Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-12 Thread Adam Aube
Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:17:26AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Have you even looked at the debian installer in the past year? Just curious. This is an area where it's completly possible to satisfy both groups. Once. I have only bought one computer in that time. Remember,

Re: LDAP support in sudo

2005-11-03 Thread Adam Aube
Bruno Diniz wrote: I'd like to have LDAP support in sudo package. In fact, sudo already have compilation-time option to support LDAP, but it is not used by Debian mantainer. Why is that? What do you suggest of doing to have sudo get its sudoers from LDAP? Unless you want to build sudo from

Re: .htaccess and .htpassword

2005-10-26 Thread Adam Aube
Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: I want to make a new .htaccess and .htpasswd file in /mywww/mssites/xsecure/newfile but I don't know how can I do. Apache has documentation on this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html Adam --

Re: All kde menu entries gone

2005-08-21 Thread Adam Aube
Graham Smith wrote: Sigh. I know that there are likely to be problems with with unstable, especially at the moment, but could anyone tell me how I could get back my kde menu entries. Got bit by the same bug recently. Downgrading kdelibs-data to version 3.3.2-7 fixes the problem. Adam --

Re: ftp fails first time when using apt-get

2005-07-31 Thread Adam Aube
Daniel McBrearty wrote: Adam Aube wrote: This isn't a publicly routable IP address, so it's most likely either the router or the DSL modem acting as a DNS forwarder. This device likely has a web interface - find its status page and see what DNS server it is using. You could also try

Re: can't connect with putty

2005-07-31 Thread Adam Aube
Cyprien wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:54:49AM +, Daniel McBrearty wrote: this is confusing message out of context but from what I remember: a) can you connect with ssh hostname b) with ssh IPaddress c) with putty hostname d) with putty IPaddress if yes to b and d, but

Re: Problem with apache2 and SSL

2005-07-31 Thread Adam Aube
Bryan Arenal wrote: On 7/30/05, Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the SSL module enabled ('ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl*')? Yes, the ssl.conf and ssl.load modules are both symlinked over from mods-available/. Can you post the config section for the host listening on port 443? Adam

Re: ftp fails first time when using apt-get

2005-07-30 Thread Adam Aube
Daniel McBrearty wrote: antgel wrote: Daniel McBrearty wrote: When I do apt-get install for a new package (as root ), apt goes to the ftp server ... and hangs on address 1.0.0.0 (DNS lookup problem?). I then have to quit, do ftp ftp.debian.nl.org (or whatver it is) log in and logout (as

Re: Firewall IP Forwarding problems

2005-07-30 Thread Adam Aube
Ronald Castillo wrote: I'm trying to connect my pocket pc by wíreless to my VMWare Windows 2000 virtual PC. Which means, I need a completely transparent connection between my eth1 (wireless) and vmnet8 (vmware emulated lan) devices. So far, I've tried using the following script: [snipped

Re: Problem with apache2 and SSL

2005-07-30 Thread Adam Aube
Bryan Arenal wrote: I've got apache2 installed, configured for all of my virtual domains and everything is running fine. Well, everything except for SSL. I've created my cert with 'apache2-ssl-certificate' as well as by hand. Nothing I do ever seems to work, because as soon as I hitting

Re: Problems with apt

2005-07-30 Thread Adam Aube
David A. Cobb wrote: After using it successfully several times a week, every run of apt-get or aptitude now ends with: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room Google on that error message. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: monitoring web-based email

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Aube
Curtis Vaughan wrote: We have an issue where management wants to monitor possible leaks through the use of Hotmail, etc. web-based email accounts. They do not want to just prohibit usage of such accounts. So, the question is, using SQUID, is it possible to cache what information employees

Re: XFree86 to X.Org: Console colors change

2005-07-23 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered that everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and X, the background and text color on the console change to some random color. The latest version of the X.Org packages (6.8.2.dfsg.1-4

Re: XFree86 to X.Org: Console colors change

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Marsh wrote: On 7/20/05, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Aube wrote: After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered that everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and X, the background and text color on the console change

Re: How to check ARP cheat in Lan.

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Aube
Anders Breindahl wrote: On Monday 18 July 2005 15:15, wrote: i am sorry that my english is poor/ in our company ,we have a software controling and Loging the Lan activity. eg : we deny computer from factory mailing and using web ,and loging it. the softeware is bebind the

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Aube
Will Ness wrote: I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very end it says: Error! Dynamic MMap ran out of room I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache memory limit

Re: sid, xorg and synaptic driver

2005-07-19 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Ott wrote: I want to know wether there is an originell debian synaptics driver package for xorg. At the moment i use the synaptics driver from http://people.debian.org/~dnusinow/xorg/ Have you tried xfree86-driver-synaptics? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

XFree86 to X.Org: Console colors change

2005-07-19 Thread Adam Aube
After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered that everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and X, the background and text color on the console change to some random color. I'm running a custom 2.6.12.2 kernel. Frame buffer support is disabled in both the

(SOLVED) Re: Ethereal - Assertion Failed when starting (Sid)

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: When starting ethereal on Sid, the following error message occurs: [snipped] Ethereal then quits. Ethereal and all its packages are completely up-to-date (as of 7/2/05). Searching the archives provided no information. I filed a bug report about this (#316650), but it does

Ethereal - Assertion Failed when starting (Sid)

2005-07-03 Thread Adam Aube
When starting ethereal on Sid, the following error message occurs: $ ethereal (ethereal:6757): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT(object)' failed (ethereal:6757): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_covers: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed (ethereal:6757):

Re: KDE messed up after dist-upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Adam Aube
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Again, restart KDE, work out the remaining minor issues, and you'll be fine. Thanks for the detailed responses. You're right. I haven't restarted KDE or X yet. Didn't know you have to do that. KDE tends to break binary compatibility between major

Re: KDE messed up after dist-upgrade

2005-01-07 Thread Adam Aube
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: I did my daily apt-get upgrade a couple of days ago, and I noticed there were a whole bunch of packages being held, most of them kde. Trying a couple of them by hand revealed they were in conflict with other packages that needed to be removed and whatnot. So I did a

Re: KDE 3.3.1 issue

2005-01-07 Thread Adam Aube
Aditya Pratap wrote: Yesterday I tried to upgrade KDE from 3.2 to 3.3.1. This is how I tried to do $ apt-get install kdebase $ apt-get install kde This would be how to install kde, not upgrade it. Was KDE already installed? If so, you should have used apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Aube
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is there some missing dependency, perhaps? player ddb# apt-file update Can't locate object method host via package URI::_foreign (perhaps you forgot to load URI::_foreign?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Aube
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Dyer-Bennet wrote: After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is there some missing dependency, perhaps? A quick check of the BTS (querybts apt-file) turned up Bug #229540, which may apply to your

Re: Sound and print problems

2005-01-06 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Satterwhite wrote: That said, after it finished the upgrade, I found myself with two problems. First, KDE programs (KMail, KEdit, etc) no longer see my CUPS printers. To KDE, it's as if no printers were attached to my computer. Other applications (such as OpenOffice) have no problem

Re: SDL sound not working (ALSA, kernel 2.6.1)

2005-01-04 Thread Adam Aube
Dan Lenski wrote: Hi, I have already installed libsdl1.2debian-all, so I should have all the possible SDL sound drivers installed. Any other ideas? I had similar problems with libsdl1.2debian-alsa; the workaround posted in bug #285074 solved the problem for me. Perhaps it will also work for

Re: Upgrade kernel from 2.67?

2005-01-02 Thread Adam Aube
Agustin wrote: All the same, the question is still pertinent. I'm having difficulty upgrading the kernel because I get the message that my partition hdh2 is full, so installation is not possible. Free some space on hdh2 (your root partition). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Upgrade kernel from 2.67?

2005-01-02 Thread Adam Aube
Agustin wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:50:05 +0100, Adam Aube wrote: Agustin wrote: All the same, the question is still pertinent. I'm having difficulty upgrading the kernel because I get the message that my partition hdh2 is full, so installation is not possible. Free some space on hdh2

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-01 Thread Adam Aube
Alex Polite wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 07:51:26PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: Alex Polite wrote: What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point to attach to? The 'ap' option to iwconfig (part of the wireless-tools package). Thanks. But I'm thinking of the situation

Re: USB printer installation(How to do)

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Telmo Filipe Tavares da Silva wrote: I have an HP / DeskJet 3650 printer and wish to install it on my Debian Sarge OS. I have read documentation over linuxprinting and installed cups, but whenever I install my printer throw printconf, which supposely should be on /dev/usb/lp0, it istalls it

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Harland Christofferson wrote: Before I created this mess, I was running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I tried the rescue.bin and root.bin floppies from the Debian site but I was not able to boot w/ them. I was able to boot w/ the 2.2. 20-compact floppies however. Now, using 2.2.20-compact, I

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:32:22 -0500, Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What kernel are you using? Linux version 2.4.27-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-2)) #1 Wed Dec 1 19:43:08 JST 2004 Post the output of the following command: head -v `ls

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Alex Polite wrote: What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point to attach to? The 'ap' option to iwconfig (part of the wireless-tools package). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound stopped working after update

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Jason Chagas wrote: I recently updated my Sarge system with the latest packages and sound stopped working. All sound applications fails to open /dev/dsp. Here is an example: % play /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav playing /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such

Re: Sound stopped working after update

2004-12-31 Thread Adam Aube
Jason Chagas wrote: Adam Aube wrote: I notice that via82cxxx_audio isn't loaded. Have you tried loading it via modprobe before testing your sound? Yes, I had tried running modprobe via82cxxx_audio before but it simply returned without errors. However, lsmod didn't show 'via82cxxx_audio

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
John Foster wrote: I was using OpenOffice as a web writer and it seemed to be running sporadically, slowing way down, then it crashed and now will not start at all. I removed it from my system and reinstalled it and it still does not work. Any one know of this? The only thing that I had

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:27:50 -0800, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norman Davis wrote: I'm having problems using SSH and CVS at my work. The connections timeout. However I can browse the internet with Mozilla just fine. But this only happens on my network at work. When I

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:02:26 -0500, Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is ECN off (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn)? You can check/set it with sysctl. net.ipv4.tcp_ecn was 0. So it was already off. I just now set it to 1. CVS and SSH still don't work. Turning ECN on isn't

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2004-12-30 Thread Adam Aube
Norman Davis wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:12:01 -0700, Norman Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems using SSH and CVS at my work. The connections timeout. However I can browse the internet with Mozilla just fine. But this only happens on my network at work. When I dial in to

Re: apache apache-ssl

2004-12-29 Thread Adam Aube
Ivan Wills wrote: Matthew Joyce wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Matthew Joyce wrote: I have 2 woody boxes, one has apache+php and the other has apache-ssl+php. Physical space is tight, and neither of these boxes are ever very busy, I'd like to combine them. Are there any problem with

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Aube
saravanan ganapathy wrote: I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM server. I have enabled smp support by installing kernel-image-2.4.18-smp. Now it shows dual processor. But the os detects my RAM as 900 MB only. How do I enable the os to detect actual RAM(2 GB)? Which

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Aube
Paul Gear wrote: Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Paul Gear wrote: A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? ... If you are asking whether you can install (for instance)

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:20:49PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: If you aren't in a domain new users in XP are by default added to the Admins group. In reality almost everybody at Microsoft ran as Admin on their own box. There are Linux distributions that do the same thing

Re: Make another Server

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
AntonioCadiz wrote: I have a debian server (Master) with apache, postfix, mysql, ... and I want to have now other debian server (Slave) whith the same data and configuration than Master. I want that Master make schedulle copies of itself in Slave. If Master fails, i want to connect Slave and

Re: Debian Geek Toolkit Question

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
Paul E Condon wrote: So, what do people recommend as a tool kit item for starting or debugging broken computers? http://www.sysresccd.org/ From the website: SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Adam Aube
Ryan D'Baisse wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:48:24 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is not Linux. Okay, I'm confused. Does Debian not use the Linux kernel? Yes, it uses the Linux kernel. However, the kernel itself is NOT a complete operating system - it needs userland

Re: incremental backups howto?

2004-12-24 Thread Adam Aube
Joao Clemente wrote: In the latest thread about Synchronize two servers it was talked about incremental backups. Well, can you quick-start me in this topic? An incremental backup is done by backing up all files that have changed since the last full or incremental backup. How this file list is

Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Cameron G wrote: I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really rather avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain to maintain, and I have several servers to look after. The reason I'm

Re: kmail and address book

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Alan Chandler wrote: On Wednesday 22 December 2004 18:19, Adam Aube wrote: I have the current KDE in Sid, and I do see Recent Addresses first. However, if I scroll up the window I see Other Addresses, which lists the addresses in kaddressbook. It seems to remember the section I was in last

Re: imap-addressbook connect failure

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Don Hayward wrote: We can't get to an address book on the imap server -- but we can login on that server and get our inbox. The server is a Debian Linux system. The client is PCPine on an XP Pro system. The directory containing the addrbook is an smb mount. This setup was working until a

Re: configuring NetGear WG511 on Sarge (was: dumb question - not sure where to begin configuring a wifi card)

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm using Debian sarge, on an IBM Thinkpad 770x. I'm trying to get my pcmcia wifi card (Netgear wg511) working. It works under windos 98SE, needed for radio programming, but not sure where to start looking for coinfiguration. Debian knows it's a Netgear card, and

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Andreas wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:02:55PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: How do I get crontab to run a process every 5 minutes? Currently, it is setup as: 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * Surely, there is a more elegant approach? sure */12 * * * * or 0-59/12 * * * *

Re: imap-addressbook connect failure

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Don Hayward wrote: On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Adam Aube wrote: Since the address book is on an SMB mount, most likely the upgrade of Samba, not uw-imap, caused the problem. I copied the file into a non smbfs volume (the user's home directory) and altered the address on the client -- the error

Re: Synchronize two servers (warm backup)

2004-12-23 Thread Adam Aube
Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:25:42AM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 02:50:08 +0100 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'm looking to do, in more detail, is keep two Woody-based servers functionally identical by having the backup server

Re: kmail and address book

2004-12-22 Thread Adam Aube
Alan Chandler wrote: kaddressbook has been set up with a few entries in it. If I go to kmail tools menu and select address book, I open kaddressbook and can select entries from it and use it to send a message. However, when I compose a message from scratch, I would expect to hit the

Re: What files in /etc must be writable?

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
William Ballard wrote: Bootcd allows you to use the NOT_TO_RAM option to make files physically reside on the CD and only be symlinked into the Ram disk. I wrote a script which adds every file in /etc to NOT_TO_RAM, needing to conserve space in the Ram Disk. The theory is if I need to change

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Please turn off HTML when posting to mailing lists. Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card.nbsp; I read a lot during the past few month to get this card working but everything I tried didn't work so far. I know the dma, irq, etc.but it

Re: hangup during boot (kernel 2.4.27)

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Michiel Jansen wrote: James Vahn wrote: Michiel Jansen wrote: No my customized kernel does not load an initrd.img file. It is also not generated during kernel compilation. Is ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support built in? PCI IDE chipset support? Yes, this is all built into the kernel (including ext3 and

Re: Novice Questions

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Kent West wrote: (PS, don't bottom post.) Like you just did? I think you meant don't top post. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: discover seems to have changed my NICs

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
H. S. wrote: Yesterday, due to some weird reason, my network went down yesterday. When I rebooted into Fedora to see if it worked, it did. Then I rebooted into 2.4.26 kernel in Debian. That worked too. Then I tried again in 2.6.9 and 2.6.7 kernels in Debian and networking failed again. The

Re: Cdrom Question

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
bill wrote: When I mount the cdrom in kde, half the time, I can't unmount it or can't eject it Can anyone offer me some information on this or let me know where I might find it? Try using fuser to see what is keeping the CD-ROM busy: fuser -m /media/cdrom (Change /media/cdrom to the

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Please don't top post (which is replying above the original message, making the thread hard to follow). Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: Please turn off HTML when posting to mailing lists. I'm sorry. Here it is again in plain text Thanks

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Adam Aube
Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: I already used the alsaconf tools. It says No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips? I answer yes and then it starts probing for ISA card. It didn't find any. That was the only suggestion I had. What kernel are

Re: output all but last N lines command?

2004-12-18 Thread Adam Aube
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 21:17 -0500, Adam Aube wrote: William Ballard wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:45:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting Monday, December 20 and will return on Tuesday, January 4. I will not be checking

Re: Slickest way to do joins/lookups in text files

2004-12-18 Thread Adam Aube
Sam Watkins wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:24:27AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting Monday, December 20 and will return on Tuesday, January 4. I will not be checking email regularly during this time. Have a great holiday break! Can we globally

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Adam Aube
Bob Alexander wrote: In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions of the files in a versioning schema (like rcs, cvs

re: using cd-rw

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
jack kinnon wrote: Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is applicable to Debian too? Second hit on a Google search for CD-RW howto Debian: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ Lots of good information for new Debian users. The CD burning section is near the bottom of the page.

Re: Using cd-rw

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
jack kinnon wrote: I have read from the Net a howto about using cd-rw. It suggested that for a ide-atapi drive, of which mine is, the first thing to do is to config kernel to emulate scsi drive. Is this a must? On 2.4 kernels - yes. On 2.6 kernels - no. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dist-upgrade to sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
Jianan wrote: I was able to use the sarge cd #1 to do a dist-upgrade. I mounted the cd with mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt Then I add a line to sources.list to read from /mnt Then apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade Everything seems to go smoothly. When I reboot, the KDE

Re: network unreachable

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: When I try to ping B from A I get connect: Network is unreachable When I try to ping A from B I get From [IP of machine B] icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From [IP of machine B] icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable From [IP of machine B] icmp_seq=3

Re: debarchiver and ehterconf problem at apt-get dist-upgrade woody to testing

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
W)ireless W)inds Support wrote: i have two problems. Both are coming with apt-get dist-upgrade. I only want to update the system from woody to sarge. All packages, without debarchiver and etherconf, are installed correctly. The problems: debarchiver: the install progress stops after

Re: Configure xserver-xfree86

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
donald szatkowski wrote: My video card is an S3. From the Free86.org site it seems the S3 driver is required, but Debian30r2 only has S3Savage for a driver. Woody has an older version of XFree86, which might not include your driver. Sarge, the upcoming stable release, has a newer version of

Re: Slickest way to do joins/lookups in text files

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
William Ballard wrote: Example: I'd like to investigate the most popular RSS readers Debian offers. $apt-cache search rss | cut -d' ' -f1 rss.txt $wget http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_vote.gz I'd like to filter by_vote.gz to just the package names in rss.txt. In SQL this would be a

Re: output all but last N lines command?

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
William Ballard wrote: You can specify tail -n+5 to output all but the first 5 lines. But head has no such option to output all but the last N lines. Perhaps you missed this from the head man page: -n, --lines=[-]N print the first N lines instead of the first 10; with the lead-

Re: output all but last N lines command?

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
William Ballard wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:45:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting Monday, December 20 and will return on Tuesday, January 4. I will not be checking email regularly during this time. Have a great holiday break! This is

Re: Debian Netinst: DHCP hangs, static hangs

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
Karl Ebener wrote: I want to install Debian using the Debian Installer RC-2 as Netinst. My system: Athlon XP 2200+, MSI MS-6712 Mainboard (VIA VT6103 Lan Adapter), Geforce 256 Gfx, 256 MB RAM. First, I encountered, that the VIA-Rhine-driver does not work for the VIA VT6103. So I installed a

Re: Mozilla crashing in sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Adam Aube
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:05:00AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am running mozilla in sarge, and it is crashing frequently, with increasing frequency, first when several tabs were opened, now with only one tab. Has anybody had this crashing? It h=just

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? I would recommend BincIMAP. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Html drop-down menu in Mozilla/Firefox

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
Shaikh Quader wrote: For example, a drop-down menu generated from the following html is easily visible in Internet Explorer. But the drop-down isn't visible when the web page is opened from Mozilla/Firefox. div Id=menu1 class=menu div Id=menuItem1_3 class=menuItema

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
jack kinnon wrote: Let's start from the beginning. If I have a blank cd-rw that I want to use in Linux. Do I have to do any steps before even attempting to mount it? I had assumed that all I need is to mount it and then do the file copying. Have I missed a step or two, like formatting, for

Re: Raid Array stays Dirty

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:48:05PM +, ognjen Bezanov wrote: After Setting up my RAID5 Array (4x 40gb drives) i got 120GB free space and everything seemed ok, then after restart i was told that i had a failure on a non-existant drive and the array rebuilt itself, not a

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Adam Aube
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses? i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system virtually unusable and i got to umount/mount the drive to keep working You don't say what

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread Adam Aube
feanor7 wrote: Actually my servers have cron-apt installed and every night they do apt-get update. At morning I check the possible changes and decide which packages should be upgraded. Most of time I do a apt-get dist-upgrade and life continues. My /etc/apt/sources.list points to stable.

Re: Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

2004-12-14 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Buchanan wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Simon Buchanan wrote: I tryed the standard kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp version and it installed correctly... mx1:/# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Adam Aube
Seneca wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:38:15PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: hmm, that sounds quite cool, how did you get it on the laptop? does the laptop have a cdrom? I have a 286 at home with no ethernet, no cd drive, can't figure out how to get linux in there -- haven't used a floppy

Re: rpm

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: I need to install a driver for my ATI Radeon 9600. I found at the following URL the driver I'm looking for, but it is a .rpm file. Can I use it in Debian? apt-cache show alien Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
Joris Huizer wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: Well, I got make menuconfig to work, (required libncurses5-dev) but Do you have the experimental stuff turned on? Not sure, how would I check? make menuconfig Code maturity level options

Re: installing sound on debian

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
Vijaya S wrote: i have installed debian sarge with 2.4.18bf24 kernel 2.4.18-bf24 is a Woody kernel, not a Sarge kernel. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can't initialize iptables table

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, as the last part of setting up our new mail server, i was just about to install our firewall script based on iptables... having a quick check i get this output: mx1:/# iptables -L iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Module is wrong

Re: Re: woody support

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
mickeydog wrote: Sarge is 3.1. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Thanks. 15 CDs??? I was a little overwhelmed that woody was 7...now 15 It seems like the other linux's are 3 or 4. Why so many? Because of the massive package repository. Realistically, though, you can usually get

Re: Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

2004-12-12 Thread Adam Aube
Please don't top post (which is putting your reply above the original mesage) - it makes the thread harder to follow. Simon Buchanan wrote: Adam Aube wrote: Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, I have just completed install of debian testing on my new SMP server (xeon nocona processors) and went

Re: ls color for bad symbolic link

2004-12-11 Thread Adam Aube
Tong wrote: I remember that my previous distro can distinguish symbolic links as good or bad: good links are show as normal link color whereas bad links are shown as red. Edit your .bashrc and uncomment this line: alias ls='ls --color=auto' Then run: '. .bashrc' Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: problem with /dev

2004-12-11 Thread Adam Aube
Manu wrote: I upgraded to kernel 2.6.9 but in /dev I do not see /dev/cdrom (/dev/hdd) and /dev/hdc (CD-WRITER) first one should map CD-ROM/CD et and the other one was mapping my CDRW.. how can I get these devices back? I had this problem as well when I first started running udev. On my

Re: Debian 3.3 and AHA2940UW?

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Aube
John Conover wrote: I'm installing Debian 3.3 on a SCSI system with an Adaptec AHA2940UW. Hmm - Woody (the last stable release) was 3.0, and Sarge (the upcoming stable release) will be 3.1. Where did you get 3.3? I'm guessing you mean 3.0r3 (the most recent update to Woody). When I boot to

Re: mtab question

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Aube
Manu wrote: I have a question concerning my mtab I see the following line : proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 These are virtual filesystems that provide a simple way to get info from the kernel using user-space tools. sysfs is new in 2.6-series kernels. devpts /dev/pts

Re: Error apt-getting new EM64T kernel

2004-12-10 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Buchanan wrote: Hi There, I have just completed install of debian testing on my new SMP server (xeon nocona processors) and went to install a new SMP-aware kernel and got this message: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp_2.6.8-5_i386.deb

Re: udev question

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
Kudret Güler wrote: udev creates /dev/hdc(burner) with permissions 640 and with owner root.hal. Therefore hal group members cannot burn. And any change is reversed on reboot. How can I tell udev to create it with permissions 660? Or should I just put it in a script to chmod /dev/hdc on every

Re: hardware raid card recognition before mount of /lib/modules/2.6.9-1-386 and raid2

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a debian system on a machine that stores data on a hardware raid 3ware 7806-5 and another system that uses an adaptec 2400a. both are ata hardware raid devices. During bootup, the boot halts while going through /etc/rcS.d/ when it runs S30checkfs.sh

Re: Problem about installing Sarge

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Aube
FPAx wrote: I've got a problem, i need to install the netinstall cd this OS to an Asus Pundt-R machine (which have ATI chipset), and after the first restart, the machine hang-up with kernel panic message. I was read, that the kernel above 2.6.6 is supporting this chipset Then use the

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