Re: jessie+kde: how to make gtk apps look better integrated

2015-05-01 Thread Tim Kelley
You just need gtk themes that provide both gtk2 and gtk3 versions. Tim Kelley On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 11:17 AM, lostson wrote: > > > On 05/01/2015 08:55 AM, baldyeti wrote: > > Hello, just trying out debian8 (amd64) with the KDE. > > Looks real good so far, just dislike

Re: System wide proxy in Debian Jessie

2015-05-01 Thread Tim Kelley
Great suggestion! Yeah, actually for some reason that slipped my mind ... if it's just a local system you're concerned with, iptables can easily redirect your web traffic to the local running proxy (whatever it is). Tim Kelley On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Matthias Bodenbind

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

2015-05-01 Thread Tim Kelley
a "\" Tim Kelley On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > On 05/01/2015 12:07 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I entered the following in .bashrc > > > >PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' > &g

Re: System wide proxy in Debian Jessie

2015-05-01 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > Which is the standard/recommended way to set system wide proxy in > Debian instead of editing utility specific rc files (wgetrc, apt.conf > etc)? > > I am aware of /etc/environment, setting http_proxy environ variable > and then export it,

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Kelley
> So a client comes to you as a professional admin. Let's say they have > an aging Squeeze LTS based web server. They want to move to Jessie > which you may have heard is recently released. Would you re-install > their system to Jessie and ask them to reinstall their web site from > scratch? Or

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Kelley
Servers are created from scratch in minutes at will from an SCMS or automated install and if not, you are wrong! Tim Kelley On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:52:07 -0500 > Tim Kelley wrote: > > > Tim Kelley > > > >

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Tim Kelley
Tim Kelley On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:11:52 -0500 > Tim K wrote: > > > For me, and I think anyone with a sensibly laid out system, it's so much > > less trouble and time to reinstall. > > While th

Re: making thumbnails

2015-04-28 Thread Tim Kelley
You could use convert to degrade the quality rather than size, so the page won't be moving about when loading. Tim Kelley On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Siard wrote: > Steve Greig wrote: > > I have about 60 large jpg files in a directory. They are almost all > > over 2M

Re: no ntp installed

2015-04-28 Thread Tim Kelley
Yes, far preferable to running a local ntpd on every machine. Tim Kelley On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-28, Erwan David wrote: > >> > >> $ systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service > >> $ systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service

Re: jessie: how to suppress emacs24 warnings

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
As I understand it, it is generally considered unprofessional to have your application print warnings. Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Erwan David wrote: > > Juha Heinanen a écrit : > > > Is there anything that can be done to get rid of thos

Re: jessie: how to suppress emacs24 warnings

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
tual errors that are important. As far as I can tell, it's a compiled flag on gtk, so filing a bug against gtk is probably the best thing to do. You could rebuild the gtk deb from the source deb and change that and install it too, if you want to do that. Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:

Re: jessie: how to suppress emacs24 warnings

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
not start it from the terminal and start from an icon or menu. ​ Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Juha Heinanen wrote: > after upgrading to jessie that came with emacs24, i get the warnings > below to terminal window each time i start emacs in x11 environment. > any hints o

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
True that. When you run unstable or testing it's best to take great care when updating or installing anything, as in sid installing something can trigger a shitstorm depending on what was uploaded that day ... stable only for me these days. Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:28 AM,

Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
can't allow you to do that." Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote: > I actually miss the good'ol days of dselect. Apart from that I've been > using a combination of apt for small tasks and synaptic for large numbers > of packages. &

Re: Best way for "Red Hat guy" to learn Debian?

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
e source building utilities go far beyond what yum does. Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:45 AM, Tim Kelley wrote: > Do read throught the Debian Aministrator's guide and for quick question > irc freenode #debian is a big help > > Tim Kelley > > >

Re: Best way for "Red Hat guy" to learn Debian?

2015-04-27 Thread Tim Kelley
Do read throught the Debian Aministrator's guide and for quick question irc freenode #debian is a big help Tim Kelley On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby < mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org> wrote: > On 04/26/2015 10:30 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > >>

Re: [way OT, but desperate] GoBook speakers

2015-04-26 Thread Tim Kelley
(like man -k pulse) They will help you debug this issue, you might see why the speakers are disconnecting. Tim Kelley On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Glenn English wrote: > Is anyone here familiar with GoBook XR-1 laptops? > > A friend and I have several of them (running Wheezy

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-04 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:05:01AM +0300, Andres J?rv wrote: > I'm missing the point of make-kpkg. It doesn't make any other difference > than make things more complicated IMHO. I just use the old fashion way of cp > and make modules_install ;) ? It doesn't take any longer, and you get version t

Re: Debian on an old PC

2005-01-05 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:36:44PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:54 +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > >> I need some advice. Is debian fit for a Pentium 100MHz PC with 16MB RAM > >> and approx 4Gb harddisk? Are there anyone who has experience with such a > >> slow

Re: aic7xxx won't load?

2005-01-03 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:16:30PM +0100, Didde Brockman wrote: > After trying a stable install which of course could not find the > drive(s) I resorted to the Debian Installer which has helped in the > passed when I had to deal with hardware not supported by woody's boot > disks. Sarge seems t

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-26 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:05, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on > servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience. You've got to be kidding me. I've run sid for ab

Re: Sarge Betting Pool

2004-12-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 17 December 2004 15:07, William Ballard wrote: > I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers? April 1, 2017, unless they can't get their shit together, in which case April 2027. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:51, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the files in a

Re: AMD 64 with woody or sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:38, Nick Miller wrote: > Hey all, > > I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had > running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I > would really like to push my company to replace some of our lower end > servers

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 15 December 2004 10:56, Christian Convey wrote: > Hi guys, > > Recently I've spent a lot of time digging through udev / hotplug issues, > getting to know modprobe, modules.conf, alsaconf, XF86Config-4 etc. > This was all to get a digicam and a flashdrive to be useful, or to make > soun

Re: Conversion PDF->WMF

2004-12-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 December 2004 17:36, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Because of unpleasant requirements at work, I am producing diagrams in a > Windows program that has no export capabilities at all. I can print, > however, and I am using the free PDFCreator project from sourceforge to > generate PDFs. This

Re: postfix logrotate

2004-12-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 December 2004 05:07, Tom Allison wrote: > I would like to be able to rotate my logs on a daily (midnight) basis. > Currently they are rotating at 6:23AM daily. > > I didn't see anything that would specify the time of day to do a > daily/weekly rotation. You can change the time scripts

Re: Can I setup my computer to print off of a windows network?

2004-12-02 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:09:07PM -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Right now i do not have a printer attached to my computer. But, I am > networked with another computer in my house that IS connected to a > printer. However, that computer is running WinXP Home. Can I set up > Debian Unstable (with

Re: DFSG-free replacement of DJBDNS ?

2004-11-27 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 27 November 2004 02:09, Frank Bauer wrote: > Hello. > > I'm searching for dns server for a small network. I have used djbdns > in the past, but now I'd like to switch to something dfsg-free. > > The dns server should have both authoritative (for computers in local > network only) and re

Re: Problem with CUPS: need to enter password for lp and lpq several times

2004-11-21 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:34, Andreas Ehn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using CUPS (cupsys-1.1.20final+rc1-10) in Sarge and have a problem > using any functions that require authentication. > > If I want to print a document using lp, I have to enter my password > three times before it is accepted. If I

Re: about cups-client

2004-11-20 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 20 November 2004 00:24, tiger wrote: > However, I installed cupsys-client pacakage, and added the ServerName in > /etc/cups/client.conf. After that lpstat could see the printer name and > status. But when I use lp -d printername filename, lpstat said " sending > 341515 bytes. " som

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 08:06, Bob wrote: > Hello list, I've read the section in the install manual about > recommended partitioning schemes, but thought I would also see what the > collective wisdom has to say on the matter. Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same s

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 17:35, Steve Lamb wrote: > I tend to put /, /usr and /var on their own partitions of decent size > (180Mb, 2.7Gb, 1.8Gb on my laptop) and then take the remainder and mount it > under it's drive name in /mnt. So for my laptop /dev/hda7, a 15Gb > partition, is mou

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 15 November 2004 19:39, Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall > (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use > it with my Debian box. > > I have noticed there i

Re: Bizarre NFS Problem

2004-11-16 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 08:45, Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: > I know this is an old thread now, but I finally got a chance to try out > the above. And while I was very hopeful in that it might work it still > ended up with the same results. I don't know about everybody else but I > am

Re: why debian

2004-11-14 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 14 November 2004 11:47, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Debian and actually the whole free software community would be an > awesome case study in political theory. It's been done, people just have a short memory. In fact, it's a little unnerving that software developers are so ignorant of pol

Re: why debian - longer

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 12 November 2004 22:24, Alvin Oga wrote: thanks for your response > > Well, first, some very general things: > > just some comments ... > > > 1. Debian is not a commercial organization, but a protected non-profit. > > This means they cannot be bought out. > > people can and will

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 12 November 2004 02:11, ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why Debian > should be the preferred choice? > > Any statistics from any source(s) to proof the popularity of Debian? > > I'm in the dark waiting to be enlightened. Well,

Re: DNS problem

2004-11-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:47:50PM -0800, RituRaj wrote: > I have DNS problem. THe mails from our company sent > outside have started buncing with following error. It > was working till yesterday... > > ... while talking to smtp.pspl.co.in.: > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=3535954 > <<< 4

Re: new colour printer only uses black and white

2004-11-04 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:19:12PM +, Dave Howorth wrote: > I'm a lucky boy! We just installed a new HP4650dn colour laserjet. > Almost everything seems good but it is printing in monochrome from my > Debian box (mostly!). What ppd are you using with this printer? Is the printer capable of p

Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please

2004-10-30 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:01:43AM +0100, Joao Clemente wrote: > Hi. > For the first time I'm gonna setup a server with SCSI disks (until now > I've done it only with IDE - regular ATA or SATA) > > I'm getting a completly new server (P4 3Ghz, Dual-Channel DDR 400, MB > with intel chipset) and, w

Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please - fun

2004-10-30 Thread Tim Kelley
> > hi ya > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: > > > I'm getting a completly new server (P4 3Ghz, Dual-Channel DDR 400, MB > > with intel chipset) and, while I have a good ideia on these components, > > I would like to setup a RAID-1 system with SCSI disks... > > there is zero point ot se

Re: How to install MTA from source without breaking apt-get dependencies

2004-10-19 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:06:16PM -0500, Adi Linden wrote: > > I don't think you need to build postfix from source to use cyrus-imap > > (i suspect you need to look carefully at the sasl authentication), but > > if you insist, i suggest to use the debian sources and build a debian > > package. Any

fbcon problems

2004-10-18 Thread Tim Kelley
I'm using the fb driver to get a high res console. Unfortunately, it still only has 43 columns (well 43 characters), and after that, typing becomes a mess. Is there some way around this? I am using both the intel i810 driver (2.4) and the radeon driver (2.6) and they both do this. I don't seem t

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 15 October 2004 14:05, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:33:07PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote: > > One solution would be to make that directory a separate file system. > > Then when the filesystem's space is consumed apt won't be able to > > exceed that limit. > > I wond

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-15 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Both you guys have missed my main message - the speed I was talking about > was using SCP - so perhaps its also processors trying to do encrypt the > message. No, that is neglegible, unless this is a 386 or something. > The thro

Re: Debian & Contivity VPN

2004-10-14 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:51:19PM -0700, Jeremy Brooks wrote: > 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

Re: Multiple CD ISO's into single DVD ISO?

2004-10-14 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:23:32PM -0700, Eric Wagar wrote: > But, I was not able to find any file like a .discinfo > (referenced in above article about which disk, etc) > on Debian. > > Has anyone been able to do the multi CD's into single > DVD? If so, how? Well, I don't know about concatenat

Re: Equivalents ?.

2004-10-14 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 14 October 2004 04:05, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Artur M. Piwko wrote: > > I do not know what '-ql' does. > > Try 'dpkg -X package', where 'X' is: l, L, s, S. Maybe you'll find > > what you want. > > q means what version of a package. > l means where are the package installed, and it also

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying copy about 350Mb of files - each one about 2.8MB each - over an > nfs link. Although I primarily trying this via drag and drop inside kde, > command line copying is also not working > > With the sync option it is very

Re: trouble with pam-ldap

2004-10-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 15:09, Jeremy Brown wrote: > I'm trying to get a Debian sarge machine to authenticate against an > OpenLDAP server (running on the same box) with no success. > > Here are all non-comment lines in the relevant PAM files: > > /etc/pam.d/common-account: > account required pa

Re: Serious problems after "apt-get dist-upgrade"

2004-10-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:35:19PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > > That was a very powerful command that I will remember > for later use...after I reinstall Woody and start > over. Tons of things were installed that "apt-get > dist-upgrade" missed but they ended up hosing the > system. I had to b

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:19:48AM -0400, Marc D Ronell wrote: > > Hi, > > Under Debian, is there a method which allows any user directly logged > onto the host and using the host's keyboard and monitor to take > ownership of some that host's devices? For example, to change the > own

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-08 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 08 October 2004 07:22, gimmy tang wrote: > Just like solaris. > gimmy from one desktop to another - function of the wnidow manager from one display to another - use xmove utility -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /

Re: HOWTO build and package CMYK seperate plugin for the GIMP (SID)

2004-10-08 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 08 October 2004 02:50, Gerhard Gaussling wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Sarge/SID. > > I want to build and package the gimp plugin Seperate [3], > which relies on the CMM of the little-cms [5] and seems to > make a first step toward the needed CMYK seperation in > the GIMP. To compile g

Re: firewall + mail gw

2004-10-07 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:20, Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: > I'd like to set up some kind of email server (in the firewall machine) that > collects all the emails for each user and let them read it with webmail or > outlook from the internal network, and let me use some kind of > spam/

Re: printing Woody

2004-10-04 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 04 October 2004 11:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Installed CUPS... and then did: > > /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p Laser -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -P /root/laser.ppd > > Got the following error: > lpadmin: add-printer failed: client-error-not-found tried: /usr/sbin/lpadmin -E -p Laser -v parallel:/d

Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

2004-10-02 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 02 October 2004 21:19, David A. Cobb wrote: > I can't find anything in the docs to give me a clue. > If I do apt-get dist-upgrade, how do I direct it which of [stable, > testing, unstable] to target? Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing? > > Dist-upgrade seems to have been the cau

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-01 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:50:40PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:02:52AM -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > Is there a secure, solid and stable e-mail client built for linux? > > No. Every mail client in existence is utter crap, including mutt and > gnus. The best you can

Re: "resolving host"

2004-09-30 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:45, Ralph Katz wrote: > > Subject: "resolving host" > > Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:14:42 -0500 > > From: Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Newsgroups: linux.debian.user > > > > I wonder why browsing is so slow with Mozilla in > > Debian (well, Libranet). > > > > Usin

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-09-30 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:58:26AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > No, I already have root logins disabled via ssh. Now I'd like to get > something setup that starts blocking ips automatically when it sees a > certain number of failed logins. Not blocking based on username, but > blocking based on ip addr

Re: /bin contents

2004-09-29 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 21:03, Tim Kelley wrote: > On Wednesday 29 September 2004 13:28, Don Hayward wrote: > > Is there a package that contains the standard contents of the /bin > > directory? I erred. > > The following should get all the packages which had files

Re: /bin contents

2004-09-29 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 13:28, Don Hayward wrote: > Is there a package that contains the standard contents of the /bin > directory? I erred. The following should get all the packages which had files in /bin reinstalled: (one line) apt-get install --reinstall `dpkg -S /bin/[a-z]* | awk 'BE

Re: Lost printing from OpenOffice; spadmin doesn't add printer

2004-09-29 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:37:54PM +, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote: > I am sure we need a standard, easy, free(freedom), free( gratis) system > for printing in Linux, in a similar way to Windows (relating to standard > and easy). There is, it is cups. the problem is 1) win printer

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-29 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:39:02AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > > Just as an aside, I installed CUPS and I can't print. It says there > > isn't anything connected to the port, however during install it went out > > and found the p

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: Linux Installation with SCSI Drive

2004-09-27 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 26 September 2004 23:26, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Ronald wrote: > > I often try out (installing) Linux distributions, so > > this is an I/O intensive operation (writing to the drive). > I was wondering the same and was about to post a similar message to the > list. I feel as if my up-to-d

Re: Via CLE266 Graphics

2004-09-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 23 September 2004 07:02, David Dorward wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Adding that didn't work. I'll try a new kernel and then build the DRM > module this evening. If you just want to get a working X, forget about drm and agpgart, just try to get X working. -- _ _ _ _

Re: samba versus nfs

2004-09-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 24 September 2004 07:23, Stephen Tait wrote: > At 12:58 24/09/2004, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >If I have a file server that has a samba server installed and is accessed > > by both linux and WinXP machines do I really need NFS installed and > > running? My understanding is that samba is

Re: how to disable /tmp clean on boot

2004-09-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 24 September 2004 07:33, Vijaya S wrote: > Hi all, > > When Debian is booted i find that /tmp is cleaned.. > How do i disabled it? The correct way is to use /var/tmp for temp files instead; /tmp is supposed to be cleaned on boot, /var/tmp is supposed to remain. -- _ _ _ _ _

Re: Apache 2 error log - Looks like somebody has been trying to break into my machine HELP

2004-09-23 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:17:54PM +0100, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > I believe that somebody has been trying to break into my machine via > apache2. I have the following in my In my apache2 error log > /var/log/apache2/error.log can somebody explain how they have managed this? > How have I miss con

Re: All these open ports

2004-09-22 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:57, Tom Allison wrote: > > At the risk of provoking the usual "WELL GO RUN WINDOWS THEN!!!" > > knee-jerk reaction, I will mention that the Gatesware-based firewall > > packages (like "Zone Alarm") will detect *outgoing* connection attempts > > and query whether the

Re: Delays accesing some urls from debian

2004-09-21 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:46:10AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I just tried it from my Debian box at the office; took about 51 seconds, > 50 of which were spent "resolving www.nytimes.com". A traceroute gets > about 13 hops down the route and then hits a major snag just after > ge-1-2.a00.nycmny

Re: Preinstalled System

2004-09-20 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 20 September 2004 19:02, robin wrote: > >"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than > >"Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from > >that one. > > I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a > desktop machine. I have run unstable without any p

Re: [exim4debian] Re: Debian-exim - blech!

2004-09-20 Thread Tim Kelley
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:07:52PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:48:43AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > "mail" is and always has been a standard system account: > > "mail" is also the account that owns the mail spool, hence all MUAs > run sgid mail per policy. Running the

Re: DLT7000 block size

2004-09-14 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 07:59, Gabor Melis wrote: > After heavy googling I tried passing tar the block size explicitly with -b > (for both invocations). It is not until '-b 216' that tar finally manages > to read back the archive. I can find no documentation for the Quantum > DLT7000 that ment

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-11 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 14:40, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you want network performance... you have to spend a day tuning it > and testing it and changing the tcp/ip parameters and hope your nic > can also keep up ( most all of um fail ... none can run(sustained) at > even 50% of its 100Mbps or 10

Re: Tripwire

2004-09-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 03:48, David Baron wrote: > Anyone using this on Debian? > > This is a file-system integrity checker, will detect hacks, intrusions, > etc. I tried it but seems to find lots of stuff that seem part of the > dynamics of the ongoing system operation, and attempts to change

Re: bandwidth management

2004-09-10 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 10 September 2004 10:53, Delta Sierra wrote: > hi guys, > > i'm just finish installing woody for our gateway. > Is there any bandwidth management tool in dist? The QOS stuff in the kernel is good, but the iproute version in woody (the tools to manipulate the kernel features) is showing

Re: How to set up CUPS client

2004-09-09 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:35:08AM -0400, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > For the benefit of anyone else trying this, you don't have to touch > anything on the client machine(s). Just the default install of the basic > CUPS packages is needed on the client. The CUPS daemon running on the > client will then au

Re: php connection to apache

2004-09-07 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:32:59AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > Hi every body, > I want ask a question about php/apache? > When I send throw a post method from a form a > variable, the called file(php ) doesn't receive it > Probably you have register globals turned off ... (a new defau

Re: Squid Proxy Permission

2004-09-06 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 06 September 2004 08:13, My Linux wrote: > Hi! > > Can squid proxy configure control user authentication and desktop IP > control..? Squid can do ntlm authentication, or ip based access. I don't think it's pam aware. But does it really matter? Not sure what you mean by "desktop ip cont

Re: Linux Installation with SCSI Drive

2004-09-06 Thread Tim Kelley
On Monday 06 September 2004 00:00, Ronald wrote: > I often try out (installing) Linux distributions, so > this is an I/O intensive operation (writing to the drive). > > Would using SCSI drive significantly improve the installing > time? (halve it?) Yes, from CD/DVD of course. > FYI currently I us

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Tim Kelley
On Friday 03 September 2004 17:01, John Lowell wrote: > 1. Is the Debian versioning system so rigid as too require only the > installation of Debian packages? I ask because installation of "stable" > and "unstable " packages is clearly discouraged and it occured to me > that the use of non-Debian

Re: Howto Observe My DSL Router Traffice Load...?

2004-09-01 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:04:46AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Documentation on munin is pretty sparse. Can you give a basic > example of what to put in munin.conf to create some basic load graphs > from the localhost? [localhost] address 127.0.0.1 use_node_name = yes This will cause th

Re: Howto Observe My DSL Router Traffice Load...?

2004-09-01 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:30:52PM +0530, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I am connected to a DSL Router in my office who's IP is > 192.168.1.1 and i wana check its traffice load and Bandwidth > consumption...how can I as my machine IP is 192.168.1.252 You could use mrtg or munin for this

Re: Integrating creating users through WebMin

2004-08-30 Thread Tim Kelley
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Currently we have a RedHat 8 server that was a special order to do the > following: > When I create a user through WebMin, it automatically creates a samba > user profile for them, and a MailDir for Postfix. > > Well, that server

Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

2004-08-30 Thread Tim Kelley
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:48:49PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC which is SATA. I got it at the beginning > of the year. I run Sarge on it no problems w/ the 2.6.7 kernel. > > It comes with some crap on the drive. I did a fresh install, wiping the > drive clean in the

Re: Working backup solution?

2004-08-29 Thread Tim Kelley
On Sunday 29 August 2004 02:33, Didde Brockman wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to find a decent backup solution for our 5 Debian systems – > all on Dell hardhardware. Been looking at the Dell PowerVault 122 as it > seems to fit our needs quite good in terms of capacity (640Gb max). > > I'm now curio

Re: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2004-08-28 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:11, Phil Thomson wrote: > TIA. This is my first time installing Debian, and I'm not a Linux wizard at > the best of times. Some of these questions may appear basic, but I'm just > trying to learn how to do this stuff. You can reply to me offlist if you > want. Just t

Re: Modems for Linux?

2004-08-26 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:24:28AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > Hi, > > My existing dialup modem does not have linux drivers (its one of those > winmodems), and so am planning on buying a new modem for my machine. I > checked around the net for a list of modems that are known to work > with

Re: Snort default config ?

2004-08-26 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:27:33AM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > Installed snort the other day and I am getting daily reports > from the default setup. I did nothing but install. > > So, is there anything I should/need do to this default config > for simple monitoring or/and a bit of added secu

Re: fine-tuning du -h ?

2004-08-26 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Josef Oswald wrote: > Sorry I was not clear here, I want to check more then _one_ directory, > at once: try du -csm /home/* and note the difference leaving the wildcard off the end makes. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \

Re: HylaFax receives rubbish

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:56, Clement wrote: > Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got > Hyafax to receive fax. However, the pages received are just rubbish. When > I setup Hylafax to email received fax as a PDF to me, that PDF is a totally > white page. > > Do

Re: windowmanager stopped working

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 21:08, Tom Allison wrote: > Tim Kelley wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:18:31PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > >>OK, I finally got one of those annoying surprises. > >> > >> > >>No syslog entries. > >>No XFr

Re: Real Time monitoring/alerting utility..

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:14:50AM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > No - He wants to be notified immediately if an FTP or SSH connection is > established. Using snort and tailing the logfile, it doesn't get much more real time than that. Just modify the config files to treat all accesses as aler

Re: windowmanager stopped working

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:18:31PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > OK, I finally got one of those annoying surprises. > No syslog entries. > No XFree log entries. > Executing 'startx' works perfectly, including the NVidia driver support. > dmesg | less doesn't show anything failing or warnings. > > I

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:14:53PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > Or even better maybe, four shorewall packages - the current one being > renamed shorewall-common and the others each depending on > shorewall-common and having sample configurations for one interface, two >

Re: Ask for fwbuilder, get AOHellServer?!? [stable/woody]

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Kelley
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:26:51PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > What the heck is this? On the basis of recomendations from this list, > I decided I ought to look into fwbuilder. > > aptitude install fwbuilder apt-cache depends fwbuilder has no dependency on httpd, so I don't know how it got on

Re: Using SuSE9.1 software to upgrade X?

2004-08-24 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:21, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi all, > I got SuSE 9.1 professional edition and aliened some of its GUI packages to > produce .deb packages. These packages were specifically X-related since I > wanted a better GUI than that provided by woody 3.0r2. This most especia

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