Re: shared Debian hosting

2005-10-10 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> David Christensen wrote: >> Debian user list: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>You may want to check out http://www.Activewebhosting.com as they do >>>very good debian based web hosting. I use them for all my sites/ >>>projects and I have not yet had any problems, plus the customer >>>service

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-19 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> Hey guys, > > I'm considering installing the 'udev' package as part of my Sarge 2.6 > installation. My motivation is that I'm often baffled when trying to > figure out which USB device is associated with USB devices I plug in. > > Is there a general concensus about whether udev makes life better

Debian & Contivity VPN

2004-10-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
We use a Contivity VPN switch where I work. There is a linux client from Apani that works just fine with kernel >= 2.4.21. And they have a beta that works with 2.6.8, but ONLY on RH/Fedora/Suse. When used with Debian, it just causes kernel panics. And the soultion is "Don't use Debian". So...

Re: OT: Gmail invitations

2004-08-27 Thread Jeremy Brooks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Friday 27 August 2004 10:06 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> Gmail invitations are kind of coveted right now, and >>I think Jeff was trying to do a nice thing my passing them out to his >>friends and those who have helped him. > > Thanks. That was my

Net::SSH::Perl in testing?

2004-06-09 Thread Jeremy Brooks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to use a perl script that requires the Net::SSH::Perl module. Normally I can find the modules I need pretty quickly using apt-cache, aptitude or packages.debian.org. But this one is eluding me. Does anybody know which, if any, Debian packa

Re: Java still kicks out of X

2004-05-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I placed JAVA_HOME on my env. Netbeans still cannot find classes so will > not > run. However, a non-JARed application, run as "java ", immediately > aborts > the X-session exactly as netbeans was causing. > > Jazz and OpenOffice run just fine! >

Re: Webmail via Exim ???

2004-04-01 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> Hi! Debian Users > > Just one question ... ? Which webmail interface should I use in Exim Mail > Server and Qpopper Services ? > I use squirrelmail with woody/exim/imap. check out http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml for a good howto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

aptitude hanging

2004-01-02 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hello, I'm running testing. My most recent aptitude upgrade included the package foomatic-filters. During configuration of the package, it says: Configuration file `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package mainta

Re: Kernel recompilation question.

2003-12-22 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 20:27, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > Debian 3.0 > == > I have previous experience in recompiling kernel on RH and Mandrake. Is > the procedure in recompiling kernel on Debian similar. Kindly advise. > Pointer/URL of document would be appreciated. > > Thanks i

No email for some users

2003-12-09 Thread Jeremy Brooks
hello, I have a woody box that acts as a web/email server. I host some sites for other people, using the ~username functionality of apache. By default, those users can send and receive email. I would prefer that they do not have access to email...is there a way to specify that certain users do n

Change X color depth on-the-fly?

2003-10-16 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Is there a way to change the color depth on the fly in X? I need to play some games that only support 16-bit depth, but I normally run at 24-bit depth. It seems like there was a tool to do this, but I can't find it. I'm using testing. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:28, Joseph Jones wrote: > While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they > are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the > industry uses? *sigh*). > > I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely (yes, I love it as a

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-07 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:06, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:48, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > > >> I was near suicide when some good guy

Re: route entries will not stick

2003-09-26 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:52, Michael Kahle wrote: > Where do I configure entries into my routing table so that when I reboot > they exist the next session? > > I am reading the Linux Networking HOWTO and this is 1) conspicuously absent > 2) I am missing it or 3) when adding routes using the "route

Cannot change background in Testing

2003-09-24 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hello, After the most recent updates to Testing (the update that got rid of the error message regarding control center at login), I cannot change the background. If I right-click the desktop and choose "Change Desktop Background", nothing happens. If I go to Applications -> Desktop Preferences ->

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 15:18, Kevin McKinley wrote: > I've been mirroring binary packages for the x86 architecture for several > months now (woody, sarge and sid). The mirror's size hovered around 15 Gb > for a while, but in the last two weeks appears to have suddenly increased to > almost 21.5 Gb.

Re: SMTP over SSH

2003-08-25 Thread Jeremy Brooks
nt. Sending mail to port 1125 on my local box automagically goes to my SMTP server on port 25. Just change your.mail.host and username to match your setup. Could probably use some cleanup, but it works. :) #!/bin/sh # # Start or stop the SMTP SSH Tunnel # # Written by Jeremy Brooks

Re: wireless recommendations

2003-08-15 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:01, nori heikkinen wrote: > hey all, > > my roommate (who has a laptop) and i are thinking about either running > cables all the way around our apartment, or setting up a wireless > point from my debian box. i'd enjoy doing the latter, but before i > buy the hardware, i t

Re: mondo backup: is there someone successful ?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
works great for me. there's an article on the LJ website that may be helpful: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5449 On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 21:03, Andrea Tasso wrote: > hi all. I am struggling with mondo backup, I can do backups to cd, but restoring and > comparing both fail. Did > som

Re: Galeon Bookmarks toolbar gone

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:45, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:00:47 +0200, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > > > I've looked through the preferences, and played around with the options > > related to the toolbars. Nothing seems to help. > > You could try to ope

Re: Graphical units conversion program?

2003-08-14 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 11:11, stan wrote: > I thought there wasa Gnome utility for this, but if there is, I seem to > have misplaced it :-) > > Any sugestions? Gome based (prefered), KDE based, or GTK baed would be OK. > > Thanks. A search for "unit converter" on freshmeat.net showed a bunch of e

Re: Set eth0 speed/duplex at boot?

2003-08-11 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> > I've been searching for this, and seem to find the answer. I have a > > box > > with a realtek controller. The network is working, but some of our > > clients with this box need to force the speed and duplex to make > > their > > switches happy. Can somebody give me some pointers on setting

Galeon Bookmarks toolbar gone

2003-08-07 Thread Jeremy Brooks
My bookmarks toolbar has vanished and I can't get it back. The option on "View/Bookmarks toolbars" has a little checkmark next to it. The other toolbars (Menubar, Status, Toolbar) all show. They disappear when I uncheck the option on the View menu, and come back when I check the option. I've

Can't read large files from CD

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hi, I'm using debian testing, on an IBM thinkpad A31. I am attempting to copy large (>600MB) files from CD to my HD. I am getting i/o errors: cp: reading `/cdrom/The Fifth Element.avi': Input/output error In this case, it read 530MB of the file before giving me the error. Anybody have any ide

Set eth0 speed/duplex at boot?

2003-07-25 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hi, I've been searching for this, and seem to find the answer. I have a box with a realtek controller. The network is working, but some of our clients with this box need to force the speed and duplex to make their switches happy. Can somebody give me some pointers on setting this at boot time?

Re: snapshots

2003-07-16 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> > >> Any deb packages out there that will enable me to take a screenshot? > >I> don't have kde, and don't fancy installing kdelibs just to use > >> ksnapshot. And xv doesn't appear to be packaged, which I assume is a > >> licencing issue. > >> > >> Antony > >> > >> > > > >GIMP-->File-->Acqu

Re: OT: Munich buys Linux

2003-07-16 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 16:00, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 08:51, cr wrote: > > nice reading for any Linux fan > > It's also old news already. But it reminds me of the great fun I head > when I was in Munich 3 weeks ago and my tired eyes (early-morning flight > :) marveled at th

Re: snapshots

2003-07-16 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> > Any deb packages out there that will enable me to take a screenshot? I > don't have kde, and don't fancy installing kdelibs just to use > ksnapshot. And xv doesn't appear to be packaged, which I assume is a > licencing issue. If you have the gimp installed, just click File/Acquire/Screen S

Re: Securing a Debian server

2003-07-08 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> We're thinking about starting to use Debian instead of RH on our Linux boxes and I > have a question concerning this. RH offers to check servers and optimizing these for > maximum security, does Debian offer this? Or is there a guide on how to do this > somewhere? We chose Debian where I work

Re: From mp3 to CD

2003-07-07 Thread Jeremy Brooks
> Any other program (instead of xcdroast, I mean)? I use mp3burn. It's command-line based, and uses other programs to do the actual work. You can apt-get it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to make the debian system shut down with power off?

2003-06-27 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:04, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: > I have installed the debian system several times. In the first time, > after the installation, the computer can shut down automatically.(that > means the computer can shut down with the power off automatically when > you switch "shut down the

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-22 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Stay away from SBC if you can...their support is a nightmare. Try speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net). They cost more, but they are worth it. Great tech support, linux friendly, and quick to respond to any questions. On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:10, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a

3d acceleration with Radeon mobility

2003-06-20 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Hi, I have a Thinkpad A31, which uses the Radeon mobility graphics chip. I have installed testing, in order to get an X server that works with this adapter. I have googled and searched list archives, and can't think of anything else to do. Kernel is 2.4.20, with CONFIG_DRM=y, CONFIG_DRM_NEW=

Re: Stepping down ethernet card speed

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy Brooks
what card? On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:56, Ross Boylan wrote: > Because of some network problems, it looks as if I need to tell my > ethernet card to operate at a certain speed, rather than letting it > autosense. How do I do that? Is it a run-time thing (e.g., ifconfig), > or do I need to set it a

Sound docs?

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Does anybody know of a good link that explains the differences between esd, alsa, and oss, and how these different thing can/should interact to allow sound to work well under linux? Sound remains my weak point in the linux experience. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Audio CD questions

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy Brooks
I use grip; it grabs the audio from the disc, then encodes it in your preferred format. It is very flexible; it saves the files in the correct location based on artist and title (if you want), sets the tags properly, etc. I use mp3 format, just because I want the flexibility of playing my music

Re: Kernel will not compile

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy Brooks
what version of kernel-source are you using? I have 2.4.20-7 (from testing) and cannot compile with gcc3.3. On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:11, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:49:44 -0700 > Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gary Hennigan wrote: > > > > > I think, in gene

Re: "cut" command not working as expected

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy Brooks
You could do: directory=$(ls -1 | tail -2) this lists each file one at a time, and then gets the last 2 lines On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 12:54, David selby wrote: > I need to get the first two file names from a directory ... > My code > > directory=$(ls -r --format=single-column) > > works perfect

Re: signature and missing key

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Is there a way to get this information via http or shttp? It appears that I am behind a firewall which blocks the command listed above. On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 06:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:57:22AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when r

Re: Kill a process that refuses to die?

2003-06-13 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Have you tried a kill -9 on the pid? That should get rid of it. If you have gtop installed, you can select the process, right-click it, and select "Kill Now" man kill for more info on signals. On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 14:34, lists1 wrote: > What can I do to kill a process that refuses to be killed

Re: play mp3 files on xmms (fixed)

2003-06-13 Thread Jeremy Brooks
That's the correct way. Changing owner or permission of /dev/dsp would be the wrong way. :) On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:20, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: > Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Eduardo" == Eduardo Gargiulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Eduardo> Hi all I'm running

8139too driver options

2003-06-12 Thread Jeremy Brooks
hi, I need to set the eth0 interface to 100MB/Full Duplex. I have added append="ether=0,0,0x30,eth0" to lilo.conf and re-run lilo. On reboot, it comes up 10MB/Half Duplex. Is anyone familiar with this driver? Are my options incorrect? Many thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Jeremy Brooks
feh might be what you are looking for: http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/ It will scale images down to screen size, but I don't think it will scale them up. On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 04:44, David selby wrote: > I have been given 2xcdroms of photoes in jpeg format from australia. I > would like to view

Re: Where is the kernel config file?

2003-06-06 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Look in /boot. There's a config-x.x.x file there. On a system running Woody with the 2.4 kernel installed, it is called /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4. On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 07:42, David List wrote: > Where does one find the kernel config file for the kernel that is > installed by default on a Debia

Re: Xfree86 4.2.1-6

2003-06-03 Thread Jeremy Brooks
a specific library or program and don't know the package it is in. On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 13:24, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:21:19PM -0700, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > > Chris, > > To add a desktop, you'll need to run sawfish-ui, then under the > > Work

Re: Xfree86 4.2.1-6

2003-06-03 Thread Jeremy Brooks
Chris, To add a desktop, you'll need to run sawfish-ui, then under the Workspaces tab, add a workspace. I had to log off and back on to get the changes to take effect. On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:04, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > The testing distro has really been coming along lately, what with

Re: sarge sawfish gnome - broken on 5/27/2003?

2003-05-31 Thread Jeremy Brooks
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 20:32, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Just did a dist-upgrade on sarge and gnome sawfish no longer has the > panels / menus on the borders. > > is it broken in sarge? did i break something? > > Thanks I'm having a similar problem - the sawfish config tool is now missing from the g