cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I've set cron-apt on my wheezy box and configured it to send me an email whenever any updates are available. The /etc/cron-apt/config file contains: # cat /etc/cron-apt/config # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible # configuration settings see

Re: cron-apt, on wheezy, not sending email

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: # cat /etc/cron-apt/config # Configuration for cron-apt. For further information about the possible # configuration settings see /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/README.gz. APTCOMMAND=/usr/bin/apt-get MAILON=upgrade

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Good.  Can you log in as the non-root user? No, all users on this box are from NIS. Yes.  Stop all other lines of debugging and focus on this issue.  Why is there an error there?  Can you log in as that user?  

Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: No, all users on this box are from NIS. How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that user?  Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into the account.  So I don't understand this comment.

Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...

2012-04-09 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I am trying to connect to a squeeze VM as a standard user using ssh keys, whenever I try to ssh into the box the connection is closed by the VM: ram@g5:~$ ssh -v lal-squeeze OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:33, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: The nscd is not required for cron jobs to run.  I don't want to suggest that you thrash your production machine but if you could test this on a test machine I think you will find that nscd is not required for cron.  Really it

job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi On a squeeze box I'd like to run a script every night at 1:01am, as such I have the following entry in my crontab: $ crontab -l 1 1 * * * /home/laltest/test/nightly/nightly-git.sh $ However the script never runs and I don't any email from cron indicating script failure, when I run the

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:25, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Do a grep -i cron /var/log/syslog and check for the output. # grep -i cron /var/log/syslog Nov 8 07:17:01 bull /USR/SBIN/CRON[6222]: (root) CMD ( cd / run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Nov 8 07:49:05 bull crontab[6280]:

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:44, Adam Mercer ramer...@gmail.com wrote: You can append 21 /var/log/nightly-git.log to get the output logged to a file. That's I'll see if that gives any more information. I created another entry in the crontab with the logging enabled for a few minutes

Re: job in crontab not running

2011-11-08 Thread Adam Mercer
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:21, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: from this I was able to determine that NSCD wasn't running, restarting this allowed jobs to run successfully! Does this mean that you are running NIS/YP or LDAP from the network? Are your servers slow such as on a remote network

Re: Mouse problem in VirtualBox client Lenny

2010-01-10 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:13, Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi wrote: I have VirtualBox 3.1.2r56127 running on amd64 Windows7 host, and an amd64 Lenny client. Everything seemed to work before I finished the vboxadd setup adding VirtualBox client support. Now the mouse responds to right click

Re: Network Manager problems

2008-05-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you always want to use eth0, I'd drop NetworkManager altogether and just set things up in /etc/network/interfaces so that eth0 is auto-started. If you need to do something more automagical, I've found that ifplugd

Network Manager problems

2008-05-21 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I'm running Etch and whenever I login to GNOME I have to use the NetworkManager applet to connect to my wired network, how can I configure NetworkManager to automatically connect to my wired network on boot? I've tried looking at the NetworkManager man pages but they are next to useless.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Adam Mercer
Neil Watson wrote: I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed out. I've yet to see one accept LaTeX. Publishers of scientific journals accept LaTeX, most even provide a style file so that the document is formatted according to the specific journals

Re: I'm sorry

2007-09-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On 22/09/2007, Lo'oris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. great quote! where does it come from? Its a rewording of one of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws Cheers Adam -- To

Re: compiling xserver x11r7 problems

2005-12-24 Thread Adam Mercer
On 24/12/05, John Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any suggestions I'd be very happy :-) dm.h:110:31: error: security/pam_appl.h: No such file or directory Looks like it can't find the security/pam_appl.h header file, which is in the libpam0g-dev package, do you have that

Re: Best cluster OS

2005-11-19 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/11/05, Nick I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if anyone has any advice on cluster management software, please send it. I am trying to build a knowldgebase of different opinions on software. We use sarge on our 106 node dual xeon cluster and it works great, for job management we use

Re: dhclient assigns new IP address every time

2005-11-10 Thread Adam Mercer
On 10/11/05, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is behind a router (linksys BEFSR41). The computer and the router are connected by ethernet cable (ie no wireless). Every time I run, 'sudo dhclient', the IP address assigned to the computer is different. For example,

Re: automated installs

2005-11-03 Thread Adam Mercer
On 03/11/05, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping to bulk build half a dozen debian Squid boxes next month. Does Debian have tools to help automated installs? At present something like a pre-recorded list of answers you could feed debian-installer and a list of debs to install

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

2005-10-31 Thread Adam Mercer
On 31/10/05, Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. LILO puts up the usual .. for loading, then bam, black screen. There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

2005-10-31 Thread Adam Mercer
On 31/10/05, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curt Howland said... Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. LILO puts up the usual .. for loading, then bam, black screen. There's some disk access for about 10

problem writing udev rules

2005-09-16 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I'm having a problem writing a udev rule for my printer, I want it to always be setup as /dev/optra and have the following rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/010-udev.rules BUS=usb, SYSFS{serial}=6033190, NAME=%k, SYMLINK=optra where the 6033190 is the serial number given by sysfs. This rules used

Re: problems updating with apt

2005-09-16 Thread Adam Mercer
On 16/09/05, Del Boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any current problems updating sarge with apt ? I wonder of someone could give me a copy of a basic sources.list for sarge ? this is my sources.list from my sarge machine at work, I updated it this morning without any problems. deb

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

2005-09-13 Thread Adam Mercer
On 13/09/05, gothic doom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to burn a CD on my notebook, but with no success What I've done (following the document/usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup) : /etc/lilo.conf -- append=hdc=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=1 modprobe ide-scsi sg snip

Re: Scanner recommendation?

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Mercer
On 31/08/05, Ishwar Rattan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System is Debian derivative with kernel-2.6.7. I am looking for a scanner (usb) that will work under this system. Any input will be appreciated. The sane project website has a list of supported scanners, give that a look

Re: Keep the NVIDIA driver for different kernel releases

2005-08-18 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/08/05, Mauricio Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I compile and install the NVIDIA driver for kernel 2.6.12.5 without removing the old installed driver for kernel 2.6.12? I take it you're using the nVidia installer direct from nVidia, not the debian packages? If so then for each new

Building nvidia driver against 2.6.12-1-k7-2.6.12-5 under sid

2005-08-18 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi Trying to update my nvidia driver (1.0.7174-4) for the newly released 2.6.12-5 kernel under sid results in a hugh amounts for errors, build log attached. Essentially the initial error seems to be In file included from /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-k7/build/include/linux/kernel.h:11,

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-16 Thread Adam Mercer
On 16/08/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I apt-get install arts, it want libarts1c2 which wants libqt3-mt which deletes 244 packages (KDE). Now, I know that the Debian developers are changing KDE to be c++ oriented (or some thing like that) and are changing the packages of

probelm upgrading x-window-system-core

2005-08-12 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I'm tracking side and for the past month or so, aptitude and refused to upgrade the x-window-system-core package saying that it is broken, at first I thought that this was due to the ongoing change from xfree86 to xorg. However sid has been on xorg for a while now and I am still getting the

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On 05/08/05, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much disk space is required to do this? Our 386 Sarge mirror, just binaries, takes up about 9Gb for main, contrib and non-free. Cheers Adam

Re: Personal Debian mirror

2005-08-04 Thread Adam Mercer
On 04/08/05, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come to the point of needing / wanting my own partial Debian mirror (amd64 and i386). I've been reading about debmirror but when I tried it my mirror didn't look quite like what I thought it should. All the packages were

Re: mouse freezes after reboot (Sarge)

2005-07-27 Thread Adam Mercer
On 27/07/05, Søren Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any suggestions? is hotplug installed? I've had a few problems with mice when hotplug wasn't installed. Cheers Adam

Re: Installing Nvidia on Debian 3.1 Sarge

2005-07-18 Thread Adam Mercer
On 18/07/05, philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi 2. During the debian install it prompted me to specifiy my graphics card so I seleted 'nv'. However I have now looked at nvidia and they do their own driver which has I presume is better for my needs in terms of OpenGL support etc. Can I

apt no verify key in sid

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I've just upgraded my sid box and now apt is complaining that the packages are untrusted e.g. Need to get 1793kB of archives. After unpacking 7324kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! Untrusted packages

Re: apt no verify key in sid

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/07/05, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 the mental interface of Adam Mercer told: [...] Do I need any other keys in the keyring? The keys by default are locatet in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg. You can check the keys within there: $ apt-key list. I did

Re: apt no verify key in sid

2005-07-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/07/05, Thomas Weinbrenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an easy way to test this. In /var/lib/apt/list you will find the Release and Release.gpg files from your sources. Just verify them manually: Thanks that did it, I was missing the key for the debian-marillat archive Cheers

Re: Kernel 2.6.12 borked my udev rules

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/07/05, Deviant User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This allows me to mount a usb thumb drive as /dev/USB_Flash_Disk. Can somebody tell me what's wrong, if any, with the rules, and how I could change it to conform with the new rules for linux 2.6.12? With 2.6.12 you need to use

Re: How to get my computers IP address

2005-06-30 Thread Adam Mercer
On 30/06/05, Mitja Podreka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ADSL connection which I share over a router and Apache server installed on my laptop running Debian Sarge. Before I started to share ADSL connection I sometimes used the server to share bigger files with my friends. I told them the URL

Re: 2.6.12.1 kernel won't compile in fresh sarge install

2005-06-26 Thread Adam Mercer
On 25/06/05, Daniel Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to compile a vanilla 2.6.12.1 kernel because it has native drivers for my pchdtv [1] card that are not in 2.6.11. When running make it gets pages of errors under drivers/char/drm/ eventually giving me a failure message.

problem burning DVDs on LG GSA-4163B under Sarge (2.6.8-2-k7)

2005-06-08 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi I am having problems burning DVDs on a freshly installed Sarge system, using kernel 2.6.8-2-k7. CDs burn without issue, but I get the following error when trying to burning DVDs lnx5:/data/ram# growisofs -Z /dev/hdd -dvd-compat -R -J h2g2 Executing 'mkisofs -R -J h2g2 | builtin_dd of=/dev/hdd

Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

2005-06-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On 02/06/05, Romulo Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any clues? what shows up in your syslog, I get the following when I plug my camera in Jun 2 07:51:12 localhost kernel: ohci_hcd :00:02.1: wakeup Jun 2 07:51:12 localhost kernel: usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and

Re: Problems Mounting Digital Camera

2005-06-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On 01/06/05, Romulo Sousa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to mount my Sony DSC-P93 in order to trasfer my pics to my box. I've tried some ways but it didn't work such as installing hotplug and usb* packages. gtkam also didn't work. I've installed gphoto2 but I didn't test it

Re: C Compiler?

2005-05-25 Thread Adam Mercer
On 25/05/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is config.log? In the directory of the package you're trying to build! Cheers Adam

Re: Use of dual CPU?

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Mercer
On 23/05/05, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have one general question regarding the use of a dual Opteron CPU using a smp kernel. I'm currently running a cpu intensive program that use for some hours 100% of the cpu time. But having a look with top at the processes it seems

Re: Use of dual CPU?

2005-05-23 Thread Adam Mercer
On 23/05/05, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, normally, even if i use an SMP kernel if i'm not telling the program to use both CPU it will continue using only one CPU, right? Yes, if the program isn't written to use both CPUs, it won't. Cheers Adam

Re: Gaim

2005-05-22 Thread Adam Mercer
On 22/05/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installing Gaim (apt-get just does not work for me), it says this: whats the problem with the gaim package? why does it not work? Cheers Adam

Re: aMSN

2005-05-21 Thread Adam Mercer
On 21/05/05, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the package of aMSN (via downloading the .deb package and the installing via dpkg -i aMSN). Though it is located in both the debian-apps-net aMSN and internet aMSN, the latter did not have an Icon (I set one), they both

Re: cdrecord invocation under kernel-2.6.11

2005-05-15 Thread Adam Mercer
On 15/05/05, Ishwar Rattan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a linux box with an IDE cd-rw on secondary master (/dev/hdc), some how cdrecord balks at this device: # cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc cdimage it does not like dev=/dev/hdc, so what is the correct device here? what error

Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel

2005-05-09 Thread Adam Mercer
On 09/05/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 Kernel. I recently upgraded to the 2.6.8-k7 kernel, but now my X Windows will not work. I get an error saying that it couldn't initialize the mouse because /dev/psaux doesn't exit (i don't know

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-02 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:38:59 -0600, Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install Java SDK (j2sdk1.4), but dselect claims that there is no j2se-common file available. How to get J2EE running on Debian unstable? apt-get install j2se-package I get the following from

Re: nvidia problem

2005-01-01 Thread Adam Mercer
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:56:34 +0100, Bayrouni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a permanent problem with nvidia driver (propietary one). When I install it, I can run X server with 3d support. But when I rebbot or turn on my machine, the X fails. I repeated the installation many times, and I