Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote: Hi I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another thread so it probably got lost. Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany, Iceweasel and Apt all report that network is unreachable or unable to connect to

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-20 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007 16:49:46 Jeff D wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007, Pete wrote: Hi I have already posted this once but somehow managed to post into another thread so it probably got lost. Have just installed Etch with Netinstall. No problem. However Epiphany

Re: SU error

2007-05-18 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Jake Betty Kraayenbrink wrote: I installed debian from the live knoppix CD it's version 5.1. It works great, but I do have trouble when I try to run any thing that needs administrator privileges. When I click on something say to configure my printer I get this message Su

Re: Problems with cdrdao

2007-05-12 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On my laptop, when I do: $ cdrdao scanbus , I get the following output: Cdrdao version 1.1.9 - (C) Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg

Re: moto4lin my razr v3

2007-05-10 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10 May 2007 03:12:08 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i hey, i'm having some trouble accessing my new motorola razr v3 on i my debian etch system. i'm using

Re: How to make a kernel starting dhcp before it mount root?

2007-05-09 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 9 May 2007, Magicloud wrote: Dear all, I want to make a diskless debian using nfsroot. While I followed the nfsboot package and some articles on the internet, and I got a kernel that panic on mounting root, it seems that the ethernet card is up but has no dhcp ip. So how to

Re: does a home user on dialup need a domain name?

2007-05-07 Thread Jeff D
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:49PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:33:21 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few computers connected by ethernet switch with one computer (titan: 192.168.1.1) accessing the network by

Re: Search certain string in a directory

2007-04-29 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, rocky wrote: Hey, I have a directory and several sub-directory and files reside within it. I'm wondering is there any command I can use to search for the certain tring's ocurence? Can any of you help me please? Thanks a lot in advance! Rocky find ~/tmp/ -type f -exec

Re: howto see network traffic for each process?

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I used iptraff to monitor the network traffic, but is there any package that can show the individual networki traffic for each process? Thanks. Zhengquan nethogs sounds like what you are looking for. -+- 8 out of 10 Owners who

Re: ssi on apache2 doesn't work

2007-04-26 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Kent West wrote: I know nothing about apache[2], but I've inherited the responsibility to move a web site from a Solaris box to Debian Etch (Yea!). I've installed apache2 and gotten the site moved over, and it seems that everything works (it's a simple site), but I've

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Neil Sumner wrote: I cant boot your dvd's the installation gets to mounting the dvd and fails it says there is no module for the dvd and suggests that it must be an old dvd drive it isnt it is new, it is a SONY DVD RW AW G170A All *nix do this with my system which is an

Re: Dis-upgrade using apt-get

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have a small debian-3.1r3 system. I want to upgrade it to debian-4.0r0. Is there a way to dist-upgrade for the installed software (including dependencies) only?, to keep the extra stuff out that #apt-get dist-upgrade wants to download and install.

Re: XEN switch to static IP

2007-04-20 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Marco Mandl wrote: Hello, I migrated a sarge installation into a domU. I did this using dhcp. That worked fine. But now I want to switch to static ip address. In the corresponding xmdomain.cfg I change: #dhcp = 'dhcp' #vif = [ '' ] dhcp = off ip = 192.168.17.16 netmask

Re: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Nick Demou wrote: The only service that listens to the internet on my pcs is sshd (on port 80 or 443 [1]). Since neither me nor sshd is perfect I would like to get rid of as much attackers as possible. My idea was to use port knocking. So I tested knockd and it seems

Re: FAI kernel

2007-04-19 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, ccostin wrote: FAI require for client hosts a modified kernel or work with a standard one ? -- FAI does use a modified kernel, but it only uses it during the install process. It's also possible to build your own, in the event that the supplied kernel doesn't support

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-19 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:18, Greg Folkert wrote: On the off chance, can you do ALT+F2 and run konsole --ls which starts it with a login shell rather than a regular shell? This may help separate from udev and other stuff. Sorry not to have replied

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: Well, there is your problem. Having two physical interfaces on the same subnet is generally a bad idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/01/msg01633.html

Re: two network cards on a server

2007-04-18 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi everyone, I've got a server on which there are two network cards. One of the network cards has been configured, and has been running satisfactorily for a while. I recently plugged in the other network card and started using it for a different IP

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: Hi folks, Angry mob here (if I was more than one person)... It's very nice of you to lecture me on what is LAMP and all the different packages that theres are - but I already 'get' all of that! What I am after is recommendations on how

Re: dhcpd.conf questions

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: I'm setting up a new machine to act as a proxy / NAT / gateway / firewall machine for my little network. eth1 is my internal network card and eth2 is the external interface. I need to tell dhcp not to worry about eth2, which apparently is a command

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 03:36:26PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Frank Terbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do Please don't teach beginners to do for loops like this. It's broken in various ways. Just do: for FILE in *$1 ;

Re: Debian boxes not replying to multicast and broadcast pings

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Urs Thuermann wrote: I have currently 4 Linux machines in my network, one embedded system running Linux-2.4.20, a system build from scractch over the last 13 years running 2.4.34.2 and two Debian boxes, both running Debian's Linux kernel 2.6.18-4-686. When I ping to the

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Will Parkinson wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using debian for

Re: root level access for normal users

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Tony Heal wrote: I am working on a project to allow a normal system user access to a very limited subset of programs and scripts. The idea is to allow the user to perform certain maintenance and troubleshooting without actually being able to change anything, such as

Re: Fetchmail Problems

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:44:25PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:26:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm having trouble fetching my mail with fetchmail. All it does it say:

Re: Fetchmail Problems

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:39:30PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:44:25PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:26:28PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm having

Re: Change Gnome window manager

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: How can I change the Gnome window manager back to Sawfish? -- Masatran, R. Deepak http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/ if you are using gdm, at the login screen click on session and it should give you a list of window mangers to choose

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-16 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use hyphen as separator, etc.? -- Masatran, R. Deepak http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/ Not

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-14 Thread Jeff D
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: I have spent all day looking for clues as to how to debug network performance issues without success. Nobody seems to answered my previous post on this subject - so I thought I would try again. The problem I have is this. I have a linux desktop

Re: how to scp from one box to another with no root ssh?

2007-04-13 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: In the past, to move config or script files from one box to another on my home network I've used scp or rsync. However, recent discussions on the list have pointed out that root login with ssh should not be allowed. How then to copy files that

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way

Re: Any good and high quality music player?

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Sun.Botu wrote: Hello,every body My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the quality is to bad. Any software or driver can solve? Volume up too loud? I know on my T30, when I have the volume up too loud it sounds bad. I turn it

Re: what happen to : dpkg --check-md5sums ?

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually correct. Thanks, -Mathieu Ps: I know this is of limited value, but I need it... Theres the debsums

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: On 4/10/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I downloaded a huge info file

Re: Adding module to apache

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, ss11223 wrote: I am using apache2 in etch. As far as I can tell debian does not incude mod_logio in the distribution. I want to us this to monitor the actual line traffic from my server. (after dynamic compression) How would I add this module to my server? On my apache2

Re: a Debian user's introduction to Redhat EL4?

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 12-apr-2007, at 1:05, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:54 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:32:45AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote: I've got a great opportunity to promote opensource at my job by working

Re: Per-Application up/download limit in userspace

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Short: Is there an application to limit the amount of data downloaded by an application like trickle does it for bandwidth? Long: I'm using one of these vserver providers which sets a limit on the amount of data for up- and downloads. I want

Re: Document reader?

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dave Walker wrote: In anticipation of distribution upgrading from Sarge (kernel 2.4) to Etch, I wanted to review the information on kernel 2.6.8 for Sarge. I downloaded a huge info file (kernel-doc-2.6.8) successfully. It unpacked to: /usr/share/doc/ and joined

Re: No network with Xen kernel

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Andrey Dmitriev wrote: Eth0 doesn't show up. Is there are an easy fix besides digging for drivers and recompiling kernel? The machine is Dell e521 AMDX2 3800 Eth0 does show up when booting into regular kernel. Thanks, Andrey I got bit by this one, in

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

2007-04-05 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir structure so that all users

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to open a console window. If, in the console window I become root, then as root I can successfully start

Re: Lost menu

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Bernard Fay wrote: Hi, A while ago, I installed CrossOver from Codeweavers which appeared in my menu Applications of Gnome. Since an updated those menu for CrossOver are gone. In Alacarte Menu Editor, I can see those menu as visible but I don't actually see them. What

Re: Lost menu

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 15:02 -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Bernard Fay wrote: A while ago, I installed CrossOver from Codeweavers which appeared in my menu Applications of Gnome. Since an updated those menu for CrossOver are gone

Re: Permissions Question

2007-04-02 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user

Re: maxima startup error message (libgmp)

2007-03-25 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Charles Blair wrote: I thought I had installed maxima sucessfully from the etch (testing) distribution, but typing maxima from an xterm gave: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can this be fixed

Re: sendmail hostname configured as an empty string

2007-03-23 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:53:57AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Not my choice. I'm setting this up for someone else who has hard-coded sendmail into his apps and is afraid that using exim4 instead of sendmail will

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-23 Thread Jeff D
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Jim Hyslop wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, gang I suspect I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask anyway :-) When I ssh into my Debian box from my laptop, sometimes I step away from the laptop, and when I come back it's gone into standby.

Re: Resolving .local domain FQDN on client

2007-03-22 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Richard Harb (debian) wrote: Hello list, I have a server running bind that is master for 'domain.local'. When I try to use a FQDN from within an application on my debian etch 'desktop machine' (e.g. in a browser: http://host.domain.local/) it does not resolve / ask the

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: Also, I forgot to ask. Would it be safe to remove networking from /etc/init.d, and just switch to using ifupdown? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] you might also want

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

Re: How can I force a clean reinstall of xfree86?

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; Before I do the Windows thing of a complete reinwtall of the system for the fourth time, can anybody tell me how to do this? There is something wrong and the xserver won't come up. All it says is I cannot start the X server and some

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/22/07, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you do these look ups or when the server starts? Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? -- Regards Justin

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Correction - /var/log/daemon.log does show an error relating to bind: Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: starting BIND 9.3.4 Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]:

Re: find by year

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff D
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Sorry for asking such amateur questions but I want to find all files created in 2003 under a directory. I know there's an easy way to do this and I've seen it before, but I can't figure it out myself. Could someone please tell me the exact command line for that? Thanks!

Re: RewriteEngine not working in (my) apache2

2006-09-29 Thread Jeff D
Kaj Wiik wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Have you tried adding RewriteBase / in there? Thanks for suggestion, I tried but still nothing to the log and no redirection. On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:20 -0700, Jeff D wrote: this should do it: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI

Re: added RAM, RAM not recognized by debian

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff D
fraz wrote: Just switched a processor on a system, went fine, but added an additional gig of ram and debian doesn't seem to see it. It shows up in the BIOS. Googled a bit and added mem=2048M to the kernal line in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Didn't work. Still just shows a gig (the original memory).

Re: grep highlighting

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff D
T wrote: Hi The recent grep supports highlighting. How can I make it works? thanks PS. I tried: export GREP_COLOR=red echo abcd | grep abc try this out: export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' GREP_COLOR='1;31' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: grep highlighting

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff D
T wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:24:21 -0700, Jeff D wrote: The recent grep supports highlighting. How can I make it works? try this out: export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' GREP_COLOR='1;31' Thanks a lot! That's fast! It works! What does the GREP_COLOR='1;31' mean, where

Re: RewriteEngine not working in (my) apache2

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff D
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:29:04PM +0300, Kaj Wiik wrote: Hi! This (testing) redirection does not seem to be working (in apache2.conf): RewriteEngine on RewriteLogLevel 9 RewriteLog /tmp/rewrite.log RewriteRule ^/foo(.*) /test/foo.html (so e.g.

Re: SSHD, why wouldn't it be part of the install.

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff D
Chuck Payne wrote: Hi, I installed the Debian Netinstall Testing Ver. 3 I think. Anyway, I want to do some work remotely and I couldn't log in. So I did an nmap of my test box, an no port 22. When I got home I did a locate, which, and whereis and strange, I can see ssh, but no sshd. So I

Re: psql command

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff D
Iuri Sampaio wrote: Bud Thanks for remind me that, but I already did that, even boot over again the machine, turn off and turn on. Neither those worked out iuri '' The postgres commands doesn't work to an user account '' '' '' '' I already created the user on postgres '' '' desktop:~#

Re: psql command

2006-09-05 Thread Jeff D
of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] '' -Original Message- From: Jeff D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 8:19 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: psql command Iuri Sampaio wrote: Bud Thanks for remind me that, but I already

Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-09-01 Thread Jeff D
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of cake. Now, though, if I replace the Windows drive, it can't boot, and if I replace the Linux drive it reads the MBR but can't reach the

Re: mv files by date

2006-08-31 Thread Jeff D
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok the following line finds all the files that I want to move out the folder: find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; So, now it's the next part that scares me. Should I do this? find ./ -type f ! -mtime -2 -exec ls -al {} \; | xargs mv ../ in order to move the

Re: mach64 module missing

2006-08-18 Thread Jeff D
Jude DaShiell wrote: The mach64 module wasn't found so X can't run on this machine that one was fatal. I did tasksel and selected desktop environment so as to have a few things for X to run but not quite enough things apparently. apt-get install xserver-xorg? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: system-dependent variables

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff D
Csanyi Pal wrote: Keep in mind that you removed all files that _looked_ like they were wmaker/wprefs files. IOW, the above-method should work but it's not 100% foolproof. I did so, and still have this error. And when you start WPrefs.app .. You're not getting any error messages ..

Re: Memory card reader on Etch

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff D
Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Sorry. Not posted to the list. Ron Johnson wrote: Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, where can I find information on using an integrated memory card reader? I have a Toshiba laptop with an integrated memory card reader. I'm using Etch It should

Re: system-dependent variables

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff D
Csanyi Pal wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:54:14AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: if you are using debs, try to remove it, apt-get update apt-get remove --purge wmaker apt-get install wmaker I use synaptic, and I purge a couple times wmaker regular sarge version and install it again

Re: system-dependent variables

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff D
Csanyi Pal wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:56:43PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: if you are using debs, try to remove it, apt-get update apt-get remove --purge wmaker apt-get install wmaker I don't use synaptic, but a apt-get install --reinstall wmaker should fix that, I'm not

Re: new installation not finding large memory

2006-07-20 Thread Jeff D
Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I know I must be doing something very silly, but my brand new installation is only finding 1gig of the 4gig of ram installed in my brand new server. Even if I stick a mem=4096m line as a boot option, it's still not showing up. (the only suggestion I've seen

Re: new installation not finding large memory

2006-07-20 Thread Jeff D
Miles Fidelman wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 22:26, Miles Fidelman a écrit : Hi Folks, I know I must be doing something very silly, but my brand new installation is only finding 1gig of the 4gig of ram installed in my brand new server.

Re: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory

2006-07-19 Thread Jeff D
Iuri Sampaio wrote: I erased the directory /etc/postgresql and now I get this error message every time I run a pgsql command. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -l /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: line 2: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory List of databases Name | Owner |

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Jeff D
Michele Della Marina wrote: Yes, but I would like to install a personal gateway server, so I'm looking for documentation On 7/19/06, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try using an email-to-sms gateway service -- many ISPs and telecommunications companies offer such a service.

Re: wireless settings not being read from /etc/network/interfaces

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff D
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, My /etc/network/interfaces looks like this: iface eth1 inet dhcp essid ant-wifi channel 01 wireless-key ... yet if I just run ifup eth1 the card does not connect. once I run iwconfig eth1 channel 01 the ifup command works perfectly. Do i need to add something to the

Re: Kernel configuration: Sarge

2005-12-15 Thread Jeff D
Robert Kopp wrote: You're not supposed to trifle with the kernel in Debian, I guess. After installing, say, Fedora, typing xconfig would pop the window right up, but that's not the case here (Sarge). The kernel source was missing, and that's easy to correct. But then make xconfig * * Unable to

Re: sytem running out of free disk space

2005-11-15 Thread Jeff D
Realos wrote: hello, I have a debian machine with 1.4G hard disk which is running out of space. Running apt-get autoclean and apt-get autoclean have provided me with about 100M free space but it is still too short for my server machine. I see there are lots of documentations and unnecessary

Re: bind9 in debian vserver wont start

2005-10-27 Thread Jeff D
Rabbie Zalaf wrote: Hey all, I have read a few things on the net about setting up bind9 in a vserver but I just cant get it to work. Can anyone help me get it running. When I do an: apt-get install bind9 bind9-host it works all ok but when I try to start bind9 I get the

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Jeff D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, When operating in terminal only mode (no X11, no graphical user interface) is there a way of having several active terminal windows? I seem to remember that something like F4 is meant to permit cycling through terminal windows but that doesn't seem to

Re: Progress report on Debian install

2005-10-13 Thread Jeff D
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After spinning my wheels as described in an earlier posting which I cannot access easily right this minute, as you will see ... The system is running ! Installed XFree86, gnome, gimp, xsane, and open office, but with professional help tracked down from among the

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

2005-09-30 Thread Jeff D
Scott Fitzgerald wrote: I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Jeff D
Matt Price wrote: Hi, I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all identical) all wiped clean. my thought is: do a workstation install of ubuntu on one drive

Re: Where to find tcng for debian sarge?

2005-09-19 Thread Jeff D
Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hello, first of all thank you for this reliable and very well designed linux distribution. I am quite new to debian but thanks to the user friendly installation I am quire happy with it - Furthermore it was the only major distribution which was able to install itself on

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Jeff D
David R. Litwin wrote: Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening. In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?)

Re: mass user property changes

2005-08-25 Thread Jeff D
Dave Ewart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 theal wrote: I need to change the shell on 25+ users from /bin/false to /bin/passwd what is the best way to do this? Can I simply do a search and replace while editing /etc/passwd? Technically, that's probably not the Right

Re: Apache Groups

2005-08-25 Thread Jeff D
Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: When you install apache using apt on Debian Sarg 3.1 what groups are created?? Thanks Timgerr I have just installed a clean version of Sarge, took a look at the default groups and they are the same. All I did was apt-get install apache2. Can someone

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Jeff D
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [sshd does not accept connections] Thanks for this reply. I'm getting connection refused on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at one

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