On 12/02/2012 21:34, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
With the ssh/x-forwarding, I seems to have lost the ability to sent my
local xdisplay to remote machine. How can I do it?
I gave up with this when I discovered I could usually achieve the same
thing using
ssh -X hostname
and then running the app o
On 05/02/2012 02:43, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:11:16 +0800, lina wrote:
How could set the taskbar back,
for everything. I used to have the taskbar at the top.
Do you *ever* manage to do *anything* without a major disaster?
If you think losing the task bar is a 'major disast
On 04/02/2012 14:18, lina wrote:
I un-install and re-install the xfce4 not work.
which are the possible way I can do to drag task bar a bit down.
If you mean, drag the toolbar from the top of the screen to the bottom
of the screen, I don't think it's possible. Or if it is possible, it's
not
On 31/01/2012 23:01, Gustavo J Mata wrote:
I'm installing stable. I got the following the command line interface
to network manager. Is it useful?
Not to me, sorry!
I notice someone else has mentioned encryption. On one install I did I
had to reconfigure my router to WEP until the install was
On 31/01/2012 22:36, Gustavo J Mata wrote:
On 1/31/12, cletusjenkins wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:11:23 -0800 Gustavo J Mata wrote
This is the info for the card:
Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2]
Network Connection (rev 05)
I installed the ipw
ChadDavis wrote:
Thanks man. I was trying to find "kernel-source", to no avail.
That one has caught me out too. Somewhere along the way it changed from
kernel-source-tumptytum to linux-source-tumptytum.
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Mike McCarty wrote:
Dougie Nisbet wrote:
[snip]
But a hunch is a hunch, and I'm entitled to explore it. It costs me 20
seconds to rerun lilo and boot of a different kernel. With the box
Of course, you can do anything you want with your own machine.
It may cost you more than 20 secon
Mike McCarty wrote:
Dougie Nisbet wrote:
Um, if the current release is the problem, then it will never run stably
I thought you said it has been running without a change for some time.
I quote your exact words:
A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to
reboot. To
Mike McCarty wrote:
IMO, putting a different release on this machine is NOT recommended,
and should be deferred until it is running stably again. I prefer
trying to fix one problem at a time. If you install new software
and it acts up, then is it the new software? Is it the old hardware
getting
As I've mentioned elsewhere I have a bouncing box and it's annoying. If
it halted instead of rebooting that might help me see something useful
on the screen. Is there a way of forcing the box to *not* reboot? Is
there a way of modifying the system so it halts on a crash rather than
reboots?
T
George Borisov wrote:
Dougie Nisbet wrote:
I'm not sure how to go about tracking this down. My searching of the
archives shows that these symptoms could describe a faulty physical
component, such as memory or PSU.
That would be my suggestion as well.
You should check that all of the fa
David Jardine wrote:
"Tucked away in the loft", you say. Is dust building up somewhere
along your power supply line? In a multiple-socket extension,
perhaps. A long shot, but I once had this problem. I think the
dust caused momentary short circuits, not long enough to blow a fuse
but lon
A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to
reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a
dual-processor PIII. It runs stable.
It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no monitor attached so
tracking this down is difficult. However even if I brou
Rishi wrote:
Instead of that just re-mount / in another folder ... i.e.
mkdir /mnt/slash
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/slash
du -chs /mnt/slash/*
Neat. I didn't know you could do that. Certainly beats bouncing into
single user!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have recently noticed that the hda partition is full. The problem is that I
can't see where the space has gone. From the du listings, I can account for
maybe 70MB on hda, but nowhere near 250MB.
I would be grateful for any help or suggestions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/#
LeVA wrote:
I had a similar problem with xmms. I'm using the crossfade plugin and
after a few xmms upgrades it started to hang occasionally. I had to
recompile the crossfade plugin with the xmms-dev package and now it
works fine.
HTH,
Daniel
Thanks for the tip. I've just checked and I do
I've noticed a problem after doing a dist-upgrade to testing. xmms now
hangs occasionally. It's rather difficult to pin down but it appears to
be when there is a song change. What happens is that when moving to the
next song, the xmms display freezes, but the song plays until the end,
at which
I upgraded to sid running KDE 3 last weekend. Now I find I can't display X
apps from other hosts onto my PC. I've had a google around and tried a few
things that I found in my searches but the problem persists.
I've tried:
--
Running 'xhost +'
--
Using ssh -X
--
Using the x app on the command
I've just discovered I can get this list as a newsgroup. I tried this about a
year ago when I first started using Debian, but it didn't work, so since then
I've been getting it as a mailing list.
Has it always been like this, or is this a recent thing. I'm not beginning to
wonder whether my IS
On Saturday 01 June 2002 6:19 am, Paul E Condon wrote:
> What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before
> each line feed (new line) character in a text file?
Have you looked at 'flip' (man flip). I've found this very useful for
modifying text files so that I can read them
>
> Great. This will be simple.
>
It's looking good. Thanks for the tips. If this message works, then it's
looking very promising.
Dougie
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Setup:
Home LAN connected via ISDN router
kmail
exim
When I send e-mail, I can tell kmail to send the mail locally to sendmail,
which will queue it up and send it to my ISP. Or I can tell kmail to send it
directly to my ISP.
The problem is I often want to connect via a d
On Friday 03 May 2002 3:41 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> What does it get changed to? Are you using ppp? If so did you configure
> ppp with pppconfig? If so, what did you select in "Configure Nameservers"?
yes I have ppp installed, but I make my ISP connections via the LAN and a
router. I might un
On Friday 03 May 2002 10:48 pm, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> HmmI'm guessing your dhcp server is sending out 192.168.1.1 as
> your nameserver. Since you did not specify how your dhcp server is set
> up, I'm actually getting to where I'm feely pretty sure ;-)
>
I don't use dhcp, and I've just check
On Friday 03 May 2002 2:54 pm, ben wrote:
> sounds mighty strange. can you post the original and the modification? i've
I have a small DNS setup on my home LAN. tbird2 is the main server
(192.168.1.2) and is the DNS server. vaiow is my laptop, and it's the machine
that keeps getting its /etc/re
Every so often, presumably after an apt-get upgrade dist-upgrade, my
/etc/resolv.conf file gets modified, and my DNS stops working. I then
manually edit the file back to how I want, and say to myself, I Really Must
Find Out What Causes That - then forget about it.
Is there a way I can stop this
On Thursday 02 May 2002 9:51 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Long time no hear!
>
I've been too busy in the garden :-)
> >
> > Notice the extra line: 'Creating SSH1 key'
>
> !? Perhaps you didn't purge everything? As far as I can see from
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssh.postinst this should be dependent o
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 11:47 pm, David Z Maze wrote:
> Run ssh-keygen(1) to generate a public/private keypair. These should
> wind up in $HOME/.ssh, as identity and identity.pub. Use scp to copy
> the identity.pub file to the target machine, and cat it on to the end
> of $HOME/.ssh/authorized_
This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, it's a
right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, and remsh to my
server, without specifying a username or password. Can I do this with ssh,
and if not, how do I install old rsh/rlogin on my woody system?
Doug
I did
apt-get install cthumb
which removed ucbmpeg, which removed mpeg_encode, which is a pain. I've tried
reinstalling ucbmpeg but it says:
Package ucbmpeg has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
neve
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 9:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:16:59AM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-24 09:59]:
> > >- Move to the next unread thread
> > >- Mark the
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 9:16 am, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-04-24 09:59]:
> >- Move to the next unread thread
> >- Mark the current thread as read
> >is there another mail client that would allow me to?
>
> The
Is it possible to either:
- Move to the next unread thread
- Mark the current thread as read
- Ignore the current thread
When I'm reading a high volume mailing list like this one, I'd like to skip
threads that are of no interest to me, but I don't think I can do that in
kmail. Can I? And if not
My wife has been happily using her Windows 98 PC to print via my Woody box
for ages. However, today a print job went wrong, and when she went into
Printers, and tried to cancel the job, it told her that she did not have
permissions to do the task.
The print job appeared as being owned by 'nobod
I can print from mozilla, but not from Opera. A look on the Opera website
finds the following:
--x--
Printing in Opera for Linux
Supported Features and Specs
Linux
Article: 605, Date: 2001-09-04
print, printing
Opera for Linux uses Qt to handle the printing. Qt looks in /etc/printcap for
availab
On Monday 25 February 2002 7:00 pm, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:20:13AM -0800, nate wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Is there a package I need to install to have backwards
> > > compatibility so I can install and run VMware? It's pretty
> > > important for me to be able to use VMware.
greater than XXX
>
> Filter Actions
> move to folder trash
>
> Simon Hepburn
>
> On Saturday 23 Feb 2002 5:25 pm, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> > Is it possible to do this automatically? I've been using kmail for a
> > while, but now a lot of my folders are getting a bit
Is it possible to do this automatically? I've been using kmail for a while,
but now a lot of my folders are getting a bit big and unmanagable. Can I
configure kmail (woody) to delete all messages older than a certain number of
days, or do I need to find an alternative way to do housekeeping? Wha
On Monday 18 February 2002 5:47 pm, Scott Henson wrote:
> I need to move large amounts of data from one disk to another and then
> tar it up for back up purposes. I have tried cp and mv, but both take
> very large amounts of time with many ide resets and faults.
I don't know why your having the r
Further to this, I've been having a look back through the archives, and I've
decided to bring my kernel to a newer version and check again. I'm running
woody on 2.4.14SMP at the moment, so I'll bring it up to 2.4.17.
The strange thing is that I've never had any problems before. I've seen a few
I deleted and recreated two partitions on /dev/hda. Things went ok for one of
them, but now I find I can't do anything with cfdisk at all. Whenever I try
and write the disk partition table, I get the error:
Writing partition table to disk...File size limit exceeded
The disk is a 40GB I
On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:01 am, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:12:22AM +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
> > I used to run Mandrake and had it set up to autologin.
>
> Why not continue with that? I'm running unstable here and
> /etc/kde2/kdm/kdmrc is the fi
Is there any way I can use ethereal to just monitor traffic? It always wants
to write to a file, (/tmp/eth). I've not tried telling it to use
/dev/null yet. I'll see what that does.
Dougie
I've just discovered this by accident. If I nfs mount another linux PC
running woody, and that PC has a native windows 98 file system mounted under
/98, then it is automatically seen and browseable as the nfs mounted file
system. This surprised me. It isn't the case for the other linux filesyste
I used to run Mandrake and had it set up to autologin. I'd like to have my PC
run xmms automatically on boot, but can't see how to do this unless I log in
(kdm) and run xhost +. Is there any way I can set up kdm to allow X apps to
sent the login screen?
Dougie
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 2:59 am, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> make[4]: *** [3c575_cb.o] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients'
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs'
> make[2]: *** [build-modules] Error 2
> make[
On Thursday 24 January 2002 3:07 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Jason Majors wrote:
> > If you have a line in on your sound card, you can use it.
>
> Well, yes, I do have a line in and I do know how to use it, but I don't
> know how to bring the audio into a file on my computer.
I
On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:51 pm, Ken Weingold wrote:
> > Most people probably run it using a control file. How about if you post
> > the
> > command line you're using here?
>
> fetchmail -a -p POP3 -k -u username server
>
> with of course the username and server replaced with the real ones.
On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:04 am, Ken Weingold wrote:
> Thanks, Bob. What I really need to know right now is where the mail
> went, since it showed it getting every single one of them.
I could be wrong, but I think fetchmail can have a config file that
over-rides parameters on the command l
Whenever I post to this list, I get some sort of autoresponse from
[EMAIL PROTECTED], containing my posting as an attachment. Is it just me?
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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 20:20:50 +0900 (KST)
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Attachment: 0
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On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:21 am, Ken Weingold wrote:
>
> I don't have one. From what I understood, if I specify everything I
> need on the command line, I don't need one.
Most people probably run it using a control file. How about if you post the
command line you're using here?
Dougie
At the moment I run fetchmail with
OPTIONS="--daemon 3600 --syslog"
in /etc/default/fetchmailrc. This works fine but I don't really need it
checking mail overnight, making unecessary calls to my ISP. Is there a way
that I could configure it to be a bit more specific about the times it
On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:35 am, Jeff wrote:
> - configure the kernel as needed and make sure PCMCIA is not
> selected
> - run make-kpkg clean and then make-kpkg kernel_image
> - install the deb and make sure the kernel runs as expected...you
> won't have network yet
I usually try and ma
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 4:03 pm, Sven Hoexter wrote:
>
> You have to Escape the dots (.) with a backslash (\)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I'll give that a try but I'm not sure that's the problem. It had seemed to be
working fine,
but now the mails are getting through. I had a look at the log, a
I don't know what I've done here. I was working fine, and decided to change a
kernel parameter. I did my make xconfig, make-kpkg clean ; make-kpkg
--revision and all ok.
Then I tried the modules. I've already got pcmcia-cs and pcmcia-source
installed. I've been into /usr/src/modules and ru
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 11:00 pm, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Are you _sure_ you answer 'y' here?
>
Isn't that the strangest thing. I've made reiser filesystems many times and
never had any problems. I wonder why I didn't notice it. You are absolutely
right - I was typing 'yes' instead of 'y'.
I've recently started using mailfilter (called as a precommand from
fetchmail) and it works really well. (I have had a couple of mail addresses
faked by spammers, so I've had tens of thousands of mail bounces over the
last month.)
If a mail slips through, I add another rule to cope. However, I
I've set up a few reiser filesystems now and not had any problems. However, I
have one drive that is producing the following error message:
mkreiserfs: Disk was not formatted
The disk was previously a windows 98 disk. 25MB. IBM. I've run cfdisk and
reinitialized the disk and this hasn't
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 4:18 pm, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> what about
> $ dpkg --listfiles etherwake
>
Very nifty. That finds the cheeky chappie in /usr/sbin/ether-wake
Dougie
Has anyone else tried this? I thought I'd give it a go (woody) and did
apt-get install etherwake without any problems. But I can't find any
executable program. Did updatedb followed by locate etherwake and I get:
/usr/doc/etherwake
/usr/share/doc/etherwake
/usr/share/doc/etherwake/changelog.Deb
I've just tracked this one down. logrotate is being run indirectly by
/etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd, which contains the line:
for LOG in `syslogd-listfiles --weekly`
I keep tracks of my local changes in a file in /usr/local/logs/changes.log,
which is written to my a script of mine, which i
On Tuesday 15 January 2002 12:33 pm, François Chenais wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Remove the '-nolisten tcp' in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc file and
> restart X.
>
>
> François
>
I'm not sure that will work in Rachel's configuration. I had exactly the same
problem and found th
On Monday 14 January 2002 11:40 am, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can I somehow configure things so that mailfilter is run just before
> > fetchmail?
>
> man fetchmail
> postconnect / preconnect
Excellent - thanks for the poin
I have fetchmail running with --daemon 3600, and I've also just set up a
mailfilter which works well. What I'd like to do is run mailfilter, then run
fetchmail. As far as I can tell, the daemon check interval for fetchmail
starts from when fetchmail is started. Is it possible to get fetchmail to
Has anyone had any success using this to upload files to an ISP? I've
experimented a great deal, but the problem is not connecting or authorising,
but trying to get it to NOT try and cd to /, or /pub. It seems to always want
to do a cd to root.
Dougie
I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the
partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What have I
done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system.
Dougie
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l .dev.hdc1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk
I tried LVM today, but didn't get very far. I've used fdisk to set the
partition type, and tried to pvcreate it. But I get an i/o error. What have I
done wrong? This is on an up to date woody system.
Dougie
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l .dev.hdc1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Di
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 1:13 pm, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> * Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020109 14:06]:
> > I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I
> > logged out and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login
> >
I did 'usermod -u 501' dougie to change my UID from 1000. When I logged out
and in again, I'm no longer a picture on the kdm login screen. root is there,
and all the other users, but I'm missing. I can't figure out where kde stores
this list. I can still log in no problem, but I'm a bit puzzled
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:23 pm, Craig Dickson wrote:
> samba requires logrotate
> logrotate requires mailx
> mailx requires mail-transport-agent
> exim provides mail-transport-agent
>
> That's why.
>
> postfix also provides mail-transport-agent, and postfix conflicts with
> exim. So if you in
I've installed potato a few times on this particular PC, and for various
reasons, I wanted to do a clean re-install. I repartitioned and off we went.
Everything went smoothly and I soon had a working system.
I wanted to access reiser filesystems (version 2) created by another linux
distro, so
On another ISP I've got a full mailbox (around 120MB and 15000 messages I
think) because a spammer has faked a legitimate e-mail address of mine and
used it. This means that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (which I had
no idea was legitimate) has received many thousands of mail bounces.
Is there a packag
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 5:26 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Mark Lanett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.1749 +0100]:
> > You need to remove exim and install postfix in one command, e.g.
> > apt-get install postfix exim-
>
> apt-get install postfix will already remove exim...
But will
I was looking at postfix and decided to give it a go. But when I apt-get
install postfix, it wants to remove exim. So I aborted and did apt-get remove
exim to see what its dependancies were, and it would remove mutt, samba and
leafnode amongst others. So for the time being I'll give postfix a m
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nate) wrote:
>
> install the .tar.gz edition of powerchute. i run it on
> several debian potato machines currently with no problems ..
>
> its available from the APC website ..
>
> nate
>
I tried that with the Redhat source, but I got an er
I managed to get this running under Mandrake by using the Redhat rpm, but
under potato I get the following error:
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: PowerChutePlus-4.5.3-1_RedHat.i386.rpm cannot be installed
I'm used to Powerchute and quite like it.
I've installed kde under woody on three PCs, and it generally seems fine.
However on one PC, I get an error whenever I try to configure the desktop
(Right Click on desktop and select Configure Desktop)
I get a pop up Error window with the message:
There was an error loading the module.
I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to
learn about it some day.
I'm getting some puzzling internet connections that appear to be initiated by
exim, but I can't see where it's doing it.
The syslog shows:
>Dec 11 10:23:01 tbird2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[29960]: (mail) C
Whenever I start mozilla I get the local page:
file:///usr/share/doc/mozilla/localstart.html
which is subtitled:
"This is a local page to avoid using the network on disconnected machines."
That's fine by me. I don't want to make an internet connection unless I've
requested it.
However, out
On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:30, Paolo Falcone wrote:
> /usr/src/modules.
>
> The modules are downloaded already in /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17
> (as the installer placed them during the installation process)
> Use modconf to install them.
Yes they are, but when I rebuild the kernel, I've been d
On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:48, nate wrote:
> on my ibm thinkpads(iSeries and T20) i use the standard
> debian kernel, then build my own from sources. i also
> install pcmcia from source, and alsa from source. then
> i usually install the alsa utils and pcmcia utils from
> packages and overwri
The installation goes ok, and I install the kernel-package so I can rebuild the
kernel.
A couple of questions first, that I know have cropped up in the past on the
list,
but I've never fully understood the setup.
Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17.
What is the difference between
I have an Supemicro 370DDE machine with 4 40GB hardrives.
The Chipset on the mobo is the Apollo Pro 266.
I have applied the Reiser patch to the 2.2.19pre17 kernel.
The options have appeared for Reiser in make xconfig, and they're selected.
The kernel has re-compiled fine.
I also have Mandrake
I've searched the mailing list and see that this has come up before, but I
haven't quite found the answer I'm looking for. I'm new to debian, so
still getting to grips with apt and dselect.
What I'd like to do is build a stable machine so potato is fine. However,
the only non-stable thing I nee
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