Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:41:08AM +0100, Marco Cecconi wrote: > Hello, which woody kernel supports Hyper Threading? I've read somewhere > that 2.4+ kernels support this feature but how? Is a SMP build > sufficient? How does linux support HT, dual processor style (like e.g. > Win2000) or nativel

Re: Teergrubing (Was: Bouncing emails via procmail)

2003-09-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 03:22:05AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Speaking of teergrubing has anyone come up with a method of doing so with > exiscan-acl in Exim4? Now that Andreas compiled it in I'm considering moving > SA processing from sa-exim to exiscan-acl. I can get the temp and permanent

Re: Kernel 2.5.69 compilation issue ...

2003-08-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:49:08PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > This is my first attempt on this kernel business, so be kind ... please ... > > I recently downloaded through dselect kernel-source-2.5.69. I followed the > > procedures from http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html.

Re: Clipboard is bent

2003-08-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:16:29PM +1200, cr wrote: > (Next instalment in the fixing-my-desktop saga) > Not sure if I should be asking on this list or a Gnome list, > but can anyone tell me where to start investigating my clipboard? > (I'm running Woody, and Gnome 1.4.) I was really annoyed by th

Re: perl 5.8 for stable?

2003-08-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Maria Rodriguez wrote: > I've checked apt-get.org (now that it's back up) ;-) and didn't see > anything, but I was just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere you can > add to your sources.list that has perl 5.8 backported for woody. I > didn't think that i

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

2003-08-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:29:51PM -0500, Marino Fernandez wrote: > I cannot help you with the debian way... that I found more complex than the > regular way. > > Download a pristine kernel (get 2.6.0-test2) > cd /usr/src > Untar kernel in /usr/src > mv linux linux~ > ln -s linux-2.6.0-test2 linu

Re: 2.6.test02 fails to compile...riscom8.o

2003-08-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:05:47PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: > I've installed a debian woody system with a gnome2.2 backport. Basically > it's a fresh install. I wanted to compile 2.6-test02 and created a > config from config-2.4.18-686-smp config and enabling the 2.6 features > by hand. You pr

Re: Future Debian default MTA?

2003-07-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:51:35PM +0100, Mark C wrote: > Will or would either of these be removed or replaced in the forseable > future of debian versions? Neither is going to be removed from the Debian archive as long as somebody is willing to maintain them. I have no doubt that they will recei

Re: Suggestions on choosing an IMAP server

2003-07-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:28:56PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > A drawback to cyrus is that, last time I checked, both stable and > testing included only an older version of cyrus; the most recent (2.x) > series is only in unstable. There's an unofficial backport to woody. Don't let the word "un

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:28:30PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.15.2304 +0200]: > > Unfortunately, what they are doing to keep the possibility of the > > US government trying to take action against them, has caused the > > mainline kernel devel

Re: what happened to freeswan?

2003-07-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:59:04PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Rene isn't answering my mails. What happened to the FreeS/WAN kernel > patches? kernel-patch-freeswan-ext is gone, and > kernel-patch-freeswan is back to 1.96 (with 1.99 being the current > version). Moreover, freeswan-modules-sourc

Re: Debian rpm

2003-07-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:28:33AM +0800, Louie Miranda wrote: > I just installed a rpm deb package manager, I just wonder. If I > installed an rpm package where would it go? I mean don't it get > confused on two package manager? It very well could work with no problems. On the other hand, if the

Re: mantis security upgrade breaks user configuration

2003-07-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:26:12PM +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: > i learned from the debian-security-announce mailinglist that mantis (a > php bugtracking system) has insecure permissions on the configfile that > stores the database password. so i did an 'apt-get update ;apt-get > upgrade' and was

Re: Serial terminal program?

2003-07-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:18:49PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program for Debian? One that will talk out an > RS-232 port? I couldn't seem to find one searching in dselect or > debian.org's online package search. How 'bout minicom, ckermit, or gkermit? noah

Re: Raising Debian Awareness

2003-03-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:48:54AM +, debian parisc wrote: > I'm trying to get the corporate suits to look at debian for some of our > existing hp, sparc and intel platforms. What I need to understand is how it > is being used out there. You may find http://www.debian.org/users/ very helpful

Re: default permissions on /root

2003-02-28 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:39:51PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > i guess i wrongly assumed that a distribution that's usually > somewhat sane would have somewhat sane permissions on a directory > such as /root, which i consider "sensitive", so to speak. This topic comes up fairly regularly. On De

Re: IPv6 subnet?

2003-02-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:29:57AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I ended up doing this: > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > # > up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 inet6 add 2001:470:1F00:465::1/64 > up /sbin/route -A inet6 a

Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:50:32PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > Try 'host -t test-ip6.company.com'. > > > > Ok, that resolves. Now if I put: > > hosts: files dns > > I can ping6 a machine on my local lan. If I put dns first it doesn't > resolve properly. I think it must be some

Re: IPv6 resolvers?i

2003-02-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:33:39PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm trying to get IPv6 running on 2 of my systems. One is Unstable, > the other is Stable. On both of them I do a: > > host (ip6 addr for a known machine) and I get nothing. > > root@wally > {0}:/usr/share/doc/apache-common>ho

Re: [OT] SpamCop.net

2003-02-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:41:20AM -0900, Andy wrote: > I use SpamCop all the time (30 times a day + ) as a header analyzing engine. > It does a great job of tracking the message source. Saves me hours every day > so I don't have to manually track down the message source and upstream ISP. > I t

Re: Ipsec under Linux

2003-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:04:45PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > > What is the best way to create IPSec under Debian ? FreeS/WAN. Install the kernel-patch-freeswan and freeswan packages and read the docs. See www.freeswan.org for general docs on configuring freeswan. noah -- __

Re: kernel-patch-freeswan & cryptoapi

2003-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: > I just have install the kernel-patch-freeswan but the building process > fails because it doesn't find linux/crypto.h. Hmm... How did you actually apply the patch? > The warning message says to install cryptoapi. I have run apt

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:23:26AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > The testing distribution has *exactly* the same problem, as the > > unstable libc is different from the testing libc. > > That's true currently, but it should be temporary, right? (Of course, > it's been temporary for some time now

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:06:42PM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > I have tried googling and looking at ldp.org for this answer, but I > can't seem to find anything relevant. How does one maintain /var? > I'm trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my laptop and it's telling me I dont > have enough space to ho

Re: XP oerrating system

2003-01-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:31:03AM -0800, Beatrice I. Smith wrote: > I have the XP home operating system on my PC. Is it possible to > install the Debian Linux OS on this pc? Most likely. Linux supports all common hardware, so unless you've got some really weird stuff in your PC, it should not p

Re: Security Question

2003-01-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:22PM -0800, John Gedeon wrote: > I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want > to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the > remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. It's un

Re: Problem

2003-01-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:40:46PM +0100, ?iga Dolher wrote: > woody:/home/zdolher# ifconfig eth0 inet6 add 2001:06b8::0400::::4e34 > >> /var/log/tb.log > No support for INET6 on this system. Try running 'modprobe ipv6' as root. Then try the above command (or better yet, lear

Re: Debian and IPV6

2002-12-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 10:42:17PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > Debian's sshd, at least, is not compiled with IPv6 support. However, I can > use the ssh client to connect to other (FreeBSD) servers with IPv6-enabled > sshd's. That's not true. It is compiled with --ipv4-default, but it can still

Re: ALSA working with 2.5.52 and latest module-init-tools?

2002-12-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +0100, Alexander Koch wrote: > Is anyone running ALSA and has it working with the 2.5.52 > kernel (and obviously the latest modutils or it may not work > out anyway)? I would love to get it running. It seemed to almost work for me, except that none of the /dev en

Re: Alpha installation

2002-12-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:40:18AM -0700, Ocasio Anthony R Civ 746 TS/TGGIG wrote: > When I try to boot to either cd using 'boot dqb0 -flags 0' > it seems to start reading from the cd, but halts after about 40 seconds, > the screen changes color, and the last line written to the screen is: > SMC

Re: hesiod

2002-12-18 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:58:17AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I'm sure that if I were to enable notifyd and configure it to use zephyr > > notifications, I'd run in to problems. But otherwise, there's no reason > > Ok. After that one (read what you wrote), I will only believe y

Re: Debian 3.0 Updated R1 Problem!

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:46:53AM -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > "ps: error while loading shared libraries: libproc.so.2.0.6: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory" > > There is a "libproc.so.2.0.7" in the lib directory. This is an important > library - could

Re: Eterm title magic?

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:09:49PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I know with "Eterm -T 'foo'" I can set the title for my Eterm, but is it > possible to have it set to whatever is going on in my Term? A co-worker > using xterm has it set up so the title changes if he ssh's to a > different box

Re: hesiod

2002-12-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:42:11AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > have Zephyr or Hesiod installed. Perhaps a softer dependency like > > Suggests or Recommends would be more appropriate. I'm sure a large > > It would probably cause trouble with undefined symbols when running the >

Re: 2.5.50 on Woody

2002-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:18:34AM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > But can somebody tells a little fairytale about the new 2.5 > kernels? Structures, layouts, newbie-readable-changelog? 2.5 is really not for newbies at all. It is the development kernel (i.e. unfinished, often broken, constantly chan

Re: hesiod

2002-12-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:01:14PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > 'apt-cache show zephyr-server'; I assumed since your original question > was about zephyr you were trying to set it up... *prods* Oh, I see > now: the Cyrus IMAP server added support for sending notification via > zephyr a long long

Re: ACPI and sleep mode

2002-12-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:52:33PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > When I tell my laptop to go to sleep, the event is correctly forwarded > to /etc/acpi/default.sh, but it claims it doesn't know what to do to > put the laptop to sleep. Well, neither do I, APM is disabled. The ACPI implementation i

Re: gpg implying potential tampering trouble...

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:00:03PM -0800, alan brown wrote: > gpg: Warning: This key is not certified with a trusted signature. > > gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. You should probably read up on some of the concepts behind the "web of trust". The GNU Privacy

Re: exim filtering

2002-12-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:43:55PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html That is going to warrant further investigation. Very cool. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key:

Re: exim filtering

2002-12-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:52:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > Another solution is to use spamassassin which does this amongst many > other tests. dman has a rather nice guide on his site, IIRC :) No, it does not achieve what I want. I do, of course, use spamassassin and find it extremely useful.

Re: build an overloaded linux server

2002-12-09 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:53:50PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > For experimental requirement, I want to build an overloaded linux server in > which openssh is binding tcp port 22. The criteria is, when a ssh client is > connecting to the sshd on the overloaded one, the sshd will take more than 6

Re: Window manager

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:42:20PM -, news.ntlworld.com wrote: > What is the coolest window manager to use with knowe of KDE? > Enlightenment and Windomaker look really cool. Much better than W**dows. KDE has its own window manager (kwin) that is fairly cool. If you look at http://www.kdelook

Re: 2.5.50 kernel compilation problem

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:01:26AM -0300, Miguel Griffa wrote: > I've been trying to compile the 2.5.50 kernel and after _many_ > configuration changes (to make it comilable) I've arrived to an error > which I have no clue about. > after compiling/intalling: request_module[ide-disk]: not ready I

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:32:50PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > Have you patched and recompiled your kernel? You need to install the > > kernel-patch-freeswan package and go through the steps to build a kernel > > that includes it. The kernel-package package will help you patch and > >

Re: ipsec (freeswan)

2002-12-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:09:39PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > I run stable, and I tried the freeswan 1.96, but when I go through the > documentations it says to run ipsec verify, which give me the error > that verify is not an option. I took the tar file from freeswan site > and I did ma

Re: What should I do after a power failure?

2002-11-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:08:49AM -0800, Fred Sloniker wrote: > I know that powering the system off manually is a Bad Thing (tm), but > I live in Cowville, so a black-out is always a possibility. It's also > possible that my mom would turn the computer off out of ignorance, > despite my attempts

Re: CNAME in DNS: having a cname for a different domain than my domain...

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:33:56AM -0800, Irvin Temp wrote: > home-woody.dm0nkz.net. A 192.168.0.1 > > vhosta.testing.org. CNAME hanz-woody > vhostbCNAME hanz-woody > cname for vhosta.testing.org? can i do this at all? or > i need to setup a > anot

exim filtering

2002-11-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
A particularly effective anti-spam tool that I've see in use is to block mail claiming to be from a webmail provider (e.g. hotmail) that never actually passed through a server controlled by that webmail provider. Has anybody written such a filter for exim that can be run system-wide? I want to do i

Re: Correction: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:18:28AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > There is another tool called xfs_repair that is used to repair XFS > filesystems. The problem with xfs_repair is that it can't be used on a mounted filesystem (even mounted read-only). This means, of course, that if your root fi

Re: rescue disk for powerPC (beige G3)

2002-11-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:34:46PM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to run a beige G3 mac (powerpc) with only linux on it (no > mac-os) which rools out bootX if I can. I actually don't think this is possible. The beige G3 seems to occupy some strange space between NewWorld and OldWorld, a

Re: can't cp files from dvd

2002-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:50:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Just now, when I tried to cp the *.VOB files from a movie disk > mounted udf onto /dvd-rw, I got the same "Input/output error". Believe it or not, this is a function of the fact that the DVDs are encrypted. I don't remember what the h

Re: OT: benefits of preloading libraries

2002-11-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:57:27PM -0800, nate wrote: > running a couple google searches I can't find anything useful, I > was wondering if anyone could explain what the advantage is to > preloading libraries on a linux system. I'm surprised there isn't anything on the web about this. I just sear

Re: extra multimedia keys

2002-11-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:10:22PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > Is there a way to configure the extra keys on my laptop - play, stop, FF, RW > - to work with a software CD player? > > I have found the funkey kernel patch - http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/funkey/ > - but is there a Debian way?

Re: phoenix + mozilla

2002-11-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:36:40AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > With Mozilla mail/news running, ALL of Mozilla is really running and > therefore not saving you anything in regards to memory footprint. That's certainly not true. Yes, there is a lot of code that is common between Mozilla mail/ne

Re: Problem with INET6

2002-11-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:53:53AM +0100, ?iga Dolher wrote: > I have an problem with the protocol IPv6. I can't install it. > I don't know, or I have the wrong rpm or I don't know. I really hope you don't have *any* rpm, as it's likely to be the wrong one. > The message that show's to me is: >

Re: Weird problem with self-compiled kernel

2002-11-04 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Patrick Brunier wrote: > Everything works fine. But the problem is that I can't connect to > certain sites. Eg. When I type "lynx www.openoffice.org" he tries to > make a http connection but nothing happens. Also when I type "lynx > www.davitel.nl" it goe

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:40:55PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I actually believe that an upgrade to Woody will not upgrade your X > Server unless you ask for it (just like it will not upgrade your > kernel), but I cannot remember if that is a lie. It will upgrade it, but not accross major vers

Re: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 02:00:39PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > I don't think that TCPA will kill open software. But I do think that > it's part of an ongoing effort to erode the freedoms which are behind > open software. Agreed 100%. I said previously in this thread that I don't care if content

Re: where is the potato archive (specifically a potato compatable mozilla .deb package)?

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:24:48AM +1100, brett hennig wrote: > anyway, i can't see potato at: > > http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/ It's still in the main archive. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > what i really want is a version of mozilla that >

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:32:16PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Yes, you really sound like you've attended a Microsoft talk. :=). > Congratulations, you have been brain washed.

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
[ I've pruned the giant list of innappropriate and off-topic CCs ] On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:57:51PM +0100, Hauke Goos-Habermann wrote: > Microsoft plans to kill all OpenSource software on hardware level. This > technology is called TCPA. FUD! FUD FUD FUD FUD!!! This is completely all wrong. R

Re: gdm - adding windowmanagers

2002-10-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:43:26PM +0200, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: > Is it correct in that this enables me to change wich wm I start eg if I > type startx, or in my case gdm? wdm replaces gdm. Like gdm, it has a menu allowing you to select a window manager to start. The menu gets popula

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 09:21:37AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > However, opinons are divided, and Wichert Akkerman, at least, > now thinks it is a bug. The question is where the bug really is: > in all the applications that are now in the process of being > "upgraded" to ipv6 (as telnetd and

Re: Woody IPv6 problem finally, really, solved

2002-09-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:38:50PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >Are you going to file a bug on this? > > There doesn't seem to be much point in this. When I asked about > this on debian-ipv6 (the developers list) no less an authority > than Wichert Akkerman said that it was "a feature",

Re: idiosyncratic "ln" not making hard links

2002-09-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:33:15AM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > | :~$ touch k > > | :~$ ln k y > > Any idea of what might be causing ln not to work correctly on my > system? Try running strace on it: strace ln k y Look for indications of obvious brokeness. And, as has been said already,

Re: filesystem error???

2002-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:54:13AM +0800, axacheng wrote: > love:/# xfs_repair /dev/hda1 > xfs_repair: /dev/hda1 contains a mounted filesystem > fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library > love:/# xfs_repair /dev/hda1 > > those mean,i should be use boot my system from cdrom than use > xfs_re

Re: ssh-agent (Connecting to over multiple IPs w/o pass)

2002-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:58:44PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Xwindow this can be accomplished by starting the session manager > under ssh-agent: > > ssh-agent /usr/bin/icewm This type of thing is done by default in Debian. See /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90xfree86-common_ssh-agent noah -- __

Re: xfs_repair: bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!!

2002-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 05:15:21PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > I am running woody with 2.4.19 and xfs patch for 2.4.19 from SGI ftp > site. Whey I type xfs_repair /dev/hda, I got the error The filesystem isn't directly on /dev/hda is it? I would hope it's on a partition on that drive (/dev/hda

Re: IP datagram analyzer

2002-09-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I'm new to Debian and only a 1 yr vet of Linux, but 100% in the Penguin > camp now, and looking for a GUI type of program that does IP datagram > analyzing. Can anyone make any suggestions? The equivalent that ran on > Windows was S

"File size limit exceeded" in mkfs

2002-06-26 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I'm running in to a weird problem when running mkfs on a 52 GB filesystem. If I run mkfs when logged in as root on the console, it works. The filesystem is created and everything is good. However, when I tried mkfs in other situations, it failed. The output was: debian:~# mkfs /dev/sdh1 mke2fs

Debian beer at USENIX?

2002-06-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
If anybody here's at USENIX this week or otherwise in the Monterey, CA, USA area, give a yell. We should get BoF session scheduled or just go out for beers. And don't forget to go see Bdale's Guru Session. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgu

uname -p?

2001-10-16 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On every Linux box I've ever used, uname -p prints 'unknown'. This has never affected me in the slightest, but every once in a while it occurs to me that I still have no idea what it means. I assume I could somehow make it print something i686 or something, although this is what's printed by unam

Eterm's terminfo entry

2001-07-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I am experiencing some frustration at the hands of the Eterm terminfo entry. I have a sid system, which uses Eterm 0.9.1. This version of Eterm sets $TERM to Eterm, and a termcap file is included in /usr/share/doc/eterm/Eterm.tcap. I've compiled this file with tic and installed it correctly. Et

xv alternatives

2001-07-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a new image viewer to use. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one that's as good as Xv. eeyes seems pretty nice, but I refuse to install the necessary GNOME libraries to make it work. I grabbed the source to see if it

RAID, fs labels, and fsck

2001-07-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I'm working on a test machine which is running an XFS filesystem on a software RAID0 volume. The XFS filesystem has a lable ("foo"). In /etc/fstab I have the following entry associated with it: LABEL=foo /mntxfs defaults0 0 Since the last field listed is 0, I expect

Re: rlinetd security

2001-06-19 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:30:56AM -0700, Pat Moffitt wrote: > My real concern is for people like me. I know a lot about computers (over > 20 years of experience). But, I don't have much experience with security. > I don't know a lot about many of the packages in Linux. That's partly why I don't

[OT] quick CVS question

2001-06-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
I thought I found the answer to this question a while back, but I either misplaced it or was mistaken. Basically what I need to do is create symlinks on a source check out. The repository contains a file foo, and I need a symlink bar -> foo. Is there any way to ensure that this link is created ev

Re: switching from lilo to grub

2001-06-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:00:30AM -0700, Peter Hicks wrote: > > I wanted to make the switch from lilo to grub, and I was wondering what the > proper procedure is. It could be as easy as apt-get install grub could it? Mostly it is. You'll want to get grub from woody or sid, though, as it comes

Re: Linux equivalents of Visual basic and Visual C++?

2001-06-08 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:18:29AM -0400, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Are there any programs around for linux which provide the sort of > programming environment given by Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual > C++? Look in to kdestudio, as part of KDE 2.0.x. I don't actually use it, but fro

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-06-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there an easy way to install EVERYTHIG that comes > in the Debian Cd´s It doesn't make any sense to install everything. Many package are contradictory. Many are simply redundant. Why would you install exim if you've al

Re: wmaker and it's icons

2001-06-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:35:59AM -0300, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote: > > hi this is kind of a simple problem (i guess), i'm having some trouble > when i resize the icons from 64x64 2 48x48, the applets don't resize with the > icons and they seem useless as they are bigger than the icons that hold

Re: HELP - wmakerconf blew my menus away!!!!

2001-06-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I get my menu's back? This has become a real pain not having any. > Check ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu. Try moving it out of the way completely and copying /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu to its place. noah -- __

Re: High Load Average

2001-06-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:18:41PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > 91 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 68.7% user, 31.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > Mem: 257856K av, 229104K used, 28752K free, 103600K shrd, > 73192K buff > Swap: 128484K av, 0K used,

Re: Currency of packages

2001-06-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 08:51:07AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > I'd like to hear how Debian old-timers work with this. > > we deal with it. i run cyrus imap 1.5.x and many other "old" packages > from stable. they are in stable for a reason..they are stable :) I don't agree. I think "stable" is

Re: Port Sentry

2001-06-02 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:51:46PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > > Now when portsentry detects a port scan it blocks the ip making the > > scan. > > Is it wise to block an ip just because it did a port scan? > What if s/he spoofs the ip and puts your ip as source address? This is the real problem,

Re: ORBS?

2001-06-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:21:37PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 12:04:27 EDT, "Noah L. Meyerhans" writes: > >Does anybody know what happened to ORBS? http://www.orbs.org simply > > Well, according to Alan Brown they were "served with 2 NZ High

ORBS?

2001-06-01 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
Does anybody know what happened to ORBS? http://www.orbs.org simply shows "Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ORBS website is no longer available." There's no further explanation. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ |

Re: anyone going to USENIX?

2001-05-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:49:40AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > We've had a Debian Bof at the last 3 Usenixes (Usenices?), so it'd be > a reasonable idea. Excellent. Hopefully we'll be running a booth in the expo so we'll get to meet there anyway. I will be helping to run the booth, but I d

Re: IPv6

2001-05-31 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:33:35AM -0500, DvB wrote: > I've noticed that the debian installer includes the option to add ipv6 > support to the kernel. Are there any advantages/disadvantages to adding > this to a workstation? Would it break compatibility with the current > version? No, adding IP

Re: /etc/rc* and locate

2001-05-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:16:26PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > which locate (after updatedb) shows as being present when in actual > fact they are not there. I did not remove them by hand, it was only > when trying to do so that I found this situation. > > Does anyone have any explanation of why

Re: udma100

2001-05-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:48:51PM +0200, Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide wrote: > hi: > where can I download the floppy set to install Potato in my machine with > udma100 ? > On your favorite debian mirror. Try http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/udma66/

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:51:18PM +0100, Eddy Young wrote: > copy/paste the message to TkPGP to verify it. *But* the signature is > separated > from the message; so, how do I actually verify the > message? What you're supposed to be able to do is save the attached signature to a file (say 'foo.si

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-23 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:43:47PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > get a real mail client that supports RFCs. the relevant RFC is 2015 > > i reccommend mutt Supporting RFCs is fine and should be encouraged, but from what I've seen there is not another mail reader in existance that can verify mutt'

Re: modutils

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:29:05AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > If I did "depmod -a" then /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep would become 0 > in size. What version of modutils are you using? noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:36:12AM +0200, vester wrote: > modprobe snd-seq-oss says: > /lib/modules/2.4.4/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: init_module: Device or resource > busy > Hint: insmor errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, > including invalid IO or IRQ parameters > > alsamixer says: > >

Re: broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > stiq:~# man man > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > stiq:~# man cannot write to $TMPDIR (or /tmp if $TMPDIR isn't set). Permissions should be 1777 on /tmp. noah -- _

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:33:21PM +0200, vester wrote: > modprobe gives me a Can't locate module output to all three of them... > Run depmod -a, followed by modprobe -l to list the available modules. If you don't see the right modules, you'll have to rebuild them. What I normally do is get the

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:57:40PM +0200, vester wrote: > i'm using a vaio notebook with a yamaha ymf-754 soundcard on > debian/testing. i compiled the > kernel with CONFIG_SOUND CONFIG_SOUND_OSS and CONFIG_SOUND_YMFPCI as > modules (i know that the last one is the correct module for my soundcard,

Re: Thermal throttling?

2001-05-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:35:35PM +0600, V.Suresh wrote: > What does the Thermal throttling option mean, in the BIOS setup? > It has values like 25%,50%, 87% etc. What's its significance? It means that you have a Pentium 4 that has the cabability to slow itself down when it gets too hot. Hopef

Re: pam_condev.so

2001-05-20 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:36:02PM +0200, Mao's Brüderle wrote: > PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_condev.so : cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory] > > PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_condev.so If you're using wdm as your desktop login manager then the problem

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