lilo vga= problems after new kernel build

2003-08-26 Thread skyshadow
Hi, Just built a new 2.4.22 kernel.(Previous one was the standard installation 2.4.18-bf2.4) It's working as expected but my vga=790 setting in lilo makes trouble. * If set, my display won't show anything: black is black ;-) * If unset, all boot messages re-appear, as does xdm an

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
Peter Nuttall wrote: I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping frames. I have a Athon 2000XP processor and 256MB of RAM which I think should be OK. the graphics card is a NVIDIA TNT2 using the nvidia drivers. You probably need to turn on 32-bit addressing and/or

apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

2003-08-26 Thread Adam
This is a fresh install of debian. I have edited my preferences and sources.list to be just like those on another system that worked in January. I just tried it on the other system and it fails there too. The apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails saying that there are dependencies that will no

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Shyamal Prasad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030816 13:59]: > "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rupert> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Rupert" == RUPERT LEVENE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rupert> Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--ZwgA9U+XZDXt4+m+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:58:46PM +0100, Sarah Forbes wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my k

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 9:09 pm, John wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:21:28PM +0100, Peter Nuttall wrote: > > I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping > > frames. I have a Athon 2000XP processor and 256MB of RAM which I think > > should be OK. the graphics card is

Power off

2003-08-26 Thread Frank Hrebabetzky
My computer doesn't switch off upon 'shutdown -h now', so I looked around on the net and found: To switch the power off on shutdown in Linux: - Compile apm into the kernel - Add the following line in /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=on apm=power-off" - Enter 'lilo' on the command prompt Did that (kern

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread Pim Bliek
> I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping > frames. I have a Athon 2000XP processor and 256MB of RAM which I think should Have you made sure u enabled DMA / PIO for your DVD-drive? Debian does not do this by default. I had the same symptoms a while ago. Do an apt

Re: dealing with TNEF at the MTA/MDA level

2003-08-26 Thread Stefan Frank
Hi Martin, not exactly what you're after, but might get you started. Bye, Stefan -- It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas Jefferson jh-msbloat.rc Description: jh-

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 8:15 pm, Pim Bliek wrote: > > I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping > > frames. I have a Athon 2000XP processor and 256MB of RAM which I think > > should > > Have you made sure u enabled DMA / PIO for your DVD-drive? Debian does > not do this

Unstable Dep. prevent config. of 5 xserver-xfree86 files

2003-08-26 Thread Dan
Starting with a net install I'm attempted last night to go from a c.d. initiated, net installed, base system directly to the unstable distribution. After the base install I added a few essential tools: mc vim aptitude mutt discover hotplug and mdetect. Then I changed my /etc/apt/source.list t

OT -- generating colored-text PDFs via perl

2003-08-26 Thread Will Trillich
i tried apt-get install libpdf-api2-perl which didn't find any such module to install, of course, so i nabbed it via "perl -MCPAM -e 'shell'" instead... OFF TOPIC -- this is debian-land, i realize -- but i'm hoping some of you knowledgeable folks can point me to the right group or e-list:

Ugly fonts in X11 after dist-upgrade to sarge

2003-08-26 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Hi all, I have woody installed and had good readable fonts in X11/KDE. Only Mozilla would us a font that was too big, but nice. Than I installed a set of packages required for a debian-course, and the fonts were just perfect! Even in mozilla. Just the right size and real sharp! After a dist-u

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread John
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:21:28PM +0100, Peter Nuttall wrote: > I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping > frames. I have a Athon 2000XP processor and 256MB of RAM which I think should > be OK. the graphics card is a NVIDIA TNT2 using the nvidia drivers. I have >

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: > --> Using this parameter will force the client to assume that the > --> server is on the machine with the specified IP address and the > --> NetBIOS name component of the resource being connected to will > -->

Re: chattr and symlinks

2003-08-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030818 03:45]: > I have a disk space problem on my ftp-server. I have moved the "dists" > section of the debian archive to another disk and made a symlink to > the normal mirror. > > The mirror script (I am using rsync) now overwrites that symlink with > a norma

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:28 pm, Kent West wrote: > >>Whoo-hoo! WHOO-HOO > To see if gpm is running, do a "ps ax | grep [g]pm"; you should get back > a line similar to: > 371 ?S 1:11 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t imps2 -r 25 -Rraw On the above got: 199 ? S 0:00 gpm start

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:08 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..ah, you just need to start the gpm service on bootup, 'man update-rc.d > ' for the gory details. ;-) > > ..and with X reading /dev/gpmdata, you don't need to restart > X, only gpm. ;-) Thank you Amt, finally I am up and running. Change

OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-08-26 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi All, Is this just me or is the mailinglist server terribly slow? I sent a message to the list at 9:15 PM and I got it back 2 hours later around 11:20 PM So this is 2 full hours to process the email on the Debian server... Am I correct here? Does anyone know why? Has this something to do wi

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a message > and it would handle the delivery without making me bother with finding > out the NetBIOS name, etc.? It's not what you want, but this might work. No comments on the legality of wh

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-26 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:49:44 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 07:25]: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 17:03]: > > > > Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a > >

Re: [nospam.list@unclassified.de: Re: COBOL compiler]

2003-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:10:35AM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote: > - Forwarded message from Yves Goergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > and, yes - i'm a student, too. (you may think of me what you > > stated above, it may be right or not) > > I'm afraid that he is correct that students do not

DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-26 Thread Chris de Vidal
Volunteers needed! http://debtoo.org = /dev/idal "GNU/Linux is free freedom" --Me __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: HP 712/60 questions

2003-08-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:00:01AM -0400, Larry Crouch wrote: > I guess I have to load Linux onto one of > my PCs (I have a couple of Pentiums not > being used at

Installing Debian on Dell 8300

2003-08-26 Thread Salman Haq
Hi everybody, I am going to install Woody 3.0R1 (kernel version 2.4.18) on a brand new dell 8300. When trying to install the same on a dell 2350 a few months ago, I had several problems mostly because it was my first time experimenting with linux and I was not familiar with this user list. So t

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz Peter Nuttall said: > On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 4:27 pm, Victory wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive >> so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical >> system configuration

icmp filtering (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* P. Kallakuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 11:06]: > by default ICMP traffic is disabled and when i setup a firewall in our > research lab about 3 years back, thats how i left it. our research > machines were open on the internet when we got a series of nasty > infiltration attempts. i could not

netenv configuration

2003-08-26 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
I'm trying to work my way through the configuration examples for netenv with my laptop: http://netenv.sourceforge.net/netenv-en.html#config but I'm not sure how to configure my system from these examples. I currently have two configurations: AT HOME - DHCP ethernet (typically wirel

RE: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread David Turetsky
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics toolkit, even > > > Admiral Hooper would not say that COBOL is the proper tool. OTOH, for > > > large commercial

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Christoph Simon
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:46:37 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The greatness of COBOL is the fact that it is a honed tool. Just > as C is great for low-level work, COBOL is *designed* to move, > process, sort, summarize, etc. fixed-length records around. Fixed-length or variable-le

Re: kernel 2.6 how-to

2003-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:58:50 -0700 (PDT), James Horey wrote: > mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device > mount: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 196: cannot open dev/console: No such f

Apache and Postfix security

2003-08-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Victory! Today I put online my lab's new web/email server running Woody to replace the previous run running RH 9. I still have a few questions though. To start here is what I have running: apache, apache-ssl, mysql, sshd, inetd, ntpd, postfix, shorewall. >From the net I only allow in po

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-26 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030826 07:25]: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 17:03]: > > > Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a > > > message and it would handle the delivery without making me b

w reports diffrent number of users than displayed

2003-08-26 Thread Brent Miller
Hello, I'm running sid i386. When I ran w this morning I noticed that w was reporting a different number of users than it was actually showing me: 10:50:35 up 2 days, 15:52, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 1.12, 1.16 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT bmiller :0

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:27, Victory wrote: > Hello all, > > Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive > so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical > system configuration rather than install from CD and customize lots of > stuff ??? > > 1, Is there way

Re: Debian security prb

2003-08-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:03, Frédéric Aliotti wrote: > I have installed Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 rl "Woody" Official i386. > I'm trying to use an application called Cyberdocs on this computer > : this application have to open OpenOffice.org to convert word > documents to XML. This process is triggered

Re: Re: Wicked screensaver

2003-08-26 Thread VirusCheck
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Re: Does Debian support IDE disks with more than 128GiB or IDE48bit addressing?

2003-08-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 22:51, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Samsung disk with 149GiB of space and my experience is > mixed. Okay here goes: I have a 2 - PDC 20265 based controllers in my machine. One on board, one PCI card. cya:~# uname -r 2.4.21-4-K7 cya:~# df File

xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
I am trying to use xine to watch DVDs but It keeps jerking and dropping frames. I have a Athon 2000XP processor and 256MB of RAM which I think should be OK. the graphics card is a NVIDIA TNT2 using the nvidia drivers. I have included both the output of xvinfo and the file ~/.xine/config if that

OT: virus (was: ssh tunneling)

2003-08-26 Thread Florian Ernst
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:40, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> ..no rule witout exeption: these 2 minutes _are_ useful in tarpits, >> to help slow vira propagation: > > That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... > > ["viri" and "virii" are b

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread David Z Maze
"captain kierkegaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > use the update-rc.d command, to stop the display managers from > starting, i used the following command: > # update-rc.d -f ?dm remove stop 1 2 3 4 5 6 > where the question mark is g, k, or x depending on which is starting > at boot. This is

[nospam.list@unclassified.de: Re: COBOL compiler]

2003-08-26 Thread Deryk Barker
- Forwarded message from Yves Goergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > From: "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: COBOL compiler > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:24:12 +0200 > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 > Resent-From: [EMAIL PR

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:51:15 -0400, William Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > > > Whoo-hoo! > > bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > > > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either ed

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2003-08-26 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:40:44PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: | Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it | VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01 You probably forgot to include the driver for your hard disk when you built the kernel. Follow Joris' suggestion for enabling the drive

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
alex wrote: Alfredo Valles wrote: Why is it that debian can not take a shortcut in the path for having a quick desktop installation? Why not to release a basic knoppix-like CD with the most common desktop applications that 99% of people would want?. Amen! Whover produced KNOPPIX has

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics toolkit, even > > Admiral Hooper would not say that COBOL is the proper tool. OTOH, for > > large commercial apps, COBOL

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-26 Thread P. Kallakuri
Joyce, Matthew wrote: i am not able to connect to a vnc-server thats running behind the firewall. i know that the vncserver is running because i can open vncviewers from other clients behind the firewall. but when i ssh to the gateway from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the -L 5903:vncserver:5903 opti

Re: Problem in using pptp-linux

2003-08-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:22:22 +0800, James Ng Yuen Sum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I have to form the VPN(virtual private network) with my school to > access my homework and newsgroup of my school. > Therefore, i have downloaded the pptp-linux and following th

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
William Bradley wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: Whoo-hoo! bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfig). When I set up "gpmconfig" with "fuimps" the

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 4:19 pm, David Z Maze wrote: > Li-Ren Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I was just wondering what was a > > good tool for burning/ripping cd's (audio and bin/cue). > > For ripping CDs, I use abcde, which is a fairly nice console-based

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:24, Yves Goergen wrote: > Von: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of some

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 4:27 pm, Victory wrote: > Hello all, > > Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive > so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical > system configuration rather than install from CD and customize lots of > stuff ??? > > 1, Is there way

HP 712/60 questions

2003-08-26 Thread Larry Crouch
Hello, First of all I'm unfamiliar with Unix/Linux/Debian and such since I've been in the Windows world for many years. I came across 3 HP 712/60 workstations and figured this would be a good project to acquaint myself with Linux. The learning curve has been very substantial so please bear with

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 9:53 am, alex wrote: > Alfredo Valles wrote: > >I know this have been discussed many times. But I still not happy. (Sorry) > > > >Why is it that debian can not take a shortcut in the path for having a > > quick desktop installation? > > > >Why not to release a basic knoppix-l

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-26 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:00:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [You seem to be breaking attributions - who said this?] > > > > Why can't the installer ask what the CPU is and if it's an x86 then use > > > kudzu and if it isn't don't? Wou

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 1:58 pm, Sarah Forbes wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot >

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:58:46 +0100, "Sarah Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When > I boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you

Re: Linux - CDR

2003-08-26 Thread David Z Maze
Li-Ren Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm somewhat new to linux in general. I was just wondering what was a > good tool for burning/ripping cd's (audio and bin/cue). For ripping CDs, I use abcde, which is a fairly nice console-based tool that looks at a CD, gets cddb information on what CD it

cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-26 Thread Victory
Hello all, Now I have a working system, and want to clone it hard drive so that I can install the newly clone hard drive to many identical system configuration rather than install from CD and customize lots of stuff ??? 1, Is there way to clone this hard drive ? 2, Is it possible to create boot

Re: BIOS reports more memory than kernel finds

2003-08-26 Thread D. A. Provins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Elie and Bob: Thanks for the pointer to the root parameter "mem". I should have known about it, but didn't. Your suggestion worked like a charm. Regards, Dean - -- Dean Provins [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Yves Goergen
Von: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of someone > > > with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular l

Re: Mounting large Windows ME disk?

2003-08-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:20:23 -0600, Larry Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Arnt, > > Thanks for the suggestions. Some responses: > > > ..ntfs? No hardware problem such as fried chips? > > -t ntfs doesn't help (and an ntfs filesystem wouldn't mount unde

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:50:52 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..no

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics toolkit, even > Admiral Hooper would not say that COBOL is the proper tool. OTOH, for > large commercial apps, COBOL is far and away the best tool for the job. I ask in seriou

Spam Arrest Verification Confirmation

2003-08-26 Thread support
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Re: Re: Problems with xserver-xfree86

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Touset
Unfortunately, it's impossible at this time to hook the machine up to the 'net to be able to email transcripts, otherwise I'd do this. I've made sure to have xserver-common and xfree86-common install, especially since they're dependencies. So I know it's not due to that. In fact, I've also made s

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 5:58 am, Kent West wrote: > Wonderful goal! But what you're asking for is a different distribution, > which has been done already: Corel, Libranet, Knoppix, Xandros, etc. What bothers me about these distros is that even if they are debian based you can not upgrade trans

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-26 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:38:40AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > However, the way I was taught it was that `virus' was already a plural > > /did not have a plural in latin. > > As I said: > > > > Anyway, there are no recorded instances of a Latin plural

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread alex
Alfredo Valles wrote: I know this have been discussed many times. But I still not happy. (Sorry) Why is it that debian can not take a shortcut in the path for having a quick desktop installation? Why not to release a basic knoppix-like CD with the most common desktop applications that 99% of p

Re: Help Please!!

2003-08-26 Thread William Bradley
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:58 am, Kent West wrote: > Whoo-hoo! bit premature it seems. (Sigh!) > Okay, make sure that gpm is configured to repeat "raw" (either edit > /etc/gpm.conf, or better, re-run gpmconfig). When I set up "gpmconfig" with "fuimps" the mouse moves when I test it. When

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 7:23 am, Stephane wrote: > Le Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:39:08 +0200 > > It seems that a lot of people have troubles with the Debian installer. > Once you know it well it can do what you want: tasksel is simple, > dselect is powerful. Refuse to use them and you have a very minima

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of someone > > with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language. > > All Turing-complete languages are e

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-26 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:53:47 -0700 Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030825 17:03]: > > Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a > > message and it would handle the delivery without making me bother > > with finding out the NetBIOS name, etc.? > > Did

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:36, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > > > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Kent West
Sarah Forbes wrote: Hi, I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in manager displays. Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot process so that I can try and find the cause

Problem in using pptp-linux

2003-08-26 Thread James Ng Yuen Sum
Hi, I have to form the VPN(virtual private network) with my school to access my homework and newsgroup of my school. Therefore, i have downloaded the pptp-linux and following the instruction of my school's homepages which tell you how to config the pptp-linux. After i have downloaded and installed

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread captain kierkegaard
use the update-rc.d command, to stop the display managers from starting, i used the following command: # update-rc.d -f ?dm remove stop 1 2 3 4 5 6 where the question mark is g, k, or x depending on which is starting at boot. use the install disk and go into rescue mode. Chris Black wrote:

SENDER ! A Virus was found in an e-mail message sent from you!

2003-08-26 Thread akolek
You sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a VIRUS. == The Carroll-Net message server has determined that an attachment sent by you included a virus. To prevent infection, the attachment has been removed. If you believe this is in error, please print this mes

ALERTA - Se generó el número de alerta OA2829_1061903035_MYMASCORREO_1 de GroupShield

2003-08-26 Thread GroupShield for Exchange (MYMASCORREO)
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Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of someone > with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language. All Turing-complete languages are equally powerful. That doesn't mean that any given one would f

Re: Undo of mkfs - urgent

2003-08-26 Thread Brian Stults
Manfred Heubach wrote: Hello, I've accidently used mkfs.ext3 on the wrong harddisk (used hdb3 instead of hda3). Is there any way to recover the files on this partition? There is no backup copy of this partition. If it is not possible to recover the files or filesystemstructure maybe it's possibl

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Roach
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of > > BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find an

Re: SMTP over SSH

2003-08-26 Thread Murray J. Brown
> Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I have my laptop set up to work fine with my home mail server from just > > about anywhere. The only problem is that I have a couple of classes that > > I use my laptop for which block certain ports for the network. One of > > those ports is 25. So I'm able to read my

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Black
Sarah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot > process s

Re: Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 14:58, Sarah Forbes wrote: > Hi, > > I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I > boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in > manager displays. > > Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot

Re: Looking for a simple SSL-CA package

2003-08-26 Thread William Cooper
Tarjei Huse wrote: Hi, I'd like to thank all who contributed. If you don't want to run your own certificate authority or pay a commercial one to sign your key, and you don't have a lot of certificates to deal with, you can have each key simply be self-signed, which I believe is what's being re

Prevent X Windows Starting up

2003-08-26 Thread Sarah Forbes
Hi, I have an install of the unstable distribution with a 2.4 Kernel. When I boot up, my keyboard and mouse become disabled as soon as the log in manager displays. Can you tell me how to stop x-windows from starting during the boot process so that I can try and find the cause of the issue. I canno

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 12:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >It seems that a lot of people have troubles with the Debian installer. > >Once you know it well it can do what you want: tasksel is simple, > >dselect is powerful. Refuse to use them and you have a very minimal > >system that you can tune

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of > BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL tools. > 'apt-cache search cobol' returns 3

Virus Found in message "That movie"

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Nazarian
Symantec AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) sent to Info. To ensure the recipient(s) are able to use the files you sent, perform a virus scan on your computer, clean any infected files, then resend this attachment. Attachment: thank_you.pif Vi

Virus Found in message "Details"

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Nazarian
Symantec AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) sent to Info. To ensure the recipient(s) are able to use the files you sent, perform a virus scan on your computer, clean any infected files, then resend this attachment. Attachment: details.pif Viru

Re: ssh tunneling

2003-08-26 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op di 26-08-2003, om 02:24 schreef Colin Watson: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:01:05AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > That's a new plural of "virus" to me ... > > ["viri" and "virii" are both wrong. The first is made up by assuming > that "virus" is a Latin masculine second declension noun, which it

Re: other debian installer tactic?

2003-08-26 Thread debjan
It seems that a lot of people have troubles with the Debian installer. Once you know it well it can do what you want: tasksel is simple, dselect is powerful. Refuse to use them and you have a very minimal system that you can tune a lot. the minimal system thing and the opportunity to do what you w

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2003-08-26 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Alphonse Ogulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Just compiled kernel 2.4.21 but cannot boot it > despite creating the initrd > image and respective links in / to files in /boot. > The last 5 lines printed on screen before hang-up > are printed below. > > RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid

Re: Crashes during daily cron job

2003-08-26 Thread Attilio Cucchieri
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:13:12PM -0600, James Roberge wrote: > > Hey everyone. I seem to be having a little problem on my debian system. It > seems that the system is crashing during the daily cron job. But, it DOES > NOT happen every day. > > Here is a snip from /var/log/syslog... note times

NAV hat einen Virus in einem Ihrer Dokumente gefunden.

2003-08-26 Thread PORRWIEN01/A . _PORR_AG/AT
Wenden Sie sich an den Systemadministrator. Das geprüfte Dokument wurde ISOLIERT. Virusinformation: Der Anhang movie0045.pif enthielt den Virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] und konnte NICHT repariert werden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Undo of mkfs - urgent

2003-08-26 Thread Manfred Heubach
Hello, I've accidently used mkfs.ext3 on the wrong harddisk (used hdb3 instead of hda3). Is there any way to recover the files on this partition? There is no backup copy of this partition. If it is not possible to recover the files or filesystemstructure maybe it's possible to extract some file

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Alex writes: > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a > requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load > of BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL > tools. 'apt-cache search cobol' returns 3 hits, all of which are > documentati

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

2003-08-26 Thread Pelger
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make-kpkg compiled kernel is too big

2003-08-26 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Compiled kernel 2.4.21 using make-kpkg but got the following error on running lilo:- Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80 Added 2.4.18 * Added 2.4.21 Added 2.2.20 Fatal: Kernel /boot/vmlinux is too big compiled kernel as follow

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