Squid not performing ident lookups (Deb3 r2 2.4 kernel)

2004-02-18 Thread Chris Wilcox
Hi all, Up until recently I've been running Squid on Red Hat or Fedora. I've always successfully used ident lookups with Squid to log users via ident clients running on the Windows LAN machines. I've now tried out Squid under Debian and cannot get it to log ident responses even with the same

Installing package from unstable onto stable bf2.4

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Wilcox
Hi all, I've been playing for about an hour now, and after much searching google.co.uk/linux I think I'm only vaguely wiser: I want to install a program from the unstable distrib since it's the program version I wish to use due to enhanced features etc. I think I'm right in saying that I need

Re: Am I ready for the internet?

2003-09-19 Thread Chris Wilcox
In linux.debian.user, Jimmy Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set up Iptables so that I reject all incomming traffic, except the traffic I have requested, because I don't need incomming SSH or anything like that. While I believe it breaks something, if you're not serving the

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Chris Wilcox
I had the same issue with the CDROM. Check which HD interface your CDROM uses, eg mine uses HDC Then run: mount /dev/hdc /cdrom You can then cd /cdrom and access CD contents etc. To unmount umount /dev/hdc hth nry I am running debian 3.0 on an Athlon... Still trying to get basic

Re: Can't mount cdrom

2003-09-14 Thread Chris Wilcox
From: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't mount cdrom Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 09:53:49 +0100 Please use postfix quoting format: your reply goes below the material cited. I don't think I'm the only one who doesn't always follow this methodology but I will

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-05 Thread Chris Wilcox
I think I'm right in saying that the 'xtras' folder is a Macromedia thing to do with either Flash or Director..can't comment on the dll's though. Regards, nry The CD has the following .dlls, although these may only be for the installer? ./aasicl7.dll ./aasparse.dll ./aasutil.dll

Dependencies and .deb vs creating .deb's from source code

2003-09-04 Thread Chris Wilcox
Hi all, I'm currently involved in a Debian-distro based project which aims to create an Internet caching product for schools which would hopefully take the form of a Debian install CD which would install relevant packages from CD and then update when required from the Internet via existing

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-08-31 Thread Chris Wilcox
I have a new machine on order. The more interesting items are: Mobo: Gigabyte 7VA KT400 + Sound/AGP8X/DDR400 AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz ATI Radeon 7500 64B/Dual Head UDMA 40Gig 7200RPM My first question is will I have any difficulty with these hardware pieces? My second question is about

2.4 kernel boot CD for woody?

2003-08-31 Thread Chris Wilcox
Hi all, Is anyone aware of a network install boot iso for Woody? I've done some digging on google.co.uk/linux and debian planet and not found much. Thanks for any replies, nry _ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone

Re: 2.4 kernel boot CD for woody? Ignore this I found it!

2003-08-31 Thread Chris Wilcox
I've just kicked myself, I need the binary-5: bf2.4 iso! I have promply kicked myself for not reading things fully before posting! Regards, nry Hi all, Is anyone aware of a network install boot iso for Woody? I've done some digging on google.co.uk/linux and debian planet and not found much.

Re: VIA CPU's - cooling with ICE - shuttle - heat

2003-08-30 Thread Chris Wilcox
Just done some looking on google about these CPU's and the link below may help a few people suss these little beggars out: http://www.joshwa1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcs_mini_itx_benchmarks.htm Basically, the 800Mhz Via chip gets trounced by an AMD K6-2 400! Worth a read though I'd say, Regards,

RE: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder?

2003-08-30 Thread Chris Wilcox
This is the best one I've ever come across though I've not used it: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ Regards, nry From: Brendan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:06:15

Re: VIA CPU's - cooling with ICE - shuttle - heat

2003-08-30 Thread Chris Wilcox
Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:55 am, Chris Wilcox wrote: Just done some looking on google about these CPU's and the link below may help a few people suss these little beggars out: http://www.joshwa1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcs_mini_itx_benchmarks.htm Basically, the 800Mhz Via chip

Re: How do I install a second harddrive

2003-08-29 Thread Chris Wilcox
Not done it on Debian but I guess it's similar to how I did it with RH9: fdisk /dev/hdb (or hdc or hdd depending which IDE channel the drive is on and whether it's master or slave). This will let you partition the drive and typing 'm' will show you the available commands. Create 1 or more

Re: VIA CPU's

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Wilcox
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 00:05, Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:21:57 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, consider yourself lucky. I have an AMD 2500 XP+ (1.83 GHz) that sounds like a 747 @ 1m :-) Funny, my brand new AMD 2500+ is as quiet as the PIII-667

Re: VIA CPU's

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Wilcox
From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VIA CPU's Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:01:19 -0500 On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 06:34, Chris Wilcox wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 00:05, Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:21:57 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Wilcox
First post folks so I'm unsure if we top post or not round here but everyone else seems to so I'll join in! :) It took me weeks of searching and asking of questions to a knowledgable friend before I even got close to understanding iptables. Although it's Red Hat based, I wrote up most of what