NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
I've got a Dell box I'm installing debian on with an intergrated NIC on the motherboard. When I booted the install CD, the system startup messages included ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 on irq 14 so I figured, Great! It's been autodetected, so I don't have to worry about what it actually is! I was

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:10:33AM -0600, John Foster wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 on irq 14 This is your hard drive :-) *sigh* Uh-huh. I knew that... Of course ide0 != eth0. Guess I was just a little too desperate for info

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:04PM -0600, John Foster wrote: Look for Realtek, 3com, intel, i.e. something with a ethernet card name and model number. Once you have identified the chipset you can recompile the kernel and modules for your specefic hardware setup. I'm guessing it's a 3com NIC

Re: NIC identification

2001-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 09:15:52PM -0400, Roberto Rosario wrote: Try lspci it might give you some more info. Tried it, but it's not there. The current version available for download off debian.org depends on a later version of libc than was installed off my CD and I don't want to mess with

Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of effort. I'm a little concerned about apt, though... I wouldn't

Re: Functionality simular to FreeBSD's jails

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:03:16PM +0300, Ilya Martynov wrote: I'm interested if there is exists some software which allows to implement virtual boxes under Linux (something that provide simular capabilities as FreeBSD's jails). The only thing I know about is user-mode linux kernel. Does

Re: Debian with read-only /usr

2001-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:07:27AM -0600, Carl Greco wrote: You could always mount the `/usr' filesystem on the server as readonly and use the `remount' option of `mount' to remount `/usr' as writeable during an apt upgrade. The other option would be to export `/usr' readonly, i.e., in the

BIND died on upgrade to 1:8.2.3-0.potato.1

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
I had bind working fine on a server, did an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, and now it doesn't recognize that it has any domains. Are there any known problems with upgrading to this version? Or any suggestions on locating and repairing the problem? -- Linux will do for applications what the

Re: BIND died on upgrade to 1:8.2.3-0.potato.1

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:54:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: I had bind working fine on a server, did an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, and now it doesn't recognize that it has any domains. Are there any known problems with upgrading to this version? Or any suggestions on locating

Re: BIND died on upgrade to 1:8.2.3-0.potato.1

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:54:04PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: I had bind working fine on a server, did an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade, and now it doesn't recognize that it has any domains. Are there any known problems with upgrading to this version? Or any suggestions on locating

Re: is there a way to use find and rm together?

2001-03-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:44:18PM +0100, Martin W?rtele wrote: is there a way to use something like find /home/ftpusers -name .bash* | rm find /home/ftpusers -name .bash* -exec rm {} \; -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks. - IBM, Peace, Love, and Linux

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:55:10PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:21:07AM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number

Re: high load average

2001-03-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 03:25:24PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: The clarification is given in the O'Reilly citation. Runnable processes, not waiting on other resources, I/O blocking excepted. Excellent - thanks! -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks.

Re: high load average

2001-03-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:09:41PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: isn't 2.00 more like 2% ? It is US notation where . is a decimal separator. Not ? You have the notation correct, but load average and CPU utilization are not directly related. Load average is the average number of processes that

Re: shell script experts pls help a lost soul

2001-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:32:45AM -, john smith wrote: 1. my script doesn't seem to display the script name together with whoami..actually, what the script was supposed to do is when it is invoked, it will display the user name together with the scriptname should the scriptname gets

Re: anyone have a epson stylus photo 870 working?

2001-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 06:46:45AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: I've a stylus color 880 (mmh, i guess is not a similar model, this model is a 4 colors printer, the photo should be 6 colors), and have played with pdq/xpdq

Re: Is it possible to downgrade a Debian system from testing to stable?

2001-03-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 05:33:17PM +, Gavin Hamill wrote: So, short of starting over from scratch, is there a way to get back to stable? Yep sure... edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change anything that says 'testing' to 'stable' then run apt-get update and finally apt-get

/usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
My network runs a mix of stable/potato and testing/woody systems. I'm considering consolidating their /usr/share directories, but I'm not sure how safe that would be. Specifically, if I put all of them into a single NFS-exported location, will using apt to update the potato machines be prone to

Re: /usr/share and multiple versions

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:26:47AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: FYI, from the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.1/fhs-4.7.html: Note, however, that /usr/share is generally not intended to be shared by different OSes or by different releases of the same

X, G400, and mouse fd

2001-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
Where can I find TFM on setting up hardware acceleration for a Matrox G400 AGP? Is it worth doing this under X 3.3.6 or will it be less trouble to make the jump to X 4.0.2 and set up acceleration there? Also, I'm doing this for the sake of playing Loki's games, which are all hellbent on using

Re: port scare

2001-02-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:32:58AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: What the hell *are* these things and how did they suddenly blast open after I had shut down all but three? I have changed nothing - and when I check inetd.conf and the other directories I edited, they are still the same. Ex: I

Re: Slow SSH responses from server

2001-02-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:18:14PM -0800, Forrest English wrote: i think it's because your server isn't generating enough entropy. enter random commands at the keyboard somtime. do ls -lahR /that should get you enough randomness to last for awhile. Any suggestions for keeping the

Re: CUPS problem

2001-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, David Grill Watson wrote: When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more

Re: Apache Virtual Host.

2001-02-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 03:40:48PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: Can anyone see why this wouldn't work.?? Looks reasonable to me. Did you remember to tell apache to reload its configuration (`apachectl graceful`) after adding the VirtualHost sections? In what way does it not work? -- SGI

Re: Apache Virtual Host

2001-02-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:12:12PM -0500, Chris Matta wrote: make sure you have this in httpd.conf: NameVirtualHost 0.0.0.0 (make sure you have your ip in here!!) VirtualHost 0.0.0.0 (same here!) ServerName www.yourdomain.com I've seen a couple people say to use an IP address in the

Re: Autmatically switch Num Lock to on at Login

2001-02-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: I set in my bios, that it should enable Num Lock at Startup but Linux switches it of when it starts. How can i configure bash or anything other to enable Num Lock at Login? How can configure X-Server to switch it

Re: exim keeps posting to the wrong place - SOLVED

2001-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:20:20AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I think I've just found the answer; in /etc/exim.conf I've put: qualify_domain = localhost I hope this is right. Close, but not quite. You want qualify_domain set to you ISP's domain amd qualify_recipient set to localhost.

Re: GPL versus LGPL ?

2001-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:09:05AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Could someone breafly explain me what are the main differences between a GPL and a LGPL licence? GPL: If your program links to GPL code, you must provide source to the whole thing so that other people can edit any part and

Re: Apache Virtual Host

2001-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 06:57:24PM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: I've been working on this for a couple of days and can't figure out why it's giving me sooo much trouble, but I just can't seem to get a virtual host working with apache. I would like to have a development site of

Re: ATT Korn shell for Debina (potato) ?

2001-02-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:15:42PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: There's a public domain version of the Korn shell packaged as 'pdksh'. I suspect that, like me, the person who originally asked about the ATT ksh has just read the slashdot interview with David Korn. In it, Dr. Korn repeatedly

Re: a quick one...

2001-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:07:29AM -0800, Leonard Leblanc wrote: What would be the best owner/group for perl scripts that are running on a web server? Someone trusted. Does it really matter? Of course - anyone who can write to the scripts (which always ultimately includes the owner, since he

Re: Making Apt Follow Recommendations/Suggestions

2001-02-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 03:54:46PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: How can I make Apt automatically follow recommendations and/or suggestions? This feature would be useful to me since I would like to obtain the documentation to a package as well as the package itself. The only way I've found to do

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:56:02PM +, Justin B Rye wrote: This is a strange way to want to set a crontab... Actually, considering that it's how crontab expects to work if no flags are given, I suspect that `crontab filename` is the most historically standard/ normal way to use it. man

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:46:48PM +0200, Timo wrote: The main problem is, why does cron not understand network parameters while using specific file. I have tried ifconfig eth0 down, /etc/init.d/networking stop, etc... simulating Madrakes usernet command, Just to hit on the obvious: Who

Re: A little sed

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote: - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from SCRIPT /SCRIPT tags. I tried sed -e s/\SCRIPT.*SCRIPT\// file.html file.html2, but it only deletes the first line, not the whole script. The /m modifier doesn't seem to work. How do I go

Re: PS to HTML Conversion

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:31:17PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: Does anybody know if there is anything avaliable to convert a PS document to HTML? I just asked this same question a couple days ago. Someone on the local LUG mailing list pointed me at http://www.cyrusp.com/ps2html, but I

Re: Open ports security

2001-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:28:51AM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: But what about 111? Something in my gut says that remote procedure call can't be all that good. NIS and NFS need sunrpc (aka portmapper) running on the server, but you should be able to shut it off if you're not using either

PS to HTML?

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Anyone know where I can find a decent PostScript-to-HTML convertor? I've turned up some ps-to-ascii and html-to-ps utils, but that's as close as I've gotten so far. -- SGI products are used to create the 'Bugs' that entertain us in theatres and at home. - SGI job posting Geek Code 3.1: GCS d?

Re: PS to HTML?

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:07:21PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: Not really easy to do. PostScript has a lot of stuff that simply won't translate to html easily or at all. I'm not really interested in the formatting, just something that will extract the text of the PS doc and insert some

Re: unstable or testing - which one to use?

2001-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: what's the status of testing? I've noticed few remarks suggesting that it's not ready yet, i.e. not at the same level as unstable was. what's the status of testing and what is now the best choice roughly equal to what unstable used

Re: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:26:03PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: There are numerous advantages for using this. The number one plus for me is that i only have to learn perl/perlscript and not javascript/perl or any of the other combinations. This is great when developing on IIS with perl

Re: [OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread 'Dave Sherohman'
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:16:07PM +0100, Joris Lambrecht wrote: indeed, that link and i believe one other does not work, in fact documentation on perlscript is that sparse i'm writing my own. However, you can learn it fast by converting javascript/vbscript you know to perlscript code. Ah,

Re: Driver for DSL Modem

2001-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:19:03PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: I don't *think* thare's any drivers for internal PCI stuff, it's possible (but unlikely) that the modem uses a supported ethernet chip and then does pppoe stuff on board, but I wouldn't count on it. I'm pretty sure you're

Re: using exim? check /etc/exim.conf!

2001-01-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:55:17PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote: I don't know how that line got there, but it never hurts to check what's in your exim.conf! The line was put there when you ran eximconfig and told it that your mail should appear to be coming from your schhol's domain. The way to

Re: curious: Re: running another X from within X

2001-01-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:05:14AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: is there a practicle reason for doing this? What is the purpose? I'm not the original requester and I assume that he has a different/better reason but... I normally run X in at least 24 bpp (32 if the video card can do it at my preferred

Re: .forward syntax

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:47:45PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: Since most of the MTAs shipped with Linux distributions are configured to use procmail as their default MDA, the above is unnecessary. For instance, exim under potato and sendmail under RedHat 6.2 both hand all messages off to

Re: Setting up a DNS server

2001-01-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:40:38PM -0600, eric baierl wrote: And then what goes in the .db and .rev files? Check out the DNS-HOWTO. It will tell you everything you need to know (as well as a fair bit of the theory that you should know, but can get by without). -- SGI products are used to

Re: Suggestions for dual processor

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:56:27AM -0500, Sean wrote: The main drawbacks to SMP, in my mind, are the additional cost (which I really don't think is much of a drawback because I think you get significantly better performance ... but others would probably disagree), The big question on

Re: How do you modify WindowMaker menus?

2001-01-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:55:00PM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:24:20AM -0800, Denzil Kelly wrote: I want to add gmc to one of my windowmaker menus, however, I've not been able to get it done. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? Edit

Re: Getting out of X

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:02:40AM -0500, Jeff Binder wrote: I have been trying to get X working on my SuperMac c500 (an old world PowerMac), and I was having trouble getting the ADB mouse working. The problem is, the settings I have now cause X to crash at startup, leaving just a white

Re: Hi All

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:34:23AM -0800, Henry House wrote: Are you sure? romana:~/$ file /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/useradd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped (Probably say something else on your system, but you

Re: Adding a superuser

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:05:12PM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically linked. Guess again: kuno ~$ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 May 25 2000 /bin/sh - bash kuno ~$ It's a good measure to have a

Re: How stable is testing?

2001-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 03:09:32PM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: I wonder how many people really use testing? I do! It's so much easier than `apt-get -d upgrade` wait a couple days for reports of breakage on debian-user `apt-get upgrade`. Do people downgrade from unstable to testing or

Re: Apache graceful as non-root

2001-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:38:59AM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: Hello Nate you could i bet if you made apachectl setuid root but if security is an issue i wouldn't reccomend it. to do this do chmod u+s apachectl Tried it. Doesn't work; Linux seems to silently drop suid root privilges on

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:05:43AM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: Try finding the line in the file /etc/inet.conf and comment it out for the services that you don't want to run. You may have to reboot then, or try restarting the internet superserver - try a /etc/init.d/inetd restart. You might

Re: Turning off services SOLVED

2001-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:51:55AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: On the update-rc.d idea (in another message): this only turns things off if the script they refer to is deleted. But I wanted to keep it around. You apparently didn't read the man page like I suggested: -f Force removal

Re: backingup /home/foo/.* files

2000-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:35:03AM +, q wrote: (my apologies...it's on my list of projects. i use vi. the posts i see for this issue seem to be for vim. (anyone know how to line wrap in _vi_?)) Don't know if this is the answer you keep getting, but, in elvis, :set textwidth=NN causes it

Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux

2000-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:38:01PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: But think of it twice. Changing the volume of a song can actually destroy the musical value of the piece. How do you figure? As long as relative volume of the sections within each individual piece is maintained, I don't see why

Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux

2000-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:59:40PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: You can write a simple script: #!/bin/sh for i in `find . -name *.mpr` ; do mpg123 options $i `basename $i .mp3`.1.mp3 ... done Why's everyone so script-happy here? find . -iname *.mp3 -exec mpg123 -w {} | normalize

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:24:57PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The closest I've come is: - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at potato - apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade - Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point at woody - apt-get update ; apt-get

Re: normalizing mp3s under debian/linux

2000-12-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:25:06PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: Well, I can generally speak with a low voice, forcing others to pay more attention to what I say. If you raise the volume, the words are still the same, but you broke one of the intentions I had to say things the way I did.

Re: How to track *part* of unstable?

2000-12-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:06:33PM -0500, D-Man wrote: I don't think that can be done. Woody (unstable) is based on glibc 2.2 while potato is based on glibc 2.1. Thus any binaries for woody that use the C library at all won't run (even if you get them to install) on potato. Seems to work

Re: how to reply to messages

2000-12-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:59:45PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: I forget where, but there is a page explaining why list reply-to's are bad. The title of the document is Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html, or I'm sure your favorite search engine can

Re: Mutt and mounted file system via nfs

2000-12-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 05:02:25PM -0800, Henry House wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Francois Fayard wrote: I have a problem with mutt and /mnt/mail/fayard with is my mailbox (/usr/mail is mounted via nfs). Mutt can read this mailbox but can't write on it. I don't think it

Re: serving user's homes with apache

2000-12-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 02:42:36PM +0100, Moritz Schulte wrote: Apache runs with some special privileges, AFAIK as 'nobody'. Not that it makes any real difference in this case, but Debian sets up apache to run as user www-data instead of nobody. -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie,

Re: list codes?

2000-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:51:37AM -0600, Mailing list collection place wrote: A package that I've found useful in decoding some of these messages is wtf when it's installed, the command $ wtf acronym will return a plain English translation Oddly enough, pchan ~$ wtf OT Gee... I don't know

Re: setting the number lock in X

2000-12-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:51:09AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i know how to set the number lock in console, but can't figure out how to do it in X. i would've thought xset, but the man page makes no mention of the number lock... Go to freshmeat and do a search on numlockx. Build and

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:02:05PM -, James Preece wrote: I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I need to do. Debian puts all config files in /etc. The config for bind is in

Re: Mutt Question

2000-12-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 07:49:38PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: Is there a way to tell mutt to sort by thread mode by default (in .muttrc)? set sort=threads -- Two words: Windows survives. - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin. - Matthew

Re: swap size

2000-12-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:35:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a couple of days ago a was configuring a bunch of boxes with 1G ram and i allocated 1G of swap, because my boss said so. a co-worker then told me that the appropriate amount of swap to allocate should be twice the ram. i

Re: OT: nice'ing jobs

2000-11-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:10:20PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote: However, if one more CPU-intensive job were added by user1, all jobs would be slowed proportionately. Have you tested that this actually happens? Empirical data is harder to argue with than theory. My argument is that nice'ing

Adding ghostscript drivers

2000-11-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
The stp driver seems to be all the rage at www.linuxprinting.org (or at least it is when Epson inkjets are involved), but the Debian ghostcript packages don't include it. What would be the least disruptive way for me to get an stp-enabled gs running? (I just picked up a Stylus Color 880 and was

Re: samba or NFS mount

2000-11-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 05:01:29PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote: Thank you for the reply. So samba is the only way to mount an NT filesystem? Sounds good... Do I need to run a samba server on the linux machine or would the server be an application on the NT machine. I went to samba.org/samba to

Preserving config across updates

2000-11-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
There are a few things which seem to reset themselves to defaults when upgraded without offering an option to keep the old config: - Eterm resets all of its 'system' (i.e., the ones in /usr/share/Eterm/themes) themes back to the default settings on every upgrade, requiring me to keep backed-up

Samsung ML-4500 printer

2000-11-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
Just picked up an ML-4500, primarily because it's got Tux on the box. Opened it up and discovered that the Linux support is (predictably) Red Hat-centric, so I installed the (Debian) printtool package from woody, modified the install script to look for the printtool database in

Re: Q: RSA Authentication vs. Password Authentication in SSH

2000-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:16:10PM +1100, Brian May wrote: I am afraid you have lost me here. Are you asking how you can securely transfer the public keys of your clients (not an easy task), OK, now you's lost me... I thought the big advantage of public keys was exactly that - they're public.

Re: Group `disk'

2000-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:49:08AM +, Tom Huckstep wrote: Ekkehard Kraemer writes: Yup, you can write on /dev/hda, format it, whatever you like, if you're in disk. This seems a big security risk just so I can play audio CDs. Is there a better way to give a user the ability to play

Re: The Microsoft tax

2000-11-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 12:04:02PM -0800, Andrew Dixon wrote: I'm thinking of buying a new computer and I was looking for information on getting a refund for Windows. Any links, help, tips, success stories, or general M$ bashing would be greatly appreciated. Do a web search for Windows

Re: Run out of hd free space. Please help

2000-11-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 10:26:18AM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: How's your /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory? If you don't delete those files once in a while (dselect asks if you want to), that'll fill your hard drive pretty quickly. The easy way to get rid of old debs that apt has

Re: Okay who's this H.C.Hsiang hchsiang@tpts4.seed.net.tw?

2000-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:58:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW how many of you on this list use multiple oses on your desktop and which ones do you use and for what purposes. That should be an interesting one...:) Home: I occasionally boot Win95 to play games (the only one recently

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

2000-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 03:57:15PM +1100, -|- Hurgh! -|- wrote: Is this a virus or something I have just got like heaps of messages from people on this group and they all have this file attached. What is it?? It's the latest Windows virus. If you take a look, you'll see that one person sent

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

2000-11-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:34:49AM +, Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote: My backspace key stopped working in X for some odd reason. The ^^^ Have you read the section on Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some other key

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

2000-11-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:26:25PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: Ditto. Also, and at the same time, under one user's account (and only one) on the same machine the left mouse button click with X stopped working? I haven't tried any other users, but for my primary user account, the mouse does

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

2000-11-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:26:25PM +1100, Graham Williams wrote: Ditto. Also, and at the same time, under one user's account (and only one) on the same machine the left mouse button click with X stopped working? I wish I knew where to look to fix the mouse problem. I managed to get the mouse

Re: Backspace key doesn't work

2000-11-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:45:35PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: Now to just track down a permanent fix for the keyboard problems... OK, got it, so now I can shut up about this whole thing. I noticed this message after shutting down X: sh: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file

Re: Can't login using WDM!

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 01:05:01PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: Last night I upgraded all X packages to XFree4.0.1, and now I can't login to X using WDM. Every time I enter my userid and password in the WDM login panel, the login panel disappears, I see a plain grey background, and then

Re: Name server

2000-11-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Jay Kelly wrote: Im running bind and apache on the same box. I use to host my web but have moved it over to another hosting co. I have removed the entry in named.conf but when I try to open the url I stll am getting it from my apache server and not the

apt: Could not perform immediate configuration

2000-11-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
I recently decided to take the plunge and upgrade to libc6, but my attempts to do so have consistently ended with apt-get downloading the necessary packages, then complaining E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration What would cause this and how do I fix (or work around) it?

Re: GPL and software I have written

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 07:47:40AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: You can't GPL it and charge for the *GPL* version. The preceding statement is incorrect. GPLed code can be sold for any price you may choose to set. The GPL _does_ say that a) you must provide the source code (or at least make it

Re: X config problem causes me to have reinstall entire OS--!!newbie warning!!

2000-10-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:28:11PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: Try Ctrl-Alt-F10. Works with some keyboards. Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 instead. Ctrl-Alt-F10 works with some _installations_, specifically those which have a getty running on tty10. The default, however, is to have gettys running on tty1-tty6, so

Re: root file system

2000-10-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:16:17PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote: Thanks to all for putting me in the right direction. It turns out that I hvae a spare 2G that I was going to use for NT but never quite got around to using. I would like to use it for a var file system (a bit large but better than

Re: Logcheck

2000-10-30 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:15:41AM +, Christopher Clark wrote: The default 'server' config for logcheck ignores almost all of these things. Perhaps you should reconfigure your logcheck package? I suspect that you chose the 'utterly paranoid, report _everything_' configuration last time

Re: Logcheck

2000-10-27 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:57:58PM +, Christopher Clark wrote: In addition to a firewall (pmfirewall) and portsentry I now have logckeck running. Unfortunately I get a lot of mail saying I am under attack when I am sure I am not. I suspect you're just getting notifications of (what

Re: a whole bunch of questions

2000-10-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 06:10:01PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: The error recommends to use xhost - but this seems to be a GUI app and therefore dies for the same reasons as previously launching emacs. How can I help myself, would running xhost fruit in a working GUI when changing to

Re: TO ALL!

2000-10-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 01:36:10PM +0200, Matthias Mann wrote: Are you shure that nobody wants and needs some chain letters? I think much of these letters are unnecessery. However not all! IsnĀ“t it the content that will decide if it is unnecessery or not and not the fact that it is a chain

Re: DSL dns problems

2000-10-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 10:22:42PM -0500, steve wrote: Pings and traceroutes are running from 50ms up to 200ms, if I can even get to the targets at all. My question is, could this be some configuration problem on my end, or are their dns servers having serious problems? Verify that nothing

Re: mv multiple files w/wildcard

2000-10-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 01:20:02PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a number of subdirectories where I have files with - such as name - title.txt and I wish to convert them to: name: title.txt If this isn't just a one-time thing (or perhaps even if it is) you should check out the mmv

Re: xcdroast permissions

2000-10-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:53:35PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: It can't run properly without root priviledges. It's probably not installed suid root because suid root programs are a security risk. It turns out that the reason it's not installed suid is that I was asked whether to install it

xcdroast permissions

2000-10-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
xcdroast claims that it _must_ run as root and needs to have suid set. The Debian xcdroast package installs in non-suid. Do the Debianites know something the program and its documentation don't? Is it possible to make xcdroast work non-suid? If so, how? If not, why is it installed in a

Re: xcdroast permissions

2000-10-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:37:07AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: xcdroast claims that it _must_ run as root and needs to have suid set. The Debian xcdroast package installs in non-suid. Since I've already gotten a couple off-list responses asking... Yes, I've read README.nonroot.gz. it starts

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