Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:02, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:31:35AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> /var/run$ sudo touch utmp >>> /var/run$ sudo chown root:utmp utmp >>> /var/run$ sudo chm

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:31:35AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >> /var/run$ sudo touch utmp >> /var/run$ sudo chown root:utmp utmp >> /var/run$ sudo chmod 664 utmp >> /var/run$ ls -l utmp >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utm

modprobe tun required after reboot for virt-manager

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
/etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf or is there an on-demand approach which seems to have been corrupted? Thanks, Gareth

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 01:31, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 24 Jan 2022, at 12:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> I've just noticed that: >>> >>> $ who >>> >>> and >>

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 24 Jan 2022, at 12:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >> I've just noticed that: >> >> $ who >> >> and >> >> $ users >> >> both return nothing, with or without sudo. &g

Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
ermissions requirements. $ cat /etc/debian_version 11.2 Thanks, Gareth

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 13:43, piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 13:26, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > The commands appeared to succeed (with suitable alteration of variables) > > but my VM now boots into a grub prompt immediately - doesn't ask for LUKS > > password.

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 13:00, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 11:48, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 06:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright > > > wrote: > > > > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 11:48, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 06:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrot

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 06:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > A lot of hits from googling

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16&t=76833 > > > which uses dvo

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 15:37, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 22 Aug 2021 at 13:18:38 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > There is also no e

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 13:18, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > $ apt policy pitivi > >

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-21 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 21 Aug 2021, at 13:42, Sven Hartge wrote: > Gareth Evans wrote: > > > So I would like to know if apt is not handling this properly, or if > > the scenario of a file changing packages (see David's previous email) > > is an expected exception to th

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > On Wed 18 Aug

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-20 Thread Gareth Evans
hars are included in the output file. https://linux.die.net/man/1/script You can set it up to run with new terminals, but I can't find the instructions to do so. Kind regards Gareth

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.1

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... > > [1mdpkg:[0m error processing archive > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Un4rDW/28-gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0_1.18.4-3_amd

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 00:44, Gareth Evans wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded from Buster stable to Bullseye stable last night, with > apparent success eventually, but it went less than smoothly and I would > be grateful for any advice as to why that may have been. > > I fol

Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-17 Thread Gareth Evans
s $ cat /etc/debian_version 11.0 $ uname -a Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux Reboots without issue. Is there any way to verify an upgrade completed properly? Would there be obvious errors on exit if it didn't? Thanks, Gareth

Re: runc CVEs in docker.io

2021-08-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 2 Aug 2021, at 11:48, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:07:53 CEST Gareth Evans wrote: > > Given that these are all fixed in Bullseye (and at least the grave > > apt-listbugs issue has been fixed in eg Ubuntu since March 2020 [1]) why >

runc CVEs in docker.io

2021-07-27 Thread Gareth Evans
h has ended with EOL in 2020?) - do fixes like this come in batches? Thanks, Gareth [1] https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4297-1

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-29 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 29 Jun 2021, at 22:41, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue 29 Jun 2021, at 17:11, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 08:29:22 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 28 iun 21, 09:46:17, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > But your even

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-29 Thread Gareth Evans
lled with Buster, but apt said it wasn't available. In the end I didn't need to attempt installing from eg. DVD, but couldn't this be impossible too due to other conflicts? In short, should a boot-related package ever be removed and not replaced in the same upgrade operation? Is it to be expected to have to keep an eye on this sort of thing? Thanks all. Gareth

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-26 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 22 Jun 2021, at 19:13, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 08:59:13 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > A recent dist-upgrade on Buster (in a scripted cron job run at 01:00 daily) > > failed due to apt-listbugs complaining about the boot-breaking bug in > > shi

Disappearning shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-22 Thread Gareth Evans
t way to reinstall an older package version and its old dependencies if affected by something like this, and it isn't to be found in /var/cache/apt/archives? Thanks, Gareth

Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop

2021-02-01 Thread Gareth Evans
aking over the desktop, but icons can be made to appear with with > > caja --force-desktop > > https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues/871 > > Some problems were caused with menus/dialogs though, as discussed in the link. > > Best wishes, > Gareth

Re: gnome-control-center

2021-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, at 17:46, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2021-01-31 17:09 +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > I'm trying to install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 10.7 with Mate: > > > > > > $ sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts > >

gnome-control-center

2021-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
//tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-control-center shows gnome-control-center 1:3.38.3-1 is in testing, but also that a stable version exists - 1:3.30.3-2~deb10u1 - isn't this what should be installed upon request, along with dependencies? Thanks, Gareth

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 19:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 10:37:57, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > > I thought without eg. connman

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 08:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote: > > There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't > > figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to > > become availa

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > If the machine in question has a desktop environment and > > NetworkManager (or equivalent), doesn't /etc/network/interfaces (or > > interfaces.d) c

Python 3 wicd

2021-01-18 Thread Gareth Evans
ed upstream" to https://code.launchpad.net/wicd - while the former refers to https://launchpad.net/wicd What's going on there? Thanks, Gareth

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-18 Thread Gareth Evans
esn't /etc/network/interfaces (or interfaces.d) config override nm (etc)? I thought without eg. connman, a dropped connection on a wifi NIC configured in /etc/network/interfaces would not automatically be re-established, and that this config had to be removed (or commented-out) for something like NetworkManager or wicd to manage the connection, in the case of a DE. Is that wrong? Thanks, Gareth

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Gareth Evans
ork (as in the first installation) suggests a password error, doesn't it? The fact that sudo was made to work during the first installation (having not initially) suggests that su must have succeeded at some point, doesn't it? Kind regards, Gareth On Tue, 15 Dec 2020, at 18:12, Greg W

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Gareth Evans
re is no-one in the sudo group, su should be available, and for both not to work (as in the first installation) suggests a password error, doesn't it? The fact that sudo was made to work during the first installation (having not initially) suggests that su must have succeeded at some point, d

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Gareth Evans
It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct (root) password at least once. How else could changes to /etc/sudoers (which I imagine is what is meant by "the sudouse(r) file") have been

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, at 00:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + > > mag...@autistici.org wrote: > > > > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > > > no problems

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + > mag...@autistici.org wrote: > > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > > no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with > > iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering USB does non work > > anymo

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
I may be a Claws convert :) Thanks G On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 17:08, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:55:19 + > "Gareth Evans" wrote: > > Hello Gareth, > > >On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 15:38, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> Once one sets up an MUA c

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 17:08, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:55:19 +0000 > > "Gareth Evans" wrote: > > > > Hello Gareth, > > > > >On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 15:38, Brad Rogers wrote: > > >> Once one sets up an M

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 17:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 04:55:19PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > > [...] > > > Thanks to all who have replied pointing out the issues. > > No worries. Things happen. No need to defend yourself, I hope. > >

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
standards (and eg. Thunderbird's approach): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading Anyway, apologies. Brad: > Once one sets up an MUA correctly, one only has to click 'Compose' for > all the required fields, apart from Subject, to be filled in. When does clicking "compose" have this effect? Thanks, Gareth

Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 08:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 04:43:21AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have asked this question on both the rsync mailing list and > > serverfault.com but got no response from either. >

rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest

2020-11-21 Thread Gareth Evans
t contains hard links, the linking of the destination files against the --link-dest files can cause some paths in the destination to become linked together due to the --link-dest associations." How and/or why does this happen? What sort of scenario might lead to it? Thanks Gareth

Duplex tumble options missing since CUPS upgrade

2020-07-01 Thread Gareth Evans
o be similar issues historically and on other distros. Is there a config option to bring it back? I would be grateful for any thoughts/advice. With thanks, Gareth

Re: zabbix-server-mysql

2017-05-31 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Mon 2017-05-29 (18:23), Gareth de Vaux wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to install zabbix-server-mysql on Stretch but when I > get to the configuration over the web stage there's no database type > option for MySQL, only PostgreSQL. I assume this's because zabbix-server-

zabbix-server-mysql

2017-05-29 Thread Gareth de Vaux
Hi all, I'm trying to install zabbix-server-mysql on Stretch but when I get to the configuration over the web stage there's no database type option for MySQL, only PostgreSQL. I assume this's because zabbix-server-mysql pulls in MariaDB rather than MySQL. How do I get zabbix to use 'MySQL'?

Re: X dies after upgrade

2016-08-07 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Sun 2016-08-07 (14:32), Felix Miata wrote: > version, while your "2nd Generation Core" is newer. If I'm right about the > identification, you needn't be trying to use the Intel driver, but instead > should be able to use the server's integral modesetting driver. You're right the internal driv

X dies after upgrade

2016-08-07 Thread Gareth de Vaux
Hi all, I can't find any similar issues on this list - I upgraded my system tracking debian testing yesterday but it's been awhile given by the Xorg changelog at http://lordcow.org/Xorg.changelog.txt and now X doesn't start. I installed xserver-xorg-legacy and added needs_root_rights=yes to /etc/X

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-17 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Wed 2013-10-16 (13:04), Dan Ritter wrote: > > Ran into this today too (with the logitech mk520 keyboard/mouse), > > seems like you need to unpair/pair the devices on each reboot? > > No, once programmed the pairing ought to continue until > reprogrammed. Keyboards paired this way should be usab

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-15 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Mon 2013-10-14 (07:18), Dan Ritter wrote: > There's a utility called solaar which can reprogram Logitech > mice and keyboards to use a plugged-in receiver; it's at > http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/index.html Ran into this today too (with the logitech mk520 keyboard/mouse), seems like you need to u

Re: Realtek RTL8111/8168B death

2012-08-28 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Mon 2012-08-27 (13:28), Camale?n wrote: > As you seem to be running Wheezy stock kernel I would open bug report in > Debian BTS for this (if there's still none already opened). Thanx, wasn't sure which current ones were related, but will do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Realtek RTL8111/8168B death

2012-08-26 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Sun 2012-08-26 (19:34), Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 26 August 2012 18:32:23 Gareth de Vaux wrote: > > $ cat /etc/issue > > Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l > > What do the \n and \l mean? I have googled, but got nowhere. Well, nowhere > useful. :-( See under ISS

Realtek RTL8111/8168B death

2012-08-26 Thread Gareth de Vaux
Hi all, after about 3 weeks into a new machine the network card started dying pretty regularly with these oopses: Aug 21 23:03:49 fire kernel: [ 2656.192450] [ cut here ] Aug 21 23:03:49 fire kernel: [ 2656.192457] WARNING: at /build/buildd-linux_3.2.23-1-amd64-zj7gxu/linu

RE: virtual interfaces not routing properly.

2012-01-12 Thread Gareth Walters (2K Australia)
Well this does exactly the same thing, unfortunately. Pings from the same subnet work for all of the interfaces/ip addresses Pings from other subnets only work for the primary interface/address. And...form the machine in question; ~# ip route show 10.25.48.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link

virtual interfaces not routing properly.

2012-01-11 Thread Gareth Walters (2K Australia)
8.254 iface eth0:0 inet static address 10.25.48.141 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface eth0:1 inet static address 10.25.48.142 netmask 255.255.255.0 iface eth0:2 inet static address 10.25.48.145 netmask 255.255.255.0 ---Gareth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: usb failure

2011-09-12 Thread Gareth de Vaux
On Sun 2011-09-11 (08:26), Simon Brandmair wrote: > Maybe related to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=634023 I don't think so? Nothing happens when I plug a stick in - the subsystem is 'dead'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

usb failure

2011-09-10 Thread Gareth de Vaux
Hi guys, I've been having usb issues on and off for about 2 years with my SUN W1100z workstation. The keyboard, mouse, flash stick etc. are all currently unresponsive. (The machine only has usb ports, all of which I've tried). I'm guessing the current state is due to the latest upgrade which inclu

Re: [networking] Computer can't see the outside world any more

2005-08-10 Thread Gareth Adams
Never mind, we've got a phone call saying the firewall auto-blocked us, and we're now trying to work out why. Thanks for the suggestion, anyway On 8/10/05, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:19 +0100, Gareth Adams wrote: > ... > > Now the strange thing is t

[networking] Computer can't see the outside world any more

2005-08-10 Thread Gareth Adams
o the server in quite a while. Where do people think I should start looking? No one here has any idea. Thanks, Gareth Adams

iptables TARPIT

2004-09-16 Thread Gareth John
04 2004-06-16 01:46 libipt_TARPIT.so Do I need to do something else to load this library or am I missing something obvious? Thanks, Gareth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread Lawrence, Gareth
This worked great thanks and also a big thanks to you Timothy for your post :-) Awesome, G. -Original Message- From: Angus D Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 March 2002 2:20 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation of JDK Lawrence, Gareth, Fri

Installation of JDK

2002-03-21 Thread Lawrence, Gareth
y" I used alien to concert the jdk1.4 file to deb and then used the depackage function so all should be well - let me know if you need more information. I also apt-get installed libstdc and libc6 and that didn't help. Thanx heaps, Gareth

Re: Some USB keyboard troubles.

2002-01-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
confusing the linux keyboard driver. Gareth Pearce - Original Message - From: "Gareth Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:40 AM Subject: Some USB keyboard troubles. > Hi > > I have been running debian unstable for a while now - a

Some USB keyboard troubles.

2002-01-23 Thread Gareth Pearce
to a better place to ask even :), would be great. Gareth Pearce - nano sized contributor to open source.

Questions on pop3 servers

2001-11-16 Thread Gareth Jones
erver - i.e. pretty poor with large unix style mailboxes. Try converting your mailboxes to mbx format - the difference on my imap box was huge. Gareth

Sawfish/GNOME right-mouse-click send-to-back

2000-12-13 Thread Gareth Bowker
the window menu. I've got the sawfish-gnome package installed here, I don't remember off-hand if it's installed at home, but I assume it probably is. Thanks, Gareth (Please CC: messages to me as I'm not on the list atm) -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL P

Re: vnc problem: unable to connect to vnc server

2000-12-08 Thread Gareth Bowker
es you with your ip address(es). If you don't really want ipmasq installed, you could always install the package, copy ipofif someplace else then remove the package... HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users

Re: new

2000-12-08 Thread Gareth Bowker
x27;s there to start with. To completely upgrade your distribution, run: apt-get update && apt-get -y dist-upgrade but remember that this will mean you're running unstable, and things can (and certainly do) break from time to time. HTH, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker

Re: setting up dns

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
James Preece wrote: > > I have managed to get named running, but there is no /vary/named dir. > > Can someone help me start building the zone files etc, or run through what I > need to do. Without being sat at home I can't be 100% but IIRC look at /etc/named/named.conf HTH

Re: X after booting

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > I'm trying to make some kind of automatic login for a normal user after > booting Linux in X. I'm not sure about running X as a standard user during init, but take a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kiosk-HOWTO.html for general kiosk-type th

xlibs error

2000-12-07 Thread Gareth Bowker
ich is also in package xpaint dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.1-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any help resolving this would be great as apt refuses to work

pppd vs ipppd

2000-09-27 Thread Gareth Bowker
What have people's experiences been of ipppd, and does it support these features? Also, how easy is it to set up channel bonding using ipppd? Thanks in advance, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Research Student | http://users.aber.ac.uk/tg

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
quite important - after all, it may not decompress properly/work at all without it, so telling it not to perform the size check wouldn't achieve anything. You'd probably just end up with broken packages... Gareth -- Gareth Bowker | [EMAIL PROTECTED] PhD Res

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
Gareth Bowker wrote: > I get this every so often too. I just rerun apt-get update. What seems > to happen is that the last byte of the packages isn't being downloaded > for some reason. Oops, I actually meant apt-get upgrade, not update. It's normally grabbing the lis

Re: apt-get size mismatch with woody

2000-09-26 Thread Gareth Bowker
t it down to the fact that we have to run through a webcache here (which quite often doesn't work as it should), but it could be down to the debian servers/mirrors or apt *shrug*. I've never looked into it as rerunning fixes it. Hope this helps, Gareth -- Gareth Bowker

apt-get with proxy username and password

2000-01-10 Thread Gareth
usend password with the proxy? I havtried to use a line like this in the apt.conf http::username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port but nothing seemed to happen. Is there anything else I can do? ---Gareth

old quotas on new disk

1999-12-02 Thread Gareth
x27;t seem to work ... Does anyone know a way around this? ---Gareth

Re: Tape problems

1999-12-01 Thread Gareth
port (not as module) No errors except form mt and even then they are not consistent. (sometime it gives error and sometimes it dosen't) What is going on? ---Gareth

Xterminal connections via XDMCP solution

1999-11-25 Thread Gareth
id it... /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess # %HOSTS server.domain.edu.au local.domain.edu.au local.domain.edu.au CHOOSER %HOSTS local.domain.edu.au # /etc/inittab # x:5:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/X -terminate -indirect local.domain.edu.au # I hope this helps someone. Gareth

Re: frontpage extensions for apache

1999-11-25 Thread Gareth
On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:07:57PM +0100, Ookhoi wrote: > Hi Gareth, > > Has anyone succesfuly install the extensions on a debian box befoe? > > If someone has I would appreciate any help and or advice on the subject. > I installed it on Solaris. Can you post your error messa

frontpage extensions for apache

1999-11-25 Thread Gareth
ooking for/trying to do. Has anyone succesfuly install the extensions on a debian box befoe? If someone has I would appreciate any help and or advice on the subject. Thanks ---Gareth

Re: procmail

1999-11-21 Thread Gareth
blem until I discovered that exim can filter mail. The docs were easier to follow and I had it working in about 5 minutes. Its not as "powerful" as procmail but it works. ---Gareth ps here is an example .forward file to use wiht exim filtering # Exim filter if $h_to contains &quo

Re: libslang.so and Set locale problems SOLVED

1999-11-08 Thread Gareth
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Gareth wrote: > When running the post instal scriupts and a few other things I get > the message > -- > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: >

Xterminal connections.

1999-11-08 Thread Gareth
;s(chooser) on the server but I would like the chooser to run on the desktop and give me the choice of connecting to either the local machine(desktop) or the remote machine (SERVER). Is it possible? Gareth

libslang.so and Set locale problems

1999-11-05 Thread Gareth
ch package is it in? do I need it? whats the deal? thanks ----- Gareth Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Animal Science, Agronomy and Soil Science The University of New England NSW Australia -

Re: jdk1.2 and Apache Jserv

1999-10-31 Thread Gareth
ava code that keeps killing it thinks he has found a problem in the code he has written but is it possibile for bug in his code to kill Jserv it was working fine on the old server (redhat 5.1) I am at a loss to explain it. - Gareth

Re: Pent. III

1999-10-13 Thread Gareth
mba, apache with mod_include, mod_jserv and mod_php, proftpd and netatalk as its main tasks. ---Gareth

Re: Kdevelop package on kde.tdyc.com/kde2

1999-10-08 Thread Gareth
means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, or that it is an obsolete package. E: Package kdelibs2g has no installation candidate Any Ideas??? ---Gareth ----- Gareth Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X for Win95

1999-09-28 Thread Gareth
desktop computer and XVNC to connect to my desktops on the NT servers (there are many platforms supported by VNC). It works great! -Gareth

Re: Berolist

1999-09-28 Thread Gareth
ng great! the web interface allows the owners of the lists to administer them with a GUI there a miriad of options and it has not failed yet. I am using potato and have chosen exim over sendmail. ---Gareth

Re: dselect updating when Debian config changes

1999-09-15 Thread Gareth
pgraded and/or installed and it keeps everything functional. just these 2 lines solved a lot of hassle... apt-get install packagename and apt-get remove packagename Gareth

Mysql and php3 problem

1999-09-13 Thread Gareth
ction mysql_connect() in /home/gwalters/public_html/example/index.php3 on line 8 I had a look /etc/mysql/my.cnf and everything looks correct I am running potato with kernel 2.2.12 any ideas ??? ---Gareth

Re: Strange behaviour of Apache JServ

1999-08-30 Thread Gareth
connections long before the jserv parts are running after a restart. On my P133 it takes a few minutes <5 on my new PIII it takes about 1-2 minutes. I hope this is the problem try ps axuww| grep apache as you restart it will show you that /usr/sbin/apache is running and then "slowly" the jserv stuff starts up. ---Gareth

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Gareth
at. You should check the SCSI select settings at boot time just to check they are ok, especially the termination settings and which cables you have plugged into it etc. Good luck! ---Gareth

apt-get blocked by firewall what ports does it use?

1999-08-03 Thread Gareth
G'day all, after some heavy network abuse our intranet admin has changed the firewall setup and now apt-get does not work. Does anyone know what ports apt-get it uses so I can ask him to enable them? --Gareth

Re: debian vs redhat

1999-07-29 Thread Gareth
ing when configuring things which make customization excessivley time consuming whereas I have found Debian to be much easier to customize/configure. just my 2 cents worth ---Gareth

rlogin .rhosts and amanda problem

1999-07-28 Thread Gareth
and tried to rlogin to that but it still asked for a password. Is there something I am missing/forgetting??? help! ---Gareth

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