Re: need help in installing nic drivers

2003-01-29 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
From my expreience with Dell's computers they need a special version of e1000 module. one of my clients uses only Dell computer's and they sent him a version of this module (he only uses red-hat), but I think they've also sent him the source. you can ask your dealer about that, and if he can't

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-29 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:08:26 -0800 Rupa Schomaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Got it. Just reviewed the sasl documentation. The *only* way to support CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 (encrypted auth) is to use sasldb or something called auxprop -- not sure how they are related. So, even if you

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread nate
Joris Huizer said: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in

Re: alsa and saving mixer settings

2003-01-29 Thread Qian Gong
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:27:33AM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Unfortunately, I find that the first time I want to play anything, I have to open a mixer (I use gmix), which then sets the levels, before I can hear

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-29 Thread Jens Christian Gram
Bob Paige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a big Linux fan because of usability, extensibility, flexibility, and security issues. I believe that the different mechanisms available with GNU software, especially the Debian GNU/Linux way, lends itself well to dealing with these issues. But not

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-29 Thread Pierre Burri
Hi I just entered in the list, so I didn't see your first question, but postfix with sasldb works fine. The trick under debian with sasldb is to copy (after having added the user in sasldb) /etc/sasldb to /var/spool/postfix/etc and making this file redeable for postfix because postfix is

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-29 Thread nate
arief_mulya said: Dear all, As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 Gigs for recovery anyway...] Still keeping winXP and that IBM recovery partition. have you used google?

Re: alsa and saving mixer settings

2003-01-29 Thread James Tappin
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:23:51 +0100 Qian Gong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:27:33AM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Unfortunately, I find that the first time I want to play anything, I have to open

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-29 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:45:01 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: also sprach Angel L. Mateo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.01.29.0909 +0100]: I think you are wrong. I have postfix + sasl in a Solaris server (not chrooted) and I use CRAM-MD5 to authenticate via saslauthd.

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Angel L. Mateo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.01.29.0950 +0100]: configure anything more. With this configuration, I can authenticate with PLAIN, CRAM-MD5 and any other authentication mechanism that SASL supports (saslauthd is running as root). How do you start saslauthd? -- Please do

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-29 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El día Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:59:38 +0100 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: also sprach Angel L. Mateo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.01.29.0950 +0100]: configure anything more. With this configuration, I can authenticate with PLAIN, CRAM-MD5 and any other authentication mechanism that

Re: Fwd: getting postfix + sasl to work

2003-01-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Angel L. Mateo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.01.29.1002 +0100]: saslauthd (nothing more) do you know how it authenticates? /etc/sasldb? pam? -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can handle this automatically. .''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud

Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's trying to watch TV and I've just scrolled a man page too far! What is the

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-29 Thread Miguel
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530 Jeetu Golani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Your fdisk doesn't show the last ext3 partition, therefore your partition table is messed up (nothing new in that). Gpart seems to think that there're two other partitions apart from the ones being

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-29 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0600, will trillich wrote: OT: so where's the lexicon that relates quid, guinea, bob, shilling, pence, pound and so forth, for the ignorant north-americaner? :) 1 pound = 240 (old) pennies 1 pound

Re: what's fstype 83? amp;quot;Linuxamp;quot;?

2003-01-29 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:17:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote: will trillich said: files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive* i've never even tried

Re: How to determine why a package is held back?

2003-01-29 Thread will trillich
okay, i just zapped most of this thread yesterday, and now i go back to look for it and it's not yet on geocrawler, and it's not yet on lists.debian.org either... what's the sequence for establishing WHY apt is holding packages back from being upgraded, again? :) thanks! -- I use Debian/GNU

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:26:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's trying to

Re: No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-29 Thread Aryan Ameri
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 15:16, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: tis 2003-01-28 klockan 11.54 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You mean the CD didn't play well in a normal CD-player either? In that case, it seems quite obvious something's wrong with the CD, and not with your CD-ROM. No, I,m talking

Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]

2003-01-29 Thread andrej hocevar
Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but until now I couldn't succeed. My less attractive alternative was to add all packages on my CDs into my preferences file. What I got was an unreasonably long file,

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread Stephan Seitz
Hi! On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:26:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come to think of it, how can I shut this up system-wide? From /etc/inputrc: set bell-style none Then restart bash. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread mess-mate
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:26:26 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:50:06PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | But the senders public key must be retrieved from a key-server and added | to your own key-list before an automated check is possible. | mess-mate | |

very very strange bash/sed bug !!

2003-01-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it for months. Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash and sed. First and foremost, I'm running debian/unstable, and have sed

is /dev/dsp in use?

2003-01-29 Thread Felipe Martínez Hermo
Hi! I have just installed testing on a new box and several programs say /dev/dsp is in use. However, if I type cat foo /dev/dsp it sounds, so I suppose it is well configured. /dev/dsp has rw permimsions for everyone How can I know which

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31:58AM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: 1 pound = 240 (old) pennies 1 pound = 100 new pennies Quid = pound (slang) Pence = alternative form of Pennies Shilling = 12 old pennies = 5 new pennies Half-crown =

sharing /var/mail/username with mutt and Evolution..

2003-01-29 Thread Kevin . Bewley
Hi, I have a problem with Evolution - I keep swinging from trees! :-) Seriously, using Debian 3.0r1 stable I've got mutt working beautifully picking up mail from my /var/mail/kevin mbox. When I installed Evolution and pointed it to this box and set it to 'use Unix mail spool file' it cannot

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's trying to watch

Re: scrolling trough the argument of a command

2003-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:58:31AM +0100, Pierre Burri wrote: with another flavour of linux, I can scroll trough the argument of bash command with Page Up instead of scrolling the whole commands (with Arrow Up) saved in the history. For example if in the past I have edited with vi the files

Re: Communicator removed from Testing?

2003-01-29 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Colin Watson wrote: Leaving it there with known security holes was worse ... If you want it back, there is really only one option: find a developer willing to maintain it properly. That's absolutely all it comes down to. Mark L. Kahnt wrote: As Colin notes in his reply, and was noted in

Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-29 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 Gigs for recovery anyway...] Still keeping winXP and that IBM recovery partition. Btw, This is a brand new laptop, and I already eXPerience that

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:39:57AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:26:26 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:50:06PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | But the senders public key must be retrieved from a key-server and added | to your own

Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-29 Thread UnKnown
You may have install the fakebo package it is design to implemente a fake Back Orifice, to capture attacks of this tipe to your network. Any way run a netstat -p to see wich process is using that port. Cheers, rak On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I just ran

Re: very very strange bash/sed bug !!

2003-01-29 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:52:36AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it for months. Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash and sed.

pppd on demand problems...

2003-01-29 Thread Vittorio
Having now hired a dsl line at home, I connected two Pentium PCs at home with a notebook functioning as a gateway server for the internet connection with 'pon dsl-provider demand idle 60' command through a rudimentary firewall (and a sshd session). Setting up the server I thought:the simplest, the

Help: motherboard works with Linux?

2003-01-29 Thread James Buchanan
Hi all, I am thinking of buying this motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IEXP with the Intel 845E AGPset chipset - what worries me is its winbond I/O chip. Is that like a winmodem ie. only works with Windows? Here is the spec: http://www.giga-byte.com/products/8iexp.htm Please help if you can. I'd like

Re: is /dev/dsp in use?

2003-01-29 Thread Seneca
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:09:16PM +0100, Felipe Mart?nez Hermo wrote: I have just installed testing on a new box and several programs say /dev/dsp is in use. However, if I type cat foo /dev/dsp it sounds, so I suppose it is well configured. /dev/dsp has rw permimsions for everyone

Ipsec under Linux

2003-01-29 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, What is the best way to create IPSec under Debian ? François msg27129/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CD-writer is not recognized as a scsi device

2003-01-29 Thread Vera Friederichs
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Friday 24 January 2003 16:01, Vera Friederichs wrote: Hi, in my computer is a ATAPI IDE CD-writer (and another CDROM). But cdrecord -scanbus finds only my scsi hard disk. In lilo.conf there is a line append= hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi Try hdb=scsi hdc=scsi

Re: OT: running a command on many files in many subdirectories

2003-01-29 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Wed 29 Jan 2003 10:27:22 +(+), Clive Standbridge wrote: I think you would want to round up nnumber to avoid one processor running two xargs processes: Sorry, that wasn't quite what I meant to say. I'll try again: ... to avoid xargs running two mogrify processes on one processor. I

Apache redirecting virtualhost domains

2003-01-29 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, I've been trying to alias home directories on a virtual host onto another host. What I have is freeshells.65535.net and I would like http://freeshells.65535.net/~(.*) to goto http://freeshel1.65535.net/$1 I've been looking at mod_alias and AliasMatch and have AliasMatch ^(~.*)

kernel-patch-freeswan cryptoapi

2003-01-29 Thread Francois Chenais
Hello, I just have install the kernel-patch-freeswan but the building process fails because it doesn't find linux/crypto.h. The warning message says to install cryptoapi. I have run apt-get install cryptoapi-core-source but what must I do now with the /usr/src/cryptoapi-core.tar.gz file ? (I

Re: scrolling trough the argument of a command

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Naumann
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:58, Pierre Burri wrote: with another flavour of linux, I can scroll trough the argument of bash command with Page Up instead of scrolling the whole commands (with Arrow Up) saved in the history. For example if in the past I have edited with vi the files

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again)

2003-01-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi, I feel strongly that this problem is recoverable, however you will have to construct a manual partition table using the Linux Fdisk. With a lil bit of guess work and a lil trial and error I think you should be able to recover the partitions and data within. I think you mentioned you used

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Forgot to add this to my earlier mail, you mentioned you have the partition info when you used lilo. Please mail that info, you should be able to reconstruct your partition table with that info using fdisk. Bye On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 4:06 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:51 +0530

find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some

Re: No audio from cd-rom

2003-01-29 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
ons 2003-01-29 klockan 10.35 skrev Aryan Ameri: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 15:16, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: tis 2003-01-28 klockan 11.54 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You mean the CD didn't play well in a normal CD-player either? In that case, it seems quite obvious something's wrong with

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread mess-mate
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:07:30 -0500 Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:39:57AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 17:26:26 -0800 | Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:50:06PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | | But the senders

Re: Trouble installing postgresql

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:45:11AM -0800, Dave De Graff wrote: I get the following error when trying to install postgresql. The packages listed as required dependencies are all available. Does anyone know why apt is not simply installing these along with postgresql? Thanks, Dave De Graff

Re: Trying to build Phoenix

2003-01-29 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 11:00 PM -0500): I've been trying to build Phoenix from source and have run into a bit of a snag. I want to build it with QT support, which is fine, as there is an option to do this. The problem is when I attempt to build

Re: cdrecord

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:27:06PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Trying to figure out how to record a CD using cdrecord with a Ricoh MP6200A CD Burner. Here is what I have been able to do. First thing I do before each session is erase the cd with the following command: cdrecord

Re: (forw) [hugh@mjr.org: Re: Quick aptitude question...]

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:54:03PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:46:41PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: # aptitude install bleh Yeah, i figured that but then i thought why not apt-get!! Aptitude is smarter in same ways, for a start, but the bigger reason is that aptitude

Re: Cdrecord and audio cd

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:15:44PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Is there something that I have missed while creating an audio cd? Why does not linux sense the audio cd, while both doze and regular cd players do? Have I missed some module/switch/incantaion that needs to be loaded/given/chanted?

Re: Help with setting time from internet timeservers over dialup

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:38:14PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Debian 3.0r1 and connect to the internet using a dialup. Basically I've set my /etc/peers/provider and my /etc/chatscript to dial up Freeserve Anytime and negotiate ppp using PAP. pppd handles getting the

Re: GNOME == bloatware?

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:01:14PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I've been using gnome since before 1.0.55, but now (with gnome 2) I use gnome itself less and less. I find it slow to start up and moving in directions I don't particularly like (eg the windows registry

Re: big problem with libc6 install

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:30:42PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 02:09:52PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:35:43PM -, Alberto Rodriguez wrote: I have a host with debian woody. It was a few time that I didn?t upgrade the packets. with apt-get I tried

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystemDEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread Kent West
Joris Huizer wrote: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in

Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I just ran the command sudo nmap -sT -sU localhost which listed the following: . . . 12345/tcp openNetBus 12346/tcp openNetBus 27665/tcp openTrinoo_Master

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's trying to watch TV and

Re: Trusted md5sum for files in debian packages?

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:47:37PM +0100, Qian Gong wrote: Hi, Is it possible to download only md5sum's of the files in debian packages from a trusted server, e.g., security.debian.org? If it is, the integrity of installed packages can be safely verified with the trusted source. And the

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:50:13PM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: * Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26-01-2003 02:19]: Christopher I have Galeon from sid (although I've tried the one in Christopher woody which shows the same thing), and I would like to Christopher change the main vertical

Re: Installion Diffs between v2. and v3.

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:20:42AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I have an older Debian 2.2 installation CD (single CD) that I've been using for installations. I was wondering if there are any differences in the installation process between this and the Debian 3.0 with regard to the set-up and

Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 07:50:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:55, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel

Re: How to start aumix during init?

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:18:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I start aumix during init? There

Re: Updating Critical Packages Only

2003-01-29 Thread Rob Weir
[Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.] On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:25:24PM -0800, S Yuval wrote: I recently bought the Debian 3.0r1 7-CD set and am trying

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-29 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:04, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Bob == Bob Paige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob I know through apt-get (or wajig) you can automatically Bob download and install the latest updates, but I would like to Bob see a system that automatically notifies you (via

anyone got the bittorrent stuff working ?

2003-01-29 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello tried the bittorrent deb, and after wards the sources directly... doesn't work the documentation of that program sucks, i don't know what the exe is supposed to be... the python code is a real mess (wondering how people could actually like that language...) and this whole this is

Re: autofs vs amd: Is there a preference?

2003-01-29 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: - i mean like - - /a - /mount/a - /b - /mount/b - - Ew... /symlinks to network mounted locations are not recommended. tey are not network mounted. They are floppies in my case. But this is the only case how to allow users from window applications to force

boot log

2003-01-29 Thread Florian Sukup
Hi, is there a log file where I can find all boot messages? Or, if not, is there a possibility to make them written into a log file? Florian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scrolling trough the argument of a command

2003-01-29 Thread Ulf Rompe
Pierre Burri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with another flavour of linux, I can scroll trough the argument of bash command with Page Up instead of scrolling the whole commands (with Arrow Up) saved in the history. Put this into your /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc : # PgUp/Down searches history in

Re: Cdrecord and audio cd

2003-01-29 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:17:36AM +0100, Roman Joost wrote: Can the CD frontend access the CD so that is spinning ? I mean - maybe the CD channel of the audio card is off our mute? The most problem is, that the normal user want mount the CD but it won't work. Maybe try some

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash completes from history? well, if nothing else, you can hit up a few times and it'll scroll through your

Re: ext3 partition recovery (Again) - forgot this

2003-01-29 Thread Miguel
Yes, I have the /boot/boot.003 file but I don't know how to use it or event to get that information (it is a binary file...). Do you really think I should try to use the gpart -w ? That is risky because I can boot the system--the disk is in a laptop and I cannot remove that disk or even add

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread Robert L. Harris
Make one. Here's mine: # So we can work with pgp keys force-v3-sigs # To deal with mailer and From lines escape-from-lines # we only need to do this once while the gpg process is using the ring lock-once # Our options keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve include-disabled

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:53:40PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use

Re: kernel-patch-freeswan cryptoapi

2003-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: I just have install the kernel-patch-freeswan but the building process fails because it doesn't find linux/crypto.h. Hmm... How did you actually apply the patch? The warning message says to install cryptoapi. I have run

Re: Ipsec under Linux

2003-01-29 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:04:45PM +0100, Francois Chenais wrote: What is the best way to create IPSec under Debian ? FreeS/WAN. Install the kernel-patch-freeswan and freeswan packages and read the docs. See www.freeswan.org for general docs on configuring freeswan. noah --

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:39:57AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: Uhh, good idea, how can I do that ?? Go look at the comments in your .gnupg/options -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a

cu program?

2003-01-29 Thread Larry W . Irwin Sr .
Hi, I have finally built a small home lan and want to leave my modem connected to the server machine. I found a HOWTO on this subject in the doc-linux package. The following perl script was listed as one method of routing pppd from one machine to the other.

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-29 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:40, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 12:47:38AM +1100, bob parker wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:22, Pigeon wrote: Couple of suggestions: - might be an idea to save /var as well - if you're into kernel customising, make sure you have a rescue kernel with

Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]

2003-01-29 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:32, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31:58AM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote: 1 pound = 240 (old) pennies 1 pound = 100 new pennies Quid = pound (slang) Pence = alternative form of Pennies

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key

Re: kernel-patch-freeswan cryptoapi

2003-01-29 Thread Francois Chenais
I have installed the kernel-patch-freeswan-ext ! In fact, the make-pkgp ask me for setting some building option and I have replied m for the cryptoapi option (CONFIG_IPSEC_ALG_CRYPTOAPI=m). I have rebuilt the kernel unseting this option and it works now ;-) My new chalenge is to

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:21:53PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:07:30 -0500 Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In ~/.gnupg/gnupg.conf, uncomment or add | keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve. ?? there is no gnupg.conf !! Did I missing somewhat ? For ~/.gnupg/gnupg.conf,

Re: what's fstype 83? amp;quot;Linuxamp;quot;?

2003-01-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:37:50AM -0600, will trillich wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:17:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote: will trillich said: files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than september 2000 --

Re: very very strange bash/sed bug !!

2003-01-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:52:36AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: Hi, it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it for months. Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash and

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, mess-mate said: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:07:30 -0500 Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In ~/.gnupg/gnupg.conf, uncomment or add | keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve. | ?? there is no gnupg.conf !! Did I missing somewhat ? here are the files I have in

Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-29 Thread Kent West
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I just ran the command sudo nmap -sT -sU localhost which listed the following: . . . 12345/tcp openNetBus 12346/tcp openNetBus 27665/tcp open

Re: moo

2003-01-29 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:05:49AM -0600, will trillich wrote: $ apt-get moo (__) (oo) /--\/ / ||| * /\---/\ ~~ ~~ Have you mooed today?... can't say that i have. Nor have I... but I've

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Sandip P Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 07:51 PM +0530): i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sure - to complete the prior command beginning with ls, do: !ls which will re-execute the last comment beginning with ls. If you need finer-grained history, use the command: history which will let you copy-and-paste a prior command. ap

Re: give cdrom source more priority in apt-get [lost the original]

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, andrej hocevar said: Unfortunately no one has responded to this by now, I too was waiting. The apt_preferences manpage does mention pinning an origin, but until now I couldn't succeed. In the Release.gz that comes from each source, you will find the various

Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1

2003-01-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 11:39, Jeetu Golani wrote: Hey ppl, I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone here could tell me what's

KDE 3.1 upgrade botched :( - Need help

2003-01-29 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hey guys, I know someone on this list warned me to wait for sometime before upgrading to KDE 3.1 however...wat can I say.am an impatient fool :) Anyways, I removed my old version of KDE :(.and I then added the following to my apt sources.list file deb

what happened/where is gdk-imlib2?

2003-01-29 Thread Drew Cohan
I'm trying to install 'qiv' from unstable and gdk-imlib2 seems to have disappeard/is unavailable? Google's cache indicates there used to be .deb for it. What am I missing? Thanks, Drew Cohan drew_at_drewcohan_dot_com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: perldoc bug?

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
Upgrade and try again. If it persists, file a bug. yup, that fixed it. perl 5.8 doesn't play nicely with perl-doc 5.6 -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread drew cohan
let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash completes from history? -- regards, sandip p deshmukh IIRC,

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Jason Pepas
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:21 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc then i have done a few more commands at the prompt. now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a

Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Kahle
I am not sure how to ask for what I want here. But, here goes. I was using dump to make a backup of a directory on my computer. This was started from a terminal in X. As it was running I could see in the terminal window all the status output from the program. Good. This backup job took a

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