Greetings,
I'm building a beowulf whose nodes have Intel gigabit NICs, whose
drivers are not in the stock kernel. So, I got the e1000 driver (and
debianized it, but haven't ITPd or uploaded yet), and would like to use
it for nfs-root.
The problem is, I can't get this module into the
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:14:14PM -0300, Michel Loos wrote:
| You have 2 stable releases which are up-to-date:
| woody and sid
| They are perfectly stable, but the distribution is changing
| just like the RedHat distribution is changing every few weeks,
| the only difference is that they call
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote:
| Hi, all.
|
| I often have to debug X-based apps for my users. In order to be able to
| run the app as the user, I need to be able to accept X connections on my
| desktop from their account on some other machine. On non-Debian
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:52:44PM +0200, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote:
# vi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
Aha! Yes, I had the nolisten directive set. The manpage I needed to
read was Xserver(1) -- I'd been looking at X(7) and xauth(1).
Thanks!
-mrj
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Ronald Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just to update something new I have found out.. I tried pinging my ADSL
router and my brother´s PC from my Linux box and it doesn't work either,
but it did work from my Windows PC when I had it connected directly to
my ADSL router. So, now I'm feeling
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:38:39AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote:
I would just like to point out the legal saying that big cases make bad
law. We're all irritated by one moron's behavior; that's not necessarily
an argument for significant technical or policy changes. By all
indications he's
D.J. Bolderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
seb bastos wrote:
in'st it the 'stable' field to be replace by 'testing'???
No. There are 3 options. Stable, Unstable and Testing.
You can also refer to a release by name. So if you say potato,
you'll get stable now and won't get auto-updated when
| Are you really named Brooks Robinson or is that a nom du net?
Yes this is my true and given name. Long story short: my brother was a fan,
my mom agreed to something she never thought would happen
| My conclusion is that Woody is effectively released already.
|
| So, Woody changed to a 2.4
Here's a code fragment i'm trying to work on in bash
I'm pulling a backup, and if smbtar aborts for whatever reason, I need
to know not to rotate the backup.
smbtar -s $username -x $share -p $password -t - | gzip -1 $filename.tar.gz
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# rotate the backup;
fi;
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:23:02AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0300, synthespian wrote:
| You can't use Potato for a desktop (to outdated) and you remain in this
| security limbo...
|
| rant
|
| Why does everyone keep repeating this potato is too old
| Uh huh. And get cracked tomorrow because security updates are *not*
| being made for woody at this time. There is a list of approximately a
| dozen *known* security problems with woody that will be dealt with
| *later*. Updates are not propogating from sid to woody at all right
| now, even
Lo, on Wednesday, June 5, Jeronimo Pellegrini did write:
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Ian D. Stewart wrote:
While stating that you don't give a rip about the users may be
intelectually honest, one should not be surprised when
such statements endanger userbase loyalty.
And, as he said: he doesn't care. Doesn't care because no
developers will leave and the users leaving doesn't
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:47:38PM -0700, justin cunningham wrote:
Is there a way to restart all services at once instead of individually?
shutdown now
When it asks for root password, hit EOF.
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote:
9/tcp opendiscard
Not sure myself...
13/tcp opendaytime
37/tcp opentime
Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, as he said: he doesn't care. Doesn't care because no
developers will leave and the users leaving doesn't endanger
the existance of Debian; in essence the developers are making
it for themselves.
Maybe the developers should amend the Social Contract
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 10:38:10 +0200 Nicos Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 02:11, Carlos Sousa wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 00:09:42 -0500 dman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Yes -- the problem is the user's .profile doesn't source the
system one. It isn't
OK, I've finally gotten my dial-in server to authenticate. Now I need to
gain access to another computer inside our network.
Brian mentioned ip forwarding. Is this what I need? Or is there
something else at work here?
Curtis
Henning, Brian wrote:
Hello-
one thing you may need is to do is
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 02:57 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 02:32:00PM -0400, tvn1981 wrote:
9/tcp opendiscard
Not sure myself...
$ cat //etc/services| grep 9/tcp
discard 9/tcp sink null
ben
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 03:00 pm, Alan Shutko wrote:
Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, as he said: he doesn't care. Doesn't care because no
developers will leave and the users leaving doesn't endanger
the existance of Debian; in essence the developers are making
it for
%% Mike Dresser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
md Here's a code fragment i'm trying to work on in bash
md The problem is, $? reports the result of the last command, which
md is gzip, which will ALWAYS report 0(well, unless the hd is full or
md the moon is full),
Yes. The definition of $? in
Alan Shutko wrote:
Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, as he said: he doesn't care. Doesn't care because no
developers will leave and the users leaving doesn't endanger
the existance of Debian; in essence the developers are making
it for themselves.
Maybe the developers should amend
OK, I have gotten mgetty pppd to permit me to dial in and authenticate
on my server (see previous posts for further details).
However, an obvious reason why I can access other computers on the LAN
would seem to be this:
Our network structure is 10.0.0.1-254, netmask 255.255.255.0 (BTW,
Alan == Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan Maybe the developers should amend the Social Contract to make this
Alan more explicit? At least in the vote, it would become clear to what
Alan degree that statement is true or untrue.
Ah, yes, the social contract argument. I said
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 17:21:37 +0200
Joris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# nano /etc/apt/sources.list (change stable to woody/testing)
# apt-get update
# apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf
# apt-get -dy dist-upgrade (just download, doesn't require
# interference) apt-get dist-upgrade
Andrej,
Thanks the info. Yes, jigdo-easy is indeed for windows. I am running
potato and tried to install the jigdo deb and got a number of dependencies.
When I tried to install a couple of the packages apt-get claimed that it
didn't know about them; and I didn't want to make a hybrid
Joris wrote:
I have Woody installed with the 2.2-20 kernel. I apt-get installed the
2.4.18 kernel for both k7 and i686. Both installed ok, but both hung on
boot, stating that the root file system couldn't be mounted.
this is because those kernel images use initial ramdisks (initrd) as root
Try spadmin - fonts - add
It worked for me.
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, user list wrote :
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:25:09AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| Spam is not new. Everyone knows it's a problem. There is no excuse
| anymore to be ignorant.
I recently learned something about open relays. Installing anti-virus
software (eg Norton) on your MS server (that isn't an
When you upgrade this way, does your kernel stay at the same level or will
you be prompted to upgrade to 2.4? (for the record, I would like 2.4).
Cheers,
-rick
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From: Paladin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:34 PM
To: Joris
Cc:
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:22:53 -0500 Jamin W. Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 09:08:09 -0500
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd actually be in favour of dropping i386, most bugs and
complaints seem to come from there; dropping i386 shall make the
work
ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
please stop propogating the rumor that manoj said that he didn't care about
the users. read the full thread.
I wasn't. I was responding to the post I quoted. Apologies if it was
too subtle.
--
Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors!
May Euell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Then I think
# update-rc.d -f inetd remove
is the neater solution.
Actually, no. While that'd work, the next package upgrade will restore
the symlinks. You want to leave the K links alone, and just disable the
S links.
This is in the update-rc.d manpage:
If
Ok. I am in the process of installing Woody myself. I see where you are
talking about. You are at the point
in which the kernel and modules are installed from the cd. Just before
you get to the module config.
I have one question I can think of asking. That is when you boot the
cd and
Ivo == Ivo Wever [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ivo It is an unqualified statement indeed. I'm just exagerating
Ivo Manojs point and claim I understand it (because calling it
Ivo 'condescending' supposes that the majority of the society feels
Ivo that way and I want to make clear that at least one
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:38:45 -0700
Rick Commo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you upgrade this way, does your kernel stay at the same level or
will you be prompted to upgrade to 2.4? (for the record, I would like
2.4).
It doesn't mention it! I don't think I have that packages instaled.
Normally
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:33:47PM +0100, Paladin wrote:
Just one problem: as soon as I do what you did I get a huge list of
packages that will be upgrade as well lots that will be removed. In the
last I are included some that I made myself (probably VERY bad! ;). I
didn't want this to
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:38:45PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote:
When you upgrade this way, does your kernel stay at the same level or
will you be prompted to upgrade to 2.4? (for the record, I would like
2.4).
Kernels are never upgraded automatically by the packaging system. You
can choose to
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:39:06PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
Your audience is not me. For *me*, potato is too old for desktop use.
...
Your audience isn't a computer geek like me (who is also a developer)
Thanks for the reply! You've got some great reasons for wanting something
synthespian For one thing, it would be good to know what the users
synthespian think. Sure,
If you say so. I am not sure I personally have much interest
in the matter.
For someone who claims to not have much interest in what the users
think, you sure spend a lot of
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 06:00:23PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
(With 2000 developers, any unqualified statement is likely to be
false)
For the record, the number is currently 1073 (unless I made a mistake in
my database query). Of course, not all of those are active.
--
Colin Watson
New to debian, i'm faced with the challenge of installing debian tonite,
setting up a USB PPPoA Bellsouth.net adsl connection to be shared out via
ethernet card to a peer-to-peer network (static internal ip addresses and
hub connectivity, windows platform workgroups) and i'm a little
overwhelmed.
Manoj wrote:
Are you sure condescending means what you think it means? (Oh,
BTW, that is me being condescending again).
I don't consider that condescending.
Condescending, in context, implied that I felt superior to the people I
was talking to. There was no suggestion that any one
On 5 Jun 2002, Paul Smith wrote:
See the PIPESTATUS variable in the bash man page.
Note that this is not a standard thing, so if you use it your script
may not be portable to other Bourne-like shells.
Thank you ever so much
smbtar -s $username -x $share -p $password -t - | gzip -1
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:06:53 +0100
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The output of 'apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade'
will tell you exactly what apt-get is thinking, although it can be
rather cryptic if you've never seen it before.
Funny... doing a dist-upgrade doesn't
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 04:21 pm, Tim -- Senior Technical Support,
Earthlink. wrote:
New to debian, i'm faced with the challenge of installing debian tonite,
setting up a USB PPPoA Bellsouth.net adsl connection to be shared out via
ethernet card to a peer-to-peer network (static internal ip
I sent this question sometime last month but didn't see any replies. I don't
know whether i didn't see the replies, nobody had an answer, or I asked a really
dumb question. But dumb or not, I still don't have an answer so thought I'd try
again.
I am trying to set up persistent cookies with lynx.
Alan Shutko wrote:
(With 2000 developers, any unqualified statement is likely to be
false)
I'm unsure where this 2000 developers number that I've seen floating
around this list comes from. At last count, when we were preparing the
release announcement, there were less than 1000, and of
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For the record, the number is currently 1073 (unless I made a mistake in
my database query). Of course, not all of those are active.
Oh, that's the problem then. If we had 2000 developers, woody would
have been out in half the time, right? ;^)
--
Alan
When I use ctl-alt-+ to cycle through the modes in XFree86 (v 4.1 on
woody) it does not change the virtual desktop size. So when I go from
1152 x 864 to 1024 x 768 some of the virtual desktop doesn't fit, and
I have to scroll around.
Is there a way to avoid this? I have added
David == David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
synthespian For one thing, it would be good to know what the users
synthespian think. Sure,
If you say so. I am not sure I personally have much interest
in the matter.
David For someone who claims to not have much interest in what the
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:59, Ross Boylan wrote:
When I use ctl-alt-+ to cycle through the modes in XFree86 (v 4.1 on
woody) it does not change the virtual desktop size. So when I go from
1152 x 864 to 1024 x 768 some of the virtual desktop doesn't fit, and
I have to scroll around.
Is there
I'm not really concerned with how much geeks and developers like potato
for the simple reason that they (we) are capable of dealing with the
uncertainties of woody/sid and might even be willing to do the occasional
`./configure ; make ; make install` to get things that our distro(s)
of choice
Yeah it's me again :)
ok... got everything copied over to the new big disk on /dev/hde
Next obstacle is there a way to use lilo to boot from /dev/hde when
it's the only hard drive on the system without doing that ide=reverse
line?
I tried just setting the root to /dev/hde1 on a boot
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 14:34, Peter Whysall wrote:
Here's the scenario.
I have a Woody box running the Squid web proxy server, with the
oh-so-nifty Squidalyser log analyser doohickey and it's working fine,
serving Windows clients. The Boss is pleased.
However there's a small fly in the
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:56:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Them and everyone else it seems. I gotta wonder if anybody from
California ever stopped to think that they're turning Oregon into what
they moved away from...
If they stopped to think, they wouldn't be the Californians that
Hello-
I am trying to use grub to boot my debian parition and it will not recognize
/vmlinuz . This partition is ext2 on partition 8. The funny thing is when i
did the install I did it on partition 12. I have a few other operating
systems on this machine and that is why I have so many paritions. I
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 18:59, Ross Boylan wrote:
When I use ctl-alt-+ to cycle through the modes in XFree86 (v 4.1 on
woody) it does not change the virtual desktop size. So when I go from
1152 x 864 to 1024 x 768 some of the virtual desktop doesn't fit, and
I have to scroll around.
Is there
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:28:39AM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a quick way to clear an HDD of old data, partitions,
etc.
I found this on /. thru a google search:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hdX
When i do this from a console shell after booting from a woody install
disk, It
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 01:57 pm, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
How does FreeBSD manage to stay reasonably secure and stable, yet modern
(compared to Potato)?
I think it's because they don't have a zero-bugs release policy like
Debian. The base system is stable. The stuff in the ports tree
hi ya alice
if you tried to boot from fd into /dev/hde1 and it didnt work...
my guess is your mb doesnt support booting off drives hde-hdf-hdg-hdh...
options are...
- move /dev/hde to hdd or something lower...
- reverse hda and hde on the drives ( controller cables )
- change the current
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:32, tvn1981 wrote:
Hi, I have the following ports open and I am not sure what they are.
Whether or not they are really needed. My other Linux box (rh) doesn't
have these so I am wondering what these are in Debian
9/tcp opendiscard
On 05/06/02 Mark Roach did speaketh:
AFAIK the virtual size stays the same for the entire X session, only the
viewable resolution is changable via the ctrl-alt-+/- key combo. Unless
you have a need to change resolution on the fly a lot, you could create
two different scripts that invoke X
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 13:02, Francisco Fialho wrote:
I'm new to Debian, first heard about it at the Install Fest that took
place at Univeristy of Campinas ( one of brazilians top 3 ).
I downloaded it, and tried to install Debian 2.2rev6, but unsuccessfully.
I had problems with the network and
Hi,
I had installed Debian linux (potato version) on my NEC versa laptop
together with the pcmcia-cs package. My Xircom pcmcia modem was
recognised as ttys1 and I could connect to the internet.
Later I install an external modem to a serial com port (ttys0) for
internet connection and I removed
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:45:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Forgive my ignorance concerning internatialization . . . .
At my university our Foreign Language department staff/faculty have
traditionally used WordPerfect throughout the years, along with foreign
language modules from WordPerfect
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:41:39PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
It was not my intention to lead users astray, my intention was to enlighten
people to the fact that testing is, for the most part, not going to change.
The security fixes are flowing into sid. It's not a big trick to get
Someone posted that security updates can simply be downloaded from
Sid and used with Woody.
However, at least one package in unstable is already not installable
on my Woody box, because a library has been upgraded in Sid.
--
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Manager, Dueling Modems
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 09:50:47PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 05/06/02 Mark Roach did speaketh:
AFAIK the virtual size stays the same for the entire X session, only the
viewable resolution is changable via the ctrl-alt-+/- key combo. Unless
you have a need to change resolution on
Hi, i installed smokeping, but could not figure how will it work.
Help, is much appreciated..
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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:17:04PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System)
package for debian? I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search GIS',
but got a long list of unrelated
Hi,
I'm not really sure if this is what you want.
http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/software/smb_auth.html
Cheers,
Mike
Quoting Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here's the scenario.
I have a Woody box running the Squid web proxy server, with the
oh-so-nifty Squidalyser log analyser doohickey
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