help!
I'm running debian stable (woody, 3.0R0) (from cd) and I have
rp-pppoe 3.3 (from a debian package). I want to use
the debian package, rather than installing software
outside the apt-get system.
However, debian has modified the rp-pppoe setup to suit
itself. rp-pppoe comes with scripts
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:34:00AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
Jan 9 10:39:56 seal pppoe[12969]: PPP session is 6497
Jan 9 10:39:59 seal pppd[12966]: Couldn't set pass-filter in kernel: Invalid
argument
Dunno what the previous message means, but it should not be fatal.
yes, some
I get the following in my logs [manually wrapped for legibility in email]
Dec 31 15:44:27 seal ntpd[17700]: attempt to configure \
invalid address 127.127.1.0
when I set the following in /etc/ntp.conf:
server 127.127.1.0
fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
Why?
I'm
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:51:45PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
I have a dial-up system that is going to be a server for
my home network. I want my inside machines to sync to seal
(the ss20) and seal to sync to outside machines when the link
is up, and to just provide time to the inside
What is the difference between e2fsck and fsck.ext2?
I'm about to try (one of) them without a net...
I didn't see any comparisons when I Googled, except
maybe e2fsck can handle the situation where you have
to specify an alternate superblock and (perhaps)
fsck.ext2 can't.
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On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:47:52AM -0500, Ken Causey wrote:
Well, it makes sense to make the kernel executable, but
that doesn't seem to be the problem as the kernel seems to be
executing already (all that output is from the kernel, I think).
It all looks normal until the end, when the
Well, it makes sense to make the kernel executable, but
that doesn't seem to be the problem as the kernel seems to be
executing already (all that output is from the kernel, I think).
It all looks normal until the end, when the kernel can't mount
the root partition. You say you have a SCSI disk,
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:09:04PM -0600, dave mallery wrote:
i just tried startx with the FB option uncommented. the machine did not
freeze, however, i am back to the no screens found error which led me to
comment it in the first place.
The no screens seems less broken than a complete
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:11:40PM +0200, STOJICEVIC Edi EXPSIA wrote:
Next, these are the steps to upgrade your kernel :
... some manual steps erased ...
I already have some Woody cds (from Testing: _not_ official
stable) Debian 3.0.
I just installed a 2.4.18 kernel that I compiled
from a
I'm so embarrassed.
quickly scanned the instructions on STOJICEVIC Edi EXPSIA's email
and saw some steps involving tar.gz files and jumped
to the conclusion that it wasn't using make-kpkg.
Then posted a subset of those instructions.
Oops. sorry.
- apt-get install kernel-package
- Download
Not sure if you already solved this but:
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:52:20PM -0500, Bill Bell wrote:
I have a Cyberpower 1250AVR connected to /dev/ttyS1 on my
up-to-date Sid maching running nut. When I run
/etc/init.d/nut start the shell just hangs with-
I have a Cyberpower 650SL and I'm
Today's the day for UPS questions...
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:33:03AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown
ending with the message power down. That other operating? system can
turn the computer off.
The difference was
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:33PM -0400, jeff wrote:
Allan Wind wrote:
cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg \
^^
-o -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | \
xargs -i ln -s
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:09:32AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
* Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 23:44]:
Also, personally I like to force the period to be a period and
not a wildcard for any character, just in case there was a file
named myfilewhichisjpg that I didn't want
Hi,
I managed to build a bunch of packages for kernel 2.4.18
from the kernel-source-2.4.18 (headers, image, doc, source)
and I'd like to install them. I was thinking I should
put them in a local directory and refer to that directory
as a file URI in sources.list... but I'm guessing that
the
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:16:31PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
Grzegorz Prokopski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello!
I thought some of You can have a problem which is similar to mine.
I am subscribed to many, many lists and I get more than 200 emails
every day (maybe more, I didn't
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:27:09PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 26/01/02 Adam Majer did speaketh:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:02:56PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Umm...little help?
rabbit:/home/msoulier# df .
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:21:14AM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
This is the output:
fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to connect to server
mail.hellrot.org.
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from
mail.hellrot.org
188 messages for hazmat/hellrot.org at
in light of the recent discussion on /etc/environment, check out [1],
which is pretty good at explaining the powers of pam_env.so and also
tells you what /etc/environment is *really* for. and it's not AIX
documentation ;)
1.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:49:32PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then
'reading message No 91
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 03:30:08PM -0600, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Sat, 12 Jan 2002 04:20:22PM -0500, dman insinuated:
tail -f filename
Actually, use less on the file; then when in less type F
(capital-f).
It does the same thing, plus you can escape out with
C-c and you're back to less-ing
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:05:31PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
Brenda J. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You don't have a separate filesystem for /tmp? That's where
the space is running out. Try the df command, it will tell you
all the filesystems you have as well as how full
Talking about
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 07:06:46PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
Seriously, though, I'd never heard of the /etc/environment file
so I looked it up with
find /etc -type f -exec grep /etc/environment {} \; -print
and the only file returned was /etc/pam.d/login
So /etc
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:00:06AM -0500, dman wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:02:12AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
| Received: from bjb by seal with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian))
| id 16OtJ9-0004QT-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:28:47 -0500
| Received: from seal ([EMAIL PROTECTED
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:41:54PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.11.0948 +0100]:
/etc/environment is read by the pam_env.so PAM module. If you don't
have
auth required pam_env.so
in whichever /etc/pam.d/* correspondes to your
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then
'reading message No 91'
SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my isp)
fetchmail: Query status=2
This is not really a debian question, but I'll ask anyway. I ran out
of disk space while retriving files with cvs. Since then I've freed up
2.5 Gigs worth of space, but cvs still says no space left on device. I
have only one e2fs partition mounted as root, and it has only about
20% of it's
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:35:24AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
it's not in .zshrc/.bashrc on my systems, and i don't have the problem.
sure, you can stop here, but these things aren't in /etc/skel and thus
it can't be the right way to fix it.
out of curiosity (if you even want to pursue
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:22:15PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
Since I have a dial-up system to my isp for email collection and
delivery why does cron have an entry for exim? It runs whenever I
dial up and connect? Should I remove this entry?
Are you referring to /etc/cron.daily/exim?
Martin,
I don't have a domain. My isp has one but I don't. My
FQHN is seal (and it's not visible from the internet anyway).
I send mail from my mail client to local exim for delivery
next time I dial up.
exim rewrites the reply-to, from, etc to have the achilles.net,
but I guess your software
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:42:28PM -0500, dman wrote:
Clearly you are not using your ISPs system as a smarthost, but have
setup exim to deliver directly to the remote system. What you need to
Aha, correct. I think I'd like to use my isp as a smarthost.
However, I have messed with my exim
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:11:23PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:42:28PM -0500, dman wrote:
Clearly you are not using your ISPs system as a smarthost, but have
setup exim to deliver directly to the remote system. What you need to
Aha, correct. I think I'd like
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:01:39AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
I have set some aliases in /etc/profile, but
when I enter screen and create a new screen session,
it does not work, I am afraid screen will not read /etc/profile.
Idea?
Screen doesn't read profile or .bashrc, bash does.
Screen
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
while i'm at it, another problem to add to the above laundry list:
when ever i read a manpage, it tells me:
(null:) can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
is this referrint to the lines
LANG=en
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:56:50PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
on Tue, 08 Jan 2002 08:29:02PM -0500, dman insinuated:
This is caused by having a small real resolution and a large virtual
resolution. It is nice if you want to have a 1024x768 display on a
small monitor that can only handle
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:11:07AM +, Carlos Sousa wrote:
On my system, KDE applications that use the centralized KDE printing
facilities cannot print. Printing from Konqueror, for instance,
generates an error saying /usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp' '-#1' somefile failed
I've managed to
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:14:39PM +, Pollywog wrote:
On 2001.12.30 20:21 Ian Balchin wrote:
Hi,
My default installation, console mode only, installed woffle.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested that I change the names in the /etc/rc?.d files
from, say, @S20wwwoffle to, say,
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:56:19PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:45:12PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:14:39PM +, Pollywog wrote:
OR, preferably, remove the startup links with
update-rc.d -f wwwoffle remove
The second
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:11:57PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:48:08 -0800 (PST), Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, dman wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:31:36AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
| Gary Turner muttered:
|
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 12:10:32PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
/etc hosts shows just me per brenda's email 12/12/01
127.0.0.1 hephaestus localhost
Oops, this should be:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 hephaestus
That second number should be taken from one of the
private ip namespaces:
Class A
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Hi,
I did a fresh install over the Xmas break.
Prior to this I saved all the various conf files to a floppy.
Now I cannot mount the floppy
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
# mount -t auto
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:00:09AM -0500, Phil Beder wrote:
At 11:34 PM 12/26/01 -0500, you wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote:
| Hello all,
| I'm having trouble installing software. I have downloaded Gimp, Netscape,
| Mozilla and others and seem to have
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 08:17:18AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Brenda et al,
a few points overlooked.
1. I was running wvdial manually on its own, $ wvdial, so expected
that it would connect and relinquish control back to the prompt. It
does no have its own prompt to accept input, and all
Ian,
After a few pages the printing suddenly slips down the
page and is then across the tear line of the continuous
stationary that I use.
Not sure what you mean by suddenly... it seems
a problem of this sort should happen gradually unless
the paper is slipping in the printer.
This has
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:15:35AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Karsten M. Self wrote:
Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the
first six terminals:
echo Activating Numlock ...
for i
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
EXIM
I ran eximconfig again, correctly, and am sure there is no problem
there.
The visible mail name of your system should be the same as echo
$HOST. Don't worry about it too much, just don't pick the name
of your ISP
Ian,
I am, after all, still alive.
Good!
I plonked an old internal 14400 modem in and had it working in no time
flat. wvdialconf went fine. My wvdial.conf is now like the one that
Brenda showed me, and I added in the line about the new PPPD having found
from man wvdial that the
I was getting no reaction from the modem with a command sent as an
echo. Neither did I succeed in either sending anything from
minicom, what I mean is that I could not even type an AT command
to send in minicom, nothing would appear on the screen from the
keyboard.
Ah, maybe you have to
Ian,
You've probably got past this stage by now, but anyway:
Facts:
Microcom Deskporte 28.8P modem was working minutes before I took it into
my hot waiting hands.
When it was working, was it plugged into the serial or parallel
port?
The modem is switched on.
The correct light (HS) is on
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:53:50PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
In general, the variable tab-width controls the distance from one tab
stop to the next. Note that it is always buffer-local, so if you want it
to be global, you'll have to make a function that sets it and add that
function to
No.1.
In the /etc/profile file the line
eval $(dircolors /etc/DIR_COLORS -b)
gives an error because of the lack of the file
DIR_COLORS. I have just put this in as
eval $(dircolors -b) and it seems to go fine.
Ok... you could man dircolors to see what is supposed to be in
DIR_COLORS
I hit reply too soon, I meant to copy this to the list.
Here it is.
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:21:35PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Hi, all,
Brenda told me not to go
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Ian Balchin wrote:
Karsten Matthew,
Thanks, you have cleared up the mysteries for me. Well,
almost.
s, if Debian is looking for a bashrc or profile file, it
won't mind if it has a dot in front or not,
I thought that I had fixed up color on the ls command but it seems not.
I am logged in as user not root
The mini Colour-ls HOWTO said to add certain lines into .bashrc - well
they were already there so I uncommented them.
Once you uncomment them you have to run the script again. You can
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 12:35:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 05:42:51AM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Hi, all,
My last post seemed to have evaporated into thin air. Tere have been no
answers so imagine that you didn't see it either.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:24:13AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Last night I went through the info documentation system
which i thought would be a good start. Then read and
played with the ls command. I uncommented the lines in
the .bashrc in root to give me colours for ls. I must also
As
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:51:46PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
Brenda, I did install the newbie help files, now it would be nice
to be able to turn some of them into hard copy. I note that the
files in /usr/doc are the same as in /usr/share/doc (writing this
from memory, hey) except that the
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:11:36AM -0500, dman wrote:
(BTW, 'links' is a good text-based web
^^^
lynx
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:22:53PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 09:11:36AM -0500, dman wrote:
(BTW, 'links' is a good text-based web
^^^
lynx
I think that links is much better (frame support and many others...)
and BTW it came from our
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:00:40AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
So this /etc/login.defs defines PATH provided by login. Then
/etc/profile is persed by shell and export new path, if it is defined.
Deeper question is What is a PATH before login?
Specifically, What is PATH for /etc/rcS.d/
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:02:32AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
I chose Debian because of the GNU aspect, out of sheer orneryness
when everyone was telling me to take the easy route with Mandrake,
Red Hat, or SuSe, and because i liked the name. Not really
sensible reasons I would agree!
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:16:43PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
I thought I found the answer to this question a while back, but I either
misplaced it or was mistaken.
Basically what I need to do is create symlinks on a source check out.
The repository contains a file foo, and I need a
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The thing that got people like Karsten riled is the fact that this
guy expected everyone else to provide him with wonderful documentation,
on top of excellent software (something many are already trying to
do), but in the same breath told everyone
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
I (username: andre) had this in my mail:
The date of the message is:Mon, 28 Jan 1980 05:14:21 +0100
The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/aliases (lsearch lookup):
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Tim,
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:43:57PM -0800, Tim Uckun wrote:
I am having an odd problem when I type which something it says
shell-init: could not get directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
directories: nosuch file or directory
Can anybody clue me in as to why it does
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:20:41PM +1100, Chris Kenrick wrote:
Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?
I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the remote
server you'd just use fetchmail to download it, although, I *think*
gnus
I use mutt for my mail client, and exim for my mail transfer agent (MTA).
I use fetchmail to download my email from my isp to my machine and
I look at it locally. I use procmail to pre-sort the email into
folders (one just for debian-user) and when I have a question
I bring up the debian-user
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 12:51:17AM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
I use mutt for my mail client, and exim for my mail transfer agent (MTA).
I use fetchmail to download my email from my isp to my machine and
I look at it locally. I use procmail to pre-sort the email into
folders (one just
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 04:59:30PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
bin (whether bin or sbin) is more correctly name executable. If you look
in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin you will find sh, perl, awk, python, etc scripts.
If it is a system maintenance
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 02:58:21PM +0200, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
Hi John,
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
Killing gpm (through gpm -k and /etc/init.d/gpm stop) makes the
mouse work in X and fixes the display problems in the framebuffer.
Does anyone have any
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:18:34PM +0200, Daniel Fahlgren wrote:
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:36:20AM -0700, Brian Hazelwood wrote:
Good Morning,
I new to Linux and intalling debian 2.1 for the first time.
I have not had any problems untill this point. After I am
prompted for my
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:07:17PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Jim Breton wrote:
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 06:17:00PM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
since I believe if you use +root you would be allowing the root user
on any other system to connect to your X
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:54:17AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
Why do you want the source packages? For almost evry package you can find
a .deb, which is a lot esier then compiling.
I'm a programmer. I compile for fun :-)
I've already installed from .deb; I wanted to look at the
source code
On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Brian Clark wrote:
Would any of the perl users in this group know an easy way, with perl, to
check to see if a certain process is present? Say, httpd?
I was going to parse the output of ps but that just seems stupid..
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It's One
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:00:40AM +0200, BAUDIN Maxime wrote:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:08:24PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
is that X doesn't work yet (I get a white screen, and the server says
something about not being able to load PEX fonts), but I'll first check
the mailing list archives
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:59:25PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Brenda J. Butler said:
qualify_domain = achilles.net # my isp
You need to also set qualify_recipient to either localhost or a name that
your machine recognizes as referring to itself. If qualify_recipient is not
set
I have exim, fetchmail, .forward, procmail and mutt configured
to deliver mail to folders in my mail directory based on what
mailing list the mail is coming from - it all seems to work ok.
My problem is that when I send out mail, if my local exim
has a delivery problem, it sends the complaint to
I noticed when trying to unpack some sources to miscellaneous
debian apps (setserial, silo) that I had to specify the
destination (unlike installing binaries, which go
to standard places like /bin, /usr/bin, etc).
In RedHat, those source packages get unpacked into a standard
/usr/src/redhat
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote:
I installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have
missed something in setting up the ppp connection.
I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a
site, I get the error message:
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:09:24PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote:
cat /proc/net/route
Here it is:
Dest Gateway Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT
42006E89 00050 0 0 00
ppp0 42006E89 00030 0
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