Re: Question to the Debian GNOME maintainers about udev

2006-04-05 Thread Sjoerd Simons
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:54:44AM -0400, Derek Piper wrote: Hi, I apologise for the cross-posting and if this is not the right forum in which to bring this up, but I'd like to ask this: *Why* does gnome have a dependency to udev? Can it not simply utilize the hotplug

Stange Debian boot/install problem

2002-02-07 Thread Steve Simons
Could anyone please tell me why my Debian 2.2r4 install freezes? I have an eMachines 1.5Ghz P4, 128Mb RAM, 40Gb drive (pri master) with XP installed and partitioned up, 10Gb drive (pri slave) which is empty and is the intended install drive, 40x DVD rom (sec master) and 32x8x4 CD/RW (sec

Problem with apt and libstdc++

2001-06-29 Thread Seth P. Simons
Hi all I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) i386 and have a problem with (i think) apt. When i try to install c++-compiler, i get the attached messages. i've tried installing libc6 2.1 instead of 2.2, but after installing it (with dpkg) apt-get complains and asks to install all the packages on the

Potato simple backup strategy?

2001-03-01 Thread Steve . Simons
If I keep my local mirror of installed packages (using 'apt-move sync' and dpkg --get-selections installed.packages) up to date and backed up, and I backup my personal data (I'm including /etc, /home and /var/spool here) on a regular basis, is it safe to assume that in the event of a major

Help with groups, please.

2000-10-20 Thread Steve Simons
I want to give full access to /var/www/* to members of the group 'authors'. I created the group with 'groupadd authors', added steve to the group with 'gpasswd -a steve authors' and changed the group of the files with 'chgrp authors /var/www/*'. After logging out and in as steve, why do I get

[steve@kinderscout.plus.com: Re: PHP joy at last!]

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Simons
- Forwarded message from Steve Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:31:49 William Jensen wrote: When I've installed things before, and there is no uninstall, I usually reinstall with 'make install' in one shell, then manually wack each file in another shell

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Simons
- Forwarded message from Steve Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sorry about the dupe - wasn't paying attention. On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:31:49 William Jensen wrote: When I've installed things before, and there is no uninstall, I usually reinstall with 'make install' in one shell

Downgrading using apt-get?

2000-10-15 Thread Steve Simons
I've made a bit of a booboo recently. I apt-get installed a recent, unstable version of mysql and it pulled in a few other packages (I can't for the life of me remember what they were). The problem is, licq seems to be broken. I'm running potato, and whatever version of licq is stable at

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-14 Thread Steve Simons
After careful consideration, I decided you're right. After all - the package management capability is what I switched to Debian for in the first place! And guess what - I works just fine now! -\ PHP4, mysql and apache are all installed and running from the .deb packages. Can someone now

Re: PHP joy at last!

2000-10-14 Thread Steve Simons
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:02:12 Chris Gray wrote: If it's a well-made package, there is usually an uninstall rule in the Makefile. Just make uninstall and you're on your way. Unfortunately there isn't one - I'd already tried it :( Does anyone have a map of the dirs/files created so I can

PHP joy at last!

2000-10-13 Thread Steve Simons
A really big thanks to everyone who took the time to assist me with my recent PHP and Apache troubles - I really appreciate the effort! :-) I ended up doing what I probably should have done in the first place; installing it all from source. It works just fine now. Thanks again, chaps (and

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-12 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:19:20 Andrew Sullivan wrote: Make sure that apache turns on module support for php when it runs apacheconfig: it never does do this correctly for me, and I _always_ have to fix it by hand. Make sure that your apache configuration is set up to process PHP files with the

PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
Could someone please explain, in idiot-level detail, how to get a .php file to display correctly in Netscape. I apt-get installed PHP4 (which included Apache) a few days ago. I've started Apache okay with: LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so AddType application/x-httpd-php

PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
Could someone please explain, in idiot-level detail, how to get a .php file to display correctly in Netscape. I apt-get installed PHP4 (which included Apache) a few days ago. I've started Apache okay with: LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so AddType application/x-httpd-php

Re: PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Liam Ward wrote: I'm currently using PHP3 and my config files have similar stuff to yours (but without the PHP4 bits, obviously enough). You're looking in the wrong place here. Netscape does not need to know anything special to process PHP. It's Apache that spots

Re: PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Are you sure your script is good? (Did you try a script with _just_ phpinfo() in it, plus exit;?) I'm now using PHP.net's own example: html head titleExample/title /head body ?php echo Hi,

Re: PHP4 Apache

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:10:50 Andrew Sullivan wrote: called, either. I think you'd need to convince apache that php=php4, by adding a line application/x-httpd-php4 php (and, I guess, adjusting the other line that includes php not to include that extension). I might

PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
After a painful experience trying to get PHP4 working, I'm trying a new approach. I've removed MySQL, PHP4 and Apache completely. Would someone who has successfully installed PHP3 and Apache to a point where they can display a simple .php3 page on Debian 2.2 (potato) system please be kind

Re: PHP - A new approach

2000-10-11 Thread Steve Simons
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:47:49 Andrei Ivanov wrote: Here's what I did: 1. Install mysql and mysql-dev. Server and client. 2. Get php source. 3. Get apache source 4. Build apache with DSO support (in the README) 5. Go to php tree and follow instructions on how to build php with mod_php for

Problems using php4

2000-10-07 Thread Steve Simons
Hi all, I apt-get installed php4 and apache recently (running potato, by the way). Apache works fine, but when I try to display a simple php page, Netscape wants to download it as a file. :-( Here's what I have as part of /etc/mime.types... text/html html

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-05 Thread Steve Simons
On 5 Oct 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Setting delete=yes in apt-move.conf will delete old .debs from your mirror (doesn't make much sense on a CDROM though), not from the apt cache. That there are still .debs in that cache is probably due to the fact that there are newer versions on your

Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

2000-10-04 Thread Steve Simons
Can someone assist me please - I have .deb files left over in my archives folder even though I've apt-moved to a local mirrors folder on CDROM, changing myapt-move.conf each time as appropriate. For example, my sources.list contains - deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib

minicom, modem questions

1997-09-12 Thread Simons Erwin
Hi there, I am trying to get my modem to communicate with the one at work. Using dial-up networking from window$ works, but it is pretty ennoying to reboot to the window$ OS every time I need my modem. I read the Serial and PPP-HOWTO's as well as the PPP-over-minicom mini-HOWTO. I made sure my

Re: sound under Debian

1997-07-24 Thread simons
Just to let you know that I (finally) got my 'SB16 plug play' soundcard working under debian. I basically followed what was suggested by Will -- make menuconfig Plugged in the IRQ parameters and stuff which I previously obtained from my Window$95 partition. I must admit that I am still not

sound under Debian

1997-07-23 Thread simons
Hello, I have trouble getting sound out of my PC under Debian. I tried consulting some of the doc's and Linux HOWTO's in vain. (a bit too complex for a Linux newbie I'm afraid) I (seem to) have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug Play soundcard which works when I run under W95. I was able to

make boot floppy problem Deb1.3

1997-06-18 Thread simons
I'm experiencing problems installing Debian1.3 from scratch. I followed the Debian1.3 installation guide and opted to install with floppy disks. Everything went swiftly untill I reached the point : Make a Boot floppy After introducing an empty, formatted, write-enabled floppy and hitting enter