On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:07:22PM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:
>I'm using Debian Sarge. When I ran apt-gete upgrade, this message shows:
> The following packages have been kept back:
>Why? What should I do?
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/69
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On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:43:36AM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
> http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ - UK-based: they do both virtual machines and
> also proper dedicated servers. By default, you'll get Debian.
>
> Disclaimer: I am a (very happy) Bytemark customer, so this may be
> considered as pimpage :-)
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 07:32:28PM +0100, LeVA wrote:
> I'm searching for an xmms alternative which can use a multimedia
> keyboard's extra keys. (Now I am using xmms + itouch plugin)
>
> ps.: please cc me
You don't need to switch player to use the multimedia keys,
simply use something like
On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 05:45:41PM +0200, ccostin wrote:
> What's wrong with xen/domU configuration ?
You're trying to allocating more memory than you have on the
physical machine.
> Error: I need 32768 KiB, but dom0_min_mem is 65536 and shrinking to
> 65536 KiB would leave only -32768 KiB fr
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:44:27PM +0100, Zuliani Alexander wrote:
> Is there any way for me to restore the original apache2 configuration files
> (/etc/apache2)? I deleted them by accident :-s Maybe someone could tar them
> or something?
apt-get install --reinstall apache2...
(Or whatever
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:35:00PM -0500, Kit Peters wrote:
>Posted to debian-user *and* debian-mentors in the hope of getting a good
>answer on this.
Probably better suited to debian-user, but I'll leave the cc just
on the off-chance.
>We have chosen to do this by maintaining our
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:15:26AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> The problem with that is that it will miss packages which create files
> in /etc during postinst, hence they are not the package list. Also, it
> might be better to include a package in the list only if one or more if
> its fil
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:53:56PM +0100, Carlos Ojea wrote:
> >What about your /etc/ backup from _this_ computer? Use mc, enter the
> >tar file you made before this happened, and copy necessary stuff back.
>
> My /etc/ backup? That is not made by the system and I should had done
> that ... right
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:19:59PM +0530, Naga Priya .K wrote:
> i'm a beginner in C. I used the following code to read and print the
> strings in a file. but the control doesn't reach inside the while
> loop. what is the problem?
The problem is that you don't initialise things correctly.
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:23:27PM -0500, celejar wrote:
> One of the most intelligent soliloquies I've seen in a while.
I'm glad you liked it. I wish you'd trimmed it from your reply
so we didn't have to read it twice.
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:37:39PM +0100, steef wrote:
> some helpful soul on the alsa-userlist advised me to put a textfile with
>
> *options snd-hda-intel index=0 disable_msi=1*
>
> is some kind soul out there who can tell me the exact meaning of the phrase
> *--disable_msi=1*?
These flags
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> The spamassassin part works fine and mail is coming through. The clamav
> part is not. It will not identify the eicar test in mail. It will also
> happily allow the clamav-testfiles to go through without seeing them.
> Obviously cla
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 04:27:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Thanks in advance for the help
>
> $ wajig show debian-builder
> Package: debian-builder
That will not help. (Speaking as upstream author of that tool).
To rebuild a Debian package the correct way you need three things:
1
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:45:41PM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
> I have several Debian Woody systems that, for various reasons, are
> inconvenient to update. I somehow misread Debian's support policy,
> and though I had another year before support ended, but now I'm
> finding that these systems a
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Note that I did leave /etc/mail in place, but I ran apt-get remove
> sendmail, removed the init files, and so forth. Apparantly I missed
> something.
You should run "dpkg --purge sendmail" to remove all traces of the
package.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:56:08PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I install cupsys and apache among many hundreds of other packages.
> I point my browser (firefox) at localhost:631 as the howto directs and ...
> I'm told "
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access the resource on this serve
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:58:58PM -0800, rds wrote:
> Is the old version of the package still available in "testing"? And if not, is
> there a way to rollback to a previous verson of the package? I'm using
> aptitude
You want to take a look at http://snapshot.debian.net/ - although
bear in m
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:00:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# du --summarize --human-readable /var/lib/mysql/*
> He is working with PostgreSQL.
True, but I figured that the ability to determine which files
were the biggest was the next remaining issue. (After
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote:
> OK, how do you determine the disk size of a database.
The same way that you'd determine what disk space were used by
any other type of file.
> but it would be easier if I knew which DB's were taking up what disk
> space.
Try this:
Please, to make this mailing list a nicer place, could I ask
people to trim messages they are replying to?
Quoting a 50+ line message in its entirety, just to add a
single sentence reply is utterly unnecessary.
I don't want to pick on anybody in particular, but I figured
a little remind
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 04:07:32PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> and now how do i fix the problem? that error message is kind of terrifying.
I'd try:
apt-get install --reinstall gaim gaim-data
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On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:04:32PM +0800, linux china wrote:
> if the package name is too lang, its name is cut because of the limit
> of the columns 80. if I wanna output name and description, what's the
> command line?
COLUMNS=200 dpkg --list ...
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:28:20AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote:
> >Well, how about "Web Ferret"? "Ferret", AFAIK, only has neutral
> >connotations, and in this context, perhaps good ones (nosing around
> >for information).
> Freaky! Many years ago I contemplated writing a web browser -- that was
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> I am not familiar with apt-listbugs and apt-changes. What are those?
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/44
They show you outstanding bugs/changes which will be applied when
you upgrade.
> One thing that I am now cu
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:36:04PM +0200, Raphael Brunner wrote:
> Now, I don't want to "make install". I want to build a .deb package and
> install this on my system.
Use "checkinstall":
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/147
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:06:05AM -0400, Chris Howie wrote:
> I'm trying to set up Xen on a sarge box, using the guide at
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/423
>
Known problem caused by a mismatch between the Xen kernel and the
xen hypervisor.
You'll need to get hold of eithe
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:40:55PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > The problem with this is the same as the problem with fora vs. mailing
> > lists. DWN comes to me... with Planet Debian and the rest, I have to
> > go to them to find out if there's anything of interest to me
> >
> Wi
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:18:32AM +0200, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> I'am back now, and I see the way apt repo are dona is sloghtly
> different.
> Something "differential" has been introduced: "apt-get update" downloads
> some kind of patches whose name contains date.
> Would you please ind
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:49:42PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> what are default file access permissions on directory /tmp ?
1755
If you have a working/normal system you can use "stat" to list
the permissions:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ stat /tmp
File: `/tmp'
Size: 245760 B
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote:
> I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :)
"duplication package setup across machines" ?
> I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed,
> and I would like some way of getting
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:27:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> www.webmin.com
That doesn't scale much more than ssh'ing into multiple machines
and running repetivite tasks. For 10 machines it could work if you
were patient. For 50 it would not.
Plus it has been removed from testing/Et
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Eric Persson wrote:
> I have a bunch of debian installations och a few servers, is there some
> good tool to manage them all effectivly, they dont necessarily contain
> the same configs. Any hints or links in a good direction would be
> appreciated.
CFE
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 08:21:30PM +1000, M-L wrote:
> But these are in /etc/passwd There is no /etc/shadow file.
> Apart from creating the /etc/shadow file, how do i create shadow passwords?
/sbin/shadowconfig on
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On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:41:34PM +0100, Andrew Saunders wrote:
> This thread started with someone complaining that forums.debian.net
> is too small with only ~7000 registered users - fragmenting the user
> base even more widely with your offering doesn't seem like it's going
> to do much to hel
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:50:17AM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> Which packages might be removed or pinned so that upgrades will not
> necessiate
> reinstallation of Nvidia's (their installer) driver? libGLcore.so (symlink)?
> etc.
Should be fixed now:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:51:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Every once in a while I need to install a non-free package, so my system
> does have some non-free packages installed. What command can I use to find
> out what packages are those (so I can remove them or replace them with free
> a
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:09:23PM +0100, Bj?rn Ballard wrote:
> Many thanks Steve. Worked a treat! I'll take note in future to search
> debian-devel.
Great. I keep meaning to write it up in more detail, since that
message was pretty terse and mostly posted from memory, but I'm glad
you ma
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:53:32PM +0100, Bj?rn Ballard wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to how to
> get this to work properly? Or managed to solve this
> themselves in the past?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/08/msg01010.html
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 12:18:26PM -0300, Alejandro wrote:
> Dear all, I've been use Tripwire since a lot of years on my Debian
> boxes, but now I want to know if there is any file integrity checker
> package better than Tripwire, that presents any visible advantage...or
> is Tripwire still the bes
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:24:26AM -0700, S t i n g r a y wrote:
> Well i want to know if its possible to rename a file
> to the current date ?
> like if i want to move todays date to the file name ?
Say the file you want to rename is "t.txt" you could use:
mv t.txt `date +%d-%m-%Y`
That g
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:40:23PM +0200, Sannie Kwakman wrote:
> Does anyone in the mailinglist know how to fix this problem?
dpkg --force-all --install
/var/cache/apt/archives/passwd_1%3a4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:09:59PM +0800, Deephay wrote:
> How to get the address of the local machine without using "root"?
> ifconfig cannot be issued by a common user. TIA!
Yes it can, the only problem is that by default /sbin will not be
on the PATH of a non-root user.
Just run it as fo
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:40:17AM -0400, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:
>I chose "Mail sent by smarthost" option because the "Internet site" option
>sounds vulnerable to me. For "IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP
>connections", I put my IP addr. and the loopback (127.0.0.1). Fin
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 04:06:16PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Short of making from scratch, is there a way to get apt-get to install a
> copy of apache in an alternate directory, so I can run several demons in
> parallel?
No.
Still Apache is fairly flexible and can offer multiple sites
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:41:51PM +0100, Giles McGarry wrote:
>I have a problem at the moment, strangely various binaries in the /bin
>directory are changing size and becoming corrupt. When I restore the
>original they work ok, and then at some time later they change size and
>st
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:24:04PM +0200, Raphael Brunner wrote:
> I added all the data in /etc/network/interfaces and this is also up if I
> see with ifconfig.
Great.
> But, the nameservice don't run. If I add the following:
> route add default gw 192.126.1.1
It sounds like you have a netw
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:39:40PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> What commands on Debian equivalent to "yum list installed package_name"
> OR "rpm -qa | grep package-name" to find out whether the package has
> been installed.
To search all packages which are installed and have the package
name '
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:25:32PM +0100, Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)
wrote:
> Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a
> segfault. This is new.
Probably a result of the recent security update?
I'd suggest it is the result of an extension which was erron
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:47:47PM -0400, Noah Dain wrote:
> >OK. There are "ufs" items on the kernel sources and apt shows union-fs
> >packages. How do these relate and what needs be installed to make use of
> >this? Configuration? What happens to fs-tab?
Build the source with "module-assistan
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 08:03:25PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
>Where does mysql stores database in sarge?
/var/lib/mysql/
>How to back up data base?
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/218
>If I want to change data in a field say symbol in table say shares from
>sa
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:14:45PM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote:
> I thought that, so I turned off host lookups in the exim config - same
> thing happens.
> If I've missed anything, please let me know...
Could be an ident lookup timeout?
Set:
rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:14:58AM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> i find that xine will not produce sound after i've run kmail. Quitting kmail
> does not change this. In order to get sound again, I have to reboot.
I *guess* that running KMail has started a sound daemon which is
stopping xine fr
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:13:24PM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> I read a post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect,
> because it highlighted newly-minted packages. With apt*, he rarely knew
> of that new software, unless he just stumbled across it. I thought that
> was a pre
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:56:13PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> Red Hat has a nice PAM library that lets people access, say, the sound
> devices when they log in on the console. Thus anyone who logs in
> automatically has access to the sound devices. However, this facility
> appears to be lackin
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:36:59PM -0400, mlaks wrote:
> now i notice that my own posts to debian-user are not listed by "mitchell
> laks" or mlaks in the mutt index view. instead it says
>
> 22104 F Jun 18 To debian-user (1.5K) sid kde printing and cups setup
Yes. This is because Mutt r
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:35:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any way of finding out which installed package a file is part
> of?
dpkg --search /bin/ls
coreutils: /bin/ls
etc.
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:02:57AM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>What is the "correct" way to share the apt cache? I think we should keep
>/var/cache/apt/archives in the server and mount it with nfs in the other
>computers. But I'm not shure this is the "correct" way; I d
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:40:22PM +0200, Johan de Jong wrote:
> The document root contains an index.php:
>
> printf("mytag has value: %s\n", $mytag);
> ?>
>
> My problem is that when I load the page using:
>
> http://localhost/?mytag=a
>
> the value of mytag is empty. I stumbled on th
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:02:13AM +0200, Enver ALTIN wrote:
> If you have to leave some writable folders for Apache user, say, /tmp,
> moving /tmp to another partition/filesystem and mounting it with
> "noexec" option would prevent most harm /any/ PHP script can cause.
Not true.
Several o
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:40:42AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> wget
> http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b.orig.tar.gz
> wget
> http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b-1.diff.gz
> wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnut
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:21:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote:
> Ah, good advice. I was thinking of /var/lib/dpkg/status for some reason,
> which of course can't be regenerated so easily.
Thankfully this will be backed up automatically on most Debian systems
and can be found in:
/var/bac
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:57:07AM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> How can I set upgrade or backup traffic to the back burner so that web
> browsing or audio streams don't suffer? Basically a renice equivalent
> for network traffic.
>
> A man page or proper search terms is sufficient, I just can't see
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 07:23:08PM -0500, Don wrote:
>I've goggled till my fingers hurt. Is there a way to change the mouse
>configuration?
In your X11 setup, which will either be in the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
or the file /etc/X11/XFree86.conf
Look for lines similar to these (your
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 04:36:37PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> I allowed my box to get into a situation where the root directory (/),
> and all the subdirectories on it -- except /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr,
> /var, /media and swap -- are locked read-only. Since I cannot write to
> the root directory
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 11:19:03AM +0100, Michael Wuest wrote:
> Now my question is, what do I have to do to get the programm
> started at boot up (with rcS???) having root privileges???
You place a script in /etc/init.d, and then add it to the
relevent runlevels via the 'update-rc.d' command.
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:38:28AM -0400, Steve Mallett wrote:
> This didn't help. While "dpkg --purge apache2" reported that it was
> purging apache2.. "apt-get install apache2" didn't reinstall the need
> files under /etc/apache2 & don't appear anywhere else that I see.
Probably the files ar
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:09:20PM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote:
> Hoping someone can point me in the right direction as to how I would
> translate the above into a shell script, as my mediocre attempt fails:
You were so close! You need to run "chroot /path /command"
(As you can see if you r
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:53:46PM -0800, J Merritt wrote:
>Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably
>from the command line and preferably in a text file?
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
To show all installed packages you can use the "dp
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:29:44PM +0100, LeVA wrote:
> I want to set up the mouse pointer's sensitivity under X.org from console,
> how
> is this possible?
Not from the console, but when logged in you can try running:
xset m 2 2
(This is 'xset m speed accel'; where the values are
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:57:37PM -0800, Elaine Tsiang YueLien wrote:
> The sources.list line is
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib
>
> No interest on irc.
The following files appear to be broken :
http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:42:44PM -0500, T wrote:
> But it doesn't work. I must have syntax errors. Can you help please?
Does visudo not give errors?
This is what I use and have working:
---
# User alias specification
User_Alias FULLTIMERS = steve
# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Ali
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:15:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On any system, it seems to make sense that the cli interface is
> runlevel 3, and the x interface is runlevel 5. I'm not really sure
> what runlevels 1,2 & 4 are for unless its to be able to customize the
> system to do what you w
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:02:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> >
> > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to
> > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell...
>
> I just tried that on my sarge
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:35:35PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
>yeah, I know that, but I was talking about a program to decompress RAR
>files... I know I don't really need it, but today a friend sent me a rar
>file and I needed to tell him to recompress it as zip and send it
>again... (
> My ideal website would be one that combined the material in the really
> useful http://www.debian-administration.org/
:)
> with simpler guides for less experienced users (such as, the basics of
> aptitude, how to install Nvidia/ATI 3d drivers, or the basics of
> Debian-specific commands lik
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:31:01AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..last mirror update was a week ago, what's going on???
> ..and, yeah, gg:"Debian mirror update" "21-Jul-2005" etc
> finds _lotsa_ noise.
> ..whether this mirror update lapse is planned or not, a wee
> mention here on d-m and and
Qemu is very usable and simple to install Windows upon, albeit a little
slow.
The following page is a quick walk-through of installing Windows 2000
upon Qemu:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/40
I use it infrequently, but it's nice to have available.
Steve
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On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:35:11PM -0800, Stephen Le wrote:
> See the example above. Users would still be able to upload their own
> Perl scripts and get Apache to execute them without restriction - the
> Perl script could call commands that I want to ban the users from
> executing.
Lots of peo
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