X displays but console doesn't: vga=?

2004-06-13 Thread Michael West
I cannot get to a console, but X works fine. If my runlevel is set to start graphically my monitor flashes Invalid Scan Freq three times and then works fine. If I start in single user mode it flashes Invalid Scan Freq forever. when I pass vga=ask to the kernel and select 80x25 the result is the

where are netboot ide-disk modules?

2004-04-18 Thread Michael West
I am installing debian on a system with no removable media. I am netbooting the installation using pxe, dhcp, tftp. This works fine and I can start the installation. However, the install cannot access my harddisk because the ide-disk.o modules is not found. That the module is needed is

Real Time Clock won't boot

2004-02-15 Thread Michael West
When I compile the Real Time Clock into my kernel I cannot complete the boot process and login. This is true in single user mode. Strangly, most of the boot process completes. The hang appears to be in the /etc/rcS.d scripts. The last message to the screen is WARNING:

libGL dlopen() woes in unstable

2003-11-06 Thread Michael West
nights). Is this buggy use of dlopen? A glibc bug? I can't seem to find any bugs assigned to binutils, glibc, or nvidia-glx that describe this problem, but I don't want to file a bugreport before I know that it isn't some borked configuration on my part. Thanks in advance for any info. Michael West

samba print samsung ML-1710

2003-10-19 Thread Michael West
I am having some trouble figuring out how to get my Samsung ML-1710 printer to be shared with winXP. I am using lpr. I can print fine from linux, and can see the printer from XP. I can print gibberish from windows when using the same printer as defined in printcap that I use in linux. I figure

Re: .procmailrc

2003-10-05 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:14:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I make procmail sort out the debian user list? I've tried: #Debian user :0 * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] debian But it doesn't work. I use :0: * X-Mailing-List: \/[EMAIL PROTECTED] `echo $MATCH | sed -e

usb mouse does not work after kernel upgrade

2003-09-25 Thread Michael West
My usb mouse no longer works after upgrading my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.22. I have found a few posts on this list and others with this problem, but no solutions. Most notably: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg13790.html I have the same modules loaded, and the mouse is

Re: simple audio recording

2003-09-14 Thread Michael West
am glad there is a command line option to do this. Is there a mic recording card available which could allow quality recording directly to my laptop? On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:20:44AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Michael West wrote: I would like to record single track audio

simple audio recording

2003-09-13 Thread Michael West
I would like to record single track audio to my computer. I do not need to sync to video, I have little interest in editing. However, I would like high quality recordings. What do I need from a software/hardware side to record org-vorbis or wav files from a high quality microphone? -- In the

Re: Setting up mail server behind iptables firewall

2003-08-14 Thread Michael West
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -i eth1 -j DNAT --to 192.168.69.2:25 you mean --dport 25 don't you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

2003-04-01 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 07:24:49AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 31 Mar 2003 12:32 am, John Hasler wrote: Eric G. Miller writes: To set the time explicitly, see the settime command of chronyc (info chrony). Setting the time

ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Michael West
I haven't been able to get ssh to forward X11 traffic. I also get no errors that I can find. I have X11Forwarding yes in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. I see no errors on either the server or client side or an any logs I have

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:15:36AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 13:46:36 -0800, Michael West wrote: I have X11Forwarding yes in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. Look at all the scripts (either

can't forward

2003-03-15 Thread Michael West
I am setting up a new gateway and it will not forward. The gateway looks like: eth0 10.0.0.2 eth1 10.0.1.1 eth2 10.0.2.1 - route: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 10.0.0.0*

Re: can't forward

2003-03-15 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:30:31AM -0800, Michael West wrote: I am setting up a new gateway and it will not forward. Forwarding is working fine actually. I found a problem with the routing on the machine with the 10.0.0.1 interface. 10.0.0.1 can ping 10.0.2.2 but 10.0.2.2 still cannot ping

can't mount homemade cdroms on one machine

2003-03-01 Thread Michael West
I have one machine that will not mount cdrom I make, though store bought ones mount fine. My own cds mount fine on my other two boxes. The message I get on mounting is No medium found The drive is actually a dvd-rom. Kernel boot message is: Toshiba

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-24 Thread Michael West
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 04:56:10AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Michael West wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Seperate cables to not mean seperate nets. In my case they were all going into the same hub. I haven't used hubs before. Do all

Re: [OT] Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-24 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:10:40PM +1100, David Cureton wrote: As an a-side but in a similar vein: How can one ensure that the physical interfaces get assigned to the same interface consistently after rebooting. Is the only way to explicitly specify the physical interface/physical

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:51:31AM -0800, Michael West wrote: I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic kernel ( 2.4.18 ) I tried passing kernel parameters ether=11,0x2000,eth0 ether=10,0x4000,eth1 ether=9,0x6000,eth2 Now I can only ping all three addresses

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:22:19AM +1100, CaT wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:51:31AM -0800, Michael West wrote: With this setup and only one card with a cable attached I can ping all three addresses 10.0.1.10, 10.0.1.11, and 10.0.1.12. This is true no matter which card is plugged

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:48:45PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 11:51, Michael West wrote: With this setup and only one card with a cable attached I can ping all three addresses 10.0.1.10, 10.0.1.11, and 10.0.1.12. This is true no matter which card is plugged

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: Michael West wrote: I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic kernel ( 2.4.18 ) The three cards are identical and use the eepro100 driver. For testing I have them set up on the same sub-net. All

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-19 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 02:56:14PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: What is wrong with the following setup for Grub? I always ended up with problems booting from hda5, which is not a partition on my system. (hda1 is windows, hda2 is swap, hda3 is going to be Sarge, and hda4 is Woody.)

Re: Problems installing Woody from Hard Disk using GRUB

2003-02-16 Thread Michael West
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: I wanted to install Sarge on an empty partition in my machine that I have booting with GRUB. So I decided to start by installing Woody. I tried following the Installation directions for booting from LILO, but modifying them

Re: [Solved] cfdisk not working!

2003-02-14 Thread Michael West
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:55:21AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:52, Michael West wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:55:30AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I want to repartition my hard disk, but when I try running cfdisk (and yes, I am root), I get

Re: Motherboard with vid, sound, nic

2003-02-14 Thread Michael West
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:00:34AM -0600, Steve Waterman wrote: Looking for a good, stable all-in-one motherboard with a small form factor in which all the components are supported. The board should have video, sound, nic, modem, usb, etc. Hoping to build a small box with enough power to

Re: cfdisk not working!

2003-02-12 Thread Michael West
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:55:30AM +0330, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I want to repartition my hard disk, but when I try running cfdisk (and yes, I am root), I get an error message saying: Cannot create logFATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 7: tended partitions

Re: network print server

2003-01-12 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:00:41PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: a print server should never go down ... if not being able to print at any time is not acceptable, then - put the printer on the gw or the mail server... ( a machine that presumably doesn't go down ) because if those

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-11 Thread Michael West
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:51AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have been asked to help with getting a server for SAS. One of the large expenses of this is the 200Gb+ RAID-5 disk on the EMC frame. When

network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Michael West
I have been using samba as a print server at home, but I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this results in my wife not being able to print. To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasing one of these dedicated print server appliances

sas fileserver

2003-01-07 Thread Michael West
I have been asked to help with getting a server for SAS. One of the large expenses of this is the 200Gb+ RAID-5 disk on the EMC frame. When presented with $ the question came, can't I just get something I can put under my desk and save $? The SAS server will be

Re: apt-get problem

2003-01-07 Thread Michael West
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:17:59PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I keep getting the following error when I run 'apt-get update' Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing kernel-headers-2.4.13-586-ext3 (NewPackage) E: Problem with

Re: squid and internal web server

2003-01-04 Thread Michael West
Clarification: I should add that I am not running bind. Basically, I am trying to get squid to resolve an name from /etc/hosts. On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:12:53PM -0800, Michael West wrote: I cannot get squid to point to the internal ip of my webserver, it resolves

squid and internal web server

2003-01-03 Thread Michael West
I cannot get squid to point to the internal ip of my webserver, it resolves to the public ip. It is ignoring the /etc/host.conf entry: order hosts,bind I can ping the web server and it resolves correctly to the Class C address. I have gone through the large

mutt =?unknown-8bit?q?=DFmpt?=

2002-11-01 Thread Michael West
I just changed one debian box from exim to ssmtp. When I send mail from mutt with: set use_from I get the error: ssmpt: no local part I use a number of from addresses. How can I choose which from address to use with ssmtp? I tried

Re: exim reject most of a domain

2002-10-30 Thread Michael West
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:53:32PM +, Steve Haslam wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:21:00AM -0800, Michael West wrote: How would I configure exim to reject most of a domain? I have read the exim spec on host_reject, sender_reject, host_reject_recipients etc, but am

Re: exim reject most of a domain

2002-10-29 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:11:35PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:21:00AM -0800, Michael West wrote: sender_reject ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] : aol.com You want an MDA like procmail to do this after it reaches the MTA but before the MUA. I do not want to filter, I

Re: xv?

2002-10-29 Thread Michael West
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:11:55AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: Is there a policy reason why there is no xv package, or is it just that no one has bothered to package it? --Greg I prefer xzgv from http://xzgv.browser.org/ : xzgv differs from other picture viewers for X in that it uses

exim reject most of a domain

2002-10-28 Thread Michael West
How would I configure exim to reject most of a domain? I have read the exim spec on host_reject, sender_reject, host_reject_recipients etc, but am not sure. If I want to reject all mail from aol except for mail from one account I think it might be: sender_reject !

Re: exim reject most of a domain

2002-10-28 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:44:52PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 28 October 2002 7:21 pm, Michael West wrote: How would I configure exim to reject most of a domain? I have read the exim spec on host_reject, sender_reject

Re: Apache and Port 192

2002-10-26 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 03:44:13PM +1000, Tim Barker wrote: Cannot find any reference to Port 192 in anything, httpd.conf, services According to http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers port 192 is OSU Network Monitoring System Are you sure this is an apache error?

Re: msttcorefonts

2002-10-24 Thread Michael West
I thought this didn't work anymore since microsoft pulled their fonts. I get a 404 when trying to retrieve the fonts: --- apt-get install msttcorefonts Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed:

Re: exim with both smarthost and direct send

2002-10-21 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:49:25PM +0200, Patrik Modesto wrote: Hi, First: I'm using Debian testing, daily updated as my home PC, exim is setup to send outgoing mail directly to MX record. Second: Now I need to setup exim to send all mail for some domain through my ISP's smtp server. So

Re: custom kernel compilation scripts

2002-10-21 Thread Michael West
Maybe I am not quite clear on the modules and patches thing. I want to go ahead and produce kernel-image and kernel-headers with a selection of the installed kernel-patch and *-modules packages. Say I have kernel-patch-freeswan, kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity, kernel-patch-vlan, and

Re: using external VGA as separate display

2002-10-11 Thread Michael West
I imagine that you can set up an additional X display. I have not done this, nor have I ever used a laptop. Here are two non-debian links to get you started. http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/linux/mandrake7/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5958 Hope this helps! ~Michael

Re: make menuconfig

2002-10-11 Thread Michael West
Maybe you need libncurses5-dev :) I don't know. Have you tried running ldconfig? Good luck. ~Michael On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:36:49AM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: Cristi Banciu wrote: | library. I have libncurses5-dev and all of its friends

Re: Unsubscribe DOES NOT work!

2002-10-11 Thread Michael West
All your subscriptions are belong to us. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

login: cannot cd /home/user

2002-10-02 Thread Michael West
I copied my root file system onto a seperate partition. When I try to boot into new partition as / I cannot login. I get the error: cannot cd /home/user When I boot normally and chroot into the new partition and run login I get: cannot determine tty name I copied devices ( and everything

exim security = unprivileged

2002-09-29 Thread Michael West
I have just reconfigured exim to run with the security = unprivileged option as described here: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_55.html#SEC922 This is working fine, with exim owning the mailboxes. None of my local_parts have system accounts. Now I find that the pop3 daemon I

compile one kernel module

2002-09-09 Thread Michael West
I is possible to compile just a single kernel module and copy it to /lib/modules by hand and have it work? Sometimes with new hardware I end up trial and error compiling to see what will work. Just doing a `make modules modules_install` works, but it would be nice to

Unidentified subject!

2002-04-08 Thread Michael West
I would like to change which controllers my disks are on, but when I do my system no longer boots. I have three ide drives on hde, hdi, and hdk. My main system is completely on hdk. I boot into hdk. If I move the other two drives I can no longer boot into hdk. Depending on where I

lilo, 3 disks, 6 controllers

2002-04-08 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:26:45PM -0800, web wrote: I would like to change which controllers my disks are on, but when I do my system no longer boots. I have three ide drives on hde, hdi, and hdk. My main system is completely on hdk. I boot into hdk. If I move the other two drives

iptables not logging (much)

2002-03-31 Thread Michael West
I cannot get my iptables firewall to log syslog.conf: kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lsmod shows ipt_LOG moduled loaded I created this test firewall in an attempt to log something iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination LOGall --