Re: recovering hard disk partition info after boo-boo with using dd

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:01:07PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: | I made a real booboo... I issued as root (really stupid of me, after | almost blasting my system away some 8 months ago) dd if=someimage | of=/dev/hd0 instead of /dev/fd0. So now the partition table is fouled up | (as cfdisk

exim, auth, pam, solutions

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Here are some solutions to the exim/auth/pam problem. Mark Roach pegged it -- PAM wasn't working because we were (I was) trying to use pam_unix.so but didn't have permission to read /etc/shadow. Here are some solutions to the problem : 1) Make /etc/shadow readable by the 'mail' user.

Re: About GNOME Setting and XMMS Sound

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
(please note: the cross-posting has been appropriately trimmed down) On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 01:45:49PM +0700, arief_mulya wrote: | 2. XMMS Sound, yesterday, when I play a song in XMMS, it's | just play it very nicely. I don't have to do anything. While | now, I need to make the output

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

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 01:33:31PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: | On 2002.06.20 22:02 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | Thanks all for the correct details. Isn't it great when the fix is | released *before* the worm? | | Actually, it wasn't. This exploit has been reported in the while

Re: About GNOME Setting and XMMS Sound

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 11:47:59PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: | On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:45:07PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | ... | Esd is a daemon process that will open /dev/dsp and direct sound | output to there. If esd starts before you run xmms, then xmms won't | be able

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions (addendum)

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:14:33PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | Here are some solutions to the exim/auth/pam problem. Here's some more info I should have included in the last message, if I had remembered before I hit send :-). 1) I haven't tested any of the authenticators

Re: console=/dev/ttyN

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:41:17PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:17:10PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | You didn't show us your config, that's what 0.5 wink. Clearly you | didn't configure it correctly. | | Sorry, it's here. I was sure it must have been

Re: exim, auth, pam, solutions

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 05:12:38PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | Here are some solutions to the problem : | | 1) Make /etc/shadow readable by the 'mail' user. | | I have chosen this solution and I have now trivial | question. How can I make shadow file readable by mail | user, too Add the

Re: exim smtp auth with PAM

2002-06-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 06:04:55PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Rainer Ellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 01:06]: | Is there anybody out there having exim (woody) running with smtp auth | based on PAM (pam_unix.so)? It seems not to be possible without | recompiling exim, using a special

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:48:35PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:51:16PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | If you can't use PAM to do this, then is there a way to copy out PAM | | data to an exim-compatible file

Re: X11 headers

2002-06-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:01:51PM +0200, Craig Main wrote: | I am busy compiling mplayer on sid, and need the x11 headers. What | package do I need install? try apt-get build-dep mplayer to get all the build dependencies of mplayer. You're probably looking for xlibs-dev, but you might

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:16:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 03:20:48PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: | | I believe that putting the following in the authentication configuration | section will allow you to use PAM. You will just need to add a file | named /etc/pam.d/exim

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

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:29:04PM +1000, John wrote: | There's now an exploit in the wild for Apache (the chunked whatever | bug). The DSA mentions an update which is version 1.3.9-14.1 | | We need a version 1.2.12, and are running 1.3.23 from woody. Is there | any idea where a patched 1.3.23

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

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:46:42PM +0900, Taegil Noh wrote: | File System is one matter, and shell environment is another. | While ext2/3 and resistfs will surely contain more than | million files in a directory, (or anywhere anyhow) | Many shells like bash and csh won't process them | cleary.

Re: console=/dev/ttyN

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:05:57PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | This was posted a little while ago here by Vineet but I don't have the | mail anymore. The idea was to add the line append=console=/dev/ttyN to | lilo.conf. I've tried to add it to grub (the right way, I suppose, without | quotes

Re: touchpad on laptop

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:09:55PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hey, | | I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't | know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic | touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't |

Re: Replacing kernel packages via apt

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: | I have built a patched kernel 2.4.18 with make-kpkg | I used epochs, Unnecessary. Just make the version different (eg custom.3). | apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18 insists that the installed | 2.4.18-5 is the most recent

Re: Replacing kernel packages via apt

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:24:51PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:58:21PM +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: | | | I have built a patched kernel 2.4.18 with make-kpkg | | | I used epochs, | | Unnecessary. Just make the version different (eg custom.3). I should also

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:43:41AM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | Hi! | | Run exim from a shell with '-d9' and then try again. | | I have tryed and I get (nothing helpful): | | Running PAM authentication for user [erased] | PAM error: Authentication failure | plain authenticator: | $1 = | $2 =

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

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:58:23PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:04:40 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:29:04PM +1000, John wrote: | snip | Nonetheless, the DSA says it affects 64-bit architectures. It sounds | like if you're not using a 64

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:23:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:56:22PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | Is linux a system that requires root access to use PAM? If so, then | pam can't be used directly by exim. You can, however, use a different | lookup

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:57:17PM -0700, ben wrote: | On Thursday 20 June 2002 06:56 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | [snip] | | Is linux a system that requires root access to use PAM? If so, then | pam can't be used directly by exim. You can, however, use a different | lookup for users

Re: building Postgresql

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | So, I was building postgresql from source (via debian/rules build) | when it failed due to a missing header file, so I apt-got the package | which contained the file reran the build and got the following: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building Postgresql

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:40:28AM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:43:28PM -0600, Jorge Santos wrote: | I would start over with a clean 'apt-get source', then next time if | you want to restart the build, first remove

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 10:18:02AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: | | I got Debian installed through through the net install version, but | it never connected me to the network. | | There was a point at which it asked me if I wanted to setup a point-to-point | connection, but I just want to

Re: Connecting to Network..

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:23:10PM -0400, Nicholas Parsons wrote: | Hi all, | | I have a similar problem as Matt. | The only difference with me is that I forgot my ethernet card was smc | and so bypassed the network configuration screen during installation | process of debian. My question is:

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-19 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:44:34PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | I believe that putting the following in the authentication | configuration section will allow you to use PAM. You will just | need to add a file named /etc/pam.d/exim with the appropriate PAM | config options | | I have made

Re: Net Install Requirements..

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 08:34:16PM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: | I'd like to install Debian on an old 8MB i386 with ~500MB of disk | space. Is this possible? I don't know if the installer works with that little memory, but after the install it will work ok. I have a 486SX 25MHz, 8MB RAM,

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: | Derrick == Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | Is gpm running? If so, that is going to cause problems. | | Ah ha! That was it. I should have known - thanks. | All seems to be ok after stoping gpm

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

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:30:41AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: | | Is there some configuration option that allows the numeric keypad to | type numbers into either nvi or vim? | | Currently, typing 0 - 9 puts p - y into the document, oddly inserting | lines _above_ the current line with each

Re: in debian, awk is mawk not gawk

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:59:21PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | debian world, awk is mawk. | So I installed gawk. However unlike when one installs postfix, and | exim gets kicked out, mawk is unphased and still what one gets if | one types awk. So? One solution : # update-alternatives

Re: Net Installation

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:57:47AM -0400, Matthew Tedder wrote: | | So how do I make an installation disk since my old i386 doesn't boot from | CDROM? | | I dd'd the root.bin to floppy because the README said this was needed for the | install.. I have to use rescue? That's strange..

Re: Exim authentication

2002-06-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:44:57PM -0700, Mike Mimic wrote: | How can I set that user should login for SMTP the same | as for POP3? So he should use the same username and | password as for POP3 (that is the user linux account | username and password). This is not easy to do directly, and is

Re: autodetect floppy filesystem type

2002-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:59:56PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | I have a question about floppies. First, quaint, aren't they? OK, | In /etc/fstab: | /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 That's normal. | But doesn't that mean that if I insert a unformatted or scrambled | floppy,

Re: do the 8 woody CD's come with source code?

2002-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:54:29PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Sorry for being extra dumb but do the 8 debian woody CD's come with | source code? I think so, if you have 8 of them. Potato had disks 1-3 with binaries and 4-6 with source. | I just grabbed one (#7) and all I saw were .deb files.

Re: apt-get source package

2002-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:11:52PM -0400, Erik Mathisen wrote: | Hello, | | I have a question. I normally use | | apt-get install package | | to install any package on my system. Now I have seen how you can use | |apt-get source package | | and then compile it own your own machine.

Re: Laptop/Notebook

2002-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:22:47PM -0700, Rusty Minden wrote: | I am going to get a Notebook Computer, but can only spend $1,500.00 on it. I | need a decent machine prefer AMD and would like a good (easy) Debian Woody | install. Any recomendations would be appritiated. (used or remanufactured is

Re: OT: How to find a modem that works with Linux...

2002-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 05:58:36PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: | Funny, I've heard this external-is-better for years, but I've been using | internals for more than a decade and never had problems with them. | An external is just one more box taking up space somewhere on my | crowded table.

Re: erratic mouse with xfree86 4.1.0?

2002-06-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:03:04PM -0500, Michael A. Miller wrote: | I'm having trouble with erratic mouse behavior on new machine. | Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem? | P.S. Here are the mouse-related parts of me XFree86 log: | (**) Option Device /dev/psaux Is gpm running?

Re: why nmap shows lots of filtered ports?

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:54:50AM +, matt yee-king wrote: | Hello | | I've testing the vulnerability of my box on a basic ports level by | scanning it with nmap. | does this mean theres some sort of firewall in place protecting my box? There's some sort of network filtering going on.

Re: realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 12:54:04PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Jun 14, 2002, Matthew Yee-King ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded the installer from | realnetworks and installed it. when i run it, it opens a window, maybe | displays a

Re: ghost email after reboot ???

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:13:34PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: | Osamu = | Did you check /var/spool/exim/input/ contents? | | No; but, now that I do, I find mail that I thought had been deleted | weeks ago -- *not* those messages that reappear after reboot, though. | Can I just delete

Re: ethernet on Soyo Dragon Plus w/ VIA chipset

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Matt Akers wrote: | I have a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard with an onboard ethernet port. | I recently tried installing debian and haven't been able to get the | ethernet port to work. I tried the via-rhine driver (via chipset on | the motherboard) but it

Re: OT: How to find a modem that works with Linux...

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 12:06:46PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: | I'm just about to do a motherboard upgrade, and that will mean replacing | my current modem, which is unfortunately ISA based. | | Anyone able to recommend options for a replacement? I know that the | cheaper internal modems are

Re: Apache, DHCPd, etc, on a low-end machine

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:56:59PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: | I'm looking to migrate away from Microsoft products completely, Good! You'll be glad for it. It will help your budget too :-). (how does some new hardware sound, instead of a renewed MS license?) | and one | large step in that

Re: cannot run X apps when 'su'

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:55:15PM -0400, ttv wrote: | Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ... Solution 1 : Don't su -. If you don't put the '-' on there, su will inherit the current process' environment and maintain xauth Solution 2 : # cp ~user/.Xauthority ~/ Copy your

Re: cannot run X apps when 'su'

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:22:55AM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:55:15PM -0400, ttv wrote: | | Hi, when I su as root, I can't run X apps ... | Solution 2 : | # cp ~user/.Xauthority ~/ | | Copy your normal user's .Xauthority file

Re: filtering with procmail + Maildir

2002-06-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:22:24AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: | Hello list, | | Is there any one having experience about filtering mail with Procmail | and Maildir? I am running courier-imap4 and I'd like to filter the mail | on the server-side. Any examples or URLs recommended? / :-) That

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:56:33PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | indeed, booting with append= apm=on nls_cp950 nls_cp437 ^^^ I don't think any part of the kernel will actually do anything with those arguments. | and allows shutdown -h now to

Re: How do I make a start script

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 09:06:49AM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | I need to make a script that can find the PID for a Java application, | where the process string contains 'proximus', and 'kill -9' that | process. My Java process spawns quite some threads, so I need to kill | the main process, not

Re: devfs + grub [was Re: RAM upgrade]

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 06:12:57AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:05:01 -0500 | Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | The only odd thing I've noticed is the root= parameter to the kernel. | That must be the old name. I have no idea why, but trying the devfs | name

Re: bash login script problems...

2002-06-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:16:37PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: | I am having two problems with bash login scripts, which I cannot seem to sort | out. Probably something simple, but I'm missing it. | | 1. First, here is a few lines from my .bash_profile. These lines were | commented out by

Re: pam_ldap not working right

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:07:30PM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | Looking over your files, I see quite a few problems: | | 1) You need to configure nss_ldap.conf as well as pam_ldap.conf. Umm, I don't have that ... I need to install libnss-ldap ... that really helps :-). | 2) The lines in

Re: DSL connexant PCI card

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:33:47AM +0200, David Dumortier wrote: | I've got a Olitec DSL-modem chipset Connexant under woody, kernel 2.4.18 | and my pinguin box don't want to configure it !!! | | I explain : | - scanpci lspci say IRQs, adresses and others but say unknown device lspci should

Re: IBM PS/2

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:50:01PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: | Your mail setup is also rather warped - it doesn't insert | attributions, | and it keeps starting new threads which I have to manually | link together | in mutt if I want to follow the conversation ... | | Well, thats what

Re: realplayer window immediately locks up on launching

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:32:49PM +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote: | I am trying to get realplayer working. I downloaded the installer | from realnetworks and installed it. when i run it, it opens a | window, maybe displays a couple of widgets, then locks up. | | anyone else had this problem?

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | | (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed | | on multiple machines

Re: ACPI

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:04:37AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: | apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16) | ACPI: APM is already active, exiting | | So, I disabled APM (by appending apm=off in lilo.conf), and, on | rebooting, got this: Good so far. | apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:29:18PM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: | Hello all! | | I installed Blackbox and I want to put it Logi sessions menu but I'm not | sure how to do that, can someone exolain that for me. I know this: | gdmconfig - Expert - Login sessions - Add session | But what should I put

Re: GDM config

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 07:13:07PM +0200, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote: | On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 18:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | If your users want to use blackbox, all they need to do is run the | Control Center (gnomecc) and choose it in the window manager section. | (if it isn't already

Re: devfs + grub [was Re: RAM upgrade]

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 06:45:43AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 22:36:25 -0500 | Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've been using devfs for months. I really like it. It makes it much | easier to identify problems with missing devices. (I can't read my | cd

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:34:29AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | By the way, of the other experiments: | insmod: apm: no module by that name found | I sure don't understand linux modules. It cannot be found, but one | can turn it on at the boot prompt. In the pre-packaged 2.2 kernels it is

Re: if I report debian bugs will I get emailed for life?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:20:39AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Sure I've got a lot of bugs I could report, however I recall when I | reported a perl bug once to the perlbug people. It was like I had | adopted a child when alls I wanted was a one night stand: I found a | workaround. I am was just

Re: if I post here I will get spammed of course?

2002-06-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:30:43AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | I'm scared s*itless about wafting about my real e-mail address on my | posts here, as I've already seen account after account of mine get | buried in spam and now all's I got left is my real ISP address-- all | from posting to little

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: You want to turn the computer *off*!? OFF!? Why in the world would you want to do such a thing? ;-) | poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the | disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. Nicely compressed to conserve your disk space :-). | What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and | over? I don't know, I'm not Joe Average. (some people call me

Re: grub Q

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:47AM -0400, Alice M. Pinard wrote: | Is the grub in woody the 'gnu grub' or is it 'the grub off which gnu grub is | based'? (Just making sure I'm reading the right online comments/info/docs) GNU. Erich's GRUB isn't maintained anymore because he left and some other

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:14:48AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: | I have the following in top: | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 532 root 16 -10 289M 32M 7528 S 54.6 6.5 8:35 XFree86 | | I think there is a problem there. XFree86 takes

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't | compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6

pam_ldap not working right

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I'm trying to setup a debian system that will 1) pull all user info from LDAP (except root, of course) 2) be a samba PDC, and pull all user info from LDAP My first test was with a spare RH box. I managed to make login, su, and ssh on it authenticate against OpenLDAP on Debian. It was

Re: maildirmake

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:20:05PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | On 13 Jun 2002 23:14:20 +0200 | Andrew Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Where is maildirmake ? | maildrop is a good package to get maildirmake with. Yes, but maildirmake has some limitations. It won't create the folder if

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:54:13PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote: | Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit | VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---SOLVED?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:13:24AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | This isn't an adequate engineering solution to the problem since it is | contrary to what I understood about the liloconfig system. | What does work is: linux mem=768M | What was in lilo.conf that I removed was 'append mem=128M and

Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: | On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | Also, the default inittab has Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to reboot the | system. You can always use that to try and reboot. (I remapped it to | shutdown on my systems because

Re: Snooping

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:39:46PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: | Hi, | | Can anyone suggest a program that will enable me to surf the net from | within an 'untrusted' network without the risk of being snooped on? I | was thinking about something that will run apache-ssl, and I tell it | what

Re: question about Debian

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:49:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 21:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | at the risk of starting yet another uncontrollable thread... | | On 5 Jun 2002 at 8:37, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | [snip] | | While I'm about it, there's more

Re: question about Debian

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:45:53PM -0400, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Ok, now to the real answer -- I've been running various 2.4 kernels | since 2.4.7. The kernels prior to 2.4.10 had some VM issues where it | would swap more than it should

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:06:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Jamin W. Collins wrote: | Have you tested the new memory? Memtest86 is a great tool for doing just | this. | | I tried loading this in lilo and I got a fatal error that the kernel | doesn't support ram disks I suspect your lilo

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | I figured out the floppy boot for memtest86.bin. It's running now (wall | time == 1:12:24 elapsed). | I am currently on test #7 of ??? and have no errors. I assume that it's | at least nothing obviously wrong with the RAM.

Re: ipchains, iptables, and 2.4.18

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:16:09PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | I'd like to upgrade my home machine's kernel to 2.4.18, but I'm not too | excited about moving from ipchains to iptables. (This machine acts as a | router from the home network [on eth0] and our DSL service [eth1].) So, a | few

Re: [MDLUG] Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic---cramfs problem

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:07:40PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 21:13, Tom Allison wrote: | | devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch | devfs: boot_options: 0x0 | | No matter what else is a problem, the above is also very much a problem. | | Just say no to devfs. I've been

Re: RAM upgrade == Kernel Panic

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:48:01PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 06:51:17PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: | | The failure during boot is where the VFS fails to find the device at the | | address/location specified. | | How about double-checking

Re: Compiled from source packages get overwritten

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:25:25AM -0500, Linux wrote: | Hello All! | | When I compile a package from source using apt-get --only-source -b source | package, then intsall with dpkg -i package, my local packages get | overwritten the next time I perform an apt-get upgrade. What do I need | to

Re: GCC 3.1 depends and BinUtils - safe to updrade?

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:45:20PM +0200, Balazs Javor wrote: | Hi, | | I'm currently tracking testing with the /etc/apt/preferences set to: | testing - 800 | unstable - 700 | stable - 600 | | Recently after doing an update in dselect/apt-get it automatically | selected GCC 3.1 and several

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:04:50AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: | At 2002-06-11T12:24:09Z, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm talking about the most basic of user. All these names are foreign. | He has just inserted the 8 woody CD's given to him by a friend and is | following

Re: ps broke!?

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:05:46PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: | Hello, | suddenly -- after a kernel upgrade, it's 2.4.18 with atyfb now -- ps | stopped working. This is the output: | | Signal 7 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). SIGBUS ... that's bad. Run memtest86 and see if you have any

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:25:57AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: | Do I have to re-boot for a change to take effect? Your mouse has moved. You must restart Windows for your changes to take effect. | en_US ISO-8859-1 |

Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:34:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | Is there a preferred way for an end-user to increase/decrease the | severity of a particular bug? Or are these at discretion of the package | maintainer? |

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:05:02PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 03:39:40PM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote: | Reminds me of vigor of user friendly fame | | You just pressed the tab key. Are you sure you wish to | continue? | | You *do* know it's in Debian, right? :)

Re: routing problem

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:11:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: | hi wizards! | | any clue on this one: | | gw2:~# route -n | Kernel IP routing table | Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface | xx.xxx.239.144 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.240 U 0 0

Re: Software work-around for broken BIOS clock?

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:35:56PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:07:01AM -0700, ben wrote: | next time you get to pulling a battery, swab the area around the | contacts with alcohol and let it evaporate before you replace the it. | those batteries should last

Re: Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:06:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: | I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under | debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather | timid about it. Pretty much point apt at woody and apt-get install

Re: Tool to manage messages sent to web site

2002-06-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 02:45:49PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: | I am looking for a tool to manage messages sent to a web server, | with thread capability, etc. Can someone advice of one? What is a message? What do you mean by manage? apache can manage (HTTP) messages sent to a web server.

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade -u doesn't tell me what it's getting

2002-06-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:04:57AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: | Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages | Hit http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Packages | Ign http://security.debian.org woody/updates/non-free Release |

Re: converting html messages to plaintext

2002-06-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:22:14PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote: | On 2002-06-09 12:10 +, Greg Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'd like to convert messages from html to text, for a few specific | mailing lists. Is there a procmail recipe for this? | | Since you seem to be using mutt,

Re: When to trust compound statements and when to test? was: restart all services?

2002-06-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 01:02:11AM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 22:00:07 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 07:41:30PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | | On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 15:07:10 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | snip | | | | Is there a rule of thumb

Re: apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:20:27AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | I've been beating my head into a wall trying to figure out why my | hello world cgi script won't run. It turns out that disabling | suexec (which is enabled by default in the apache package) makes the | problems vanish

apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I've been beating my head into a wall trying to figure out why my hello world cgi script won't run. It turns out that disabling suexec (which is enabled by default in the apache package) makes the problems vanish. Now I want to know what is causing the problem. I skimmed through the security

Re: GNOME 2.x debs?

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 03:30:19AM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: | On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:56:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | I have been running GNOME 2.x on RedHat for a few weeks now and it seems | | to work pretty well. | | Huh. Is that like gcc 2.96 -- grab a cvs snapshot

Re: apache and suexec breaks my cgi script

2002-06-08 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:03:19AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 22:10]: | [2002-06-07 23:55:40]: emerg: cannot get docroot information | (/home/dman) | | drwx--x--x 92 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:13 /home/dman | | These 2 lines

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