Re: PostgerSQL 7.3 packages for woody

2002-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 16:20, eric lin wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Packages of PostgreSQL 7.3 built for woody are available at > > http://people.debian.org/~elphick > > > when I do apt-get isntall postgresql > > it finaaly response error > > Setting u

PostgerSQL 7.3 packages for woody

2002-12-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Packages of PostgreSQL 7.3 built for woody are available at http://people.debian.org/~elphick -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

IDE disks won't interoperate

2002-12-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
blem is and how I can get round it. -- Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LFIX Limited signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: kernel building for newbies

2002-11-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
m. As for a kernel-image package: install it, check /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot. -- Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LFIX Limited signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Calculator for X

2002-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
system, does it?? gnome-calculator is in gnome-utils xcalc is in xbase-clients kcalc is in kcalc -- Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LFIX Limited signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Tora & PostgreSQL

2002-11-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
've got a similar plugin-mt directory too (don't know the > difference). I've set this directory in the OPtions box, without any > result. Judging by my setup (which works) the plugin directory should be /usr/lib/tora. There should be a symbolic l

Re: How can I make root filesystem read-only?

2002-11-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
d-only? In effect, no. For example, /etc must be in the root filesystem and mount writes to /etc/mtab Perhaps you could arrange to have a RAM disk for root? (See initrd.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http:/

Re: postgresql problem in woody and sid

2002-11-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
ostmaster.conf PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin PGDATA=${POSTGRES_DATA:-/var/lib/postgres/data} PGLIB=/usr/lib/postgresql/lib export PGLIB PGDATA -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
o your kernel.) If the modules are present or built in, and that echo command does not work, you may have a hardware problem. Once you know that the printer device is working, read the CUPS documentation and set up the spooler. Once the spooler is set up, the commands lpr (from cupsys-bsd)

Re: [kosuke@rustybear.com] Re: can't kill a PID

2002-11-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
collection of process all at once. Sometimes a process gets stuck waiting for an event that is never going to happen. xmms (9026), in that ps report, is in state D - uninterruptible sleep. It's probably waiting for some kind of IO event. Because it is uninterruptible, it never wakes up to fin

Re: Why debian sucks.

2002-10-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
AIL PROTECTED], keep trying them; they are very busy people. Alternatively, arrange for all messages from the list to your old address to be bounced; that will get you unsubscribed automatically, I think. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK

Re: PostgresSQL database recovery

2002-10-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
master.pid To be clear, the database includes eseential files at the top level of $PGDATA; you cannot simply copy part of the tree. Your backup procedures should include the use of pg_dumpall to copy the database either to another machine, or to a tape, or at least to another disk in the sam

Re: postgers: how to use both md5 and passwordless access

2002-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
hat's what ident authorisation means. Password authorisation is an alternative to ident. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34

Re: postgres: No pg_hba.conf entry for host

2002-09-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3

Re: Mice can not work in a new kernel 2.4.19

2002-09-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
ment. > > Is it because I miss something when I compile the new kernel? Which modules should I load for this mice? you need CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y in /usr/src/linux/.config If you use make xconfig, it is in Character Devices, Mice. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 06:00, Philippe Marzouk wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:21:06PM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:50, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I > > > don

Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:45, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Elphick) writes: > > > > Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I > > don't know if this is related, but both happened around the same time. > > &

Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)

2002-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
change things. Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I don't know if this is related, but both happened around the same time. Can anyone give me a clue where to look? The system is running sid, updated daily. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Upgrade to Woody

2002-06-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
r of packages that need upgrading, I would let apt remove things. I would then reinstall anything I needed that has been removed. This will sometimes show up dependency conflicts; if they can't be resolved, some package must be sacrificed, or else built from source. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
which will display each line as it is executed. This will show the command that is failing. Try to run that command by hand, turning on any available verbosity or debugging. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.l

Re: IMP3,horde2, Postgresql from sid

2002-05-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
need to enable access from some other hosts? (You say it works OK with localhost, which suggest that this may be the problem.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8

Re: Debian-Reference-Manual

2002-05-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
ersion (or French or Spanish) or to the development version. You'll find it in proper readable format. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 6

Re: O.T. Need help in merging databases; postgresql

2002-05-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
+--+-+--- Fred | 12 Green St. | | Colchester | MA George | 1 Park Lane | Box #566 | Frinksworth | CO (2 rows) junk=# select * from table3; member | address| box# |city | state +--+--+-

Re: use 'woody' or 'testing' in sources.list?

2002-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
;stable' soon? It's waiting for some infrastructure to let the security team do fixes to all released architectures at once. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA1

Re: use 'woody' or 'testing' in sources.list?

2002-05-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
;stable' soon? It's waiting for some infrastructure to let the security team do fixes to all released architectures at once. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA1

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 08:42, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 02:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is > > no technical reason why

Re: word format

2002-05-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
> what I did wrong I would appreciate it. Well apart from the wrongness of bothering a Debian Linux list with Microsoft problems, MS Works is not compatible with MS Word. There is no technical reason why this should be so; it's just a Microsoft device to increase their profits. -

Re: ISDN Auto Dial

2002-04-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
eserver. Normally you do this by specifying one or more nameserver lines in /etc/resolv.conf. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C3

Re: postgres 7.1 -> 7.2 ... sigh

2002-04-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
;local all trust" in pg_hba.conf while you were doing the reinstallation. That would have saved you a bit of time. I am interested to know how the original problem arose. Did you at some stage manage to insert a duplicate sysid into the user list? Or did you specify sysid 1 for "user" a

Re: Wrong characters in man pages

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
e fact that I > want english text with a euro charset): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > > In console mode the same characters are displayed as small squares. > Anyone know what's going on? Do you have suitable fonts installed? (iso8859-15 or Unicode) -- Oliver Elphick

X - getting a full screen [Fwd: Re: (no subject)]

2002-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
Date: 13 Apr 2002 07:33:46 -0400 im getting not a full viewing area -End of Forwarded Message- -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A

Re: (no subject)

2002-04-13 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 00:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how do i get a full screen ? Be more specific. Full screen of what? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 0

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:58, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Oliver Elphick quotation: > > > > As you should see, this mail, sent through Evolution, has the GNUpg > > signature in an attachment. > > Not that it matters, because: > > [-- PGP output follows (curre

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
apart from the offensive language, you give no useful information. How is anyone supposed to know what you have done or which of the thousands of Debian packages has caused your problem? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 07:41, Mikael Bergman wrote: > ... I can't imagine a situation where an > attachment is warranted on a (debian) list. As you should see, this mail, sent through Evolution, has the GNUpg signature in an attachment. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Logging transactions

2002-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
It is in a required package, so you should already have it on your system. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But t

Re: OT Any web site that teaches how to make LAN cable connection

2002-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
http://www.techfest.com/networking/lan -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Cast all your anxiety on him,

Re: unixodbc: where has libodbcpsql gone?

2002-03-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
e. > > Any cues? It has been withdrawn in favour of the library from PostgreSQL itself. Install odbc-postgresql (>= 7.2-3). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
s, how can we justify returning them? You couldn't, if the shop made it clear to you. If you told them beforehand that you wanted it to play on your PC, you could return it. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www

Re: copy protected audio cds with linux ?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
in Germany, since the quality of the CD has been deliberately downgraded. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "W

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
now. To speed things up, you could do query-caching inside your application, though a simple indexed lookup is pretty fast anyway. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E

Re: problems with dpkg/deselct installing woody

2002-03-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
d the package is successfully purged. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew

Re: postgres update database problem

2002-03-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
db.out is right up to date: $ su # su - postgres $ psql -d template1 < db.out -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C &q

Re: /etc/issue

2002-03-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 15:43, Michael Kines wrote: > I accidentally erased my /etc/issue . > Now, when I switch alt-ctrl f1, there is no > indication of what tty I am on. Where can > I get that back again? Thanks. Attached -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PRO

Re: "dpkg -l" redirection

2002-03-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 19:26, Jim Woodruff wrote: > Does anyone have a way of redirecting the standard output of "dpkg -l" to > a file without the truncation that takes place? $ COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > file -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTE

RE: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 18:21, Mark Dascher wrote: > Ah, ok. So the passwd (5) man page is just a bit outdated, then? (When I > read a man page, I like to make sure I understand it completely, so I > usually have to test stuff out ;) I filed a bug on it. -- Olive

Re: /etc/passwd file, and USERSPEC.H

2002-03-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
t account is disabled Days since Jan 1, 1970 that account is disabled A reserved field -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 583

Re: postgresql upgrade problem

2002-03-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
use the removal of any packages? Quite a number of packages had to be rebuilt against the new libpgsql2 and this may have contributed to the hold-up. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E

Re: Postgresql upgrade 7.1 -> 7.2 issue

2002-03-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
peer" in pg_hba.conf it will produce this error. Change any occurrences of "peer" to "ident" in /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf. If you run postgresql-dump by hand, you will probably also need to make the temporary change of adding "local all trust" at the top of that fi

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
watching? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? t

Re: packeges kept back

2002-03-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 09:53, Franois Chenais wrote: > What does message > > The following packages have been kept back > > means ? The packages have either been placed on hold or cannot be installed because of dependency problems. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-03-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
the second line. # dpkg --purge xdm As each line in the script is executed, it will be printed with + in front of it. Take a look at what happens just before the script exits (with an error) and cure it. . -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: postgres 7.1 (woody) - how to stop debugging

2002-03-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
can effectively stop all debugging? Do you have syslog sending stuff to the console? If so, configure syslog to throw them away. Or set postgresql not to use syslog. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.c

Re: NFS mount failure - why?

2002-02-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 02:35, Tom Cook wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > [snip] > > What does 'ls -l /usr1 /usr2 /usr3' tell you? No clues there: $ ls -ld /usr1 /usr2 /usr3 /usr1/usr2 drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Feb 8 00:46 /usr1 drwxr-xr-x9 root ro

NFS mount failure - why?

2002-02-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
to cure it, please? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light un

Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

2002-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
gt; cat README | mail -e -s "please read this information for new users" [EMAIL > PROTECTED] ? It sounds like a sensible place to put it. Try it and see! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.

Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created

2002-02-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ail -e -s "Subject of your message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "All scripture is

RE: Several Beginner Questions

2002-02-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:04, westk wrote > >How do I access my CD-ROM drive? (It is the slave on > >the 2nd IDE). > > mount /dev/hdc /mnt If it's the slave it is /dev/hdd; /dev/hdc is the master. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL P

Re: resource for newbie

2002-02-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 14:16, Chaz Kiser wrote: > I'm totally and thoroughly new to Debian, is there any books out there that > would be appropriate for a Debian newbie, or a Linux newbie in general? > > Any sites? http://www.debian.org/doc/ -

Re: postgres upgrade for dummies?

2002-02-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
pted upstream but is now called ident, although its method of operation is actually different from TCP/IP ident authentication. So, in 7.2, "peer" will again be invalid. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://

Re: man in woody

2002-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
startx: command not found" Have you installed the packages? man is in man-db, startx is in xbase-clients -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839

Re: Sound

2002-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
; is Playing with how long into the the song but no sound. And doh! I have > checked the hardware connections :) Check your mixer settings. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D

Re: Total Newbie To Debian Linux

2002-02-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html http://www.debian.org/doc/ http://www.debian.org/doc/books -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 93

Re: a modest proposal - Debian needs more $

2002-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
nds of the banks. They have quite enough money already! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "When I consider

Re: Best way to encrypt data

2002-02-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
els of encryption to break (CFS and the secret key pass phrase). (Please, everyone, let me know if I am deluding myself!) cfs is a Debian package. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/

Re: installing gnu gcc

2002-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:49, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 00:18, Markus Ray wrote: Hi, > > I am new to Debian and I wanted to install GNU GCC on my OS. It says in > the guide "when configuring a native system, either cc or gcc must be in > your path or you

Re: installing gnu gcc

2002-01-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
e the configuration scripts may fail. " The question is, how do I put "cc or gcc" in my path or set CC in my enveronment? I'm not clear what guide you are reading here. The normal way to install anything in Debian is to install a package that contains it. For example: apt-get install

Re: libssl09 for postgresql_7.1.3 ??

2002-01-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
any matching file it finds.) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge aga

Re: postgresql in quotas?

2001-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
postgres database, or will du -sh on the directory do > the trick? is there a better way? None that I know of. -- syd barrett -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver

Re: postgresql in quotas?

2001-11-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
all the separate postmasters. There is a wishlist bug for something like this. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C

Re: Problem with StarOffice

2001-11-24 Thread Oliver Elphick
; > What can i do? glibc is the source package name; the binary is libc6 (and related packages). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 61

Re: Postgresql doubt ..

2001-11-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
ot;$ su postgres" should be "# su postgres" (or >in other words, it should be setup as "root.") No, that's not necessary and makes no difference, except that in the latter case, it would be root's environment rather than the logged-in user's that would b

Re: OT: SQL + PostgreSQL

2001-11-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
debian-user; I don't read all messages, but I do scan the subjects for references to my packages. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D

Re: "Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."

2001-10-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
f used blocks has changed. The number of blocks available is the number available to an ordinary user. The filesystem keeps a margin of 5% which only root can use (man mke2fs(8)). df shows this: you have 963811 total blocks of which 923613 are used, but the remaining space is 4.18% (less than

Re: Pop server...

2001-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Alexander Wallace wrote: >Hello there! What do I need to apt-get to be a pop server? gnu-pop3d -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 6

Re: weird 100% disk usage

2001-10-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du -shx / >23M / One possibility is that there is material written in a mount-point directory such as /usr. When the partition is mounted, the contents of that directory (if any) will be unavailable. -- Oliver Elphick

Re: Postgres Version in 2.2r3

2001-09-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
bob parker wrote: >Could anyone let me know what version of postgres >comes with 2.2r3 please. >I've tried the obvious postgres -v, psql -v to no >avail. SELECT version(); potato (2.2) contains PostgreSQL 6.5.3 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL P

Re: postgresql/horde/imp problem on woody (was Re: testing)

2001-09-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
r if you are trying to connect with TCP/IP when the postmaster isn't configured to accept it? > use: dpkg-reconfigure -plow packagename to reconfigure. > >isn't it supposed to create the database itself? and it never asked me >for a password. how can i get horde to run wit

Re: Got a question.

2001-09-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
-to set to debian-user@lists.debian.org -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 93

Re: Segmentation Fault & All possible solutions Please.

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
ond by carefully writing your programs so that they never try to access invalid pointers. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 G

Re: simple scripts made difficult? :)

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
are $1, $2, etc. The output of a command can be put into a command line by using backquotes or $(): myscript `mycommand_that_outputs_two_words` Then the script: #!/bin/bash # myscript -- echoes the first argument if [ -z "$1" ] then echo No arguments supplied"

Re: how to run commands automaticly when boot up?

2001-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
Tao Liu wrote: >Which script shall I add the commands to, >so that the commands will run when boot up? Such scripts are held in /etc/init.d and have symbolic links to them from /etc/rc?.d where ? is the runlevel. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Timezone prob

2001-09-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
o put into my >/etc/timezone for Europe Berlin? Europe/Berlin -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
ly downloaded and upgraded from http.us.debian.org. The rest 404 >'d >on me. What gives? Any one else experience this problem? The mirror is out of sync. Try again in the morning, or try a different mirror. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

2001-08-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
key until you really, really mean it...and no keybounces either! It sorts like this: 1. new packages 2. upgraded existing packages 3. not-upgraded packages -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
#x27;ve tried: > >xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis" > >and it doesn't complain, but it also doesn't do anything. What do people >do for this case? Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ct

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: The Sound of Silence]]

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Curt Howland wrote: > >One more comment: > >I continue to get "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" when trying to use >sound. If I "cat message.au > /dev/audio" even as root, I get the >message "/dev/audio Device or resource busy".

Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
ne. Samba will pretend to be a Windows machine so that it can act as a server to all Windows machines on a network; it will also let programs on the DDebian machine access fileshares on the Windows machine. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: postgreSQL

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
it blank) template1:-> CREATE USER bob; or else do it from the command line: $ su Password: root password # su - postgres $ createuser bob Do check the respective manual pages: man create_user and man createuser -- Oliver Elphick[EMA

Re: StarOffice can't find anything

2001-08-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
Nick Croft wrote: >./setup: error while loading shared libraries: ./setup: undefined symbol: at >exit upgrade libc6 -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1151

2001-08-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
Michael Hambe wrote: >Can any body actually tell me how to get off this list. Here are the unsubscription instructions. What is your problem with them? >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Setting $PATH

2001-08-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
bles, but it isn't supposed to be shell script so you can't use it to export variables. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E

Microsoft Word -> PCL

2001-08-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
reliability in converting Word documents, particularly those with complex formatting? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG

Re: mssql database to free database

2001-08-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >Most SQL servers have ways of loading data from file. RTFM to find out >how postgresql does it. COPY table FROM '/path/to/file'; where /path/to/file is a file containing tab-separated fields, one line per row. -- Oliver Elphick

Reply to Mark Carroll - postgresql update

2001-08-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
s. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host chaos.x-philes.com [207.229.163.235]: 553 IP address 194.217.242.89 is an open mail relay or part of a multistage open relay - See http://www.orbl.or

Re: Newbie Question

2001-07-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
tp.de.debian.org and probably many other mirrors. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5

Re: Java compilation error: what is missing?

2001-07-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
ux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ wo >ody non-free Can it be done with DFSG-free packages? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 5

Java compilation error: what is missing?

2001-07-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
ies. [javac] info.setProperty("password", PG_PASSWORD); [javac] ^ [javac] 2 errors BUILD FAILED -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8F

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
ntifier that defaults to be the same as the user's Unix login (with createuser) or the next available uid (CREATE USER). There is rarely any need to specify it, so take the default if prompted. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

Re: Starting with postgreSQL and pgaccess

2001-07-23 Thread Oliver Elphick
Edit /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init (at 7.1 this is postgresql.conf instead) to define whether the postmaster allows TCP/IP connections. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1:

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