Re: Postgres server does not start.

2010-01-31 Thread debuser
On 2010-01-31 13:43, Sthu Deus wrote: 2010-01-31 13:31:03 GMT-7 LOG: could not bind IPv4 socket: Address already in use 2010-01-31 13:31:03 GMT-7 HINT: Is another postmaster already running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry. 2010-01-31 13:31:03 GMT-7 WARNING: could not

xorg cpu usage

2009-11-22 Thread debuser
After running X for a few hours, the xorg server starts to use around 20% of the CPU. Is that not rather high? The computer is a laptop running sid. Here is an extract from a typical htop display (formatted to make it less wide), sorted by CPU usage: CPU[|||

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread debuser
В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: Dear All Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection opened from the MS Windows client's side ? Regards H.Motamedi As I know it's

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread debuser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:40 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: Thank you for your reply . Can you please provide me with more details on your proposed NX, VNC ? Regards H.Motamedi On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, debuser debu

System is corrupted installing packages

2009-06-29 Thread debuser
try to umount dir 'flash' I get: #umount flash/ umount: /home/debuser/work/flash: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1)) I do and get: #fuser -m /home/debuser/work/flash /home/debuser/work/flash: 2832rce

Re: [OT] Impedir el listado de dominios en ip reserse lookup

2006-10-09 Thread DebUser
8/10/06, DebUser[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: hola a todos! alguien tiene idea de como impedir que se muestren los dominios alojados en un servidor? tengo debian sarge 3.1 y recientemente he instalado el ispconfig para administrar las webs, si voy a una web tipo http://whois.webhosting.info

[OT] Impedir el listado de dominios en ip reserse lookup

2006-10-08 Thread DebUser
hola a todos! alguien tiene idea de como impedir que se muestren los dominios alojados en un servidor? tengo debian sarge 3.1 y recientemente he instalado el ispconfig para administrar las webs, si voy a una web tipo http://whois.webhosting.info/xx.xx.xx.xx y donde estan las x pongo una ip, me

Re: Reverse ip lookup does not use /etc/hosts

2004-10-13 Thread halbtaxabo-debuser
In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm almost certain that the 40-second delay reported in the previous message is due to tcpwrappers trying to do redundant reverse DNS lookups. I rebuilt exim from the version 3.36 source (same version Debian has on Sarge). It does have a build option for using

Reverse ip lookup does not use /etc/hosts

2004-10-08 Thread halbtaxabo-debuser
I am investigating a problem on my LAN - some operations seemed very slow. There are 3 machines on the LAN. Two (leo.galaxy and orion.galaxy) are only connected to the LAN. The third (ursa.galaxy) is the firewall/gateway and also has a connection thru a cable modem to the internet. The test: on

IMAP/Exim

2002-10-04 Thread debuser
Currently on my system I have the following email setup: I am a RaodRunner cable user at home but have never actually used their email address/servers because I work for a small ISP (dial- up only) and use ours from habit and the convenience of maintaining my email addresses myself with remote

Esoniq Sound Card

2001-12-16 Thread gms8994-debuser
I have one of the Esoniq Sound cards listed in the drivers setup when you first install debian. I realized this after the fact, however. What is the easiest / best way to go about installing this driver for my sound card?

help with port forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread debuser
I have a Linux machine (Debian unstable with kernel 2.2.18) that is successfully masquerading for our local network. I want to do port forwarding so that machines on the Internet can see the web server of a machine on the local net. Following the IP-Masquerading howto, I have the following script

Re: help with port forwarding

2001-06-13 Thread debuser
Never mind. Found my problem. My problem was with the machine running the web server inside the local network, not with the firewall machine. On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Linux machine (Debian unstable with kernel 2.2.18) that is successfully masquerading for our local

Re: RAM economy tips

2001-04-20 Thread debuser
It sounds as though you do indeed have a memory leak somewhere rather than just a misunderstanding of the memory statistic numbers. However, I'm quite certain that the problem has nothing to do with the kernel, but rather a leak in one of the apps you are running. If you say that even after

Re: 3com59x IRQ problem

2001-04-18 Thread debuser
I had the same problem which was solved by turning off Plug and Play OS Support (or something like that) in the BIOS. Worked like a charm after that. I got the info from somewhere on the website listed for the driver. More information is there if that doesn't solve the problem (look in the docs

Re: SSH1 - SSH2 Connectivity

2001-04-18 Thread debuser
First install a ssh1 package (I think the ssh package is it), then do the following (from /usr/share/doc/ssh2/SSH2.QUICKSTART.gz): Then add the following 2 lines to ssh2_config placed at the same directory of sshd2_config. With this configuration, ssh2 client will invoke ssh1 client when

Re: GLX on NVidia TNT card using XFree86 4?

2001-03-26 Thread debuser
I'm not sure Nvidia's drivers work at 24bpp, so you might want to try running at 16bpp. Also, you did remember to change the driver in your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if that file exists on your system) file to be nvidia rather than nv, right? Gerry On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread debuser
home/end work fine for me in Eterm and xterm. I'm running unstable. I think the problem may be with your keyboard or X settings rather than with the terminal emulator. Someone on here can probably give you more specific places to look. I think there's a keyboard mini-howto. That might help. gerry

Re: The perfect X terminal emulator

2001-03-16 Thread debuser
Upon further investigation, I believe I found what makes home/end work with xterm and Eterm on my system. In /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xterm, the bottom of the file contains the following: *VT100.Translations: #override ~Shift ~Ctrl ~Meta KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\

Re: [OT] OpenGL Experiance

2001-03-05 Thread debuser
Strictly speaking, you don't need an OpenGL-complient card to run or develope OpenGL programs. They will run on any graphics card if you have the libraries installed (Mesa on Linux). But if you need your app to run really fast, then you'll want to get an OpenGL-complient card. Sorry, but I don't

Re: wine and woody

2001-02-26 Thread debuser
You need Windows in order to run win apps under Wine. Now the problem seems to be that when I try to install Windows apps, they look for Windows files that WINE does not yet have, and point to where they can be obtained at Microsoft's website. At least the xlibosmesa errors are no longer a

Re: Wine

2001-02-22 Thread debuser
You need xlibosmesa3, perhaps only available under unstable. I believe the wine package incorrectly does not list this as a dependency. On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Leonard Leblanc wrote: Has anyone had any experience with using wine? I am currently doing alot of web development at work and _really_

Re: XFree 4.0 and TNT2 video cards

2001-02-13 Thread debuser
I believe with X4, all the drivers are contained in the xserver-xfree86 package rather than having card-specific servers as with X3. You don't need xserver-svga anymore. On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: After my upgrade to testing, I noticed that I'm still using xserver-svga

OT: restricting access to certain IP address in Apache

2001-02-09 Thread debuser
If I restrict access of a webserver (Apache) to certain domains or IP addresses, I was wondering how secure this is. In other words, how easy would it be for someone to fake where they are coming from to gain access to my site? Thanks, Gerry

legal to use libapache-mod-ssl in USA??

2001-02-06 Thread debuser
I asked this a week or so ago, but it was a day that the mailing list was having trouble, so I wonder if many people received it. So, I'm asking again. My apologies to those who got it the first time. Is it legal to use mod-ssl (or apache-ssl) in the US for commercial purposes? I've seen some

Re: Have computer power off automatically

2001-02-05 Thread debuser
You need to recompile your kernel with advanced power management BIOS support turned on. I think that's the only option you need (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Your BIOS needs to support this as well (I believe most modern BIOSs do). Gerry On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey,

legal to use libapache-mod-ssl??

2001-01-30 Thread debuser
Is it legal to use mod-ssl (or apache-ssl) in the US for commercial purposes? I've seen some conflicting documentation on the matter (and it seems like I heard laws changed regarding this recently as well???). Also, is using mod-ssl or apache-ssl as secure as one of the secure commercial apache

Re: XMMS + Gnome + Sawfish

2001-01-30 Thread debuser
Perhaps your Sawfish stacking is set to be on top. Press Alt+Middle_Mouse_Button when your pointer is over the play list window and your sawfish menu should come up. Select Stacking-Lower and maybe History-Forget saved state. Also make sure Options-Always on top is not selected from the XMMS menu.

building package with debug options?

2001-01-29 Thread debuser
Is there an easy way to compile a Debian source package with debugging options turned on (removing the -O2 and adding -g to all the make files) or is that something that has to be done manually? Something like dpkg-buildpackage --debug??? Thanks, Gerry

check for bad RAM program?

2001-01-24 Thread debuser
Several years ago in Debian there was a program that created a bootable floppy that would check for bad RAM. I can't find it now. I think it was called memcheck, but I'm not certain on that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about and where I can find it now? Thanks, Gerry

Re: check for bad RAM program?

2001-01-24 Thread debuser
Thanks. I now see that this program is contained in the hwtools package (in woody). Thanks again, Gerry On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:21:47 -0700 (MST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several years ago in Debian there was a program that created a bootable

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd?

2001-01-17 Thread debuser
Actually, I think it's just a minor bug in apt-get. I see it too even though I'm not running hurd, it mentions hurd in brackets with the -s option. I've never worried about it, since it provides the need functionality - telling me what packages will be upgraded. On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Colin Watson

X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
I'm trying to install lesstif-dev on my woody (testing) box. It says it depends on xlib6g-dev but xlib6g-dev conflicts with xlibs which is already installed and is required by other packages. I don't see an xlibs-dev either. Where are the development packages for X (4.01) in woody now? Do they

RE: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
Uggh, they removed X4 from Woody? I'm not sure I like this testing distribution thing. If I'm pointing at woody the whole time (which I have), I don't expect packages to be rolled back unless something is really wrong. So now that X has been removed from Woody, I must either roll back to X3 also,

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
You contradict yourself - if you were tracking woody you were tracking unstable. Since you were tracking unstable before I don't see why it's such a big deal to track it now ... Maybe it's not worth a discussion, but when I started using woody before, the stability of this machine was much

Re: X development packages broken in woody?

2001-01-12 Thread debuser
You wouldn't have these problems if you would ignore the damn code names and track the appropriate distribution. If you want to track unstable point to unstable, not woody. _Don't_ _use_ _code_ _names_. But I did not want to track unstable, I wanted to track woody. That is, I didn't want

Where to put my firewall scripts?

2001-01-08 Thread debuser
I just setup a woody box to act as a masqerading firewall. Where is the most Debian(woody) place to put my firewall configuration script to be run a boot? Thanks, Gerry

Accessing MS SQL Server from Linux

2001-01-05 Thread debuser
Does anyone have any experience accessing MS SQL Server from Linux? Either from C, Perl, or PHP? If so, what do I need in order to do this? Thanks, Gerry

rolling back to current woody from pre-test woody

2000-12-28 Thread debuser
Now that woody is in the testing stage, many of the packages on my system are newer versions than currently reside in woody. As some of the newer packages on my system are broken, I would like to roll back to the current woody snapshot. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks, Gerry

alsa rear speaker weirdness

2000-12-28 Thread debuser
I have a sound blaster live soundcard. I previously had alsa working properly with the alsa drivers from woody. However, I recompiled to a newer kernel and so I needed to download the alsa source and recompile that too. I tried the alsa source from woody package, but it was an older version and

weird package problem with woody rpm package

2000-12-26 Thread debuser
I've been following woody for some time. Today I tried: apt-get install rpm It fails with the following message: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: rpm: Depends: librpm1 (= 3.0.3) but it is not going to be installed Depends: librpm1 (= 3.0.2) but it is not going

Re: weird package problem with woody rpm package

2000-12-26 Thread debuser
More weirdness. When I downloaded rpm using ftp (rather than apt-get) then did dpkg -i rpm... it worked fine. Hmm. On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been following woody for some time. Today I tried: apt-get install rpm It fails with the following message: Sorry, but

samba - guest ok doesn't work

2000-12-20 Thread debuser
I want Windows users on my network to be able to print to my printer without a password. I have guest ok = yes in the printers share. I also have security = user in the global section. Shouldn't this allow printing without a password? Currently it does not. Printing does work fine with a correct

Re: samba - guest ok doesn't work

2000-12-20 Thread debuser
In looking around some more, it looks like this is indeed the correct behavior for security = user unless I add the following: map to guest = Bad Password or map to guest = Bad User Otherwise I need to switch to security = share Thanks, Gerry On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Peter Horton wrote: On

which magigfilter for Laserjet 5N?

2000-12-19 Thread debuser
I want to set up printing (preferably using magicfilter) for an HP Laserjet 5N. Since I don't see this printer listed in the magicfilter setup, which one works best with this printer? Thanks, Gerry

how to tell what functions in a library

2000-12-14 Thread debuser
What's the best way(s) to tell all the functions contained in a library or object file (other than reading the man pages)? Thanks, Gerry

how to fake from address in an email

2000-12-13 Thread debuser
We need to send out an email response from a CGI when someone places an order, but we want to set the from address to something other than the user/machine where the CGI is running. How to do this with the various email packages? Currently using exim, but may switch to postfix or sendmail.

Re: How do you remove Helix GNOME

2000-12-08 Thread debuser
This doesn't work because helix is in the version number, not the package name (except for about 3 packages). The matching seems only to match the package name. On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Juergen Fiedler wrote: apt-get takes regular expressions, so a 'apt-get --purge remove helix*' should nuke

helix gnome vs. woody gnome

2000-12-08 Thread debuser
About a month ago when installing a new system, I tried installing the Gnome that comes with Woody (I've been using Helix Gnome on other systems). I saw some strange behavior, but perhaps it was because I didn't have a lot of suggested packages installed at the time. And, although a trivial thing,

Re: getting XFree to work with geforce MX

2000-11-22 Thread debuser
I had a machine with this card as well. At the time I looked, the documentation on xfree86.org said that this card is supported in the developement version of X 4.?.?, but not currently supported in the official release, but will be in the next official release. Gerry On Tue, 21 Nov 2000,

Re: how to watch VCD?

2000-11-22 Thread debuser
I read somewhere that you need to re-compile your kernel with VCD support for the CD (or filesystem). I'm not sure if this option is available in the standard kernel or if you need to download a patch from somewhere. Gerry

Re: simple network card setup (netgear 10/100 tulip)

2000-11-22 Thread debuser
Probably not your problem, but make sure you have turned off plug and play OS in your BIOS. This caused a major headache for me with another card. Also, the ethernet howto may be helpful as well as looking at the web sites for the driver of your card (probably listed in the source for your driver

Re: Aarrggg! fonts 4.0.1-4 (again :(

2000-11-16 Thread debuser
I was able to solve this problem by reinstalling xfonts-base. The problem is discussed in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz at the bottom. My problem was that the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file did not exist on the first install for some reason. The re-install fixed it. Gerry On

X 4.0.1 fixed font problem

2000-11-15 Thread debuser
I just did a new woody install and tried installing X 4.0.1 on it. When I run startx, X starts up but then crashes with the message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I've installed xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-base, xfonts-pex, and xfonts-scalable. Any clues what

automatically turning off power and shutdown??

2000-08-07 Thread debuser
In Windows, when I shutdown the computer, it automatically turns off the power. I believe it's something in the BIOS that allows this as not all machines running Windows do this. Is there a way to make Linux do the same thing? I like listening to MP3's as I go to sleep and would like have it

is there an HTTP C library?

2000-03-15 Thread debuser
What C/C++ libraries are available to get web pages from within a C program? Preferably with the ability to do secure queries. Thanks, Gerry

print jobs not being spooled

2000-02-23 Thread debuser
I'm trying to print to a Laserjet 5 network printer. It seems to be working for the most part, but, when the printer is down, instead of jobs being spooled in the spool directory, the lpr command just times out and fails. Shouldn't these jobs be waiting in the spool directory until the printer

mgetty incoming fax question

2000-02-11 Thread debuser
I've setup mgetty (from stable) to automatically print faxes when they are received. This works fine, but when faxes are recieved, it sends an email to root. Is there any way to disable the sending of a message to root upon receipt of a fax? Thanks, Gerry

Re: mgetty incoming fax question

2000-02-11 Thread debuser
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting debuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've setup mgetty (from stable) to automatically print faxes when they are received. This works fine, but when faxes are recieved, it sends an email to root. Is there any way to disable the sending of a message

Re: Router Project

2000-01-31 Thread debuser
Also, There is more documentation for LRP that might be a little better at: http://linuxrouter.sourceforge.net/documentation/LRP-2.9.4/lrp-sec-EtherToEther.html Gerry On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Peter, LRP is based on Debian 2.1 (2.0.36). There are several other

updatedb not working

2000-01-27 Thread debuser
I'm using potato. Today I tried doing locate filename and I got warning /var/lib/locate/locatedb more than 8 days old. My understanding is that this is supposed to be updated daily via cron in the script /etc/cron.daily/find. I wondered if cron was broken so I tried running the script manually.

Re: updatedb not working / bug in updatedb

2000-01-27 Thread debuser
After more tinkering around, I think I've found the problem. The problem is that updatedb is not able to execute the frcode program which it calls to compress the database. In looking at an older version of updatedb, it contains the line: : ${LIBEXECDIR=/usr/lib/locate} but the version from

licq question

2000-01-26 Thread debuser
I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options dialog with the command echo -e '\a' so my machine would beep when I get a new message. The strange thing to me is that this works fine if I start licq

Re: being hacked via ssh with X11 forwarding?

2000-01-12 Thread debuser
Well, I've talked to the guy that owns that machine, and he assured me that he wasn't hacking me, and I believe him. But now the question remains, what caused this message? Any possible explanations out there? Thanks, Gerry PS: I'm paranoid about being hacked since another machine on our

Re: Help - efax and USR Sportster

2000-01-12 Thread debuser
I had trouble with efax also until I used the version from the unstable distribution. The version from potato didn't work well with my modem (an older Supra). So, if you're not using the one from unstable, you might want to give that a try. Gerry On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Colin Telmer wrote: I am

Re: being hacked via ssh with X11 forwarding?

2000-01-12 Thread debuser
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: were you ssh'd into shell.schwa.net when that message showed up? if you were it was your machine that was connected to the remote X server not the other way around. No. I have no deliberate interaction with that machine whatsoever. I didn't know that

being hacked via ssh with X11 forwarding?

2000-01-07 Thread debuser
From my Linux box at work, I was using ssh to connect to my personal ISP. I had X11 forwarding turned on. When I went to log out I got this message: Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate... The following connections are open: X11 connection from shell.schwa.net port 1087 Is someone

using swap files - where do I activate at boot?

1999-12-28 Thread debuser
I inherited a Debian system running potato. The system occassionaly was running out of memory so I thought I should increase my virtual memory. Rather than repartitioning the hard drive to add another swap partition, I thought it would be best to just use a swap file. So, I've created the file

Re: diff caches stuff in memory?

1999-11-18 Thread debuser
I too doubt this is directly related to diff (but I could be wrong). Is the clean_dir by chance on a network share? I did have a similar problem with a Samba share. If someone logged onto the Samba machine and modified a file, then a Windows machine on the network would not detect that the file

Re: Silly question: K6-3 and Enlightenment/Gnome ?

1999-10-28 Thread debuser
I get a segfault when starting Enlightenment/Gnome (from pototato) about 20% of the time (logging in from xdm). I have an AMD chip.. not sure which one though. I just started using Enlightenment (had been using WindowMaker) and I must say I'm *very* impressed and other than the occasional

can't remove mgetty-fax

1999-10-14 Thread debuser
I installed mgetty-fax by accident and now want to remove it to use hylafax instead (which conflicts with it), but when I remove, I get: Removing mgetty-fax ... Stopping Fax Queue Daemon: dpkg: error processing mgetty-fax (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

qmail: where does it keep its log?

1999-10-13 Thread debuser
I've installed qmail from the source package (1.03-6) in potato. It runs fine, but I cannot find where it is keeping its log file(s). Anyone know where they are? Or does it not keep a log by default. Thanks, Gerry

Re: qmail: where does it keep its log?

1999-10-13 Thread debuser
Oops, found them as soon as I sent this message (always happens). They are in /var/log/mail.*. I was looking for something like /var/log/qmail. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Gerry On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed qmail from the source package (1.03-6) in potato.

Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

1999-09-30 Thread debuser
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either on this list or on some linux NG a while back except

Linux databases: which are best?

1999-09-30 Thread debuser
I'm interested in peoples' experiences with the different databases available for Linux. Probably the most important factors for me are stability, followed by ease of use and power. Thanks, Gerry

Getting Alt key to work in X with Win keyboard

1999-09-26 Thread debuser
I have a cheap keyboard which has a Windows key next to the Alt key. On the console, the Alt key works as expected, but in X, the Alt key doesn't work. Instead, the functionality of the Windows key and the Alt key seems to have been swapped (Windows key functions as the Meta key and Alt doesn't