Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Ric Otte said: > Hi, > > Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, 180, > 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort of > patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install it > just as I would a normal hard drive?Thanks, if

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Nathan E Norman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > We changed to the Intel e100 driver direct from the Intel site and the > > problem went away. > > That driver (well, the source code for it) is available in non-free as > "e100-source". Rob Weir in the other thread just reported that it is in the 2.4

Re: mouse

2003-03-08 Thread Birzan George Cristian
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:02:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how can i get my wheelmouse to 'copy', or 'paste' in links? Hold shift and apply normal procedures. :-) -- Regards, Birzan George Cristian pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian freezes

2003-03-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Subba" == Subba Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Subba> I am running Debian 3.0r (woody) and in many ways can be Subba> still considered a Debian newbie, since I am moving from Subba> the Slackware camp. Subba> There are quite a few packages that I have downloaded such Sub

The SCO IP suit [was Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread csj
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 16:25:53 +0530 (IST), Sharninder wrote: [...] > The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems) has launched a major threat > to the Linux OS by suing IBM for $1 billion for IP > violations. Their core argument is that Linux would have > remained a hobbyist OS if IBM had not leaked SCO's U

fetchmail and SMTP return codes (was Re: recurring error in exim's log)

2003-03-08 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:11:00AM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Mar 7 15:58, ScruLoose wrote: > > So yeah... now I'm receiving fetchmail's error message in my inbox every 5 > > minutes. > > it kinda looks to me like some spammer munged his headers so badly that > > it's screwing things up for

need to run qbasic program on Debian Linux

2003-03-08 Thread K. Matthew Victor
Greetings, I need to find out how one would go about running a program that was written in qbasic on a linux machine. Any suggestions? (please restrain the flames, i realize many of you are experts in programing etc.. I am not, and new to attempting to run win. stuff in linux. Usually I just use th

RE: [Fwd: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread Hell.Surfers
yep, dont boycott VA stuff, they rule. Hell Bastard. On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 12:39:19 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Begin Message --- On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:55 am, Sharninder wrote: > Hi, > This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and SCO products. > Do not use or re

tinyproxy problem: won't load slashdot

2003-03-08 Thread dhofstee
Hi, I've put tinyproxy on my server and it works, mostly. Configuring it was a breeze. One problem: it won't load http://www.slashdot.org and the log shows that a connection is there: CONNECT Mar 08 18:52:58 [13311]: Request (file descriptor 5): GET http://slashdot.org/ HTTP/1.1 CONNECT M

hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-08 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, Is it possible to use some of the large IDE hard drives (such as 160, 180, 200gb) that are being advertised with linux? If so, is some sort of patch needed to be able to 'see' the whole drive? And can I install it just as I would a normal hard drive?Thanks, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Subj: CUPS (configuration problem for NON-root) only root can print properly

2003-03-08 Thread nate
iks_kzm said: > > How one can configure printer for NON-root user? be sure you only have 1 print spooler installed. e.g. lpr/lprng should not be installed. /etc/printcap should be empty and/or have the contents of /etc/printcap.cups (/etc/cups has a config file where you can tell it to write info

Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Shri Shrikumar said: > Thanks nate. Is there a site which lists these things in more detail so I > know if the ones that show up are safe or not. http://www.whitehats.com/ids/ is the only one I know of nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mark" == Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Not to get too offtopic here, but my view on this is that Well, Martin seems to have solved his problem so I guess we can just beat this one to death while we're enjoying it ;-) Mark> it's better to treat a wep encrypted link as

Re: [Fwd: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:55 am, Sharninder wrote: > Hi, > This, therefore, is a call to boycott all Caldera and SCO products. > Do not use or recommend the use of: > > * Caldera OpenLinux > * SCO Linux > * SCO OpenServer > * SCO UnixWare So wouldn't that also mean boycotting OSDN -- sites lik

Subj: CUPS (configuration problem for NON-root) only root can printproperly

2003-03-08 Thread iks_kzm
I use debian3.0 and installed CUPS. I have HP Laserjet 1200 series. During the configuration (http://localhost:631/ as root) I configured the printer: e.g. 1200 dpi, ...). When I print something from root account it seems that the cups works OK and configuration of the printer is OK. But when

Freetype & WINE

2003-03-08 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
Hello all, I'm running Woody, and I've added WINE via apt-get install wine. I'm trying to run a Windows program via wine, getting mixed results. One issue is this: bash-2.05a$ wine planner.exe Invoking /usr/bin/wine.bin planner.exe ... Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine

Re: Debian freezes

2003-03-08 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 11:49, Subba Rao wrote: > I am running Debian 3.0r (woody) and in many ways can be still considered a > Debian newbie, since I am moving from the Slackware camp. > > One thing I like about Debian is the "apt" package. I have installed several > packages via the net very conv

Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread Carla Schroder
On Saturday 08 March 2003 8:40 am, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried > From: Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:54, nate wrote: > > Shri Shrikumar said: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have be

Re: iptables + dhcp_client

2003-03-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Tom Allison wrote: I can't seem to find anywhere that this is specifically mentioned, but... If I have a script of iptables rules... (/etc/network/if-up.d/) And I'm running as a dhcp_client... How do I know when my dhcp assigned IP address has changed and re-run the iptable rules script? inst

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-03-08 Thread Cam Ellison
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:49:16AM +, wrote: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 5 21:33:23 2003 > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i > > From: Pete Ashdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gah, you need to have a look at your mail sy

mouse

2003-03-08 Thread hodgson
how can i get my wheelmouse to 'copy', or 'paste' in links? os's: gentoo, suse8.0 links versions: 2.1pre3, 0.96 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A couple of mirrors not working

2003-03-08 Thread Jorge Santos
A funny thing is happening to me, and I wanted to know if it has happened to others, while using one of this mirrorors: deb http://debian.teleglobe.net/ sid main non-free contrib deb http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian sid main contrib non-free apt aborts with a bunch of errors like: Err http

Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:54, nate wrote: > Shri Shrikumar said: > > Hello, > > > > I have been running a server for a few months now for a hobby site and had > > installed snort. I have reports of a whole range of attacks on the server > > IP including > > in default configuration snort will detec

exim & iptables

2003-03-08 Thread Hal
I'm using Woody as a firewall with NAT to protect a small network that includes a mail and web server on an unregistered (192.168) network. I'd like to configure the fw so that it can send mail alerts to the users via the mail server on the protected net. If I set exim.conf to preclude a

Re: How does macrovision work?

2003-03-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday 08 March 2003 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > anyone got any ideas? links? Read this: http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision2.html Basically, it screws up the sync signal so that you cannot record the signal properly. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

iptables + dhcp_client

2003-03-08 Thread Tom Allison
I can't seem to find anywhere that this is specifically mentioned, but... If I have a script of iptables rules... (/etc/network/if-up.d/) And I'm running as a dhcp_client... How do I know when my dhcp assigned IP address has changed and re-run the iptable rules script? And to add another level o

Re: config file for Kernel compile

2003-03-08 Thread Birzan George Cristian
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 07:35:19AM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > One user on this list stated that I can just take my old kernel config > file and copy to the new tree (?). I assume that he meant by this that > I should copy it to those directories where I am compiling the kernel. > But in wh

Re: config file for Kernel compile

2003-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 at 7:35am, Curtis Vaughan wrote: :One user on this list stated that I can just take my old kernel config :file and copy to the new tree (?). I assume that he meant by this that :I should copy it to those directories where I am compiling the kernel. :But in which folder exac

Re: Installer Woes Redux

2003-03-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Okay. I've made it to the point where I can choose a method of install. For some reason I can't mount the CD I've used up until this point, and even then, it gets stuck on a "corrupted" package. I've used this CD before, there shouldn't be anything wrong with it. OTOH, I

Re: config file for Kernel compile

2003-03-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
/boot/config-[your kernel] contains the old config. you can a) 'cp /boot/config-[your kernel] /usr/src/[kernel source]/.config' and 'make oldconfig' there. b) 'make-kpkg -config=menuconfig kernel-image' and choose "Load configuration from file" in menuconfig and specify /boot/config-[your kernel

How does macrovision work?

2003-03-08 Thread Hell.Surfers
anyone got any ideas? links? Hell Bastard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Shri Shrikumar said: > Hello, > > I have been running a server for a few months now for a hobby site and had > installed snort. I have reports of a whole range of attacks on the server > IP including in default configuration snort will detect about 97-99% false positives as far as "intrusion" goes

Re: How to get PHP4 to work with Apache2

2003-03-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-08T14:18:57Z, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to begin incorporating it into the web based POS environment that I > am developing. In such a database-driven environment, the web server itself will almost certainly not be the bottleneck. Your database and the programmi

config file for Kernel compile

2003-03-08 Thread Curtis Vaughan
One user on this list stated that I can just take my old kernel config file and copy to the new tree (?). I assume that he meant by this that I should copy it to those directories where I am compiling the kernel. But in which folder exactly and I assume this is prior to running make-kpkg -con

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hugo Ideler wrote: It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? Well, if fsck can find something on your drive (=inodes from the earlier filesystem), you might get something. There is a slim chance

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:57:05PM +, Hugo Ideler wrote: > Well, I'd love to give it a try, as I have nothing to lose. > But, how do I get to your 'fsck' utility? I rebooted to my Woody CD1 just a > few secs ago, went to shell, but got 'fsck: no such command'. Use /sbin/fsck if /sbin isn't in

unsubscribe

2003-03-08 Thread Luigidigi
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Re: changing the fixed font

2003-03-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:47:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > but this brings up a different issue. all my Gtk apps use fonts that > are too big, so they run over the buttons and such. where can > i control that? You could try putting a font setting in ~/.gtkrc under `style "default"'. I ha

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-08 Thread Michael D. Schleif
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also sprach Rob Weir (Sat 08 Mar 02003 at 02:09:14PM +1100): > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:17:23PM -0800, nate wrote: > > Michael D. Schleif said: > > > > > This is in sources.list: > > > > > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackd

Re: GNOME-2.2 backport

2003-03-08 Thread Harley D. Eades III
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:42:30AM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 00:42, Harley D. Eades III wrote: I am trying install gnome2.2 on my woody system. Running Kernel 2.4.20 I use the command apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines* and all I get is

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Hugo Ideler
Well, I'd love to give it a try, as I have nothing to lose. But, how do I get to your 'fsck' utility? I rebooted to my Woody CD1 just a few secs ago, went to shell, but got 'fsck: no such command'. Could you please clear this up for me? thanks. --Azaghal From: Jeetu Golani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Installer Woes Redux

2003-03-08 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Okay. I've made it to the point where I can choose a method of install. For some reason I can't mount the CD I've used up until this point, and even then, it gets stuck on a "corrupted" package. I've used this CD before, there shouldn't be anything wrong with it. OTOH, I can also do a network i

Re: changing the fixed font

2003-03-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.08.1400 +0100]: > My .Xresources has XTerm*font:10x20 in it. Would this fit your required > global solution? not a bad idea. thanks! but this brings up a different issue. all my Gtk apps use fonts that are too big, so they run over the button

snort log has a bunch of different attacks - should I be worried

2003-03-08 Thread Shri Shrikumar
Hello, I have been running a server for a few months now for a hobby site and had installed snort. I have reports of a whole range of attacks on the server IP including The distribution of attack methods === # of %attacks method ===

Re: Solved. Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! So I got the 40bit key working (using hex key instead of ascii passwords). The strange behavior with certain keys disapeared (don't know why I had it in the first hand). Thanxs again for your help! :-) Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Sound, volume, music

2003-03-08 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 at 1:53pm, Tom wrote: :I don't use gnome anymore. So I wondered: what was underlying gnome's :volume control panel? I don't know about that, but I installed tkmixer the other day ('apt-get tkmixer' should get it for you) and it gave me all the control I needed over my sound car

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Martin Fluch
Hi! So now I have _some_ success with the 40bit key. :) After Shyamal told about problems with the s:password I tried to set key via its hex value. I tried something similar to iwconfig eth0 essid "the networks essid" iwconfig eth0 mode managed iwconfig eth0 key 5432154321 Afterwards

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:12, Levi Waldron wrote: > On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote: > > That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little > > messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and > > xargs. > > Hm? Why wouldn't you just check each file

Re: How to get PHP4 to work with Apache2

2003-03-08 Thread John Foster
Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:06:41AM -0600, John Foster wrote: I need any suggestions on how to get Php4 to install and work with Apache2; running mostly unstable with a lot of AMD optomized w/gcc3.2 apps. PHP4 from Debian will not install without installing apache-common (1.3

Re: Degraded fonts

2003-03-08 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:46:46AM +0100, daniel huhardeaux wrote: Hi list, yesterday I updated my unstable and since fonts in some programs like mozilla (menu, folder list, mail list but mail viewer is ok!) or gaim are degraded which means not regular. KDE or console, mplaye

Re: How can I power down the computer?

2003-03-08 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:42:18PM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: > > > If there any way to configure debian so it does everything in one step and > > > I don't need to press the power bottom after all? > > > > > > You can configure your kernel to use power man

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:51:38PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:26AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > > is there at all. (Not entirely sure why, though.) There are a few > > bugs against the gdm package

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hello, Again this may be way too trivial, but I recently did a mkswap on my root partition instead of the space set aside for swap. I noticed the prob just as you and switched off the machine and restarted with similar results as you. To recover I rebooted from my Debian CD and did a fsck /dev

Sound, volume, music

2003-03-08 Thread Tom
Hi all, Although my mails just never seem to arrive at the list, I keep on trying. I wondered where I could adjust the volume more, ehm, fundamentally. I mean, when my stereo is at it's loudest and XMMS too, my neighbours don't even care to come knockin' at my door. That wasn't meant to be funny;

Re: changing the fixed font

2003-03-08 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > terminals in X usually use the 'fixed' font (correct me if I am > wrong). this is 7x14 over here. how would i go about if i wanted the > fixed font to be 6x9 instead? i know that i could start the terminals > and everything with -f

Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-08 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:01, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > > curses-style interface (like in your computer's setup (BIOS) when you > > push 'del' when booting). The only functional difference between this > > and a GUI is that you use your keyboard-only as apposed to being able to > > use your mouse

Re: Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

2003-03-08 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2003-03-08 um 05.49 schrieb Bill Marcum: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:56:20PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > > Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton: > > > Please help- > > > > > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) > > > using my network. I

Re: problems with xfree86 4.2 under woody

2003-03-08 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sam, 2003-03-08 um 12.32 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > I'm sorry if this question is a little too newbie-ish, but my system is > in a bit of a state and I could really use some help. > > In trying to upgrade to gnome 2.2, I ran into a dependency on xfree86 > 4.2 (thanks Yuhanes Tjandra for

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:08:59AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > I am curious about how secure the apt-get system is; is it possible to > spoof a debian server and thus send compromised updates to a given machine? Yes, since apt-get doesn't check signatures, yet. Search the debian-devel archives for

Re: where'd my mouse go?

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:32:19AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:23:05AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > but no module that looks like it ought to be the psaux module. very > > odd. also, Configure.help in my linux src doesn't say anything about > > this being able to be a

Re: Postfix Log Analyser

2003-03-08 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 09:59, GBV wrote: > Anyone know how to install and configure a good log analyser to use > with postfix mail.log and mail.info ?? I use pflogsumm and mailgraph both are available in unstable (at least). -- Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://wehave.net

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-08 Thread Robert A. Knop Jr.
> If I configure the AP to use the key "qwert" and do on my linux box > "iwconfig eth0 key s:qwert" it works fine (i.e. there are no error > messages) beside that the connection does not work, only the "Rx invalid > crypt" counter keeps increasing. Just a check -- have you also set the ESSID to b

Re: security vs. proposed-updates

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 01:07:01PM +0100, Uwe Hees wrote: > Hello all, > > I have some computers running woddy with woody-proposed-updates. The > recent sendmail bug revealed the problem that the version number of the > security fix is less then the (older) version in proposed-updates. Thus > t

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > Hi, > > I have trouble writing a CD using cdrecord. > > My old Computer is running SuSE. There I can write a CD. > > There is Debian woody on my new computer and here it's not working: > > # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=10 blank=fa

Re: GNOME-2.2 backport

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:42:30AM +0100, Yuhanes Tjandra wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 00:42, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > > I am trying install gnome2.2 on my woody system. Running Kernel 2.4.20 I > > use the command apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines* and all I > > get is sorry brok

Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:10:38AM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:28, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > >That's due to the fact that this kernel is precompiled in the package, > > > >and > > > >2.95.4 was the version used by the maintainer. > > > > > > > > > > But shouldn't it be

Re: USB not on after install

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:23:04AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Joan Tur: > > I installed from 1 Woody CD, then from the net. As both printer (Epson C82) > > and scanner (Epson 610) are usb I need usb support to be installed... but it > > is not by default: > > > A few more details

Re: Postfix Log Analyser

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:59:03AM -0300, GBV wrote: Could you please fix your clock? Perhaps you didn't get my private email, hopefully you will get this. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://ertius.org/ pgp0.pgp Descr

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:55:35AM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am currently researching the possibility of slowly moving an existing > Novell network [with all Windows clients except mine :)] to something > Linux based. I have about 900 clients that would be slowly migrated if > this whol

Re: Working with WAV files

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:12:42PM -0800, Jack Pistachio wrote: > >Before I go off experimenting with modconf, I wonder > > if anyone has > >been over this ground. If I add a driver using modconf > > and get no > >result, how do I remove it? > >-- > >David > > That's an easy o

Re: KNOPPIX and it configure.

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:34:25PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On March 7, 2003 02:55 am, Rob Weir wrote: > > As far as I can tell, this has absolutely nothing to do with Debian. > > Surely Knoopix has a user help mailing list somewhere... > > Well, it's related in the sense that Knoppix is an au

Re: eth0: card reports no resources

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:45:30AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Intel site and our network dropout problem completely went away. I > think I saw that Intel opened the code up and so the e100 driver will > enter the mainstream in the future, likely replacing the eepro100 > driver completely. Hah, I

Re: sawfish: removing it switches alternatives to auto mode???

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:14PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I had set up fvwm2 as x-window-manager (using update-alternatives) > but sawfish gets repeatedly set up as default window manager which is > very annoying becuase it causes window manager to exit when I try to > restart it. > >

Re: How can I power down the computer?

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:42:18PM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: > > If there any way to configure debian so it does everything in one step and > > I don't need to press the power bottom after all? > > > You can configure your kernel to use power management - either APM or > ACPI depending on your h

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:28:26AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font > > become very ugly. > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > is there at all. (

Re: Problems building a GCC cross compiler using the toolchain-source package

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:54:09PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to build a cross compiler using the toolchain-source and > dpkg-cross packages, along the lines of what is described at > http://people.debian.org/~debacle/cross.html There was a thread about cross-compiling in

Re: Problems with new Debian install.

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:08:56PM -0800, Brian Dockter wrote: > --- "Narins, Josh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I were you I'd try instaling with woody sources, then, once > > everything is > > set there, change sources to sarge then apt-get update && apt-get > > dist-upgrade > > I had

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:33:05PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:08:16PM -0500, Seneca insinuated: > > You could CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, login there, and enter the > > reboot command. > > you don't have to go to the console to do this, though -- is it > "better" in so

Re: How to get PHP4 to work with Apache2

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:06:41AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > I need any suggestions on how to get Php4 to install and work with > Apache2; running mostly unstable with a lot of AMD optomized w/gcc3.2 > apps. PHP4 from Debian will not install without installing apache-common > (1.3) I think.

Re: Disabled COM1: ttyS0: LSR safety check engaged!

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:15:51PM +1100, Jon wrote: > Rebooted to check the output and the message is gone. I really should learn > the Debian way for these kind of things but for now that'll do. And the > keyboard error has most likely always been there, didn't notice. Yeah, that error just mean

Re: Advice needed in package building process

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:14:58PM +0800, Gary Ford wrote: > I am building my own MySQL .deb as I like to have everyt

Re: j2re1.4: packages have unmet dependencies ?!?!

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:17:23PM -0800, nate wrote: > Michael D. Schleif said: > > > This is in sources.list: > > > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian > > woody main non-free > > looks like whoever set that site up didn't do it right maybe? > > comparing

Re: Working with WAV files

2003-03-08 Thread Robert A. Knop Jr.
> I've just downloaded a long recording of a talk from a small Olympus > recorder. The sound is muffled and I'd like to see if I can make it > clearer. The underlying recording is digital, and I suspect it may be of > reasonably good quality Try snd -- a graphical sample editor that looks pretty

Debian freezes

2003-03-08 Thread Subba Rao
I am running Debian 3.0r (woody) and in many ways can be still considered a Debian newbie, since I am moving from the Slackware camp. One thing I like about Debian is the "apt" package. I have installed several packages via the net very conveniently. However I do not know if there are any best p

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-08 Thread bob parker
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:55, Narins, Josh wrote: > > From: bob parker, Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 AM > > > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote: > > > See this post for more detail on this subject: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/ > > msg03076.html > > >

problems with xfree86 4.2 under woody

2003-03-08 Thread tom
Hi, I'm sorry if this question is a little too newbie-ish, but my system is in a bit of a state and I could really use some help. In trying to upgrade to gnome 2.2, I ran into a dependency on xfree86 4.2 (thanks Yuhanes Tjandra for helping out with that one). So I tried to upgrade to xfree86 4.2.

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2003-03-08 Thread NAV for Microsoft Exchange-NT3
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Re: mini instalation

2003-03-08 Thread Brad Eisan
Ivan, That's great. I'm glad I could help! Let me know if you need anything else ;) Good luck, Brad Ivan Kolenko wrote: Thanks a lot Brad. You helped me a LOT! I did it :) Now I'm starting to read man's pages SY Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

[Fwd: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread Sharninder
Original Message Subject: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products From: Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, March 8, 2003 1:46 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded without prejudice. All further discussion on this to be on LIG. Devdas Bhagat - Forw

[Fwd: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-08 Thread Sharninder
Original Message Subject: [LIP] Fw: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products From: Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, March 8, 2003 1:46 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded without prejudice. All further discussion on this to be on LIG. Devdas Bhagat - Forw

changing the fixed font

2003-03-08 Thread martin f krafft
terminals in X usually use the 'fixed' font (correct me if I am wrong). this is 7x14 over here. how would i go about if i wanted the fixed font to be 6x9 instead? i know that i could start the terminals and everything with -fn6x9, but i would prefer a more global solution. thanks, -- Please do n

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

2003-03-08 Thread Jeremy Cheng
I have always downloaded straight from Sun's website(tarball) and it works fine for me. You can consider that Jeremy --- Rob Weir said: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:29:19PM -0300, Gilberto Garcia Jr. wrote: >> 2) which is the easiest way to upgrade jdk 1.3.1 to jdk 1.4.1? > > You can get th

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 07 March 2003 02:34 pm, Hugo Ideler wrote: > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? > > But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible > to recover files delet

Re: allow root login when using gdm

2003-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:58:07PM -0600, Damian Slavek wrote: > I'm running Woody and using gdm for logins. What do I have to change > in order to allow root to login? The machine boots directly to X. > > I'm not new to linux, just Debian. RedHat was starting to scare me. Then you should avoid

GC Chat Networks

2003-03-08 Thread GC Softwares Ltd .
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Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-08 Thread Andy Hurt
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: [search for the Graphical Installer] Please clue me in. TIA. New problem. I have an ext3 fs with files I need (as they relate to my webserver (such as config files and the actual websites themselves)). Mount it as an already initialized partition

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:04:13AM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote: > Second, I am wondering if there exists a "PARTITION > MAGIC"-like software in Debian (better than fips?). > How easy is it to split a VFAT/ You-Know-What-Os > partition on the fly. Use Mandrake GNU/Linux installation CD :-) Mandrak

Re: gnome 2.2 install for woody going wrong

2003-03-08 Thread Yuhanes Tjandra
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 01:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have tried to install gnome 2.2, as per the instructions at > www.desktoplinux.com > > - unfortunately, after typing > # apt-get update > I typed > # apt-get upgrade > instead of > # apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines* > > N

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