Re: Debian Linux on a mac?

2004-08-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:33:37PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: | Not the original poster, so please excuse me jumping in here. | | I'm going to attempt installing Sarge on my brother's G3 beige (old | world), this weekend. Were you able to boot directly from the cd, or | did you need to boot from

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:39:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: | James Foster wrote: | | The log will be _enormous_ and I mean __enormous__ | | It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really | depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours | worth

Re: [OT] Apache log analysis packages

2004-07-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:02:25PM -0700, Chris Metcalf wrote: | I'm looking for suggestions on a good Apache log analysis package for | my web server. I've used Sawmill (www.sawmill.net) to do log analysis | at work (and it is awesome), but I'm looking for something free (as in | beer and

Re: printing to remote ip through firewall

2004-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:30:39AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | Some times it is necessary to print a document in a printer | behind a firewall. The internal ip of the printer and the outer ip of | the firewall are known. How can this be done? If you run the firewall, you can use NAT

Re: Xeon HT or not HT

2004-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:10:28AM +0100, nx13372 wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm using kernel 2.4.26-1-686-smp. | I have a dual xeon box. If in the bios i enable the HT i'll get 4 cpus, | if not i'll get 2 cpus. You have 2 Physical CPUs regardless. With HT each physical CPU is divided into 2 Logical

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers

2004-07-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 12:45:43PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: | | On a related matter, though ... | | I switched from Emacs RMAIL to Mutt a couple of months ago, and there | is just one thing that I miss from RMAIL. The command | rmail-output-body-to-file (bound by default to `w') saves only

Re: Unknown Scancode Errors

2004-07-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 07:28:14AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: | Thomas Adam wrote: [...] | You should look at the scancodes in question. Have a read of 'loadkeys', | 'dumpkeys', 'showkey'. They all have manpages. Unfortunately they only mention usage details. They don't cover the bigger

Re: wireless and kernel woes

2004-07-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:16:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | The situation: bought an Averatec notebook couple of weeks ago (AMD | Athlon-M, 256K, builtint 10/100 and wireless, CDRW-DVD combo, etc) You don't say what wireless adapter this is or what driver you need. I recommend a PCI

Re: wireless and kernel woes

2004-07-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:06:39AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:16:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | | | The situation: bought an Averatec notebook couple of weeks ago (AMD | | Athlon-M, 256K, builtint 10/100 and wireless

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:24:32AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:49:20AM -0700, Sean wrote: | hi all, | | i have a file like; | | # one 123 | | and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of each line | | 'append' means to add to the end. It is impossible

Re: Postfix from source: changing the MTA

2004-07-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:32:47AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: | $ apt-cache show equivs | Package: equivs | Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies |This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian |packages, which only contain dependency information. |

Re: apt-get says file a bug report - Should I?

2004-07-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:05:35PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Here's the transaction... | |floozy:~# apt-get install firestarter [...] |Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: | firestarter: Depends: libbonoboui2-0 (= 2.5.4) but it is not going to be

Re: Playing around with exec sample

2004-07-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:40:07PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: | On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:06:05PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: | | I want to start a process in my app and capture its output and error | | messages. Therefore I played a little with the exec sample under Windows | | but I wasn't able to

Re: Postfix from source: changing the MTA

2004-07-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:41:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have installed the newest version of Postfix from | source (not Debian source). Why? (see below) | I don't want the Debian/Woody version of Postfix. Ok, so rebuild the sarge version on your woody machine. # aptitude

Re: Playing around with exec sample

2004-07-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:06:05PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: | I want to start a process in my app and capture its output and error | messages. Therefore I played a little with the exec sample under Windows | but I wasn't able to capture any process output, the window of the exec | sample always

Re: modprobe.conf missing

2004-07-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:24:02PM +0200, Matthijs wrote: | On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:50:12 +0200, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It must be out of date. The current module-init-tools don't use | /etc/modprobe.conf any more. | | I'm sure I had everything up to date

Re: modprobe.conf missing

2004-07-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:29:58AM +0200, Matthijs wrote: [...] | Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via EPIA M1 board. | | The biggest problem I'm having: | modconf wasn't installed by default, had to apt-get it myself. That's no problem, it isn't essential. | Now it | only

Re: eth0 does not remain

2004-07-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:00:49PM -0400, disciple wrote: | When I do lsmod, the nic driver shows up (3c59x). | eth0 section missing when I do ifconfig. Note that 'ifconfig' (with no parameters) only displays network devices that are configured. If a device exists in the system but has no layer

Re: 'en_US.UTF-8' locale missing

2004-07-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:59:20PM +0530, Rajasekaran Deepak wrote: | If export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' is done in .bashrc, | programs give errors like: | locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory | locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file

mutt tweaks (was: Re: libc no longer executable in testing/unstable, was in stable (matlab))

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:26:45PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: | On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:47:13PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: | PS: Mail-Followup-To not honored as it appears to be munged. Some people actually want a copy. That is what the header is for -- indicating what your preference is

Re: apt-get update:Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:33:07PM +0200, Jochen Demuth wrote: | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room | I added this line to apt.conf, as suggested in | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=166758 | | APT::Cache-Limit=16777216; | | But with the same result. | | Any ideas?

Re: why devfs w/ 2.6.x kernel? prob w/ initrd-tools

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:33:21PM -0700, Richard Weil wrote: | What's the rational for building 2.6 series kernels with devfs? Devfs | is deprecated. Backwards compatibility, I imagine. Some people started using devfs with the 2.4 kernels and their system would break without it. Having it as

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:09:06PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: | On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:18:30PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | OTOH, maybe the postscript code in mozilla itself has a security hole. But | the right thing to do would be to *fix* that instead, not to drop it. | |

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:45:49PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote: | On Friday 09 July 2004 9:18 am, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: | By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security | issues? | | IIRC, some wrote a nethack game entirely in postscript; so if it isn't | Turing-complete,

Re: multiple exim4 processes

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:24:17AM -0700, Vadik wrote: | I am running exim4, and it runs in multiple processes: This is normal. | and this is after I stoped the server. Is this normal? No. After stopping the server it shouldn't still be running. Well, it is possible (probable, even) that

Re: NETGEAR MA311 802.11b Wireless PCI Network Adapter Card

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:40:55PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: | I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... | | What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? | Specifically under the new net install cdrom? | | A lady friend is seriously considering

Re: udev question

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:09:31AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: [...] | i want to DISABLE the touchpad when the usb mouse is plugged in. Oh. I don't know how to do that as I've never tried (and never wanted to). I think some BIOSes support that (at least for PS/2 mice). Sorry I can't help with

Re: help; Is C soon to be the programming lang. of the past?

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:41:47PM -0400, Paul Tsai wrote: [...] | virtual machine. However, .NET has a Just in Time compilator that is [...] | performance is not really an issue, compared to Java being interpreted | thoughout the lifetime of the program, hence slower. There is much more

Re: Good unicode compatible editors under X

2004-07-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:58:49PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: | Hi, | | Since the gedit is crashing in debain testing | (http://www.google.com/groups?q=+%22gedit:+undefined+symbol:+eel_input_event_box_new%22hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8scoring=rselm=2bRJs-659-17%40gated-at.bofh.itrnum=2) | | I'm wondering what

Re: I'm too stupid to use find, can someone help me out, please?

2004-07-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:30:44AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: | Am Di, den 06.07.2004 schrieb Rick Pasotto um 10:49: | On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:36:06AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: | snip | This is not so clear anymore. But I think I understand that | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/$ find .

Re: udev question

2004-07-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:51:10AM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: | Sam Halliday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | however that only solves half the problem... how can i make this | /dev/usbmouse link (or whatever i call it) point to /dev/input/mouse1 | (the touchpad) when the usb mouse is not

Re: exim-tls removed, but exim4 replaces it, but exim4 conflicts with mutt?

2004-07-04 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 09:41:17AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: | On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:33:20AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | crypto is now in main (has been for a while) | | Then the message from apt-get that exim-tls is replaced by exim4 is damned | confusing. (I almost typed

Re: Disabling autoloading of oss sound modules using kernel-2.6.6 and discover2

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:49:21AM +0100, Mark C wrote: | Hi, | | I've just upgraded my kernel in unstable to 2.6.6, and it's working | great, apart from it loads both the oss kernel drivers and the alsa | drivers, using discover for hardware detection. | | I've done some googling, and can

Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:51:23PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | restartd. | | aha. not available for woody, but it's available for sarge... | snip | [hmm -- must look

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:31:44PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Thu, Jul 01 at 05:59PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: | --- Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | #!/bin/bash | /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart | | Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here: | | invoke-rc.d script

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:46:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | | a time, gets dozens

Re: exim-tls removed, but exim4 replaces it, but exim4 conflicts with mutt?

2004-07-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:41:32PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: | Okay, why remove exim-tls in the first place if you're keeping exim | v3 in the archive? crypto is now in main (has been for a while) | And then, why on Earth would exim4-base want to remove mutt? The exim4-base package doesn't

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:43:54PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | | a time, gets dozens

Re: Is this a bug in mutt or a malformed email?

2004-06-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:43:06PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | A poster to a pigeon rescue group I'm on posts in | multipart/alternative format, HTML and plain text. | | Normally, when reading his emails, mutt (woody, 1.3.28-2) happily | displays the plain text part and ignores the HTML. | |

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-06-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | a time, gets dozens of unexpected signal (source unknown) | and gives up the ghost. | | questions: | 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to

Re: usb errors when attaching device

2004-06-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:42:26AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: [...] | The console and /var/log/kern.log report the following : | Jun 26 11:33:44 dman13 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 | Jun 26 11:33:44 dman13 kernel: usb 1-2: config 1 has an invalid

Re: Exim filters

2004-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 07:21:51PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: | # Exim Filter | if | $h_X-Spam-Status: contains Yes Hmm. It looks like I haven't updated that document yet. Shame on me. Take a look at the headers of that mesasge that matched this rule, you'll probably see the text BAYES_ in

usb errors when attaching device

2004-06-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Yesterday the Intel USB 802.11b Wireless adapter (model WUD2011BWW) I bought on ebay arrived. First I downloaded win2k drivers and tested it on a borrowed windows laptop. The device works fine and connects to my AP fine. Then I plugged it into my debian machine. The console and

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | On Thursday 2004-06-24 12:48 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | | has anyone else been bitten by this, and found a workaround? | | I don't mean to sound like an ass, but that's what happens when you rely on | the whims of a proprietary

Re: Aliases to file

2004-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:04:18AM -0500, Mark Gillingham wrote: | I want to set up a Postfix aliases entry to make it convenient for users | of another MTA (GroupWise) to send spam and ham for later entry to the | Bayes database via sa-learn. I have a Postfix server available and I've | made an

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-06-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:40:11AM +0700, deb_milist wrote: [...] | then he set jabber server up for internal network purpose. | we'd got a bunch ( again ) of complaints from those users that must | migrate to | jabber with various silly arguments : | there's no cute emoticons FWIW emoticons are

Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??

2004-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:32:19AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: | On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:06, Damian Morris wrote: | to do it manually, you need to use one of the special ssh escape | codes. from my ssh man page: | | Escape Characters | ~. Disconnect. | The one you want is ~.

Re: Kernel Vulnerability

2004-06-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 08:12:48PM -0300, Fabio Marcos Pedroso Filho wrote: | No. I am using an own compilation of kernel, but I am using the | kernel-source from debian apt sources. I am using 2.4.19.woody2. But this | release is vulnerable to that local exploit that freeze the system. I don't

Re: make xconfig in kernel 2.6.6. - how?

2004-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: | The 2.6 kernel requires the qt library for make xconfig. Yes. The xconfig UI is much nicer than the old one. There is also a GTK version you can choose, but it isn't as stable. | Could somebody kindly tell me which of the many

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:57:05PM -0700, Brenden T. wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: | | Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. | | | | My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the | | two

Re: setting up user directories with apache2

2004-06-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 07:27:27PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: | I am trying to enable user directories with apache2 in unstable. [...] | When trying to connect I get the message | | Forbidden | You don't have permission to access /~user/ on this server. | The directory is chmod 755. | Any

Re: printing to windows printer

2004-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:47:34PM -0700, Tadek wrote: [...] | Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED The windows server is telling your client that you are not authorized to do what you tried to do. | Could anybody offer me a hint what needs to be done to get rid of | access

Re: Another testing vs unstable question

2004-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I've been watching the various discussions on this, and note that most | experienced types think that the unstable distribution is better than the | testing distribution. This leads me to one more question / observation

Re: 3 gigs enough?

2004-06-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Cecil wrote: | Ok... Is there a lighter ide? UNIX /is/ the IDE. vim, ctags, make/ant, ls, find, grep, gcc/g++/python/jikes/java etc., etc. Don't limit yourself to just the all-in-one-and-makes-toast-too programs labelled as an IDE. (although some of

Re: resolv.conf gets reset

2004-06-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:11:40AM -0700, Brenden wrote: | Hi all, new debian user here with some basic questions. | | My resolv.conf file keeps getting reset to nothing (well, just the | two comment lines warning me not to change things manually) | everytime I reboot. I just plain don't have

Re: Downloading uw-imapd folders

2004-06-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 04:42:12PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: | I have uw-imapd installed and working in that Squirrelmail works nicely. | However, using a Windose box, I'm having trouble getting the correct folders | downloaded. The Windose client will let me specify the path to my mail |

Re: 802.11g Wireless NIC for Desktop

2004-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:46:09PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: | | On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Doug MacFarlane wrote: | | I'm converting to 802.11g at my new place. What NIC do you recommend for | my Debian Unstable (sid) desktop? I'm looking for something that I can | install, and load the drivers

Re: kernel panic - no /dev/console

2004-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:45:36PM +1000, glenn wrote: | When i boot off this image I get a kernel panic, following a message | from sbin/init, that it cant find dev/console. | | Any ideas what I have to do? | | incidentally, ls -l /dev/console gives : | crwx-- 1 root tty 5, 1 Jun 11:14:40

Re: 2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:43:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | Good point, but no, I'm running testing, and it's a more basic problem | than DHCP. Packets appear on the wire but nothing's ever received via | the card. You'll appreciate that this following is manually cut'n'paste, |

Re: /lib/modules/version/build -- why a link?

2004-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:12:19PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: | Dear all, | | why is /lib/modules/version/build a symbolic link? | | Wouldn't it ease deployment of kernels if it included directly the | headers that were used for building the kernel? I don't -know-, but my guess is because not every

Re: php4+mssql

2004-06-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:07:43PM -0300, Mauro Romano Trajber wrote: | Hi all, | Im an debian unstable user and i trying to install php4 with mssql (MS | SQL Server)support via apt-get. | Everything works in my box(apache,php...) but i need mssql support in php. | How can i do that via apt-get

Re: udev and makedev packages

2004-06-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:20:09PM -0400, Colin wrote: | When will udev 0.024-9 make it into testing (sarge)? http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=udev | Right now, dpkg is attempting to remove udev because it isn't the | right version for makedev. Either leave makedev and don't

Re: Taming the new fvwm

2004-06-05 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm | package: | | ii fvwm2.5.10-6F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5 Yes. Although I didn't have any old config to migrate. | Upon upgrade, it

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:15:40AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: | On Wednesday 02 June 2004 07:58, J. Preiss wrote: | Hi, | may there is a harder way? I tried dpkg-reconfigure kwin, the | answer is could not init kde. Isn't it simply change a config | file? What are you trying to do with kwin?

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-02 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:06:15PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: | What are you trying to do with kwin? I don't understand the problem. | | The main problem is, that I only had the choice between xdm and gdm. And I | think I want to use kwm, because I think it is the [xyz] manager which is |

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 07:45:41PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | Kai Grossjohann wrote: | If you have more than one level, then you need to hit more often. | (At least if my understanding of does is right.) Correct. | As I said, meaningful problem. | I certainly don't see this a

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-06-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:40:49PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: | On 2004-05-29, Steve Lamb penned: | | Syntax highlighting (at least full syntax highlighting), you | certainly don't have. | | Which would be the one. | | At the risk of undermining my own argument, if you use vim as

Re: Changing Default Display Mgr

2004-06-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:49:49PM -0500, Bill Holloway wrote: | How may I change my default display manager? Thanks in advance. First ensure that you have two or more installed. Then run dpkg-reconfigure on one of the packages. For example have both xdm and gdm installed and run

Re: chkrootkit output question - Unknown HZ value!???

2004-05-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 04:03:14PM -0700, August MacBeth wrote: | Derrick, | | supposedly when machines are up for a lng ass time, procps gets | whacked and this error starts popping up.. solution: reboot or upgrade | to a new(er) version of procps. Ok, thanks. I think I'll wait a while

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:21:38PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: | On Fri, 21 May 2004 20:33:14 -0400, richard lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | That makes two votes for Python (the other was off-list). I've had it | in mind to find time to investigate Python -- so I'll have a go at | that. |

Re: What happened to /dev/fd0?

2004-05-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:32:28PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: | I have done two thing that could have changed it: | | 1. Installed kernel-image-2.6.6-i686 # modprobe ide-floppy | 2. Ran the mkdev.sh script from lm-sensors-sources. | | Now there are no devices like /dev/fd0-3 | | zsh % ls

Re: jython install

2004-05-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:30:07PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:28:58PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: | | If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. | | | | I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java

Re: chkrootkit output question - Unknown HZ value!???

2004-05-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:16:54AM -0700, August MacBeth wrote: | i'm getting some strange output from chkrootkit on one of my woody | servers. can anyone tell me what this means? i ran chkrootkit | again to see if it went away and it came back with the same info. i | google'd a bit but couldn't

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:28:58PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: | If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. | | I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java | programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I | get an import error saying the

Re: IPv6 General Questions

2004-05-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:20:26AM +1000, James Buchanan wrote: | Hi, | | I'm curious to know how I might test out IPv6 networking. I certainly | need another Ipv6 box to talk to, and I might build a little subnet at | home with old 386/486 boxes for cheap to do this. It might be my only | way.

Re: Intel NIC Driver

2004-05-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:33:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I just installed debian on a server. The server has a an Intel PRO 1000 | MT network card/interface. This was not rcognized by any driver on the | install. | | 1. Is there a driver that will work with this. I believe it is on

Re: Intel NIC Driver

2004-05-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:45:38PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Find said there is no such file or directory...I went and there is only | one file inside /lib/modules/ and it references ide . What kernel are you using? (provide us with the output of 'uname -a') It sounds like you may be

Re: print to a hp lj 5l through tcp/ip

2004-05-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:36:50PM +0200, LeVA wrote: | Hi! | | I have a hp laserjet 5l printer in my network, and listens on tcp port | 9100. A few month ago (when I used woody), I could use the socket:// | protocoll to connect to it. But after I've upgraded to sarge, I can not | even select

Re: OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 09:59:45AM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: | Evenin' all. | | I've installed ClamAV+Exim4 to reject viruses at SMTP time. d-u's | headers don't seem to mention anything about /virus/ scanning (as | opposed to SpamAssassin), so I guess I'm ok asking this question here: |

Re: OT: Viruses on lists

2004-05-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:22:41PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: | Paul Johnson had the gall to say: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | [snip] | Almost. murphy generates a bounce and sends it to the list manager | (mailman, majordomo, ezmlm, etc. - I don't know what one

Re: What do I need in Kernel for DSL

2004-05-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 07:50:06PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: Content-Description: signed data | Am Montag, 3. Mai 2004 16:59 schrieb Chris Metzler: | On Mon, 03 May 2004 13:00:14 +0200 | | Matthias Hentges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | PPP | PPP over Ethernet | PPP .* compression | | Not

Re: My system display UTC time....how to correct?

2004-04-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:43:48PM +, Lorenzo Rossi wrote: | I have found in /etc/default/ the file rcS | In this file there are the lines: | | --- | # Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if |

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:10:30PM +, Adam Funk wrote: | On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:50, John Hasler wrote: | | Ciaran writes: | The file command uses magic to figure it out. Is that any better? | | The point is that there are no text files: just files that happen to | contain text.

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:31:32AM +0200, Markus Lindstrm wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | Don't forget to include PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support | (CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION) in the kernel's configuration. If you leave | it out, then the kernel can't read the partition table

Re: Stripping /dev post udev?

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:32:07AM -0700, Scott Robinson wrote: | What are the bare minimum devices necessary to boot up to udev? /dev/console I statically create /dev/null and /dev/zero too. (why not?) | I just migrated from devfs, and have returned to having a filesystem | full of useless

Re: udev: how to do it right?

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 05:48:46PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: | I also found the solution to my second problem. It was a lot simpler than | it looked like. I had to load the modules for ide-disk and ide-cd and the | device nodes/trees are created automatigcally. Devfs and the old dev made | me

Re: networking problem with 2.6.4 kernel [was: Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel]

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:19:06PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:42:06PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: [...] | I haven't noticed any changes in networking, but that might be | dependent on the hardware and what modules I already had configured | to be loaded

using apt/aptitude (was: Re: networking problem with 2.6.4 kernel [was: Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel])

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:11:24PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | [back on-list] | | on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:02:06PM -0400, J F insinuated: | I don't have a specific answer to your problem, | but using aptitude seems to ease upgrade problems. | Also, having testing, unstable, and stable all in

Re: Re: Debian has turned unusable.

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 04:39:22PM -0500, Kevin Ruml wrote: | This topic/suggestion that desktop users should use unstable rather than | stable, since it's no more unstable than other distros latest releases, | comes up regularly. What is the reason unstable isn't renamed to something | else

Re: networking problem with 2.6.4 kernel [was: Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel]

2004-04-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:26:33PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Mon, 12 Apr 2004 03:08:28PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: | On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:19:06PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | | on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 03:42:06PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated

Re: VFS: Cannot open root device

2004-04-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 02:06:57PM +0200, Markus Lindstrm wrote: | Okay, here's the deal. | | I'm a newbie trying to get Debian Woody to work on my comp. | Unfortunately, the native 2.4.18 kernel shipped with it doesn't support | my network card. | | On the other hand, compiling a newer 2.4

Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel

2004-04-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:32:10PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | after hearing all the brouhaha about the 2.6 kernel, i thought i'd try | it out. but a simple `apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.4-1-686` wants | to remove packages i don't want it to: | | homeruns:~# apt-get install

Re: Courier-imap and LDAP

2004-04-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: | Hi, | | I have a problem authenticating a user who wishes to use IMAP | against LDAP. [...] I don't know the cause and solution of your particular issue, but below is some information about courier and authentication. | 1) Is

Re: 2.6.4 kernel install wants to remove current kernel

2004-04-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 02:41:54PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:47:26PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: | On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:32:10PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: [...] | | how, then, should i go about installing the kernel image? | | Try aptitude

Re: parsing Apache logs

2004-04-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 05:07:27PM -0400, S.D.A. wrote: | Happy Good Friday everyone: | | I seem to remember there being a Debian package that allowed one to parse and | view Apache logs via the web. I can't remember the name of the package though. | | Anyone remind me? Thanks. 'apt-cache

Re: upgrade broken (Testing) for 10 days - libxrender

2004-04-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:56:16PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: | On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 11:30:17 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: | | a apt-get dist-upgrade is usually recommended since it also | installs/removes packages when the distribution changes. Try that first, | see if the problem remains. | | #

Re: udev and CD or DVD drives

2004-04-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:34:14PM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | At 2004-04-06T19:58:26Z, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | less /sbin/MAKEDEV | | Isn't that deprecated in udev? I imagine it is. After all, if you have a system for creating nodes on-the-fly for devices that exist, then

Re: apache2 perl sections: *:80 has no VirtualHosts error

2004-04-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 01:39:00PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:19:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: [...] | | NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts | | | | we'd love to know why

Re: udev and CD or DVD drives

2004-04-07 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | At 2004-04-07T15:01:54Z, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Do you, by any chance, have the file /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd | (or something very similar)? | | Hmmm, you may be onto something. I don't

Re: apache2 perl sections: *:80 has no VirtualHosts error

2004-04-06 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:19:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: [...] | NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts | | we'd love to know why. pointers are very welcome! http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/vhosts/ Not very long ago I went to add a virtual host to my apache 2 configuration and

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