Re: Servidor com 2 acessos a Internet

2003-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
bannack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work in a company who has a NT net with a firewall closing a lot of ports, ips and key words, with a 2Mbps link to the Internet. I have inside this company a DSL channel to tests, that is disconnect from the main net, and is connect just to one alone

Re: installing new latex document type - bst file not found by documents

2003-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8). I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texhash. (/usr/local/share/texmf is probably a better pick; in this case, it's easier to distinguish locally installed from

Re: XDM can't shutdown

2003-11-26 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes: I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM doesn't allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE? X is X; using a single application (or display manager) from

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't exist.

Re: Xaw-based applications have XOpenFont failures, but only locally

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start up. For example: {53} dmaze% xcalc X Error of failed request: BadValue

Re: apt-get etiquette

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
John Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or, if you want to get X out of the way, edit /etc/inittab , look for the lines : # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: and replace the runlevel 2 with 1. ...which will also conveniently stop your Web server, your ssh server, your power-management

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm startup from all levels. # update-rc.d -f xdm remove After you get back the monitor, # update-rc.d xdm

Re: xterm ignores Xresources when run as x-terminal-emulator

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as xterm.foreground=white ... when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for x-terminal-emulator doesn't seem to

Re: signed package information

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was just reading slashdot about the Debian distro and there was some discussion about the md5 signature of packages. Is there some way that this (is already or can be) implimented by default on package installations? It's largely a matter of the

Re: dual-monitor window manager

2003-11-20 Thread David Z Maze
Johann Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Second, my WM of choice, enlightenment, seems to handle the monitors well. I have two identical desktop systems, and I can move through them independently. Example: I have 4 virtual desktops on each monitor, and can scroll through them with alt+f[1-4]

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP Debian Woody

2003-11-20 Thread David Z Maze
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:57PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote: Two months later, I--like so many others before me--came crawling back to Debian, my hands weary from long hours spent fighting RPM dependency

Re: emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-19 Thread David Z Maze
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use emacs as my main text editor, but vastly prefer to run emacs in an xterm (emacs -nw) over xemacs (xemacs is quite ugly, to the point of unreadability, as currently configured on my machine; and also I often write mail via ssh with X forwarding

Re: Duplicate processes

2003-11-19 Thread David Z Maze
sinapsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot uderstand why all the processes are forked. Any process I launch is duplicated. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/eggdrop14$ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND dopamina 344 0.0 0.7 7120 3844 ?S18:18

Re: No Name Resolution

2003-11-18 Thread David Z Maze
Mark Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a working connection but when I try to telnet or ftp anywhere I get a unable to resolve hostname type error. I have my nameservers listed in /etc/resolve.conf as 206.13.30.12 206.13.29.12 Is that the actual content of that actual file? The file

Re: XFree86 problem (no such file or directory)

2003-11-18 Thread David Z Maze
Rafael Osuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am an inexpert user of XFree86 running in a Debian testing/unstable computer. (Which one is it?) I have some problems displaying several characters and, in order to trace the problem, I have run strace konqueror. I don't think that's actually

Re: ls and directories only

2003-11-18 Thread David Z Maze
Lynn W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, but how do I use find -maxdepth 1 -type d to just display the directories in the current directory, and not to recurse into subdirectories, *and* to display all the directories' permissions? I'd chant something like find . -name . -o -type d

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

2003-11-18 Thread David Z Maze
Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if this is really proper or not, but I've been noticing a lot of newer houses using regular old CAT 5 twisted-pair cable for phone cable. The house I lived in as an undergrad just did renovations, and now each of the rooms has two cat5

Xaw-based applications have XOpenFont failures, but only locally

2003-11-17 Thread David Z Maze
Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start up. For example: {53} dmaze% xcalc X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 45

Re: network/name resolution problems

2003-11-17 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network. ...from your other message, using DHCP. What does /etc/network/interfaces say? It should have a stanza that looks more-or-less like auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp (If you have

Re: Debian woody or sarge?

2003-11-16 Thread David Z Maze
Philip Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking to migrate a few Red Hat boxes to Debian in the next month or two and am currently wondering whether to install woody or sarge. If you're new to Debian, I'd strongly suggest starting with the stable distribution (so, in this case, woody); if

Re: Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3

2003-11-13 Thread David Z Maze
ScruLoose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including the root filesystem. I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i686 kernel, which (according to /boot/config-2.4.16-686) has ext3 support _as a module_... 2.4.*16*? That's really old; even

Re: update-rc.d

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Miguel Alvarez Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a) if the sysadmin wants to fiddle with the links, he may do so (presumably by hand?) and the packaging system will not touch them *provided the sysadmin leaves at least one of the links*. Now, I can see how to use this to remove all but an

Re: Portable shell scripts

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tend to write scripts which are tcsh-compatible. So #!/bin/tcsh. But its somewhat a waste of effort to write one set of scripts for bash and another for tcsh. My main problem is handling the variables. Is there a shell-portable way to specify variables?

Re: Debian version

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to figure out what version of debian I am running. /etc/issue* and /etc/debian_version all state unstable/testing, but I don't know when this box was installed. This box could be potato, from when potato was unstable, but how to tell? I am

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my current LAN looks like this: cable - eth0 (public ip) -server modemeth1 (192.168.0.1) | hub

Re: madwifi .deb package

2003-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Jeffrey L. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know where I can download a .deb package for the madwifi drivers? I don't really have room on this laptop (540MB HDD) to keep the kernel sources that it wants around. I've thought about building a package, but the source is non-free and so

Re: Installing packages from source with apt

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the best way to compile and install packages from source with apt? I don't want to use dpkg -i once the packages are built (as suggested in the how-to) since dpkg doesn't check dependencies and may break the system (it did in the past...).

Re: Using dselect and apt - urgent

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
Mike Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please set your mailer to post in plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. And don't include the word urgent in your subject line; everyone's question is urgent in some form or another.) We

Re: a few Qs about debian's apt

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
Woon Wai Keen @ doubleukay.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a friend of mine has some questions regarding debian. hope you guys could help me answer them :) I notice you're asking a lot of questions about apt-get. It often can be a little difficult to figure out what apt-get is doing; a

Re: nice

2003-11-10 Thread David Z Maze
Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was some discussion about nice -10 a few days ago and the question was how to set nice. The command is nice -10 command name. Reference debian reference. In Linux: nice: Range -20 (Not nice) to 19 (Very nice) In English: Priority level: 1 to

Re: Java on linux

2003-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
Hoai Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIVDo you know any java API for linux that handles mount and umount cdrom./DIV Please set your mailer to send in plain text only, no HTML, and wrap lines at 72 columns... ...but if I needed to do this, I'd use

Re: apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl ?

2003-11-09 Thread David Z Maze
Lynn W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is, given my httpd.conf settings for PHP4 and ColdFusion, should I apt-get apache-ssl or libapache-mod-ssl? Yes, one of those is probably what you want. :-) You might look at the respective upstream Web pages (http://www.apache-ssl.org/,

Re: Can't build X (unstable and experimental)

2003-11-07 Thread David Z Maze
csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't build either the unstable or experimental versions of Debian's xfree86 packages (4.2 and 4.3). The build ends with the following error messages: Why are you building X? Which X? And how? My general recommendation, if you need XFree86 4.3 for hardware

Re: new user question about stable branch

2003-11-06 Thread David Z Maze
Chris Ochs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the stable branch frozen in place except for security/bug fixes from the time it was released? Yes. I installed woody and then upgraded to kernel 2.4.18, which made me think what other packages are update from time to time. In the particular case of

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-06 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: From: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's almost certainly better to find a local time server and not hammer on the NIST's; I'd also use ntp (ntp-simple package) to keep your clock up-to-date while the system is running. ... Thanks for the advice

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) writes: I have an executable script, time.rc which has: #! /bin/bash rdate -s time-b.nist.gov clock -w It's almost certainly better to find a local time server and not hammer on the NIST's; I'd also use ntp (ntp-simple package) to keep your clock

Re: kaffe and/or sablevm in mozilla?

2003-11-05 Thread David Z Maze
jjluza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: like it is said in the doc, these packages (free implementation), make you to be able to compile and run java program. But they don't work to browse Internet and its java applets. You need a closed source one to do that (sun, ibm or blackdown one) Wow, that's

Re: Howto remove grub?

2003-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a machine where I want to cleanly install Debian, but the MBR has remains of grub. I searched the net, but all hits I got involved a DOS diskette or similar. I don't have such a disk, but I can boot the machine using Knoppix or other Debian rescue

Re: stability of libc6-i686?

2003-11-03 Thread David Z Maze
csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:33:34 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Unstable has a new package available: libc6-i686. Apparently libc6 optimized for the 686 architecture. Now, this sounds attractive to me, but the package warns of commercial apps potentially

Re: Driver installation

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the driver and kernel headers on a CD. I assume installation is via apt-get install xx Ok what should xx be. Where should I put the files to install them. Having no other details, if you just have a pile of .deb files somewhere, you can

Re: debian-installer-demo not working

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Andrea Tasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the language selection screen, I mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to go on, it does not. The Debian bug-tracking system is a

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
BruceG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16Meg RAM, 1

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Vivek Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any other command to print any character say * 80 times.. like echo ** (In bsh or ksh) Is there any short command ?? Depending on what you're actually trying to do; Perl is the big hammer you can throw at anything,

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In perl you could do: perl -e 'for(1..80){print *;}print \n;' Can you just explain how to use this for ? It seems far away the ones I know (C,C++,basic,Java,php,etc.) That invocation happens to do the perlish thing of

Re: Q: Why is linux-wlan-ng not an ordinary part of the kernel?

2003-10-30 Thread David Z Maze
Mariano Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe to have a prism wlan card in my notebook and while digging around what to do I came to the conclusion that I need a module, which is in linx-wlan-ng?! Not necessarily. I believe there are also working drivers in the kernel, and in the separate

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-29 Thread David Z Maze
Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT would be entirely correct in concluding that 1:2.84-mumble is newer than 2.85-7. You

Re: Xserver-Xfree86

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
David R Hovland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi guys, I'm back. Thanks for the advise, it worked, part way. I ran apt-get install xserver-xfree86. Now the problem seems to start at: (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (EE) No device detected. What video card do you

Re: Auth problem connecting to my ftp server

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 220 litshi.luna.local FTP server (Version 6.4/OpenBSD/Linux-ftpd-0.17) ready. 500 'AUTH GSSAPI': command not understood. 500 'AUTH KERBEROS_V4': command not understood. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type What does it meen, should I be

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to dist-upgrade to Debian unstable. It all seems to work fine but my debian_version is still reported as testing/unstable. Isn't that what it's supposed to be? That's certainly what it is on this sid machine.

Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
Alberto Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html ObFormatting: please set your mailer to send plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running ok,

Re: please help, lost my partition

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I lost my partition. One of my most important ones... It is a 100gb partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc... You might be better off, given what you describe, getting a new hard drive and then restoring the data from backups. I had a

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

2003-10-24 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruno Boettcher) writes: seems there's no way to get X running under debian on my new Medion laptop It'd help if you told us exactly what was wrong; looking at the log files you sent pointers to, it sounds like the X server doesn't start. chipset is a GeforceFX

Re: ldconfig and hosing my system

2003-10-24 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Benedetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ran ldconfig when I had an LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set to point to old old libraries. Once ldconfig finished, then no commands would work. Nothing. Oops. :-( If you happen to have a statically linked shell around, then you could try adding

Re: how to set up a mix from stable/testing/etc

2003-10-23 Thread David Z Maze
Christian Schnobrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Woody's spamassassin (2.20) provides me with a hit rate of about 60%; partly to increase this, partly because I'm curious about that fancy Bayes filter, I'd like to have a more recent spamassassin. But how? I'm a little shy of installing

Re: how to figure out the gateway number?

2003-10-23 Thread David Z Maze
Andrew Kasza [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have debian 3.0. I have to change the configuration of network (I mean I have to change IP, netmask and so on). I know my IP address, netmask, broadcast. Is there a way to figure out the network and gateway number? The network address is your IP

Re: Configuring three nics on a gateway/web server

2003-10-21 Thread David Z Maze
Lucio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've successfully installed and configured Apache on a already working gateway box. I know this can play a little unusual (web and gateway server in the same box) but unfortunately at the moment I just have this hardware at my disposal. However, I have

Re: Where can I get lame for testing

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lame appears in dselect, and I've tried to install it that way, but it does not install. I've tried apt-get install lame, and I get No installation caidate What can I do to fix this? Use (DFSG-free, not patent-encumbered, royalty-free) oggenc, from the

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
David Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without disturbing epiphany the browser (with bookmarks). What I'd suggest you do: (0) Install aptitude, if you haven't yet. (1) Start aptitude. (2) Press '/', type ephiphany in the box that

Re: big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
iain d broadfoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a few problems with programs dying: liferea:0x407196c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 gaim: 0x407466c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 I can't see a bugreport about this on libc6, and it doesn't feel like the individual

Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
james terris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I enter the command: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mnt/lib /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt And i get the error: sh: /lib/ld_linux.so.2: version 'GLIBC_PRIVATE' not found (required by /mnt/lib/libc.so.6) Not having any idea what you're booting off of, does something

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
TR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star a gnome terminal anymore. Congratulations. I take it you've tracked down the nature of the error, looked on http://bugs.debian.org/gnome-terminal, and reported the bug if it hasn't already

Re: modutils problem

2003-10-17 Thread David Z Maze
LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that when I load a module the /etc/modutils/module_name files, which conatins the post-install lines, doesn't run. So when I load my emu10k1 for example, which has a /etc/modutils/emu10k1 file, which contains this line: post-install emu10k1

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-16 Thread David Z Maze
Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all: I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file system over the other, any recomendation will be

Re: The following packages have been kept back

2003-10-16 Thread David Z Maze
D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Haven't you ever done a dselect update and then a apt-get -u upgrade and found that you have 30 or some large number of packages that are not going to be installed? Not really; apt-get isn't intended to be used that way. See the first paragraph of apt-get(8).

Re: Scrolling Apps = High CPU Utilization

2003-10-15 Thread David Z Maze
M. Kirchhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, let me describe the problem: When using the wheel on my logitech wheel mouse (PS/2, ImPS) to scroll up and down in various apps (Mozilla, AbiWord), I see very high CPU activity as reported by top. ... nVidia GeForce2 MX 200, 64MB vRAM Debian

Re: Using rexec command

2003-10-15 Thread David Z Maze
Victory [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html (Please post to the list in plain text only, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 columns.) Anyone know how to set the flag for the exec entry in /etc/inetd.conf file so that it allow me to run rexec

Re: Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-14 Thread David Z Maze
Bob Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult. Is there a way to say: This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them and their dependencies and

Re: LM Sensors

2003-10-14 Thread David Z Maze
C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any one got any advice how to get lmsensors working on a 2.4.21-5-k7 kernel? My best advice is to build your kernel from source, disable anything and everything i2c-related in the kernel source, and then install the lm-sensors-source and i2c-source packages and

Re: shell script question

2003-10-13 Thread David Z Maze
Carlos Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:30:23 +0100 Colin Watson wrote: Here's a little expression that strips off any trailing .extension from $1 and tacks on .wav. ${1%.*}.wav That's much better, no dependency on yet another utility, so more portable code. Not

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a work laptop running Win2000 that has a large number of files I would like to transfer to my home Linux desktop. What would be the easiest way to do this? Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/), which gives you a familiar bash shell under

Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
David Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running xlsfonts gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans

Re: What holds up a package in incoming?

2003-10-10 Thread David Z Maze
Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6 has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What holds up a package like that for almost a week? Just wondering. Packages that are new to Debian need to be

Re: Grub, need to change fstab?

2003-10-09 Thread David Z Maze
J Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been messing with grub without accomplishing much, accept an occasional kernel panic, error fs not found and an hour or more rescuing my system. I let grub do most of the work on the configuration that follows and it actually boots debian, with the

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-09 Thread David Z Maze
Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a lot) foggy on what exactly it's used for. For instance, I have /etc/alternatives/vi and /etc/alternatives/editor

Re: Stable? Unstable?

2003-10-08 Thread David Z Maze
KRF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the advice of some compadres I have ordered the 7 CD package so that I can try Debian. If the label says Debian 3.0 (or 3.0r1, or 3.0r2), or woody, then it's stable. That is, in fact, a 7-CD set, though you get two choices for the first CD (so CheapBytes sells

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I work with a very small non-profit and over the years they have been keeping documents in various formats I'd like to move to text-based documents so we are not dependent on a specific product (like Word). So I'm looking for suggestions. Aah, the document

Re: Helvetica Font replacement

2003-10-07 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway with X i can make it use the Bitstream Vera font instead of Helvetica, and the Vera Mono font instead of Courier for all X applications? There's just too many font schemes out there. You should be able to easily change the font scheme for

Re: How to manage services?

2003-10-07 Thread David Z Maze
Sudeep Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the equivalent of RH's ntsysv in Debian? I want to permanently disable a few services like Samba, etc. 'dpkg --remove' can be very effective at doing this sort of thing. Otherwise, the easiest thing to do is to remove the relevant 'S' link in

Re: gzip question

2003-10-07 Thread David Z Maze
Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually this doesn't have to be just in regards to gzip, but any file compression application. (gzip only compresses a single file, but this might apply to tar or similar programs.) Is there a way to force the application to provide a specific

Re: kernel-package build, is this a problem

2003-10-03 Thread David Z Maze
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote: Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 18:32 schrieben Sie: make-kpkg modules_image Shouldn't that create a .deb for the modules, that I need to dpkg -i? If so, I can't seem to find it. Sorry,

Re: xinerama ideas

2003-10-03 Thread David Z Maze
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 2 monitors with each keyboard/mouse and I use them with Backstreet Ruby to have 2 users use the one Debian system. But another use is one user with xinerama. Since I usually sit 17 inches off the tube, I find looking at the other tube, which

Re: e1000 cannot bring up intel pro/1000 MT interface

2003-10-02 Thread David Z Maze
Praveen Kallakuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a dell precision 360 with an Intel® PRO/1000 MT Gigabit6 Ethernet LOM. i learned that e1000 is the driver and got it by compiling kernel 2.4.22. i inserted aprop entries in /etc/network/interfaces and in modutils/ and updated modules.conf.

Re: GCC 3.3 Questions: Should I Install? Should I install with ProPolice?

2003-10-02 Thread David Z Maze
Dan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to figure out Linux with the help of O'Reilly's /Running Linux/. It recommends that I do not install new versions of compilers unless absolutely necessary just in case things get broken by the new version of the compiler. That sounds like

Re: NTP wont work as box is at 1980.

2003-10-01 Thread David Z Maze
Ben Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a box which will not keep the time. Every time I shut it down it looses the time and goes back to 1980. I thought ntpd was the answer but as the difference between the system(pc) and the actual(ntp) time is so great it won't work. So how can I

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread David Z Maze
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The monitors are samsungs 17 but the cards are different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x. I notice no difference between the 2 other than that I paid $25 more for the MX440. The last time I bought a

Re: Different images on Root Window with Xinerama?

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using Icewm on Sid and running Xinerama. Anyone know how I can put different image on each screen of my root window? My understanding is that, since you're using XINERAMA, you only have one screen, end of story. I've tried the display command but

Re: Question about ~/.xsession

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Jaque Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to the Debian reference Debian uses both ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc for setting up an X-environment. I use wdm as display manager and need a personal PATH. If I set it up in ~/.xsession it works as desired but if I now login on a terminal

Re: about lilo

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Sidney Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me to understand lilo. If one loads lilo on the root sector of a partition, does this mean that it has no affect on the MBR? Yes. Exactly, what does it do when it is on a partition? When the MBR picks a partition, the standard thing to do

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread David Z Maze
Christof Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've scanned the cron man pages, but it seems that cron is only set up to do daily, weekly, and monthly jobs in Debian. Is there a simpe way to have a script execute at shorter time intervals. I'd like to run the swendeleter.pl script

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-29 Thread David Z Maze
Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think another possible way would be through the C library. I believe that the C library has certain authentication functions (I think for passwd file and NIS). I think that you could modify these functions to provide whichever method you want.

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-29 Thread David Z Maze
Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Op zo 28-09-2003, om 00:45 schreef David Z Maze: I think both Kerberos and RADIUS are single sign-on protocols: when you log on you get some sort of authentication token, which you can use to talk to other services without typing a password

Re: screwed custom kernel image, recovering getting bad

2003-09-27 Thread David Z Maze
TR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the following sid screwed system: / in hdb1 /home in hdb2 swap in hdb3 grub floppy is used to boot. If you haven't figured it out yet, you should be able to use the GRUB floppy to boot from an old kernel: root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-TAB

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-27 Thread David Z Maze
Benedict Verheyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Today i read that Slackware doesn't use PAM by default because of some of the leaks that pop up now and then. I was wondering what other type of authentications there are on Linux and how easy/difficult they are to set up. The basic answer here is

Re: route entries will not stick

2003-09-26 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where do I configure entries into my routing table so that when I reboot they exist the next session? You probably need to add them to your /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address 10.1.0.14 netmask 255.255.0.0 up route

Re: jadetex: how to modify the parameters?

2003-09-25 Thread David Z Maze
Abdul Latip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May I know how a user can modify the TEX parameters as in /etc/texmf.cnf ? A superuser could easily modify the /etc/texmf.d directory. You could make a copy of the file, edit it, and point $TEXMFCNF to that directory, checking that 'kpsewhich texmf.cnf'

Re: can kernel 2.4.21 from testing source be installed without removing 2.4.18 from woody?

2003-09-23 Thread David Z Maze
Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can a kernel-image 2.4.21 package from testing (built from source) be installed on woody without removing a kernel-image 2.4.18 package from woody? It seems that: - testing's 2.4.21 kernel package depends on module-init-tools, but So when you say

Re: providing default route

2003-09-21 Thread David Z Maze
Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where is the proper place in debian to define the default route? I've got my own hack, but I'd like to know the 'proper' place. You probably want a 'gateway' line in /etc/network/interfaces on exactly one interface that's up. -- David Maze

Re: booting problems after installing lm-sensors kernel modules from sid / can't mount root fs

2003-09-20 Thread David Z Maze
Manuel Bilderbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A couple of days ago, I installed these packages from sid: lm-sensors-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 i2c-2.4.21-4-k7 2.8.0-1 I have done this before many times, to save myself the trouble of compiling these kernel modules myself. I'm running a testing

Re: sid: kinit showing passwd!

2003-09-17 Thread David Z Maze
Anders Lennartsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a sid system upgraded yesterday (kernel custom 2.4.22, kde3.1). I have also been experimenting with kerberos V for deployment. Just discovered that when I try to get a TGT with kinit, the password is printed in cleartext at the prompt!

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