Greetings.
I have a strange problem in network:
when copying files via NFS or scp from OpenSSH, the sending machine
hangs randomly. It has woody (actual version) installed. I had the same
thing on the same machine but with FreeBSD 4.1 some time ago. As far as
I can say, the hang occurs when
Hello!
A silly theoretical question: in a ssh thread above, one got the answer *not*
to enable root user access to a station, it would be better to use a limited
user account and then gain access via su or that.
What is the difference between that. Don't I have full admin rights with su?
Or if
Hello!
A silly theoretical question: in a ssh thread above, one got the answer *not*
to enable root user access to a station, it would be better to use a limited
user account and then gain access via su or that.
What is the difference between that. Don't I have full admin rights with su?
Or if I
Greetings Debians!
You might find my problem too simple, but even after using Linux for some tiny
three years, I could not get a custom Debian boot CD to run the way it was
intended...perhaps cos my brain was emptied by using SuSE Linux the past :-)
Okay, here the prob: I want to settle over to
(deutsche version unten / german version below)
Hello!
This is an international newsgroup, thus please quote in english please.
Well, as a Debian newbee, I see the following advantages (besides others):
-indepentence (thus beeing maintained from free developers)
-stability, cos Debian does not
, SIGABRT) = 0
--- SIGABRT (Aborted) @ 0 (0) ---
unlink(/home/blazko/.phoenix/default/09kafwql.slt/lock) = 0
exit_group(6) = ?
GNOME sound recorder is another way: it opens but as soon as i want to
record, the GUI freezes. Here an strace:
ioctl(3
Hello Debian users!
I marked this posting as OT cos i do not know if it right here.
What i want to do: i have a gateway already and plan to do weekly
backups of my client PCs on a dedicated hard drive.
Due to a question of price, i ask myself if it is okay to plug just a
second HDD into the
Rob Weir wrote:
Why do you want to disable it? To prevent people accessing it?
Well, initially, this was the idea (of course, besides doing the usual
iptables etc. stuff).
I'm fairly sure that the kernel ignores what the BIOS thinks about disk
drives, i.e. disabling it in the BIOS will not
Hello,
Yes, I know that one shall no use dist-upgrade...
However, after this, GNOME2 does not work any longer.
It starts up X, then comes the splash screen, but no icons and text.
When launching e.g. XFCE (actual 3.x one, gtk1 thus) and then running
apps, half of all apps work.
I.e. most apps
Ron Jones wrote:
Hi Timo,
Hello Ron,
Sorry for the late reply.
Saw your post on debian-user about hanging at splash screen. I have the
same problem, did you get anywhere with fixing this?
Yes, the problem on my side was caused by the name scheme change in
Debians GNOME2 packages. To
Hello List!
I am currently using GNOME2 from sid and use a custom theme for all my
GTK2/GNOME2 apps. However, one app crashes (Eclipse) when using this
theme.
Are there any options to override the system-wide theme for an app? I
know that GTK1 supported this, however, no app lists this param in
Hello together,
I have been searcing the web a long time, but could not find much
information. I was given a Windows CE based pocket pc (why not an
ipaq?!?). Although it has got a card slot (MMC / SD), i wonder if i can
communicate with this device via USB. I mean, it must not be data sync
with
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From: Timo Blazko Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eric Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newer Mozilla for Potato(2.2)
Hi,
I am using Moz 0.94 on woody and sid. Cos there is only Milestone 18 as
.deb, I installed Mozilla online via Mozillas online installer
Did not want to post anonymous here, just saw my entry and corrected it
in my mua.thus...
Timo
Hello all,
I have some questions regarding system security. Besides of doing
filtering with IP tables, disabling inet.d services like telnet, r-tools
etc. and setting some general denials in /etc/hosts.deny (plus some
other stuff like changing default ports of some demons like sshd), I am
Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
http://www.psionic.com/ has some good stuff - logcheck, portsentry and
hostsentry.
Hello Stephen,
Hey, that was *exactly* what i was looking for. When i have time, i will
try these packages. When i am done, i will let the list know about my
experiences; if
Original Message
Subject: Re: intrusion detection / logfile reporter
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:24:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Timo Blazko Boewing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: Debian User (en) debian-user@lists.debian.org
hi timo
i like to ask more detailed
Hello everyone,
I have a problem regarding the enlightened sound demon esd and my
sawfish windowmanager. If i tell sawfish via the GNOME control center to
use sounds, everything works fine for a while but my after a while X
hangs step by step. That means technically, sound works but after
Hello,
if you want a MUA not using console, I recommend these:
a) mozilla-mail: faster from version to version, capable of having
multiple email accounts per user (in contrast to the old netscape
mailer), good filtering, threading (good for majordomo lists like this here)
b) evolution:
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
I wonder if we really are in second place, or if we are undercounted?
well, many counts have been removed cos supposed to be out of date.
visitors have been asked to recount'em, this may explain the low number.
greetz, Timo
Kyle Girard wrote:
Has anyone been able to get the nvidia drivers to work with the stock
2.4.14 kernel?
It works well with my 2.4.14. Got it from the FTP of kernel.org and did
just a patch for my USB graphic table (Aiptek 8000U), but i think it has
nothung to do with the nVidia drivers.
I
Hello all,
I have a very strange problem i nevr have had: i build a new computer
from scratch and installed woody.
The funny problem is that linux detects all cards but cannot use'em cos
they are assigned to interupt zero. Thus lspci and modprobe works onn
all cards in the pci slots but the
Stan Brown wrote:
[...] xmixer.
Any idea where I can get this program?
Hello Stan,
i think it is xmix, the pure X Window sound mixer. A simple apt-get
install xmix or dselect should do the job.
greetz,
Timo
Hello,
it is me again. after a strange problem with a friends computer, one of
my workstations is getting strange...
That computer has a SiS900 Ethernet 100 card that worked pretty okay so
far. When i booted my box today, this card caused a strange error
message kinda:
eth0: abnormal
Hello,
currently i am using my GNOME with sawfish again but still having
problems with mozilla.
With enlightenment, everything worked pretty well, but w/ sawfish all
moilla windows have the same size, no matter if a porperty window (e.g.
bookmark window, image props, popup etc.). Thus, if a
Ronneil Camara wrote:
I would like to know what file is used for setting up ip addresses and
gateway. What about interfaces, how can I create more than 2 lan cards
enable. Let say, I got 2 3com nics.
The file of interest is /etc/network/interfaces, an example would be:
# Used by ifup(8) and
mike wrote:
Is your BIOS helpfully breaking PnP for a windows style OS? There
should be an option to turn it to other or none instead of windows
somewhere.
--mike
Hello Mike,
Thanxs for the reply. In the deeps of the www i found that from Award
BIOS' higher than version 6.0 (the ASUS has
Rehi,
for thos interested:
I temp. fixed the error by upgrading to a 2.4.13, but one day later the
problem arraised again.
I tried to manually force the slots to specific interrupts, but no mater
how i did it, my AGP card and the NIC shared the same IRQ.
So the solution was quite easy: i put
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
peace
anyone a win virus scanner? is this a virus spam? help, not here!
Timo
Hello,
Recently found a table telling all those numbers. Well, with
a custom kernel having vesafb enabled and using a Geforce2Go,
i am using a simple
vga=791
This opens my console to 1024x768 pixels and works very well.
Maybe this helps a little bit,
Timo
Hi Jan,
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
[...]
I never found settings to alter the refresh rate. Isn't it possible
with vesafb?
[...]
Mh, goog question, i never thought 'bout that. Cos using a laptop, i
do not have to care about this...
I forgot to wrote that i have forgotten the source where i
Hello Arlen,
Several times i had the same probs with RealPlayer. Do you use GNOME?
Sometimes a (on my system!) faulty esd caused trouble (have a laptop
w/ i810_audio, 48kHz, esd never worked a long time).
Sometimes RealPlayer worked fine until some apt-get upgrade and failed
after that. Did
Alec wrote:
How does one connect two computers to the internet throught one ethernet
socket? Does one of them have to have two ethernet cards and run special
software?
Technically, one socket would not do the job. But to your querstion:
One computer acts as a gateway. One interface is
Hello everyone,
I have a strange problem: I am using german DSL (T-DSL) and can reach
almost all sites. However, some sites cannot really be contacted from my
station. DNS resolve works, cos I get the IP from that site when pinging
as well as the real hostname of a destination machine.
I know
Hello,
thx for your quick answer.
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:04, James D Strandboge wrote:
I had the same problem until I realized it might be ecn related. If
you are running kernel 2.4.x, then do:
yes, I have kernel 2.4.9
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
and see if it shows '1'. If so,
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've recently tried to get the 3d accelerated nVidia driver running on my
Debian Woody system. I have the latest Woody system installed fresh on my
Pentium II 400. I have a TNT2 M64 video card by SIIG Inc. with 32 MB of
SDRAM. I
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:29, James D Strandboge wrote:
I know there is an option to have it active. My was set to having it
active, and now I just manually set it to 0 (well, in a script at
boot).
Okay, I will try setting this option from scratch.
actually, sun.com works (Star Office
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 21:45, Alan Chandler wrote:
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I loaded the latest drivers from the NVIDIA web site and tried them and they
kept the xserver from starting. Fortunately I kept the old version (1251)
and they worked fine so I reverted.
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 05:21, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
Please do note that the ping derived from netkit-ping_0.10-8_i386.deb is
broken. But for me, ping from iputils-ping_0ss010824-1_i386.deb works
without any hitch. So do look out
well, actually the problem is not about ping itself. the
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 19:26, Sergio E. Schvezov wrote:
I had a similar problem, i could almost anything, ping, ICQ, dns
lookups. BUT i could not browse, fetch pop3 mail, i could browse an
ftp but not fetch.
Regarding ftp I have similar probs; but - as with http - only some sites
seem to be
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 21:06, Benjamin Diedrich wrote:
Thank you all for the fast reply on my problem. I finally figured it out
when I looked at the system log. The NVdriver kernel module was
complaining that an IRQ was not set for the VGA adapter. So, I rebooted,
enabled the IRQ for my video
Hello,
some months ago [when I was a SuSE user], I tried to install the SAP
WebApplication Server w/ a basic R/3 onto my SuSE 7.2. Well, finally it
did not run due to an incompatible glibc, it was only certified for SuSE
7.0 (or 7.1?) and RedHat 7.1 Enterprise (am I right?).
My question: has
Hello everyone,
My question may come from stupidness, so be warned :-)
I am trying to get the perl core documentation, as found on
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/
It is nice, there I can see the online docs, but no ways to get the
offline version as an tarball etc. Either, wget won't also
On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 22:28, Thomas Hallaran wrote:
You need to 'apt-get install perl-doc'.
If you are having trouble finding package names to update you need to
get to know the packages.debian.org website.
Tom
Yepp, I already hav'em (dselect) and did a apt-get right now on
perl-doc.
On the glimmer website (glimmer.sourceforge.net) I read that it requires
Python. However, the author states that it is illegal to link against
versions 2.0 and 2.1. Is python not GPL comliant? And if, how could it
be changed if versions 2.x where? I cannot find any license hints on
python.org, so
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:31, Justin Hahn wrote:
I believe this is out of date. Python 2.1.1 (and some versions or other of
2.0.x) resolve the GPL issue. This is why python2 in debian did not contain
readline, but 2.1 does.
--jeh
Ah, that's it! I was sure having read somewhere that python
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 18:16, Colin Watson wrote:
Try pod2html.
Ah, yes! Completely forgot
a) not all docs reside in /usr/share/doc
b) pod2html is on my system
thank you for the help,
Timo
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:44, Craig Dickson wrote:
As for how could it be changed... the copyright owner can change the
license for a new version if they like. The copyright owner is not bound
by the GPL; the GPL defines how everyone else can use the software.
Hello Craig,
a new version is
On Tue, 2001-10-16 at 23:20, Karl wrote:
[...]
How can I get all the packages from the net? (I have to install PPP and
PPPOE for DSL first but I don't manage to de-select everything new...)
Any other ideas?
try apt-[tab] and you might get something like apt-setup or apt-config.
There you
Hello,
I am using XMMS for playing my ogg/mp3 audio. The thing is that XMMS
very often accesses my hard drive (approx. all three seconds). On my
laptop this is not really wanted...
Thus my idea: why not creating a ramdisk, loading an album to it and
playing from the mounted ramdisk (automatized
Hello,
Today I installed an USB graphic tablet under Sid w/ XF86 v4. I
installed the tablet as second USB mouse device and it works well in X
so far (okay, with no pressure sensitivity, but anyhow...). The problem
ist that the pen is slightly too fast. I use GNOME and there I can set
the speed of
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:30, Aniartia wrote:
I duno about tablets but in mice
Option Resolution {number}
works well for me, T-ball at 255 mouse at 130.. T-ball nice n' fast, mouse
nice n' slow ;)
Ani
Hello Ani,
this option won't work on my USB tablett but also not with my PS/2
Mouse.
Hello all,
I am using sid w/ X 4.1 and use the latest nVidia dirvers and kernel
module interfaces. I use a Toshi 3000-100 laptop with a Geforce2Go w/ a
Chrontel TV out chipset.
TV-out works fine so far, but i would like to get to know your
experiences. What is disturbing is this (on the TV
Should have added that i use PAL (germany), i dunno the exact chip,
should be a Chrontel 7001 or 7002.
Timo
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:11, Jake Di Toro wrote:
Hello Jake
This is not a Debian/Linux thing.
Is e.g. Mozilla a Debian/Linux thing as often discussed here??? :0)
Okay, let us get serious here: I was wondering if maybe a free software
package oriented to this problem is out there that maybe
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 21:21, Martin Emrich wrote:
Hello Martin,
yesterday i had the same thing. Also using the same GNOME; as far as i
can remember i had this only twice in the past two years that i use
GNOME. I think this is maybe a date-ridden gag of the GNOME folks.
However, i think we can
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 22:31, Steffen Evers wrote:
Can you hint to a document
or anything how I can use the TV out. What do I need to get the DRI
working?
Hi Steffen,
DRI: mh, isn't it on by default? I just had to set DGA (loadmodule) once
for a TV card (ALDI, die Monokarte :-)) had to be run.
Hello everyone,
i got a simple problem but cannot fint the cause: i have written a
custom bash script (a very simple one) that should be run on machine
startup. I put it under the common place /etc/init.d/myscript
Then, i placed a symlink called S99myscript pointing to the script under
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:03, Greg Wiley wrote:
You've probably checked, but is your default runlevel, indeed, 3?
Hello Greg,
it should be :-) Well, it is an x-less station and but to go shure i
also put the symlinks to runlevels 4,5 and 6 too.
Timo
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 23:06, Timo --Blazko-- Boewing wrote:
Hello,
thank you all for your replies! Yes, it was due to runlevel 2!!!
I used update-rs.d wich reinstalled the correct symlinks, thanx to MH.
In former years i used SuSE Linux, there have been these runlevels:
0: halt
1
Hi again,
i got a somewhat theoretical question: in /etc/apt/sources.list there is
a destinction between deb abd deb-src packages. Are the deb-src packs
make'able packages?
*** core question *** :^)
But the question of interest: on nowadays PCs - assuming a every user
system with e.g. X-Window
Hello all,
the new mozilla is just out, give it a try cos it again gained
performance. also interesting: you can toggle javascript features for
more things than window.open() finally, e.g. resize, leveling, cookie
request etcetera. Favicons are now completely supported.
More on mozilla.org.
Hello,
is there no PostScript to TeX / PDF to Tex converter available? Locally,
i cannot find one, and search on debian packages did not reveal any
hits. Maybe they are inside a larger package? I can find e.g. html2ps as
a single package.
Thank you for any hints; greetings,
Timo
Hello,
while - after a long time - being back in OpenGL devel, i was wondering
where the include files are. From the nVidia modules, i have these
files:
/usr/include/GL/gl.h(main header?)
/usr/include/GL/glx.h (extensions?)
/usr/include/GL/glxtokens.h (???)
I remember
Hello,
I plan to create an own gtk theme, but i cannot find any documents on
how to do this, except for taking existing gtkrcs, but in some details
this doesn't also help. I did not find any local manpages and no info on
these sites:
gtk.org, themes.org, linuxdoc.org
Any hints for gtkrc hacking
Hello,
i am a GNOME user and mostly used sawfish and enlightenment as window
managers so far. However, i am still quite disatisfied with them, cos
they have little but disturbing behaviours. They often place windows out
of the screen some bit or do not remeber them right, especially for
non-gnome
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 09:40, Benjamin Sommerfeld wrote:
bash: ./pine-bin.linux: Permission denied
Hello Benjamin,
sorry that i cannot help you, but i have the same problem with
self-coded stuff. Even when running'em as root, i get the permission
denied error.
Maybe some libs aren't there but
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 04:09, csj wrote:
[...] Have your tried IceWM?[...]
Hello!
Yes, i tried IceWM some time ago, but did not knew that it has GNOME
support... wait, let me do a apt-get...
:-)
Thank you so far, will report in some time.
Timo
Hello Willi,
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:34, Willi Dyck wrote:
as far as i know, hot-pluggable device support is only needed with
PCMCIA cards. i don't have such cards, so i keep that support out of the
if i am right, USB also needs id
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.5'
I
Hello Juergen,
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:23, Juergen Striegel wrote:
(BTW: why does debian installs the ispell stuff for a minimal system?)
Are there any suggestions/ideas?
That's what i hated 'bout SuSE: they installed to much on a minimal
system, and debian is sometimes going the same way :-(.
Hello everyone,
sorry for that slightly off-topic posting, but for a project i am
currently developing under my sid/unstable, i am on the search on
rfc-editor.org to find the FTY or RFC etc. telling me what characters
are allowed (or forbidden) in URIs and email addresses. I cannot get it
in the
Hello,
Right now I am doing a backup from my laptop to my workstation using
OpenSSH's secure copy. The problem is that i would like to copy only
newer files, cos it also transports my Ogg/Vorbis files (quite some
gigabytes) over net -quite not wanted. Is there a way like in normal cp
to tell scp
Hello,
I have just successfully configured my NFS shares for OpenSSH tunneling
(that rocks!), but i have one problem:
On system start i execute a custom init script that (beside other
things) creates a mountd tunnel to a remote machine. But on each system
reboot (remote one), its mountd port
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 19:52, Raphaël Scateni wrote:
Hello Raphaël,
Desk guide alert
gnome desktop guide
you are running a gnome compliant window manager
gnome support by the window manager is strongly recommended for proper
desk guide operation.
GNOME users often tend to use
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:34, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
Hi,
Section Module
LoadGLcore
Loadbitmap
Loaddbe
Loadddc
Loaddri
Loadextmod
Loadfreetype
Loadglx
Loadint10
Loadpex5
Load
Hello everyone. This question is not meant that serious, but
nevertheless with interest:
in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The
workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine.
Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and the LAN?
I
Hello everyone,
i have a funny thing in my current sid (2 months old, but last update
yesterday [dist-upgrade]) but also in the previous installation (also
sid):
whenever i am developing in C/C++ or bash, i cannot execute the files.
they reside in a custom folder /data/devel/[xyz]. Having
Thanks!
Yes, the mount options are the cause. RTFM: well, normally i read a lot
but the mount idea came while finishing the mail, thus forgive me :-).
Thanks again and see you.
p.s. no one knows the bach shell???
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On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 06:00, Nick Hastings wrote:
I've just started using gnomemeeting as an H.323 client. I quite like
it, but its lack of H.120 support is making life difficult.
Hello Nick,
I recently got into gnomemeeting (had much trouble with firewalling, but
it finally works). i am
On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:11, chris Parker wrote:
Has anyone gotten a toshiba satellite 1005-S157 to work under potato? I
haven't been able to get it to even boot---pci unsupported(unknown pci).
i have a toshi sat 3000-100 and hat the same probs: any debian version i
had did not boot although
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 00:53, Vineet Kumar wrote:
the actual version, but got the well-gnown GnomeConf not found error
What's the actual error message you're getting? It sounds to me like
it's a simple matter of installing libgnome-dev .
yepp, you are right, installing it solved the error,
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