Re: keyboard is stopping

2006-02-04 Thread Jason Majors
A couple of questions: A couple more questions... 1) When the kb locks, can you ssh in from another machine and run programs? 2) If you can, does killing any X apps you have up make them disappear from the dead machine's monitor? 3) Have you tried another keyboard? 4) Have you checked

finding packages w/o packages.debian.org

2006-02-02 Thread Jason Majors
With packages.debian.org down, how can I find out which packages contain certain files? I need to get: libcrypt3.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 libssl.so.2 libXm.so.3 But can't figure out where they are. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: cdrecord error

2003-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:28:38AM +0100, Eduard Bloch scribbled... #include hallo.h * Jason Majors [Mon, Feb 24 2003, 08:12:57PM]: I'm trying to use cdrecord with a new ide cdrw. I went through the ide-scsi howto I found and I now get the following lines in dmesg, and I can mount

cdrecord error

2003-02-24 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to use cdrecord with a new ide cdrw. I went through the ide-scsi howto I found and I now get the following lines in dmesg, and I can mount the drive as /dev/sr0. --dmesg SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: OPTORITE

faster boot sequence

2002-12-10 Thread Jason Majors
I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when it gets power, but it still takes almost 30s after I turn the key to get sound. How can I speed up the boot process? I'm using a fairly minimal

Re: how to rename multiple files

2002-12-10 Thread Jason Majors
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:33:03PM -0800, Osamu Aoki scribbled... On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:02:25PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: drew == drew cohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: drew How do I rename all files in a directory matching the drew pattern *.JPG to *.jpg in a bash

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-10 Thread Jason Majors
Jason Majors wrote: I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when it gets power, but it still takes almost 30s after I turn the key to get sound. How can I speed up the boot process

mounting file systems without fsck

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Majors
I'm setting up a car computer that will be shut down by powering off, and need to keep fsck from running at reboot. I tried doing a remount-ro, but now it spits out lots of errors and doesn't even get to a login prompt. I need to be able to write to the /tmp partition though. How can I do this?

Re: Setting up Sendmail

2002-09-26 Thread Jason Majors
Try exim. It's easier to set up. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:02:54PM -0700, Michael Olds scribbled... Hello, Woody. I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. I installed the program apparently with no problems. I ran: sendmailconfig after the install, also apparently no

cron won't work for users

2002-04-08 Thread Jason Majors
Cron seems to be working funny for me. If I make a change to my ~/bin/crontab then run crontab ~/bin/crontab, the changes are listed under crontab -l but never happen as indicated. If I run /etc/init.d/cron restart, the new cron entries are executed. The same is true of entries in /etc/crontab. I

installing oracle 9i

2002-04-04 Thread Jason Majors
Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box. Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a d drive I got scared), and keeps having problems that he won't share with the rest of us. He talked to

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-04 Thread Jason Majors
Save yourself the pain, set up winders in VMware and run Orrible there. That won't work. We can't link to libraries under vmware. Here's a tip: don't. Tell management about this exciting new technology called Java and JDBC instead. Java and JDBC also won't link to our C++ code. -- To

Re: installing oracle 9i

2002-04-04 Thread Jason Majors
Uh, what? bash is a bourne shell (and then some). ash is probably a more pure bourne shell; it's not clear to me whether it strives more for bourne or POSIX compliance. Who told you debian didn't have a bourne shell? I'd request that they reach between their legs, grasp their neck firmly

Re: PS/2 mouse erratic in X and more

2002-04-03 Thread Jason Majors
MY PROBLEM: I got the PS/2 mouse to work in the XFree86 setup by choosing dev/psaux instead of dev/mouse, and it worked perfectly during THAT setup routine. BUT, when I now boot into X (man was that an accomplishment!) the mouse won't move at all at first and then when I try to move it, it

debian and oracle clients

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
I've convinced my employer to try debian for our main processing boxes, but have run into a few problems. We have Oracle 8i running on a solaris 2.6 box. The Linux boxes we use need to be able to connect to them as a client. We need to be able to run Pro/C and PL/SQL commands from our C++, so we

802.11b

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
I'm thinking of getting an 802.11b network, so I can carry my debian based notebook around the house without running cables everywhere. I'll be getting a PCMCIA network card, and a receiver that I can plug into my existing 10/100 switch. Any suggestions on brand/model? And what does or doesn't

Re: Xfree86 4.2.XXX

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
I've recently gotten a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6000 (a model that came out early last year). It's got a Trident CyberBlade XP Ail graphics adapter. I've been trying to get X support for it, and have come to the following conclusions: * XFree86 (hereafter referred to as

Re: trouble unmounting

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:45:35PM -0100, andrej hocevar scribbled... Hello -- I'm having trouble unmounting a drive. In order to do some administrative work on a newly set up server on a little local network, I had to install some programs from a cd. Since the server doesn't have a cd drive I

Re: What does this mean?

2002-04-02 Thread Jason Majors
This is from /var/log/apache/error.log [Tue Apr 2 07:35:20 2002] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Apr 2 07:35:23 2002] [notice]

ip forwarding under 2.2.17

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
I have a firewall with two network cards running Sid with kernel 2.2.17. I have the following rule: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $IP_REAL 22 -R $MAGNETO 22 And it works fine. IP_REAL is the dhcp granted IP from my ISP, MAGNETO is the ssh server behind the firewall, and MYSTIQUE is the

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
Dear People, I got the following quote for a computer (now quite old). I am thinking of going with this, with the modification that I'll be using the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer instead of the Logitech. | MBABKG7| Abit KG7 | 1 | | CPUAMDXP15

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Jason Majors
No way! Those drives are very much worth the money. How can you compare a 7200 RPM IDE disk to a 10k RPM SCSI disk? IDE is cheap for a reason. It's junk. Don't put junk in such a nice machine! I like the evidence you gave in support of your argument...oh wait...you didn't give any

Re: Duplicating current debian install

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
i want to change my laptop disk from 5 Go to 20 Go But I do not want reinstall my debian. I moved my /var once and had some problems, and here's what I learned: Do not simply tar/copy/etc. a running /var partition and expect it to start properly at the next boot. I forget the

Re: Connection Via FTP

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
Just a very quick question. Is there a feature in Debian Linux that lets you connect to a server via FTP and lets you upload and transfer files? Also would it be a problem if the connection would be via a 56K Modem? Yes, they named it 'ftp' to confuse people though..evidently somebody isn't

Re: New to Debian and Linux

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
I am very new to Linux and Debian. What would be the first move in trying to learn Debian? I recently brought the Learning The Bash Shell? Read the docs at debian.org, install a system (the people on this list can help), and use it. I learned by doing and making mistakes. If you want to buy a

Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
I keep getting the following error when I run apt-get anything on one of my boxes: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e' Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 I've tried removing

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine with the same version, right? Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? If different files, do they match? Trying new package files doesn't change anything. Somewhere in it's caching, dpkg remembers the

Re: ethernet issue

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:54:35AM -0800, Shaun scribbled... I'm used to use Red Hat. All the ethernet drivers and etc were called /dev/eth*. In debian is this the same? All I see is /dev/gre*. does that mean that my NIC isnt being found by the kernel? Before you can set it up you need to

Re: Network card problem

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
My Network Card is a D-Link DFE-550 TX. 8139too? I tried to find the driver and I found it several times. Also from the webpage of D-Link. But they were not comipled . So I compiled them in Linux and than I wanted to add them in the list (I don't know the correct technical words for that

Re: 486 SX (masquerading DSL connection)

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:48:41PM -0500, dman scribbled... On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: ... I too thought that putting the DSL modem on the hub (actually a switch in my case) wasn't the Right Way. | The 486 that connects to the internet also does

kdm and sourcing rc files

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I started using kdm to control my login and have two problems. When I logged in on the console and ran startx, it would source my .bash_profile at login, and my .xinitrc during startx. Now neither is sourced. I copied the contents of .xinitrc to .Xsession, but the two commands in there are not

Re: Partitioning a working NTFS drive

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I want to install on a laptop that has one 7 Gig ntfs partition. I do not want to reinstall win2k or its apps. Can this be done? I've heard that if you defrag the partition immediately before resizing it, you won't lose any data. If you're of a commercial bent, you could get a copy of

apt-get dist-upgrade problems

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to do apt-get dist-upgrade with the following sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free I get the error: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
Who should I report this to? And what information should I provide? I'm also looking to try an other mouse (mayby it's the optical thing thats buggy?) It's not an optical issue. I have the same problem with a PS/2 ball-style mouse. As long as the mouse sends the right signals, how it

usb mouse

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
How do I get a USB mouse to work? I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled: CONFIG_INPUT CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV CONFIG_USB CONFIG_USB_UHCI CONFIG_USB_HID I have an Asus K7VE with the KT133 chipset and a Logitech USB mouse. Thanks, Jason

usb mouse [added some detail]

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:25:06PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled... How do I get a USB mouse to work? I'm running Sid with kernel 2.4.17, and have enabled: CONFIG_INPUT CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV CONFIG_USB CONFIG_USB_UHCI CONFIG_USB_HID I have an Asus K7VE with the KT133 chipset

Re: Gnome problem

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
Ever since my last update adn upgrade gnome has been acting really wierd. For one, I no longer have any icons on my desktop and when I right click on it, nothing happens. I have also noticed that my system as a whole is more and more sluggish. Programs have also been crashing at random

Re: shutdown/halt as user

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
How can I let a normal user use the halt or shutdown command? I need this for the remote control of my TV box. I tried changing permissions, but that didn't help. --Hans I just did chmod a+s /sbin/shutdown But you have to rerun it whenever you update that package.

Re: Messenger

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in to hotmail.com as well? If by hotmail.com, you mean the web-based email service, try Konqueror (I noticed you're using KMail, so I guess

Re: mouse freezing

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
Is there any obvious solution (like I picked the wrong mouse driver?) or does amybody know what the command/ioctl to reset the PS/2 bus is so that I don't have to restart X? There's a similar thread (with the same subject I think) running right now. Both the poster of that message and I

Re: usb mouse

2002-02-13 Thread Jason Majors
Goto /dev Then run MAKEDEV input Ahh...I tried mkdir /dev/input; cd /dev/input; MAKEDEV mouse0. You can check to see if the mouse is working by typing the following: proc /dev/input/mice wiggle the mouse about, if you see characters on the screen the mouse is probably working. Yup. I

Re: Device or resource busy error.

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the Device is not ready or in use. I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Kernel 2.2.17

Re: 8139too on 2.2.19 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
my mom is (still) having trouble with a d-link 8139 dfe+ pci nic. i've used them on 3 pc's, with both potato and woody, and both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels. she was running a vanila potato install, with the 2.2.19pre1 kernel. rtl8139 (using modconf) failed to insert. she tried everything...

Re: Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE Controller card Support

2002-02-05 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:40:15AM +1000, Maurice Helwig scribbled... I am new to linux and I have decided to use Debian. My problem is that I am using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE controller card. Promise do not seem to provide a driver for it although I was told that they do when I bought the

serial mouse

2002-02-04 Thread Jason Majors
I've installed Debian on a friend's ancient machine that has a serial mouse connection. X fails to load because it can't find the mouse. If the serial mouse is connected to the first serial port, what device do I need to link to /dev/mouse? Thanks, Jason

Re: e100 keeps up and down

2002-02-04 Thread Jason Majors
Hello list, My dmesg is filled with the messages: e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex e100: eth0 NIC Link is Down e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex e100: eth0

konqueror browser emulation

2002-02-01 Thread Jason Majors
I vaguely remember being able to send a customized identification string in Konqueror, but I can't find it now. Is that still possible? I'm using 2.2 from Sid. Thanks, Jason

Re: C Integrated Development Environment

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:35:38AM -0500, Scott Henson scribbled... Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. Thankyou. I've heard a lot of people like KIDE for KDE. Personally I prefer gvim and a

Re: LAN setup

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
I've got my LAN set up and running, and so far so good. I'm using a gateway/router/firewall (hadrian) to stop unwanted traffic and allow internet access and LAN access to everybody else. Then I have gashuffer, my main workstation, and a Win box that my girlfriend uses, and an occasional

Re: plz help me i am new to linux

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
I am new tolinux i have a problem. debian linux. i am using gcc(for c++ i m using g++) to compail my c++ program . i try it but it will not work. i write my program in c++ using vi and save it in a file new1.cc then login as root and run this comand root:/g++ -o new1 new1.cc it run and

Re: mac alternative to wine?

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
I installed wine on my potato box and have really enjoyed it! I'm interested to know if there is a similar package for apple programs? I've heard of them for powerPC linux distros, but not for x86. The slowness you'd experience from having to emulate the powerPC architecture would be

Re: plz help me i am new to linux

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
I for one wouldn't do it for myself as a normal user either. Typing the extra ./ is not much extra effort for the safety it provides. I do the same, I was just suggesting an option. If a file isn't in one of the system (s)bin dirs, $HOME/bin, or $HOME/perl, then it has no business running on my

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:33:30PM -0500, Kelly Kwasniuk scribbled... some html crap... If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web page. :)

Re: help

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Majors
If you'd like assistance with your problem send an email, not a web page. :) __ I'm pretty sure that was a disguised commercial Bruce+ Now that you mention it, it looks like the kind of email address that gets sent to my junk_mail file 50+ times

Re: AMD's PowerNow?

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
So, any comments on how ACPI helps? Can it exploit PowerNow or is it something else that makes it run cooler? The main trouble with ACPI on Linux appears to be that Linux's support for it is still in fairly early stages and may or may not be stable (ACPI is a pretty complex way of

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor dissapears when that happens) and then returns to normal. It's obviously not happy. :o) I've had similar problems on a TNT2, GeForce2 MX, and GeForce3

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor dissapears when that happens) and then returns to normal. It's obviously not happy. :o) I've had similar problems on a TNT2, GeForce2 MX, and GeForce3

kdm won't start

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Majors
I run /etc/init.d/kdm start as root and it says 'done', but kdm doesn't run. I can run gdm and kde just fine. I enabled verbose logging for kdm and got the following in syslog, but it doesn't tell me much. All config files for kdm are the .deb defaults and all kde packages are from Sid as of 07:00

dhcp and default gateway

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Majors
I have my network set up to use dhcp. The clients can connect, ping, ssh, etc. to the server, but they can't connect beyond my gateway. The only part of my static network setup that isn't present in my dynamic setup is the default gateway. How can the dhcp server tell the client which default

Re: dhcp and default gateway

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Majors
I have my network set up to use dhcp. The clients can connect, ping, ssh, etc. to the server, but they can't connect beyond my gateway. The only part of my static network setup that isn't present in my dynamic setup is the default gateway. How can the dhcp server tell the client

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like to hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in comparison to ALL of the other Linux distributions out there! For me , the Apt package managing tool solely is like 50% of the reasons i like Debian for! ;) Apt

Re: exim error? FIXED by embarassed idiot.

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:02:12PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck scribbled... Actually they are. here's the ls: -rw-r-1 mail0 Jan 24 01:08 mainlog -rw-r-1 mail 377962 Dec 21 06:23 mainlog.0 -rw-r-1 mail 100 Jan 23 19:29 paniclog And the

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
Almost any (choose your expletive here) can install a Microsoft product and almost any (same expletive here) can install Red Hat. Think people, don't just follow a fad. Honestly, I think the debian install is just as easy as RedHat and easier than win98. When I install windoze, it tells me

Re: Mouse stops in xfree86 4.1.0

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
I have a serious problem that I think is with xfree86 4.1.0. I boot into x-windows, KDE or gnome and can only use the mouse for about 1 minute before it stops. The mouse locks up as I move across window or applet boundaries. Some of the time I can hit the enter key or alt-tab and the mouse

Re: CD-ROM issue

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I was having trouble finding out what parameters to pass to the kernel during an install to allow the cd-rom to work. I have been through the mailing lists, debian documentation, and linuxdoc.org, and found nothing. SCSI vs. IDE? Cable

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
| Hmmm... I must have missed the easy way to set up my sound card in | Debian. Depends on the chip. In my machines I've go a aureal vortex 2 (I had to compile a driver from sourceforge), an sb16 (picked the module at install), an es1371 (picked the module at install), an sbLive (had to recompile

Re: ppp connection doesn't work

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
Just switched from SuSE to Debian potato. Can't get my ppp connection to work. I'm pretty sure I configured wvdial correctly. It dials, logs in, then it says PPP negotiation detected, Starting ppp at date time. Nothing more. None of my browsers work. Can't open any internet site. When I try

Re: hdparm settings, do they persist after reboots? hd performance

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes and whether the program has to run at boottime to have the setting take effect? does it belong in an rc script? Settings like dma do not persist between reboots. You need to either compile it into your kernel or add it to a startup script.

Re: Help with cron, please

2002-01-25 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to clean out my potato. I recently removed network news, inn2, because I installed it by mistake, thinking it was something else than it is. I removed it by using dselect and marking it for removal. It is now gone, but cron continues to try to run rnews -U every hour, and

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we can download and install a version of X that will work. I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to connect. I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:31:29PM -0800, Alan Su scribbled... as long as you have the kernel option to power off on shutdown selected, it should do the right thing. if the screen is black, it sounds like it has. is the fan still spinning? is the disk still spinning? are you sure the green

Re: exim error?

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
What does it say in /var/log/exim/* ? Not a thing recently. You want help and that's your response? Heh. Post some of the logs pertaining to the specific message so we can sort through them and look for a problem. Although it is possible, I doubt your logs are completely empty...

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
Yes, you have to log on to Earthlink with your full e-mail address and password, but my Internet Explorer does this automatically. And IE is *all* I use. I only signed up with EL *because* I wouldn't have to use their software. The next step, of course, is to get rid of IE. I'm

dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to setup dhcpd on one machine and setup my notebook as a dhcp client. I have this as my /etc/dhcpd.conf and have started dhcpd, but the notebook won't connect on dhcp. Any ideas? Thanks, Jason #dhcpd.conf # option definitions common to all supported networks... option domain-name

Re: ...and then add a nic

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
I have another question about installations. If you install Debian with a network card, a number of files/settings are presumably createds. Yup. If you install it with out a nic, I assume that these network specific files and settings are not created. If a nic is subsequently added, then

Re: dhcpd

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
/sbin/dhcp eth1 eth2 hth, I only have one nic in this box, so it's either that or lo. But I'll try that when I get home tonight. Mike Quoting Jason Majors [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to setup dhcpd on one machine and setup my notebook as a dhcp client. I have this as my /etc/dhcpd.conf

Re: power down

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
Did you try to make APCI-modules and install apcid ? The modules you'll need for power down are system and maybe button. In my case that showed good (i.e. the expected) results, while the ACPI-bus module totally spoiled performance. Using APCI in 2.4.17 worked for the powerdown, however,

Re: Earthlink Dialup

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
before you reinstall, run dmesg. it will give you a lot of information about the system that might make the reinstall less tedious. I'll assume that dmesg is on the Debian CDs and thank you much. This is quite an adventure. Will I have

Re: Problem using ps2 mouse in X

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
I am having trouble using my Micro$oft PS/2 wheel mouse under X. When I run startx (as either a regular user or root), the desktop appears normal, but moving the mouse causes random buttons to be pressed, and the pointer moves in random directions. I had this. I removed gpm (apt-get

Re: Color control in Mutt Gnome terminal

2002-01-24 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:48:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon scribbled... I am starting to learn to use real Debian email. I have mutt, fetchmail, and exim working. But I am having trouble reading my email because I have diffi- culty reading deep blue characters on a black background or other

ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we can download and install a version of X that will work. I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to connect. I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address for the ppp

Re: New woody machine, can't ssh to it.

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
look this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -1 localhost Permission denied. but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] # ssh -2 localhost Password: I'm using OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 from woody. In Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:10:38 -0500 Acheron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, is the ssh daemon actually running

Re: ppp connection

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I am trying to get a friend's Potato R3 install to connect to his ISP so we can download and install a version of X that will work. I ran pppconfig and entered the information correctly, but pppon fails to connect. I set up wvdial and ran it. It will connect and even get an IP address

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I've been trying to set up a small home LAN (just two boxes) with the addition of a SmoothWall firewall. I think I've enough gen to make a fair go at it, but I just can't get 2.2.19 kernels to enable support for RealTek RTL-8139 Fast Ethernet Adapters, and can't understand why. You have to

Re: newbie question

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
hi all. im just a newbie, both to unix and linux. i installed gdm, and now, when debian boots, it boots in graphical mode. how do i set it so i can make it boot on text mode? i want to start x windows via startx, not whenever i boot. I did it by doing 'apt-get remove gdm' as root.

exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local or remote, using mutt I get this message: Error sending message, child exited 1 (). When I use mail on the command line, I get no error, but the mail is never delivered. It worked fine until a few days ago. I haven't done

Re: from casette tape to computer?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and convert it to an audio file on my computer. Thanks. If you have a line in on your sound card, you can use it.

Re: exim error?

2002-01-23 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:38:19PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker scribbled... On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 18:59, Jason Majors wrote: I'm using mutt 1.3.27i and exim 3.34-1. When I try to send any mail, local or remote, using mutt I get this message: Error sending message, child exited 1 (). When I

X sessions die when using KDM

2001-10-19 Thread Jason Majors
When I use KDM to start X, after logging in it goes right back to the kdm login screen. I can login from the console and run X with startx without a problem though. Here are the lines from applicable logs: auth.log Oct 19 12:12:21 scd714 PAM_unix[692]: (kde) session opened for user jmajors by

strange error files

2001-10-17 Thread Jason Majors
I get strange empty error files in my root directory. I have no idea what causes them. Here's a listing: -rw---1 root0 Oct 12 21:49 errs3IY3FQ -rw---1 root0 Oct 15 20:56 errs83W4Qt -rw---1 root0 Oct 16 22:48 errs8oJuts -rw---1

using pipe in .forward with Exim

2001-09-20 Thread Jason Majors
I use exim for my mailserver and its .forward file to do my delivery. I have this at the end of my .forward file: # The rule to go to the inbox.

using mailman and exim

2001-08-31 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to setup a simple mailing list using exim and mailman. Every minute when the cron runs I get this: Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(16682): Traceback (innermost last): Aug 31 15:21:03 2001 qrunner(16682): File /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner, line 275, in ? Aug 31 15:21:03 2001

Re: procmail conditions

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:03:48PM -0700, Craig Dickson scribbled... Jason Majors wrote: Is there a way to OR procmail conditions? Yes, like this: * ^(To|Cc|X-Apparently-To|From):.*@(foo|bar)\.com $MAILDIR/foo/ This is ORing the contents of a condition. Trying to put the 20+ /dev

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: Right. I'm running all woody (unstable) at home and on a couple test boxes at my office. Problem is management is looking for some studies and the like I can point them to showing a comparison. Things like which distro

Re: ipchains home user

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
The minimum is none. :) I don't know if you really need firewalling...do you have a network on the other side of that machine? What you probably want is just to close down ports you don't use. Use nmap to see what ports are active and close those you don't want or need. That should give you pretty

Re: dual boot problem

2001-08-30 Thread Jason Majors
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:56:39PM +, Giri X wrote: Hi I recently installed Debian on a ayatem that had Win2k on it b4. I made 2 partiotions using GNU Parted and put Debian on the second. But after the installation of Debian, I am not able to boot into Win2k. I checked /etc/lilo.conf.

ipmasqadm portfw and apache

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
I'd like to forward all requests on port 80 thru my firewall, however, I use VirtualHosts under apache. Is there a way to forward the port with the desired host name? Or can I do it based on the hostname desired? (eg forward a request to www.foo.com to port 81 and a request to www.bar.com to 82).

Re: ipmasqadm portfw and apache

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Tim Moss scribbled... Jason Majors wrote: I'd like to forward all requests on port 80 thru my firewall, however, I use VirtualHosts under apache. Is there a way to forward the port with the desired host name? Or can I do it based on the hostname

Re: ipmasqadm portfw and apache

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
Jason Majors wrote: I'd like to forward all requests on port 80 thru my firewall, however, I use VirtualHosts under apache. Is there a way to forward the port with the desired host name? Or can I do it based on the hostname desired? (eg forward a request to www.foo.com to port 81 and a request

Re: ipmasqadm portfw and apache

2001-08-29 Thread Jason Majors
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:39:21PM -0700, Jason Majors scribbled... Does anybody have experience with multiple VirtualHost entries? Or know the correct format? I'm doing: NameVirtualHost domainone NameVirtualHost domaintwo NameVirtualHost domainthree VirtualHost domainone

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