Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
By changing the default runlevel. Read man init and edit /etc/inittab. Good luck! Hi, How do I make my system boot to a text based login instead of a gui log in window? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Boot to console

2004-07-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
OOPS, wasn't aware of that! But you are of course absolutely right. I guess that was some old Slack leftover in my head (/me slaps himself on the head).. Hmm although I do use Debian for over 4 yrs ofso :). OOPS :) Pim --- Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By changing

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Ehm... If I remember correctly The optimal refreshrate for any LCD is 60 Hz. No need to go higher. It might damage your screen if you go to far, and it will give you **worse** image than on 60. 60 is the optimized refresh rate. Forget the whole refresh-rate discussion on CRT screens. LCD is

Re: ipopd plain text passwords

2004-06-29 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
dpkg-reconfigure ipopd :) While doing an apt-get install ipopd I was asked if I wanted to allow plain text passwords or not for the pop3 server. I selected no without giving it a 2nd thought as I also selected pop3s. I now have some users who are trying to access their mail using clients

Re: gnome-panel-data 2.6.1-4 problems

2004-06-25 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, Unfortunately I am having the same problems. I was on holiday for 3 weeks, so wasn't able to get this done earlier. I searched the archives, and found the link mentioned. Unfortunately it is dead by now :(. I did some more googling but couldn't find anything else... Anyone having a copy of

Re: Debian vs. other distros

2004-06-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, I have had issues installing Fedora Core 2, (and 1), but no matter what, Debian installs like a charm...and quick to. Despite being text-based...the installer is one of the best i've seen. Plus, I like the fact that you can pretty much apt-get anything. I agreed to the critics untill

Re: D-I Issue on partitioning. [Was: Re: Debian vs. other distros]

2004-06-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
the 17 GB or so as *free* and it was now happy to allow me to manually partition them. Sorry for the lengthy explanation. Maybe I am wrong and maybe I missed something. But that would suprise me, as I really checked and double checked and double checked and and :). Regards, Pim Pim Bliek

error in Plone on Sid

2004-05-27 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi all, Recent upgrade of Zope made my Plone go berserk :(. I cannot edit content, I cannot add new users, nothing. Gives me the following error everytime: Error Details Fouttype TypeError Foutwaarde get_field() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given) Anyone any clues? Pim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Samba 3.0.4-3 Problem

2004-05-24 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Nobody any idea why Samba broke with the latest upgrade? Pim I'm having the same issue here on Sid. I get the following email from my system: The Samba 'panic action' script, /usr/share/samba/panic-action, was called for pid 2618 (/usr/sbin/smbd). Below is a backtrace for this process

Re: choice of HDD

2004-05-14 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Thanx all for the advise. I think I'll go for the Seagate. Anyone aware of issues with the SATA chipset on the ASUS A7N8X deluxe 2.0 mobo? Pim Pim Bliek wrote: snip I guess I prefer SATA because.. well, it's the future :). Any suggestions? I am looking for something fast, in the range of

SATA on Nforce2 mobo - [was: Re: choice of HDD]

2004-05-13 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi all, Any user experiences on SATA on the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 mobo in combo with Debian / Linux? Stable? Any issues? Pim I am in the market for a new HDD for my Debian (Sarge) Desktop. I have an NForce2 ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 motherboard with 2 PATA connectors and 2 SATA ones. I guess I

Re: choise of HDD

2004-05-13 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
- PingWings - Making the penguin fly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M: 06-24711729 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I: www.pingwings.nl - hi ya pim On Wed, 12 May 2004, Pim Bliek wrote: Hiya all,

Re: choise of HDD

2004-05-13 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Sorry about this people, I definately need more caffeine this morning... - PingWings - Making the penguin fly - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M: 06-24711729 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I: www.pingwings.nl

Re: authenticate via NTLM AD

2004-05-07 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
You need to give clients access in the APS config! Maybe that helps? Hi, i'm getting closer but it's still not working. First, i've installed the Jana server but i couldn't even use it from my windows machine. I mean it worked but i wasn't able to establsh a connection through it. So i

Re: nForce lockups back

2004-04-23 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
We had some topics on this a week or two before. Try changing your udma settings to udma3 f.i. Do this with hdparm. Worked for me. Theoretically this might be slower on your HDD performance, but it is a working workaround for the hangs. Pim Hi all, I'm sure many of you have heard of or

Re: nForce lockups back

2004-04-23 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Dominique, You can also try to boot with idle=poll parameter (in your lilo.conf). With this parm my nforce2 mobo is stable. Off course, you are correct. I didn't have time yet to test that.. Pim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [not yet :-( fixed] Re: hangs on Nforce2 kernel 2.6.4

2004-04-14 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hiya, But, the suggestion by Dominique Dumont already proved to be the solution! Changing the default udma5 to 3 with hdparm resolved the issue. I tested with moving some really big files (300 M) from a VFAT partition to ext3 and vice versa. It crashed on this before, but not anymore.

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:19:39PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: Stable -- CURRENT_STABLE Testing -- ALMOST_STABLE Unstable -- NEW_NOT_PROVEN http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unstable 1. a) Tending strongly to change: unstable weather. b) Not constant; fluctuating

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-14 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi All, The idea of renaming the releases is coming up not because of marketing, or attracting people. It is coming up because the current naming scheme Hmm. You are right about that. However, I always like to make an analisys on the 'bigger picture' before I start digging :). I think it is

no DRI in X

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0. display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No My XF86config (the relevant parts): Section Module #Load GLCore Load glx Load dri snip Section Device Identifier

Re: Restart kdm after logout

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Actually, you don't need to edit a script. If you just installed KDM through the regular apt-get system you should have a script in /etc/init.d/kdm. Have a look at it, and also at /etc/X11/default-display-manager So probably the only thing you need to do is run: /etc/init.d/kdm start Which

Re: no DRI in X

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 11:06, Robin Putters wrote: Anyone any hints on how to get DRI working? I want to play TuxRacer :P. My Videocard is a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 Pro. I had basically the same problems. Everything seemed to be ok, but fiddling with the order the kernel modules were loaded

logcheck config

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi All, I get these in the mail via logcheck every hour: Apr 12 10:55:01 fourtytwo CRON[7688]: (pam_unix) session opened for user list by (uid=0) Apr 12 10:55:01 fourtytwo CRON[7688]: (pam_unix) session closed for user list Repeat the above a zillion times :) I looked through the config in

Re: awstats: Stats for exim4 and uw-ftpd?

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 12:00, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 08:04:19PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Setting up awstats was not particularly difficult for apache, but now I want to continue and set it up to give stats on exim and uw-ftpd. However, I cannot find any documentation

Re: no DRI in X

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
, 2004-04-12 at 16:07, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 the mental interface of Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl told: Hi Elimar, Thanks for your suggestions. Here is my output... Pim $ export LIBGL_DEBUG=1 glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI

Re: no DRI in X

2004-04-12 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Unfortunately, that is not it too Pim $ dpkg -l | grep xlib ii xlibmesa-dri 4.3.0-7Mesa 3D graphics library modules [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-gl4.3.0-7Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa-glu 4.3.0-7Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa3

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Just an important addition in my opinion: Then edit /etc/fstab and change the ext2 to ext3 for each partition on which you enabled a journal and reboot or remount those partitions. The conversion only takes a few tens of seconds for each partition, and you can always back out by simply

dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi all, English is not my native language. Does anyone know what 'dangling' means? I get the following errors emailed via cron every day: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/ipfwadm.8.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/fax500.8.gz is a dangling

Re: opengroupware.org

2003-09-24 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, Sure is nice! I'd love to be able to provide support for this to my customers. However, I don't like the fact that the Outlook plugin is closed-source... with quite a high price-tag. It will be impossible to convince customers to use OpenGroupware.org instead of Exchange if it is basically as

Re: zope?

2003-09-22 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
I did a full apt-get remove --purge zope And then reinstalled it, *without* the ldap stuff etc. I only install zope-cmfplone and related packages. Works fine now, I can use it on port 9673. Pim P.S. I run Sid - PingWings - the penguin provides

Re: Troubles connection to the LAN

2003-09-16 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Yo! This it was. (: I had the CONFIG_FILTER flag not in my options. But maybe the help text is a little bit confusing there as well since it states that this option is needed for PPP (whicht i do not use). You are absolutely right. It is weird that is not mentioned at all in the kernelconfig

Re: Please

2003-09-16 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
You have two options: 1- go to your local reseller and buy Windows. If you have a problem, call the Evil Empire. 2- RTFM. Google is your best friend. First try the user manuals on www.debian.org. If you consider continuing running Debian GNU/Linux, and you read the manuals and HOWTO's and you

Re: Troubles connection to the LAN

2003-09-15 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Did you enable CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER in your kernel? Without this, your system won't be able to use DHCP. Pim Pim Bliek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Unfortunately the NICs don't get IP addresses from their respective dhcp-servers, and if i give

Re: Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-04 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
No flame intended, but I signup to a mailinglist called debian-user to get emails about the use of debian. I understand that threads might go offtopic after a while. So I suggest, when this happens, we kindly ask the people discussing to move on with their discussion in a seperate 'special OT'

Re: Good Packet Sniffer

2003-09-04 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
at both ends. I want to know what kind of load the T1 has. In other Not sure what you mean, but I guess u want to know what the used bandwith is? You could try to use mrtg (http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/index-2.html), which is a very nice tool for measuring all kind of stuff,

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt /dev/lp0 ?? Good luck! Pim - PingWings - the penguin provides profit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M:

Re: open office spell checking

2003-08-30 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
I for myself won't be using KOffice untill it is able to save in MsWord format, Excel format etc. Unfortunately I have friends, colleagues and clients who do use M$ crap still ;). Pity nobody knows how to get the spellcheck in OO fixed, I am having the same issue here... Pim I can't get the

Re: Merging CD-Images

2003-08-19 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
I want to upgrade from sarge to sid and I have disks 1-8 dated 2003-07-27 and disks 9-11. Could this be a problem when I make the upgrade using apt-get dist upgrade? Maybe I am interpreting your question wrongly, but are you saying you are going to upgrade from CDROM? If you havew a broadband

Re: [Veering OT] RE: Panda antivirus?

2003-08-16 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi, I was just suggesting clamav because it is *free* software, while Panda is apparently not. I prefer to use free alternatives if possible for everything. Pim On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:04, Pim Bliek | PingWings wrote: What about clamav? Try apt-get install clamav and see how that works ;).

Re: Howto released: Using OpenLDAP on Debian Woody to serve Linux andSamba users

2003-08-14 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Markus, You HERO I struggled for ages with LDAP and could not get it to work really well!!! I am going to try your HOWTO tonight! I waited for a good HOWTO! Since I couldn't get it to work before, I could not write one myself unfortunately. Good work Markus! Did anyone, or maybe you Markus,

Re: FYI

2003-08-09 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
*please* grow up... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhclient fails after kernel recompilation

2003-08-08 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Did u set CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_SOCKET in your kernel? (i am not 100% sure if these are the correct keywords, but i had a problem with DHCP earlier this week after install of a new kernel. turned out to be the problem that these 2 were not set in my kernelconfig..) Pim

[OT] Please STOP it! -- Was: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-03 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Can we PLEASE cut this thread? It is way off topic and it starts to get really annoying. This list is already high-volume, and I don't mind a good discussion, but this is a bit too much don't you think? Thanx! Regards, Pim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Kollab packages?

2003-08-03 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hello all, Is anyone aware of someone working on KDE Kollab packages for Debian? I would really love to see these packaged! Unfortunately I am not a programmer or developer as such, so I cannot do it... Anyone working on it? Best regards, Pim Bliek -

Icons dissapearing in SId / KDE

2003-07-23 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi All, I installed Sid with KDE 3.1 on a machine yesterday evening (CET). The bug with ksysguard was just closed, and I managed to download the newest packages from www.debian.org in my /etc/apt/sources.list. So far so good. I got X running, including the xft font server, some truetype