Re: Recursive copy to udf-formatted dvd-ram freezes system

2006-07-26 Thread Christian Pernegger
But if I try to recursively copy directories to the udf-formatted dvd-ram: cp -r /some/dir /media/cdrecord than after a few seconds the system freezes totally - only a power off/on to reboot is possible. This won't help you, but DVD-RAM is quite broken for me as well with a NEC 4570 on all ke

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
I also checked Documentation/networking/e100.txt (I presume the card's driver is e100 since that's the only network driver related module I see in lsmod) and it says that it should work with ethtool. But it doesn't. It says the same for e1000 and that also only works with Intel's newer driver.

Re: wake-on-lan

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
> [...] I can remotely wake the box if I shut it down before it boots > Linux, but it doesn't work if I shut it down when Linux is running. I had the same problem, as do many others according to Google. 1) Check if WoL is on using # ethtool eth0 There should be a 'g' in the Wake-On: line. If

Re: Terrible samba2samba throughput, any ideas?

2006-05-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Any particular reason why you are using SAMBA instead of NFS? Not really, just that some Windows clients need access to the same files. Sharing the same (part of a) filesystem via both samba and nfs doesn't sound like a good idea intuitively. Thanks, C.

Terrible samba2samba throughput, any ideas?

2006-05-20 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! Short version: I only get 5-6MB/s on a 1Gbit connection ... Longer version: Client: Athlon 64 3500+, 2GB RAM with an Intel Desktop Gb NIC (32/33) and a WD Raptor. Server: Dual Athlon MP 1900+ with an Intel Server Gb NIC (64/66, I think) and a 3ware 7500 array (RAID-5, 8 fairly recent 300GB

Re: Begin: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-05-08 Thread Christian Pernegger
This is just a stock install and after i get done installing i do a apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade and it hoses everytime. I want to use Etch and when i had it running it was great, but I cant have this happening all the time either. I get this with sata_uli in non-RAID mode on 2.6.1

Permissions required for burning

2006-05-06 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list! What exactly are the minimum permissions required for a user to be able to use a CD/DVD burner? The thing is, burning works fine with a Plextor 716A on amd64-sid with the user in the cdrom group and no suid anywhere, but a LiteOn SOHC-5232K on i386-testing causes both k3b and the nautil

Re: What's wrong with X forwarding / remote X logins?

2006-04-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
> I'm doing remote X over ssh all the day without your described problems, so > something seems to be broken with your setup/applications. Ok, so something is broken. I half feared someone would come forward and say gnome or wine apps can't be forwarded by design. > [Why testing?] My personal bo

What's wrong with X forwarding / remote X logins?

2006-04-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! Recently I setup a new machine that was to have GUI remote login and control. The machine had previously been running Windows XP and TightVNC but was getting a little Cygwin happy and nobody was too happy with VNC blocking the local display. I hadn't used X for anything but local logins in a

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-24 Thread Christian Pernegger
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > amor eyesapplet fifteenapplet kdetoys kmoon kodo kteatime ktux kweather > kworldclock xmms [...] IMHO aptitude suffers from two grave design bugs: 1) it's resolver uses a dist-upgrade strategy, thus [U] (upgrade all) will happily mar

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-02 Thread Christian Pernegger
> > Even if there's a third, neutral, unmarked state - it's still a > > problem in my eyes when users switch from dselect to aptitude. > > It's not a problem if you tell aptitude what to do when you start using it. How would I do that? Even if I wanted to go through all packages and mark them, ho

Re: Strange "smart" upgrades in aptitude / synaptic?

2005-08-02 Thread Christian Pernegger
> In the case of Synaptic this is not 'new behaviour' it is just giving > you the equivalent of things you could do at the command line by > giving you things you can click on in a GUI interface instead of > having to remember the commands and/or type the commands in at the > command prompt. If sy

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-01 Thread Christian Pernegger
> That's the point. _It_ (aptitude hasn't been told to install them. > This situation often arises when packages have been installed with > apt-get, in which case it's not aptitude's fault that _it_ doesn't know > that you want to install them. I'd assumed that there were just two package states

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-01 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Aptitude shouldn't remove packages you've told it to install - but it > doesn't know whether packages installed through other means (apt-get, > dselect, dpkg -i, etc) were manually or automatically installed. AFAIK I had only ever used aptitude on that system. Besides, why not play it safe and a

Re: Aptitude erroneously thinks many packages are unused and wants to remove them.

2005-08-01 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Briefly, run aptitude in interactive mode - ie # aptitude > If you press g (only once), the proposed actions will be displayed, you > can then 'h' hold packages you don't want removed. Since this is basically the issue I brought up a day or so earlier... Why should users have to wade through a

Re: Strange "smart" upgrades in aptitude / synaptic?

2005-08-01 Thread Christian Pernegger
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/910ff72185b00d75/d3f54810f571795f?lnk=st&q=antgel&rnum=8&hl=en#d3f54810f571795f Thanks for the link but I'm afraid I couldn't find an answer to my question there. 1) The thread alleged that the removed packages were marked as

Strange "smart" upgrades in aptitude / synaptic?

2005-07-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
I've recently bitten the bullet and switched from using dselect for package management to aptitude, seeing as it was supposed to be smarter in dealing with complex upgrades. However, aptitude didn't deal at all well with the broken dependencies that crop up on my unstable box. The "upgrade what ca

Re: Firefox Segmentation Fault

2005-07-27 Thread Christian Pernegger
> I'm using the pure64 port of unstable running FF 1.0.6. That combination segfaults all over the place right now. Earlier versions are fine, as are the other archs, I think. Someone suggested forcing FF to always use user defined fonts (!= monospaced ones) as a workaround, but I didn't try that

Re: ALSA: no sound, no error!

2005-07-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
> In gentoo > linux, everything seems to be working fine as far as I can tell, > except no sound comes out. cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp makes no > sound. > [...] > alsamixer: > PCM and Front, Front Mi, Surround, Center, LFE are all up and unmuted. > There is no Master volume. Line, Mic, Headphon

Re: Debian-Installer (testing) doesn't even boot...

2005-07-19 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Tried to install testing (Etch) with debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso > dated 13 July 2005, but after the boot: prompt I get the message > "Could not find kernel image: /install/2.6/linux". Syslinux should be configured to boot /install/2.6/vmlinux instead of /install/2.6/linux, which isn't there

Re: [MAPS #33478] Re: Whats goin on?

2001-04-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:54:01PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Roberto Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > They want to block the whole IP's which are dynamic so they can not > > send mail anymore so every guy in the internet will have to depend > > upon a third-party mail relay to send mail..

Re: Kernel 2.4.x BUG !!

2001-03-31 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:45:01PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: > I had found a bug that is in kernel-2.4.1 and kernel-2.4.2. I've been using 2.4.2-ac13, 2.4.2-ac28 and pretty much everything in between on my Duron box. You might want to try a recent -ac. Regards Christian

Long delay between xdm and X startup

2001-03-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! After an /etc/init.d/xdm start nothing happens for 30-40 seconds, only then X starts and the gdm login prompt pops up. startx works instantly, no delay if I use gdm. During the gap, xdm shows up in ps but no other (related) stuff. This happens on a i386/P2-400 SMP and a powerpc/G3-366. I p

Re: Printer reccommendation

2001-03-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
> I've a Lexmark Optra E412 on a potato server and I like it a lot. Sorry, E312 I mean. Shouldn't post that late. The E412 is hardly budget :-) Christian

Re: Printer reccommendation

2001-03-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
> I know this is way off topic, but can anyone reccomend a budget printer with > good linux (and debianised) support? I've a Lexmark Optra E412 on a potato server and I like it a lot. The fact that it does postscript makes it quite *NIX friendly aut-of-the-box. You can rip the .ppd file out of a

Re: q: apt-get - is there a way to limit the download width?

2001-03-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:28:13PM +0200, Matthias Wieser wrote: > i have a isdn dialup and want just to use 4 kb for the apt-get. is there > a way to limit the download to some bandwidth? iproute2 and tc (traffic control) should be able to do that, see the Advanced Routing HOWTO on www.ldp.at and

How to setup a router with 2 internet connections?

2001-03-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello, this is probably gonna be long, please bear with me... I have a small network at home that uses a dedicated router box as default gateway. The gateway in turn was until very recently connected to the internet solely via a cable modem, happily filtering/masquerading away. Then I got myself

How to compile for a different machine?

2001-02-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! I'm setting up a small Duron box as filtering+NAT gateway for my home network. I'd rather not have a compiler on it or the myriad of libraries and header files needed to compile stuff, yet I'd like to build a few things by hand. Is there an elegant way to compile on box A for box B? Thanks,

Help! How to "find" ext2fs on disk

2001-01-26 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! Some time ago I accidentally wiped my MBR and the partition table. I went and restored it manually which worked more or less. Unfortunately I can't mount sda1 anymore, it seems that the partition did not start at the beginning of the disk. Maybe because Win2k was on it before. fdisk complain

Re: Pine

2000-10-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
What's wrong with $ apt-get -b source pine That also builds pine/pico/pilot and some docs as debs... On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:09:59PM +0200, Robert Varga wrote: > > You need to install the pine4-diffs package as well. It contains the > patches and the dsc file, as well as the debian-package

Re: port 113

2000-10-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 12:51:34AM +0200, Michael Steiner wrote: > Hi to All! > > I block all traffic not realy needed by ipchains. > When fetching email from my isp I logged attempts by the isp-mailserver > with tcp to port 113. > > Can you tell me where to find information about port 113 usage?

[OT] Win ftp clients speed strangeness

2000-10-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
My primary potato box is running the wu-ftpd in stable. I use it to copy files (mostly backups) to/from the Win boxen on my 100mbit/s LAN. Today I needed to copy 3 ~1GB files to the Linux machine. I started out with BulletProofFTP, which gave me a shocking 400KB/s. Then WS-FTP LE: 3000KB/s Then W

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

2000-10-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and > install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk). In my experience that's the only thing that more or less works? Try an older disk with a few badblocks - uaarg! Chr

Re: machine lockups and kernel panic

2000-10-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > Twice in the last week I've woken up to a locked-up dead potato machine > and had to hit the power switch. I had the same symptoms, once or twice... > Does anybody know what this means and why it would happen in the middle of >

Re: gpg keys

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:19:44AM +0200, Van Buggenhaut wrote: > A problem recurrently happens on my computer : > > I have 2 public keyrings : ... I very recently noticed this. If you put the writeable keyring last it works. Enjoy Christian

Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 04:14:01PM +, Erin Lewy wrote: > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > actually > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I have > to go deal with more networking and web server people relatively earl

Software-RAID and partitioning

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
I have 3 18GB SCSI disks I want to use in a "new-style" Soft-RAID-5 configuration. At the moment I have 1. partitionsd.4swap 2. partitionsd.3ext2(for squid) 3. partitionsd.1raid-auto This of course means I have to have the whole md device under one mountpoint (

Console didn't wake up from blank

2000-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello, when I came home this afternoon I was rather looking forward to reading my e-mail - only to find out that my two ttys wouldn't wake up and rather stay blanked. Unfortunately I did not try to shut the machine down via ctrl-alt-del but panicked and brought it down via sysreq. I couldn't find

debian-keyring + gpg 'keyring' option

2000-10-02 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list! I added 'keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg' to my ~/.gnupg/options file, but interestingly this does not work. gpg tries to create a temporary file in /usr/share/keyrings/ when mutt verifies a signature. (That fails.) Of course I can import the keyring but then it'd be rath

Re: newbie: ps

2000-09-30 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 07:47:29PM -0400, jason lee wrote: > hello all, > pls help a newbie -- i accidentally removed ps (and its manpages), how can > i get them back? (can't seem to find them on the debian homepage, or on the > CDs (official debian 2.2)). It's in the procps package Christia

quota utils don't show grace time

2000-09-30 Thread Christian Pernegger
THe subject pretty much sums it up. When I run repquota or quota, the grace time column is always empty. Why ist this? Christian

RE: How easy is it to set up squid for a school?

2000-09-25 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Phillip Deackes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:44 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: How easy is it to set up squid for a school? > > > I am ICT Coordinator in a Leicestershire High School (UK). Our network > compr

RE: weird telnet/dns behaviour on woody

2000-09-25 Thread Christian Pernegger
Depending on your settings, the resolver will "try" to resolve a hostname without a domain part by affixing some domain(s). If (some of) the domains are external this will cause the link to go up for the dns query. YMMV. See man resolv.conf for more info. Christian > -Original Message

What's with at.debian.org?

2000-09-24 Thread Christian Pernegger
The whole at.debian.org domain seems to have vanished - I tried a nslookup from various servers including murphy, it is just not there anymore! Anyone know WTH is up? Thanks Christian

RE: Please recommend internal modem

2000-09-23 Thread Christian Pernegger
> > I need a good internal ("controller based") modem for a potato server. > Externals will give you less trouble, by most reports. They're also > boatloads easier to diagnose. Yep, but they need external power and take up space. AFAIK there are no external modems that can take power off a UPS t

Please recommend internal modem

2000-09-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
I need a good internal ("controller based") modem for a potato server. The modem will be used mainly for remote administration/dial-in. Has anyone got experience with such devices they'd like to share? In particular, are there any bad points about the MultiTech MultiModemZPX series of modems? (T

Exim - inet.d/standalone differences?

2000-09-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
I think maybe running exim from inet.d is not very efficient for my setup, so I want to run it stand-alone. I commented out the smtp entry in /etc/inetd.conf and ran #/etc/init.d/inet.d reload #/etc/init.d/exim start It is running now. Is there anything else I might have to configure differentl

RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Wesley Wannemacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:07 PM > To: William Jensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid > > > Let me get this straight... > Are you going to RAID

PAM questions (was: RE: group 'root' does not exist?!)

2000-09-17 Thread Christian Pernegger
> adduser can't distinguish group root from user root, its a bug. Hmmm... > i would recommend against using group root for this purpose, instead > add a new group `wheel' and use that. > for pam add this line to the top of your /etc/pam.d/su file: > > authrequisite pam_wheel.so gr

group 'root' does not exist?!

2000-09-16 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi all! I'm playing with customizing PAM at the moment and want to restrict the use of 'su' to members of group 'root' by enabling the feature in /etc/pam.d/su. However, when I try to adduser myuser root it says group 'root' doesn't exist. (I checked in /etc/groups and /etc/gshadow, just to be

RE: Off Topic: SCSI Recommendations?

2000-09-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
> > I haven't run into any problems with my onboard U2W 7xxx chip, so...> > > SUPPOSEDLY there are bugs in the driver. i've run one of these > for 2 years > now, with absolutely no problems except slink didn't seem to recognize it. > :( maybe it was a slink problem? i dunno. suse saw it fine.

RE: SMP and potato

2000-09-15 Thread Christian Pernegger
Slink does have SMP support, which worked incredibly well for me - you just have to enable it manually in the kernel config. Potato rocks out of the box. Christian > -Original Message- > From: Leonardo Dias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 4:19 PM > To: Paul M

RE: Need help analyzing firewall log message

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mathew Johnston > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:47 PM > To: Christian Pernegger > Subject: Re: Need help analyzing firewall log message I thank you for trying to help, but ... &

RE: Need help analyzing firewall log message

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
they want with a timestamp? And why over ICMP? Regards Christian > -Original Message- > From: Marcelo Couto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:27 PM > To: Christian Pernegger; Debian security list; Debian user list > Subject: RE: Ne

RE: pgp vs. mutt

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Will Trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:16 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: pgp vs. mutt > > > mutt is now back to displaying > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Thu Sep 14 13:08:42 2000) -

Need help analyzing firewall log message

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
Sep 14 19:41:44 jesus kernel: Packet log: \ input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 10.34.15.1:3 x.x.x.x:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=3405 F=0x T=255 (#4) Happens in bursts of ~7, once a day, maybe more eth1 is the external interface, connected to a cable modem that is fully transparent. (That is I block all incoming/ou

RE: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Jaldhar H. Vyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:43 PM > To: Christian Pernegger > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user; debian-powerpc > Subject: RE: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ? > > Hello, I'm the

RE: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ?

2000-09-14 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Brendan J Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 1:04 AM > To: debian-user; debian-powerpc > Subject: Which IMAP and POP3 servers ? > > > I need to install some IMAP and POP3 servers so users can read mail via > Netscape/Outlook o

RE: pump replacing dhcpcd?

2000-09-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Bryan K. Walton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 6:23 PM > To: Debian-User Mailing List > Subject: pump replacing dhcpcd? > > > When I go to the debian web site and look up info on the pump > package, one of the things that the

RE: Exim rewrite question

2000-09-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
r 13, 2000 4:04 AM > To: Gregory T. Norris > Cc: Christian Pernegger; Debian user list > Subject: Re: Exim rewrite question > > > hi there, > > "inspired" by the remote_smtp config at > http://web.inter.nl.net/users/jws/mysystem.html > i created a similar syste

RE: Exim rewrite question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:18 PM > To: Debian user list > Subject: Re: Exim rewrite question > > > I've asked, and possibly answered (though I haven't implemented) this > question. Quoting my own recen

How to start firewall in DHCP environment

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
At the moment I run my firewall script from /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks, just before the interface is brought up. So at bootup it will indirectly be activated by the networking script. The problem is that this means I can't use domain names in the fw script - the local bind is run later. Has anyone

Exim rewrite question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
How can I prevent exim from rewriting addresses that do not go out over a smarthost? Specifically: If I send a mail from one LAN machine to another (using my debian/exim host as relay) the mail is delivered locally but the "from" field is rewritten to the external address of the user. So if I hi

RE: No hardwarelist for Debian?

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> - is there a Debian hardware compatibility list on web to > check on which the Debian distribution has been tested? No, because Debian does not impose hardware restrictions beyond those of the linux kernel itself. Check out the Hardware-HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.htm

RE: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel"

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Krzys Majewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:10 PM > To: Debian user list (undigested) > Subject: Help!! "No more processes left in runlevel" > > > Shit shit shit I've broken my machine again. > Won't halt, won't boot. When b

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Well, had you done the full RTFM routine (it means read ALL of them until > you find what you want...) Point taken. > see /usr/share/doc/sysvinit. Thanks very much, that's all I wanted to know. > So don't get too surprised that someone was a bit harsh in his reply. Oh, I wasn't. I knew I was

Re: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:19:23PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >I uncommented the debug line in /etc/init.d/rc and noticed that > >all scrips in rc6.d / rc0.d were called with "stop" on shutdown > >_regardless of prefix_. Now I'm totally confused. > > Why don't you simply read the docu

RE: /etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
t: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 12:12 AM > To: Christian Pernegger > Cc: Debian user list > Subject: Re: /etc/rc?.d question > > > Check the directory /etc/rcS.d which is run when init goes to single > user/halt, IIRC. > > Christian Pernegger wrote: > > > > H

RE: sendmail or exim?

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
I was surprised just how easy that was on my own LAN. 1) run /usr/sbin/eximconfig 2) select the smarthost option You want to relay for (accept mail from) your LAN, e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 3) edit /etc/email-addresses ("username: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" This is all you need. If you require any hel

/etc/rc?.d question

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi list, here's a quick one: I always thought that init, when changing runlevels, called first the K* scripts of the new runlevel with "stop", then the S* ones with "start". So I expected to find a K??networking in rc[06].d, but there's only a S??networking variant - in fact nowhere on the system

RE: Debian VS. Red Hat

2000-09-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: John L . Fjellstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 8:43 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat > > [...] It just seems that every time there is > a discussion of distribution, people are forgetting t

RE: German keys on console

2000-09-09 Thread Christian Pernegger
That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.) Two things are important: 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented (it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey still works fine, BTW) 2) The environment variable 'LANG' must be set to, i.e., 'd

RE: Incoming telnet not working

2000-09-08 Thread Christian Pernegger
What's in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files? I get this behavior when I've blocked a service/host combinatian there. Regards Christian > -Original Message- > From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:07 AM > To: debian-user@lists.deb

RE: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-07 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Nathan E Norman > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:56 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat > > You only need a shell to edit a text file. You also only need to read >

Re: 128-bit netscape

2000-08-13 Thread Christian Pernegger
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:42:28PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > > Hey guys. So I want a high-encryption copy of netscape for online > banking, and I grab one from the Netscape homepage. Unfortunately, I've > got the wrong version of the c++ library. > It's looking for libstdc+

RE: Potato networking

2000-08-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: John Reinke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 12:38 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Potato networking > > > Well, I've done a complete clean installation of potato from the five > floppy images over a cable connection.

RE: sawmill + gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Farrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 12:12 AM > To: Christian Pernegger > Cc: Debian User > Subject: Re: sawmill + gnome? > > > Christian Pernegger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > For m

RE: sawmill + gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Ron Farrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 8:56 PM > To: Debian User > Subject: sawmill + gnome? > > Hello; > > I am trying to get sawmill to work correctly with gnome. Previously I > was using windowmaker. For me, it was sufficient

RE: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

2000-08-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Moritz Schulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 3:05 AM > To: Debian user list > Subject: Re: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost) > > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:21:35AM +0200, C

How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

2000-08-10 Thread Christian Pernegger
[I could've sworn I posted this question yesterday, but I didn't get a copy nor can I find it among my sent messages. So forgive me if this is douple post.] When I've created a new partition using cfdisk, how can I make the kernel "see" it without rebooting? When I try to create a fs, mke2fs bail

RE: checking whether a package is installed

2000-08-08 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron Maxwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 7:33 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: checking whether a package is installed > > > Is there a quick, elegant way to check if a particular package is > installed? Try #

How is leafnode's delaybody supposed to work?

2000-08-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
I'd like to proxy news in a LAN with a potato server and 2 Windows clients. Both low and high traffic text groups will be read and some binary groups scavenged :) The obvious choice for me was leafnode, BUT the standard mode where it gets all messages in all groups is obviously to expensive in ter

RE: D-Link DFE 530TX 10/100Mbit/s support?

2000-07-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Willi Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 8:58 PM > To: debian-user-list > Subject: D-Link DFE 530TX 10/100Mbit/s support? > > > Hi everyone, > > does anybody know if the ethernet card above is supported by Debian now? It works w

RE: Network cards

2000-07-29 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 1:53 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Network cards > > > Hello all, > > I was wondering if someone out there can tell m

RE: advanced power management and linux?

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:22 AM > To: Krzys Majewski; I. Tura > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: advanced power management and linux? > > > Laptops are noisy to

RE: Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > How can I configure my box to work correctly with a German keyboard? > > During installation I selected de-latin1-nodeadkeys, here's what I got: > > * emacs will accept umlauts and the such when I'm on the local console > > * but when I'm logged in v

RE: Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Thomas Guettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 8:45 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Keyboard troubles... > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 03:50:

RE: Changing source CD in potato

2000-07-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: Antxon Alonso Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:20 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Changing source CD in potato > > > > Hello > > I4m traying to install one packag

Keyboard troubles...

2000-07-27 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can I configure my box to work correctly with a German keyboard? During installation I selected de-latin1-nodeadkeys, here's what I got: * emacs will accept umlauts and the such when I'm on the local console * but when I'm logged in via ssh, oth

Web interface to packages

2000-07-27 Thread Christian Pernegger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why are there only i386 packages for download on Debians web site? I do not have, say, an Alpha but nevertheless it struck me as strange that a search result from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages leads only to i386 downloads. Is there anything

RE: 3c90x woes

2000-07-27 Thread Christian Pernegger
I'm running a box with a 3Com 3C905C-TXM, at the moment with potato-testcycle-3 and kernel version 2.2.15. The 3c59x module that comes with the standard kernel did not do 100mbit/s full duplex connections for me. 3Coms own 3c90x module does, so I believe it to be better :) Of the ways described i

suid / sgid detail question

2000-07-26 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! If I suid a program that owned by user "non-root" and and "normal-user" starts it... ... whose ENV does it get? ... whose groups does it get? All of them or just the primary group? Now, if I additionally sgid it to "some-group", does it get... ... only "some-group"? ... "some group" + the c

grep crashes machine

2000-07-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hallo! I just stumbled upon the following. If I do # cd / # grep -r * stuff it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device files, but maybe it's just me... If I do the same as user the process e

Why isn't frozen/ssh up to date?

2000-07-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello, yesterday I searched the package-archive for a official .deb-ianized version of OpenSSH. There seem to be two candidates in unstable *) ssh2 2.0.13-5.1 [non-us/non-free] Non-free? Can't be OpenSSH then, can it? *) ssh 1:1.2.3-9 [non-us] It says OpenSSH here, but if the package version

RE: Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
> A couple of general comments... > > You don't have standard PC hardware - regular PCs only have IRQs > 0-15 whereas you're using IRQ 18 & 19. I assume that they are > supported on your hardware, but if your problem relates to your > specific platform then those familiar with your platform may b

RE: apt-get proxy config?

2000-05-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hi! Read man apt-get It explains how to permanently set up proxies for apt. IIRC: (in /etc/apt/apt.conf add) Acquire::http::proxy "http://yourproxy:yourport/";; Christian > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Peter Firmstone > Sent: Sund

RE: Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
Thanks for your reply! Info coming up... (attached, unix line breaks) I just hope they're readable - I have to mail from NT because I haven't had time to get exim to do my bidding yet :( Regards Christian > -Original Message- > From: John Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sund

Please help - network incredibly slow...

2000-05-20 Thread Christian Pernegger
(At least I hope you can help me - I'd have to let go of that "dump nt, go samba" idea of mine, otherwise.) Best regards Christian Pernegger

Please help - strange networking problem...

2000-05-12 Thread Christian Pernegger
Hello! Until recently my computer's only network connection was via cable mode to the net as follows: 3Com 3C905B (3c59x.o) = eth0 connected to cable modem. #cat /etc/network/interfaces: iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname This setup worked fine. Now I also want to

RE: gpm and x conflicting

2000-05-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
I haven't got a solution for you but the same problem (on a regular machine)... MS IntelliMouse Explorer on PS/2 Protocol IMPS/2 For the time being I purged gpm. :) Christian > -Original Message- > From: Daniel Brosemer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Dan Broseme

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