Re: OT: Suspicious File found by chkrootkit

2006-04-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
of the appropriate tool for you. It does just what it says on the tin. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: character encoding in email

2006-02-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
form of Microsoft email formatting. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
, I am now staying away from that GUI and am running it from the CL. Rob -- It was this behaviour that led me to give up on aptitude. I've been using wajig for many months now and find it to be excellent. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu

Tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
evident errors). Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems particularly relevant. I don't much like relying on files that have been generated with this error. Any ideas? Can I ignore it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu

Re: Tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2006, Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Campbell[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home partition. If I do tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac everything seems to go correctly but ends

Re: Error exit delayed from previous errors

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
some directories with strange files in them. Stuff I didn't need anyway so I just deleted them. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: udev is ruining my life

2006-02-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
*, and there are no problems. The only thing is that I have kept hotplug at the version in Stable because otherwise my wireless card doesn't work. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical

Re: Running a remote graphic program

2006-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
to cause any problems. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Running a remote graphic program - correction

2006-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jan 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jan 2006, Yani Copas wrote: Alejandro Salas wrote: Hi everyone.. Can someone tell me or point me in the right direction of what I have to do in order to run a remote program with graphics?. I have ssh access and everything, I

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jan 2006, Tom Allison wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in Stable

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you have upgraded this recently you could try going back to the version in Stable. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http

Re: PCMCIA configuration

2006-01-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jan 2006, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 05:08:41PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: This may not be relevant, but I've had problems with my Cisco Aironet 340 which sound similar. I eventually tracked them to hotplug. If you have upgraded this recently you could try

Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jan 2006, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Greg Norris wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts

Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade

2006-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2006, Greg Norris wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts different. There is also the following error message

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
? Try digikam if you are kde user :) otherwise gtkam Thanks Eric -- If neither works (they don't for me) try gphoto2 directly. I find this works when the frontends don't. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http

Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade

2006-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade -SOLVED

2006-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts different. There is also the following error message: *** e = [Exception... Component returned failure code

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

2006-01-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Package Signatures

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
. When I did this yesterday it solved the problem but it's back today and the above no longer works. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: apt-get update public key problem

2006-01-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
imstalled the key as above but it's back again today. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: problem with alternate consoles in 2.6.14?

2005-12-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday, 26 December 2005 at 19:08:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 26 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On a sid install with kernel 2.6.14-2-686, from X, I cannot switch to another console with ctrl-alt-F2 etc. It is running xorg. Comes

Re: problem with alternate consoles in 2.6.14?

2005-12-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
sort? -- richard Comes up quite a lot. In my case the solution was to add the following line to Section InputDevice in /etc/xorg.conf: Option XkbDisabletrue Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http

Re: Can't switch to virtual console anymore

2005-12-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
. In my case what was needed was to include the following line under InputDevice in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Option XkbDisabletrue No idea why. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book

Re: Wordpress

2005-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
. However, it isn't the deb package but the vanilla version from Wordpress. Plenty of documentation on wordpress.org. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: wireless problems from hotplug changes; was: Re: (Trouble at booting)

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Dec 2005, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I thought it might have been something to do with needing udev, which I don't use. Rashly, I installed it on my laptop and the consequence was that it removed hotplug and now I shall have to reinstall everything in order to get my

Packages cannot be authenticated

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
still fails. A bug in gpg perhaps? There is trusted.gpg in /etc/apt so I don't know why things aren't working as expected. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical

Re: apt-setup in Sid

2005-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
repositories. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: (Trouble at booting) Re: problema al bootear

2005-12-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
why, long story). A bad day at the races. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Querying packages about installed files

2005-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
, as Andrei mentioned, will verify the installed files. Justin Guerin Also have a look at wajig. One of the best-kept secrets in linux IMO. Wajig list and wajig integrity do these things very neatly. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to everyone who told me where to find mplayer for Debian (I'd deleted the thread by mistake so have just found the replies in the archive). Thanks to being pointed to the link to Marillat's site I have now got mplayer, though at present I'm getting better results with DVDs using ogle.

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Dec 2005, Piszcz, Justin wrote: Wrong way. 1) Install mplayer from Debian-mar* 2) Run: mplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://1 [snip] I spent quite a long time recently trying to find a version of mplayer that would install on Debian (Sid) without success. Anthony -- Anthony

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
and robust. [snip] Worth noting also that hotplug in testing/unstable prevents my Cisco Aironet 340 from connecting; the same thing happens in recent versions of Knoppix and Ubuntu. Whether it does the same to other cards I don't know. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft

Re: Xine Skips Horribly

2005-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
in ogle I'd be interested. I do wonder if using Xorg instead of Xfree86 has anything to do with it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: need a Swiss Army Knife rescue disk

2005-11-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
that causes my wireless card (and probably others) to stop working. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
Burton, is very helpful and willing to answer questions. See http://spamprobe.sourceforge.net Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug in hotplug breaks wireless connection

2005-11-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
with recent versions of Ubuntu and Knoppix. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: WIreless connectivity at boot

2005-11-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
no difference. The only solution then is to reinstall everything. I have no idea which is the offending package but it is not wireless-tools or pcmcia-cs, since upgrading these does not break things. This bug, whatever it is, has caused me to reinstall the system on my laptop 4 times! Anthony -- Anthony

Re: Disabling scripts in init.d *permanently*? apt-get dist-upgrade re-enables them! (did RTFM about update-rc.d)

2005-11-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
of the script in /etc/init.d. I don't know if it is the right thing to do but it's simple and it works. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). I made a fresh install of debian on a spare partition

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2005, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: There seems to be a bug in the current version

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: Wireless-tools is 27+28pre10-1. This is the same as in the cache. libiw27-28pre10-1 - perhaps this is the problem? It does not seem to be installed. dpkg -s shows that libiw27 is purge. It is present in the cache but running dpkg -i on this did

Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current config from the driver. The first question is there, what changed - apart from it not working. Had you upgraded

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network/interfaces. /e/n/i is effectively a script to configure an interface, iwconfig gets the current config from

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 13:44, Anthony Campbell wrote: Ln 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 11:37, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: Iwconfig does not ever read /etc/network

Re: Deb Packages for Kernel 2.6.13?

2005-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
with a similar kernel I have compiled myself. I've given up trying to understand what is happening here. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Grub and linux-source-2.6.12

2005-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
with --initrd also didn't work (the resultant .deb wouldn't install properly). Yet another of the mysterious things that have happened for me recently with making kernels. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book

Re: Grub and linux-source-2.6.12

2005-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
couldn't spot the error in my case so I deleted .config completely and started from scratch. Everything then worked correctly, so there must have been something wrong, as others have said, but I don't know what. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu

Re: set problem

2005-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
file in /etc thank you I had something similar and found that the messages were coming from /etc/login.defs. I commented out the relevant lines to make them go away. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] I've just fetched the vanilla 2.6.13.3. It compiles correctly and recognizes my CD drives. So it looks as if the problem has been recognized and fixed

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
of specifying which compiler should be used? Leave the symlink alone. Where do you do this, please? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: I have a similar problem here, and sysfs won't help. My /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file is empty (contains the drive name:... entries, but w/o a value). Also my /sys/bus/ide/devices/ dir is empty. I am running Debian

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: I have a similar problem here, and sysfs won't help. My /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file is empty (contains the drive name:... entries, but w/o a value

2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Oct 2005, Bruno Buys wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: Kernel versions 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 are causimg serious problems here. 2.6.13 won't access /cdrom and 2.6.12 segfaults when I try this. It is then impossible to log out normally and I have to pull the plug on the computer! I have

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Oct 2005, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:35:09PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: 2.6.13 won't access /cdrom and 2.6.12 segfaults when I try this. It is then impossible to log out normally and I have to pull the plug on the computer! Well, that sounds a touch

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: Kernel versions 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 are causimg serious problems here. 2.6.13 won't access /cdrom and 2.6.12 segfaults when I try this. It is then impossible to log out normally and I have to pull the plug on the computer

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
is happening. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Printer

2005-10-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
change to grub if you are presently using lilo. Don't worry about the latest greatest kernels unless you have the latest greatest hardware. [snip] In my case, printing works with 2.6.12 but breaks with 2.6.13. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: My computer crashed recently so I built a new one (AMD Sempron, ASRock K8Upgrade-1689 m/b) and installed the original HDs. Most things work as expected (not USB so far) but the most urgent problem is that the mouse pointer

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: My computer crashed recently so I built a new one (AMD Sempron, ASRock K8Upgrade-1689 m/b) and installed the original HDs. Most things work as expected (not USB

Tiger reports suspicious file - now what?

2005-10-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
-- [rootkit009a] A rootkit seems to be installed in the system I ran chkrootkit (2 different versions) manually. Nothing bad showed up so I don't understand the message. Can I safely take this to be a false positive? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux

Frozen mouse pointer in X

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
Microsoft Option Emulate3Buttons true EndSection I've tried other /dev/ttyS1 etc. but no help. Anything to try? How can I be sure the serial port is OK? Give up and get a mon-serial mouse? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using

Re: Frozen mouse pointer in X -GOT ROUND

2005-10-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
into it further. Meanwhile I got hold of a PS2 mouse and that is working so the immediate problem is solved. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Sep 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by Debian

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Sep 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It was due to the -s

Printing via LAN fails

2005-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following helpful advice here recently my LAN is now up and running. Now I'm seeking to print remotely, i.e. from my laptop to the printer attached to my desktop. Everything else is working (ssh, sftp). Both are running Debian Sid. I use lpd plus magicfilter for printing. I can print files by

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by Debian. Removing this has fixed it. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more experimentation I seem to have got ping to work in both directions, by means of the following: 1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. 2. I removed

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2005, Wackojacko wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 17 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more experimentation I seem to have got ping to work in both directions, by means of the following: 1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem - SOLVED?

2005-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2005, Jared Hall wrote: Anthony 1. There is a page in the router set-up which shows attached devices; the laptop appears here as 192.168.0.3, for some reason. From what I have gathered you haven't been able to get your laptop (wireless) to connect to your desktop (Ethernet).

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2005, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 9/17/05, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: iface eth1 inet dhcp address [2]192.168.0.22 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp address [3]192.168.0.20 I could be missing something

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: On (16/09/05 18:20), Anthony Campbell wrote: On 16 Sep 2005, Frank Gevaerts wrote: [snip] It looks as if the router does NAT between the wireless and the wired segments. Can you configure the router to do bridging ? Frank I don't

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya anthony On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: desktop: /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback 192.168.0.20arcadia.acampbell.org.uk arcadia arcadia.acupuncturecourse.org.uk accampbell.uklinux.net 192.168.0.22 thinkpad

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/09/05 17:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and googling hasn't helped. I have two

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: Under LAN IP setting, the entry for Use Router as DHCP server is ticked. The help file says: Use Router As DHCP Server The MR814v2 router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: I'm very grateful to everyone for their suggestions but I'm starting to think it's about time to give up :-( Don´t give up! Linux computers are designed to work in networks. Please be so kind to post the complete contents of your

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Frank Gevaerts wrote: [snip] It looks as if the router does NAT between the wireless and the wired segments. Can you configure the router to do bridging ? Frank I don't think so. There is nothing about it in the manual as far as I can see. Perhaps I need a different

absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and googling hasn't helped. I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL modem. Both machines reach the internet without problems, one via a cable link to the modem, the other via a wireless link to the

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and googling hasn't helped. I'm not surprised, as it's quite a specific issue, and doesn't really illustrate any one possible point

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and googling hasn't helped. I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a wireless router and ADSL modem. Both machines reach

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: firewall (shorewall) does not help. ping localhost is 100% guaranteed to work ... as long as 127.0.0.1 is in /etc/hosts and you do use /etc/hosts in your /etc/resolv.conf - ping of it's own ip

Re: postfix

2005-08-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2005, gothic doom wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to make a rule that will analize 'mail from' *only* if the message comes from a certain IP address. Sorry about this lamme question, but couldn't find out reading http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html. Thanx Wouldn't procmail be

Re: Sid wants to kill off abiword, aspell, and gedit

2005-07-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jul 2005, Joe Potter wrote: I figure that someone at Debian hates the editors I like. What to do? An apt-get dist-upgrade will remove abiword and gedit. They then would be un-installable. This always happens with Sid and Gnome. Abiword is always the last to be fixed. I smell a

Re: Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jul 2005, Bryan Donlan wrote: On 7/27/05, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do and things then proceed normally

Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do and things then proceed normally. This does not happen on my desktop. Any way to fix this? Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jul 2005, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: Anthony Campbell, On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do and things then proceed normally. This does

Re: Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jul 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2005, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: Anthony Campbell, On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do

Re: Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Jul 2005, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: Anthony Campbell, On my laptop, whenever I try to install/upgrade packages I get a message saying that the packages cannot be authenticated and asking if I want to continue. I say I do and things then proceed normally

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Jul 2005, Haines Brown wrote: Matthew Lenz wrote: rather than grep xarging /etc for occurances of the ip and hostname is there a proper debian way of changing them? Editing /etc/hosts ? I went through this experience a short while ago. All kinds of recommendations about

Re: Printing in CUPS -- almost there!

2005-07-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jul 2005, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I am still struggling with making my printer work. I installed all of the cups files instructed to both by our list members and online at: http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-cups I then tried to

Re: wajig broken in unstable?

2005-06-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Jun 2005, Graham Williams wrote: Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 7:39pm +1000 from Anthony Campbell: I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message that it has unmet dependencies and I should file

wajig broken in unstable?

2005-06-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message that it has unmet dependencies and I should file a bug report. However, bug reporting seems to be failing on Debian at present. Not sure what is happening

Re: wajig broken in unstable?

2005-06-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Jun 2005, Graham Williams wrote: Received Wed 29 Jun 2005 7:39pm +1000 from Anthony Campbell: I found that wajig disappeared here after an update to unstable a couple of days ago and attempts to reintall it are greeted with the message that it has unmet dependencies and I should file

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: Anthony Campbell: On 14 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: I think it was already there when I started using IceWM (~4 years ago)! Unfortunately, it lacks Tab-completion and history. What I like is that when you finish the command with Ctrl-Enter

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: Anthony Campbell: On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: Yes and no. With Win-Space I meant my keyboard shortcut: Windows key + Space bar. You could also do Ctrl-Alt-Space. Thanks for this clarification. My Windows keys don't seem to do

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jun 2005, Steve C. Lamb wrote: [snip] Actually I've found WMs lacking at managing windows. I consider starting a window with the desired application part of good management. Configuring that portion for most WMs is a PITA. The other portions they are equal to the DEs like

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: Well, to start gui programs I do not have a keyboard shortcut for, I just hit Win-Space and IceWM gives me a little command line. It couldn't be much easier. That's new. :D I think it was already there when I started using IceWM (~4 years

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jun 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/10/2005 04:20 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and sending out bogus messages. I normally get a few of these and mark them

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