30 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I am running the latest version of woody (including the brand new version of libc6 : 2.1.94-3). I am also running the latest version of exim (3.16-3.1). Ever since upgrading to this version of exim, I can't send any mail. When I try, this is what I get: 2000-09-30 14:42:10 13fSWQ-0001GF-00

pump replacing dhcpcd?

2000-09-13 Thread Bryan K. Walton
When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump package, one of the things that the page tells me is: "This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. This replaces the dhcpcd package." I take this to mean that the dhcpcd client is no longer be worked on? The reason I ask is th

Family proofing a Debian box

2000-09-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
This is a general question for the list. I have a computer at home that I want to make availble for the family to use. However I want to try and ensure that they won't be able to do anything that could cause damage to the OS. What is the list's thoughts regarding what should I make sure is of

Making /tmp temporarily bigger

2000-09-08 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello everybody, I am trying to install StarOffice on a laptop running Debian 2.2. I have run into a problem in that StarOffice needs to utilize the /tmp directory and there doesn't seem to be enough space for it. I don't have anything in there taking up the space, it seems that the pr

Re: /tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to both Sean and Andre for the info about the permission on the /tmp directory. Gross oversight on my part, but my panic is gone. Thanks! Bryan

/tmp got deleted! help

2000-09-07 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello, I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as root, but I can't start X as any other user. I can't find any

Re: Pine hanging on send

2000-09-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: >However starting yesterday, when she tries to send an email, Pine hangs for >about 30 seconds before sending the message. Figured it out, it was a damaged .pinerc file (apparently). We blew away the entire file, made a n

Pine hanging on send

2000-09-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I convinced a friend of mine to recently switch from Red Hat to Debian and she has hit a road block that I am struggling to solve. She built the pine package using the Debian src and diffs. Everything seemed to compile OK and all worked well for about a week. However sta

DHCP and Debian 2.2?

2000-08-23 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings! Quick question: For the longest time, I was running Debian 2.1 in a network environment where my laptop computer obtained an IP address via DHCP. I had the dhcpcd .deb file installed which obtained the IP address for me. Last Friday I installed Debian 2.2 from the official CDs.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade = [shellutils on hurd]?!

2000-08-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hello, > This morning, as always, I come into work and update my Debian > OS. I got into the habit a long time ago of typing: > > work:/home/walton# apt-get update > followed by: > work:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade | less >

apt-get dist-upgrade = [shellutils on hurd]?!

2000-08-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello, This morning, as always, I come into work and update my Debian OS. I got into the habit a long time ago of typing: work:/home/walton# apt-get update followed by: work:/home/walton# apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade | less before actually updating my distribution. This morning I am a lit

Adding commands to Debian Program Menu

2000-08-20 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello, I have what is probably a very simple question for this list. How can I add commands to the Debian Program Menu. For example, imagine that I install a program called "binary" to my computer. I can run it by typing "binary" at a shell prompt. But how can I get it added to the Debi

Re: Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules

2000-08-02 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Fixed it, just in case anybody was curious, the problem was a missing library: libelfg0-dev Thanks! Bryan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:25:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Bryan K. Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User Mailing List , Debian Laptop Mailin

Depmod Error on installing ALSA modules

2000-08-02 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Yesterday, I sent the following message to debian-user. Still trying to figure out how to fix this problem. Is it possible that the error is a result of a bug in the alsa-source package? Or is it something else? I am afraid I don't know much about ELF headers. Thanks! Bryan Greetings!

Error install ALSA modules

2000-08-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings! I am running frozen on an IBM Thinkpad 390E with a 2.0.36 kernel. This morning, I compiled a new kernel (2.2.15) using make-kpkg. I also built the pcmcia and ALSA modules using kpkg. All seems to have gone well (I have done this before on another box). However, when I install

Re: kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade

2000-06-27 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks Noah! That did it! --Bryan On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > > However, the next time I do an apt-get -f dist-upgrade, apt wants > > to mess this all up.

kernel-image and apt-get -f dist-upgrade

2000-06-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings to the list, I know this issue has come up before (I have searched through the mailing list archives), yet even after trying all of the suggestions in the archives, I STILL have this recurring problem: I used make-kpkg to build my own 2.2.15 kernel (using kernel-source package).

Problems leaving computer on overnight

2000-04-27 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings to the list. First, thank you to everyone who continues to provide usefull and helpful advice for me regarding the maintenance of my Debian machine. OK, now on to my present problem: I have a Thinkpad 390E (266mhz and 128 meg of Ram) running Debian frozen at my place of wo

Re: New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks to all who offered up suggestions for fixing the seg fault with Mozilla M14. The first email I got suggested creating the sym link, and that fixed the problem. Thanks! Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center

New Mozilla (M14-1) causes seg fault

2000-03-09 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everyone, This morning I performed my daily distribution upgrade on frozen, and to my delight, my Mozilla was upgraded from M13 to M14! BUT WAIT! . . . I can't get Mozilla to start. When I run it, this is what I get from the shell startup: $ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard an

Mounting Novell Drives for Linux

2000-02-03 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I have a question for you: I am trying to mount a novell network where I work. I have created a mount point: /mnt/netware I then issue the following command: /usr/bin/ncpmount -S BINC-MSN -A binc-msn.binc.net -U username /mnt/netware This works for my colleagues using Redhat. However,

Looking for an old copy of dhcpcd-sv 1.3.16-1

2000-01-28 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings to the list: I have Debian 2.1 running on my laptop with an updated 2.2.13 kernel. Also, I have libc6 version 2.07(?) running. Therefore I am in a crunch: I would to get a copy of a dhcpcd .deb package to install. The current stable version doesn't work with my updated kernel.

Sound on IBM Thinkpad 390E

2000-01-26 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hello to the list, I am trying to get sound to work on my IBM Thinkpad 390E running Debian 2.1. I have been unable to get sound to work until very recently. I was told that I could type the following, as root, upon bootup, to make sound work: insmod soundcore insmod esssolo1 mixctrl 7 0

Off Topic? The "Gnuist" Office Suite

2000-01-18 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I apologize for this being slightly off topic, I need to put an office productivity suite on my linux box (with an emphasis upon the word processing program). I am turned off by Corel's license and was wondering if there was a consensus on the list as to the most open and free office suite

Re: TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Nate, THANKS Indeed, IP Masquerading was the guilty party! Thanks, Bryan On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > walton >When I ping another host, I get the following: > walton >ping: sendto: Operation not permitted >

Re: TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, s. keeling wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 06:38:33AM -0600, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > [snip] > > fine). I have a DHCP client on my computer, and when I start it up, it > > gives me back an IP address. However, I cannot generate any further > > outg

TCP/IP problems

2000-01-12 Thread Bryan K. Walton
First, I would like to thank everybody who offered advice to me yesterday regarding why iplogger was crashing my computer. I got that fixed, thank you. Now, (let me preface what I am about to say by adding that I am teaching myself linux by getting Debian running on my Thinkpad. Therefore, many s

iplogger is crashing my computer

2000-01-10 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Greetings everyone, I am running 2.1 with a 2.2.13 kernel on my Thinkpad 390E in a network environment using DHCP. Today, oddly, I was informed while attempting to open an x terminal that my system was temporarily out of resources. I did a little research and it turns out that some

Xircom RealPort Ethernet/Modem on Debian

2000-01-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, Has anyone got these new Xircom RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56 PCMCIA cards to run on Debian? If anybody has any ideas, I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Bryan Walton

RE: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I wanted to clarify regarding what I said below, > Thanks to everyone on this simple issue. Turned out to be two problems, > I didn't have a bootable floppy, and the IBM program needed to be > extracted (something that I never saw mentioned on their download page). I PERSONALLY missed the note a

Re: Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corporation 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Phone: 608.288.3000 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list problems?

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Bryan *** Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corporation 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Phone: 608.288.3000 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PG

Fixing the Master Boot Record

1999-11-01 Thread Bryan K. Walton
ogram on to another diskette (in case the disk was the problem) and I still get this message. Can anyone tell me how can I fix my mbr so that I can boot up into this program and upgrade my BIOS? Thanks, Bryan Walton ******* Bry

Trying to access msdos in debian 2.1

1999-10-30 Thread Bryan K. Walton
o see if it would work (and it didn't). How can I get this file copied off of my floppy to my /var/tmp directory? Thanks, Bryan Walton ******* Bryan K. Walton Network Operations Center Analyst Berbee Information Networks Corpor

Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

1999-10-29 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian 2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat 6.1

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-10-28 Thread Bryan K. Walton
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "J" == John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > J> Firstly, when I boot, I do not get an opportunity apply any > J> parameters - the reference to (I think) Peter Anwin and the boot > J> prompt do not appear - the word 'loading' and a fast mov

Embarassing NEWBIE Question

1999-10-27 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have been told will fix my problem. I have all of the XFree86 3.3.5 files burned ont

Configuring X

1999-10-24 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi, Due to the advice of a few wise individuals, I continue to make slow, but steady progress in getting Debian 2.1 installed on my IBM 390E laptop. I am a newbie and am currently trying to get X Windows running. I have tried both xf86config and XF86Setup and still am having problems.

Can't start X Windows

1999-10-23 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I have installed Debian 2.1 off of an official CD. I chose the devel_comp package of software and everything installed. But when I type "startx" or "xinit" at the shell prompt, I get an error message informing me of a fatal server error. Specifically, it says that there wasn't a config file foun

Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I have installed Debian 2.1 on one of my machines. I am also running Windows 98. On my second machine (dual boot Red Hat and Windows 98) Red Hat installed and configured LILO so that I get a "boot:" prompt at startup where I can either tell it to boot linux or dos. But with