On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
Once again, the biggest problem is getting you guys to be
verbose ;-)
Does anybody have experience with the following?
1) A smaller cheaper box, perhaps a stand alone box that takes
smaller and slower laptop parts?
If I were
*snip*
Through LTSP (which works very nicely with Debian) you could configure
a
client workstation to run a X-window session from the big, loud, hot
workstation/server you want to monitor. But the hardware could be
configured in the BIOS to run without the hard drive or to spin
down the
hard
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
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 06:54 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
[snip]
Very compatable.
Very easy to set up.
I think the entire learning curve is a good Sunday.
Assumption: It requires the following:
DHCP
DNS (optional)
tftpd
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Invest in LTSP.org
It will give you a terminal that can be very quiet with the horsepower
of
your workstation. I use a number of notebooks for these clients. The
hard drive is not running so there's zero noise and the power
On Tuesday 24 Aug 2004 00:17, Tom Allison wrote:
I was able to install by doing:
apt-get kernel-headers...
and then running the NVIDIA package they provide on their website.
I don't know, but the kernel-source may be necessary, but I doubt it. I
have it installed, that's why I mention it.
Hello everyone,
This is my first posting to any debian list.
I had a problem with an X Server Crash whose output, together with that of
scanpci, is pasted below. I digged around lists.debian.org and found
similar problems experienced by others, only that they didn't help. I'm
running Woody
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 05:10:10 +0200, Tom Allison wrote:
Portmapper sits on one port, but it's redirecting the nfs connection all
over the place. I can't seem to nail it down to one set of ports.
The only way I can think of sorting this out would be to allow any
packets between the server and
Hi Tom!
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Tom Allison wrote:
[snip]
Is there some way to use the stock kernel-image-2.6 deb packages
without rebuilding my own kernel and use NVIDIA drivers? The howto's
imply that this can only be done by building your own kernel. I can and
have in the past, but I
Hi all, I have received the task of doing a migration from a SCO Unix
server to a Debian GNU/Linux one, the only problem its a COBOL app that
is running on the SCO system, I have found information about
using SCO binaries under Linux, but it's quite old, does anyone have
recent information
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:57:41AM -0800, Mark Healey
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries
to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to
look at the log followed by one asking if I want to try automatic
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:42:32PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
ls -l /:
drwxr-xr-x root root tmp
This is the problem.
It's an extremely severe bug.
Not really, it's easily reversible.
Yes, it is easily reversible.
I changed /tmp to rwxrwtrwt (IIRC) and it's working fine.
But I've
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:33:23AM -0500 or thereabouts, Robert L.
Harris wrote:
Hello Robert,
For home, spam assassin, tell it to tag MS Executables very high
(3000) and devnull anything 1000.
Ah SA, too resource intensive for me.
Professional, so far I like central command's vexira
Tom Allison wrote:
Do you perhaps have two video cards in the system? Or is the G400
dual-headed?
No... Just one G400, single head.
After this completed, I rebooted (new kernel) and was able to start up
xdm (did not start automatically).
Odd that it did not start automatically.
I have a very annoying problem with my XFree86 set up today.
I'm trying to get an installation from -testing and selected the
x-window-server to bring everything in.
No errors during installation.
No errors when I log in as 'root'
However, when I log in as a non-root user, it fails and I'm back
I haven't done an install on Debian for about 4 years now.
I recently played with a few other distriibutions and was impressed with
their ability to do hardware detection auth-magically for me.
I'm trying to get some feedback on how well Debian performs at being able
to detect (and configure)
hi,
a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys
could help me answer them :)
1) does 'apt-get upgrade' upgrades:
i) the kernel,
ii) base apps
iii) local apps (/usr/local)
I'm probably not an expert here, but...
apt-get upgrade will typically not upgrade the
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/16/debian_linux_distribution_10_years_old_today.html
What I late in finding this?
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How do I clean this up?
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/judy.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/Judy1.3x.bz2 is a dangling symlink
mandb: warning:
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:27:47PM +0200, Joris Lambrecht wrote:
Can anyone advise on starting to use SiD as resource for my Debian
Workstation ? Doesn't it have to many issues left open, broken
dependencies etc.
If you have to ask, sid is not
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:58:01PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:53:26 -0500
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seriously, though, OO languages, being born of academia, were designed
*not* to be quick-'n-dirty languages. They were designed with
large projects in mind
Ron, you disappoint me :-(
Clearly he is referring to the force exerted in raising the fan from zero
potential energy (the ground) to a state of higher potential energy
(perhaps
his desk). Obviously, that is what it cost :-)
The 8 pound cooler is better becuase it cost less to move it to
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:35:25 +0200
Francois Bottin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Compare it with SUN's recomendations for Java (but useable also for C):
if (cond) {
block;
} else {
block;
}
In this case I find it much better than the GNU Coding Standards, and
there
is only one line
Dear: Fellow Debian users;
I was thinking about using a micro-atx case and board probably using
an AMD chip, then getting the supported hardware for the pvr. I was
thinking about going the VIA mini-itx way but the cases are almost as
expensive as the motherboard chip combo. I also would
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
I don't think it's worth anyone's while to learn to use sendmail in this
age. There is one good reason for choosing sendmail as an MTA, and
that's that you already know it.
Sendmail is the default of several distributions and operating systems,
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 09:21:58 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my case it was shitty EIDE code in the kernel screwing up my VIA
chipset (I think that's the name) (which is also shitty or even
shittier I find out) and causing massive problems with data
corruptions and really poor
It does. Either you choose lvm10 and enable lvm-support in
your 2.4.18 kernel or you choose lvm20 and enable
device-mapper support in your 2.4.21 (probably patched)
kernel.
In order to get you lvm-stuff to work fast - use lvm10
and your 2.4.18 kernel.
Thanks.
Any ideas on how well lvm10
S`econd-of-all, MORE people here agree with me than disagree with me.
They simply don't post their opinions on the list for fear of being
attacked
by the pro-spam faction here.
So they mail me instead. That's fine.
Alan
You're delusional.
Pro-Spam Faction?
WTF?
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:09:45 +0100
Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on Mon, Aug 11, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Is there a buzzword to reference?
Yes. Portability.
The same Debian Installer runs on 11 different architectures. Knoppix
doesn't.
If a
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Also sprach Richard Lyons (Mon 11 Aug 02003 at 09:35:00AM +0200):
On Monday 11 August 2003 5:06 am, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
[...kde dead after upgrade...]
Try this:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8selm=gxXP.6fz.7%4
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is not a debian kernel is it?
All kernels are debian kernels.
apt-cache show kernel-package
kernel-image versus kernel-source.
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Hallo!
* Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Guess what address is only used on the newsgroups.
So use a 'Reply-To:' with your 'used and read' email address. Spammers
usually get only the 'XOver', which only has the From: in it, so they
won't see your Reply-To:
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan, please figure out why your mail reader is not including a
References or In-Followup-To header and fix it. You're making the
list harder to follow.
I think that's already been determined. He's using a broken
mail2news gateway to receive
Hi,
You may want to have a look at knoppix, they have a live CD so that folks
can experiment with it. It can then bee installed to HD if folks wish to
do so. Best of all it's Debian based... I have had a look at it and was
impressed by it.
cheers
I found the hardware detection
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
Because Debian is available for nearly ever hardware out there.
http://www.debian.org/ports
Redhat supports significantly less platforms.
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/platform/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/9/en/os/
shows only i386. They can afford to tailor
What this error mean?
* hdc: dma_intr: status = 0x51 {driveready seekcomplete
error} hdc: dma_intr : error = 0x84 {drive statuserror
badcrc}
I've been staring at this error for months now and it sucks.
It may be a flakey drive.
It may be a dirtly CD-ROM.
In my case it was shitty EIDE code
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You may want to have a look at knoppix, they have a live CD so that
folks
can experiment with it. It can then bee installed to HD if folks wish
to
do so. Best of all it's Debian based... I have had a look at it
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:35:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You may want to have a look at knoppix, they have a live CD so that
folks
can experiment with it. It can then bee installed to HD if folks wish
to
do so. Best of all it's Debian based... I have had a look at it
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:30:49 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
Because Debian is available for nearly ever hardware out there.
http://www.debian.org/ports
Redhat supports significantly less platforms.
This weekend I finally carpeted my office and decided that it would be
really need to move all 4 computers into that one room (11' x 8').
It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house.
I think I'll be moving most of them back out of that room.
But it brought me to another
Earlier, someone said that I was wrong because so many people disagreed
with me.
That's a foolish statement, and I should have called him on it at the
time.
Facts are facts, and the fact is that traditional spam-blocking strategies
don't work, and CR programs do.
Interesting comment.
I
I've been catching up on my email for the past few weeks and found this
rather horrible thread.
My sincerest apologies for all of my earlier posts. I had no idea what a
fluster-cluck this had become.
However, the issue of blocking spam does seem to get people excited, even
to the point of
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 11:19 pm, Mark Roach wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 23:43, Marino Fernandez wrote:
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 4:05 pm, Mark Roach wrote:
[snip]
My laptop only gives:
$ cat /proc/acpi/sleep
S0 S3 S4 S5
so no acpi sleep for me. If you have a similar
Get the version of the Java plugin from Blackdown that's compiled with
gcc 3.2.
Where?
I couldn't find it.
That or I think I already installed it and the
'update-alternatives --auto java' didn't do anything helpful
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
I have a javaplugin_oji.so in whatever directory I'm supposed to have it
in
according to the mozilla dev website.
Nothing works. I get that stupid busted puzzle piece.
This was an upgrade to an existing mozilla installation that
Is there anyway that we can install Debian with LVM on the partitions
during the installation, rather than doing it after the fact?
It's impractical to install and then try to convert everything to an LVM
system.
Any suggestions?
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A while ago, I did an update on my system (testing/unstable) and many
of my fonts went from acceptable to ugly. I do not remember what
package upgrade caused the change.
I got a note from the maintainer dude on this one, but I'm not sure I can
find it again.
He suspects he flipped the order
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 06:58:55PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
I had this camera working under USB with the application called 'ks'.
But that was on another hard drive
Another machine, you mean?
Another Debian Installation on another machine.
I'm trying to get this working under gtkam
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:06:05 -0500
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I started to try this approach and died here:
|
| Setting up cupsys (1.1.15-4) ...
| Starting CUPSys: cupsd.
I have what is supposed to be a network printer with support for
JetDirect, Cups and LPD.
I was trying to set up a Kyocera FS-1900N network printer and their docs
say to use PDQ.
I'm wondering about this because I've never been able to get anything to
work with PDQ and the port 9100 even though I have been reading this stuff
for three days now.
And the email address on the pdq home
* Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-02-18 12:29]:
But it doesn't seem to work as well as it should.
my IBM laptop goes to sleep if either the power plug or the network
card are removed. If both are connected, it doesn't suspend.
oh...
I'll have to try that.
Maybe I need to re-examine
Quoting Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
How do these two play nice together?
Do you still need the perl script to do it or have they configured a
way to talk directly (DHCP3, BIND9)?
I know at one point that there was a perl script that did a nice job
going between the two. But I thought
Hi List,
How long are Debian-releases supported (okay, with 'open' software you
can compile/write your own upgrades but that's not an option)?
http://www.debian.org/releases/
Debian only has one version, stable... sort of...
Think of Debian as one version that is periodically rolling from
Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would it do that only on the stable box w/ only 32 MB RAM, I wouldn't
wonder,
but it's doing that also on a 256 MB unstable one.
The error msg is exactly the same on both:
..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
E:
Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems.
Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage
??
Dave
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I'm thinking not.
ext3 is a
This is one of those, It used to work... problems.
I have OSS sound.
I have one CD-R and one CDE-RW (scsi emulation blah-blah-blah)
I have sound on things like XMMS, Xine.
I have no sound in my cdplayer.
I can start the disk spinning from wmcdplayer and wmsound shows nothing
turned off. But
Does squirrelmail support virtual hosting (multiple domains)?
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:24:26PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libapache-request-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1
Depends: libapache-mod-perl but it is not
going to be installed
I find ion to be kind of cool.
thanks all for help. i am currently settling for icewm-lite and trying
ratpoison, ion.
but i really do not know if the change in speed between windowmaker and
either of these is significant.
:)
And I was just about to suggest WindowMaker.
Very fast
Tom,
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:22:58PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
OK, I thought I would try Mason tonight.
I loaded this into httpd.conf and restarted OK:
-
PerlModule HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
Location /
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
Hello all,
I boot debian from a floppy, I have my / partion on /dev/hdb1, Is there
anyway to make lilo boot debian from /dev/hdb1?
Do I reinstall lilo?
Thanks..
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I'm somewhat confused about the configuration of apache and apache-ssl.
I noticed that by default they both share the same document root,
server root, and run under the same system user. I read about the
different methods of authentication on the apache site, as well as
.htaccess files, but
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