recompiled kernel, now no framebuffer

2004-04-20 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have just recompiled the latest 2.6.5 kernel to use the pktcdvd patch. The patch works great. However, my framebuffer is totally disabled. If I try to use vga=791 on the kernel command line, I get a blank screen. I know that it is still working

scanner setup

2004-04-20 Thread tsitras
Hi i am trying to setup my scanner. It is a USB "MUSTEK 1200 UB plus". debian:~# sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x05d8, product=0x4002, chip=GT-6

Re: Debian security for home user

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wanda Round) writes: > Can someone point me to a simple document for a home > user using Debian 3.0 testing on one machine with > dialup connection? That is, just a simple intro or > maybe checklist with pointers. Make sure you have a line in your /etc/apt/sources.list that men

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

2004-04-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:10:58PM +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) said > My new kernel is compiled with ext2, ext3 and the others also. > My filesystem is ext3. In the kernel or as modules? They have to be builtin for it boot. > When i reboot my system i can choose to boot the debian2.6.5 but

Perl 5.6.1-87 security fix breaks Neomail

2004-04-20 Thread users
Hi, I installed the security fix to Perl today (http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/perl). However, now my neomail installation seems to fail me. The apache log states: "Can't access() script". Neomail is a web interface for e-mail that checks a user login thru perl. I've read about th

Re: Oracle install

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 20:57, Cage wrote: > I got my hands on a copy of Oracle 8i. I'm mostly trying it out for fun. > But from what I've read it's a bear to install. I'm up to the > challenge. Been getting bored lately with no new projects. Anyone > install this bugger in Debian Woody and what

Re: ACPI (was: 2.6.5 Upgrade Notes)

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:53:59PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > > One other show stopper was ACPI caused the startup of PCMCIA > (loading of the yenta > >CardBus driver) to hang the machine. So I disabled ACPI and use APM > >instead. > > Having CONFIG_PCMCIA=y and CONFI

i810-tco reboots my computer in sarge

2004-04-20 Thread Izso Benedek
Why loads debian automatically i810-tco module, and restart my computer? It's like "i810-tco press the reset button". I can comment from /etc/discover.conf from the boot line the bridge, and then it works because in this case it doesn't load this module, but it not seems to be very good that I conf

reiserfs kernel messages

2004-04-20 Thread Rainer Köcher
Hello all, I am using a vaio notebook with debian woody. I am using reiserfs for the root filesystem. i am getting strange kernel messeges which are looking like this: Apr 21 06:36:29 notebook kernel: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 18973. Fsck? Apr 21 06:36:29 notebook

Reinstalling sarge led to my lvm partitions being marked 82 "Linux swap!"

2004-04-20 Thread Michael Roark
Hello, After having a failing boot drive on my storage box, I reinstalled Sarge from scratch using the net-inst CD on a fresh drive. The box had two lvm volumes with some PEs for one of them on the failing disk, and the rest on other disks. In the installer I tried to only have it partition the

Re: Xinerama across Network

2004-04-20 Thread Tim Connors
Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:53:16 -0400: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:16:10PM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > } Hi all, > } I'm looking for a way to see if its possible to have real Xinerama > } across the network some how. What I'm talking about is more than x2x or

Re: nvida video drivers

2004-04-20 Thread CiAsA S'Nuey Boark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday April 20 2004 09:40 pm, Christopher J. Noyes wrote: > I was just told that there is a new driver for NVidia Geoforce video cards. > go to www.nvidia.com. it is supposedly hardware accelerated and has support > for the 2.6 kernel. Christopher

Re: Emulating a dual monitor system over X?

2004-04-20 Thread Tim Connors
Brent Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:56:02 -0700: > Hello everyone. Like many on this list I'm sure, I end up being the > recipient of old computers that friends and family unload on me every > time the latest and greatest new thing comes out. A friend of mine just > gave me

Re: Answers needed for these Debian questions

2004-04-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Deboo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given >to it, as soon as the ppp connection starts? Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d which reads a file (say, ~/download/download.files), which has a newline separated list of files to down

Re: Chrooting ssh.

2004-04-20 Thread Caveman
Thanks.. Thats very differnet to the results I was getting this morning... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caveman On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 01:35 pm, George Cristian Birzan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:33:35PM +1000, Caveman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have looked around and googled about this a bit. But I wa

Re: Kernel build: QT package requires older gcc

2004-04-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There was a post on this list a while ago on g++-3.3. I find that if I > use *that* on rolling Qt, things fall apart. I now use 3.2 for > everything. There was a new g++-3.3 last week in testing. I haven't seen any problems with that one (although, h

Re: branding debian releases

2004-04-20 Thread Tim Connors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Massey) said on Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:14:05 +1000: > want the very latest and are willing to sacrifice stability." Or > something like that. Explain what the release names mean more accurately, > rather than use new names that will still need explanation. And one thing that re

Re: USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:22:11AM +0200, Tom Peters wrote: > Following the HOWTO's I try to mount my digital USB camera in the > following way: > > sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > The mount table has: > none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (

Re: Simple Qmail Setup

2004-04-20 Thread Adam Aube
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Just say "No" to proprietary mailers. Sure - as soon as Postfix or Exim implement a simple, flexible delivery mechanism similar to what qmail offers, and make it as easy as qmail does to insert filters at various points in the mail-handling routine. Besides, the qmail li

Re: Chrooting ssh.

2004-04-20 Thread George Cristian Birzan
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:33:35PM +1000, Caveman wrote: > Hi, > > I have looked around and googled about this a bit. But I was wondering if > anyone has chrooted A user for there access with ssh. > > I want to allow a friend of mine to get a terminal, but I want to be able to > lock him out of

Chrooting ssh.

2004-04-20 Thread Caveman
Hi, I have looked around and googled about this a bit. But I was wondering if anyone has chrooted A user for there access with ssh. I want to allow a friend of mine to get a terminal, but I want to be able to lock him out of some of the system. Changing the permissions is going to be a real pa

Re: 2.6.5 Upgrade Notes

2004-04-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:53:59PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: > One other show stopper was ACPI caused the startup of PCMCIA (loading of the yenta CardBus driver) to hang the machine. So I disabled ACPI and use APM instead. Having CONFIG_PCMCIA=y and C

Re: 2.6.5 Upgrade Notes

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:53:59PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > > One other show stopper was ACPI caused the startup of PCMCIA > (loading of the yenta > >CardBus driver) to hang the machine. So I disabled ACPI and use APM > >instead. > > Having CONFIG_PCMCIA=y and CONFI

Re: 2.6.5 Upgrade Notes

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:57:35PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Bill Moseley wrote: > >I do have one question, though. I built my own kernel in the end the > >.deb was about 25MB. The Debian kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 .deb is only > >15MB. I only included the parts I need in my kernel so I expe

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me > about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitude? and which is > better? Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or dselect. 1. aptitude can look just like apt-get

nvida video drivers

2004-04-20 Thread Christopher J. Noyes
I was just told that there is a new driver for NVidia Geoforce video cards. go to www.nvidia.com. it is supposedly hardware accelerated and has support for the 2.6 kernel. Christopher J. Noyes

Oracle install

2004-04-20 Thread Cage
I got my hands on a copy of Oracle 8i. I'm mostly trying it out for fun. But from what I've read it's a bear to install. I'm up to the challenge. Been getting bored lately with no new projects. Anyone install this bugger in Debian Woody and what to look out for. I found a few links on Linuxque

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread John Hasler
Katipo writes: > I believe 'dpkg --purge ' does this also. No. That removes package and all it's configuration files, which --remove leaves in place. -- John Hasler You may treat this work as if it [EMAIL PROTECTED] were in the public domain. Dancing Horse HillI

Re: Tape backup woes (mt)... should I file a bug report?

2004-04-20 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > Eventually and accidentally, I found out about rewinding and > non-rewinding device files, the information being hidden deep in the tar > info file. For all who don't know it: [ snip info about /dev/stX (auto-rewinding) vs. /dev/nst0 (non-rewindi

Re: RAID failure

2004-04-20 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:26:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya antony > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > The next message was hda 0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete, followed by the > > actual kernel panic in the RAID code. I disconnected hda, leaving hdc > > connected. I t

Re: Where is growisofs in Sarge

2004-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:31:13PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Paul! > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've moved to Sarge in anticipation of it's soon becoming > > 'stable'. But I can't find the program growisofs, which I have come to > > depend on to

Tape backup woes (mt)... should I file a bug report?

2004-04-20 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, I've got a tape drive for backups, and for a long time I was absolutely unable to store more than a singe archive per tape. Stop smiling, that's not funny. Eventually and accidentally, I found out about rewinding and non-rewinding device files, the information being hidden deep in the tar

Re: Need help to configure aptitude

2004-04-20 Thread users
I omit the space and these are the output I get with fontconfig package: aptitude show ~Astable~n^fontconfig$ Package: fontconfig Version: 2.2.2-2 Priority: optional Section: utils Maintainer: Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncompressed Size: 169k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libfontconfi

Re: help with a driver...

2004-04-20 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 02:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a D-Link Ethernet card... It says B22A234113422 H/W: E1 on it, an I > am haveing difficulties finding the driver. Any help?? > > Thanks, > Jim Maybe try: 8139too -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread W Paul Mills
Karsten M. Self wrote: > The short answer, though, is that you'd want aptitude over dselect in > virtually all instances. Though apt-get is still useful. Look also at > synaptic and, um, the other stuff. Yet I have found instances when dselect seems to handle errors better than aptitude. At lea

Re: X crashing with new Geforce FX5700 card

2004-04-20 Thread Rthoreau
Brad wrote: >I just installed a Geforce FX5700LE video card into a Abit KG7 mobo >with latest bios. At first I could not even get kdm to start but >when I chaged the AGP setting in the bios from 4x to 2x I was able >to get X to start, but after running for awhile it crashed, nothing >in the lo

Re: Version of lynx-ssl (too new!)

2004-04-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2004-04-20 18:40:43 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Vincent, did you try it again later? No, in fact I noticed that lynx-ssl was replaced by lynx (that may be the reason of the error), so I finally installed lynx. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% valid

Re: help with a driver...

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:55:15 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a D-Link Ethernet card... It says B22A234113422 H/W: E1 on it, an > I am haveing difficulties finding the driver. Any help?? > > Thanks, > Jim > You should try the HostAP drivers (h

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Dragan Cvetkovic: > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:50, John Hasler wrote: > > > >> Ciaran writes: > >>> The file command uses magic to figure it out. Is that any better? > >> > >> The point is that there are no "text files": just files that h

Re: Problems with pciutils

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:45:54 -0500 Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ah, so /thats/ it there is a new version that pciutils depends on. > So I have to wait until Sid gets the new versions of libpci1 and 2. Well, the way I read it it all is: 1. the pciutils in sarge is currently broken

Re: 8139too

2004-04-20 Thread Colin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install a DLink DFE-530 TX (Rev-C1) PCI NIC Card on a Woody (tried with 2.4.18 kernel), which seems to work with 8139too module (according to some posts). I'm wondering if this f module needs other module(s) (or built-in option) because I can't ge

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2004-04-20 Thread esafe
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Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Katipo
Graham Williams wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:37, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote: [...] I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the time I use wajig. The o

Re: 2.6.5 Upgrade Notes

2004-04-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: I do have one question, though. I built my own kernel in the end the .deb was about 25MB. The Debian kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 .deb is only 15MB. I only included the parts I need in my kernel so I expected the .deb to be a lot smaller that the stock kitchen-sink kernel-image f

Re: 2.6.5 Upgrade Notes

2004-04-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: > One other show stopper was ACPI caused the startup of PCMCIA (loading of the yenta CardBus driver) to hang the machine. So I disabled ACPI and use APM instead. Having CONFIG_PCMCIA=y and CONFIG_YENTA=y solved this particular problem for me, as I liked ACPI too much to give

Re: Kernel build: QT package requires older gcc

2004-04-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hell, depends on gcc 3.2? Is that true? Do I really need another gcc > install? Weird. I only have gcc-3.3 (g++-3.3) installed on my system and have no problems recompiling the kernel (with qt3). I did check, and I had installed libqt3-mt-dev instead

Re: Problems with pciutils

2004-04-20 Thread Brad Sims
Ah, so /thats/ it there is a new version that pciutils depends on. So I have to wait until Sid gets the new versions of libpci1 and 2. -- If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Problems with pciutils

2004-04-20 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 5:27 pm, Chris Metzler wrote: > What did you find when you looked in the bug tracking system > for pciutils bugs? That there is some breakage, however the new version is supposed to correct however AFAK it either hasn't hit Sid yet, or it doesn't work <:/> -- If a tree fa

Re: Problems with pciutils

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Brad! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:09:54PM -0500, Brad Sims wrote: > My problem is this: pciutils needs libpci1, but I also have/need libpci2... ^^ Does it? 1:2.1.11-10 did need libpci1, but -11 which conflicts with libpci2 does not. > I can upgrade

2.6.5 Upgrade Notes

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Moseley
It's reasonably easy to find 2.6 upgrade notes, but as I spent quite a few hours in the process I'll post my notes. Hopefully it will save someone some time. I do have one question, though. I built my own kernel in the end the .deb was about 25MB. The Debian kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 .deb is onl

Re: Problems with pciutils

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:09:54 -0500 Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My problem is this: pciutils needs libpci1, but I also have/need > libpci2... > > I can upgrade both libs manually but upgrading pciutils means removing > libpci2... Any ideas? What did you find when you looked in the bug

Re: kernel 2.6.4 serial ata support - promise 20376

2004-04-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:10:56PM +0100, Matthew Kay wrote: > I have a Promise SATA controller, 20376 (aka the TX2Plus). > > When I used 2.6.0-test9 there was a lovely option called SATA_PROMISE > which I said yes to and everything worked beautifully. > > However, I can't find this in the SCSI

USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Peters
Following the HOWTO's I try to mount my digital USB camera in the following way: sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device The mount table has: none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devuid=0,devgid=107,devmode=0660) /proc/bus/usb/devices does see: T: Bu

Re: Where is growisofs in Sarge

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Graham! On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 08:02:54AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 05:31, Florian Ernst wrote: > > Seems you missed the fine package search on the Debian homepage ;) > > Or wajig > > $ wajig whichpkg growisofs ...or auto-apt, or apt-file, or directly zgr

help with a driver...

2004-04-20 Thread Lifter28
Have a D-Link Ethernet card...  It says B22A234113422 H/W: E1 on it, an I am haveing difficulties finding the driver.  Any help?? Thanks, Jim

Problems with pciutils

2004-04-20 Thread Brad Sims
My problem is this: pciutils needs libpci1, but I also have/need libpci2... I can upgrade both libs manually but upgrading pciutils means removing libpci2... Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt preferences in latest Sarge don't work the way they used to

2004-04-20 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! Today I tried to install a Sarge system with the 4.3.0 x-window-system coming from www.schuldei.org because it has a patch that combines xservers with distinct video cards. The /etc/apt/preferences has: Package: * Pin: origin schuldei.org Pin-Priority: 999 And the /etc/sources.list

Re: Where is growisofs in Sarge

2004-04-20 Thread Graham Williams
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 05:31, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Paul! > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I've moved to Sarge in anticipation of it's soon becoming > > 'stable'. But I can't find the program growisofs, which I have come to > > depend on to do backups of

Re: Simple Qmail Setup

2004-04-20 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, David Baron wrote: > I have not found understandable documentation. I have the webmin qmail but do > not know what to do with it. > > I want qmail as daemon to service a couple of email addresses, sending through > one of them, as well as the system notification email forme

Re: RAID failure

2004-04-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya antony On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: > The next message was hda 0x51 DriveReady SeekComplete, followed by the > actual kernel panic in the RAID code. I disconnected hda, leaving hdc > connected. I then got a successful boot, which seems to indicate that good that you can

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Graham Williams
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:37, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote: [...] > I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's > dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the > time I use wajig. The only thing that I can't do t

Notification de message Internet

2004-04-20 Thread centrale
Subject: Re: Your music To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20 Apr 2004 22:56:17.000 Text: User Unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian security for home user

2004-04-20 Thread Katipo
Wanda Round wrote: Debian certainly has lots of help files for security, so many that I got overwhelmed. Can someone point me to a simple document for a home user using Debian 3.0 testing on one machine with dialup connection? That is, just a simple intro or maybe checklist with pointers. Iptables

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Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Alex! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:37:01PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I prefer dselect for the one task that I use it for, and that's > dist-upgrades with the dependency resolution screen. The rest of the > time I use wajig. The only thing that I can't do that I wish I could > (And someon

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 15:08, Florian Ernst wrote: --snip-- > Nowadays I solely use aptitude and apt-get source / build-dep (and > occasionally a direct dpkg). The only thing I miss is dselect's > feature to show me a dependency resolution screen directly after > (de)selecting a package, but aptitud

Re: Simple Qmail Setup

2004-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:57:38PM +0300, David Baron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have not found understandable documentation. I have the webmin qmail but do > not know what to do with it. > > I want qmail as daemon to service a couple of email addresses, sending through > one of them, as wel

Simple Qmail Setup

2004-04-20 Thread David Baron
I have not found understandable documentation. I have the webmin qmail but do not know what to do with it. I want qmail as daemon to service a couple of email addresses, sending through one of them, as well as the system notification email formerly handled through the smail (removed when instal

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Karsten! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > aptitude is pretty much a replacement for both dselect (interactive) and > apt-get (command line). With near but not-quite drop-in replacement of > the latter. The strengths go beyond this to include logging of sys

apt-get upgrade chokes in alien package

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Peters
I can not upgrade my system because of some supposed unmet dependency of one package: " Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libbatik-java: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or j2re1.3 but it is not installed or ja

RE: httpd.conf

2004-04-20 Thread Linux Nick
So I take it this is a local lan, not to be seen on the internet, I don't think this would really work for me but thanks for the input. > I am hosting 3 sites using vhosts. Here are the only parts of the > conf file that are related. > > > DocumentRoot /var/www/ > ServerName buddy.mtntop.home >

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:30:13AM +0100, Ciaran Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self said: > > on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:20:30PM +1000, Nathan Stanley > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Someone recently told me there is a difference between Unix and Linux > >> text file formats.

Re: GIF Animator Needed

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Simnett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 April 2004 20:18, Scarletdown wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 11:23, Scarletdown wrote: > >>Anyway, can someone please recommend a usable GIF animator, preferably > >>one installable via apt-get? Or failing that, please explain how t

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:05:44AM +0200, Florian Ernst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello J.S.! > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:51:19AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > > I have been using apt and dselect for some time. Can any body tell me > > about the advantages/disadvantages of dselect and aptitud

Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:03:15 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My goal is to get easily rid of identical files on a system: I did something like this once for a whole filesystem with a bash script. md5sum'ing *everything* is wasteful of time and cpu cycles, since (probably) m

Re: Why fonts available with X and not with KDE/GNOME ?

2004-04-20 Thread Hervé Piedvache
Le mardi 20 Avril 2004 01:38, Michael Biebl a écrit : > Hervé Piedvache wrote: > > Le dimanche 18 Avril 2004 03:02, Hervé Piedvache a écrit : > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have a trouble with fonts ... I can see some fonts under X ... with > >>xfontsel for example ... or with this command : > >> > >>$ xlsfon

Re: GIF Animator Needed

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:18:24PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I think that after I practice and experiment a bit more, I may try my > hand at a tutorial myself (finally, a way I can contribute to the OSS > community). :D That's great, please do contribute :) *cheers_scarletdown* Greetings, F

Re: Debian security for home user

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Wanda! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:25:51AM -0700, Wanda Round wrote: > Debian certainly has lots of help files for security, > so many that I got overwhelmed. > > Can someone point me to a simple document for a home > user using Debian 3.0 testing on one machine with > dialup connection? Tha

Re: Where is growisofs in Sarge

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Paul! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:21:10PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've moved to Sarge in anticipation of it's soon becoming > 'stable'. But I can't find the program growisofs, which I have come to > depend on to do backups of DVD+RW. What is the situation in re. a > Debian package that

Re: Debian lifecycle

2004-04-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Dmitry! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:15:02PM -0600, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > I see the picture now and it makes me feel good :) So it looks like after > deployment of freshly-released "stable" I have about 2 years in average to > sleep well without dreaming of upgrades. After that I silent

Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:03, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: --snip-- > $ md5sum .* * | sort -ub | less --snip-- > Hints? apt-get install fdupes -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net key

Re: Kernel update process?

2004-04-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:04:40AM -0400, Danny O'Brien wrote: > > Sorry to have to post to ask for help on this basic task, but I can't > find a step-by-step kernel replacement procedure anywhere on the Debian > site. I've digested the Dwarf's Guide also, without revelation. Maybe > I'm not hu

Re: GIF Animator Needed

2004-04-20 Thread Scarletdown
Tom Simnett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 April 2004 11:23, Scarletdown wrote: Anyway, can someone please recommend a usable GIF animator, preferably one installable via apt-get? Or failing that, please explain how to properly install this GIMP plugin, since t

Re: GDM not reading Sessions dir

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:41:20 -0500 Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using the gdm package from sarge (2.4.4.7-1) that I just updated to > a few days ago. For some reason I no longer have my usual sessions to > choose from on the login screen. All I see now is: > > Last > 1

How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All ... what I found so far was this: $ md5sum .* * | sort -ub | less 009fd9f616bab38a4fd2dda384741433 rc.spam 07ef54ec5b4352e425af6c065e5e7f50 .bashrc 07ef54ec5b4352e425af6c065e5e7f50 .bashrcdeleteit 15cc86b4a7a272d7b6aa1b43702e4395 .xinitrc 303a55356735e00975272fbe0e387cff ntpdate.check

Re: Getting ogg123 to output using alsa

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:46:25 +0530 Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I ripped a cd into the ogg format, and I'm trying to use ogg123 to play > it. I'm running a 2.4.21 kernel, and using alsa for sound. While mpg123 > plays files ok, ogg123 wants to use the oss drivers, and on not

Debian security for home user

2004-04-20 Thread Wanda Round
Debian certainly has lots of help files for security, so many that I got overwhelmed. Can someone point me to a simple document for a home user using Debian 3.0 testing on one machine with dialup connection? That is, just a simple intro or maybe checklist with pointers. Iptables just lost my poor

Re: So is this a kernel bug?

2004-04-20 Thread Kent West
George Cristian Birzan wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Now I'm trying to move those files to a similar server named PEZ10 using my Debian box as the middle man. This is terribly bandwidth inefficient. You should copy directly, it'll be twice as fast. :-)

Re: Mail Delivery (failure jaliag@aet-es.org)

2004-04-20 Thread jaliag
El servidor de correo de la AET le informa: Hay un problema con su mensaje, ha sido rechazado por el servidor. Fuentes de errores más comunes: 1. la dirección no es correcta a)error tipográfico b)dominio .com .org .net incorrecto 2. Ha enviado un mensaje a una lista de correo en lo cual

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 20 April 2004 16:50, John Hasler wrote: > >> Ciaran writes: >>> The file command uses magic to figure it out. Is that any better? >> >> The point is that there are no "text files": just files that happen to >> contain text. This not true of all

Re: Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

2004-04-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hi, I installed debian SARGE with grub and everything works fine. I downloaded the latest stable kernel, compiled everything and put the boot lines in the grub configuration Menu.lst This was before: Title Debian 2.4.25 Root (hd0,0) Kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.25-1-386 root

Re: Debian lifecycle

2004-04-20 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First of all thanks everybody for prompt replies. I see the picture now and it makes me feel good :) So it looks like after deployment of freshly-released "stable" I have about 2 years in average to sleep well without dreaming of upgrades. After t

Re: Frontpage ext

2004-04-20 Thread Jason Stechschulte
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:34:13AM +0200, Mozzi wrote: > Can someone please point me @ docs to install frontpage 2002 server > extentions on woody. Have you had any luck with this? I also work at an ISP. Currently we do have Frontpage 2000 extensions running on a RedHat box. I am told Frontpage

Re: Debian lifecycle

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me in your response. Subscribe or read the archive. If you want personal help, go hire it. http://www.debian.org/consultants. - -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL

Re: httpd.conf

2004-04-20 Thread GodMode
This appears at the very end of my httpd.conf in the /etc/apache directory hopefullywhen you add these lines and uncomment and customize this conf. you're question mite be answeredSubin. # SSL-- # This is an example configuration file for

Re: httpd.conf

2004-04-20 Thread GodMode
sorry correction Monique to my previous email the configuration exists in the /etc/apache-ssl/httpd.conf file Subin. - Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: Re: httpd.conf > On 2004-04-2

Re: GDM not reading Sessions dir

2004-04-20 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 17:50, Rob Benton wrote: > I'm using the gdm package from sarge (2.4.4.7-1) that I just updated > to > a few days ago. For some reason I no longer have my usual sessions to > choose from on the login screen. All I see now is: > > Last > 1. Default System Session

Re: So is this a kernel bug?

2004-04-20 Thread George Cristian Birzan
Take 2, actually mailing the list. On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Now I'm trying to move those files to a similar server named PEZ10 using > my Debian box as the middle man. This is terribly bandwidth inefficient. You should copy directly, it'll be twice as fast. :-

Re: UNIX/Linux text files

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Johnson
"Nathan Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone recently told me there is a difference between Unix and Linux text > file formats. Is this true? Not that I have experienced. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Where is growisofs in Sarge

2004-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
I've moved to Sarge in anticipation of it's soon becoming 'stable'. But I can't find the program growisofs, which I have come to depend on to do backups of DVD+RW. What is the situation in re. a Debian package that contains this program? And, if the program is deprecated, or in some trouble, what i

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