Re: Idled + SSH.

2002-10-10 Thread Petro
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:05:15PM -0700, Petro wrote: I've got 2 border machines running Debian Potato, and I recently (2 days ago) did a security update on it for the first time in 4 or 5 months. On one of these machines, I also upgraded SSH. Then Idled stopped

Re: Anyone??? HP USB DVD+RW for Woody

2002-10-10 Thread Petro
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 03:51:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: USB2 definitely isn't in the stock 2.4 kernels (yet, if ever). I think I saw, though, that it was in 2.4.20-ac?? RH may also have backported USB2 to their latest kernels. What, if any, are the ramifications of running a RH kernel on

Re: capture parallel data

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:11:52PM -0500, Bud Rogers wrote: Has anyone done anything like that? If I can get the data into my box I can handle it from there, but I've never tried to capture data on the fly. Any suggestions would be welcome. There is a package called logcheck that

Re: ssh security update and libpam-tmpdir

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:50:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: If you have libpam-tmpdir installed, be careful when installing the recent security update for OpenSSH; libpam-tmpdir will stop working afterwards and cause ssh logins

Re: ssh security update and libpam-tmpdir

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:52:49PM -0700, Petro wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:50:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: If you have libpam-tmpdir installed, be careful when installing the recent security update for OpenSSH; libpam

Re: OpenSSH - Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

2002-06-27 Thread Petro
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:12:44AM +0800, louie miranda wrote: Im having a little difficulty on running the new ssh, any ideas on this? I tried adding UsePrivilegeSeparation yes and still no luck! Have you tried reading the error message? Does user sshd exist? -- conf file

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-06-05 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:56:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Them and everyone else it seems. I gotta wonder if anybody from California ever stopped to think that they're turning Oregon into what they moved away from... If they stopped to think, they wouldn't be the Californians that

Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?

2002-06-05 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0600, Dave Price wrote: Hi, I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions, etc. I found this on /. thru a google search: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install disk, It

Re: Foreign Language with OpenOffice?

2002-06-05 Thread Petro
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:45:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Forgive my ignorance concerning internatialization . . . . At my university our Foreign Language department staff/faculty have traditionally used WordPerfect throughout the years, along with foreign language modules from WordPerfect

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-28 Thread Petro
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:32:02AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, May 22, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is this the first time someone has brought

Re: how to confirm mod_perl is functioning with apache? to run mason

2002-05-28 Thread Petro
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:17:12PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: On 2002.05.23 20:42 justin cunningham wrote: hey list, I wanted to check out mason which requires mod_perl but it's not show as a loadable module in /etc/apache/httpd.conf I just installed libapache-mod-perl but wasn't prompted

Re: ATI Radeon 7000

2002-05-28 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 08:28:45AM -0600, user list wrote: Reading with mutt makes me less likely to do the cut and paste. Anyway, if the link to which you refer is Funny, ctrl-b works for me. apt-get install urlview. -- My last cigarette was roughly 36 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-24 Thread Petro
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 04:32:39PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:38:15PM -0700, Petro wrote: major snipage Yes. Or just figuring out if there is even a wreck, how it happened etc. with the intent of restoring the wreckage rather than scrapping

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-23 Thread Petro
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, Petro wrote: So it has been brought up before, over 2 years ago, and it's still wrong? It is not wrong, it just yields little protection. Just from the disk getting corrupted under an in core

Re: Problems with Galeon, Mozilla and ?Opera? freezing.

2002-05-23 Thread Petro
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:13:41PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: Petro == Petro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Petro I have a problem with Galeon and Mozilla freezing up on Petro specific pages. Some will freeze Mozilla, many (that will freeze Petro one or the other) will freeze both

Re: 1:1 mirror for an entire hd

2002-05-23 Thread Petro
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0700, Angus D Madden wrote: Karsten M. Self, Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:09:32AM -0700: on Mon, May 20, 2002, R. Lockhart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need to transfer all my data, os, partitions, formatting, to a new hard drive. I got a lemon hd (still

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-23 Thread Petro
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:26:16PM -0700, dman wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:28:13PM -0700, Petro wrote: | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:45PM -0700, dman wrote: | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:08:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: | | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote

Re: MySQL/Query question, help.

2002-05-22 Thread Petro
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:59:20PM +0800, louie miranda wrote: First off, if you're going to ask a new question don't reply to a pre-existing thread and just change the subject, also delete the In-Reply-To: header. Hi, i was just wondering... i have inserted 1 row on my table, how

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-22 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:45PM -0700, dman wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:08:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote: | Mostly just some basic copy tools. | If you

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-22 Thread Petro
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, May 21, 2002, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: All I'm asking for at this point is something that the rest of the Unix World has done forever, a statically linked /sbin/sh for roots use

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-22 Thread Petro
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:00:34PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: Can you give me an example of good Aussie beer that might be available in the US. The only one I can think of is Fosters, I wasn't overly impressed with it (as in I will drink one, but I won't buy one). I'm told by natives that

Problems with Galeon, Mozilla and ?Opera? freezing.

2002-05-22 Thread Petro
So, I have 2 Debian Woody systems that are pure woody systems and up to date. One of them (Home Machine) is a PII 233 with a Diamond Viper 770 video card. The other is a PIII 733 with a Riva TNT2 card in the AGP slot, and a Graphics Blaster Extreme in one of the PCI

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:05:06AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote: Now that you've probably gotten all huffy, no, I don't mean you specifically, I mean you in the Outlook using, javascript-RTF

Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
This is something that has been bothering me for a while now. See, you guys who put these distributions together are pretty bright. It takes a lot of work, and I see a lot of the discussions that go in to figuring out all the nit-picky little details that give polish to a

Re: Where's the POP3 package?

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:38:34AM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 May 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: Is there a way that I can search packages for a file using apt and a regexp? dselect has a search feature. dselect is easier to

Re: Not able to connect to nvidia.com

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:44:53PM -0700, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.21.2228 +0200]: This is caused by having Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) enabled. You can disable it using: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as roots default shell? because the days of static bins are long passed.

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:32:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Why the sam hell is there not, by default, no questions asked, it's installed because it's *right*, a statically linked /sbin/sh as roots default shell? because the days of static bins are long passed. if

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 17:18:08 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: After reading this thread, I decided to install sash. I did that too. Is there a reason why it isn't installed by default?

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:58:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: This is something that has been bothering me for a while now. See, you guys who put these distributions together are pretty bright. It takes a lot of work

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:51:08PM -0700, Tom Cook wrote: On 0, Richard Cobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is very strongly against making any decision for you we do not have to make. And almost all of our decisions can be overruled. True, but I really can't see any harm in making

Re: regenerating the zsh completion cache

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:47:00PM -0700, Chris Gray wrote: Hi, If I install a new package and it installs a new binary, how do I get zsh to complete the name of the binary when I hit tab. Obviously I could just start a new shell, but that's too easy. Here is the completions part of my

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk - raided

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:04:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya petro Morning. On Mon, 20 May 2002, Petro wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote: --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one

Re: Recommended tape backup software

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 02:49:47PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On 21 May 2002 14:31:02 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we're well past the point where we must agree to disagree about the best way to back up enterprise databases. Agreed. Now, would it be possible to

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:26:31AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 06:49:06PM -0700, Petro wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:34:20PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: [1] There's a difference between American beer and Oregonian beer, though, Widmer Brothers

Re: Serious Bug in most major Linux distros.

2002-05-21 Thread Petro
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 03:46:47PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: You do have a valid point, but a statically linked root shell will not always work. At least you

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-20 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:47:25PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: True; it's long been understood in the professional typesetting community that lines which are too long are difficult

Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]

2002-05-20 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 08:34:20PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 18 May 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: Although I actually have a terminal (can't say I use it much though), I sometimes wonder if email conventions should be derived

Re: Identical installations on several machines

2002-05-20 Thread Petro
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:09:03PM -0700, Petr Vanek wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:47:06PM -0700, David Wright wrote: A# dpkg --get-selections selections A# scp selections B: A# ssh B B# dpkg --set-selections selections B# dselect install remove Keep in mind though, this

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

2002-05-20 Thread Petro
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:24:55PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: 160GB ide disks is $150-$200 range... cheap... - 1Terabyte of backup in one 1u chassis.. no problem... and i do compressed backups of up to 3 or 6 months... dpeending on diskspace they willing ot buy and user data

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk

2002-05-20 Thread Petro
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:10:34AM -0700, Peter Whysall wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 06:22, Alvin Oga wrote: --- if the disks is raid5'd ... give one disk --- to each of the CEO/CFO/CTO/foo/bar and no one user --- has all the data... no way for stealing

Re: Recommended tape backup software - disk failures

2002-05-20 Thread Petro
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:25:59AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya a nice picture of what causes a system to fail... disks or ??? http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks/Disk_Failure.gif ( its from an IDC survey ) ( the picture stolen/copied from

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-11 Thread Petro
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:22:14AM -0700, Phillip Deackes wrote: This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open

Re: unsubscribe -all

2002-04-05 Thread Petro
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:47:41AM -0800, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin quoting what Dennis Doeve said on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:39:54PM +0200: No, thanks, I don't want to unsubscribe. But I agree that you should. While you're at it, you should probably remove Debian, too. In fact, sell

Question concerning MTAs and Databases.

2002-04-05 Thread Petro
Does anybody know of an MTA, plugin, or package that uses a database (Preferbly Mysql) for storage? -- Share and Enjoy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ATA Raid

2002-04-03 Thread Petro
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:15:07PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Jeff J. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020403 08:13]: I am looking for an ATA/100 or 133 RAID controller that fulfills these two requirements: Operates in a 66mhz PCI slot. Is (well?) supported by Debian. Somewhere in the $200 range

Re: I hate printers

2002-04-02 Thread Petro
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:43:45PM -0800, Sean wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 21:56, Tom Allison wrote: I am using a D-Link DL713P as the printer server. I would suggest using a PC as a printer server I wouldn't. PCs draw a lot more power, use a lot more desk/shelf space, and

Re: simple database?

2002-04-02 Thread Petro
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:48AM -0600, dman wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:26:16PM -0800, Petro wrote: | On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: | multi-user capabilities, or real scalability. Also PostgreSQL is a | What is real scalability? I've used Mysql

Re: Restore CD image equiv.

2002-04-02 Thread Petro
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:00:13AM -0500, Chapman, Matt wrote: Hi, I would like to know if anyone has something that will work for debian in the following scenario. I build a server with Debian on it as well as a filter (url) and squid for caching. I ship the box. The customer has a

Re: using windoze keys

2002-04-02 Thread Petro
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 07:25:43PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Create afile called .Xmodmap using the command touch .Xmodmap then edit it to read: keycode 115 = F13 keycode 116 = F14 keycode 117 = F15 Now add the following to .xsession: modmap ~/.Xmodmap exec gnome-session Logout

Re: OT Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection

2002-03-27 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:07:03PM -0800, Nathan E Norman wrote: If you find yourself making cables regularly, get a tester that tests s/making cables regularly/in charge of a medium to large network/ continuity and attenuation - they're a lifesaver. Nothing sucks more than

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:44:25PM -0800, Tom Cook wrote: Don't use mySql. Eventually you will want transactions, or some real Mysql-Max already supports transactions. I'm not sure what you mean by Multi-user capabilities (I'm not a DBA, I just support a dev group). multi-user

Re: Not set up

2002-03-25 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:36:08PM -0600, John Bruner wrote: What does entropy mean to you? I have a IIfx. It has two hard drives. I tried, (not knowing what I am Are we talking a Mac IIFX? Seriously Antique hardware. -- Share and Enjoy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Small bug in dh-make-perl? [was dh-make-perl]

2002-03-18 Thread Petro
These days I'm completely behind on my email, so please excuse the late response. On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:34:52AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: At 07:43 PM 03/03/02 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: I need some of the perl modules installed right now for a school project so am installing them

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Petro
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:16:19PM -0700, user list wrote: This will be a bit of a long message to bear with me. To keep your interest I will tell you straight off that this is not, I repeat NOT, a free speech issue. I will explain why below. I first want to point out that the package

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Petro
for that: #!/bin/sh SAFECAT=/usr/bin/safecat MAILD=/home/petro/Maildir/ $here=`pwd` for DIR in `ls -1` do echo doing $here/ $DIR : if [ ! -d $MAILDIR/$DIR ] then mkdir -m 2700 $MAILD/$DIR mkdir -m 2700 $MAILD/$DIR/cur mkdir -m 2700 $MAILD/$DIR/new

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:05:41PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020313 18:34]: Any racism you perceive in either of those two statements is purely your own ignorance and knee-jerk political correctness. Well, after reading the bug report, it looks like

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Petro
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:05:09PM +, p wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:10:46PM -0800, Petro wrote: Any racism you perceive in either of those two statements is purely your own ignorance and knee-jerk political correctness. b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Petro
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:25:48PM +, p wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:49:56AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with red herring: No! bullshit to you free speech

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Petro
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:04:14AM -0800, Lazarus Long wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:47:25AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote: -Original Message- From: Lazarus Long [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:55 PM Yo family's so black, when they hold hands, it

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 08:42:43AM -0800, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:27:47PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:57:58PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: - Mail client - sylpheed? (there was a discussion on debian-user about this

Re: Help!!! undelete for ext3fs!!!

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:28:30PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: Well, it really is too late now, as this was my root partition and I couldn't unmount it immediately even if I had known what to do. I had already looked at Midnight commander but your additions were helpful as I only saw the

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-05 Thread Petro
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:31:54PM -0600, Pete Harlan wrote: I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get rid of them. I've had this fork: ... message happen when I had only around 300

Re: Apache on Debian - high loads?

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:49:36AM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have experience of running Apache on Debian successfully with high loads? Define High. I've been asked about the possibility of running a webserver with up to five thousand concurrent users. I

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:48:18PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: You can keep right on with the `hard guy' routine, but I think its only fair to warn you that my whole body is a weapon. Hands registered on 3 continents. The last guy that called me a juvenile banterer is pushing up daisies on a

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-04 Thread Petro
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:08:54PM -0800, Angus D Madden wrote: Karsten M. Self, Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:28:18AM -0800: For a fork, I'd suspect you're out of user processes, though checking other resource limits (generally memory and filehandles) is adviseable. There are

Re: Another update on The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot

2002-03-01 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:14:01PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hi, I believe--and I'm sure others will correct me on this if I'm wrong, that there is a file /boot/config-kernel-version that you Great! Thank-you. Now my kernel actually boots. :-) I do have one other weird

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-03-01 Thread Petro
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:00:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Little reason to support Adobe's mindshare. Well, which other consumer software vendors have ported their one of their applications to Linux, and continued to support it even when not making a dime? Word perfect

Re: Setting Ulimits by default.

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:57:34PM -0600, Debian User wrote: My questions are: 1) Is this limit established by the kernel, or the shell. The limit is definitly extablished by the kernel The operating system controls and schedules the processes 2) Given the

Re: Local packages

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 03:19:15PM +0300, Sergey Lapin wrote: Hello, all!!! I have big collection of self-made packages, which I would like to distribute through my network via usual apt-get methods while allowing them to update from Debian sites. Connection is only by http, so I have to

Re: Another update on The Kernel that Wouldn't Boot

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:46:17PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote: Hiya, I tried to cook up another kernel, this time without 686 optimizations, and unfortunately it _still_ won't boot. Is there some way I can use the Debian default configuration rather than my custom kernel configuration,

Re: Enough time wasted, moving on

2002-02-28 Thread Petro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 12:28:52PM -0800, Harris, Jason wrote: I've scores of Debian boxes that are used for revenue generating ventures. Downtime is not an option for me nor for who I answer to. I thought it was basically understood in the IT world (whatever os or software you use) that you

Re: Which mail suite

2002-02-27 Thread Petro
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:52:50AM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 07:39, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'd like to set up my Debian box to fetch mail from my ISP with POP3S. Then, the fetched mails should be made available to a local IMAP server so that I can read them from all

Turning on kernel debugging.

2002-02-27 Thread Petro
Other than compiling in debugging support: # # Kernel hacking # CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_IOVIRT is not set CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y # CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is not set CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y What

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-27 Thread Petro
I'm a little behind here due to an old procmail recipe I had forgotten about, but I wanted to reiterate and expand on something Mr. Wehland writes about: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:26:15PM -0600, Matt Wehland wrote: At 11:29 AM 2/25/02 -0800, you wrote: Save some money and buy the

Setting Ulimits by default.

2002-02-25 Thread Petro
We're having a bit of a problem with our debian machines on heavily loaded servers relating to the number of threads or processes that can be spawned. Currently the default is set at 256 processes (soft) and unlimited hard. I need to set the default to 1024. We are

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Petro
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:58:59PM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: Also, I'd recommend a 40GB or so IBM ATAPI hard drive instead of the SCSI option. It'll cost you less and provide about the same access speed. Maybe even faster

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Petro
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:11:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya comparing ide vs scsi. an age old problem... ?? i sayin my opinion.. you cannot compare an 5400rpm ata-133 ide against a 15krpm scsi-3 u160.. ( well at least definitly not a 5400 rpm 10GB against a 15K rpm 80GB

Re: hardware quote comments?

2002-02-25 Thread Petro
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:14:29PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya petro good you;ve got feedback.. - raw rpm speed by itself doesnt matter ... - 7200rpm ide disks runs hotter than 5400 rpm ide disks :-) Oh yeah they do, but fans are cheap, and (for my application) noise

Re: Default DHCP client

2001-11-25 Thread Petro
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:50:56AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 02:14:11PM -0500, Mike Kuhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is Debian's default DHCP client, pump, dhcp-client or dhcpcd? AFAIK, pump. Though you can install others via apt as you wish, or from other

Re: Misc topics (was Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from Op enBSD)

2001-11-24 Thread Petro
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 06:51:16PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:59:12PM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-23 Thread Petro
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:40:37PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 02:12:17AM -0800, Petro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: ISP asking about switching to Debian from OpenBSD

2001-11-22 Thread Petro
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:04:32PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:38:11PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:28:36PM -0600, David Batey wrote: STABILITY: is Debian a good choice for heavy lifting? There are some legit

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote: I manage a cluster used for computational neuroscience at a University. The number of machines is starting to get to a point where it is difficult to maintain software synchronization across machines. Any tips?

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:38:56PM -0800, Robert Waldner wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:35:21 CST, hanasaki writes: Is there some way to have: - Machine is assigned a DHCP random IP - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP into Bind with the hostname? uargh,

Re: interfaces and ip addressing

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:37:43PM -0800, Tom Goulet wrote: Can I also untar linux-2.2.19.kernel.source.tar.gz under /usr/src and do the same stuff I've been doing for a long time? make menuconfig dep clean modules modules-install bzImage. Should I also copy the compiled kernel to /boot and

Re: managing multiple machines

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:49:05PM -0800, nate wrote: hanasaki said: Is there some way to have: - Machine is assigned a DHCP random IP - Use the MAC to map to a hostname and then push the assigned IP into Bind with the hostname? i don't know how you'd use the MAC to map to a

Question about dselect:

2001-11-19 Thread Petro
I have a little...issue with dselect. I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that wants to have libc6-dev, which is fine as

Re: Linux LDAP problem

2001-08-28 Thread Petro
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:23:47AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: Hey, I've got a slight problem, at school we run two major networks, one half is Novell Netware based, and the other half is unix based. We basically one centralized system of authentication, so that user don't have to remember