Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2006-01-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 08:01:37PM -0600, Matt England wrote: I'm still looking for any guidance on this topic. In summary: Can one run Sarge-built binaries on Woody? In general, no. It will depend on the binary: it will depend on how it was linked. It may depend on how it was compiled and

Re: GUI

2006-01-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 06:17:20PM -0600, branko wrote: Hi.Please help.I want to use Linux but in GUI.I have a DVD of Debian Sarge.I have tried to install it and evrything went fine except at the end all I got was a prompt.I have tried evry command I could think of to get GUI but could

Re: Can I install a package and restrict its use to only one other package?

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 08:54:08PM -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote: I was working at compiling xv-3.10a-28 with its 37 patches when I stumbled across a Suse source rpm xv-3.10a-1079.src.rpm at http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/;. If you REALLY REALLY must have xv, pay John Bradley and buy a

Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:02:01AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: Now that I've got Etch installed, I'm seeing a Not Authenticated warning for many packages. Is this normal or is it something I don't have that is causing such? We'll need more detail than this. -- Kent

Re: Not Authenticated ???

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:16:13PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Chinook wrote: Now that I've got Etch installed, I'm seeing a Not Authenticated warning for many packages. Is this normal or is it something I don't have that is causing such? Thanks, Lee C Current apt is slightly broken :)

Re: Hearts again anyone?

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:53:27PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop I've got all the important issues satisfied for now. That is except for the Synaptic Not Authenticated issue - having

Re: 5th day using Linux and cannot get Dynamic IP clients to work on PPP

2006-01-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:24:56PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: I am answering my post for the 3rd time here :) I have been doing more troubleshooting. Now on hour 15 of trying to resolve this... I am attempting to see if somehow my ppp0 connection is filtered. I have no GUI, but I did

Re: ssh to remote machine with user login problem

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:07:01PM +0200, Pavlos Parissis wrote: Hello, Hi, Thanks for your mail.I have tried to copy .ssh folder from root to the users account and the permissions are 600 and the file is owned by the user and still i am getting the enter the password. OK,

Re: GPG error on apt-get update

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:44:39PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Bernd Prager wrote: Hi, I'm getting a GPG error when I execute an apt-get update: ... But root has the required keys in the pubring: I've been following this issue and also did: debian1:/home/leec# wget

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 08:15:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:47:43PM -1000, Bryan G wrote: i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC

Re: ipw2200 on debian (sid) running kernel 2.6.14-2-386

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:53:31PM +0530, Rishi wrote: Hi I have an IBM Thinkpad R50e with Debian SID (unstable). The kernel is 2.6.14-2-386 I am trying to get the wireless card to work. When I run 'modprobe ipw2200' ... it throws this error in /var/log/messages...

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:15:07PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:28:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Unpack the codecs into it. [I copied the all*codecs.tar.bz there, unpacked it, creating an all*codecs directory, changed into that directory and copied everything

Re: Problems with installation Debian 31r1

2006-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:28:22AM +0200, Oleg Kaplun wrote: Hello, I've just bought new ASUS A8N-VM CSM motherboard with CPU: AMD 64 3200+. Motherborad hase integrated LAN (Gbit MACwith Marvell 88E external PHY), VGA (intergated GeForce6150 + nForce 430), SATA II interfase, etc.

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:18:45PM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: They both do; and I shall be getting a FireWire some day. But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim. You may face problems with bandwidth over the transfer. You will also need much more disk space than you

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:52:10AM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:35 PM ... 4. incorporate the hardware detection of derivative distros (like Knoppix). This would probably be possible only for the i386

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:23:43AM +, Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Jardine[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could put: alias apt-get='echo Use aptitude instead ' in /etc/profile. I did think of something similar :) I did also try

Re: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No Such Device

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:54:00AM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I can't get X to start because apparently because the mouse device can't be found, though the device directory entry seems to be there: Falcon:/etc/X11# ls -la /dev/input/mice crw-rw 1 root root 13, 63 2005-02-25 23:43

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. I had two problems: 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below but misinterpreted

Re: ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:41:33PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1. Google for DWL-G510 wireless card Linux chipset The second entry suggests that you don't use ndiswrapper. It's

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:25:24AM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: I'm not trying to discourage you from using Debian, it's great, but you may want to look at the next release of Ubuntu Server, which will have security support for five years. But using debian sarge for servers is secure or not?

Re: Internet access problem with Debian Sarge + BSNL Dataone

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:49:34PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 1/22/06, K MS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The DNS server addresses are worrying because the address reported in the log as secondary is exactly what I supplied to pppoeconf as the *primary* DNS address. The primary

Re: debian install withouth cdrom boot

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:30:10PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Tue, 2006-24-01 at 18:57 +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote: hi all, i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the bios does not support cdrom boot. how can i install debian ? sbm -

Re: Problem with apt-get and gpg key

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:57:54AM -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: Hi, When I make an apt-get update I get an error concerning a gpg key: W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) N.Pauli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I've just installed Etch. From previous installs (Ubuntu and Sarge) I've learnt to disconnect my KVM (keyboard, video, monitor)

Re: missing packages..

2006-01-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:28:21PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: Still finishing off my first Debian install, and am puzzling over the apparent absence of some very basic programs which I thought were pretty much universally available on *nix systems... Can anyone tell me why 'apt-cache

Re: KVM mini switch on Testing (Etch)

2006-01-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:33:27AM +, N.Pauli wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan, Andrew M.A. wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:56:52AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:44:03 + (GMT) N.Pauli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I've just installed

Re: apt-get invalid signature again

2006-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:15:33AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: Starting last night I see W: GPG error: http://localhost sarge/updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG F1D53D8C4F368D5D Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know what's up?

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror uses to validate Release files? In upgrading to Sarge, I purged (or upgraded) a few too many things, and now when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:17:53PM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: Per previous thread where I was asking about options for running an SSH server on my box, I ran apt-get install ssh. I was asked a few simple questions and chose support for SSH 1 2 and selected Yes for the use of some encryption

Re: SSH ate my computer!

2006-02-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:17:53AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: Be that as it may, I just reloaded my whole box. I cannot remember doing anything else for the past 3-4 days that could have caused the problem. I installed SSH, rebooted, and BAM, everything haywire... In hindsight, I have a

Re: emacs fonts broken in my sid system

2006-02-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:20:39AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Something I upgraded a few weeks ago turned the fonts in emacs 21 (X11) into squares and I don't know to diagnose it. Can anyone help? TIA, Paul Scott Did you move to UTF-8 as your locale? Try installing all the X fonts and

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: I've just downloaded and installed the sarge distribution on a computer I use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:12:12PM -0700, Charles wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700

Re: AMD64 ISOs

2006-02-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 12:30:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm sorry for bothering you like this, but can you please email me the FTP address so I can get the AMD64/EMT64-based CD and DVD ISOs of the last stable Debian-GNU release. Thank You For various reasons, the AMD64

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:42:49PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge. I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you have a dynamic IP of some sort.

Re: Did Libranet ever make available the source code for their Admin utility and their other add-ons?

2006-07-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:46:46AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Glueck wrote: Libranet took Debian, added their famed Admin utility, an installer and a bunch of other perks to it and then

Re: Old versions [LONG - lots of comments added in reply]

2006-07-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 02:38:13AM -0400, Godless Infidel wrote: On Sunday 23 July 2006 01:49, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:34:42AM -0400, Godless Infidel wrote: Is it true, as I have heard, that you must run testing or unstable in order to run the recent versions of

Re: AM2 and Linux

2006-07-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:53:38AM -0700, michael bailey wrote: Has anyone successfully used an Athlon64 on a socket AM2 motherboard with Linux ? If so, which motherboard did they use ? I am interested in the possibility of using the above with Debian Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686).

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Shadow wrote: Hi, All. A crazy idea came to me to install Debian Sarge 3.1r2 from source. I bought that 3DVD set, but found that there is no installer on those disks... Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? There

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:04:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: sometime in the far distant future, paleontologists will be debating the classic questions like: Which came first? The compiler or the OS? Pencil and paper was enough to code up the design for the Zuse computers,

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 03:03:18PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:42:30AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +, Adam Funk wrote: It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for me. For example, nowhere on

Re: CUPS, Sarge/Debian/GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

2006-02-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 06:23:04PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using a Linux/OSX CUPS system for the last 2 years with no problems. Everything is IIP based. Have you checked your log files in /var/log/cups to see if anything is even coming in? Is there a firewall blocking

Re: NFX file size limit

2006-03-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:24:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My program is writing trace output via printf to standard output on an i386 sarge system. Standars output is redirected to an NFS-mounted reiser partition on an etch AMD64 machine. It hit thr wall at 2147483647 bytes,

Re: Q about debian based specialty distro

2006-03-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:44:20AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Specifically the distro is BDI-4.30, which is optimized for computer numeric machine control, uses kernel 2.6.12-magma as its realtime kit. The problem is one of gfx speeds, DRI is not being enabled for some reason

Re: How to detect SATA cdrom

2006-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:30:35AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: When I first tried to install Debian the install cd wouldn't detect my cdrom. Frans pop emailed me and showed me how to fix the problem: Is this a SATA cdrom drive? In that case see:

Re: Install Debian 3.1 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2850

2006-04-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:27:50AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I have just recived, my new server. A Dell PowerEdge 2850: 2 x 3.2 Ghz Xeon CPU's 1 GB of mem 2 x 73 GB HD on PERC 4e/Di RAID SCSI controller. Google for Dell PowerEdge Debian install (add boot disks or bootdisks if

Re: Onboard Modem

2006-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:12:46AM -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 09:27 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: Hmmm... That's a good idea. I'll consider it as well, so I know there is a way out. :) Thank you for your suggestion. -- Open the computer case - throw away the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:26:05PM -0400, Bruce Corbin wrote: Thanks. I'll read up on certificates and read the link at the bottom of your reply. It's not sinking in at the moment but hopefully it will after a little reading. With respect to the problem: I want to have files on my

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:46:52PM -0400, Terry wrote: I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log on with no problem. My question is how do I get the GUI up after I log on? All I get is the prompt. Terry As root, apt-get install x-window-system kde

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:31:19PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: There are employers who tolerate this kind of thing, even encourage it to a limited extent. I've spoke to managers who tell me they'd rather

Re: Debian for AMD64

2006-05-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:35:16PM -0400, David A. Parker wrote: Hello, I was just wondering if anyone has used the AMD64 testing version of Debian on a 64-bit Pentium D processor, and if there was any word on how stable it is? I may be getting a new PC here at work with a Pentium D in

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:15:00PM -0300, Donald Teed wrote: Howdy, We are evaluating Redhat, Suse and Debian. I've been working with Linux for several years, and my preference comes down strongly on Debian fitting in where BSD currently provides our core Internet services. I have no

Re: Debian Sarge Installation problem, ISO image is mounted from NTFS

2006-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:47:31PM +0530, chandavarapu wrote: Primary problem is, I don't want to make 14 CDs. So I put all 14 ISO images on NTFS partition. I have the first cd of Debian Sarge r310ra installed with 2.6 kernel and I have the remaining 13 cd images on my windows partition on

Re: Debian testing repository broken?

2006-06-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:38:48PM +, Zach wrote: I have copied this to the debian-testing group since this may be a problem with apt. I think it's an apt config file - see below. Fetched 7401B in 16s (441B/s) Failed to fetch

X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ??

2005-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing: he's anxious not to mess up his laptop. Anyone else noticed anything similar?? Andy -- To

Re: X.org transition breaks Ctrl-Alt-F* ?? [SOLVED]

2005-09-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:26:26PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Subject says it all: one machine works and I can still access virtual terminals with Ctrl-Alt-F*, one doesn't and is effectively X only. Another colleague has reported the same problem in testing

Re: Linux over Network to Windows

2005-09-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:35:48AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: I will soon be getting a laptop (Toshiba A70) on to which I will install Debian. However, my main computer will, almost always, be running Windows. Now, I would like to setup a network of some sort so that I can access files

Re: Unidentified subject!

2005-09-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:25:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi:) I have wanted to try Debian Linux for a while now and so i downloaded the dvd images.Problem is,i tried installing it following the instructions(i am a linux noobie i'm afraid:))but i got stuck early on in the installation

Re: why early boot timezone so east?

2005-09-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:43:04AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: Just curious, why in /var/log/boot do we see that the system first is in some UTC+16 timezone, Thu Sep 15 19:15:51 2005: Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... Before it gets adjusted to my local

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:35:06PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: Haines Brown wrote: I'm trying to set up a new installation of debian so that user can play DVDs. I have debian sarge 2.6.8-2-686, an IDE dvd drive, gxine 0.4.1-1, libdvdread3-0.9.4-5. I can play .mp3 files OK with gzine. I

Re: Horizontal and Vertical Refresh rates for 15.4 inch Wide-Screen

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:46:25AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: I recently acquired a laptop with an LCD 15.4 wide-screen display with resolution of 1280 x 800 and 60MHz refresh rate. I have googled and have not come up with the answer to this question: What are the Horizontal and Vertical

Re: debian for sun sparc 3i-solaris 9-sun blade 2500

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:48:54AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know whether there is a Debian linux for sparc 3i processor based system model Sun blade 2500. We download 64bit version for sparc but when we boot from the CD the system Sun 2500 repeatedly reboots and

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:04:05PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: Hi folks. One question (which will really be my first question in the mailing list). I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in script format): apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade What would I need to do to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and cron

2005-09-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:31:26AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: ... stuff snipped I would NEVER do a dist-upgrade by itself. Use this instead: snip If your run a dist-upgrade automatically, you might wake up to a broken system ;) I know :) Lots of other people posted this as well :)

Re: AMD64 with Debian

2005-10-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 08:33:50PM -0700, Jacob wrote: Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64 with PCI Express Gigabit Lan I really would like to see some documentation or a tutorial so I can get this stuff all up and running Hardware - AMD64 3200+ - 1 Gig 400 MHZ

Re: migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:49:03AM -0700, Radhika wrote: Hi, Presently we are migrating from redhat linux webserver to debian 3.1 webserver so we need to get the all usernames and passwords need to move to debian 3.1 webserver so that users can login using their same usernames and

Re: migrating users from redhat to debian without changing their passwords

2005-10-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:40:44AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:05:59PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Check carefully: I know that Debian starts its real users at user id 500,501,502 ... . I'm not sure if Redhat uses the same numbering. 1000 for me... Mandr{iva

Re: where are the testing CD?

2005-10-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:48:20PM +0300, Bogdan Rotariu wrote: Hello belahcene, Thursday, October 6, 2005, 7:45:59 PM, you wrote: Hi, I am looking for the weekly testing release (I only found the official sarge ). thanks for help bela http://www.debian.org/CD/ You should use

Install on Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad R50e

2005-10-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Subject says most of it :) Machine has: 1.4GHz Celeron 256M of memory 40G hard disk Intel extreme graphics Intel Pro network card Intel 2200 WiFi I see a couple of reports of semi-success with Debian on this machine and one with Ubuntu. Planning to run testing/unstable rather than stable.

Re: new users

2005-10-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm slowly developing myself a web-toolbox that I can access from anywhere. Anyone know where I can get a web-based antivirus client (applet) for windows that I can host for personal use? Oh and how about Not really

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:38:58PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: golfer wrote: The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, this may be ok, but it's not

Re: NFS shares over the internet

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:45:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:05 pm, David Dawson wrote: I am experimenting with NSF mounts over the internet. So far, the share works on the local network between my two local machines, but only sort of on the remote machine.

Re: IBM xSeries 235

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:33:46PM -0300, Claudio Plateroti wrote: Do you know about the machine IBM xSeries 235 is 32 or 64 bit architecture ? All that Google can find me is that it uses an Intel Xeon processor or two. My guess is 32 bit - but you'd need to find an IBM salesman or download the

Re: new users

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 01:33:58PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: Darren, you cannot do file transfers via SSH. You will need to use FTP to transfer the files. Or you can use SAMBA or CIFS to do file sharing on the Debian box, which is what I do. Sorry, the statement you cannot do file

Re: /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and command= entries

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:48:06PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Debian user: I am trying to figure out how to execute a shutdown on a Debian 3.0 machine using ssh root@host command syntax, but don't want to allow root logins. RTFM man sshd_config indicates that I need the following

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:06:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the power consumption of dram compared with a conventional hard drive? Regards, Max Considerably less. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Access to multiple terminal windows?

2005-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:07:45PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: [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? alt-F1 - F6 work. If you want multi-terminals on one VT try

Re: Best way to restrict users to one application

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi! Under Windows NT it using the policy editor it was very easy to effectively restrict users to certain applications, for instance just a web browser. To be more concrete: I would like to have a user which can only login

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD

Re: Window manager/desktop environment that's not RAM-intensive

2005-11-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:14:52AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: I'm currently converting the SOs laptop to Debian. Problem is that it's rather underpowered in terms of RAM - 128 MB and no chance of upgrading. So I'm looking for a window manager/desktop environment that doesn't have the

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How can I tell whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just assume it will have? If you have the framebuffer at login - you should see two

Re: Best cluster OS

2005-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Nick I wrote: Hi, At www.clusterbuilder.org/FAQ http://www.clusterbuilder.org/FAQ there is a question about what OS and cluster management software are the best for a cluster system. Does anyone have any advice on Debian as a cluster OS? Here is the

Re: Where to download Debian 1.2?

2005-11-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:55:04AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 18 2005, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Nov 18 12:07 -0600]: There are archived ISO's on http://www.ibiblio.org/. Link please. I've looked and I can't find anything older than 1.3.1.

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

2005-11-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:44:50AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 24 2005, Manou J.M. Eifes wrote: Does anyone have the Debian 1.3.1 CD 1 ISO (and perhaps the CD 2)? I know there is a copy of Debian 1.3.1 on archive.debian.org but, if possible, I want the original ISOs. There is no

Re: SATA Installing Problem

2005-11-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:16:56AM +0100, silvain van Weers wrote: Hi everyone, First I want to apologize for my tiny knowledge of the debian system at all. I recently bought a Japanese Sony Vaio type VGN-S53B (which roughly corresponds to the american S series (e.g S250/S270). My first

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:06:40PM +0100, Manou J.M. Eifes wrote: I only want to know, if there is someone who has a backup of the old Debian 1.3.1 ISO files (binary and source). I need it for an intern backup server for old Debian distributions. Greetings, Manou -- To

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:09:26PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, A few hours ago, I have installed Debian Testing on a friend's laptop. The laptop came with Windows XP, and we agreed to make a dual boot of both. Most things work in Debian. There are a few problems, but by far the

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:23:53PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Ok, thank you. Judging from the commands that you just told me, I take it you are trying to find the wireless card type. Am I right? That's right. Any or all of the above can be useful to try and identify the type of card -

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:58:00PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: Thanks you all for your replies. It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). Update to stable. Do it gradually, taking ten or twenty packages at a time and resolving

Re: Debian Wireless Networks

2005-12-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:27:56PM -0500, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Sorry about the lateness of the reply... Finally, here is the output of lspci on my friend's laptop: snip :00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev

Re: Jumpers on an AST Premmia P90

2005-12-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:34:14AM -0500, Tony Yeboah wrote: How can I set or find the jumpers to work with my newly bought motherboard. ? This is a dual processor motherboard with 90MHz Pentiums, about seven years old? There were posts on the Debian user lists in 2002 about this board -

Re: how to connect 2 PCs using serial line

2005-12-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 03:28:03PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a spare serial line, i want to use it to connect 2 PCs. One PC is a standard one,running Woody and Win98, the other PC lacks keyboard and monitor,but has video card, running Linux, intend to be server. i have 2

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 03:24:31AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:02:03AM +0530, TAC Forums wrote: Hi Does anyone know why Debian bundled EXIM instead of Postfix or Sendmail as the default MTA? I don't know for sure but it could be because: * Exim is easy to

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I need some help getting this wifi card working under Linux. I have it working ok under Windows. lspci returns :00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001a (rev 01) I believe I need to use

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:12:50PM -0200, Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote: Andy, are you using testing or unstable right? Sorry, should have said. This is using unstable - which in this instance Just Works. if you use module assistant Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:25:53AM +0100, arden wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 02:01:58 -0800 (PST) Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, arden wrote: Slightly off topic sorry but Im trying to brake out of my hardware suppport role and into a more sys admin

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:14:55PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: What cert would people recomend to do at home ? (This my own money here so cant afford corporate rates) LPI - then, potentially, RHCE if you can find someone to stump up for you once you've a proven track record.

Re: Thanks for aptitude...

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 10:48:09AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hello, A while ago, aptitude was the recommended tool for the upgrade to Sarge and that suggests the obvious. That prompted my switch from apt-get. Recently, I upgraded to a 0.4.x release of aptitude, which featured a

Re: No comments

2005-12-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:59:50AM +0200, Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...? Thanks, Rafi It may just be that a.) Everyone thought

Re: Getting the Euro symbol on to my keyboard

2005-12-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:22:19AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: I want to get the ability to generate the Euro symbol from my keyboard. The symbol itself is etched in to the 4 key (on the bottom right). I found this

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