Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client; I've done this before on this machine (different system) and on other machines. Today I get Permission denied to execute a file I own, in a directory I own and have write and execute

Re: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?

2003-03-25 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 20.17 schrieb Mark L. Kahnt: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:57, Michael Bona wrote: Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and I am really looking forward to the new functionality. Thanks Michael

RE: Multiple network interfaces

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 14:37, Juan dominguez wrote: I physically add another NIC, but when I try modconf it doesn't show the module of the NIC becouse it was compiled as a part of the kernel so i can't load this module but the other NIC is working (both NIC's are the same model ) thanks

RE: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-03-25 um 19.44 schrieb Hall Stevenson: Subject: Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks Can someone help me with a procmail filter so that I no longer see these ?? :-) man procmailrc *SCNR* -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] - PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Roberto Sanchez wrote: I seem to have a small problem that maybe someone on the list can help with. I belong to a small organization on campus. We currently have some very old (circa 1995-1996) PCs running Win95. These machines have Pentium 150-166 CPUs and 32 MB RAM. They are in need of

RE: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
-Original Message- From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbee-ish X and root question Two things. Environment variables, to be precise. The two in question are DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY. The

Re: smartsuite obsolete?

2003-03-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:02:38PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: I searched the last quarter for the user and main developer list and didn't see any note about this: smartsuite has gone missing from all but woody. Is there a reason? Looks like it was renamed to smartmontools. -- Jamin W.

Re: Installer - Was: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:51:18AM +, Klaus Imgrund wrote: Does anybody if the installer that is used for the 'testing netinstall' images is a sign of things to come.If so I would like to know where I can go and whine about it. I'm not sure about how the testing netinstall relates to

Re: Mozilla Calendar servers

2003-03-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Hanasaki JiJi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 15:50 PST]: Anyone know of free/opensource software that will function as a server for the Mozilla calendar? apache + libapache-mod-dav good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- One nation, indivisible, with equality, liberty, and justice

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-03-25 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
sorry to resurrect a 6 week old thread, I was just cleaning out d-u and came across this: On 03-02-10 16:35 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: IMAP vs IMAP + folders is done very well: select-entry (Return by default) will traverse into an IMAP + folder whereas view-file (Space by default) will open

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:28:15AM -0800, nate wrote: Nathan E Norman said: Sorry for yelling, but this whole debian is hard to install thing drives me crazy. Call me an elite bastard, but I still feel if debian is too hard to install, you shouldn't be installing it. Mandrake et al

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:16:28 - Andrew Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24

Re: emacs and error message

2003-03-25 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 17:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:33:49 +0100, Stefano Calza wrote: When I start emacs on testing I get this message: No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default It hangs the starting for few seconds so I'd like to remove it. How can I

Re: repartitioning: joining two partitions

2003-03-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:16:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Joris Huizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030325 13:59 PST]: | Derrick, you're reply is very helpfull - but I've got | a new question based on the adjacency of partitions. [...] | Well, actually, LVM will work for non-adjacent

Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Mr. Baldwin
Hi, I joined this list last fall (from a different address) when I was trying to install Woody on an experimental box in the house. I failed to get it running after nearly an entire weekend (network issues, I think), gave up and installed Redhat on that box. I am running Redhat on two boxes

threading broken mailing list and mutt

2003-03-25 Thread David Purton
Hi, I'm subscribed to a mailing list that seems to break just about every rule of heard people fight bitterly over on this list :) The main thing I would like it to do is to thread properly, but The in-reply the headers are stuffed: ie: original message: Message-Id: date [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Kris
chmod +x setiathome - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: Permission denied -- Say what? Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Martin Kacerovsky wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:06:59PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: [..] apt-get install smbfs He posted error output of 'smbmount' command, which is part of smbfs package along with 'smbumount' ... So I guess he has 'smbfs' package installed :) Bye. Yeah, mabye

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied what are the options for the partition that it is on[in fstab]? Does it have 'noexec' set? Remember that 'user' implies noexec. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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2003-03-25 Thread Adam Stroud
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pppd problem

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Mather
I had a similar problem to that archived at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200303/msg00256.html but with an extra twist. I was trying to use pon and poff to access my ISP by dial-up modem. This was on Debian 3.0r1, newly installed on a PC, and using pppconfig to set

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied Is the partition containing your home directory mounted noexec, perhaps? -- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread mrmoo1231
I have two Linuxes on my system -- one per hard disk. I run Libranet 2.0 from /dev/hda3, Tater Deb on hdb3 (I was curious about pure version), and, ahem, Winblows on hda1. I use Grub to manage the booting (came w/Libranet). Here's the rub-- one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16

Re: Newbee-ish X and root question

2003-03-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Lukas == Lukas Latz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lukas Hi List, I use KDM over GDM because I found it lets me log Lukas in with X as root, which I found especially useful in the Lukas beginning when I was setting up lots of stuff. GDM will let you log in as root. Edit

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today I get Permission denied to execute a file I own, in a directory I own and have write and execute permissions. What's up with that? bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ls -al -r-xr-xr-x1 roninusers 134072 Dec 12 2000 setiathome

Re: PHP4 conflicts with libc6

2003-03-25 Thread jennyw
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:04:26AM +0100, Ren? Seindal wrote: I have put libc6 on hold. The rest of the update will work and php4 will not be removed. Is this what most people are doing? Since I saw the announcement, I've just been not upgrading my testing install. I figured there would be

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:02:06 -0800 Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I look at the bottom of this message at the directory entry for setiathome, I count three little x's already. Will one more make it work? Kevin chmod +x setiathome - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: X

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:39:44PM +, Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:46:54PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: A policy of Sensible by default (which I believe debian employs) pretty much means you've got to install xdm when you install X. What's wrong with something along the

Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

2003-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:06:28PM +0100, Robert Bj?rn wrote: My Debian installation still seems to be working, despite that apt-get took a lot of stuff from unstable. I hope my good luck continues. The reason that I took KDE from unstable was because I thought it was the way I was

remount md0 after disc failure

2003-03-25 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day all, I have or will have in a few minutes (I hope): hda1: /boot hda2: / hda3: swap md0:/home My question is: If hda fails and I replace it, reinstall debian then umount /home from / then mount /home on md0 the system will be restored and I'll have access to my old /home directory,

autofs permissions

2003-03-25 Thread Neal Lippman
I am wondering how I can control the permissions of a directory created dynamicall using autofs. I have autofs4 enabled (sarge). I have a map for the /mount directory (called /etc/auto.mount), which has an entry for my floppy drive (/dev/fd0). The problem is that ordinary (non root) users cannot

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On 25 Mar 2003 17:58:24 -0800 Kevin Buhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied Is the partition containing your home directory mounted noexec, perhaps? Turned out it was. Thanks to you and

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:40:00 -0500 David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other thing that might cause this is if setiathome is a script of some sort, and the thing the script points to isn't executable: That's a good point, thanks. As it turns out, in fstab I had specified exec, but I put

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:25:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes I still get baffled by Linux. This is one of those times. I'd like to run the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client; I've done this before on this machine (different system) and on other machines. Today I get Permission denied

Re: Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:01:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16 kernel for the Official Deb (I got the source pkg. from the Libranet CD's), and carefully modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst on Libranet, I got a kernel panic on the subsequent boot.

Re: ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Christof == Christof Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christof newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in Christof woody: how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my Christof cdroms and zip i.e. Many answers are possible. One way is to ensure that ide-cd is

Re: Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:39:21PM -0500, Mr. Baldwin wrote: [snippedsomethingblockythatwasimpossibletoreadwithouteyestrain] Please, wrap at 72 chars. The use of paragraphs won't hurt too. Cheers, Nick -- x--x |

Re: ide-scsi

2003-03-25 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Christof Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 10:34 PM +0100): newbie quesiton, I'm running 2.4.-18-k6 from the deb in woody: how can I keep ide-scsi from grabbing all my cdroms and zip i.e. Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor:

Re: Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:01:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: request_module[ide-disk]: Root fs not mounted hdb: driver not present VFS: Cannot open root device hdb3 or 03:43 Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:43 (is this...

Re: Boot problem

2003-03-25 Thread mrmoo1231
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:01:55 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one of times after which I recompiled a 2.4.16 kernel for the Official Deb (I got the source pkg. from the Libranet CD's), and carefully modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst on Libranet, I got a kernel panic on

Re: Me again...

2003-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 18:39, Mr. Baldwin wrote: Hi, I joined this list last fall (from a different address) when I was trying to install Woody on an experimental box in the house. I failed to get it running after nearly an entire weekend (network issues, I think), gave up and installed

Re: Woody+KDE3.1

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
Did not upgrade from 2.2. Removed 2.2 before. On a clean install of Woody did not install 2.2 but later installed KDE3.1 using the using the http link from kde.org //download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian stable main Had no problems with that. how did u do that ? AFAIK there is no kde meta

Re: FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based access? not any AFAIK. All web mail clients might handle and do handle the client side differently even though they might be using the same IMAP or POP protocols on the server. If it's yahoo or hotmail u migth find something of

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:58:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: Marc, the original poster clearly had a problem that went way beyond not being able to install Debian, but in charity there is no excess. And it will do no good to make Debian less easy because he was annoying. I have no interest

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen a lot of these types of messages: Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Geordie Birch
said Roberto Sanchez (on 2003-03-25), It didn't work out. I offered some other ideas (as suggested here on the list), and got a we'll think about it. Today when I went into the lounge, I saw the shiny new ~$1500 Dell. They also won't let me have the old machines, since they could only

Re: IDE hard disk problem...

2003-03-25 Thread Daniel B.
David Roundy wrote: Hello everyone. I've been getting the following error message (repeatedly, but with different sectors): hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2620329, sector=2620256 end_request: I/O

Re: New Creating Custom Kernels newbiedoc

2003-03-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:38:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A new version of Creating Custom Kernels With Debian's Kernel-Package System is available at: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html I'm interested in feedback, especially about mistakes or

checking mount success/fail

2003-03-25 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day All, to move my /home to my new raid1 md0 I just mount -t ext3 md0 /home then added it to fstab, got no unusual messages at boot but how do i check that /home is indeed mounted on md0? tia Lindsay --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system

held back packages

2003-03-25 Thread Phil Reardon
Hello: After a dist-upgrade from Woody to Sid, I find subsequent upgrades are leaving behind lots of packages, abot 350 in fact. Have I done anything wrong or are so may packages being held back for everyone these days. And if so, why? Phil Reardon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: remount md0 after disc failure

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Lindsay Yardley wrote: I have or will have in a few minutes (I hope): hda1: /boot hda2: / hda3: swap md0: /home My question is: If hda fails and I replace it, reinstall debian then umount /home from / then mount /home on md0 the system will be restored and I'll have access to my old

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Sharninder
You should probably disable IDE DMA (see hdparm) immediately. If kernel IDE problems are your problem, that should prevent additional corruption. also start using smartsuite utilities. they are a part of woody atleast. Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta

Re: checking mount success/fail

2003-03-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Lindsay Yardley wrote: to move my /home to my new raid1 md0 I just mount -t ext3 md0 /home then added it to fstab, got no unusual messages at boot but how do i check that /home is indeed mounted on md0? There are a number of ways. Using 'mount' with no options will dump the mount table. Or

syncing m130 with debian and possible gtk problems

2003-03-25 Thread Erinn
Hi everyone, I know this has been covered ad nauseum here and other place as I've been googling for months trying to fix it myself. However, now that debian-pilot is defunct and debian-handheld appears to be for the development of Debian on handhelds, I figure this is the only place to ask. Now

Re: syncing m130 with debian and possible gtk problems

2003-03-25 Thread nate
Erinn said: When I try to sync using Evolution it gives me an error saying: Unknown pilot - no pilots match ID 27707 Use gnomecc to set pilot's ID not sure if it's the same, but I use jpilot/pilot-xfer, and when I do a sync on a fresh Palm PDA(I use visors), I have to use the

RE: checking mount success/fail

2003-03-25 Thread Lindsay Yardley
G'day Bob, THANK YOU! I'm rather angry I didn't think of mount as I've just read the man today :-( df looks interesting, I'll read that man, mounts is a file i presume so I'll have to google that for info. Thx again, Lindsay btw, it's there :-) | There are a number of ways. Using 'mount' with

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Conrad Newton
From Roberto Sanchez on Tuesday, 2003-03-25 at 18:45:52 -0500: It didn't work out. I offered some other ideas (as suggested here on the list), and got a we'll think about it. Today when I went into the lounge, I saw the shiny new ~$1500 Dell. They also won't let me have the old machines,

HELP

2003-03-25 Thread Ricardo
Hi. My name's Ricardo and i've recently installed Debian 3.0r1 on my machine and i'm having a problem. i've installed xfree86 but i can't launch the xserver. I don't understand the error on the screen since i'm a newbie with Linux but i think it has something to do with the VGA and the Mouse.

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:38:54AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: Using n-key keyboard types is lazy, why not have a database of keyboard model numbers to choose from. I think that there are way too many different keyboards out there for that to work. Frank Matt Children's Cancer

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