Re: 16MB not enough to install

2003-02-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 04:49:13AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Hugh Saunders wrote: > >yeah should be possible but slow... cheat; put the disk in another > >machine for installation then put it back. > > Can't. > Notebook. Can. Did. :-) Mine was a Toshiba T1950CT (486DX2/40) with only 8M. Took a

Re: FTP active getting blocked [solved]

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:10:35PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > Rob's suggestions did the trick! I didn't have ipt_nat_ftp and > ipt_conntrack_ftp loaded. Should that (ip_conntrack_ftp) work for a non-NAT filter as well? Or is there some other trick for that? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBS

Re: Group ID

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:04:25AM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote: > > If i had to regenerate a config file that a program uses, is it possible to > detect what GID the program uses if it is set from within the program? If it changes its gid, you could watch for a call to setgid with strace. Richard

Re: FTP active getting blocked [solved]

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:39:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:02:33PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Should that (ip_conntrack_ftp) work for a non-NAT filter as well? > > > > Or is there some other trick for that? > > I don't imagin

Re: can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:08:07PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 19, 2003 12:22 pm, DvB wrote: > > I usually set up cron jobs to remind me of recurring things (man > > crontab). This, of course, only works if the computer is turned on when > > the reminder time comes around, but you just

Re: cache for packages

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:43:02PM +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I have four or five machines running linux on our local network. Can > someone point me to the easy instructions for setting up a cache of > packages on one system, so that if packages are already on a local > machine, they won't be

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:23:05PM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote: > Richard Beri wrote: > > >My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages alone > > you may want to install logrotate, that will rotate those log files for you. Um - doesn't hte existence of messages.0 indi

Re: Loging to Debian Linux via SSH

2003-02-21 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:22:39AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > >How old? SSH negotiation is *very* computationally intensive. Maybe > >you should just leave the ssh connection open, or use something like > >fsh? > > AHA! I have always wondered why my Pentium Pro 200 seemed to take so lon

Re: Unable to apt-get dist-upgrade

2003-02-21 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:39:41PM -0500, John covici wrote: > I am wondering if your problem is that the space (not disk space) for > your cash has been exceeded. I wish I had that problem :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Cd destroyed in cd drive

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:47:54AM -0800, nate wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering how a cd could break into pices in a cd drive? > > spin it too fast and it will explode. > > some faster drives(48x+) will do this. some media is lower quality > and will explode at lower speeds then the higher quality

moving conf files

2003-02-26 Thread Richard Hector
I think this is a general question though I have a specific example. I want to move my webalizer config file from /etc/webalizer.conf to /etc/webalizer/*.conf to deal with different configs for different virtual hosts, as suggested in the Webalizer FAQ. However I'm worried that this will confuse

Re: Want to creat a CD with indexed HTML content

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:32:16AM +, Pat Colbeck wrote: > Hi > > I am working on a little project to produce some reference materail on a > CD. Basically it will be a canned web site. The idea being that you > could stick it in your CD drive and browse all the content easily. What > I would l

Re: Subdomain - node ?

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:31:47AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > What is it called when you set up foo.mydomain.com > I have Googled for domain node and I have nothing. You mean you have the domain mydomain.com and want to also have foo.mydomain.com? I think you want a subdomain. Or perhaps you want a

Re: Browser string of Mozilla?

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:52:55PM +0100, Tom wrote: > Hi all, > > Here at work, I (have to) use Windows 2000. In only now dared to > install Mozilla, and wondered if there's any way at all to make > Mozilla look like IE to the outer world... I don't mean the theme or > something (already changed

Re: Can debian detect a tape drive without rebooting?

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:49:34PM +0100, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > I have installed the package and run rescan-scsi-bus.sh: > > It couldn't detect the tape drive connected to aic7xxx.Is there anything > else I can check? That the tape drive is turned on? :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Power off

2003-03-01 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:16:46AM +0100, daniel huhardeaux wrote: > > I have 4 computers running kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 and all of them, when > I ask to power down, *never* really dot it. They stay switch on with > last message on the screen "power down" It's a problem for one of them > which

Re: kernel-image install doesn't work

2003-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:54:45PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > I just tried to install the kernel-image-2.4.18 on woody. > When I reboot my machine I get: > > request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted Hmm. Did it not warn you during the installation to add a line for initrd to your

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine

2003-03-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 05:21:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 22:06, Nick Boyce wrote: > > > > Erm .. isn't a KZPSA a DEC-brand card intended for use in DEC Alpha > > systems (the kind with PCI buses, rather than Futurebuses) (where > > DEC=Compaq=Hewpaq as necessary) ? > >

Re: Semi OT: Strange source display in Konqueror

2003-03-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:33:55PM +, cirrus wrote: > > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 6:06 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Go to http://www.daniel-kuefner.de/j1/installation.html > > and then view source in Konqueror. For some reason it looks really > > wonky on my system. Every other page works jus

Re: Bad Debian (L.A.H.)

2003-03-09 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 09:53:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > Doesn't anyone remember the horror of the monolithic /etc/rc* files > that Slackware had? Still has, doesn't it? Anyway, the init scripts were one reason I held off switching from Slackware to anything else for ages - at least

security.debian.org - woody/stable

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, In my sources.list, I have: deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main Actually I don't, I have: deb http://emerald.fake:/security woody/updates main because I'm using apt-proxy, but never mind - apt-proxy points to http://security.debian.org/. Unfortunately, that's stoppe

Re: Apache Not Serving Up Documents

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:24:03AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > Nicolas Kratz wrote: > > > >Here are known good iptables rules for SMTP, edit as necessary: > > > >iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 25 -j DNAT \ > >--to `host balrog | sed -e 's/^.*address //'`:25 > >iptables -I

Re: default gateway

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:28:51AM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: > Hello all, > I am looking for the file that I have to modify in order to have static route > enabled. > I add the gateway manually with route add -net default gw 192.168.100.1 > and I would like to find the config file. > I am usin

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:49:08PM +, Pigeon wrote: > The subject says it all really... I've just installed gimp1.2 on my > woody system and there are no Save, Save As etc. options in the File > menu. > > I can still save files by hitting Ctrl-S, but only over the top of the > original file. I

Re: fetchmail problem

2003-11-10 Thread Richard Hector
> > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:27:59AM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:01:45PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > I am running fetchmail on woody. I want fetchmail to get mail from a > > > > > pop3 account and deliver to mail to two local a

Kdevelop & htdig

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I have problems right at the end (I think) of Kdevelop Setup - it wants to use htdig to index all the docs (and I think that's a good idea), but complains about the lack of a htdig.conf file. >From googling, I've discovered that at least at one stage, a README file on this topic existed i

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:54:57PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > I made a new partition for /var/cache since that's where all my data is. > > Unfortunately /var is still counting the contents of /var/cache and thinks > > that /var is full

Re: Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:57, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: > > > The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, > > 2003. > > > > Just curious what the current lag is. > > two hours, for those who care :D My last post got back to me in ab

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:37, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:00:58PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 10:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm _not_ suggesting you just do > > > > > > # umount /var/cache > >

Re: what's fstype 83? "Linux"?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:20, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:00:18AM -0500, Shaun ONeil wrote: > > > # dd if=/dev/hda6 bs=1k count=50 | file - > > 50+0 records in > > 50+0 records out > > 51200 bytes transferred in 0.116208 seconds (440589 bytes/sec) > > standard input:

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:42, will trillich wrote: > apparently it does a remote diff somehow and then sends only the > parts that need changing? i can't imagine that it's possible to > compare two 1mb text files for differences without at least > sending one across the wires -- yet the manpage cert

Re: what's wrong with rsync?

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 22:39, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > Be sure and use it only behind a good firewall, in a trusted LAN. The > whole r* (rsync, rsh, etc.) series is wildly insecure. Well, (according to the manpage) it uses rsh by default, but it can use ssh as an alternative. Richard --

Re: Bash terminal beep - how to shut it up?

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 22:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I'm running Debian 3.0r1 on my laptop. Whenever I'm working in a bash > terminal or the console certain actions cause the terminal to BEEP through > the PC Speaker. This is annoying the hell out of my missus when she's > trying to wat

Re: Packages for Debian 3.0 (Alpha 12)

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:07:38 +0100 "Adrian Bunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have prepared some packages that update some packages that are not or > only in an older version in Debian 3.0r1. Please read [1] for more > information (and read the FAQ before sending mails to me). > * OpenOffi

apt-proxy backup question

2003-02-07 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, Is /var/cache/apt-proxy self contained? If I back up that directory, together with /etc/apt-proxy, can I then just reinstall apt-proxy and unpack those 2 to be back where I was? Or are there some indexes or something hidden away? Many thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Can't start X apps from su

2003-02-09 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:53:10AM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Yeah, I got annoyed because of this too. Anyway it's not a big problem. > What happens when you 'su' is that your env.vars. are changed to root's. > Thus, apps don't know where the user's X session is. What you can do is > use the

Re: apt-proxy backup question

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:37:26AM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 06:24:09PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Is /var/cache/apt-proxy self contained? If I back up that directory, > > together with /etc/apt-proxy, can I then just reinst

moving fs to new disk using tar

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I thought I was being very careful, but this didn't work like I'd hoped. Basically I want to move my /usr fs from one disk to another - the first will eventually be repartitioned, to use LVM and ReiserFS. Other filesystems will follow. So I used this command from / (in single user mode -

Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:48:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > heya, > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve > > --preserve --same-owner > > may i suggest a

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:45:10PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:34PM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one fell swoop? > > Remove the basic libraries and watch the dependencies sort it out? Is there a case for introducing that kind o

docs via www behaviour

2003-02-14 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've just discovered something interesting - when I view docs for my installed packages via apache, there are some files I don't see. I _think_, this is because apache treats files starting with "README" specially. Is the appropriate solution to turn this behaviour off in apache, or woul

Re: docs via www behaviour

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:45:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just discovered something interesting - when I view docs for > > my installed packages via apache,

kernel-package

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
I haven't found this in the docs - does make-kpkg create a new initrd image for me, or do the package scripts do that as part of the install process, or do I need to do it myself (presumably after installing the kernel package and before rebooting)? Thanks, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

more kernel questions

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
I've just compiled and installed a new kernel, using make-kpkg. However, I'm not sure it's actually running. uname -a still gives me 2.4.18-586tsc, which is the old one - my new kernel doesn't have the 586tsc bit on the end of the name, and in any case is a 686 kernel - I've recently upgraded the m

Re: kernel-package

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:18:35AM -0500, Seneca wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:39:37PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > I haven't found this in the docs - does make-kpkg create a new initrd > > image for me, or do the package scripts do that as part of the install >

Re: more kernel questions

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:58:29AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:54:02AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > I've just compiled and installed a new kernel, using make-kpkg. However, > > I'm not sure it's actually running. uname -a still giv

Re: more kernel questions

2003-02-15 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:44:01PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:11:47AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Thanks, but no, I checked the symlinks, and /vmlinuz and the old version > > both point to the correct places (as do the initrd ones). > > hmm...

wtd - old package

2002-11-09 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I'm after a copy of libapache-mod-ssl_2.8.9-2_i386.deb It's been superseded - it's the one I'm upgrading from, but I'd like a copy available on the offchance the upgrade breaks something. I've just started working on this box, and unfortunately /var/cache/apt/archives is empty. Anybody g

Re: wtd - old package

2002-11-09 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:25, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 00:03:46 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > I'm after a copy of libapache-mod-ssl_2.8.9-2_i386.deb > > dpkg-repack is your friend. Awesome, thanks - I was wondering whether it was possible to

Re: Restarting X after graphical login

2002-11-09 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:34, Chris Lale wrote: > I installed Woody 3.0 from official CDs and it gave me a graphical login > (gdm). I prefer it to the command line login, but it means that > configuration requiring restarting X presents problems. Often, a reboot > is the only sure way. ... > 4

Re: Apt-move question

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 06:50, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > This package may work, however I only want to mirror the packages that are > installed on my server, nothing else. Have you looked at apt-proxy? Works very nicely here. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: bug tracking

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's not safe for it to try > to write to disks (since it could easily destroy everything on the > disks). > > The best it can mana

Re: manual for vim

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:41, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > what is a dead-tree manual? sorry if it is a basic or off-topic question Paper :-) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Java & Galeon

2002-11-20 Thread Richard Hector
Having taken Colin Watson's advice the other day about my sources.list for blackdown java, I upgraded (it had been on hold for ages). But then later I noticed that java no longer works in galeon. I also decided at that point to ditch the official stuff (those horrible EULAs) and installed jikes &

Re: Problem with mount floppy

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 13:05, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk! > Now I see this message: > /dev/fd0: Input/output error > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > when I do `mount /floppy' and I can only read data on floppy but cannot > write. What 's happened? How can I solve

Re: Stripping EOL feeds...

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:34, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > replace EOL with nothing. It might be better to replace it with a space, to avoid the last word of one line running into the first of the next. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: debian filesystem inside a file

2002-11-25 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:31, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:15:24PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > > i was wondering if it is possible to install debian, using a file as a > > partition. Sort of like how BeOS will install inside windows, creating its > > filesystem in a file. > > > >

Re: Output on Diff moniter

2002-11-25 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 04:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have this idea and I have no idea how to go implementing it. It makes no > sense but just wanna do for kicks to see if can be done. > > I have 2 computers A and B on my desk and 2 moniters and 2 keyboards and all > and bot

Re: audio problems

2002-11-25 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:08, ernst wrote: > Hi > > Can u get sound working if u are root? If so, do 'chmod a+rw /dev/dsp'. I'm no audio expert, so I don't know if this applies to /dev/dsp - but I'd rather not have somebody I've given shell access to able to turn on my microphone at any time and l

Re: Correction: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:18, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > In a previous email to this list I stated: > > > The authors of XFS seem to think that because it is a journalling > > filesystem, a filesystem repair tool is not necessary. > > This was in response to the fsck.xfs man page that says it does

Re: Calculator for X

2002-11-26 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I might be totally stupid, but when I do a dselect, I just cannot find a calculator >for an X-Window system. The only module I've found is named 'calc', but dosn't work >in an X-window system, does it?? xcalc is in xbase-clie

RE: How do you recover a long filename that Wndows squashed?

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 02:48, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi, > when i use dpkg -i with the shortened name, dpkg returns no such file error. > so that's why i have to go back to the windows machine and get the long > name. it's like mc or the system knows the correct name it just doesnt > display it.

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:43, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 16:39, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > > rather than Linux itself. That said, do you split it into several > > > partitions and use RAID on them - I can't see that as providing a hint > >

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 12:52, Mike Dresser wrote: > On 28 Nov 2002, Richard Hector wrote: > > > You could use the linear version, where you just concatenate the > > partitions together. That shouldn't take any longer to seek over than > > one big one - each by

modconf has changed

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Hector
Sorry about the vague question/statement: Modconf appears to have changed at some point. All my boxes run woody, but some run 2.2 and some run 2.4 kernels. The ones with 2.4 have a different looking modconf screen - IMHO, harder to use. The tree is wider (more per screen), and shows full pathname

Re: ISP does not 'support' Linux

2002-11-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:35, Chris Lale wrote: > Here's an idea arising from the 'Non-Linux-aware ISP: please spoon feed' > thread. How many ISP's helplines say 'we do not support Linux'? Most > ISP's seem to have a webpage with connection instructions for Windows > users. Why not instructions f

Printing text files

2002-12-02 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, This I think should be simple ... I have an old dot matrix printer - ugly, slow, but cheap and handles lineflow. When I set it up with CUPS, I used the Epson driver, but that seems to insist on using Postscript - converts my text file to Postscript and then renders it using Ghostscript (

modifying initrd.img

2002-12-04 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I just attempted to upgrade one of my boxes to a 2.4 kernel (using kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc) Unfortunately, the loadmodules script tries to load INI9100 for my SCSI card, but that module doesn't exist, so I end up with a kernel panic (can't mount root fs). I've mounted the initrd.img (

Re: best traffic shaper solution for modem line?

2002-12-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I have only a dial up connection (stone age, I know). I notice there > > a number of traffic shaper/QoS solutions around now and I am wondering > > if anyone has an opinion which is the best. I want the usual

Re: modifying initrd.img

2002-12-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:36, Herbert Xu wrote: > Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, the loadmodules script tries to load INI9100 for my SCSI > > card, but that module doesn't exist, so I end up with a kernel panic > > (can'

Re: Need help installing from floppy/ls-120 to Thinkpad R31

2002-12-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 03:46, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > Hello to all: > > Whenever I boot from a rescue disk created with Potato or Woody, then > switch to the root disk, I constantly get an end_request error. > > I've tried every configuration I can think of, including: > > - Switching disable/ena

Re: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs

2002-12-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 17:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > You can't get away with having your root partition being a > filesystem for which you must load a module to support. Unless you > use initrd, but that's messy and not very failproof. It is? I thought that was the usual way to do it (with 2.4 ker

Re: ipchains DENY question

2002-12-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 10:59, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.06.0136 +0100]: > > firewall-and-forget. > > maybe for a private system. this is *not* the way to practice > security. security involves ongoing monitoring. I get stuck in a loop when I try to figu

Re: How can one edit the env info?

2002-12-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:34, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > running env from my $HOME directory gets me a bunch of wrong entries; > e.g. MAIL=/var/mail/root, LOGNAME=root, DISPLAY=:0.0. How can I change > these (and other) settings? Who are you logged in as? Your environment depends on that, not on your

Re: debconf wonky

2003-08-07 Thread Richard Hector
Apologies for not replying to the thread; I didn't realise it was of interest to me until I found it in the archives, by which time I'd deleted it. Anyway, in case anyone else is struggling with this: Taking hints from Joey Hess, I did something like: cd /var/lib/dpkg/info cp xserver-xfree86.tem

Re: OT: whinging (was Re: rms on debian : background noise)

2003-08-19 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:21:58PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:40, Chris Metzler wrote: > > > > The word "whinge," meaning "to moan fretfully," actually predates > > the word "whine." > > Hmm, I rarely heard it used in England (though I haven't lived there for 30+ > years), bu

mutt, sent mail, pgp/gpg

2003-08-19 Thread Richard Hector
I know I've seen something about this, but can't find it again. When I send an encrypted email, the copy that is saved in my Sent folder (IMAP in my case) is useless to me, because it's encrypted with the recipient's key. Is there a way that my copy can be encypted with my own public key, so I ca

apt-proxy cache limit

2003-08-24 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I've read that a MAX_CACHE_SIZE is on a TODO list, but not implemented yet (though perhaps that has changed; I can't get to the apt-proxy list archives at the moment). In the absence of that, how will apt-proxy react if I put it on its own filesystem and consequently it simply runs out of

Re: apt-proxy cache limit

2003-08-24 Thread Richard Hector
Tom - I hope you don't mind me posting your reply back to the list. [ and then of course I forget to send it to the list anyway. Sorry Tom. Hopefully forwarding it from my Sent folder works ...] On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:53:35AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: &

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-31 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:24:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +, Paul Grenyer wrote: > > Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, > > please? > > Only if you can answer me t

Re: How long is linux going to be free ?

2003-03-31 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:12:41PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Do you have to remind someone a thousand times about his mistake, even after > he confesses that he was wrong? Not everybody receives email with the same delay ... he might not have seen either your confession or even the other cor

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-31 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 03:07:58PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:43:26AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I'm amazed nobody's asked this before, but why doesn't irs.gov do it > > themselves? Seems like the obvious answer...or is this some sort of > > "privatize the r

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-06 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:45:18PM +0200, Kosta Porotchkin wrote: > Hello, experts! > My feeling that I have a simple problem, which I cannot solve alone. > Would appreciate any help from community. > > I have a 3-computer network at home: > First Windows workstation: 192.168.1.2/16, gw 192.168.1.

Re: Home network router does not forward LAN traffic

2003-06-07 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:47:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:45:18PM +0200, Kosta Porotchkin wrote: > >eth0: 10.0.0.150/24 connected to ADSL modem/router (10.0.0.138) > > Is eth0 really 10.0.0.150? If so, your

Re: New User

2003-05-29 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:47:30PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 20:18, Jonathon B. Craw wrote: > > > > 1. Permissions on /dev/mix* /dev/dsp/*: give yourself read/write access > > I might do something like chmod a+rw /dev/mix* /dev/dsp* -- see chmod > > > Umm, no... >

Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?

2003-06-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:47:12PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:55:33PM -0400, Kevin McKinley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a > > gibibyte: > > > > http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=340&PHPSESSI

Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?

2003-06-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:21:45AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I didn't say I liked it, I just pointed out the "correct" usage. > > Actually, as R. Hector pointed out in this thread, it's not. I didn't say it was incorrect, I said it wasn't SI. It is (as far as I can see) an IEC standard.

Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?

2003-06-04 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 02:09:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:56:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > So a megabyte *is* 1048576 bytes, etc, and I don't think this usage is > > particularly likely to change. > > I know I'm not switching just because some industry marketroi

Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?

2003-06-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:01:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:53:15PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > The trouble is it isn't standard. SI is a standard; the binary stuff has > > broken

Re: kdm init files and xmodmap

2003-06-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:17:23PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Just FYI, here[1]'s a screenshot that should demonstrate what "threading" > is, for anyone using a non-threading mailer. > > [1] http://www.doorstop.net/thread_hijack.png Hmm. Other interesting things can be inferred too :-) Rich

Re: make menuconfig

2003-06-05 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:15:12PM +0200, Christof Hurschler wrote: > I can't find some drivers in the menutree when setting up a compile. In > particullar I can't fint bttv for my TV card. It's *not* under > multimedia-video where I guess it should be. > > Any suggestions, I'm at a loss. Try t

Re: your mail

2003-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:46:23PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:06:03AM +0100, Fred Bowker wrote: > > I am new to the mailing list and simply testing please ignore this e > > mail > > If your email normally works, post

Re: Mysterious network traffic

2003-06-08 Thread Richard Hector
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 01:13:32AM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > To start with, can anyone recommend what command or program I would use > to simply see what process is using bandwidth... (anything out there > like top for the network?) > Any other ideas or suggestions? You could try using someth

Re: questions about mutt

2002-12-12 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 21:18, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I tried a line like 'color body > cyan black ^gpg:', but that only colors 'gpg:', how would i make that go > to the end of the line? Untested RE-newbie guess: '^gpg:.*$' ? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 11:56, martin f krafft wrote: > i have a cheap-ass wireless access point which doesn't even do > MAC-based authentication, and neither can I get WEP64 to work between > it (Addtron AWS-110) and the Orinoco Silver card. > > I would like to have wireless in my appartment, but I

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 01:49, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.13.1127 +0100]: > > An idea that springs to mind (well, it sprung some time ago, but I had > > no-one to tell it to) is pppoe to your firewall. Then you block all

Re: email-fax gateway - need suggestions

2003-01-15 Thread Richard Hector
Apologies for not responding to the start of the thread - it had gone before I realised I wanted to contribute ... > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:36:05PM -0500, Neal Lippman wrote: > > > > My project is basically to provide a mechanism so someone can email to a > > an address in my office (eg "[EMA

Re: Compiling Kernel - ncurses and wish

2003-01-16 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:41, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > make menuconfig > > tells me I don't have ncurses installed, but I've installed every package > in the Debian Package archive with ncurses in the name . . . Including libncurses5-dev? I think that's the one you want. It is listed as 'sug

VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a VIA686a probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration This machine also had problems such as the mouse freezing, and sound playback (and recording) was

Re: VIA bug?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Hector
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 08:33, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:20, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After a fresh install on a newish PC, I get an error like this: > > > > probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost - probably a

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