Re: UT2003/OpenGL/unstable Issues
Sometime near Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:57:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: Just curious... a patched v5328, or a patched v5336? I'd be interested in this patch in either case, but v5336 was supposedly released to fix AGP issues. I aint to sure, i renamed the file and it aint on ma comp atm so yeah :\. It would probably be the one patched to fix those AGP issues, i would have downloaded it about 1 1/2-2 weeks ago from a non nVidia site. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Get a load of this!
Sometime near Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:28:24PM +0100, David Baron wrote: http://www.lionstracs.com/index.php?module=Static_Docsfunc=view OK, it's RedHat, but ... :-) *sniff* Almost brings a tear to the eye :) *sniff* -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UT2003/OpenGL/unstable Issues
Hi, I get the following error whenever i try to run Unreal Tournament 2003 on my Debian unstable system: --CUT-- Could not load OpenGL library History: Exiting due to error --CUT-- Talk about verbose, my video card is an nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4400 and im running a patched version of the latest drivers (fixed an AGP issue). Some odd info: * WolfET runs fine as do other OpenGL apps. * I installed xlibmesa-dev before i installed the nVidia drivers as i found doing otherwise stops wine from being able to compile with OpenGL (and probably other apps to) * Running kernel 2.4.23 (homemade, not debian :P) Any ideas on how i could get it running fella's? -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Seek Errors
Sometime near Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:44:52PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Since installing smartsuite I am getting many reports of hard drive seek errors. One of the drives is brand new, just installed two weeks ago. I don't understand this. Tom Run dmesg and show us the errors, eg $ dmesg | grep hdX Where hdX is the drive in question. I had these problems a while back and they solved themself by enabling the Use multimode by default kernel option under IDE/ATA/blah settings. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound blaster live support
Sometime near Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:02:51PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:16:12PM -0500, walt wrote: Any easy way to get a sound blaster live working in debian testing? I am googling right now but would really appreciate any hints. I personally just use the emu10k1 module, it sounds good, and works fine $ modprobe emu10k1 -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation
Sometime near Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:58:44AM -0600, Nick Kirchner wrote: I'm trying to install the stable version of Debian on my computer. The computer has a 300 MHz Pentium, 48 MB RAM, and a DVD player. I'm installing from CD. During install I partition the 6GB hard drive into a 100 MB swap at the end of the disk the rest as the Linux partition. At the hardware configuration phase I don't adjust anything. When I try to install kernel and base system it give errors. I'm a complete Linux newbie, and I'd really like to try out Debian. Thanks-- Trent Kriss Noobie tip #1: i get errors is not enough information. What does it say? -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no hard disk drive detected on installation
Sometime near Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:37:27AM -0600, Frank Fuller wrote: Hello, I'm new to Debian, and although I've used Red Hat in the past I'm basically a Linux newbie. My problem is I can't install Debian because I get the message No hard disk drives were detected. You need to load special drivers from a floppy . . . at the start of installation. I have two hard drives in my computer and I'm going to dual boot with Windows 98. Both hard drives -- a Maxtor and a Western Digital -- are formatted for and work with Windows. My hard drive controller is a Promise Ultra ATA 66. I am eager to try out Debian but have no idea where to start with this problem. Does anyone have any ideas? Try running the install with the 2.4 series kernel instead...it might help :\ To do this, at the screen when the cdrom initialy boots (the boot: prompt) type 'bf24' and hit enter. Eg boot: bf24ENTER it might solve your problem :) -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge
Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:29:14PM +0100, knoppix wrote: HI Where can I find a sarge iso please thx google -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables generates unwanted output
Sometime near Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:40:49AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello, I recently set up iptables (that is, I replaced /etc/init.d/iptables with the script I got). Now, when I'm on one of the tty' terminals, I get this message each time: INPUT packet died: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.0.0.150 DST=10.0.0.255 LEN=131 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=111 it looks like a lot of packages with identical properties, are sent to my computer; Maybe it's important to know, my internet connection is dhcp and it uses dynamic IP addressing (could that cause such a problem?) So basically, I've got two questions, What could be causing this? How can I make iptables stop generating output on the tty - and let it write in some kind of logfile instead? Hi, Yes, this _feature_ can be INCREDIBLEY annoying for a machine that you also have to work on aswell :P. To stop it add this to /etc/init.d/klogd KLOGD=-c 4 It sets the verbosity level so to speak so those evil packet logs go to the disk where they should be. (PS: run `/etc/init.d/klogd restart` afterwards :P) -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp get to stdout
Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0600, Ian Melnick wrote: Hello all, Is there any way to use the 'standard' ftp in this sort of way? ncftpget -c [options] remote-host remote-file stdout I want to be able to pipe a download thru dd, but I don't have ncftp installed on the machine I want to do it on (and I also can't get ncftp for it...long story). Thanks! wget supports ftp, maybe it could help :D -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting Floppy
Sometime near Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:13:51PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: I have formatted a floppy disk with the following command: # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 However, I am unable to mount it with the following command: # mount -f auto /dev/fd0 /mnt I receive an error message that it is not an msdos disk. However, if I try to mount it with this command, I receive the same error: # mount -f msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt The only thing that works is if I format the floppy on a windows machine and then mount it with the above command, i.e. : # mount -f msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt My question is what file system do I designate when I format the floppy under debian with the fdformat command (i.e., fdformat /dev/fd0h1440)? I want the floppy to be formatted with a linux file system, and not msdos. Try $ mke2fs /dev/fd0 For a bare basic Ext2 floppy. As for the mounting, do you mean -t (as for -type)? -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: batch modify user config files
Sometime near Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:22PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: In my setup each user has a configuration file in their home directory. * Is there a way to write a bash script to append a line of text to each user's config file in their home directory? Thanks, -Rick Could you just add the line to /etc/profile Its the system wide bashrc and gets executed by anyone, regardless. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Googling...
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi World! I read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22goog.html a NYT report on Google's search engine. The report says two months ago but it is true now: searching for miserable failure produces Bush's biography :-) Question I have: who would think of searching for miserable failure, or perhaps does Google leak its hidden motives? Or are they? Hi, I cant view the article because im not registered at NYT but i believe that this sort of thing is called google bombing. Ive seen it many times before (eg evil empire-Microsoft corporation). I think its just done by people who own alot of domains, they just post pages that make a real good strong link between miserable failure and george bush. Forums are also a great place for these bombings to occur. And because google is so cool, it scans these pages and picks up on the fact that bush is a miserable failure and thus you get his official site as the #1 link. People find out about these i would assume by the people who started them telling their friends and so on...wildfire spreads fast on the internet :P. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:39:36AM -0500, Mauricio wrote: Could anyone post/send me a copy of an umodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (as in you just finished the installation or has not touched it yet)? Thanks! I myself havent touched it, its from a debian woody stable HTH -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc Name Service Switch' for information about this file. passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc:db files netgroup: nis
Re: wanted: postfix incoming mail server HOWTO
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:56:36PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: Hey everyone, I need to set up a box that will accept mail for some domain names. I need a HOWTO to help me through it though. (I'm already sending mail nicely from the box.) Right now I'm reading through: http://www.postfix.org/basic.html#mydestination I'm looking for something that has more of a Step 1. Step 2. approach than this one. Specifically: I need to be able to receive email for multiple domain names. I'm not sure if I need to adjust the postfix config files each time, or if I can just store all of the domain names in a file and have postfix check the file to see what it should be collecting email for. Hi Emma, I assume your boxen are running debian, if so, apt-get install postfix will ask you which domains the server should accept mail for. Just select Internet site as the type of install or whatever it calls it. If you already have the _debian_ version of postfix installed then you can be asked all these questions again by doing $ dpkg-reconfigure postfix Simple :D -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kill process by name
Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:47:38PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: Is there a way to use the kill command to kill a process by name? * For example: kill inetd I have to look up the pid number every time using 'ps aux' then I can kill it with 'kill pid#' check out `killall` -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question on chat program...
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:14:27PM -0800, enantiomer wrote: what is the best chat program to use for debian/linux? I tried the new version of gaim, which is supposed to rock, but it doesn't display any text on any of the windows. Is there any other one out there that allows you to chat on MSN instant messenger? that is the one that all my friends are on. Thanks, Enantiomer Your 2 main choices for MSN at the moment are gaim and aMSN. Gaim i know is working ATM but aMSN i am not to sure about, as Microsofts new version of the protocol introduced a new authentication method which really hit the Linux msn users. Gaim is my personal favorite, i cannot stand the fact that aMSN is written inb tk (looks so dodge). But i do credit the author for his work on it as he really has made it look and feel alot like the microsoft MSN client. I used one called Merlin i think in KDE before...try looking into that one if aMSN fails you. Owww, last minute idea: http://kmess.sourceforge.net/ Looks real nice, ive never used it but i think i may have to now :P -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log a user out
Sometime near Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:03:57PM +0100, Allan Kok wrote: Can I as root log another user out? And can I get i list of all users logged on to my server? `who` should give a list of the users logged in. As for killing someone, the way i usualy go about it is to run `id user` and find out the users UID then simply `pkill -U UID`. Im sure somebody will reply with a more standard way to do this but if they dont then atleast you got this :). /me waits for flame on doing it in such a dodgy fashion :\ -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Log a user out
Sometime near Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:36:44PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: I don't know if there's a more standard way. Killing their login shell is the way I've always done it. woohoo i been doing it the right way it seems so far :D -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a trojan is on your computer!
Since when has MS support opperated behind nyx.net aswell :\, You could have atleast faked the source address if this was an attempt to fool people, shame on you. Also i belive you'l get more of a positive response if you post it on the aol-user list, if there is such a thing :P. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: True-type fonts from Windows
David Baron wrote: # apt-get install msttcorefonts I found this didnt install xfstt, just placed the fonts in the right place and did what it had to do to make them usable. If it isnt workin for ya try $ apt-get install xfstt $ /etc/init.d/xfstt restart And add this line in the Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FontPathunix/:7101 HTH -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:45:08PM +, M. Kirchhoff wrote: I'm in the market for a new video card, so I'm fishing for suggestions. I will mostly be working in 2D apps (mainly internet, office apps). I do *not* intend to play any taxing 3D games such as Quake or Counter-Strike; however, I would like to do some video editing (transferring home movies to DVD or VCD, perhaps some DVD ripping). Ideally, I'd like to run at 1600x1200 or higher on a 20 monitor at 24bit color depth. Would a pre-Radeon ATI card or pre-GeForce3 nVidia card do the trick? Would I need to bother with compiling the proprietary drivers if not using 3D apps? In perusing the list archives, I see that the newer ATI/nVidia cards will not even work without grabbing XFree 4.3 from Experimental, so I'd rather use an older card that works out of the box with Sarge/Sid and kernel 2.4.x, particularly if I don't need to extra power of the newer cards. Thanks for any suggestions. If i was you, i would take the best of both worlds and go with a GeForce 4 MX440 Pros: * Can handle quite heavy 3d games (UT-2003 800x600x24 quite playable) * Can do all the high res/depth stuff * Is fully compatible with hardware acceleration with Linux * Dirt cheap Im in Australia at the moment and over here a standard MX440 will set me back about $70AUD, not much at all for what you get :) If you dont choose this chipset i would suggest sticking with nVidia none the less, they do support Linux (or Xwindows should i say) alot more/better than other companies. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEED HELP: ...installing SoundBlaster Live! DRIVER
Sometime near Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:01:30AM -0500, r o b wrote: Hi, I just installed 3.0 (woody), and my sound driver is not working. I have a SB Live! card. When I do an 'lspci'...the sound card shows up as EMU10k1. Does this mean the driver is there..just not configured properly? Or does that tell me nothing at all? I have already done the following: # adduser username audio # chmod 666 /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer I read the following in a previous relevant thread: After you found out which driver to use, add it to /etc/modules with some text editor. Or add alias sound-slot-0 yourdriverhere to /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules. I think this is the path that I need to take...but if anyone could clarify with more specifics...that would be greatly appreciated. What other steps do I need to take? Also, If the EMU10k1 driver doesn't come pre-installed with Debian3.0, do i need to download it and install it? (I found it at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/emu10k1;). How can I find out if my current Debian install has this driver module installed? Thanks in advance, r o b run $ modprobe emu10k1 to automate the process add the line 'emu10k1' to /etc/modules -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: console font size
Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:51:18AM +0100, konf wrote: hello, when i boot my debian box [no X windows installed) i see too big console fonts.how could i reduce font size ? thanks in advance At the lilo boot: prompt Find out the name of your Linux kernel image (Linux by default) then to boot into a 1024x768 ultra sexy frame buffer mode enter Linux vga=0x317 eg LILO Boot Menu -- - Linux Windows :P boot: Linux vga=0x317 If this works fine then add the line vga=0x317 to /etc/lilo.conf and run the command `lilo` as root. Should be a permanent thing then :) -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ethernet not working right
Sometime near Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:12:55PM -0500, Forest Fisher wrote: I just installed Debian (Woody) on my new laptop with the 2.4.18 kernel. My laptop is a hp pavilion ze4560us and the ethernet card is National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815. I set the ethernet up by editing /etc/network/interfaces, changing the first line to auto lo eth0 and adding, iface eth0 inet dhcp Then, #modprobe natsemi lspci recognizes the card. But then, #ifconfig ext0 up gives me eth00: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device #ifup ext0 gives me Ignoring unkown interface ext0=ext0 when I try to run dhclient I get similar results. For example, #dhclient gives me eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec. eth0: link up. afterward ifconfig shows eth0 but there is no IP. Again, #dhclient gives me ext0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device I also tried replacing the line iface eth0 inet dhcp with iface_eth0=dhcp at the suggestion of a friend, but this gives me the same results. Can anyone help please? Sincerely, Forest Fisher Sorry if their just typos but should ext0 be eth0? -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXT3 at install..no more?
When you first boot the install cd at the boot: prompt type 'bf24'. Now you can choose ext2/3 reiserfs, more choices that redhat gives now aint it? Please before you explode again, ask nicely. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Question (maybe?)
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 09:23:12AM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: Hey Folks, What do I need to do to get a new site to show up in DNS? This is the scenario: I've just connected a pc via satalite to the net, now I want it to show up as a sub-part (is that the right term?) on our domain. ie our domain is foo.net and we want it to show up as 104.foo.net we already have named running locally in the Home Office what should I do? Ummm, if you run the authoritive name server for foo.com then add a line like this to the zone file for foo.com 104 IN A 127.0.0.1 But replace 127.0.0.1 with the machine (104's) internet IP address. Also make sure you update the timestamp at the top of the zone file. Its a number like 2003100401, replace it with the date in a format like this MMDD and just add 01 to the end, incase you make another chage that day then you can just +1 so its 2. After all that reload you name servers config. In debian /etc/init.d/bind9 reload (assuming your using bind9 and installed it via apt) Otherwise refer to any docs you got with your name server Best of luck :D -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need HELP configuring new Debian 3.0(woody) install...
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:34:43AM -0500, r o b wrote: Hi, Here are some problems I'm having: 1) upon installing the system, I set the clock time to GTM, rather than local time. Now when it displays the time, it's -5 hours behind my local time. How can I reconfigure this? I've modified /etc/default/rcS, UTC=no...but that didn't fix it. 2) the sound driver was either not installed, or not configured properly on installation. I get the error: error initializing sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (permission denied) ...when logging in. - I have already tried: # adduser username audio # chmod 666 /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer - I have a SB Live! card For the time problem play around with the program tzconfig As for the sound have you loaded the emu10k1 module? If not $ modprobe emu10k1 Hopefully it exists already, i know it does if your using the 2.4.x kernel but i aint to sure about 2.2.x If that doesnt solve the problem then im outa ideas :P -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Question (maybe?)
Ahh, well if you get stuck then i recommend you check out http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DNS-HOWTO.html -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unacceptable HDD performance
hdparm - a miracle of a program man hdparm will tell all aswell. Enabling DMA would be a good place to start (hdparm -d 1 device). To test the throughput your hard drives are getting try hdparm -Tt device I assume device will be /dev/hda in this case -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wtmp backup script - howto change how often
Sometime near Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:14:22PM +0100, Peto V. wrote: Hello. I'm using unstable I don't like settings of logrotate-I mean backing up of /var/log. For example: I wanna wtmp to be backed up 1/year (or 1/month), but (!) I wanna have only_one wtmp for all year (eg 2004). I think, its simple and i have to just change something (simple) in logrotate script (or somewhere else). (in case I invent or find something - i dont want to mess up logs or backingup logs etc.) What where should I change? /etc/logrotate.conf And you can find on what to stick in that file in the logrotate manpage. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: If a computer is sold with preinstalled SUSE, shouldn't it work with Debian?
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:57PM -0500, alex wrote: If a computer works with a preinstalled SUSE system and doesn't have an installed MS Windows system, what problems can be expected with adding and running additional systems like Debian and a MS Windows if the hard drive is properly partitioned? erm, if its a normal x86 PC then no problems should arise from installing windows or another Linux. Having it preloaded with SuSE is virtually the same (and as annoying) as having a computer come pre-loaded with Windows or Debian or zeroes :). However! To install the additional OS'es would require you to wipe your exisiting SuSE install or otherwise find a partition resizer that can handle ext2/3 filesystems. ^ That's assuming all availiable disk space is given to SuSE, as i would expect in this case. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Problems
Sometime near Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:42:43PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote:
I am running Sid with 2 matching 40gig drives. Everything has been running
great until I get this message when going and apt-get upgrade:
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=97055,
sector=96984
hdc is primary master on ide2
here is output of hdparm:
/dev/hdc:
multcount= 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0
It is formatted with ReiserFS and the problem seems to be /dev/hdc1 it is
trying to write to /etc which is hdc1 and this is mounted as /
Could this be a drive going bad or can I fix this with with some software
programs? If it is a drive going bad what would be the best and easiest way
to clone the drive onto another drive it will probably be a bigger drive. I
have used Norton Ghost 2003 with Windows before but does it work with Linux
and ReiserFS?
Thanks for any help/
Brad
Hi Brad,
I had these errors for some time. I found that if i compiled my kernel
with the Use multimode by default option under IDE configuration. They
disapeared.
However, debians standard kernel does have this option by default
(2.4.18-bf24 atleast) so if you are running something other than that i
suggest giving that a shot.
Hope it helps
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Re: Problem with Startx - Intel 8284 5G
The messages at the end of the log are the ones of intrest. From them i can see that. 1. X cannot find your mouse 2. X cant connect to the font server With the mouse it looks like you have chosen the most logical device name for the mouse :). However if your mouse is a PS/2 mouse using /dev/psaux as the mouse device will work much better. And with the font server, do you have xfs installed? It comes bundled when you install x-window-system. Try running $ /etc/init.d/xfs start If that gives output such as Starting X font server: then its your lucky day. If not then $ apt-get install xfs xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi And try it again, i think thats all you need for a basic set of fonts but anyone on this list feel free to correct me :P. Also to reconfigure the X server and change your mouse device use: $ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Hope this helps -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hdparm questions
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:47:37AM +0100, David Baron wrote: No, this is not being run on Debian startup. Editing either /etc/default/ hdparm or (I made a) /etc/hdparm.conf has not effect. Where does one fine hwtools? apt-get did not work. How might one add and a script /etc/rc#/hdparm? (Just take one of the other, leave the preambles and simply do hdparm?) The best way to do that would be to make the script in /etc/init.d that looks like this -- CUT -- !#/bin/sh case $1 in start) # your hdparm commands here ;; *) echo Usage: $0 start esac -- CUT -- Call it hdparm or something similar and then symlink to it in the runlevels you wish for it to be run under (2 is the default for most systems). Eg $ ln -s /etc/init.d/hdparm /etc/rc2.d/S20hdparm The name of the link is important here, S specifies the script is to be started and 20 is its prefered start order. -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install testing/unstable packages
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:12:35PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: the stable release seems rock solid. but packages like kde are very outdated. how do i upgrade the kde packages (testing release). what lines do i need to add into my /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list --CUT-- deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free --CUT-- However you will want to replace wa.au.debian.org with you closest mirror :) after that run $ apt-get update and you will have a nice lot of unstable packages to choose from PS: i think you could try apt-get upgrade to re-install new versions of what you currently have. Not to sure though :) -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcpd,conf error - dhpcd won't start
192.168.0.20 is not a subnet, i think what you are after is 192.168.0.0 -- Cheers, rinmak [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: startup scripting
Sometime near Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:34:22PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote:
Is this proper way to add my script to startup?
Will this gracefully shutdown any apps my script calls
if I do a cntrl-alt-del at the keyboard?
Sure is, however for your script to unload itself it needs to accept the
command line parameter stop. Example
--CUT--
#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
start)
# start commands here
;;
stop)
# stop commands here
;;
*)
echo Usage: $0 {start|stop}
esac
--CUT--
Depending on the programs your script starts it may even be safe to let
the system kill you apps off upon a halt/reboot, however if you like the
satisfaction of being in complete control then go by the standard.
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