Re: touchpad on laptop

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't | know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic | touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't | w

Re: aptitude vs. dselect

Vineet Kumar wrote: > I'd heard that it's better to use "dselect update" than "apt-get update" > because the former also updates dpkg's available database (which seems > to me is pretty important). > > I've started using aptitude, but have gotten myself in the habit of > running "deslect update",

Re: console=/dev/ttyN

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:05:57PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | This was posted a little while ago here by Vineet but I don't have the | mail anymore. The idea was to add the line append="console=/dev/ttyN" to | lilo.conf. I've tried to add it to grub (the right way, I suppose, without | quotes a

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:46:42PM +0900, Taegil Noh wrote: | File System is one matter, and shell environment is another. | While ext2/3 and resistfs will surely contain more than | million files in a directory, (or anywhere anyhow) | Many shells like bash and csh won't process them | cleary. Wh

Re: potato security?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > For a long time I have had in my sources: > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib > non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib > non-free > > I am now

Re: potato security?

Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib > non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib > non-free ^^^ > I am now getting 404 errors.

Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

>>"Paul" == Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> The given recipe is: Paul> apt-get install kernel-sources-2.4.18 Paul> cd /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.4.18 Paul> make oldconfig Aha. You are creating a default .config here, which may have vastly less modules selected than

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:29:04PM +1000, John wrote: | There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever | bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 | | We need a version > 1.2.12, and are running 1.3.23 from woody. Is there | any idea where a patched 1.3.23

Re: information

High, On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello was wondering if anyone could give me some feedback on the dosemue > I have not been active in my LINUX OS for a while have been busy. I just > cannot get it to work right I have kernel 2.2.12 #2 at least thats what it > tells me wh

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:47:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > 'apt-get update' has never updated dpkg's available file. Very likely > you just never noticed this before. > That's odd. I haven't used dselect since just after I installed Debian here, now many months ago, but my /var/lib/dpkg/av

Re: Exim authentication

Hi! > Run exim from a shell with '-d9' and then try again. I have tryed and I get (nothing helpful): Running PAM authentication for user "[erased]" PAM error: Authentication failure plain authenticator: $1 = $2 = [erased] $3 = [erased] expanded string: 0 SMTP>> 535 Incorrect authentication

RE: touchpad on laptop

On 20-Jun-2002 Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't > know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic > touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't > work, couldn't find any inf

Re: man or info?

On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:02:43AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > > > Man pages are things that both authors and readers can pick up quickly. > > > I'm in the habit of using info for a very few GNU packages (make, > >

Re: touchpad on laptop

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't > know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic > touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't > w

Re: debian version names

Hi Alex, The names of the versions of Debian are from the Toy Story film, produced by Disney and Pixar studios. They are the names of the caracteres of the film. Potato is the potato head, Woody is the cowboy and so on. You can find more info about the codename on debian's website: http://www.d

Re: man or info?

On Thursday 20 June 2002 17:02, W. Paul Mills wrote: > Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are > much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. If you have a web server that can handle CGI scripts, you might want to try the info2www package. I like it. -- E

Re: /dev/dsp: No such device

Hi! the problem was solved installing the correct module (es1371) for my sound card (ensoniq 5880) :) Regards, Marcelo On 20 Jun 2002 17:50:56 +0200 Ernst-Magne Vindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 16:32, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I had the same prop. Can you run it as r

Re: man or info?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:33:42PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:02:43 CDT, W. Paul Mills writes: > >Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are > >much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. > > AOL! > > But http://freshmeat.net/projec

Re: touchpad on laptop

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:09, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't > know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic > touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't > work, couldn't

FHS & LSB Compliance

How compliant with the FHS and LSB standards is Debian to date? Also, is LVM and ReiserFS available? Matthew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 June 2002 07:45 am, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I went to the Linux Sound-HowTo, looking for information about my > Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) sound card. The only models of > Ensoniq PCI card listed as supported by Linux

Re: man or info?

Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. Paul apt-get install pinfo or if you have apache installed apt-get install info2www hope this helps pietro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Linux and Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) card

Hi Chris, thank you! the es1371 module worked fine!! this information should be present in es1371's help in xconfig... Now the problem I posted in two previous thread ("ensoniq 5880 kernel support" and "/dev/dsp: No such device") are solved too. After installed the es1371 module and changed the /

potato security?

For a long time I have had in my sources: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib non-free I am now getting 404 errors. Is this preparatory for the switch to woody? -- "All pr

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday 20 June 2002 08:19 am, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 22:25, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > > > Helgi Örn wrote on Wed Jun 19, 2002 um 08:10:17PM: > > > I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't accept emulated > > > scs

Re: Linux and Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) card

It so happens I installed one of these cards last night. The es1371 module is the one you want. Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I went to the Linux Sound-HowTo, looking for information about my Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) sound card. The only models of Ensoniq PCI card listed as suppo

Re: man or info?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W. Paul Mills) writes: > Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are > much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. Do you know about the "s" and "i" keys? They let you search the whole file or search the index, respectively. That should ma

Re: Linux and Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) card

Marcelo, On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:45:20AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I went to the Linux Sound-HowTo, looking for information about my > Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) sound card. The only models of > Ensoniq PCI card listed as supported by Linux are Ensoniq AudioPCI > (ES1370) and Enso

Re: /dev/dsp: No such device

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 16:32, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I had the same prop. Can you run it as root? if so just do chmod a+x /dev/dsp > Have you check your privilege ? > > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am having problems with sound in woody (see "ensoniq 5880 kernel > > support" tr

touchpad on laptop

Hey, I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't work, couldn't find any information about this in the laptop howto. Thanks, Ca

Re: man or info?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:02:43AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > > Man pages are things that both authors and readers can pick up quickly. > > I'm in the habit of using info for a very few GNU packages (make, > > autoconf, and the libc being prime examples

Re: /dev/dsp: No such device

On Thursday 20 June 2002 15:11, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems with sound in woody (see "ensoniq 5880 kernel > support" trhead). In order to test the sound I typed "esd" at the > command promp as root, to start the Enlightened Sound Daemon, wich > produces a small sou

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is > > > configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not >

Re: man or info?

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:02:43 CDT, W. Paul Mills writes: >Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are >much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. AOL! But http://freshmeat.net/projects/info2man/ helps. (no .deb available though, AFAICT)> cheers, &rw -- / I

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > * AKDT]: > > > I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any > > > comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply > > > anyway off

Re: 2X CD's as emulated scsi

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 22:25, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Helgi Örn wrote on Wed Jun 19, 2002 um 08:10:17PM: > > > I can't install the VMware tools because VMware doesn't accept emulated > > scsi drivers (if I've understood this right). > > I doubt, ide-scsi is not your problem here. > You

Re: man or info?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to > believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always preferable > to providing a reference card; the Debian Project observes that not all > upstream authors have the time or inclin

cdparanoia paranoia

Hello all! Why is jack (the ripper) giving me this: --- Error: could not read CD's TOC. : maybe cdparanoia is not installed? --- even though cdparanoia is installed? Cheers, Helgi Örn -- ~~ Gnupg signature ID 83AC4814 ~ signature.asc Descr

Linux and Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) card

Hello, I went to the Linux Sound-HowTo, looking for information about my Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) sound card. The only models of Ensoniq PCI card listed as supported by Linux are Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370) and Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371). No Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI. So, I am afraid that my sou

RE:linux and laptops

Deedra Waters writes: > I'm supposed to start school in august, and I'm getting a gateway solo > 1450 for a laptop for classes. I'm curious as to wether any of you know > how well this type of laptop will work with linux. I've heard both that > the gateway laptops work with linux and that they

Re: /dev/dsp: No such device

Have you check your privilege ? Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I am having problems with sound in woody (see "ensoniq 5880 kernel support" trhead). In order to test the sound I typed "esd" at the command promp as root, to start the Enlightened Sound Daemon, wich produces a small sound in sc

Re: Woody CD for installation on IBM T20

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 21:09, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: > I would like to install Woody on a T20 portable with a 3Com 589 PCMCIA > network card. Does your T20 have an internal nic? I had a Thinkpad T20 (2647-41U) that had the Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 (eepro100). Maybe I was just extremely luck

IBM NetVista / CoStar Labelwriter: giving up!

Well, after lots of e-mails, phone calls, and tests, I'm giving up (at least for now) on getting this CoStar LabelWriter XL working on my IBM NetVista running Debian Woody. I'm sending this message mostly for the archives, in case anyone runs across a similar scenario in the future, but if anyone

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:21:30PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dselect is > > configured to use the apt method, which is the default these days), not > > the other way round. > > > > Arguably it

loading linux.bin.............ready (and hangs there during woody install)

Hi All, Hope someone can help me with this. I've tried the standard boot images using loadlin as well as floppy images. With loadlin, it says loading and then hangs after clearing the screen and with the floppy images it gets as far as saying ready(as in the subject line) goes to the next line an

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Run 'dselect update'. > > > > Many thanks; that seems to have fixed it! > > > > Isn't it supposed to be run automatically by apt-get? > > No; 'dse

Re: Gnupg & Evolution

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 07:50, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:59, Helgi Örn wrote: > > I have this annoying problem with Evolution and gnupg; when I click a > > message lock icon to check the signature Evolution often hangs before > > the lock opens. I then have to brutally kill it a

/dev/dsp: No such device

Hello, I am having problems with sound in woody (see "ensoniq 5880 kernel support" trhead). In order to test the sound I typed "esd" at the command promp as root, to start the Enlightened Sound Daemon, wich produces a small sound in scale. I got the message: nostromo:/dev# esd /dev/dsp: No such

Re: Apache Exploit Released - where is an update for Woody?

On 2002.06.19 23:29 John wrote: There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 We need a version > 1.2.12, and are running 1.3.23 from woody. Is there any idea where a patched 1.3.23 for woody might be? Or should

imp/horde config problem

Hi ! I'm trying to set up imp/horde on Woody and I have a problem. Each time I want to access http://myserver/horde/, mozilla asks me if I want to dowload "uzplluaq." or so...I think it might be an apache+php configuration problem but I don't see how to resolve it. All the files in horde are .php

Re: changes in config of exim/mail stuff

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:44:20AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Anyway, I've had a look for files containing 'foosoft', as it were, > and most are as I'd expect, e.g. resolv.conf, hosts... however, > exim.conf and /etc/mailname also contain 'foosoft'. What steps should > I take to get exim to re-re

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:50:58AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > Run 'dselect update'. > > Many thanks; that seems to have fixed it! > > Isn't it supposed to be run automatically by apt-get? No; 'dselect update' is a superset of 'apt-get update' (if dse

Re: Unresolved kernel symbols when installing a custom module

Em Qua, 2002-06-19 às 12:13, Torsten Wolny escreveu: > Hi, > > Am Mit, 2002-06-19 um 11.57 schrieb Goedson Teixeira Paixão: > > > > I'm trying to install the ILK module from the GILK project > > (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~djp1/gilk.html) but when I insmod ilk.o I get > > this erro message: > >

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

On 20/06/02 Taegil Noh did speaketh: > In shorts, Shells don't like long long list of > files. Agreed. At work we have directories with thousands of files due to the short-sightedness of some tool developers who thought it was ok to dump all sourcecode into the same directory at build time. W

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill> Another stupid question: You *ARE* doing this as root, right? It Bill> has to be run as root. Jerome> Yes Bill> The manpage for ntpdate says that "-d" won't actually set the Bill> clock. Does "ntpdate -v -B ntp.apple.com" work (that is, without Bill> the "-d")? Jerome> wit

updated apache-perl

Hi, Has anybody managed to build a version of apache-perl based on apache 1.3.26? I am trying, but until now with very limited success. -- René Seindal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux and laptops

--- Deedra Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm supposed to start school in august, and I'm > getting a gateway solo > 1450 for a laptop for classes. I'm curious as to > wether any of you know > how well this type of laptop will work with linux. > I've heard both that > the gateway laptops work

Re: digital camera recommendation?

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:10:49PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > I have a Canon G2, which is a 4 megapixel camera that typically sells > for US$800 or so. It can use Canon external flash units, uses CF cards, > and has a USB interface. Allegedly, gphoto2 works with it, but I wasn't > able to get it

console=/dev/ttyN

This was posted a little while ago here by Vineet but I don't have the mail anymore. The idea was to add the line append="console=/dev/ttyN" to lilo.conf. I've tried to add it to grub (the right way, I suppose, without quotes and the "append") but the results were a little different: at boot up the

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:56, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: > > > A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one > > > directory? > > > > As many as you want... but access

Re: fbset for all ttys? SOLVED

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:35:13AM +0200, Karoly VEGH wrote: > #!/bin/sh > echo "" > /dev/tty2 > echo "" > /dev/tty3 > echo "" > /dev/tty4 > echo "" > /dev/tty5 > echo "" > /dev/tty6 > fbset -a 640x480-100 > > echo's u need, cause fbset works only on consoles on which there is > already something.

linux and laptops

I'm supposed to start school in august, and I'm getting a gateway solo 1450 for a laptop for classes. I'm curious as to wether any of you know how well this type of laptop will work with linux. I've heard both that the gateway laptops work with linux and that they don't. I'm curious as to wether a

Re: ntpdate troubles

Bill Benedetto wrote: Bill> Really! Bill> Bill> Let me see if I have this straight... Bill> Bill> ntpdate ntp.apple.com FAILS... ? Bill> Bill> ntpdate 17.254.0.26FAILS... ? Bill> Bill> ntpdate -d -v -B ntp.apple.com WORKS... ? Bill> Bill> Do I have that correct?

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

Depends on the filesystem. And depends on how you interpret your question (how many files can you put in a directory and still have reasonable performance vs. how many files can you put in a directory, absolutely, if you're prepared to wait 2 years after doing 'ls'). File System is one matte

Nautilus Broken Dependency (on unstable)

Looks like newly added Nautilus packages(libnautilus0 nautilus, libeel) have some wrong dependency. they want esd package version 0.2.27, but there are only 0.2.23 versions in current unstable... Well, I know, it is unstable, and it can happen... I hope they fix this up next morning... (So I do

Re: som no debian

Olá, » Assim falou Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata em Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:02:37PM -0300: > tenho uma SB16 bits ISA bem antiga, e ela funcionava perfeitamente no RH > 7.2 > Eu instalei o debian potato 2.3, e nao consegui fazer o som funcionar com o > alsa. > minha tentativa foi com

Re: fbset for all ttys?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: > > Just an idea - can't test it at the moment. What happens if you put > something like this into your script? > > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do > chvt $i > fbset -t 13334 144 24 29 3 136 6 > done Unfortunatelly, not much. I get boun

Re: Digicams

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:39, Gregor Szyrach wrote: > Hi Ted, > > On Thu, 2002-06-20, 08.12 Ted wrote: > > Has anyone any comments on the Fujifilm 1400 zoom camera ?..I cab now > > buy > > this model for around £100...Any comments appreciated > > I bought the FujiFinePix 4800 Zoom, and it wo

Replacing kernel packages via apt

Hi, I have built a patched kernel 2.4.18 with make-kpkg --initrd --revision=3:pallas.2.1 kernel_image kernel_headers kernel_doc I generated a Package.gz and changed the sources.list so that apt-get correctly finds my kernel-image-2.4.18 with revision pallas.2.1. I used epochs, just to be sure, b

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: > > A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one > > directory? > > As many as you want... but accessing them will get slower when more > files are placed in a direc

Re: numeric keypad vs. nvi/vim ???

I don't know why this happens. Try turning Numlock off then on again. Make sure it goes off before you turn it back on. It may stay on the first time you hit it. On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 19:28, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > Thank you, for your participation. > > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > >

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:24:54AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0) > > > > which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from tes

changes in config of exim/mail stuff

I'm changing the local network name of a few machines as well as their IP addresses (because I'm putting them on a different local subnet, e.g. 192.168.1.0 rather than 192.168.0.0). Changing the static IP addresses is easy, but I've not changed a network name before. To clarify what I mean by net

Re: generic ps2 mouse driver

on Wed, Jun 19, 2002, Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I need to set up a large amout of systems with Debian. While the systems are > more or less the same (or ordered in bigger groups) there are many different > ps2 mice around. They are "randomly" atached to a system and w

Re: Help: Network Printer Config

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:02, Larry Smith wrote: > I've had to build a new kernel to get Debian to > recognize my Lan Card. Now I'm missing the print > spooler commands, and there's no printcap file. > > I've included printer support in the kernel, > necessitating including the parallel interface.

Re: Replacing a new HD

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 23:00, Erik Mathisen wrote: > Hello, > > I just bought a new hard drive for my system. I pan on using it and > taking the disk that currently in it and using it on another box. I > want to totally replicate what is happening on the disk. Is there a > pretty painless way of

Re: fbset for all ttys?

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, andrej hocevar wrote: > Is there a way to make it permanent for all consoles? fbset -a create an initscript, /etc/rc2.d/S99fbset, like: #!/bin/sh echo "" > /dev/tty2 echo "" > /dev/tty3 echo "" > /dev/tty4 echo "" > /dev/tty5 echo "" > /dev/tty6 fbset -a 640x480-100 echo's

Re: debian version names

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:03:04AM -0700, Alexander Car?t wrote: > can anyone tell me what the debian version names are ? F.e. what is potato, > what is woody or is there a link where it is explained ? Toy Story character names. Previous ones since

Re: Odd entry in my log files

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:57:11AM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.20.1033 +0200]: > > > What is happening here? And is it something I should be worried about? > > > There doesn't appear

Re: fbset for all ttys?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andrej hocevar) writes: > > > I thought I was clever and added an init script for setting the > > > concole with fbset. I've figured that "fbset -t 13334

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:24:54AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0) > > > which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from testing) > > > was the latest, which it isn't. >

Re: fbset for all ttys?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Ulf Rompe wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andrej hocevar) writes: > > > I thought I was clever and added an init script for setting the > > concole with fbset. I've figured that "fbset -t 13334 144 24 29 3 > > 136 6" yields the best results. But it affects onl

Re: beep unconditionally

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:13:07AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:39, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it > > from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY. > > > > I used to do the below, b

Re: What is happening to testing/unstable?

On 19 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > [snip] > > I also tried a specific upgrade to the new version of mozilla (1.0.0) > > which is listed in unstable but was told that my version (from testing) > > was the latest, which it isn't. > > Sounds like a buggy apt preferences file, assuming that that'

Re: fbset for all ttys?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (andrej hocevar) writes: > I thought I was clever and added an init script for setting the > concole with fbset. I've figured that "fbset -t 13334 144 24 29 3 > 136 6" yields the best results. But it affects only the first > console -- I have to run the script every time I log in

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Re: kernel upgrade to 2.4.18

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: > I used apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.20... #(from 2.2.19pre..) > Is this wrong/bad style? This is not mentioned as a proper method in > the docs/link above. What about kernel-headers-... then? Nothing wrong with your "style". Bu

Re: debian version names

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:03:04AM -0700, Alexander Car?t wrote: > Hi to all, > > can anyone tell me what the debian version names are ? F.e. what is potato, > what is woody or is there a link where it is explained ? Look for the Debian Project History at . -- Colin

Re: debian version names

also sprach Alexander Carôt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.20.1103 +0200]: > can anyone tell me what the debian version names are ? F.e. what is potato, > what is woody or is there a link where it is explained ? http://www.debian.org/releases/ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sour

debian version names

Hi to all, can anyone tell me what the debian version names are ? F.e. what is potato, what is woody or is there a link where it is explained ? Thanks -- A l e x -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim authentication

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:16:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: | | > I believe that putting the following in the authentication configuration | > section will allow you to use PAM. You will just need to add a file | > named /etc/pam.d/ex

Re: Odd entry in my log files

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.20.1033 +0200]: > > What is happening here? And is it something I should be worried about? > > There doesn't appear to be anything different about my bind config on > > thebox. I've not seen an

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: > A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one > directory? As many as you want... but accessing them will get slower when more files are placed in a directory. I don't know the exact numbers from mind, but files (directory entr

fbset for all ttys?

I thought I was clever and added an init script for setting the concole with fbset. I've figured that "fbset -t 13334 144 24 29 3 136 6" yields the best results. But it affects only the first console -- I have to run the script every time I log in. Is there a way to make it permanent for all conso

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: > Hi, > > A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one > directory? Depends on the filesystem. And depends on how you interpret your question (how many files can you put in a directory and still have reasonable performance vs. h

Re: Odd entry in my log files

also sprach Andrew Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.06.20.1033 +0200]: > What is happening here? And is it something I should be worried about? > There doesn't appear to be anything different about my bind config on > thebox. I've not seen anything else in the logs since seeing these > entries.

Odd entry in my log files

I've got check log running on my woody box. The box is running an internal only DNS server behind a firewall that should be denying access to the outside world. 'checklog' picked out a couple of 'unusual' entries which I've not seen before in my logs: Jun 19 11:56:13 thebox named[202]: invalid RR

How many files can be put in one directory?

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Re: SQUID iptables error.

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 16:13, jon wrote: > Hi there, > > trying to set up SQUID and following the TransparentProxy-mini-HOWTO and > getting to the > > # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT > --to-port 3128 > > and get ... > > iptables: No chain/target/match by t

SQUID iptables error.

Hi there, trying to set up SQUID and following the TransparentProxy-mini-HOWTO and getting to the # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128 and get ... iptables: No chain/target/match by that name # iptables -t nat -L gives Chain PREROUTING (polic

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