Re: why does a process gets killed?

2002-01-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Imre Vida wrote: What could i do to figure out what is the problem? Watch the kernel log /var/log/syslog, or Check resource limits (umlilit -a, ulimit -Sa), or strace the process to see what happens. Walter

Re: iptables ruleset

2002-01-03 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Martin A. Hansen wrote: any suggestions on how to set up a strong firewall rule set will be appreciated! I don't believe the standard ipmasq setup provides any form of firewalling. I have attached the script that I'm currently using. Feel free to use it if it suits you.

Re: mkisofs USELESS #!@!#@*

2002-01-01 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Penguin wrote: Anyone got an example command line for me to use mkisofs and cdrecord to get an ElTorito boot image thingo on a CD-R? If you can't figure it out, go apt-get install xcdroast and use the gui frontend.

Re: auto-mounting /cdrom

2001-12-30 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: yo! i've seen it done before, but i can't remember how. i believe it was a gnome feature, but there's got to be a way to do this underneath any desktop environment... when i insert a CDROM, i want it to be available without having to mount.

Re: Galeon and Java

2001-12-25 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Sridhar M.A. wrote: After that I assumed that the pages that would not display earlier would come out properly. I was wrong :-( I tried the subscription page of www.pcquest.com for credit card transaction and contact us page of www.citibank.co.in. Both return blank pages

Re: DVD player

2001-12-04 Thread Walter Hofmann
Christian Schoenebeck schrieb am Monday, den 03. December 2001: Hi! Are there packages for viewing video DVDs? I haven't found some. You should consider adding deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This server has plenty of DVD players and other

LILO splash screen

2001-11-12 Thread Walter Hofmann
Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? Walter

Re: LILO splash screen

2001-11-12 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Benjamin Drieu wrote: Now that the new LILO in woody can display splash screens, does anyone know where I could get suitable bitmaps? Perhaps you will be happy with http://www.73lab.com/index.php?menu_item=4curr_lang=1page= The logos there seem to be for mandrake.

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-09 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001, Ian Millsom wrote: Its a rtl8139.. Now a lot of people will bag these cards, but they do the job. I have about 30 other machines all the same setup (processors/hdd/memory) differ, but the setup is the same and they all work fine. what is the system(s) hooked to?

Re: encrypted filesystem

2001-10-26 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Adam Warner wrote: Most of the kernel patch problems may have been overcome. I don't think Jari's approach has ever caused data corruption. If you read through the archives you'll be up to speed with developments. I understand that sometimes if you upgrade your kernel to

Shift-Return

2001-10-26 Thread Walter Hofmann
Whenever I press Shift-Return in less it displays ESCOM. This is annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press / + RETURN repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I have a german keyboard and to type / I need to press Shift. But if I hold down Shift

If you have trouble with the new xfree86 in woody...

2001-10-15 Thread Walter Hofmann
...and you cannot log in then comment out the use-ssh-agent in /etc/X11/Xsession.options This solved the problem for me. Walter

Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?

2001-10-14 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in passive mode. While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all users get this as the default.

Re: PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread

2001-10-12 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 21:10:17 +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: /etc/cron.daily/htdig: PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread Looks like some perl script is misconfigured. But I cannot find a way to set the path

Re: qmail smtp

2001-10-12 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Daniel Jones wrote: I have a file called S30qmail in /etc/rc2.d: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup corwin.riddlemaster.org \ /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env

Re: SSH2 + HostbasedAuthentication

2001-10-11 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking for the password. Here is what I tried: [...] I solved this now. There were two errors: 1) You need to swich on HostbasedAuthentication in the _client_! The manual page is wrong

PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread

2001-10-10 Thread Walter Hofmann
I get the following error message in a mail from Anacron: /etc/cron.daily/htdig: PDF::parse: cannot find pdf parser /usr/local/bin/acroread Looks like some perl script is misconfigured. But I cannot find a way to set the path for acroread. Where is it set? Walter

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-08 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: {{Mutt} {eval dsk_exec $tkdesk(cmd,xterm) -geometry 80x73+250+25 -e 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt'}} I never used Tkdesk, but you could try ... -e /usr/bin/env 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt' ... -e /bin/bash -c 'LANG=de_DE LC_MESSAGES=C mutt' the

SSH2 + HostbasedAuthentication

2001-10-08 Thread Walter Hofmann
I cannot use HostbasedAuthentication with ssh. ssh just keeps on asking for the password. Here is what I tried: I have SSH (OpenSSH_2.9p2) running with RhostsRSAAuthentication just fine -- users can log in from one computer to another without using a password or setting up and

Re: international characters in mutt

2001-10-06 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote: I am having trouble getting mutt to show Norwegian characters (e.g. æ and ø). The strange thing is that they work all fine on the command line, and if I use more or less to view the mbox-file, they show up as they are supposed to. It is, in other

Re: Network Stalls

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010918 16:07]: I believe this is because of the Direcpc satellite and latency. The local network has no problems. Here is what will happen. I start a download of 100K or larger and the network will stall,

Re: Lookup during intensive IO

2001-09-19 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: Coud this mean, it is enable by default? Check with hdparm /dev/hda Walter

apt-get message

2001-08-31 Thread Walter Hofmann
Can someone explain the follwoing apt-get message to me? It seems to say that pppconfig need ppp version 2.3.7 or newer. Why doesn't it accept 2.4.1-4 then?? Thanks, Walter gandalf:~# apt-get install pppconfig Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could

Re: apt-get message

2001-08-31 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pppconfig: Depends: ppp (= 2.3.7) but 2.4.1-4 is to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I updated apt to version 0.5.4 (from Sid) and it works again. (But Reading Package Lists is slow

Re: magic sysrq key

2001-08-24 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Wouldn't you build a custom kernel soon after installation anyway? That's generally recommended. Is it? I used to do this, but now I try to avoid upgrading the kernel because right now everything is working fine and I don't want to mess with the

Re: 1 IP Address on 2 Network Interfaces

2001-08-24 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Jochem Vaartjes wrote: before, but I can't figure out how to config such thing, any hints, help or suggestion?? I think the term for this is channel bonding. Maybe a search in the archives will help. Walter

magic sysrq key

2001-08-23 Thread Walter Hofmann
Is there a way to enable the magic SysRq key without compiling a custom kernel? Why is it not built in the Debian kernel? If policy demands that it should be disabled by default then this could be done via proc during the boot process. Walter

Re: ssh refuses connections

2001-08-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jason Majors wrote: I have four machines: a firewall, an internal server, and two workstations. When I try an SSH connection from the firewall to the server, or from outside the firewall using its port forwarding to go to the server, I get the error:

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-22 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm trying to remember a trick (probably in O'Reilly's _UNIX Power Tools_) for removing files by inode. Trying to remember what it was or in what context it worked. Unmount the filesystem, then do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /sbin/debugfs debugfs 1.19,

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Walter Hofmann
Viktor Rosenfeld schrieb am Dienstag, den 21. August 2001: but `rm ??remove-files` will also do the trick No, it gets globbed to rm --remove-files so this won't work. Walter

apt-get package priorities / installing KDE troubles

2001-08-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
[SORRY, BUT THIS IS LONG] Hi, I'm running an up-to-date testing system and I would like to upgrade a minimum set of packages so that I can use KDE 2.2 without useing the rest of unstable. I read the other posts (especially the one about pinning packets) and the /etc/apt/preferences manual page,

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: 451 rejected: temporarily unable to verify envelope sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] SF checks if the host name of the sender resolves. It must resolve (or have an mail exchanger entry) because otherwise you cannot get bach delivery errors

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: Thank you! I use exim and Mew (IM). I should have read your mail more closely. But it helped, at least. in ~/.im/Config appears to have fixed the SF problem. I don't expect this to fix the hotmail problem, though, since that was a

Re: [OT]-Mutt thread question

2001-08-07 Thread Walter Hofmann
Eric Boo schrieb am Montag, den 06. August 2001: What's this * next to the arrow in some emails of a thread mean? Mutt displays * if the messages have the same subject header, but no References: header. This usually means that the sender has a broken mailer which doesn't include a References:

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections at all by default. Check out the -nolisten option in your xserver manual page. Okay thanks! But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man

Re: InfraRed port in a Linux Laptop

2001-07-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi I am trying to configure my InfraRed device without much sucess. I have a HP Omnobook XE3 with the 2.4.4 Kernel installed. I have read (tried to) the Linux InfraRed Howto, but it seems outdated, the tools have changed, some of

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

2001-07-17 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Patton wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:30:29PM -0500, William Jensen wrote: I've setup a fairly restrictive set of rules for iptables and have been, up to this point, extremely satisfied with its performance. However, I've recently started having some

Re: Can't play audio CDs

2001-07-15 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Joel Mayes wrote: Are you using ALSA sound drivers ? I can't get my CD to play at all under alsa drivers, but it work perfectly with kernel driver ( I've no idea why ) The alsa driver mute all mixers by default. Did you turn up the volume of the CD channel in the mixer?