Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Björn Johansson
Hello! Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge? I know Sarge is working very well on my other computer, but that was an install from scratch, no upgrade. Björn Johansson (not a member of the list)

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Andika Triwidada
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:48:56 +0100, Björn Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge? I know Sarge is working very well on my other computer, but that was an install from scratch, no upgrade. Björn Johansson (not a member of the list) Well, some of

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Björn Johansson
At 10:11 2005-01-13, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:48:56 +0100, Björn Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge? I know Sarge is working very well on my other computer, but that was an install from scratch, no upgrade. Björn Johansson (not a

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Paul Puschmann
Björn Johansson wrote: At 10:11 2005-01-13, you wrote: I've found a place where I can download Sarge: ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-cd/sarge/ Do you know if this is the whole Sarge distribution? Björn Johansson Hi, you can give jigdo a try. It genereates up-to-date versions of dvd or cd

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Björn Johansson
At 10:53 2005-01-13, you wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:24:31 +0100, Björn Johansson I've found a place where I can download Sarge: ftp://ftp.it.debian.org/debian-cd/sarge/ Do you know if this is the whole Sarge distribution? Björn Johansson No. *whole* Sarge require around 12 CDs for

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Lech Karol Pawłaszek
Dnia czwartek, 13 stycznia 2005 11:15, Björn Johansson napisał: [...] Okay, that's HUGE! How about DVD images? My PC(with woody) at home has no internet connection, the Mac with Sarge has(56k dialup). Luckily I have a fast internet connection here at work. So the only way for me to make an

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Björn Johansson
At 13:25 2005-01-13, you wrote: Dnia czwartek, 13 stycznia 2005 11:15, Björn Johansson napisa³: [...] Okay, that's HUGE! How about DVD images? My PC(with woody) at home has no internet connection, the Mac with Sarge has(56k dialup). Luckily I have a fast internet connection here at work. So

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Björn Johansson
At 13:25 2005-01-13, you wrote: Dnia czwartek, 13 stycznia 2005 11:15, Björn Johansson napisa³: [...] Okay, that's HUGE! How about DVD images? My PC(with woody) at home has no internet connection, the Mac with Sarge has(56k dialup). Luckily I have a fast internet connection here at work. So

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread Björn Johansson
At 13:25 2005-01-13, you wrote: Dnia czwartek, 13 stycznia 2005 11:15, Björn Johansson napisa³: [...] Okay, that's HUGE! How about DVD images? My PC(with woody) at home has no internet connection, the Mac with Sarge has(56k dialup). Luckily I have a fast internet connection here at work. So

Re: Is it safe to upgrade Woody to Sarge?

2005-01-13 Thread xerces8
Which server should I connect to, to get all the required files? http://www.debian.org/distrib/ has all the needed info.

slapd web frontend

2005-01-13 Thread Macskasi Csaba
Hi at all! I want tu use an ldap db for authentification on my server. I don`t want to install X, and I do not find any web based config-frontend. I wanted to try gosa, but it requires free, just like gq (which I have used before) So can you advise me some good web-based config frontend?

Re: slapd web frontend

2005-01-13 Thread Bob Hutchinson
On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 16:24, Macskasi Csaba wrote: Hi at all! I want tu use an ldap db for authentification on my server. I don`t want to install X, and I do not find any web based config-frontend. I wanted to try gosa, but it requires free, just like gq (which I have used before) So can

Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar
Hi, I hope you can help me. I have made a program that will be listening to a port. I want to start the program every time the machine boots, so I created the script to use in init.d and Ive also created the symlinks. The machine boots, and the programs starts. I use ps ax and I can see that the

grip and/or cddb crashing

2005-01-13 Thread Jason Martens
Hey all, I've been having problems with grip and cddb recently. I'm not entirely sure when it started, but I think it was a week or two ago. I started noticing that the cddb lookups with the gnome cd player application would crash occasionally. Now, when I try to use grip, it works for a

Re: grip and/or cddb crashing

2005-01-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:20:03PM -0600, Jason Martens wrote: Hey all, I've been having problems with grip and cddb recently. I'm not entirely sure when it started, but I think it was a week or two ago. I started noticing that the cddb lookups with the gnome cd player application

Re: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Hans-Georg Bork
Hi, On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:43:47PM -0600, Sergio Cu?llar wrote: [...] If I restart the program by hand, /etc/init.d/my_serverd restart, and I use again the client program, the server works fine. I really dont have any idea, what´s happening. it sounds that something is missing at

kde being removed

2005-01-13 Thread Nathan Frankish
So is there a reason that when I do a apt-get dist-upgrade or even use apt-get upgrade it goes to remove kde? I haven't specified it to, yet it wants to.. any ideas? Cheers Nathan Internat Frankish -Original Message- From: Hans-Georg Bork [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14

RE: kde being removed

2005-01-13 Thread Peter Cole
If I ever come across something like that, I abort the apt-get upgrade and run dselect instead. That way, I can usually see that it says whatever package depends on something which is not available or whatever. Hasn't happened very often though, and I've never used KDE, so can't be more

Re: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Hans-Georg Bork: I have already tried the S99my_serverd change, but it doesnt work. J.A. Bezemer: I have tried the ./yourprog /dev/null /dev/null 2/dev/null and the program dies, I cant see with a ps ax Clare Jarvis: The program should listen to a port, and a client program will send a

Re: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Yes Marc !! I use the system() instruction !! But how can I avoid using this instruction ? In line 153 (http://rafb.net/paste/results/vkgCRD46.html) is where is use system(), Maybe if I use the complete path to that instruction can help. Thanks again for your help On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:44:39

Re: SOLVED: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Marc, thanks that was the problem !!! sprintf(message, say -s 4 -a \%s\, buffer); this was the big big big mistake I added the hole path to the instructions: sprintf(message, /usr/local/bin/say -s 4 -a \%s\, buffer); Thanks to all of you who helped me !! :-) Sincerely, Sergio Cuéllar

Re: SOLVED: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Yep, thats a good point, that I havent realized. The security stuff is very very important. I have to change the code to be able to manage this problems. This is the next step. Thanks for your advice ;-) Sergio Cuellar Valdes On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:58:44 +, Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SOLVED: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:41:29PM -0600, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote: Marc, thanks that was the problem !!! sprintf(message, say -s 4 -a \%s\, buffer); this was the big big big mistake It certainly was. I added the hole path to the instructions: sprintf(message, /usr/local/bin/say

Re: SOLVED: Daemon Programming

2005-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sergio == Sergio Cuéllar Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sergio sprintf(message, /usr/local/bin/say -s 4 -a \%s\, buffer); Note that this is a classic security problem since both message and buffer are exactly the same size (BUFSIZE == 1024). Use snprintf or otherwise validate the size.