Re: Mais de um IP na mesma interface

2002-06-13 Thread Henrique Pedroni Neto
OPA! Corrigindo um erro de digitação :) a network da erh0 deveria ser 10.1.0.0 e não 10.0.0.0 como eu coloquei! []'s Henrique Olá. Eu fiz assim: Edite esse arquivo: vi /etc/network/interfaces Adicine: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.1.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0

Re: comando pow

2002-06-13 Thread Odair G Martins
Em Qui 13 Jun 2002 10:18, caio ferreira escreveu: Estou comecando a programar em C e surgiu u problema com o comando pow, para calcular potencia. Peguei em um site, http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cmath/pow.html, um exemplo de programa que utilizava o comando pow, vide abaixo. O

Re: comando pow

2002-06-13 Thread Odair G Martins
Mais uma observação, No Debian voce pode instalar a documentacao e se voce usar info: na localização do konqueror (KDE) voce navega facilmente pela documentação das bibliotecas que traz exemplos de compilação. É só chupar o esqueleto. Para fazer a maioria dos programas que existem em livros

lilo e video

2002-06-13 Thread Angelo Marcos Rigo
Oi Lista Não consegui configurar a placa de video nvidia rivatnt2 o xf86cfg nao conseguiu gravar e nem o xf86config tenho o debian como master e nt como slave apesar do lilo mostrar o nt quando seleciono nao acontece nada alguem tem uma dica? Ângelo Marcos Rigo Webmaster Colégio Anchieta

Re: lilo e video

2002-06-13 Thread Marcelo Laia
Ola, Não consegui configurar a placa de video nvidia rivatnt2 o xf86cfg nao conseguiu gravar e nem o xf86config Tenta dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 em um dos passos, se nao me engano, vc pode selecionar o seu chipset. tenho o debian como master e nt como slave apesar do lilo mostrar o

Re: Openoffice

2002-06-13 Thread Jose Pedro Bastos Caval?ro Filho
Marcelo, Eu tive este problema tb. Ele aconteceu comigo quando eu instalei os pacotes basicos e o pacote de linguagem portugues. Com estes, td vez q eu tentava inicializar o programa dava esse problema. Entao eu instalei o pacote pra linguagem ingles e ele passou a funcionar, soh q em

[Fora do Topico] Linux em palmtops

2002-06-13 Thread Marcio China
Amigos; Sou um antigo usuario de palm top, tenho um velho Palm IIIx que uso diariamente, em perfeita sincronizacao com o linux usando o jpilot. Sempre visito o site linux on lap tops, que tem uma secao dedicada a palmtops, e o google para ver se ja e possivel instalar o linux no palm. Outro dia

Re: lilo e video

2002-06-13 Thread Odair G Martins
Em Qui 13 Jun 2002 15:35, Marcelo Laia escreveu: Os SO Microsoft so funcionam em master (Bem, ate onde eu sei.) É isto mesmo, o NT só funciona como master. Odair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

openoffice

2002-06-13 Thread Felipe C. Silva
Senhores, boa tarde. Como posso instalar o openoffice em meu Debian ? Quais as linhas dentro do source.list ? Obrigado -- Felipe C. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ADSL na debian

2002-06-13 Thread Fabiano Manoel de Andrade
Olá pessoal da lista. Contratei o serviço ADSL da Brasiltelecom. Tenho uma placa de rede Realtek RTL8139 e já carregei o módulo para esta placa. O modem é um ADSL router. Como configurar a conexão na debian? Obrigado. Fabiano.

Re: ADSL na debian

2002-06-13 Thread Vinicius Kursancew
Bom basicamente o que você tem que fazer é colocar o endereço do seu router como gateway: $route gw add endereço do router e arrumar o ip de sua placa rede para DHCP se o seu modem REALMENTE for um modem e necessitar de pppoe dae eh outra história carregue os módulos do kernel e rode:

RE: Installing debian

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and running, whats the best way to install KDE? As a former KDE 2.2.1 user (in my Mandrake days) who thinks that KDE has it's strong points, I must ask: why use KDE? It's

RE: Installing debian

2002-06-13 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 15:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and running, whats the best way to install KDE? Gary If you use 'dselect' you can see all the KDE packages available. I usually do 'apt-get install kdebase' this

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-13 Thread Michael Biddulph
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:00, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and running, whats the best way to install KDE? As a former KDE 2.2.1 user (in my Mandrake days) who thinks that KDE has

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote: I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500 blocks of a 4 GB partition.

debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not adjusted? By the way, on mandrake when we do shutdown -h now, we see a comforting sequence of

so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be ideal. However then one encounters patches of HTML docs, which seem best suited for galeon,

do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread kindly_remove_this_part_first_jidanni
How much did woody change in the last 50 days? i.e. at our first meeting I took the 8 woody CD's marked 2002.5.14. At our next meeting should I have my friend make a supplemental CD to keep me fresh or are the changes minor and I can download them at 56K, or not download them at all? On

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Scott,,,
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote: I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Kenrick
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not adjusted? You need to turn on APM

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: You want to turn the computer *off*!? OFF!? Why in the world would you want to do such a thing? ;-) | poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the | disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Woody is frozen and will shortly become stable release. Whenever you get your woody CDs, after installation you'd better use apt-get update to update the packages list from the headquarter and apt-get upgrade to upgrade necessary packages. Also a Debian user in Tainwan

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:14 , faisal gillani wrote: well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. First off, you might be able to get away with it. Make sure the

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. Nicely compressed to conserve your disk space :-). | What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and | over? I don't know, I'm not Joe Average. (some people call me

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I was wondering about how to get the system clock to match the hardware clock when the system's time is 5 min slow. I can't use the NTP clients because of a rather ignorant windoze proxy (determined by trial and error), and I would prefer not to have to

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Gushue
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 automatically decompresses .gz files). I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?) did in Debian as well. I wish more things supported

Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html for a nasty X crashing (and possibly machine crashing) bug regarding huge fonts. Guess it's back to links/lynx/w3m or whatever for a little while. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Falls du Kinder hast - wichtig! Gegen Gewalt am Computer!

2002-06-13 Thread xcd4u
Hi du! Hab noch irgendwo am Computer deine Mailadresse gefunden. Will dir auch nicht weiter deine Zeit stehlen - wollte dich nur auf eine, wie ich finde, wichtige Initiative aufmerksam machen: http://www.netkids.info - gegen Gewalt im Internet Kostet nichts - außer ein bißchen Zeit - hilft

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be ideal. However then one

Re: Frame Buffer Query

2002-06-13 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jijo Jose A wrote: XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Hi, first of all I suggest to upgrade XFree86 Version3.something to Version4.something ... here you have a support for S3 cards ... secondly try to change your

Warning only 896MB will be used?

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, The following is part of my dmesg output. I have 2 512MB ECC registered ram modules. But only 896MB will be used? What does this mean? Linux version 2.4.18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease)) #2 SMP Sun Mar 10 21:28:37 CST 2002 BIOS-provided physical RAM

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 automatically decompresses .gz files). I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?)

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-13 Thread Travis Crump
Eric G. Miller wrote: See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html for a nasty X crashing (and possibly machine crashing) bug regarding huge fonts. Guess it's back to links/lynx/w3m or whatever for a little while. already been fixed[I couldn't reproduce this] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: USB HardDisk?

2002-06-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:40:35PM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: I just bought a 10Gig Archos MP3 player. Very nice so far. Plug it in to the USB, open explorer and start copying files over. Yeah windows. My home machine will be re-compiling with USB support very soon (aka as soon as

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what

Re: Warning only 896MB will be used?

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:23:55PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: The following is part of my dmesg output. I have 2 512MB ECC registered ram modules. But only 896MB will be used? What does this mean? Linux told you what it means. 8:o) Warning

Re: Warning only 896MB will be used?

2002-06-13 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:23:55PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, The following is part of my dmesg output. I have 2 512MB ECC registered ram modules. But only 896MB will be used? What does this mean? Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
I put ' LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s ' in /etc/profile, and less will transparently unzip and display the file. Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have it set to LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s and it finds ~/bin/lesspipe.sh in my home directory. Bob

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I put ' LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s ' in /etc/profile, and less will transparently unzip and display the file. Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have it set to LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s and it finds

Re: where is xwindows in debian potato rev6

2002-06-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 08:11:00PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 10:37:56AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: I strongly recommend you to read http://www.debian.org http://www.debian.org/doc and links http://www.debian.org/distrib/

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be ideal. However then one

Re: Frame Buffer Query

2002-06-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:29:27AM +0200, Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Jijo Jose A wrote: XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Hi, first of all I suggest to upgrade XFree86 Version3.something to Version4.something

Re: Installing debian

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 23:20, Michael Biddulph wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:00, Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 18:17, FreeportWeb Debian Support Account wrote: Which leads to my question. Once you have that up and running, whats the best way to install KDE? As a former KDE

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have [...] # dpkg -S /usr/bin/lesspipe less: /usr/bin/lesspipe There you go. In woody, at least. I must have been blind because I see it now too. In any case the installation of less includes a debconf that says this:

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:33:09AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: You might try the Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz (ISBN 1-886411-48-4). The author provides something of a Debian based solution to lots of common situations. apt-get install linuxcookbook Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? $ mc point and F3 mc is selected by tasksel with newbie option. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:37, Chris Gushue wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:25, Chris Gushue wrote: [snip] [snip] Linux box for sharing my DSL connection. For a few years it used to be just a 486, but I recently upgraded it to a K6-2/500 :) Woo Hoo!! Go, Speed Racer, go!

Falls du Kinder hast - wichtig! Gegen Gewalt am Computer!

2002-06-13 Thread xcd4u
Hi du! Hab noch irgendwo am Computer deine Mailadresse gefunden. Will dir auch nicht weiter deine Zeit stehlen - wollte dich nur auf eine, wie ich finde, wichtige Initiative aufmerksam machen: http://www.netkids.info - gegen Gewalt im Internet Kostet nichts - außer ein bißchen Zeit - hilft

[no subject]

2002-06-13 Thread ian
hi all, i would like to know how to change my default gcc compiler from the current version to another. thanx in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 00:33, Travis Crump wrote: Eric G. Miller wrote: See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html for a nasty X crashing (and possibly machine crashing) bug regarding huge fonts. Guess it's back to links/lynx/w3m or whatever for a little while. already

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-13 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 00:33, Travis Crump wrote: Eric G. Miller wrote: See http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/25689.html for a nasty X crashing (and possibly machine crashing) bug regarding huge fonts. Guess it's back to links/lynx/w3m or whatever for a little while.

Re: Imap + Outlook 2000 problems when creating folders

2002-06-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:00:47AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I have uw-imapd-ssl installed from woody in a Debian potato machine. I tested with Outlook Express the creatoin of folders and dir and all is ok. When I try to create a folder

UML

2002-06-13 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to run UML and I had the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ linux ubd0=/var/local/root_fs con1=xterm hm, page reserved twice. tracing thread pid = 1573 Linux version 2.4.18-31um ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Wed Jun 5 21:29:59 EDT 2002

PHPPGAdmin login problem

2002-06-13 Thread Stefan Baums
Dear list, I am new to databases, but would like to use PostgreSQL with the PHPPGAdmin frontend. So I installed postgresql, apache, and phppgadmin from testing. Then I created a database user test with password test with the following command: sudo -u postgres createuser -P and tried to

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 01:27, Seneca wrote: A while ago I noticed that my system time was about half an hour off of what it should be, and set it to the more accurate time of the hardware clock. Over the course of the past 24 hours, the hardware clock has gone ~1 minute slow, but the system

Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Jerome Lacoste
I have the following in top: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space and CPU. Have anybody encountered the same problem? Now

Re: do I need a woody update after 50 days?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:30:09PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much did woody change in the last 50 days? i.e. at our first meeting I took the 8 woody CD's marked 2002.5.14. Since then, mostly security updates, a dpkg change to enable --force-overwrite by default, and so on. The dpkg

Compiling Samba from CVS for Debian fails with rejected patch

2002-06-13 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
# debian/rules binary [...] patching file `source/include/proto.h' Hunk #6 FAILED at 1079. Hunk #7 succeeded at 1522 (offset 1 line). Hunk #9 succeeded at 2441 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #11 succeeded at 2537 (offset 4 lines). Hunk #13 succeeded at 4759 (offset 17 lines). 1 out of 14 hunks FAILED --

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course uses emacs' dired's v with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be ideal. However then one

Re: Changing the default compiler

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:15:04AM -0700, ian wrote: i would like to know how to change my default gcc compiler from the current version to another. Install the other version (packaged as gcc-3.0, gcc-3.1, etc.), and set CC=gcc-3.1 and CXX=g++-3.1. It is possible to change the symlinks

Re: Recover root password

2002-06-13 Thread Ulf Rompe
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/Boot.SingleUser.ForgotRootPasswd.txt Somebody should point out that you can use your ordinary Debian Rescue Disk to do this maintenance. Just boot into the normal install process. As soon as the installation menu occures

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 13 June 2002 01:27, Seneca wrote: A while ago I noticed that my system time was about half an hour off of what it should be, and set it to the more accurate time of the hardware clock. Over the course of the past 24

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Matt Chipman
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 ya cant live without it :) -Matt - Original Message - From: Brian Potkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:22 PM Subject: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

DNS and IPv6

2002-06-13 Thread Lars Steidinger
Hi, I have a home network with debian (sid) systems and an ISDN router (Elsa Lancom). The router is also DNS and DHCP server. When I use telnet between two debian systems, the router dials to my ISP, because telnet-client and telnet-server sends DNS requests Typ (IPv6 requests) to the router.

Re: Slow kernel clock

2002-06-13 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:51:52PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I was wondering about how to get the system clock to match the hardware clock when the system's time is 5 min slow. I can't use the NTP clients because of a rather ignorant windoze

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:01:36 +0200 Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:33:09AM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: You might try the Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz (ISBN 1-886411-48-4). The author provides something of a Debian based solution to lots of common

Special prices of pad printers and screen printers etc

2002-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: PADPRINTER ENGINEERING LTD PADPRINTER ENGINEERING CO LTD Professional manufacturer Exporter Of Special Printing Equipments   MACHINE MODELS DESCRIPTION UNIT PRICE USD FOB SHENZHEN MAX PRINTING SIZE MUE300

USB install problem

2002-06-13 Thread Riaan Rottier
Hi I have just got a USB mouse and cannot get the USB port working. I'm using kernel 2.4.17 that a friend helped me compile to get my sound working. I think USB support is compiled in, and I would like to avoid recompiling the kernel if possible since I have no idea how we got the sound working

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---SOLVED?

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:13, Tom Allison wrote: Tom Allison wrote: I got a really interesting one. I am running a stock K7 kernel from woody. I recall seeing such things as cramfs, VFS, and initrd during the boot sequence. [snip] Freeing initrd memory: 2700k freed

Re: how to increase max connections above 1024 in Linux

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Tonu Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thanks, but my Debian woody did not install glibc package. Should I get the package source, modify the PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX value and rebuild glibc package for further installation? On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:55:35 +0200 (EET) Tonu Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to increase max connections above 1024 in Linux

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Tonu Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED], home:~# dpkg -l | grep libc ii libc6 2.2.5-6GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libc6-dev 2.2.5-6GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea I think I have to rebuild one of them and reinstall the package again.

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trivial to run ipchains under 2.4.18... This all depends on what features of ipchains you are using. The compatibility layer provided for ipchains in the 2.4.x series does not provide 100% of the 2.2.x ipchains

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya philip pick the method best for your paranoia level... ( more paranoia.. -- more time/$$$ to securely shred the disks http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Txt/erase.txt c ya alvin - 100% sure way... take a hammer... and make itty=bitty pieces of the disks and than burn it at high

Re: how to increase max connections above 1024 in Linux

2002-06-13 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello Tonu Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED], In my Debian woody, I found relative definition in /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h /* The number of threads per process. */ #define _POSIX_THREAD_THREADS_MAX 64 /* This is the value this implementation supports. */ #define PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX 1024

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:37:04 +0200, Philipp Lehman writes: I want to sell an old machine that I don't use any more but there's still sensitive stuff like personal emails, gpg keys, and passwords on the hdd. What's the recommended way to securely 'shred' this data so that it cannot be undeleted

mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Joris
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 ya cant live without it :) I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either. The ultimate graphical file manager for me would look like

grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Alice M. Pinard
Is the grub in woody the 'gnu grub' or is it 'the grub off which gnu grub is based'? (Just making sure I'm reading the right online comments/info/docs) or... another way to look at it... does anyone know a way to pack up a set of info docs so that it could be read on a windows box? (that way I

Re: Apt-get problem

2002-06-13 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:22:55PM -0700, curtis wrote: When I run apt-get update it will eventually stop and time out on an entry. deb http://www.mx1.ru/~chris/openoffice unstable main contrib deb-src http://www.mx1.ru/~chris/openoffice unstable main contrib I'm afraid that this server is

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Joris
I want to sell an old machine that I don't use any more but there's still sensitive stuff like personal emails, gpg keys, and passwords on the hdd. What's the recommended way to securely 'shred' this data so that it cannot be undeleted by the next owner? I assume I need to do something like

setting up a Gateway

2002-06-13 Thread if . frijns
Ye all Linux Wizzards. plunging around some time with debian (at the moment 2.4.18 kernel) I am trying to set up a linux box as a gateway. Reading lots of documentation I can't figure out what is the best choice building this gateway. What I have: Ethernet network as a local home network.

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:37:04PM +0200, Philipp Lehman wrote: I want to sell an old machine that I don't use any more but there's still sensitive stuff like personal emails, gpg keys, and passwords on the hdd. What's the recommended way to securely 'shred' this data so that it cannot be

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ivo Wever
Robert Waldner wrote: Philipp Lehman writes: I want to sell an old machine that I don't use any more but there's still sensitive stuff like personal emails, gpg keys, and passwords on the hdd. What's the recommended way to securely 'shred' this data so that it cannot be undeleted by the next

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ross Burton
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 13:54, Ivo Wever wrote: But, for all practical values, a simple `dd if=dev/urandom bs=1M \ of=/dev/hdX` should be quite sufficient. Some people advise to repeat this procedure several times. Can anyone explain why? I see no reason why one pass doesn't suffice. Data can

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:54:44PM +0200, Ivo Wever wrote: Robert Waldner wrote: But, for all practical values, a simple `dd if=dev/urandom bs=1M \ of=/dev/hdX` should be quite sufficient. Some people advise to repeat this procedure several times. Can anyone explain why? I see no reason

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 11:14, Jerome Lacoste wrote: I have the following in top: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes way too much space

RE: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Jan Johansson
I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered files after the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers of overwrites. And since they are a public contractor.. wonder what the not-so-public people

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:54, Ivo Wever wrote: Some people advise to repeat this procedure several times. Can anyone explain why? I see no reason why one pass doesn't suffice. IIRC, this has to do with minor mis-calibrations of the read/write heads that may leave tiny traces of the old data

Re: setting up a Gateway

2002-06-13 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ye all Linux Wizzards. plunging around some time with debian (at the moment 2.4.18 kernel) I am trying to set up a linux box as a gateway. What you want is probably masquerading. Read the ipfilter documentation at

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Mark Janssen
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:12, Alice M. Pinard wrote: Is the grub in woody the 'gnu grub' or is it 'the grub off which gnu grub is based'? (Just making sure I'm reading the right online comments/info/docs) Gnu Grub... I'm using it everywhere... Is the original grub still alive in any interesting

Java in Opera 6.01 static

2002-06-13 Thread Gregor Szyrach
Hallo group, ich hoffe, ich bin hier richtig? Nutze Debian woody 3.0 (Pfad testing) Habe Opera 6.01 static als .deb runtergeladen und installiert. (dpkg -i opera...deb) Problem ist (und war), dass Java-Geschichten zwar als root ausfuehrbar sind, nicht aber als normaler user. Kann mir jemand

Re: Java in Opera 6.01 static

2002-06-13 Thread Robert Waldner
On 13 Jun 2002 16:07:18 BST, Gregor Szyrach writes: Hallo group, ich hoffe, ich bin hier richtig? Yes, you've come to the right place. But, since this is an international group, please speak English, or ask the German debian-user-list. cheers, rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security

Java in Opera 6.01

2002-06-13 Thread Gregor Szyrach
Hi group, first i want to apologize for my german posting on this group. Now to the problem: I'm running Debian 3.0 woody an my machine. So installed Opera 6.01 static-linked as deb-file via dpkg -i opera...deb The actual problem is, that Java-Applets are not running, when Opera is started by a

Re: setting up a Gateway

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:25 Nicos Gollan wrote: On Thursday 13 June 2002 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ye all Linux Wizzards. plunging around some time with debian (at the moment 2.4.18 kernel) I am trying to set up a linux box as a gateway. What you want is probably masquerading. Read the

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:33 Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:12, Alice M. Pinard wrote: or... another way to look at it... does anyone know a way to pack up a set of info docs so that it could be read on a windows box? (that way I could browse through it here at work ) There is a cygwin

Still Debugging Broken X

2002-06-13 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, I'm still locking up in X running Gnome+Sawfixh, Gnome+icewm, KDE, with and without about every app I have and it's completely random. Once a week or 3 times a day (yesterday). I have physically replaced all hardware, only copying my config and such. I'm at the point of playing with

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Nick Traxler
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the kernel. Check up on this as well as APM. ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may have been the reason. -- Nick On Thu, Jun

Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

2002-06-13 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.06.13 09:16 Jan Johansson wrote: I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered files after the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above. www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers of overwrites. And since they are a public

Re: USB install problem

2002-06-13 Thread marshal
First of, I hope you've looked at www.linux-usb.org for all your Linux USB needs. Most of the basics are covered in the manual there. Riaan == Riaan Rottier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Riaan Thus two questions: 1) From the data below, can anyone tell Riaan me whether USB is compiled

Re: mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Joris wrote: Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 ya cant live without it :) I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too

Re: mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Joris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 ya cant live without it :) I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either. Have you

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