Re: demangling text columns

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:42:10PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I asked an earlier question about e-links, let me ask it another way: It seems like my reply didn't get through? > linear text flows. I want to do the opposite of par or fmt. Not quite: what You want is the opposite

Re: cron - stop console logging

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:17:13PM -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > and /etc/syslog.conf says: > > cron.*/var/log/cron.log Is it really not commented (i.e. no hash at the very beginning of that line)? -- It seems like Woody r2 default syslog.conf reads: | *.*;auth,auth

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:48:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > Also, he says that it runs on the PDP-11 and the Interdata 8/32, which > contradicts my memory that it was developed on an earlier model DEC > computer. But he does say that work on UNIX started in 1971. so maybe > my

Re: strange libvorbis0 problem

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:40:08PM +, raoul duke wrote: > mplayer: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by > /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0) Seems like libvorbis requires a feature not present in Woody's glibc (v2.2), and is careful enough to check the versions--qu

Re: iptables generates unwanted output

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:40:49AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: > Now, when I'm on one of the tty' terminals, I get this message each time: > > INPUT packet died: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.0.0.150 DST=10.0.0.255 > LEN=131 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 D

Re: how to config ethernet

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:07:34PM -0800, j smith wrote: > i have been using Debian 3.0. today i install cable > modem. however, during Debian installation, i say no > to ethernet configuration, because at the time, i > don't have ethernet card. now how to config my Linux >

Re: elinks -dump without tables

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:44:07PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I use elinks -dump to get websites into text files. > However, if the website contains tables, the output isn't well-formatted > for a text editor -- all the tables become split lines. Hi, Nano. links is an awful botc

Re: Unable to disable IDE DMA on boot

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:11:39AM +0200, Johannes Lehtinen wrote: > So I need to disable the DMA right at boot. Usually this has been done > by giving the kernel "ide=nodma" parameter but now with the modular > kernel this does not appear to work. The module should accept

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > Here's another view of that data: What about this one?: | Country Aid(Billions) People(Millions) Dollars/Person | Australia 1 19.750.76 | Austria 0.5 8.1 61.73 | Belgium 1.1 10.2107.84

Re: booting problem with tpconfig after removing it

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:03:05PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: > I encountered a strange problem today. Suddenly my notebook stops > booting after starting klogd. > > I am running 2.6.1 and unstable. > > After booting into single user mode I tried to manually start >

Re: changing pcmcia device interfaces

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:51:29AM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote: Is nameif(8) what you want? > filename:/lib/modules/2.4.21/pcmcia/pcmf502r.o Oops: Don't you have your kernel patched? At least 2 local root exploits were reported since 2.4.21 that I _know_ about. -- J

Re: kernel update

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:53:42AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > That will install a new kernel. I don't know your setup, but if you are > using the standard setup, then IIRC the post install script will ask you > questions and link your new kernel to /vmlinuz and your old (cur

Re: logs rapidly fill /var partition

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:41:40PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 09:54, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm guessing that you've got your kernel compiled with usb mass storage > verbose debug, and most likely, you'll see this kind of output any time > you a

Re: shell script question

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:26:49PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > There's no need for a script. Just use wget -> man wget. Or ncftp. HTH. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:58:20AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > The radical libertarian in me enjoys the concept of an O/S where user > apps can trash the system. Protection faults just seem anti-democratic. > I'd love to see a modern "equal-opportunity" O/S :-) AFAIK, L

Re: Sound on startup

2004-01-26 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:30:31PM -0500, Rajesh Menon wrote: >[...] not sure where to add these > lines. Either among the /etc/rc?.d/* scripts, or as a post-install in /etc/modules.conf (man update-modules). HTH -- Jan Minar &

booting problem with tpconfig after removing it

2004-01-24 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I encountered a strange problem today. Suddenly my notebook stops booting after starting klogd. I am running 2.6.1 and unstable. After booting into single user mode I tried to manually start everything in rc2.d via /etc/init.d xyz start and discovered that /etc/init.d/tpconfig hangs. In the

Re: mutt and Return-path

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:07:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > > > Is there significance to the Return-path value? > > > > Basically,

Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-23 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:37:05AM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:04:49PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > > > > At the boot: prompt, try "linux single root=/dev/hda2" (replace

Re: X windows

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:28:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Modules supplied with the driver (agpgart.o and i830.o) are only supported > for SUSE and Red Hat Linux distributions. | % modinfo agpgart | filename:/lib/modules/2.4.24-jan/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o | descr

Re: ddt-client error " ld.so: Incorrectly built binary"

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:47:07AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Jan Minar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:55 AM > Subject: Re: ddt-client error " ld.so:

Re: ssh stopped working

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:42:23PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > I changed the password of the root user and restarted the machine and am now > unable to locally or remotely connect using ssh clients. (0) Perhaps the restart of your machine was what was the cause: maybe you configur

Re: partitions

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:52:47PM -0500, Jose Peralta Ramirez wrote: > i have 2 hard disks drives in my computer, one have fat32 an windows98, > the other has four partitions, one NTFS, other with fat32, and with > windows XP in the NTFS partition, other with SWAP and othe with EXT3 &

Re: batch modify user config files

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:22PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Is there a way to write a bash script to > append a line of text to each user's > config file in their home directory? You should be very careful as what type of file it is, as this might: (1) not get e

Re: Debugging network problems

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:46:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > So the question is, in a setup like the above what's the best way to get > in and sniff the packets? My $0.02 is: 2 ethernet cards, 2 cross-wire TP cables, one decent Debian installation turned into a router: [Brother] &l

Re: ddt-client error " ld.so: Incorrectly built binary"

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
Ahoj Benedikte! Nizozemština je super, ale co takhle Anglicky: ``env LC_ALL=C foo'' instead of just ``foo'' would do ;-) On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:23:48AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Instellen van ddt-client (0.5.9.1) ... > Stopping Dynamic DNS daemon: ddtcd. >

Re: FileSystems, Partition sizes, LARGE files??

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:10:14AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3. Is there a problem with setting the reserved blocks percentage 0% or > should I set it to 1%? This reserved space is there so that a mere user cannot eat up all the space, leaving nothing for logs, temporary files, loc

Re: Problem installing Debian 3.0 r1 on Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:56:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tested with Suse > 8.1 (Install options acpi=off and it works), but where can I find an > install-boot option like this in Debian. IIRC, the acpi=off is documen

Re: mutt and Return-path

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: > Is there significance to the Return-path value? Basically, it tells the addressee ``Don't reply to the address in the `From:' field, but to this one/these, please.'' See [1]RFC 822, section 4.4.3

fcpcipnp driver [problem update]

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Nordholz
i loads fine if I modprobe it manually... Has anyone any more ideas? TIA, Jan -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More +++ Bis 31.1.: TopMail + Digicam für nur 29 EUR http://www.gmx.net/topmail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Skipping the X when switching through the vt's

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Minar
Hi. What is the simplest/most ellegant way to skip the console upon which X runs, when switching through the consoles using Alt-LeftArrow or Alt-RightArrow respectively? Would that be simpler than hacking the kernel code? -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm s

Re: Intel Pro Gigabit Ethernet drivers in Woody

2004-01-22 Thread Jan Kokoska
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:52, Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote: > Jan Kokoska wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:12, Vassilis Rizopoulos wrote: > > > >>I've got a brand new Dell Optiplex GX270 to use a source control server. > >>The thing has a built in Et

OT: TV ruines our life [Was: Programs with colourful, moving, images???]

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
Nonono! Not another OT thread! Not this week... OK, why not ;-) On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:47:47PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:09:47PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > > >

Re: Programs with colourful, moving, images???

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:09:33PM +0100, Alex Bartok wrote: > > From: Jan Minar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > xmms(1) visualization plugins. > > > Whoa, those give even me the creeps sometimes, that's gotta work ;) You could even hook a microphone and/or a mechani

Re: Modem

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:50:30PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Jan Minar writes: > > pppd tends to reset the permissions, so I have to chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1 > > each time I want to switch from pppd to minicom. > > Pppd should restore the permissions unless you kill -9 it

Re: Programs with colourful, moving, images???

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote: > My three month old daughter loves to watch glxgears running maximized on > one of my monitors while I work at the other. The big, revolving and Won't this ruin her vision? My sister wouldn't allow her 8-mon

Re: Modem

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Check the file permissions. Are you in the dialout group? pppd tends to reset the permissions, so I have to chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1 each time I want to switch from pppd to minicom. HTH, YMMW. -- Jan Minar &quo

Re: Framebuffer help

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:21:45AM -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote: > Hi! I have a knoppix hd installed on a laptop. I want to view images in the > console. I can view images as root. How can i do it as an ordinary user? I > already added myself to group tty. Which program do you use? --

Re: Console mode (80x25) in Debian Woody

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:39:36AM +0100, dziekan wrote: > How to get size (COLSxROWS) 80x25 in console mode? The answer has been told, however, here are some alternatives: AFAIK, If you wanted 80x25 _framebuffer_, you could probably use fbset(8). svgatextmode can be used to get vari

[SOLVED] Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:57:33PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > > There was a similar question few days/weeks ago; the way I do it is to > > boot off an install cd, mount the system fs at /mnt/foo; and do chroot > > /mnt/foo. Then I can play with the system, as if I booted

Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:04:49PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > > At the boot: prompt, try "linux single root=/dev/hda2" (replace "hd2" > > with the correct partition for your root). > > This results in a kernel panic: > cannot open device /dev/

problem with the fcpcipnp driver & 2.6.0 kernel

2004-01-20 Thread Jan Nordholz
Dear list, after migrating my system from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0, I find myself unable to use my ISDN card, which worked perfectly with the fcpcipnp module under 2.4.*. When the card tries to dial up, I get the following backtrace: - Jan 20 14:10:39 hejre kernel: ippp0: State ST_NULL Event

Re: Login

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:25:54PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:25:51AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:18:58PM -, Cristiano Tavares - SP wrote: > > &

Re: Re: DVD-RAM disks

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:17:28PM +0100, freedom_for_cat wrote: > When I wrote "as floppies" I wanted to mean that I wanted to write on them with a > simply copy and paste, and not with a sesion, like in DVD-RW. Sorry for my English. AFAICT, you want the package `udftools'

Re: Login

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:37:36AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Just be aware that telnet is a security disaster. Use ssh instead. > > Not if you're using IPSec. Ah, yes. I have to look into IPSec at las

fonts policy

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
ave some font problems of my own, and would prefer to solve them by RTFM. But which FM, that is the question. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot to execute lilo

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:52:27PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote: > Now I just want to boot the installed Debian testing system to execute > lilo. How can I do this using an (unoffical) Debian testing install dvd? There was a similar question few days/weeks ago; the way I do it is to boot

Re: Login

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:25:51AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:18:58PM -, Cristiano Tavares - SP wrote: > > Why doesn't my Debian system let me login with root? > > Because it's not bright. Log in as a normal user, and use su -m to > g

Re: root pass

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 01:33:27PM +0100, konf wrote: > during the installation of debian testing/unstable i missed menu > offering to set root password.how should i login to the system?is the (1) When (re-)configuring a system, have a paper notebook handy. Unless you have an infaliable

Re: Automatically setiting mtu

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:56:51AM +1100, glenn wrote: > Firstly just because I used the tla MTU doesn't mean I undertand it, but > I look after a box where I need to set it, and would like it done > automatically. The way to set a MTU is (assuming you have the iproute package insta

Re: Ctrl - s, s key problem

2004-01-18 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 10:01:02PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Now *I* wonder. I always thought this is be a feature all terminals Nope. I don't know the proper mechanism, but quite a few apps do use the Ctrl-S themselves, e.g. info(1) and w3m(1). -- Jan Minar "

Re: Keyboard problem with kernel 2.6.1

2004-01-17 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:43:32PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > After installing Kernel 2.6.1, I have effectively lost the key with the > hash mark and the apostrophe on it (german layout). On the console, it > hasnt been working for quite some time, it just toggled between two > conso

Re: ping script

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:23:57PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone written a script that they're willing to share that pings a > host and when the ping fails it send out an email message? #!/bin/sh while :; do # Allow for intermittent network failures ping -c 120 &

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:22:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > Gotta love the stupidities people will go to just to avoid actually > learning something. No, Marc. I /do/ want to learn. That's why I linger here. And I do read the documentation. Usually it helps, but sometime

Re: fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:14:43AM +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote: > As far as I understand it you want to poll all the 162 messages from your > server - but why are you setting the single-poll-limit to 2 messages? Try > 160 if you want to use the fetchlimit option. No thanks, I'm not i

Re: [SOLVED] Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:09:13PM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: > For parameters changed via /proc fs, changes across reboots can also be > "saved" in /etc/sysctl.conf Oh, nice :-) Thank you, Erich. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:52:31PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:39:40PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > It's a feature. The ATX PCs are mostly on, even when ``off'' (think > > standby), too. > > Which is a misfeature. Sometimes on a dual-boo

fetchmail skips messages even if ~/.fetchids is truncated

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
es two messages, then it says: | fetchmail: fetchlimit 2 reached; 162 messages left on server \ | pop3.seznam.cz account Jan.Minar Every further wakeup will just skip the ``old'' messages. Any clues? I enclose my ~/.fetchmailrc TIA, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please d

Re: esd, artsd

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:08:01PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > I notice that when esd (runs under gnome) or artsd (kde) are running I > cannot play mp3s. > I guess they take an exclusive lock on /dev/dsp? Does anyone know a Exactly. OSS can't accept more that one thing w

Re: Blender on debian

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:27:12PM +1100, glenn wrote: > I installed it ages ago & it worked fine, I regularly apt-get update & > upgrade||dist-upgrade, and one day I noticed blender in the downloads, Then it would be a bug. But a really weird one. If there is not an account name

Re: Blender on debian

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:18:41AM +1100, glenn wrote: > $: ls -l /usr/bin/blender > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 75 Dec 18 09:10 /usr/bin/blender > ->/home/alexis/packages/blender-2.30pre1/debian/tmp/usr/local/blender/blender The symlink target path looks weiird; w

Re: X program from cron

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:24:30PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > #!/bin/sh > NEXTFILE=`ls $1 | rl -c 1` > wmsetbg $1$NEXTFILE > > Now that's coding. Anyway, it works. However, cron reports: > wmsetbg fatal error: could not open display Hi, Antony. Do you mean it works

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:34:11AM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > > > iface eth0 inet dynamic I overlooked this. It couldn't work, because... > ok, i was not being very observant and forgot to switch the 'dynamic' > word to 'static' when I got home to my s

Re: disable ping

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:48:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Is there a way to disable the ping response > on a server. (silent mode) Although I heard it's not considered polite... man iptables > Also, how can I check to see what ports might be listening. man netstat

[SOLVED] Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:54:50AM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Thursday, 15 January 2004, Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > >> packets were not being forwarded from the 192.168.

Re: ieee1394 ethernet

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:54:47AM -0500, Bruce wrote: > RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > RX bytes:2112 (2.0 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) It actually received (RXed) 66 packets/2112 octets. So there /is/ some connection. Maybe you can't T

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:34:02PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > Vaguely à propos, I notice that modern printers keep a mass of memory > alive, even when you switch them off. Interesting... thank for the info. > You have to physically pull the plug to clear the memory.

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:21:23PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Upon further reflection, this could be a more serious security > > problem. Imagine a small trojan/keylogger/worm/etc , that's ~640kb. &g

Re: problem with network configurations

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, enantiomer. On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:43:41PM -0800, enantiomer wrote: > I was very careful to > return the file back to it's original state. Any help? Backup copies are really worth them. > ---File beg

Re: Unable to get past kernel boot

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:38:58AM +, James Turck wrote: > I have just cross installed an old redhat server I have at a colo with > debian using debootstrap etc. but keeping the old kernel. > > All went well and things looked good until I rebooted and couldn't get into &

Re: lost configuration after reboot

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Debian User. On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:49:46PM -0500, Debian User wrote: > i reboot my new system after a week or so of runtime. upon restarting > the os, several things were amiss: That's a feature. > an entry in the routing table to the gateway was missing. i was able

Re: OT: How to match a substring?

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:43:18PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > case `uname -a` in > Linux*) O-oh, I completely missed the possibility not to use awk & friends... > Which has the minor advantage of only using shell primitives, aside > from the call out to uname itself.

OT: It's legal to download [Was: Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]]

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:41:25PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law. Actually, it is not. Not even when the thing is copyrighted. Maybe in your jurisdiction, but definitively not in mine. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Mi

Re: OT: How to match a substring?

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:59:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > This oughtta be simple for your scripters out there . . . Hi, Kent You have to understand the difference between a pipe ``|'', and a command substitution ``$(foo)'' (backticks can be used instead of $(), wh

ALi 5451 mute under 2.6.1 and ALSA (was: ALi 5451 unter 2.6.1 und ALSA stumm)

2004-01-12 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Pardon, wrong list or wrong language! What I want to say is that my Sound Card ALi 5451 is mute under kernel 2.6.1 and ALSA Jan Ulrich Hasecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mit Alsamixer kann ich alles Mögliche, bis auf PCM einstellen. Dort > tut sich nichts. I can set many

ALi 5451 unter 2.6.1 und ALSA stumm

2004-01-12 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo, bei mir bleibt eine ALi 5451 unter Kernel 2.6.1 und ALSA absolut stumm. Unter 2.4.22 läuft die Karte mit dem Trident Treiber, ohne dass man die Lautstärke regulieren könnte Mit Alsamixer kann ich alles Mögliche, bis auf PCM einstellen. Dort tut sich nichts. aplay läuft ohne Fehlermeldung

Crusoe longrun 2.6.1

2004-01-12 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I set longrun in kernel 2.6.1 on my Transmeta Crusoe Notebook. Is that all or do I have to use any additional program from the debian-package longrun, to use this option? TIA juh -- Eine Weltbürgerin zieht aufs Land http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,53445,00.html -- To UNS

linux-wlan-treiber

2004-01-09 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo, irgendwie komme ich mit dem README in dem linux-wlan-Paket nicht klar. Ich habe eine USB-Karte im Notebook. Ich kriege das Modul prism2_usb kompiliert und installiert. Doch dann verwirren mich die zahlreichen Befehle zum Einrichten. Ich habe eine Anleitung für Red Hat gefunden http://www

Re: exit usage

2004-01-08 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 11:33:10AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:17:37AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > >... definitively; but if you really wanted to know how to do it the > >Wrong Way: -- translated in the plain English: Yes, this solves the problem, a

Re: exit usage

2004-01-07 Thread Jan Minar
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:44:38AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:13:44PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > >I have a situation where I login as the root user, > >then 'su ' to a user with limited rights, > >and run a short script as this user

Re: web subscribe form appears to be broken

2004-01-07 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:31:57PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > I'm not sure if this is already known, but I was unable to subscribe using > the web form. I tried twice with no success. Ultimately I pulled the Hi, Emma. It worked for me, i.e. I entered the very address you can s

Package installing / Kernel Upgrade

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Albrecht
kg options? Thanks in advance Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem running foomatic-filters postinst script

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:35:14PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > Look through the headers of any message on this list for a word > > `archive'. Or use google for that matter. > > I'm not sure if that

Re: wireless setup

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:29:31AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > >And just as a matter of fact, D-Link is a crap. > > What products do you suggest then? I checked netgear and they seem to > have properly supported hardware for linux. I check change the D-Link Not every ``linux

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:02:19PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Final two lines of strace fetchmail run from /home/tom: > >open("/home/tom/.fetchmail.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_SYNC, > 0666) = -1 EACCESS (Permission Denied) This clearly means the program

Re: delete file based on content

2004-01-06 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:28:31PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:18:00 -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > #rm `grep -li "Processing completed correctly" *` > > > > > > This worked nicely at the command line, however when I put in into

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > With no fetchmail to feed mail to mutt and so no threading I have lost > the thread and must re-post. If you want to read the thread, look among the headers of any mail on this list, for `List-Archive:'. > A

Re: Problem running foomatic-filters postinst script

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:10:48PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Monday 05 January 2004 04:32, Carl Fink wrote: > > Just to confirm, I'm having the same problem. I missed part of this > > thread, has a bug report been submitted? If not, I'll be glad to do > >

Re: apm powershutown not working in 2.4.20-bf2.4

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:02:39AM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I just installed the Debian unstable on a P-IV. To power off the system You probably want to use ACPI. Odds are, depending on the manufacturer of your hardware, that the APM support is broken, if present at all. E.g. my D

Re: wireless setup

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:12:46PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Any comments on this setup? Just one general one: network with wires where you can, employ wireless only when you must. If your business depends on the networking, go for the licensed bands (i.e. not 2.4 / 5 GHz). Use wirel

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:22:22AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:04:08PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > > Problem solved. Recompiling with CONFIG_FILTER set lets dhcp work. I > > think they ought to change the recommendation in menuconfig; it kind of &g

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:21:23AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > Please make sure to understand the advises before reporting further > problems the next time :-( Maybe I've gone too far; withdrawing this and apologizing. Peace. Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please

Re: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
Hi, Stephen. On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:51:06AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > $ eject /mnt/cdrom or > $ eject /mnt/cdwriter > did not work. Ejecting the device is done by ioctl(2)-ing the device, i.e. writing to it: | (#:/usr/src/linux-2.4.23)- sudo -u toor eject | eject: unable to fin

Re: Env-locale problems

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:58:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote: > > Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale. > > > > They say make sure your environment has (and the kerne

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-05 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:19:22AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 04:22:22 +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > Definitively. That's why I quoted it, to expose Edward's advise as a > > b***CENSORED*** (see bellow). It wasn't apparently. I'll file

Re: ls nitpick

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:38:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > Russ Schneider wrote: > >Any way to config Debian's ls to do that? I realize it's just a nitpick, It seems quite important to me, though ;-) > In your .bashrc file you can enable console colors. It&#

Re: lost dhcp on boot up

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:04:08PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > Problem solved. Recompiling with CONFIG_FILTER set lets dhcp work. I > think they ought to change the recommendation in menuconfig; it kind of > says it's not important and to set it to N if you're not sure. D

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? They shall all partition your disk well. Just use the one that suits the task.--There are no secret cheats in Debian, see?-) &g

Re: having trouble with abcde

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:34:07PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote: > Getting CD track info... cd-discid: /dev/cdrom: CDROMREADTOCHDR: > Input/output error > abcde error: CD could not be read. Perhaps there's no CD in the drive? Scott, Do you have read permissions to the device /dev

Re: Setting system-wide ulimits (esp. # of open files)

2004-01-03 Thread Jan Minar
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004, GCS wrote: > I tried that too, but got an "Operation not permitted" message as soon as > I logged in as a regular user. Exactly. This is a feature. Mere users can't higher their hard limits, so they can't DoS the system. Either use sudo/su fo

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