Re: Making an ext2 filesystem on a DVD+RW

2006-11-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: modprobe pktcdvd pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/hdd ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device Can anyone advise me on this? Make sure that your kernel has pktcdvd support. Then try: pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd If you use udev, the device file /dev/pktcdvd/0 should

Re: [OT] wie neue MAC im Netz erkennen

2006-10-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Orlando Rose wrote: wie kann ich feststellen ob jemand einen neuen Rechner am Netzwerk angeschlossen hat? Es läuft zwar ein DHCP, aber wenn jemand die IP fest einstellt zeigt der ja nichts an. Wenn sich ein neuer PC auftaucht möchte ich eine Mail und/oder SMS bekommen. Dazu müsste ein

Re: clearing all arp records ?

2006-05-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
S t i n g r a y wrote: Well i cant seem to find a way to clear all the records in arp cache ... in other unix versions this commands works # arp -a -d but here it isnt working ? what can i do ? for host in `arp -n | cut -f1 -d' '`; do arp -d $host; done Regards, Dennis -- To

Re: howto autosave email attachments?

2006-05-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: We have a shiny new printer/copier/scanner. It sends scanned pages as email attachments. Instead of manually selecting individual email adresses on the cumbersome telephone-like local keyboard, it would be handy to mail all of them to the same e-mail address and

Re: swap and /tmp

2006-04-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Digby Tarvin wrote: I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue. I use tmpfs for /tmp on all of my machines and have so far not found a good reason why I should not. Obviously it would mean that /tmp would be volatile,

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Dennis Stosberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output of uname -m The obvious thing, just starting with ARCH = `uname -m` didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of i686 or x86_64. Not unreasonable, but What *is* the way

Re: Makefile parametrisation

2006-04-25 Thread Dennis Stosberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to define a symbol ARCH in my Makefile to be the output of uname -m The obvious thing, just starting with ARCH = `uname -m` didn't seem to work. It defined ARCH to be `uname -m' instead of i686 or x86_64. Not unreasonable, but What *is* the

Re: UML skas patches for linux kernel packages

2006-04-20 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Nic Ferrier wrote: Does anyone know what I have to do to get a skas host kernel? Why not take the patch directly from its origin? http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/patches/skas3-2.6/ Regards, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: lost my root password, howto ?

2006-03-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Zouari Fourat wrote: Is there a case were the root password is unrecoverable. Or is there any possibility to let a root password unresetable ? Am just thinking .. There are two possibilities: Either prevent _all_ physical access to the hardware, or encrypt all file systems. As long as an

Re: lost my root password, howto ?

2006-03-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Zouari Fourat wrote: how can we encode filesystems ? With loop-AES or dm-crypt. But please note that both are not trivial to set up and that you'll have to understand what you're doing. The Disk Encryption HOWTO [1] and the loop-AES README [2] may be good starting points. If you have

Re: lost my root password, howto ?

2006-03-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Zouari Fourat wrote: how can we encode filesystems ? With loop-AES or dm-crypt. But both are not trivial to use and you'll have to know what you are doing if you really want to secure your system. The Disk Encryption HOWTO [1] and the loop-AES README [2] may be good starting points. If you

Re: Debian on an AMD64 Processor

2006-03-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Andy wrote: Hello List, Hello Andy, [..] Can I run regular Debian Sarge on an AMD64 processor, or do I have to run the AMD64 port? Both the i386 port and the (unofficial) amd64 port of Sarge will run fine on amd64 hardware. If you're running the i386 port on amd64 hardware you can

Re: iptables programs

2006-03-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Pol Hallen wrote: i'd like block the internet connection on these programs ;-) which better solution of this problem? Create an additional user account and run those programs with that user's rights only. Then use the iptables owner module to restrict outgoing connections made by that user.

Re: iptables wrong version?

2006-03-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Philip Mak wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong version Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# uname -a Linux

Re: Bitte Help: Business Grafiken

2006-02-18 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Andreas Pakulat wrote: On 18.02.06 07:38:15, Johann Hautzinger wrote: Ich hab da ein paar Daten, die zu ein paar Grafiken werden sollen, im Excel-Format. So weit, so gut. Öffnen ist ja mit OOo kein Problem, auch Diagramme daraus machen geht damit ohne Schwierigkeiten, aber wie schaffe

Re: High UDP ports showing open on my systems

2006-02-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: I've been running nmap scans on a couple of my debian systems, and I'm finding that one unpriviliged UDP port is always showing open, but the port changes with every scan. Anybody know what's going on? Here's a few tests (edited for brevity): debian:~#

Re: Kann man mit NFS-root-Filesystem bridging verwendet werden? (diskless-client mit brctl?)

2006-01-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Gerhardt Englert wrote: ich versuche gerade auf meinem diskless-client (Debian sarge, Kabelnetzwerkkarte und Wlan-Karte) bridging einzurichten. Beim diskless-client ist wird als Root-Filesystem (/) ein per NFS-gemountetes Verzeichnis auf dem Server verwendet. Problem: Sobald ich das

Re: Can`t build modules for VMWARE Workstation

2006-01-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Roman Makurin wrote: Now I`m using kernel 2.6.15 with ck patchset. I create kernel packages with following command: [..] The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel. What I need to do to compile vmware modules ?

Re: Auf KDE3.5 updaten?!

2006-01-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Sven Hartge wrote: KDE3.5 ist gerade einmal _halb_ von experimental nach unstable gekommen. Bis es da einen brauchbaren Backport, vor allem wg. der ganzen Abhängigkeiten zu nontrivialen Paketen gibt, wird es schon einen Moment dauern. Ich habe die KDE 3.5.0-Pakete von Alioth fuer Sarge neu

Re: Reiser FS hosed?

2006-01-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Eric P wrote: NO REISER4 METADATA WERE FOUND. FS RECOVERY IS NOT POSSIBLE. So this is (ahem) bad, huh? Am I screwed? Or is there any way to recover some of the files? Your best option is probably to refer to the reiserfs mailing list for assistance. On the other hand, the

Re: maildir Verz. in Cyrus importieren

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Bernd Meister wrote: bin von Courier auf Cyrus IMAP umgestiegen. Mit Courier hab ich die Mails in einem Verz. im Maildir Format gespeichert. Der Courier läuft nicht mehr, aber ich hätte gern noch die alten Mails mit übernommen. Gibt es da ein Programm mit dem das funktioniert? Mutt kann

Re: maildir Verz. in Cyrus importieren

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Holm Kapschitzki wrote: also die Möglichkeiten, die ich auch in Erwägung ziehe sind imapsync/mutt. Aber eine Fragehätte ich, wie sieht daß denn aus mit den Indexen für gelesene oder agheolte Nachrichten ? Was genau meinst du mit Index? [..] Wenn ich jetzt zum Beispiel Thunderbird benutze

Re: maildir Verz. in Cyrus importieren

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Holm Kapschitzki wrote: Was genau meinst du mit Index? Die Dateien unter /var/spool/cyrus/mail ... heissen: cyrus.cache cyrus.index cyrus.headetr Um die brauchst du dich nicht zu kümmern. Das macht Cyrus von selbst. Ja Thunderbird zeigt bei mir eben nicht mehr an, daß da die Mails

Re: install KDE 3.5 on Debian 3.1

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Chong Zan Kai wrote: May I know what is the steps to update KDE of Debian 3.1 to KDE 3.5 ? Is there any guideline that can recommend to me? I have rebuilt the KDE 3.5.0 packages from alioth for Sarge. You are welcome to try them, but please remember that those packages are backports of

Re: Inetd vs. Xinetd

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Rick Friedman wrote: Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an advantage to having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and installing xinetd? That depends solely on your needs.

Re: Resize jfs partition

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
dclemen wrote: Hi, I have / directory on a partition with jfs file system. It has 140Gb size, but I remove another partition with 40Gb that was behind / partition. So I want to resize my / to get these 40Gb. I read some sites to resize partitions with: # mount -o remount,resize /home

Re: Chkrootkit report

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Rick Friedman wrote: I just ran a program called chkrootkit. It reports the following: eth0: PACKET SNIFFER(/usr/sbin/pppd[5072]) I realize that 5072 is the process id for pppd. But what is the message actually saying? Is there a problem with pppd?? Or is this normal? A packet sniffer

Re: ext3 journal

2005-12-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
David Dawson wrote: How does one locate the ext3 journal? The journal is hidden from the user. It is not a file that you can locate. You can, however, locate the journal inode: $ dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 | grep Journal dumpe2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Journal inode:8 In particular I want

Re: How can I update udev???

2005-11-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Günther Obrist wrote: But I need this RUN rule to realise my project...Does any of you have an debian packege for me to update it or what can I do to get a newer release?? I've built a back-ported udev 070 for Sarge a few weeks ago, which is running happily here on three machines. It

Re: Debian-CD's fü r alpha und mipsel

2005-10-16 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Michelle Konzack wrote: wei jemand einen Mirror, wo ich die Woody-CD's debian-30r6-alpha-binary-3.iso und debian-30r6-mipsel-binary-5.iso bekomme? Auf cdimage.debian.org fehlen sie... Auf cdimage.debian.org gibt jigdo-Vorlagen für diese CDs. Hast schon probiert, ob

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-16 Thread Dennis Stosberg
theal wrote: The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my servers. Does anyone know of a way to recover this? Your best and simplest option is, of course, to restore your latest backup. But since you're asking here, I assume that no backup exists. I don't think it a good

Re: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-09-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 28.09.2005 um 09:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good time for all. I run chkrootkit and it returns : ... Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049) ... What I need to do ? Links are welcome. You will probably want to find out, whether your system is infected or not. The

Re: How can I install Opera?

2005-09-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.09.2005 um 13:29 schrieb rosetta: Hi all I have install the deb package that downloaded from opera.com. But when I run opera, there are some errors: ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD

Re: Cannot access the computer

2005-09-27 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.09.2005 um 13:04 schrieb Mitja Podreka: I have a big problem. I have six new computers running Mandrake. I would like to migrate them to Debian, but everything is password protected and the people who installed the original OS forgot all the passwords. I tried today to boot from a live

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy: Anyway, here is the deal: I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously,

Re: ls -l Segmentation Fault

2005-08-20 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 20.08.2005 um 17:28 schrieb Lasse Poeppler: # /usr/bin/dpkg -f bash: /usr/bin/dpkg: Input/output error solangsam aber sicher bekomm ich graue Haare. Riecht stark nach einem Hardwareproblem der Festplatte. Du hast aktuelle Backups, oder? Lies mit den smartmontools den SMART-Status

Re: SATA - RAID

2005-08-19 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 19.08.2005 um 14:55 schrieb Sebastian Kayser: swap zu spiegeln ist völlig legitim. Lediglich von der Praxis auf beiden Platten einen swap-Bereich gleicher Prio zu haben (also ohne Spiegel für die swap Partition), was angeblich ebenso ausfallsicher sein soll, bin ich nicht recht überzeugt.

Re: KDE3.4.x Backport fü r Sarge gesucht

2005-08-04 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 04.08.2005 um 09:05 schrieb Dirk Schleicher: gibt es und kennt jemand ein Backport von KDE3.4.x das auf Sarge läuft? Ich möchte meinen Rechner um Urlaub neu machen und wenn möglich ein neueres KDE als 3.3.1 drauf machen. Nein, ich benötige es nicht unbedingt, doch wenn ich mir die Arbeit

Re: TV unter Linux

2005-07-30 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 30.07.2005 um 16:32 schrieb Klaus Becker: mein System Debian Sarge meine TV-Karte Haupauge PVR PCI 2, die würde ich gerne unter Linux zum laufen bringen, kann mir Anfänger jemand sagen, wie ich das machen kann. Was ich bisher gemacht habe, ich habe mir aus unstable das Programm

Re: Dual boot mit NT?

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 28.07.2005 um 23:20 schrieb Ace Dahlmann: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:03:53 +0200 Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bevor mir die Peinlichkeit passiert und ich den Techniker wegen eines abgeschossenen NT kommen lassen muß, möchte ich lieber vorher fragen: Kann da etwas Schlimmes

Re: LVM PV auf loop-AES oder loop-AES auf LVs?

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 28.07.2005 um 18:47 schrieb Roland Sommer: wie in http://groups.google.de/group/linux.debian.user.german/msg/a2f53aa9c43e2361 beschrieben, würde ich eine große Partition mittels loop-AES verschlüsseln und diese in LVM als PV angeben, so dass alle darin enthaltenen LVs incl.

Re: mount option owner

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 15:42 schrieb Michael Dauer: Hallo, ich habe für eine USB-Disk folgendes in fstab eingetragen: LABEL=BackupDisk /mnt/BackupDisk ext2defaults,noauto,owner 0 0 Den Owner für sda1 und für /mnt/BackupDisk habe ich auf user1 gesetzt. Aber wenn user1 versucht zu

Re: Profilemanager von Fir eFox unterdrücken

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 16:29 schrieb Marcel Gschwandl: kann mir jemand einen Tipp geben wie ich es schaffe, dass FireFox mich nie zum Erstellen eines neuen Profils auffordert? Das Problem besteht dann, wenn zwei Instanzen von FireFox in einem zu kurzen Abstand gestartet werden (z.B. Doppelklick

Re: Treiber fü r Geforce6600GT

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 16:30 schrieb Thomas Eichert: Allerdings war der Xserver-xfree86 nicht zu bewegen seinen Dienst zu verrichten (no screen found), bis ich durch probieren (mit xf86cfg -Textmode) einfach mal den Treiber von nv auf vesa geändert habe. Meine alten Grafikkarten (auch Geforce)

Re: Profilemanager von Fir eFox unterdrücken

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 16:50 schrieb Michelino Caroselli: Sicher? Absolut sicher. Ich habe es gerade noch einmal ausprobiert und mir das Shellskript /usr/bin/firefox angeschaut. Es schaut erst nach, ob eine Firefox-Instanz läuft. Anschließend weist es entweder die laufende Instanz an, ein neues

Re: Profilemanager von Fir eFox unterdrücken

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 17:13 schrieb Marcel Gschwandl: Also wie schon im anderen Mail geschrieben verhält sich 1.0.4-2 und 1.0.6-1 bei mir immer noch so... Was passiert bei dir, wenn du folgende Befehle in xterm ausführst? /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -remote 'ping()'; echo $?

Re: recover files after mkdosfs

2005-07-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 29.07.2005 um 00:08 schrieb Joubin Moshrefzadeh: oops... i did what I'm sure everyone warns against... I'd backed up all my movies/music on /dev/hdb3 and created /dev/hdb7, and sure enough, I mistakenly pointed mkdosfs at /dev/hdb3 instead of the newly created partition. any thoughts

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.07.2005 um 09:39 schrieb Johan: Kindly pleas where and how can I set debian sarge to activate the numlock key. If you want to activate num-lock for your text consoles, have a look at setleds: setleds +num /dev/tty1 Will activate num-lock for the first text console (dev/tty1).

Re: sshd talks to much in the logs

2005-07-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.07.2005 um 02:38 schrieb hakim: I have installed a debian sarge. After I have instaled several packages I recognized that in my systemlogs sshd gives me debug output: [..] All this is only for one ssh connection. I checked the start scripts but the debug mode is not enabled so far as

Re: sshd talks to much

2005-07-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.07.2005 um 11:51 schrieb Achim Stumpf: I have installed debian sarge. After the installation of a few packages I recognized that sshd is in debug mode: [...] All this is for one session. If I check with ps aux, I see that ssh is invoked without any parameters. Could anyone tell me how

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 16.07.2005 um 06:15 schrieb Benjamin Sher: Those are not my instructions but those of the author, who very explicitly requires that K3b always run as root. And what do you think, why the k3b authors wrote k3bsetup, which sets up all of cdrecord, cdrdao, growisofs, etc. in a way to be

Re: fsck on ext3 drives. Do we need to routinely? how to shut off or change 30 boot/180 day settings or why should I not?

2005-07-15 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.07.2005 um 07:09 schrieb Mitchell Laks: I noticed that never happened in the old days when I ran redhat/fedora. They did away with this routine fsck (sometime around 6.2 - 7 or 7.2 transition as I recall) when they switched from ext2 to ext3 as I recall. This occurs during

Re: OOo install, architecture mismatch?

2005-07-15 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.07.2005 um 14:54 schrieb Hans du Plooy: dpkg: error processing openofficeorg-base-1.9.117-linux-2.6-intel.deb (--install): package architecture (intel) does not match system (i386) dpkg --force doesn't help. I'm pretty sure they're the right ones for Have you tried

Re: Lüftersteuerun g + Temperaturen auslesen

2005-07-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 13.07.2005 um 11:44 schrieb David Burau: Hi, kann mir jemand ein Tool nennen, das es ermlöglicht die Lüfter unter Debian zu steuern und die Drehzahlen auszulesen? Installiere das Paket lm-sensors und führe als Root sensors-detect aus. Wenn die Chips auf deinem Board unterstützt werden,

Re: RealPlayer 10 for Debian?

2005-07-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 12.07.2005 um 18:29 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear friends: Is there a special Debian package for RealPlayer 10? Since it is a commercial package, I'd imagine that it's not part of Sarge itself. Christian Marillat has packaged RealPlayer 10 for Debian. See

Re: Possible security exploit: debian-unstable

2005-07-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 12.07.2005 um 15:25 schrieb Jose Barroca: 1) since SMARTMONTOOLS smartctl showed a huge value of REALLOCATED_SECTOR_Ct, my disk was about to fail; Make a backup of everything important. And do it now. Then reinstall your system onto a new disk. If a hard disk starts to reallocate

Re: Kernel 2.6.12 borked my udev rules

2005-07-02 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2005 um 18:17 schrieb Deviant User: This allows me to mount a usb thumb drive as /dev/USB_Flash_Disk. Can somebody tell me what's wrong, if any, with the rules, and how I could change it to conform with the new rules for linux 2.6.12? Udev 058 has problems with 2.6.12. I've built

Re: SCSI-Platten und kapaz ität

2005-06-29 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 28.06.2005 um 13:43 schrieb Michelle Konzack: Malzeit Leute, unter /proc/ide/hdX/capacity kann man ja herausfinden, wie groß eine IDE Platte ist, aber WO finde ich entsprechendes für SCSI ? Die 90 Festplatten sind zwar da, aber ich kann die Gesamtkapazität nirgends aus dem procfs

Re: suspend to ram bei pc' s möglich?

2005-06-24 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.06.2005 um 12:59 schrieb Halim Sahin: Ich überlege mir einen VDR pc ins Wohnzimmer zu stellen. Die boot-Zeiten spielen hierbei eine nicht unwichtige Rolle. Jetzt habe ich mir überlegt, ob man nicht suspend to ram einsetzen könnte? Hat Jemand Erfahrungen ob das läuft? Ich habe in

Re: Marvell Gigabit not working (SuSE 9.3 ok)

2005-06-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.06.2005 um 16:52 schrieb Gebhardt Thomas: Any hint what I might have missed? (Yes, I've configured PCI Express support within the kernel) The sk98lin driver in the vanilla kernel does not support all cards, esp. Yukon2 cards. You should try the vendor driver:

Re: e2fsck problem

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.06.2005 um 10:21 schrieb Marco Calviani: I've tried to run e2fsck /dev/hda but here are the results: e2fsck 1.38-WIP (09-May-2005) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... /dev/hda is your complete hard disk. The ext2 file system you want to check is (almost) always in

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 01:38 schrieb j Mak: 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. There is a tool called apt-setup, which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. Of course, you can always edit your sources.list manually

Re: Sarge Upgrade Problem Webmail (Imap)

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 09:06 schrieb VFJ - Damiaan Peeters: When i try to log in i get the error message: ERROR: Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins are disabled. Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead may work. Also, the use of TLS may allow SquirrelMail

Re: Terratec TerraTV+ doesn't work

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.05.2005 um 11:35 schrieb martin schmidt: I`ve attached the dmesg output. The last few lines look very good. It seems like the bttv driver recognizes the bt chip. It does _not_ recognize the tuner, though, because it assumes a wrong card type. But you should already be able to watch TV

Re: vesafb-tng

2005-05-28 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 27.05.2005 um 20:17 schrieb Gutemberg A. Vieira: Anyone is using the vesafb-tng[1] for framebuffer? I am trying to patch the kernel-source-2.6.11 but I can't do it right. Have anyone succeded? I get something like this: # cat ../vesafb-tng-0.9-rc6-2.6.11-rc1.patch | patch -p1 --dry-run

Re: K3b

2005-05-24 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.05.2005 um 09:37 schrieb Michael Satterwhite: I'd love to, but there is no subwindow. The project window is now standalone, and the upper right corner only has the normal windows minimize, maximize and close buttons. I'm trying to get the project window back to being a subwindow.

Re: renice and CGI

2005-05-24 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 24.05.2005 um 03:33 schrieb Willie Gnarlson: Can someone suggest a solution for having an often out of control search.cgi script run at a certain nice setting? The best solution is probably to fix the CGI itself ;-) I've looked into auto nice daemon (and) and I don't think that's the

Re: Is there a way to get 30 GB files through the net ...

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 22.05.2005 um 13:26 schrieb Ibrahim Mubarak: I am in a bit of weird situation. I am running a dual boot system. I need to be able to let someone I know but lives far be able to upload 30 GB or so of data to my PC or download stuff off of it. I also need to be able to get it all to the

Re: K3b

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.05.2005 um 06:53 schrieb Michael Satterwhite: Without thinking, I closed the project portion of the K3b window. Opening it again wasn't a problem, but I can't find any way to redock the project window with the main window. There has got to be a way to put the two windows back

Re: Error message when insmod realtek 8180 WLAN driver

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 23.05.2005 um 13:23 schrieb Mohammad Halawah: Context: I want to install the WLAN driver for realtek 8180 using the driver provided by the manufacturer. Problem: When I insert the module using insmode 8180_26_private.ko I get in the shell the following: insmod: error inserting

Re: /dev/psaux nicht vorhanden

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 18:47 schrieb Christian Weber: udev ist installiert, aber weder /dev/input/mice noch /dev/psaux sind vorhanden [...] ok. und wie leg ich es per MAKEDEV an? Die werden von udev automatisch angelegt. Habe ich versucht: # modprobe psaux FATAL: Module psaux not found. Bei

Re: Howto make a boot floppy for my broken system.

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 12:40 schrieb Alex Polite: My RAID array broke down the other day. Using Knoppix I've managed to reassemble the array but it won't boot any longer. (Maybe due to the fact that I've moved the drives around.) Maybe you can move them back into the original order? Rather than

Re: Bash script problem

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 11:50 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a problem with a bash script. The script (example) is very simple: #!/bin/bash echo hello ssh PT-AGCMLX1 while true; do date; sleep 10s; done [..] How can I change my script so that it kills all its child processes, if it is

Re: network boot cd?

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 12:19 schrieb Matt Johnson: What I'd really like is this... A cd (knoppix like) that boots, configures network, configures x, then (and this is the crux) automatically does an X -query 192.168.0.250 (the ip of my wonderful terminal server). This makes a Have a look at

Re: sar

2005-05-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.05.2005 um 08:12 schrieb stan: Is there no sar in Linux/Debian? apt-get seems to anly offere something called searchaandrescue in it's palce. This doesn't sound right. Does the atsar package provide the functionality, you're looking for? Regards, Dennis -- Send personal mail to

Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

2005-05-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho: So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract all of the email addresses from the web archive. It _is_ very easy and many spammers do that. Your best option probably is to use a second email address for mailing lists only. I

Re: Limiting ssh scans

2005-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2005 06:56 schrieb Bill Wohler: What sort of precautions have folks taken against ssh scanners? [...] A Google search was unfulfilling and not relevant with my Debian system. There has been long thread on this list about this topic a few days ago and you will find

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 12:27 schrieb Wackojacko: How do you change which governor it uses though. I have recently compiled my own kernel with the 'userspace' governor set as default and compiled the ondemand governor into the kernel, but I'm not sure its made any difference. Any help would

Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 21:44 schrieb Alexander Toresson: Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting new ram for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it may need special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do... Such a kernel patch does exist:

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2005 21:17 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i tried modprobe mousedev. That did create the /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice. But neither of them work. It allows me to start X, but the mouse won't move. You need mousedev for the generic mouse support and a second module specific

Re: kernel installation problem

2005-05-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2005 07:43 schrieb jenea: None of them works on my system ;I have mkinitrd v 1.201 , my system's kernel is v 2.4.27-1-386 ; I use debian distro. When I type ( I try to build 2.6.10 kernel ) : mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10.img 2.6.10 it gives me mkinitrd help , saying

Re: usb printer and vmware

2005-05-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 10:32 schrieb David Garamond: Whenever the printer is turned on and USB cable plugged in, the 'printer' kernel module is automatically installed. I had to do an 'rmmod printer' first before VMWare could claim/use the USB device. And if the printer is turned off and

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-08 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 08.07.2004 um 14:11 schrieb LeVA: Oh, but it is, by using screen(1), for example. That is not a solution for the original problem. If you've read that mail, then you should know that it was about a ping timeoutted session, which is irrecoverable... The solution which you are talking

Re: postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2004 um 12:24 schrieb Pau Novella: Now I had found out that I can modify the name and adress using differents options in the MUA, but I would like to have the corrects ones fixed in the postfix configuration. Can anybody help me? Use sender_canonical_maps. Put the mapping

Re: postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2004 um 19:15 schrieb Dennis Stosberg: This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To make mail use your correct real name, make sure to have it set in your /etc/passwd. Each user can change this information

Re: Number of Loop devices

2004-05-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 20.05.2004 um 22:52 schrieb david: I would like to know how to mount more than 8 loop devices (if this is permited by the kernel). You probably have loop loaded into the kernel as a module. The loop module has a parameter to specify the number of available devices. To set this option

Re: in which package ??

2004-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 11.05.2004 um 09:52 schrieb Roelof Wobben: Which command can tell me which package i have to install to make everything good. I know that in Suse the command was pin but apt-get couldn't find it. SuSE has a file named ARCHIVES.gz on their CDs that contains all filenames from all

Re: Make local KDM connect to remote KDM automatically?

2004-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 11.05.2004 um 02:50 schrieb Silvan: I currently have a script out of /etc/init.d that runs X -query [server]. This works fine as far as my users ever notice, but if there's ever any reason to kill X, it doesn't respawn, and I have to intervene manually. Seems to me like there's some

Re: Komodo IDE C library incompatibility

2004-05-11 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 11.05.2004 um 12:23 schrieb Andrew Malcolmson: What Debian package provides this libc version (I don't understand the difference of the version numbering for 'libc' 'libc6)? wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-i386.gz zgrep libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 Contents-i386.gz

Re: OT: Datenkonvertierung

2004-01-31 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 30.01.2004 um 13:18 schrieb Ruediger Noack: Bsp.: Das N' (Hexwert 0x4e) ist als 4E gespeichert. Nun suche ich eine Möglichkeit, wie ich diese Dateien (Tausende) konvertiert bekomme. Ich habe mir schon mit printf, awk, etc. die Finger gebrochen, aber bin noch zu keinem brauchbaren Ansatz

Re: wie entsteht der Kernel bei Erstinstallation?

2003-12-13 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 13.12.2003 um 11:30 schrieb Andreas Janssen: , | processor : 0 | vendor_id : GenuineIntel | cpu family : 6 | model : 5 | model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) | stepping: 1 | cpu MHz : 350.803 | cache size : 512 KB ` Ich glaube,

Re: e2fsck auf verschlsselte Partition anwenden

2003-11-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 21.11.2003 um 12:03 schrieb Heiko Schlittermann: Kannst Du die Partition nicht Read-Only mounten. Dann sollte fsck nichts zu Maulen haben. Um eines klar zu stellen: Zum fscken brauchst du ein Dateisystem NICHT zu mounten. Es ist sogar am einfachsten und sichersten, wenn das zu

Re: kernel-patch-2.4-speedtouch

2003-11-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 17.11.2003 um 17:35 schrieb Michelle Konzack: weis jemand wo ich ein neueres Kernel-Patch als das oben genannte bekomme ? Das ist für 2.4.10 und 2.4.13. Ich benötige eins für 2.4.19 oder höher... Seit 2.4.22 ist der SpeedTouch-Treiber im Kernel: http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/

Re: lilo+ext3 guru needed...

2003-11-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 06.11.2003 um 18:03 schrieb LeVA: So it seems I can not use data=journal with my root partition. I have to edit /etc/fstab , and change /dev/hda7 ...,data=ordered, if I want to start my system. Is this normal? I don't think so... Anybody knows the cure for this problem? Is there a

Re: how to extract attachments from an email?

2003-11-06 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 05.11.2003 um 16:44 schrieb Adam Galant: I need a script to extract all attachments from emails and do an action an each of them (scp to a different machine). How to do this? As they are passing through the MTA, or are they statically sitting somewhere? Yes, messages come

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Fr, den 17.10.2003 schrieb Tom um 13:15: [OT, sorry -- but question is obscure, will be hard to google] Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming languages using non-English syntax? Like, could I find a French C compiler that uses pour instead of for and si

Re: SAMBA geht mit DNS-Anfragen auf den nerv

2003-10-08 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Mi, den 08.10.2003 schrieb Michelle Konzack um 01:36: Wenn ich sambs stoppe, ist wieder alles ruhig. Nach erneutem Starten gehen alle 90 Sekunden DNS-Anfragen raus. Dieses Verhalten hat mich mal eine Menge Geld gekostet, weil mein Dial-On-Demand-Router durch diese Anfragen einige Tage

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-05 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Jürgen A.Erhard wrote: What I'm looking for is a way to tell a mail filtering tool how to automatically sort mails from mailing lists. Just two days ago Sascha Andres has announced on [EMAIL PROTECTED] that he started to host a list of procmail recipes for mailing lists. At the moment there

Re: Alt-Tab und KDE-Konsole

2003-04-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.04.2003 um 12:12 schrieb Hans Gerber: Im mc gibt es die Möglichkeit über alttab die auto-completion Funktion der bash zu nutzen. Das finde ich ein klasse feature : Nur leider geht das nicht, wenn ich in einer KDE-Konsole arbeite, da KDE diesen Shortcut scheinbar abfängt. ESC-Tab

Re: Partitionstabelle wiederherstellen

2003-03-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 03.03.2003 um 20:37 schrieb Andreas Pakulat: ich habe hier ein kleines Problem. Wollte von einer Platte auf ne neue Umziehen und habe dabei die Partitionstabelle der neuen Platte verloren. [..] Was ich aber weiß ist, dass es ein Prog gibt das die Partitionen rät, nur nicht wie es heißt

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