Speakers pop every 5-10 minutes

2002-12-29 Thread Jeff
My sound card is the CMPCI CM8738. Sound works fine, but the speakers pop regularly...and loud too. Any ideas? jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls

2002-12-29 Thread Jatin Golani
Hey ppl, I've done something real stupid and i really really really need your help. I have a Debian 3.0 system using an ext3 partition. I recently added Mandrake 9.0 in a different partition just to check it out. Recently I noticed a performance degradation on my Debian system.on further inve

xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Dai Yuwen
Hi, Dear All I find xmms conflics with esd. Unless I kill esd can xmms play MP3s. I use woody and gnome1.4. Any advise? Best regards, Dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate tip -- hmm? [NEW TOPIC]

2002-12-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:28:26AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: ... > However, the pointer to rtfm is probably too much for most newbies. > It would be great if ntpdate and ntp-simple both offered to do the > very simple configuration of using the existing DNS servers as NTP > servers and having the de

Test

2002-12-29 Thread Jatin Golani
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Problems with keyboard

2002-12-29 Thread Mat
Hi to everyone. I've got a problem with the keyboard through SSH/telnet remote login: When I try to use End or bottom keys the only thing I have displayed is a ~.Moreover, I cannot print special characters ({}~, above all) (because I have an italian keyboard, I have to print them through AltGr

How stupid can I be :(....please help pls pls pls

2002-12-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hey ppl,   I have a Debian 3.0 system with an ext3 partition. I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on a different partition just to check it out and therefore had to change the partition structure on my drive, however Debs been my main workhorse.   I recently noticed a performance degrade on my

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Isaac To
> "Dai" == Dai Yuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dai> Hi, Dear All I find xmms conflics with esd. Unless I kill esd can Dai> xmms play MP3s. I use woody and gnome1.4. Any advise? Go to the output plugins preference of xmms and choose esd. Regards, Isaac. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Linux system /dev/hda to /dev/hdd, will it work ??

2002-12-29 Thread daves debian
I need to move my linux system from drive, /dev/hda to /dev/hdd I know I will have to re-write lilo.conf Apart from lilo, will the system work in a different hdX ?? Anyone had any experience ?? or done it ?? Thanks Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:36:50PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > I find xmms conflics with esd. Unless I kill esd can xmms play MP3s. I use > woody and gnome1.4. Any advise? Save yourself the overhead and remove esd? It's not necissary for sound, the kernel does just fine with that. (Unless your

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

2002-12-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 04:14:32PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > ... > > The other possibility, brought up by someone on this list, is that that > machine is used for burning CDs and that may cause the clock to get slow. > I have not check this, though. I'll second that warning, as I saw just that

Re: How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 8:25 am, Jatin Golani wrote: ... > Now if I try to boot into Debian I get a kernel panic. > When booted into Mandrake, fdisk still shows the > partition as a Linux partition with id 83...if I > try to mount this partition i ge

Re: Linux system /dev/hda to /dev/hdd, will it work ??

2002-12-29 Thread Stefan Radomski
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 22:27, daves debian wrote: > I need to move my linux system from drive, /dev/hda to /dev/hdd > I know I will have to re-write lilo.conf > > Apart from lilo, will the system work in a different hdX ?? > > Anyone had any experience ?? or done it ?? Hi Daves, I usually instal

Re: Linux system /dev/hda to /dev/hdd, will it work ??

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 9:27 pm, daves debian wrote: > I need to move my linux system from drive, /dev/hda to /dev/hdd > I know I will have to re-write lilo.conf > > Apart from lilo, will the system work in a different hdX ?? > > Anyone had any experie

mysql-server refuses to install on testing

2002-12-29 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I upgraded my workstation from woody to testing about a month back and all went well with just one exception - mysql-server refuses to install. The following error appears: Setting up mysql-server (3.23.52-2) ... Stopping MySQL database server: mysql

Re: Re[2]: X

2002-12-29 Thread Joris Huizer
I cut some text to avoid too long posts... --- Ochronus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is the path I followed when installing the > nvidia drivers: > > apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src > apt-get install nvidia-glx-src > This doesn't work - apt keeps saying it can't find them. Paul Johnso

Re: How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls

2002-12-29 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:25:37AM -0800, Jatin Golani wrote: > Now if I try to boot into Debian I get a kernel panic. > When booted into Mandrake, fdisk still shows the > partition as a Linux partition with id 83...if I > try to mount this partition i get a bad fs, bad > superblock or too many

too restrictive security settings when logging in to email

2002-12-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Hi everybody, I think my security settings are too restrictive. When I try to log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx I get an error "client doesn't support https:// " (I logged in on the windows system now to email :-S ) Please help, Joris __ Do you

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2002-12-29 Thread Milen Anguelov
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debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-12-29 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 04:26:21AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any thoughts on overall performance if the following systems? The key > factors are: > 1. Support by Woody out of the box > 2. Will the single processor systems be faster because the memory is > slower on the duals? > 3. Is onboard

RE: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

2002-12-29 Thread alan brown
I may be wrong but I think it's more generic than burning CD's. I've heard it's related to SCSI drives. Just hearsay. Throw it into the mix... alan -Original Message- From: Ken Irving [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ken Irving Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 1:33 AM To: Bill Mo

Re: Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2002, Paul Scott wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > [snip] > The Personal Toolbar is within the Manage Bookmarks window and is > available for drag and drop. I just tested doing what you described. I > am using 1.2.1 but I am sure I have been able to do this through many > versions

Re: How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls

2002-12-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, Alan lemme thank you soo much :)...fsck did the trick :).i'm currently mailing u from within my Debian system and it's good as new :) I really owe you one dude...thanks. Thanks everyone on this list :) Bye for now On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 3:06 pm, Alan Chandler

Re: too restrictive security settings when logging in to email

2002-12-29 Thread Geordie Birch
said Joris Huizer (on 2002-12-29), > I think my security settings are too restrictive. > When I try to log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx I > get an error "client doesn't support https:// " (I > logged in on the windows system now to email :-S ) try installing the lynx-ssl package. Geordie.

Re[2]: X

2002-12-29 Thread Ochronus
JH> --- Ochronus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Here is the path I followed when installing the >> nvidia drivers: >> >> apt-get install nvidia-kernel-src >> apt-get install nvidia-glx-src >> JH> This doesn't work - apt keeps saying it can't find JH> them. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said

Re: Re[2]: X

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:01:04AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > This doesn't work - apt keeps saying it can't find > them. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said I > have to get nvidia-kernel-source and install > nvidia-glx-source - which name is correct? Err... s/source/src -- .''`. Baloo

Re: too restrictive security settings when logging in to email

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:08:29AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > I think my security settings are too restrictive. > When I try to log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx I > get an error "client doesn't support https:// " (I > logged in on the windows system now to email :-S ) Wow, most misleading su

Re: Linux system /dev/hda to /dev/hdd, will it work ??

2002-12-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya daves On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 28 Dec 2002 9:27 pm, daves debian wrote: > > I need to move my linux system from drive, /dev/hda to /dev/hdd > > I know I will have to re-write lilo.conf > > > > Apart from li

Fsck problem

2002-12-29 Thread matt
(woody, 2.4.18) I have a ext2 fs which I converted to ext3, I'm not sure how relavent that is but when I try to fsck the drive I get an error fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while try

Re: Re[2]: X

2002-12-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Thanks for the help so far... unfortunately it isn't solved yet... I marked the line which creates errors and stuff ... I attached the output in a text file (emailing in windows now so chmod is 755) --- Ochronus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cd /usr/src > > tar xvfz nvidia-kernel-src.tar.gz

Re: too restrictive security settings when logging in to email

2002-12-29 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:08:29AM -0800, Joris > Huizer wrote: > > I think my security settings are too restrictive. > > When I try to log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx > I > > get an error "client doesn't support https:// " > (I > > logged in on t

lynx wraps table cells inproperly

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
This is a problem relating to lynx 2.8.3 out of the stable potato branch: Having html code describing a 2 column table like this: very_long_line_very_long_line_very_long_line very_long_line_very_long_line_very_long_line .. is displayed in this manner if xterm does not provid

basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
The slrnpull program provides the option to use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of passing the newsserver by argument. As being not that experienced in unix I had a look at the rcS script to look how this might be done. Following the PATH setting in this file I added these two lines: NNTPSER

grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
Using recursive grep for large directory structures caused the entire system to freeze. The same happens for "find / * -group xx_x". I'm still using potato and the current available findutils deb package. Have any users had this before? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 01:30:16 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:36:50PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > > I find xmms conflics with esd. Unless I kill esd can xmms play MP3s. I use > > woody and gnome1.4. Any advise? > > Save yourself the overhead and remove e

lynx versus lynx-ssl

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Bouncing this back at the list, as others may have this problem in the future. On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:28:00AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > > Wow, most misleading subject line ever. > > Sorry, I was guessing on that :-S Well, it's an understandable mistake, just not one that people would have

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:39:19PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > Don't you need it for the sound effects under window managers? Not that I know of...I haven't heard of any window manager producing sound of it's own, though. If some random window manager depends on esound, I'd say that's fairly brok

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 03:42:43 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:39:19PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > Don't you need it for the sound effects under window managers? > > Not that I know of...I haven't heard of any window manager producing > sound of it's own

odd mouse problem

2002-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've got a minor mouse problem. My USB mouse works great in just about everything, but I just discovered one application of the utmost importance that it doesn't work in. Quake 3. :) Ok, so it's not really of the utmost importance. :) All of my buttons work just fine, but I'm getting no actual MOV

Re: lynx wraps table cells inproperly

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:32:45AM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Is this a common behaviour of the lynx text browser? Yes. This is also not a bug. It's trying to fit things to your terminal width. If you want something that doesn't smash tables into term width, go grab links-ssl. Keyboard comma

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:51:04AM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Using recursive grep for large directory structures > caused the entire system to freeze. > > The same happens for "find / * -group xx_x". > > I'm still using potato and the current available > findutils deb package. > > > Have any

Re: Fsck problem

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:25:26PM +1100, matt wrote: > fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/had > > Any ideas ? You should have ext3 or auto for the filesy

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:39:08PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de > export NNTPSERVER > > then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER > which resulted in a blank line in response. $ export NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de $ echo $NNTPSERVER news.btx.dtag.de -- .''`.

Re: odd mouse problem

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:22:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > All of my buttons work just fine, but I'm getting no actual MOVEMENT > from the mouse. It works flawlessly in everything else I've ever thrown > at it, but it just refuses to do any moving in Quake 3. Any suggestions > on what it mi

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:50:43PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > Well, I always thought stuff like gnome et al. sent their sounds to a > sound deamon such as esd? (to go "bong" at approximately the right time > if you click a button etc.) I ran this past a coworker, he's convinced it's Enlightenment

Re: odd mouse problem

2002-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 06:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:22:54AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > All of my buttons work just fine, but I'm getting no actual MOVEMENT > > from the mouse. It works flawlessly in everything else I've ever thrown > > at it, but it just refuses to

Re: bash read oddity

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 05:06:21, "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Got a strange situation happening on a friends Debian box. I found the >problem by debugging his ALSA startup problems. Turns out that he's >getting some extra character added to the output of "read" command. > >The following co

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 10:51:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >Using recursive grep for large directory structures >caused the entire system to freeze. I once had this, when I tried to access scsi-devices with hardware-problems. Responsiveness of the whole system went drastically down. Hanging app

cca2wav screws up first tract

2002-12-29 Thread joe mc cool
Debian 2.2.20, all scsi cdroms: copying CDs command line: # cdda2wav -v255 -D0,5,0 -B -Owav -x 2&1> joe.tem Error messages: . Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 300s 1/ 1/ 1/ 17

Re: Can only login as root

2002-12-29 Thread Bob Underwood
On Saturday 28 December 2002 22:28, matt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Woody v3.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel. > > I can only login as root, if I try to login as anyone else it does > not even ask for a password, it juts says 'Login incorrect'. > > Regardless of which username I enter it always says 'System b

Re: bash read oddity [SOLVED]

2002-12-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:53:37PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > seems like he has CR (Carriage Return) appended to his lines in > /etc/modules.conf That was it. Never had that happen before, didn't know how to recognize it. > I have no idea, why the -e would be missing here Sloppy pasting o

Re[2]: X

2002-12-29 Thread Ochronus
JH> I marked the line which creates errors and stuff ... I JH> attached the output in a text file (emailing in JH> windows now so chmod is 755) Well, I guess you're using a precompiled kernel, which was compiled with a different gcc version. As the error-text says, set the IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH

Re: Fsck problem

2002-12-29 Thread xio
matt wrote: (woody, 2.4.18) I have a ext2 fs which I converted to ext3, I'm not sure how relavent that is but when I try to fsck the drive I get an error fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-bl

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 29/12/02 Robert Land did speaketh: > NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de > export NNTPSERVER > > then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER > which resulted in a blank line in response. > > What was my fault and was this actually slrnpull > required? That is the correct syntax for setting

Re: Debian and IPV6

2002-12-29 Thread Russ Cook
Mark, Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion of adding the -- -6 option to the start-stop-daemon lines in /etc/init.d/ssh. I then tried to connect to the host with ssh and ssh -6. Both attempts succeded, as shown in the subsequent netstat -A inet6 -an Script started on Sun Dec 29 09:38

Secure CGI Implementation

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Olds
If the cgi-bin is placed outside the DocumentRoot and a script creates an html page to be served to the public, how does this work? Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: too restrictive security settings when logging in to email

2002-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:08:29AM -0800, Joris >> Huizer wrote: >> > I think my security settings are too restrictive. When I try to >> > log in at mail.yahoo.com using lynx I get an error "client >> > does

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Mat
AFAIK /etc/default/rcS is used only by boot time scripts (found under /etc/rcS.d). If you want to set global environment variables you have to modify /etc/profile On 29 Dec 2002 at 12:39, Robert Land wrote: > The slrnpull program provides the option to > use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead

Re: hdparm, cdrom, and retaining params

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: Drifiting to hardware issues... I'm trying hard to get a better grasp of this stuff -- short of reading ATA and PCI specs! I don't really understand the difference between PIO modes and DMA settings, for one thing. I also have no idea what all these setting

Re: Secure CGI Implementation

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > If the cgi-bin is placed outside the DocumentRoot and a script creates an > html page to be served to the public, how does this work? Just fine. You can map your web space any way you like. But I think that's not your question. Can you ask again? --

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) writes: > The slrnpull program provides the option to > use the env variable NNTPSERVER instead of > passing the newsserver by argument. > > As being not that experienced in unix I had > a look at the rcS script to look how this > might be done. As in, the very fi

RE: Secure CGI Implementation

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Olds
Q: If the cgi-bin is placed outside the DocumentRoot and a script creates an html page to be served to the public, how does this work? A: Just fine. You can map your web space any way you like. Actually, Bill, 'Just Fine is just fine if it works...I havn't quite got it up and running yet.' I am

Re: hdparm, cdrom, and retaining params - humm

2002-12-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bill On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm trying hard to get a better grasp of this stuff -- short of > reading ATA and PCI specs! night night.. :-) > Ok, so I guess it makes sense to enable the fastest mode that's available > on *both* the IDE controller and the drive. And i

keyboard problem

2002-12-29 Thread Mat
Again I ask the same question: When I connect to my linux box through ssh or telnet, home and end keys don't work (they print a ~) and I cannot print characters like }, { and accented characters (because I use an italian keyboard, I have to use a combination such aas AltGr+0, AltGr+9 ...). This

RE: Secure CGI Implementation

2002-12-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > Q: If the cgi-bin is placed outside the DocumentRoot and a script creates an > html page to be served to the public, how does this work? "magic pixie dust" :-) cgi-bin ( ../httpd/cgi-bin ) is always outside of DocumentRoot ( home/httpd/html )

RE: Secure CGI Implementation

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > Q: If the cgi-bin is placed outside the DocumentRoot and a script creates an > html page to be served to the public, how does this work? > > A: Just fine. You can map your web space any way you like. > > Actually, Bill, 'Just Fine is just fine if it wo

Re: basics about env variables

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 16:35:43, "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 29/12/02 Robert Land did speaketh: > >> NNTPSERVER=news.btx.dtag.de >> export NNTPSERVER >> >> then did a new init and tried a echo $NNTPSERVER >> which resulted in a blank line in response. >> >> What was my fault and was thi

Re: Debian and IPV6

2002-12-29 Thread Mark Zimmerman
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 09:41:49AM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Mark, > Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion of adding the -- -6 > option to the start-stop-daemon lines in /etc/init.d/ssh. I then > tried to connect to the host with ssh and ssh -6. Both attempts succeded, > as shown in th

Re: xmms conflics with esd?

2002-12-29 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Running woody and gnome here with esd. How can xmms, gnome, xine .. be configured to use sound from the kernel instead of esd? There seems to be three types of sound support: arts/esd/kernel is there a good overview of each of these and how to get gnome to use them? pros/cons? motherboard =

X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
Two mouse questions: 1) Can someone confirm for me (I'm having strange troubles, again...) that if I have a mouse port (ATX mobo w/ keyboard and mouse ports above each other), that it is configured as /dev/psaux (no serial connection, no USB for the mouse -- just the mouse port next to the key

Re: Loopback file system encryption with kernel-source-2.4.19?

2002-12-29 Thread Jack O'Quin
Stefan Radomski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > to use filesystem encryption via the loopback-device, you need the > cryptoapi and the patch for the loopback device (eg. loop-jari). > > You get 'ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument' because the loop > device loaded in the kernel is not patched,

Re: NTFS mounting

2002-12-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:16:03PM -0800, nate wrote: > Bruce Park said: > > How safe is NTFS read-only mounting? I know that writing to it is very > > dangerous. > > I read on the kernel mailing list once, long ago(at least a year) on the > topic of mounting read only. If the driver is coded righ

dhcpd: how to quiet DHCPREQUEST in logs

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Moseley
Running a few dhcp clients ends up generating a lot of DHCPREQUEST messages. I'm not clear how to set the interval that the client sends those requests. I looked at man dhclient.conf but didn't see the setting. I tried setting a "retry" but that was not it. In my server I've got default-l

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
Hal Vaughan said: > 2) Does anyone know how X behaves if it is looking for the mouse on the > wrong port? Does it not start, start w/out a mouse, keep restarting > until it finds the mouse, or what? It will fail to start, and you will see a message about not being able to initialize a mouse...

Re: lynx wraps table cells inproperly

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:28:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yes. This is also not a bug. It's trying to fit things to your > terminal width. > > If you want something that doesn't smash tables into term width, go > grab links-ssl. Keyboard commands are roughly the same, [ and ] > scroll le

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:07:36PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 29.12.2002 10:51:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: > > >Using recursive grep for large directory structures > >caused the entire system to freeze. > > I once had this, when I tried to access scsi-devices > with hardware-p

Re: dhcpd: how to quiet DHCPREQUEST in logs

2002-12-29 Thread Jeff
Bill Moseley, 2002-Dec-29 10:44 -0800: > > Running a few dhcp clients ends up generating a lot of DHCPREQUEST > messages. I'm not clear how to set the interval that the client sends > those requests. I looked at man dhclient.conf but didn't see the > setting. I tried setting a "retry" but that

Re: SCSI emulation for IDE CD-writer

2002-12-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:33:10AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > > In /etc/lilo.conf place the following: > > > > append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" > > Now this confuses me. I assumed that if the ide-scsi was built as a > module you would use options in

Re: X Win and Mouse

2002-12-29 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:29:24PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Two mouse questions: > > 1) Can someone confirm for me (I'm having strange troubles, again...) that if > I have a mouse port (ATX mobo w/ keyboard and mouse ports above each other), > that it is configured as /dev/psaux (no serial c

Re: Debian and IPV6

2002-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 05:20:01PM -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > I have enabled IP6 on my home network, configured my network, > and obtained tunneling and ip addressed through Freenet6. > I can ping6 all machines on my network, but ssh -6 does not > work. I get errors that the connection was refused.

Re: mysql-server refuses to install on testing

2002-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:46:54PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > I upgraded my workstation from woody to testing about a month back > and all went well with just one exception - mysql-server refuses to > install. The following error appears: > > Setting up mysql-server (3.23.52-2) ... > Stopping M

Re: Loopback file system encryption with kernel-source-2.4.19?

2002-12-29 Thread Jack O'Quin
Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After you recompile your kernel with encryption support, you might want > to use this line in '/etc/fstab' instead of using sudo: > "/home/haim/.crypto /home/haim/crypto ext2 > defaults,exec,noauto,loop,encryption=AES128,user,exec 0 0" > o

Re: lynx wraps table cells inproperly

2002-12-29 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:47:27PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:28:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Yes. This is also not a bug. It's trying to fit things to your > > terminal width. > > > > If you want something that doesn't smash tables into term width, go > > g

Re: lynx versus lynx-ssl

2002-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:40:30AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:28:00AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: > > I'll try lynx-ssl then. Are there any probs for that > > program or should I just use that instead of lynx ? > > lynx-ssl is lynx with the crypto stuff compiled in. I

Re: SCSI emulation for IDE CD-writer

2002-12-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 11:33:10AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Another question: I have everything compiled into the kernel instead of > > as modules. I have two IDE drives and I'm *not* using the append line, > > yet the drives are still setup correctly

20GB on an old P75

2002-12-29 Thread Mat
Hi. I would install Linux on a 20GB HD, which will be installed on an old P75 system. While the BIOS cannot recognize more than 8GB, under Linux I can see all the 7 partitions on it with fdisk, and can mount them. How is it possible?Perhaps the kernel bypasses BIOS? Do you think I will see all the

Re: lynx wraps table cells inproperly

2002-12-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:47:27PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:28:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > If you want something that doesn't smash tables into term width, go > > grab links-ssl. Keyboard commands are roughly the same, [ and ] > > scroll left and right roughly

Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Justin Ryan
Heya all.. I've got a server running Debian woody with courier-imap-ssl (just moved over from uw-imap this morning). Everything is working great (esp. in comparison to uw), but for some reason after the first couple of times I open INBOX, Evolution says 'This folder cannot contain messages', alth

Re: Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Pete Billson
Justin, I am running the same setup here (Evolution 1.0.8) and Woody with courier-imap-ssl and just tried going in and out of my IMAP inbox without trouble. I am running maildir (not mbox) so that may be a difference and I also do not have 350 message in my inbox! :-) If you send step-by-step

Re: Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Justin Ryan
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 13:09, Pete Billson wrote: > Justin, > I am running the same setup here (Evolution 1.0.8) and Woody with > courier-imap-ssl and just tried going in and out of my IMAP inbox > without trouble. I am running maildir (not mbox) so that may be a > difference and I also do not hav

RE: Secure CGI Implementation

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Olds
This is what I would like to set up because I would like to offer server space to one user aside from myself that I trust, and who will need to make modifications to his scripts via SFTP (using SSH2); but I would like to be protected in the event of his user name and password being discovered, and

Re: dhcpd: how to quiet DHCPREQUEST in logs

2002-12-29 Thread Gerald V. Livingston II
Jeff said: > Bill Moseley, 2002-Dec-29 10:44 -0800: >> >> In my server I've got >> >> default-lease-time 600; >> >> but the DHCPREQEST messages are sent from the client every five >> minutes so > The default lease time is in seconds, so 600 is 5 minutes. That's why > the clients make a new req

Re: 20GB on an old P75

2002-12-29 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 7:29 pm, Mat wrote: > Hi. > I would install Linux on a 20GB HD, which will be installed on an old P75 > system. While the BIOS cannot recognize more than 8GB, under Linux I can > see all the 7 partitions on it with fdisk, and can

Re: Can only login as root

2002-12-29 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"mjoyce" == mjoyce writes: mjoyce> Hi, mjoyce> I have a Woody v3.0 with a 2.4.18 kernel. Okay. mjoyce> I can only login as root, if I try to login as anyone else mjoyce> it does not even ask for a password, it juts says 'Login mjoyce> incorrect'. This is usually set u

Re: 20GB on an old P75

2002-12-29 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:29 am, Mat wrote: > Hi. > I would install Linux on a 20GB HD, which will be installed on an old P75 > system. While the BIOS cannot recognize more than 8GB, under Linux I can > see all the 7 partitions on it with fdisk, and can mount them. > How is it possible?Perhaps

Re: [OT] beep after mucking around inside box

2002-12-29 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 29 Dec 2002 08:35:44AM +0100, Stefan Radomski insinuated: > On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 08:18, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > after taking apart every unscrewable component inside my box, > > dusting it, and putting it all back (exactly the way it was, at > > least i thought), my computer now won't bo

Re: Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Pete Billson
Justin, 1) The extraneous files should not affect things - I just tried adding them to my ~/Maildir to confirm this and still everything works OK. 2) There should be a ~/Maildir/courierimapuiddb file that lists the contents of your INBOX. Does this exist? 3) There should also be a ~/Maildir/co

Re: Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Justin Ryan
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 13:58, Pete Billson wrote: > Justin, > 1) The extraneous files should not affect things - I just tried adding > them to my ~/Maildir to confirm this and still everything works OK. good.. think I may move them to ~/.procmail soon just for tidyness.. > 2) There should be a ~

Re: Evolution/Courier-IMAP acting strange

2002-12-29 Thread Thomas Lamy
Hi, just a quick guess, but maybe Evolution tries to open too many parallel imap connections. The courier default is max 4 connections per IP, you can change this is /etc/courier/imapd (parameter name is MAXPERIP) Thomas -- Thomas Lamy[EMAIL PROTECTED] Softwareentwicklung

Courier debugging

2002-12-29 Thread John Plate
Hi I'm trying to setup Courier with authentication through mysql. So far I can get in contact with the pop3 server with "telnet 110". The log says: Dec 24 16:28:26 lola courierpop3login: Connection, ip=[:::192.168.0.8] Dec 24 16:28:33 lola courierpop3login: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[:::192.168.

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