Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 03:30 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept > > > > the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up > > > > or up I end up with HD. > >

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:09 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > >Marc Shapiro: > > > > > >>Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> > >>>But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it > >>>is almost certain to get backported so th

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:46 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And for the record, I believe NEC and NCR are now the same company, > > rather than two separate entities of a holding company. > > Er, no. > [...snip...] Thanks M

Re: Going back to stable

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 09:46 +0530, H S Rai wrote: > What is the way to go back to stable version, if mess has > been created using apt-get for unstable and experimental > vesrsion? Thar be fierce fire breathing Dragons in that direction! But you can do it, if and only if you know your way arou

Re: [deb-user] startup strangeness

2006-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 22:53 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > These seem totally unrelated, but they started with the exact same boot: > > 1) double Jack connection kits on startup- one seems to be well before > the other, so maybe a link is being visited twice? Never used jack, sorry can't help you

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

2006-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> >

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

2006-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on > 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is timestamped 2006-07-08. > > $ apt-cache policy linux-source-2.6.16 > linux-

Re: Problem Stopping mplayer

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 10:00 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I start mplayer from mozilla and listen to a radio station not available > locally - works perfectly. > > There is a hitch though. If mozilla is stopped there is no longer a > window for mplayer. I stop it from a console by getting i

Re: quotaon fails - "Quota format not supported in kernel"

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 07:56 -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > I'm attempting to enable quotas on a Sarge system running a custom > 2.6.17.3 kernel. > > # grep -i quota /boot/config-`uname -r` > CONFIG_QUOTA=y > CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y > > # quotaon -uv / > quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/hda3 [/]:

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:10 -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> [...snip...] > >> Anyway, the problem goes away with a 2.6 kernel. This is with no > >> changes to BIOS or any of the package configurations. This > >> gives _me_ an acceptable soluti

Re: Mip-o-suction (horrible performance)

2006-07-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 21:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > > I also notice that there's a big discrepancy in the readahead. > > What are the tradeoffs of bumping this number? It just preloads > > the disk controller's cache, right? > > Good question. It is the difference betwee

Re: how to get libX*.la ?

2006-06-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 19:45 +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to compile a software which needs a lot of libX*.la files. Which > package(s) contains these files? (I thought the -dev packages does) > > $ dpkg -l > [...] > libxcursor-dev > libxcursor1 > [...] > xlibs-dev > xlibs-static-dev >

Re: Not a query, but an observation.

2006-06-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 10:05 -0500, DonDashGuitar wrote: > I attempted to report a problem with my video resolution following the > outlined protocol I found in the support files as best I could. Given a > space for commentary, and a stomach full of suppressed frustration I > couldn't resist the ur

Re: OT: Maximum number of fast ethernet cards

2006-06-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 21:41 +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > This is slightly offtopic, but does anyone know the maximum number of fast > ethernet cards a typical PC can handle..? > I want to use a cheap (ish) Debian box as a firewall/router to suppliment my > Netgear, and provide more

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:16 +0200, Juergen Erhard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:27:38AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: > > > Sorry, couldnt resist > > > > > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 > > > > After reading this sent

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 06:55 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Simone, > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from > > backports. > > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet depend

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > : > > > > set -e > > > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out > > what's really wrong. > > > This will tell you where in the script it's

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 01:21 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Hallo friendly list: > > I've decided that windows has to go and a swap has to come. So, I'm a > gonna clear the hard drive of my Toshiba satellite A70 laptop and give > myself a new start on life. Now, I've been looking about some. It >

Re: USB Mp3 player problems

2006-06-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:22 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 02:36:36PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 05.06.06 23:51, Mike Polyakov wrote: > > > Derek, that did it! Thank you. However, when I reboot I have to type > > > in those lines again. Is it possible to have usb

Re: Quad Monitor nVidia on Etch -- UNSTABLE

2006-06-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:50 -0400, James Wiggs wrote: > Folks, > >I am trying to get a quad-monitor system running using the PNY > Quadro NVS 440 PCI Express x16 video card. Here are the system > specs: > > Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI > P/S: Aspire ATX-AS520W Blue 520 Watt > CPU: AMD Athlon(

Re: list of installed packages

2006-05-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 00:20 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Note: Sources are availlable too (at request) Cute. Sources for a shell script. I'll have to rememeber that one. One last comment: nice script. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux s

Re: Problems playing Runescape

2006-05-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:39 -0400, Craigevil wrote: > I have no idea what I did. One minute it was working the next it > freezes at "Loading Updates". This happens no matter what browser I > use, including Firefox, Opera 8.5 and 9, Konqueror, Galeon and > Seamonkey. > > I am using the Sun Java ver

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:03 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions as to my actual question, or should I take > it up with the GNOME developers? Or even violate what I just wrote and file > a Debian bug and let the Debian developers take it up with the GNOME > developers? The

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:56 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Even my posts are delayed. I do not know the reason. I am sending this > message > on 4:56pm May 25, 2006 EDT. Let's see when it arrives on the list :-) Nice delay there: Received: from murphy.debian.org ([70.103.162.31])

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:16 +0200, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem. I have sudo setup so that I can sudo apt-get, to > update for instance. In one network when I have an http_proxy set in the > environment apt-get update can connect when I use su, but not when I use > sudo. e

Re: switching games between fullscreen and window

2006-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 11:19 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1148262532 past the epoch, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there any way to switch between fullscreen and window > > mode in games that use SDL, like Quake4 and X2 (X2 demo > > for now)? > > I think that is very much game-specific. Off the

Figuring out Why Standards are there.

2006-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 03:32 -0700, formless void wrote: > I finally found that W3C has got > > User Agent Accessibility Guidelines at > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-USERAGENT/ > > Now my question is how authenticative W3C is? What do you mean by "authenticative"? Do you mean au·thor·i·ta·tive?

Re: possible screen problem

2006-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:42 +0100, Bill Appelbe wrote: > Hi > I recantly installed Debian 3.1 on with a dual boot system (Windows > XP). > I had some problems with xfree86 and found that installing x.org from > backports worked. > > I am now noticing in the bottom right of my screen a discolourati

Re: exim4+spamassassin scan take seconds

2006-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:54 +0200, itom wrote: > >> hi all, I've trouble with Exim4(4.5) and spamassassin; my client when > >> send a mail with mailclient wait some seconds and at last send the mail. > >> In the exim's log I found very strange 7 second to scan a mail when > >> searching in intern

Re: How do I use the linux-headers with the linux-source?

2006-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:48 +0200, Marco wrote: [...snip...] See my other response further up the thread. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, Better, Faster: Linux Use Debian GNU/Linux, its a bazaar thing NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Secu

Re: How do I use the linux-headers with the linux-source?

2006-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:28 +0200, Marco wrote: > Hi Kilian, > Excuse me if I break the thread but I write you outside from my office > with the webmail. > > If the linux-source-2.6.15 package already contains the linux kernel > headers, why in my linux-source directory I can't found the file > au

Re: aptitude replacing debfoster [limiting the view]

2006-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:37 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:09:16PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: > >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:03:16AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Can I somehow limit(l) the package list in aptitude to only show me > >> packages that > >> > >> 1.

Re: ieee that doesn't suck

2006-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 22:31 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I think I just wasted a bunch of money on a IEEE1394 firewire card. > > I can load modules and see a device on the PCI bus using lspci. > But there isn't anything in the /proc/bus/ that matches 'ieee1394' > > I can't get any more informatio

Re: dvd burning

2006-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 21:27 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I'm moving my first steps with Debian. > As a Mandrake 10.1 user, I used to burn dvds as well as cds with cdrecord; > but now with Debian 3.1 it seems that I can't. > In `/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian' it says: > > > cdrecord

Re: Alsa breaks after kernel upgrade

2006-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 09:34 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 5/11/06, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Abajian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Sound used to work fine. Running Sarge distro kernel 2.6.8-2-386, > > > Alsa was happy. Life was good. Sndstat sa

Re: clearing all arp records ?

2006-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 09:24 -0700, S t i n g r a y wrote: > Sorry dennis, but i didnt get it ... Ummm he wrote a single line shell script basically a For Loop. for host in `arp -n | tail +2 | cut -f1 -d' '`; do arp -d $host; done He just for got to remove the first line. > --- Dennis St

Re: Having cron-apt choose the default action (rather than yes) during upgrades?

2006-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 09:03 +0100, Rich Stanton wrote: > I want to use cron-apt to auto install updates overnight. I'm aware of > the reasons against doing this, and am prepared to live with the > consequences on this occasion. I assume I can just create a file in > /etc/cron-apt/action.d called

Re: etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x

2006-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 17:18 -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org > to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that > anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. > > I was interested in the e

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 03:19 -0700, formless void wrote: > You see when I make allegations on IT industry, I mean > it. > > Look these Dishonest Browsers > > http://www.samspublishing.com/library/content.asp?b=STY_JavaScript_24_hours&seqNum=151 Hey, Fully-Formed Mass Assive: I can install an Ext

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 22:24 +0200, lee wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:35:42AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Well, if you had installed Sarge or Etch, they would have upgraded your > > Exim v3 install to Exim v4. I've done the transition a couple of hundred > &g

RE: grub splash images, (was grub and lilo)

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:24 +0200, Dimitri Mallis wrote: > ... > run "update-grub" to fix the booting list. > > Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... > > how can i put a splash image for grub so that it looks nice, just like > in suse (just for fun) As root: apt-get insta

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:47 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards: > > 1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader First off, are you using XFS as your root filesystem? If so, there is a problem with grub detecting things properly and

Re: grub and lilo

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:24 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: > When I updated to testing on Friday night, lilo became the default boot > loader. I have removed lilo. Grub is still present, and I am trying to > install grub as the boot loader, following the instructions on its > website. When issue the

(Correction) Re: Warning: Latest Kernel Sources on Sid

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
I was just reading my own post when I saw a mistake. On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 14:33 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 18:22 +0300, David Baron wrote: [...snip...] > > > kqemu, isn't a kernel module... I am sorry I mislead you in any way on > > > that.

Re: Warning: Latest Kernel Sources on Sid

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 18:22 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 18:11, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 17:36 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > On Monday 08 May 2006 17:10, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:04 +0300, D

Re: Converting from rgb to cmyk

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 19:43 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > I have some jpg-graphics, that I need to use in a leaflet-folder, that > shall be printed in offset. > > The jpg-graphics are in rgb-colormodel, but the printer would like to > have them in the cmyk-model. > > How can I convert between

Re: Warning: Latest Kernel Sources on Sid

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 17:36 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 17:10, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:04 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:17, H.S. wrote: > > > > David Baron wrote: > > > > > Yo

Re: Warning: Latest Kernel Sources on Sid

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:04 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 07 May 2006 23:17, H.S. wrote: > > David Baron wrote: > > > You may get the following on modules previously compiled against kernel > > > sources: > > > > > > Kqemu and Nvidia's driver were hit by this. Easy enough to fix--recompile

Re: /var/lib/dpkg/status shows on installed packages

2006-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 16:28 -0400, Len Berman wrote: > I just installed sarge on a new machine and NO packages in status are > listed as not-installed. I'm using synaptic and it knows that there are > packages which are not installed. (I discovered this using and old > script I had written which

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 15:30 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500 > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > charlie derr wrote: > > > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > > > output that I don't understand. > > > > > > here's a part of

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:08 -0400, charlie derr wrote: > On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df > output that I don't understand. > > here's a part of the output from df -h > > /dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 100% /backup > > if i don't use the -h it looks lik

Re: Reiser just bit me! (was: Comparison of filesystems)

2006-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 20:49 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > >P.S. to include something relevent to the original thread, I have > > >use both Reiserfs and Ext3, and have never found enough performance > > >or reliability difference to worry about - so for me the main > > >advantges of each are

Re: Reiser just bit me! (was: Comparison of filesystems)

2006-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 20:49 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > > > > >P.S. to include something relevent to the original thread, I have > > >use both Reiserfs and Ext3, and have never found enough performance > > >or reliability difference to worry about - so for me the main > > >advantges of each are:

Re: Gnome 2.14 crashes in Etch after upgrade

2006-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:08 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > I dist-upgraded Etch (Testing) today. Attempting to open a Gnome session > caused Gnome to abort and made other virtual terminals unusable (they > all had a screen with a coloured pattern and no prompt or text). This > was true for any exist

Re: looking for open source font developing tools

2006-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 19:46 +0200, Juraj Fedel wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:36:31PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > > I know this is somewhat off topic, but I really do not know where to > > post.. > > I am looking for some open source font developing tools (can turn > > monochroic images to tr

Re: Just how do I fix this??

2006-04-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 23:41 -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: > I am trying to fix an unmet dependancy from my Backports installation of KDE > 3.5. I am guessing that something is not allowing the overwriting > of /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kioslave/audiocd.docbook. How can I force this > to happen? [

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> > >>>I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer, > >>>because I suddenly didn't have a licence for a certain program any > >>>more and a

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:50 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] > >>Umm, you never did have that license, then, and you used the software > >>in an unauthorized manner. In short, you used a pirate copy. > > > > > > Wow -- way to libel someone! He *did* say the issue was when > > switching employers

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 13:39 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: [...snip...] > Umm, you didn't read or you didn't understand what I wrote. > I lumped several things together, but I did not say they > were the same thing. The Debian social contract falls u

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 14:58 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > >> Many embedded systems don't have swap. ssh in inetd worked ok last time > >> I used it as long as speed was not important. > > > Thanks, Joey, I'll give it a whirl later on and let everyone know.

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 01:58 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:23:26PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: > > Hi All, [...] > > Any suggestions? > > [...] > You still stop the black hats from trying to guess passwords > using your ssh server. Yes... yes you will. But what is the fun

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? > > Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from > time to time via ssh however. 500k of a resident ssh is 500k I could f

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:59 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? > > Machine with low RAM that I rarely access via ssh. I do need access from > time to time via ssh however. 500k of a resident ssh is 500k I could f

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 12:45 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Is there some automated method of placing sshd into inetd? I've attempted > to dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server to no avail. Why would one want sshd to run from inetd? sshd should typically be run as a daemon. As far as I know, there isn

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 23:38 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: > > Thanks, Digby... > > > > SOLVED THE PROBLEM! > > > > Changed the jumpers from "Master" to "C Sel" (cable select?) and behold, > > BIOS then reported 4.3GB. > > > > Just for t

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 20:35 -0400, Ian MacDonald wrote: > In keeping with Easter, and not putting all your eggs in one basket, you > might check out fwbuilder too. > > I can't get away from the fwbuilder GUI and the knobs there. > > Nice plugins for PIX, Linksys, etc. too. > > http://freshmeat.n

Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500

2006-04-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:42 +0200, jf wrote: > Hi, > I use the default driver provided by xorg so I think it won't work for > me but thank you You use the default driver for Radeon from X.org? DRI won't ever be enabled nor will GLX ever be fast. You'll need to install the ATI Binary Drivers, wh

RE: External hard drive woes

2006-04-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:31 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... while running faubackup backup at night via cron, the system > > locks up with a kernel panic that I can't scroll back on because it's > > too long and USB keyboards stop working after panic. No output to > >

Re: win-axe clones

2006-04-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:38 -0400, J. Van Lierde wrote: > Bill Marcum wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:47AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > > > >>Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to > >>Win-axe? > >> > >> > > > >What does win-axe do? > > > > >

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:19 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > steef wrote: > >> http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#small-dvd > >> > >> > > > > the content of this link is in dutch! my native tongue. there is only a > > small statistical chance pannes can read and understand this language > > unless you

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:57 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I do not need to cool down my processor down to 37 degrees, as it is in > the moment. I need to make my fan speed dependent on the cpu > temperature. This will save battery & reduce noise. Any idea how to do > that? btw, I have loaded the

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > without hosing your connection), remount ro and give it a shot. (Having > /var and /home on

Re: ntp.conf and ntpd

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:57 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Is there a way to configure ntpd to listen to a select number of > interfaces? I have it set up on a virtual server and the ntpd program has > attached itself to hundreds of interfaces. If you were to look at the ntp-docs th

Re: Kernel upgrade on Dell Power edge 750

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:09 -0400, Tom Moore wrote: > Does anyone know what is needed to upgrade this server from a 2.4 kernel to > 2.6? > Currently I have Sarge installed on a couple of these machines and I'm > wanting to upgrade them to use 2.6 kernels. > I tried installing the kernel-image-2.6-6

Re: Force deactivate a logical volume (LVM2)

2006-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:18 +0800, ck Choy wrote: > Is it possible to _force_ deactivate a logical volume in lvm2? > > I've tried > # lvchange -an /dev/vg/foo, but I get > LV vg/foo in use: not removing > > I want to test some raid function(raid 5, inside xen domU) so I need to > deactivate the

Re: I recieve spam "Debian security."

2006-04-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 08:28 +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:28:14PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > > Where this spam come form? > > > > > > That's what we call the petsupermaket spammer. > > It seems to be replying to most people who post on debian-devel, >

Re: CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

2006-03-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:21 -0500, Hornsby, Tim wrote: > Hi, > > My SysKonnect driver for the CDDI hardware stop working with the new Debian > 3.1, with kernel 2.6.8. > > It worked with 2.4.27. > > I've been told that the new kernel default is 64 bit addressing with > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G set to ye

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 17:24 +0200, listrcv wrote: > Drake Mobius wrote: > > Virtual domains are a big concern to me..I may be brand new at this but I'm > > stuck with the task and I need an enterprise-size mail server. > > cpanel: http://www.cpanel.net/ is used for site config and mgmt > > plesk: s

Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes

2006-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:05 +0200, listrcv wrote: > Drake Mobius wrote: > > Now I've got my mail server running, and all it took was an hour and a > > half of complete idiocy and associated frustation! > > Yeah, the automagical configuration of Exim4 is a horrible mess! You > have no chance to ge

Re: System works fine, but where's my grub.conf?

2006-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 13:33 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've just noticed something that is a bit odd. I have Debian 3.1 > (Sarge) running on a server which boots up fine from the GRUB > bootloader (the kernel selection menu appears in the beginning, etc.), > however, when

Re: "free" shows only 4GB out of the 8GB of memory on the system

2006-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 15:24 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi, > > Our Debian 3.1 (2.4.27-2-686-smp kernel) server contains (among other > things) 4x2GB sticks of RAM giving us a grand total of 8GB, however, > free and cat /proc/meminfo sees roughly only 4GB: > [...snippage...] > I believe thi

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:00 -0700, Jared Hall wrote: > I took care of it all last night a couple of minutes after I posted. > Here's what I did. > > I looked at my logs and found that there was no successful root login. > the reason netstat was showing another root connection from the > mentione

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 11:48 -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > You mentioned a "home" computer. I have more than one system in my home that > are multiuser, which kicks in security rules. Personally, I have four rules > for partitioning securely. Rules 1 and 2 grew out of the days when filling /

Re: How to lock user in his home.

2005-09-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:37 -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: > Hello people, > > I wanna how to lock a user in his home, he cannot see any other > directory, just his home. Someone how can i do this? > Well, the problem here is that *NIX doesn't by default allow "users" to write to the "system" di

Re: Exchange replacement

2005-09-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:53 +0100, antgel wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 12:56:32PM +0100, antgel wrote: > > > >>Hans du Plooy wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I've given up on trying to get a decent free OSS replacement for > >>>Exchange - it's simply not worth the

Re: apache2 vs. apache-perl

2005-09-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 19:55 +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: > Any idea what the essential differences are betwen installing these 2 debian > packages? I have used apache-perl without too many hitches on my home machine, > my new server came with apache2 preinstalled. > > I'm wondering whether this

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:39 -0500, Vi Arguelles wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > > my user. I think it should run as root... Saverio, if it ran as root for managing your stuff... hmm that

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:28 -0400, Ben Bettin wrote: > > > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f > > This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :) So, why not use the tools that Debian gives you? knight:/etc/logcheck# update-rc.d usage

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:07 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: [...] > I downloaded the Debian 3.1 iso, burned it into a CD and installed it clean > and fresh into its own separate disk (dev/hdd), which I made sure Debian > first deleted, then partitioned, then formatted, then installed. > > And, once

Re: gnome config [was: metacity?]

2005-07-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:38 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Greg Folkert on 14/07/05 20:29, wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:22 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > > >>Shall I just apt-get remove gnome and then apt-get install it again? > >> > >>Or does that w

Re: epson R300 w/ cups

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 17:09 +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Do you get the same quality as on Windows? In my experience the quality > on Windows is still better :-(. Haven't tried printing photos on Linux. > > I've had no luck at all printing directly onto CDs from Linux. If you > find something, p

Re: metacity?

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:22 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Shall I just apt-get remove gnome and then apt-get install it again? > > Or does that way madness lie? Yes, madness awaits. But, more madness awaits trying to fix you gconf setup. I know, I completely rebuilt my gconf, everything under /etc/

Re: compiling custom kernel/Sarge

2005-06-21 Thread Greg Folkert
rs you want. Matter of fact most "install routines" will, if done right (installing just the headers) find the headers on thier own and make it happen. One last thing, exactly *WHAT* drive controllers are these? They may already be in the kernel module tree. -- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Damn! Updated system and grub is changed ???????

2005-06-17 Thread Greg Folkert
ed, rename you current menu.lst to something else. The run "update-grub" say yes, and then edit the file to your liking (the pre-fixes and locations, options and such) the re-run "update-grub" It usually finds all debian kernels works well. Good luck. -- Greg Folkert <[E

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-17 Thread Greg Folkert
and it is not my machine, so YMMV. > Thanks for reading and thank you to the Debian community. I'm glad to > have finally jumped the fence! Yes, just stay away from the broken Windows laying around. I read the list, so no need to CC me. -- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to etch

2005-06-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 09:58 -0400, Brian Pack wrote: [...] > Then there is the changeover from XFree86 to X.org, which may break *lots* of > stuff. :) > > Any word on the timetable for this switch? http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml That is the X Strike Force news... keep an e

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 20:27 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I took the occasion of this release to review my sources.list and preferences. > In the process I did some experiments and found a puzzle that I hope > someone will explain. > > With sarge in my sources.list I have nothing to download beca

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:41 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following > message printed on it: > > Only in the World >of Microsoft >are Options > Required > > Go

Re: More on sound issue

2005-01-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 09:08 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I found a bit more on the sound problem I picked up from my carelessness > earlier this week. KDE can play .wav files, it simply can't play .ogg files. And you have the ogg tools installed? -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology

Re: encountered new file extension (.dwg)

2005-01-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 00:46 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > "Jack" == Jack Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jack> Now, a question. Does anyone know of efforts to develop a DWG > Jack> library that is compatible with GPL, LGPL or a similar license? > Jack> The Open Design Group's OpenDWG l

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